HB-7316: Exempts full-time members of divisions of the state police, including the capitol police and the sheriff's department from the requirements of § 11-47-35.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Craven
Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study on 02/27/2024
You have voted HB-7316: Exempts full-time members of divisions of the state police, including the capitol police and the sheriff's department from the requirements of § 11-47-35..
HB-7307: Provides immunity to people involved in commercial sexual activity if they are victims or witnesses to various other offenses and would not grant immunity to law enforcement officers for arresting those persons.
Sponsored by: Rep. Brianna Henries
Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study on 02/15/2024
You have voted HB-7307: Provides immunity to people involved in commercial sexual activity if they are victims or witnesses to various other offenses and would not grant immunity to law enforcement officers for arresting those persons..
You have voted HB-7303: Defines "public official" to include school personnel for purposes of the criminal prohibition against making threats to public officials..
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39 and Title 68, relative to miscarriage. [HB-2229]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Public Health ]
[Healthcare ]
[Criminal Justice ]
As introduced, states that it is not a violation of the criminal offense of abuse of a corpse for a person to dispose of the person’s miscarriage; defines miscarriage as the unintentional loss of pregnancy, which may occur spontaneously or as the result of an accident. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 68.
HB-2229: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39 and Title 68, relative to miscarriage.
Sponsored by: Rep. Harold Love
P2c, Ref. To Criminal Justice Committee on 01/31/2024
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to large capacity magazines. [HB-2221]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
As introduced, creates the Class B misdemeanor of possessing, with intent to go armed, a large-capacity magazine outside of the person's residence, business, or premises; defines a large-capacity magazine as an ammunition feeding device with capacity to accept more than 10 rounds. - Amends TCA Title 39.
HB-2221: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to large capacity magazines.
Sponsored by: Rep. Harold Love
P2c, Ref. To Criminal Justice Committee on 01/31/2024
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 33; Title 39 and Title 40, relative to mass violence. [HB-2172]
[Crime ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Safety ]
[Education ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Children and Youth ]
As introduced, increases the penalties for threatening to commit an act of mass violence on school property and failing to report a threat to commit an act of mass violence on school property; requires, rather than permits, a court to order a defendant charged with threatening to commit an act of mass violence to undergo a mental health evaluation as a condition of pretrial release. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 39 and Title 40.
HB-2172: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 33; Title 39 and Title 40, relative to mass violence.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rebecca Alexander
P2c, Ref. To Criminal Justice Committee on 01/31/2024
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to critical infrastructure. [SB-2040]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Agriculture ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
As enacted, adds using, altering, encrypting, ransoming, destroying, or otherwise rendering unavailable without authorization, electronic data, electronic devices, or network providers of critical infrastructure or of a farm to the offense of committing critical infrastructure vandalism. - Amends TCA Title 39.
SB-2040: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to critical infrastructure.
Sponsored by: Sen. Janince Bowling
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 627 on 04/03/2024
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to threats of mass violence. [HB-2198]
[Crime ]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Children and Youth ]
As enacted, increases the penalty for the offense of threatening to commit an act of mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 39.
HB-2198: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to threats of mass violence.
Sponsored by: Rep. G.A. Hardaway
Effective Date(s) 07/01/2024 on 05/13/2024
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 39-13-103, relative to the offense of reckless endangerment. [HB-2199]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
As introduced, enacts "MaKayla's Law," which expands the offense of reckless endangerment to include a person's reckless failure to render inoperable or safely secure or lock a firearm, resulting in a child under 13 gaining possession of the firearm and injuring or killing the child or another. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-103.
HB-2199: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 39-13-103, relative to the offense of reckless endangerment.
Sponsored by: Rep. Bo Mitchell
P2c, Ref. To Criminal Justice Committee on 01/31/2024
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 33; Title 39 and Title 40, relative to mass violence. [SB-2038]
[Crime ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Safety ]
[Education ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Children and Youth ]
As introduced, increases the penalties for threatening to commit an act of mass violence on school property and failing to report a threat to commit an act of mass violence on school property; requires, rather than permits, a court to order a defendant charged with threatening to commit an act of mass violence to undergo a mental health evaluation as a condition of pretrial release. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 39 and Title 40.
SB-2038: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 33; Title 39 and Title 40, relative to mass violence.
Sponsored by: Sen. Paul Rose
Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate Judiciary Committee on 01/31/2024
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 12; Title 39; Title 50 and Title 67, relative to immigration. [SB-2034]
[Immigration ]
[Crime ]
As introduced, increases, from $1,000 to $5,000, the fine for transporting into the state, for the purpose of commercial advantage or private financial gain, an individual who the person knows or should have known has illegally entered or remained in the United States, as determined by the bureau of immigration and customs enforcement of the United States department of homeland security. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12; Title 39; Title 50 and Title 67.
SB-2034: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 12; Title 39; Title 50 and Title 67, relative to immigration.
Sponsored by: Rep. Frank Niceley
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Judiciary Committee on 04/02/2024
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to large capacity magazines. [SB-1989]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
As introduced, creates the Class B misdemeanor of possessing, with intent to go armed, a large-capacity magazine outside of the person's residence, business, or premises; defines a large-capacity magazine as an ammunition feeding device with capacity to accept more than 10 rounds. - Amends TCA Title 39.
SB-1989: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to large capacity magazines.
Sponsored by: Sen. Raumesh Akbari
Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate Judiciary Committee on 01/31/2024
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to unlawful images. [SB-2003]
[Crime ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Artificial Intelligence ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
As introduced, expands the offense of unlawful exposure to include the distribution, with the intent to cause emotional distress, of an image of the intimate parts of another identifiable person or an image of an identifiable person engaged in sexually explicit conduct and the image was created or modified by means of a computer software program, artificial intelligence application, or other digital editing tools; specifies that for the purposes of sexual exploitation of children offenses, the term "material" includes computer-generated images created,
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SB-2003: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to unlawful images.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jeff Yarbro
Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate Judiciary Committee on 01/31/2024
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 8; Title 39, Chapter 14 and Title 50, Chapter 2, relative to wages. [SB-1982]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
As introduced, specifies that a person commits the offense of wage theft who, acting as an employer, hires an employee and intentionally does not pay the employee for the services the employee provides, at the minimum wage rate required under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, this state's law, or the employment agreement between the employer and employee, whichever is greater, and at the interval required by those laws or agreement, whichever is more frequent. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 39, Chapter 14 and Title 50, Chapter 2.
SB-1982: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 8; Title 39, Chapter 14 and Title 50, Chapter 2, relative to wages.
Sponsored by: Rep. London Lamar
Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate Judiciary Committee on 01/29/2024
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 8; Title 39, Chapter 14 and Title 50, Chapter 2, relative to wages. [HB-2084]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
As introduced, specifies that a person commits the offense of wage theft who, acting as an employer, hires an employee and intentionally does not pay the employee for the services the employee provides, at the minimum wage rate required under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, this state's law, or the employment agreement between the employer and employee, whichever is greater, and at the interval required by those laws or agreement, whichever is more frequent. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 39, Chapter 14 and Title 50, Chapter 2.
HB-2084: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 8; Title 39, Chapter 14 and Title 50, Chapter 2, relative to wages.
Sponsored by: Rep. Justin Jones
No Action Taken on 03/19/2024
SB-2230: Increases minimum sentence for first degree sexual assault and provides first 10 years of a sentence for first degree sexual assault not be subject to a suspension or deferment of sentence.
Sponsored by: Sen. Elaine Morgan
Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study on 04/30/2024
You have voted SB-2230: Increases minimum sentence for first degree sexual assault and provides first 10 years of a sentence for first degree sexual assault not be subject to a suspension or deferment of sentence..