Criminal Offenses
Tennessee 113th General Assembly
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to critical infrastructure. [SB-2040]
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.
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to large-capacity magazines. [HB-2196]
As introduced, creates an offense for a person to possess or manufacture an ammunition feeding device that has capacity to accept more than 10 rounds, unless certain circumstances apply. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
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Tennessee 113th General Assembly
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to threats of mass violence. [HB-2198]
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.
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Tennessee 113th General Assembly
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 39-13-103, relative to the offense of reckless endangerment. [HB-2199]
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.
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Tennessee 113th General Assembly
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 33; Title 39 and Title 40, relative to mass violence. [SB-2038]
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.
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Tennessee 113th General Assembly
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 12; Title 39; Title 50 and Title 67, relative to immigration. [SB-2034]
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.
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Tennessee 113th General Assembly
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to large capacity magazines. [SB-1989]
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.
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Tennessee 113th General Assembly
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to unlawful images. [SB-2003]
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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Tennessee 113th General Assembly
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]
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.
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55, relative to criminal justice. [HB-2077]
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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Tennessee 113th General Assembly
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]
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.
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39 and Title 40, relative to transportation of illegal aliens. [HB-2078]
As introduced, prohibits any person from transporting an illegal alien into this state; increases from $1,000 to $5,000 the fine for transporting illegal aliens. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
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. [SB-2230]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL ASSAULT -- SHERRY'S LAW - 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.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
Prohibits purchases of more than one firearm in any thirty (30) day period. [SB-2219]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Prohibits purchases of more than one firearm in any thirty (30) day period.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
Provides for enhanced penalties if a victim of unauthorized dissemination of indecent material is a minor or the offender is in a position of authority over the victim or the offense results in serious bodily injury or death of the victim. [SB-2224]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- ELECTRONIC IMAGING DEVICES - Provides for enhanced penalties if a victim of unauthorized dissemination of indecent material is a minor or the offender is in a position of authority over the victim or the offense results in serious bodily injury or death of the victim.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
Provides a rebuttable defense if any person shall die or sustain a personal injury while committing any violent criminal offense that individual is lawfully in a place they have a right to be, and acted in self-defense and reasonable belief of harm. [SB-2198]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- BURGLARY AND BREAKING AND ENTERING - Provides a rebuttable defense if any person shall die or sustain a personal injury while committing any violent criminal offense that individual is lawfully in a place they have a right to be, and acted in self-defense and reasonable belief of harm.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
Allows an individual to lawfully possess a device that would silence the sound of a natural report of a rifle or shotgun to hunt game, as long as the host rifle or shotgun is allowed. [SB-2199]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Allows an individual to lawfully possess a device that would silence the sound of a natural report of a rifle or shotgun to hunt game, as long as the host rifle or shotgun is allowed.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
Prohibits purchases of more than one firearm in any thirty (30) day period. [HB-7269]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Prohibits purchases of more than one firearm in any thirty (30) day period.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
Defines suitable person and establishes reasons for applying for carry permit, establishes what information is required on applications, establishes appeal process if application denied and provides that records are not public. [SB-2231]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Defines suitable person and establishes reasons for applying for carry permit, establishes what information is required on applications, establishes appeal process if application denied and provides that records are not public.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
Requires purchasers of firearms, to take and pass a basic firearm safety test and requires the firearm test administered by DEM be updated every two years, as deemed appropriate and repeals § 11-47-35.2. [SB-2218]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Requires purchasers of firearms, to take and pass a basic firearm safety test and requires the firearm test administered by DEM be updated every two years, as deemed appropriate and repeals § 11-47-35.2.