Relates to the unlawful discharge of a loaded firearm toward any police officer, firefighter, corrections officer, peace officer, or emergency medical services personnel.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8791
IN SENATE
April 18, 2022
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Introduced by Sen. PALUMBO -- 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 the unlawful discharge of
a loaded firearm toward any police officer, firefighter, corrections
officer, peace officer, or emergency medical services personnel
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 265.35 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 4 to read as follows:
3 4. Any person who willfully discharges a loaded firearm or any other
4 gun, the propelling force of which is gunpowder, while pointed or aimed
5 at a peace officer, police officer, corrections officer, firefighter or
6 emergency medical services professional, with or without malice, is
7 guilty of a class B felony.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
9 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14516-01-2
