Designates unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle in the third degree as a class E felony; designates unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle in the second degree as a class D violent felony offense; designates unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle in the first degree as a class B violent felony offense.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4829
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 13, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. C. RYAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the "Hoosock
and Jensen law" which increases the designation of certain offenses
relating to unlawfully fleeing a police officer
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
2 the "Hoosock and Jensen law".
3 § 2. The second undesignated paragraph of section 270.25 of the penal
4 law, as added by chapter 738 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as
5 follows:
6 Unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle in the third
7 degree is a class [A misdemeanor] E felony.
8 § 3. The second undesignated paragraph of section 270.30 of the penal
9 law, as added by chapter 738 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as
10 follows:
11 Unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle in the second
12 degree is a class [E] D violent felony offense.
13 § 4. The second undesignated paragraph of section 270.35 of the penal
14 law, as added by chapter 738 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as
15 follows:
16 Unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle in the first
17 degree is a class [D] B violent felony offense.
18 § 5. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
19 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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