SB 97 CRIMES OF SHOOTING AT AND FROM MOTOR VEHICLES

Sen Antonio "Moe" Maestas

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 Senate Bill 97 (SB 97) provides that shooting at a motor vehicle and shooting from a motor vehicle are separate crimes and increases the penalties for each offense.  

 Senate Bill 97 (SB 97) separates the current offense of “shooting at or from a motor vehicle” into two separate offenses and increases the penalties for each offense.  

The bill increases the penalty for shooting from a motor vehicle to third degree felony if there was no injury to another person, and to a second degree felony if there was injury to another.  The bill removes the requirement that the shooting must result in great bodily harm; instead, it simply requires any injury to another person. 

Shooting at a motor vehicle is a second degree felony, and this offense does not require any injury. 

The bill makes changes to other sections of law to conform with these changes.
 

 Currently, shooting at or from a motor vehicle is a fourth degree felony if there was no great bodily harm to another person, a third degree felony if there was an injury, and a second degree felony if great bodily harm resulted.