SECTION 1. Chapter 265 of the General Laws as appearing in the 2016 Official Edition is hereby amended by inserting after Section 15F the following new section:-

Section 15G. As used in this section, “law enforcement officer”, defined as the Massachusetts State Police; police officers employed by cities and towns of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Sheriffs’ Departments, House of Correction, Courts, the Environmental Police, the Massachusetts Department of Corrections, and the Massachusetts Trial Court, college and university campus police, and any other in the commonwealth that are charge with the enforcement of laws, the operation of jails or prisons, or the custody of detained persons.

As used in this section, “firefighter”, refers to any officer or firefighter employed by a fire department as established in Chapter 48, Section 42A of the General Laws, and the state fire warden or any duly authorized assistant of the state fire warden.

Whoever commits an assault or an assault and battery upon a law enforcement officer or firefighter by discharging a firearm, rifle, shotgun, sawed-off shotgun, assault weapon, or covert weapon while said officer is engaged in the performance of duties, and who knows or has reason to know that the individual is a law enforcement officer or firefighter shall be punished by a term of imprisonment not less than 10 years up to life imprisonment in the state prison. No sentence imposed under the provisions of this paragraph shall be suspended nor shall it be for less than a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 10 years and a fine of not more than $150,000 may be imposed but not in lieu of the mandatory minimum term of imprisonment, as established herein. Prosecutions commenced under this section shall neither be continued without a finding nor placed on file.