Top New York State Republicans said yesterday that bills the Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, has introduced may be an effort to sabotage the two bills the Legislature will consider in a special session on Wednesday.

“We’re going to either have good bills to protect us from illegal handguns and to protect our police, or the Assembly is going to again do what they’ve done so often, and that is, block these laws,” Governor Pataki said at a press conference in Albany yesterday.

Mr. Pataki called for the special session last Friday in response to the recent slayings of two New York City police officers in unrelated shootings. He hopes to pass a new bill that would increase penalties for injuring police officers and would impose the death penalty on criminals who murder officers. He also hopes to make a bill law – passed by the state Senate in 2004 – that would toughen laws against illegal gun trafficking.

Mr. Silver has introduced two bills in response: The first would increase penalties for those who injure or kill police officers, but it does not include the death penalty. The second mirrors Mr. Pataki’s gun trafficking bill, but would impose additional regulations on legal gun dealers, such as requiring them to lock up their guns at night and train their staff to spot prohibited buyers.

If the Assembly passes a bill that includes additional provisions, Mr. Pataki said, “It will be aimed at one thing, and that is preventing good laws from being passed. And I think that would be outrageous.” The Assembly minority leader, James Tedisco, echoed the governor’s sentiments at a press conference in New York City yesterday.

Asked whether Mr. Silver’s bills were an attempt to sabotage the session, Mr. Tedisco told The New York Sun: “I hope that’s not the case, but in some instances that’s the direction he takes. He brings out a bill that’s unacceptable. He says, ‘Well, I’m for eliminating illegal guns,’ and then he adds all this ancillary information into the bill.”

Mr. Tedisco said that Mr. Silver “has a tendency to say he’s for something. … then he comes out with a bill which is totally unacceptable to mostly both sides of the aisle. … and he uses that bill not to get the job done. We don’t want that to happen” on Wednesday.

An Assembly member, Vincent Ignizio, urged Mr. Silver to pass the governor’s bills. “Perhaps the best way for Speaker Silver to ‘not go to cops’ funerals’ is to prevent them by passing stricter gun-trafficking laws in the first place,” he said in a statement.

A spokeswoman for the speaker, Sisa Moyo, denied that Mr. Silver’s bills were an attempt to sabotage the governor.

“We have drawn no lines in the sand,” she said. “We want to do things that will truly protect people. … We’ve been open to discussion and we believe that an agreement will be reached.”