Criminal Offenses
Tennessee 113th General Assembly
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 39-17-101 and Title 70, relative to creatures that are poisonous or venomous. [HB-2880]
As enacted, replaces references to "poisonous snakes" with "venomous snakes"; defines "venomous." - Amends TCA Section 39-17-101 and Title 70.
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 36; Title 39 and Title 40, relative to stalking. [HB-2920]
As introduced, requires, as a condition of bail or other pretrial release, that a person charged with stalking, aggravated stalking, or especially aggravated stalking undergo a mental health evaluation prior to release. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 39 and Title 40.
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39 and Title 43, relative to animals. [SB-2650]
As enacted, creates the Class C felony offense of acquiring or otherwise exercising control over bees or a structure or equipment used to keep, handle, house, exhibit, breed, or offer for sale bees, without the consent of the owner and with the intent to deprive the owner of the bees, structure, or equipment. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 43.
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 36; Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40, relative to criminal justice. [HB-2918]
As introduced, allows the warden or chief administrative officer's report to the district attorney general of certain offenses that occur within a penal institution to be submitted electronically. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55, relative to criminal justice. [SB-2700]
As introduced, creates the offense of instigation; requires an affiant to file an affidavit for abeyance when requesting an arrest warrant; permits a citizen's arrest following two verbal notices for the offense of trespassing. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to criminal offenses. [HB-2947]
As introduced, decreases from 30 to 15, the number of days a law enforcement agency, after taking possession of a sexual assault evidence collection kit with the victim's name affixed to it, shall submit the kit to the Tennessee bureau of investigation or similar qualified laboratory for either serology or deoxyribonucleic acid testing. - Amends TCA Title 39.
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40, relative to criminal proceedings. [HB-2928]
As introduced, requires each district attorney general to file a quarterly report with the administrative office of the courts that includes information regarding criminal proceedings within the judicial district; requires the administrative office of the courts to compile the reports into a quarterly criminal justice report; requires each law enforcement agency to file a quarterly report with the Tennessee bureau of investigation regarding law enforcement outcomes within the jurisdiction; requires the Tennessee bureau of investigation to compile
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 36; Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40, relative to justice reform. [SB-2721]
As introduced, allows the warden or chief administrative officer's report to the district attorney general of certain offenses that occur within a penal institution to be submitted electronically. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 16; Title 33; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 49, relative to criminal offenses. [SB-2770]
As enacted, authorizes a court to enhance the statutory penalty, up to imprisonment for life without the possibility of parole, for a conviction under certain circumstances involving illegal aliens or crimes occurring on school property while students or other children are present; makes revisions to law relative to bail. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 33; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 49.
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 40, Chapter 33 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 5, relative to drag racing. [SB-2710]
As enacted, raises the penalty for the offense of drag racing from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 5.
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 36; Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40, relative to criminal justice. [SB-2720]
As introduced, allows the warden or chief administrative officer's report to the district attorney general of certain offenses that occur within a penal institution to be submitted electronically. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 11; Title 39, Chapter 12; Title 39, Chapter 13; Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 40, Chapter 24; Title 40, Chapter 35 and Title 40, Chapter 39, relative to criminal offenses. [SB-2725]
As introduced, removes the killing of another committed in the perpetration of or attempt to perpetrate certain crimes from the elements of first degree murder; deletes the offense of criminal responsibility for conduct of another; deletes the offense of criminal responsibility for the facilitation of a felony. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 11; Title 39, Chapter 12; Title 39, Chapter 13; Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 40, Chapter 24; Title 40, Chapter 35 and Title 40, Chapter 39.
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 39-13-607, relative to criminal offenses. [SB-2781]
As introduced, expands the offense of observation without consent to include a person or entity that adopts rules or enforces a policy or other work-related guidance for employees or contractors to promote or assist in the commission of observation without consent in a place where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy, including a restroom, locker room, dressing room, or shower, designated for multi-person, single-sex use; creates a civil action for invasion of privacy based on a violation of observation without consent. - Amends TCA Section
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to offenses against children. [SB-2662]
As enacted, increases the penalty from a Class D felony to a Class B felony for a person who negligently, by act or omission, engages in conduct that places a child eight years of age or less in imminent danger of death, bodily injury, or physical or mental impairment. - Amends TCA Title 39.
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 36; Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40, relative to justice reform. [HB-2917]
As introduced, allows the warden or chief administrative officer's report to the district attorney general of certain offenses that occur within a penal institution to be submitted electronically. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to criminal offenses. [SB-2760]
As introduced, decreases from 10 to nine days, the amount of time before trial a person shall notify the district attorney general in writing of their intention to rely upon an affirmative defense. - Amends TCA Title 39.
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 39-13-605 and Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2, relative to unlawful photography. [SB-2669]
As introduced, increases the penalties for certain violations of the offense of unlawful photography; requires the court, rather than allowing the court discretion, to order a person convicted of certain unlawful photography offenses to register as a sexual offender; makes various other changes to the offense of unlawful photography. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-605 and Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2.
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40, relative to criminal offenses. [HB-2912]
As introduced, reduces the minimum number of criminal investigators from the criminal investigation division of the Tennessee bureau of investigation that must be normally detailed to serve in each grand division of the state from two to one. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 13, relative to victims of certain criminal offenses. [HB-2960]
As introduced, adds first degree murder, second degree murder, and voluntary manslaughter to the offenses for which a defendant, who has been convicted of a violation that resulted in the death of a parent of a minor child, must pay restitution in the form of child maintenance to each of the victim's children until each child reaches 18 and has graduated from high school. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13.
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 40, relative to monitoring devices. [SB-2654]
As enacted, establishes Class B misdemeanors for the tampering or otherwise making ineffective certain monitoring devices required as a condition of probation or parole; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 40.