Pen. Code, § 12022.7 · Title 2. SENTENCE ENHANCEMENTS
Pen. Code, § 12022.7
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
(a) Any person who personally inflicts great bodily injury on any person other than an accomplice in the commission of a felony or attempted felony shall be punished by an additional and consecutive term of imprisonment in the state prison for three years.
(b) Any person who personally inflicts great bodily injury on any person other than an accomplice in the commission of a felony or attempted felony which causes the victim to become comatose due to brain injury or to suffer paralysis of a permanent nature shall be punished by an additional and consecutive term of imprisonment in the state prison for five years. As used in this subdivision, “paralysis” means a major or complete loss of motor function resulting from injury to the nervous system or to a muscular mechanism.
(c) Any person who personally inflicts great bodily injury on a person who is 70 years of age or older, other than an accomplice, in the commission of a felony or attempted felony shall be punished by an additional and consecutive term of imprisonment in the state prison for five years.
(d) Any person who personally inflicts great bodily injury on a child under the age of five years in the commission of a felony or attempted felony shall be punished by an additional and consecutive term of imprisonment in the state prison for four, five, or six years.
(e) Any person who personally inflicts great bodily injury under circumstances involving domestic violence in the commission of a felony or attempted felony shall be punished by an additional and consecutive term of imprisonment in the state prison for three, four, or five years. As used in this subdivision, “domestic violence” has the meaning provided in subdivision (b) of Section 13700.
(f) (1) As used in this section, “great bodily injury” means a significant or substantial physical injury.
(2) As used in this section, a person who sells, furnishes, administers, or gives away a controlled substance is deemed to have personally inflicted great bodily injury when the person to whom the substance was sold, furnished, administered, or given suffers a significant or substantial physical injury from using the substance.
(g) This section shall not apply to murder or manslaughter or a violation of Section 451 or 452. Subdivisions (a), (b), (c), and (d) shall not apply if infliction of great bodily injury is an element of the offense.
(h) The court shall impose the additional terms of imprisonment under subdivision (a), (b), (c), or (d), but may not impose more than one of those terms for the same offense.
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History
Amended November 5, 2024, by initiative Proposition 36, Sec. 13. Effective December 18, 2024. Approved in Proposition 36 at the November 5, 2024, election.
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Health and Safety Code
- Health & Saf. Code, § 11379.7Printed as Section 12022.7 of the Penal Code
- Health & Saf. Code, § 42400.1Printed as Section 12022.7 of the Penal Code
- Health & Saf. Code, § 42400.2Printed as Section 12022.7 of the Penal Code
- Health & Saf. Code, § 42400.3Printed as Section 12022.7 of the Penal Code
- Health & Saf. Code, § 42402.1Printed as Section 12022.7 of the Penal Code
- Health & Saf. Code, § 42402.2Printed as Section 12022.7 of the Penal Code
- Health & Saf. Code, § 42402.3Printed as Section 12022.7 of the Penal Code
Penal Code
- Pen. Code, § 190Printed as Section 12022.7
- Pen. Code, § 206Printed as Section 12022.7
- Pen. Code, § 368Printed as Section 12022.7 | Section 187 or 12022.7
- Pen. Code, § 550Printed as Section 12022.7
- Pen. Code, § 600Printed as Section 12022.7
- Pen. Code, § 667.5Printed as Section 12022.7, 12022.8, or 12022.9
- Pen. Code, § 667.61Printed as Section 12022.53, 12022.7, or 12022.8
- Pen. Code, § 667.7Printed as Section 12022.53 or 12022.7
- Pen. Code, § 1170.11Printed as Sections 593a, 600, 667.8, 667.85, 667.9, 667.10, 667.15, 667.16, 667.17, 674, 675, 12021.5, 12022, 12022.2, 12022.3, 12022.4, 12022.5, 12022.53, 12022.55, 12022.6, 12022.7, 12022.75, 12022.8, 12022.8
- Pen. Code, § 1170.2Printed as Section 12022.7
- Pen. Code, § 1174.4Printed as Section 12022.53, 12022.7, or 12022.9
- Pen. Code, § 1203.055Printed as Section 12022.7
- Pen. Code, § 1203.075Printed as Section 12022.7
- Pen. Code, § 1203.09Printed as Section 12022.7
- Pen. Code, § 1269bPrinted as Section 667.5, 667.51, 667.6, 667.8, 667.85, 667.9, 667.10, 12022, 12022.1, 12022.2, 12022.3, 12022.4, 12022.5, 12022.53, 12022.6, 12022.7, 12022.8, or 12022.9 of this code
- Pen. Code, § 2933.5Printed as Section 12022.53 or 12022.7
- Pen. Code, § 3003Printed as Section 12022.53, 12022.7, or 12022.9
- Pen. Code, § 3057Printed as Section 12022, 12022.5, 12022.53, 12022.7, 12022.8, or 25400
- Pen. Code, § 12022.53Printed as Section 12022.7 | Section 12022.7, 12022.8, or 12022.9
- Pen. Code, § 12022.55Printed as Section 12022.7
- Pen. Code, § 12022.8Printed as Section 12022.7
Vehicle Code
- Veh. Code, § 1808.21Printed as Section 12022.7 of the Penal Code
- Veh. Code, § 21070Printed as Section 12022.7 of the Penal Code
- Veh. Code, § 23104Printed as Section 12022.7 of the Penal Code
- Veh. Code, § 23566Printed as Section 12022.7 of the Penal Code
- Veh. Code, § 42001.19Printed as Section 12022.7 of the Penal Code
Welfare and Institutions Code
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