“State industrial member” includes all state employees appointed by the Governor or by the Director of Corrections or the Board of Prison Terms or the Department of the Youth Authority or the Youthful Offender Board and employed in the state prisons or facilities of the Department of Corrections or the Department of the Youth Authority, or employed in the Division of Adult Paroles as Chief, deputy chief agents, or officers, and all parole agents or officers appointed by the Board of Prison Terms under the State Civil Service Act, any parole agents or officers appointed by the Board of Trustees of the California Institution for Women, the members of the Board of Prison Terms, and the members of the Board of Trustees of the California Institution for Women except employees who are state safety members or state peace officer/firefighter members.
Except as expressly otherwise provided, the provisions of this part applicable to state miscellaneous members apply to state industrial members.
The provisions of this part providing industrial death and disability benefits to state industrial members shall also apply to any other state employee whose death or disability results from an injury which is a direct consequence of a violent act perpetrated on his or her person by an inmate of a state prison, correctional school or facility of the Department of Corrections or the Department of the Youth Authority or a parolee therefrom subject to the same conditions prescribed by Section 20048.
(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.)