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Tennessee 113th General Assembly
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 16, Part 6, relative to evading arrest. [SB-1348]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
As introduced, increases the mandatory period of confinement for the felony offense of evading arrest from 30 days to 90 days; increases the mandatory period of confinement for the felony offense of evading arrest from 60 days to 120 days if the offense creates a risk of death or injury to innocent bystanders, pursuing law enforcement officers, or other third parties; removes unlawful attempted arrest as a defense to the felony offense of evading arrest. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 16, Part 6.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jon Lundberg
Placed On Senate Finance, Ways, And Means Committee Calendar For 4/23/2024 on 04/19/2024
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to certain criminal offenses. [SB-1219]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
As enacted, requires certain persons convicted of rape, when the victim is 13-17, or incest, when the victim is a minor, to be punished as a Range II offender; allows the sentence imposed, if appropriate, to be within Range III but in no case lower than Range II. - Amends TCA Title 39.
Sponsored by: Sen. Dawn White
Effective Date(s) 07/01/2023 on 05/04/2023
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41, relative to repeat offenders. [SB-1193]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
As introduced, requires the administrative office of the courts to report the number of appeals filed appealing the finding that a criminal defendant is a repeat violent offender by no later than February 1 of each year to the senate judiciary committee and the house criminal justice committee. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.
Sponsored by: Sen. Randy McNally
Placed On Senate Finance, Ways, And Means Committee Calendar For 4/23/2024 on 04/19/2024
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39 and Title 40, relative to criminal offenses. [HB-1459]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor for a warden or chief administrative officer employed by a penal institution, who knows that certain offenses have occurred within the institution, to fail to report such offenses to the district attorney general for the judicial district in which the institution is located and the district attorney general who prosecuted the offense for which the offender is incarcerated within five business days of becoming aware of the offense being committed; authorizes the court to order sentences to run consecutively
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mary Littleton
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 347 on 05/24/2023
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 70, Chapter 4, Part 3 and Chapter 462 of the Private Acts of 2021, relative to drones. [HB-1492]
[Drones ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
As enacted, generally requires by January 1, 2024, each law enforcement agency to develop and enforce a policy that prohibits an officer from using a drone or other substantially similar device as a weapon under any circumstances while in the exercise of the officer's official duties; requires a law enforcement agency to permit an officer qualified to operate a drone to utilize a drone or a substantially similar device for the purpose of remotely detonating a bomb or similar incendiary or explosive device. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ryan Williams
Effective Date(s) 04/28/2023 on 05/03/2023
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 38; Title 39; Title 55 and Title 62, relative to catalytic converters. [SB-1316]
[Crime ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
As introduced, increases the penalty for the offense of possession of a used, detached catalytic converter by an unauthorized person from a Class A misdemeanor punishable only by fine to a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 55 and Title 62.
Sponsored by: Sen. Becky Massey
Placed On Senate Finance, Ways, And Means Committee Calendar For 4/23/2024 on 04/19/2024
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 36, Chapter 6 and Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 3, relative to custodial interference. [SB-1319]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Crime ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
As enacted, adds to the offense of custodial interference, a parent or other family member who harbors or hides a child within or outside this state, knowing that the child has been placed in the custody of the department of children's services pursuant to a protective custody order or an emergency custody order entered by a court; states that it is not a defense that the person harboring or hiding the child has not been served with an actual copy of a protective custody order or emergency custody order. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 6 and Title
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Sponsored by: Sen. Paul Bailey
Effective Date(s) 07/01/2023 on 05/04/2023
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39 and Title 40, relative to criminal offenses. [SB-1223]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Data Privacy ]
As enacted, specifies that a course of conduct for purposes of stalking includes one instance of placing an electronic tracking device on a person or in or on a person's property, unless the electronic tracking device is placed by or at the direction of a law enforcement officer. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
Sponsored by: Sen. Dawn White
Effective Date(s) 07/01/2023 on 05/17/2023
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 10-7-504; Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49 and Title 70, relative to firearms. [SB-1321]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
As introduced, requires the administrative office of the courts to conduct a study, within existing resources, of the number of individuals convicted under offenses for carrying or possessing weapons with the intent to go armed and the penalties assessed for the convictions, and submit a report of the study's findings to the chairs of the senate judiciary committee and the criminal justice committee of the house of representatives by January 15, 2024. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504; Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title
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Sponsored by: Sen. Paul Bailey
Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate Judiciary Committee on 02/06/2023
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 13, relative to assault. [SB-1233]
[Crime ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
As enacted, expands the criminal offenses of assault and aggravated assault against a first responder or nurse who is discharging or attempting to discharge official duties to include healthcare providers and increases the penalty for assault against those persons from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class D felony. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13.
Sponsored by: Sen. Dawn White
Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate Judiciary Committee on 02/06/2023
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 16, Part 6, relative to evading arrest. [HB-1475]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
As introduced, increases the mandatory period of confinement for the felony offense of evading arrest from 30 days to 90 days; increases the mandatory period of confinement for the felony offense of evading arrest from 60 days to 120 days if the offense creates a risk of death or injury to innocent bystanders, pursuing law enforcement officers, or other third parties; removes unlawful attempted arrest as a defense to the felony offense of evading arrest. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 16, Part 6.
Sponsored by: Rep. William Lamberth
Taken Off Notice For Cal In S/c Finance, Ways, And Means Subcommittee Of Finance, Ways, And Means Committee on 04/18/2023
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39 and Title 40, relative to drug offenses. [HB-1242]
[Crime ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Public Health ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
As enacted, makes it a Class A misdemeanor to knowingly possess xylazine; makes it a Class C felony to knowingly manufacture, deliver, or sell xylazine, or to knowingly possess xylazine with intent to manufacture, deliver, or sell xylazine; provides exceptions for veterinarians. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
Sponsored by: Rep. William Lamberth
Effective Date(s) 07/01/2023 on 05/24/2023
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 55, relative to criminal law. [HB-1366]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
As enacted, requires the department to provide an inmate who is discharged from imprisonment for a felony offense and who intends to reside in this state with certain documentation to assist the inmate in obtaining post-release employment and to coordinate with the department of safety to provide a photo identification license if the inmate does not have a current photo identification license or driver license. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 55.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Whitson
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 461 on 05/24/2023
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 38 and Title 39, Chapter 16, relative to public servants. [HB-1436]
[Crime ]
[Ethics ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
As introduced, increases the penalty for the criminal offense of bribery from a Class B felony to a Class A felony; requires the Tennessee bureau of investigation to investigate allegations of bribery when two or more reports have been received and to submit a report to the speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives within 180 days. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 39, Chapter 16.
Sponsored by: Rep. Bo Mitchell
Assigned To S/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee on 02/07/2023
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, relative to the desecration of venerated objects. [HB-1193]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Religion ]
As enacted, broadens the offense of desecration of a venerable object by changing the culpable mental state from intentionally to recklessly or knowingly desecrating a place of worship or burial or a state or national flag. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ryan Williams
Effective Date(s) 07/01/2023 on 05/03/2023
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39 and Title 40, relative to the transmission of infectious diseases. [HB-1302]
[Public Health ]
[Crime ]
[Healthcare ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
As introduced, adds a requirement that a licensed medical laboratory reporting an offender's HIV test results to the victim of an assault also provide the victim with a written copy of the test results. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dwayne Thompson
Taken Off Notice For Cal In S/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee Of Criminal Justice Committee on 04/03/2024
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to certain criminal offenses. [HB-1400]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
As enacted, requires certain persons convicted of rape, when the victim is 13-17, or incest, when the victim is a minor, to be punished as a Range II offender; allows the sentence imposed, if appropriate, to be within Range III but in no case lower than Range II. - Amends TCA Title 39.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mary Littleton
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 283 on 05/04/2023
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39 and Title 44, Chapter 17, relative to criminal offenses. [HB-1320]
[Animals ]
[Disaster Relief ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
As introduced, creates the Class C misdemeanor of restraining a dog with a chain, cord, tether, cable, or similar device while a disaster is imminent or occurring; states that a person is not subject to prosecution for a violation unless the person has previously received a warning citation for a violation. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 44, Chapter 17.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sabi Kumar
Assigned To S/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee on 02/07/2023
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 37; Title 39 and Title 49, relative to tobacco, smoking hemp, and vapor products. [HB-1425]
[Children and Youth ]
[Education ]
[Public Health ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Crime ]
As introduced, creates a Class C misdemeanor for a person who has not attained 21 years of age to consume or possess vapor products on public school property that serves any of the grades kindergarten through 12. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 49.
Sponsored by: Rep. Gary Hicks
Assigned To S/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee on 02/07/2023
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 11, relative to criminal law. [HB-1391]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Property Tax ]
As introduced, changes, from 21 days to 30 days, the time in which a court must hold a hearing from the date a claimant's motion is filed to have the state show cause why forfeited property should not be returned or a lien lis pendens released. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 11.
Sponsored by: Rep. Chris Todd
P2c, Caption Bill, Held On Desk - Pending Amdt. on 02/02/2023