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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

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-7316] [Firearms/Gun Control ] [Crime ] [Public Safety ]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - 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

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

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. [HB-7307] [Crime ] [Criminal Justice ] [Human Services ] [Public Safety ]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- COMMERCIAL SEXUAL ACTIVITY - 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

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Defines "public official" to include school personnel for purposes of the criminal prohibition against making threats to public officials. [HB-7303] [Crime ] [Education ] [Public Safety ] [Criminal Justice ] [Law Enforcement ]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- THREATS AND EXTORTION - Defines "public official" to include school personnel for purposes of the criminal prohibition against making threats to public officials.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph McNamara Referred To Senate Judiciary on 05/30/2024

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State (Tennessee)
Tennessee 113th General Assembly

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.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Harold Love P2c, Ref. To Criminal Justice Committee on 01/31/2024

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State (Tennessee)
Tennessee 113th General Assembly

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.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Harold Love P2c, Ref. To Criminal Justice Committee on 01/31/2024

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State (Tennessee)
Tennessee 113th General Assembly

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.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Rebecca Alexander P2c, Ref. To Criminal Justice Committee on 01/31/2024

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State (Tennessee)
Tennessee 113th General Assembly

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.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Janince Bowling Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 627 on 04/03/2024

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State (Tennessee)
Tennessee 113th General Assembly

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to large-capacity magazines. [HB-2196] [Firearms/Gun Control ] [Crime ] [Criminal Justice ] [Public Safety ] [Law Enforcement ]
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.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Bo Mitchell Taken Off Notice For Cal In S/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee Of Criminal Justice Committee on 04/03/2024

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State (Tennessee)
Tennessee 113th General Assembly

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.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. G.A. Hardaway Effective Date(s) 07/01/2024 on 05/13/2024

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State (Tennessee)
Tennessee 113th General Assembly

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.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Bo Mitchell P2c, Ref. To Criminal Justice Committee on 01/31/2024

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State (Tennessee)
Tennessee 113th General Assembly

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.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Paul Rose Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate Judiciary Committee on 01/31/2024

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State (Tennessee)
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] [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.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Frank Niceley Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Judiciary Committee on 04/02/2024

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State (Tennessee)
Tennessee 113th General Assembly

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.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Raumesh Akbari Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate Judiciary Committee on 01/31/2024

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State (Tennessee)
Tennessee 113th General Assembly

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, (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Jeff Yarbro Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate Judiciary Committee on 01/31/2024

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State (Tennessee)
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] [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.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. London Lamar Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate Judiciary Committee on 01/29/2024

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State (Tennessee)
Tennessee 113th General Assembly

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55, relative to criminal justice. [HB-2077] [Crime ] [Criminal Justice ] [Public Safety ]
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.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Dale Carr Assigned To S/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee on 01/30/2024

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State (Tennessee)
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] [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.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Justin Jones No Action Taken on 03/19/2024

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State (Tennessee)
Tennessee 113th General Assembly

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39 and Title 40, relative to transportation of illegal aliens. [HB-2078] [Immigration ] [Crime ] [Transportation and Motor Vehicles ] [Law Enforcement ]
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.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Tim Rudd Taken Off Notice For Cal. In Criminal Justice Committee on 03/26/2024

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State (Rhode Island)
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] [Crime ] [Criminal Justice ] [Public Safety ] [Law Enforcement ]
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.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Elaine Morgan Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study on 04/30/2024

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Prohibits purchases of more than one firearm in any thirty (30) day period. [SB-2219] [Firearms/Gun Control ] [Crime ] [Criminal Justice ] [Public Safety ]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Prohibits purchases of more than one firearm in any thirty (30) day period.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Dawn Euer Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study on 03/12/2024

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