S 1037: 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 ________________________________________________________________________ 1037 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ 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. LBD02462-01-5