Criminal Offenses

State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Establishes the crime of attempted kidnapping of a minor. [HB-5639]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- KIDNAPPING - Establishes the crime of attempted kidnapping of a minor.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Justine Caldwell Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study on 03/25/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Prohibits the licensing authority from imposing additional or stricter requirements than the department of attorney general as well as prohibiting said licensing authorities from imposing any fees, other than the fee required in § 11-47-12. [HB-5653]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Prohibits the licensing authority from imposing additional or stricter requirements than the department of attorney general as well as prohibiting said licensing authorities from imposing any fees, other than the fee required in § 11-47-12.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Arthur Corvese Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study on 03/26/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Increases the maximum fees payable to sheriffs, sergeants, and constables for the service of writs, citations, or subpoenas, from $45.00 to $70.00. [SB-317]
COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- FEES - Increases the maximum fees payable to sheriffs, sergeants, and constables for the service of writs, citations, or subpoenas, from $45.00 to $70.00.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Frank Ciccone Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study on 03/13/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Establishes the Rhode Island Assault Weapons Ban Act of 2025. [SB-359]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- RHODE ISLAND ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN ACT OF 2025 - Establishes the Rhode Island Assault Weapons Ban Act of 2025.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Walter Felag Introduced, Referred To Senate Judiciary on 02/21/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Criminalizes the unauthorized dissemination of sexually explicit images of another person that are created by digital devices or created without the consent of the person depicted. [SB-355]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- ELECTRONIC IMAGING DEVICES - Criminalizes the unauthorized dissemination of sexually explicit images of another person that are created by digital devices or created without the consent of the person depicted.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. David Tikoian Withdrawn At Sponsor's Request on 03/07/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Prohibits purchases of more than one firearm in any thirty (30) day period. [SB-286]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Prohibits purchases of more than one firearm in any thirty (30) day period.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Virginia Sosnowski Introduced, Referred To Senate Judiciary on 02/13/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Under certain circumstances, provides immunity from arrest and prosecution for prostitution, procurement of sexual conduct for a fee, loitering for prostitution and soliciting from motor vehicles for indecent purposes. [SB-278]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- COMMERCIAL SEXUAL ACTIVITY - Under certain circumstances, provides immunity from arrest and prosecution for prostitution, procurement of sexual conduct for a fee, loitering for prostitution and soliciting from motor vehicles for indecent purposes.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Ryan Pearson Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study on 03/25/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Furthers delineate the definitions of felony, misdemeanor and petty misdemeanor. [HB-5502]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Furthers delineate the definitions of felony, misdemeanor and petty misdemeanor.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Carol McEntee Scheduled For Hearing And/or Consideration (04/01/2025) on 03/28/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Criminalizes the knowing and intentional failure of a physician, nurse, or other licensed medical person to provide reasonable medical care and treatment to an infant born alive as a felony. [SB-306]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- CHILDREN - Criminalizes the knowing and intentional failure of a physician, nurse, or other licensed medical person to provide reasonable medical care and treatment to an infant born alive as a felony.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Elaine Morgan Introduced, Referred To Senate Judiciary on 02/13/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Replaces state marshals with capitol police as to those law enforcement officers being exempt from certain firearm restrictions. [SB-280]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Replaces state marshals with capitol police as to those law enforcement officers being exempt from certain firearm restrictions.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Elaine Morgan Placed On Senate Calendar (04/01/2025) on 03/28/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Makes it unnecessary to prove that a person’s transmission of electronic communications be for the sole purpose of harassment before being found guilty of cyberstalking or cyberharassment. [SB-294]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- COMPUTER CRIME - Makes it unnecessary to prove that a person’s transmission of electronic communications be for the sole purpose of harassment before being found guilty of cyberstalking or cyberharassment.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Leonidas Raptakis Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study on 03/18/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Prohibits members of law enforcement from engaging in sexual penetration with individuals in their custody. The act also provides that a person convicted of custodial law enforcement sexual penetration would face imprisonment for not more than 3 years. [SB-299]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- CUSTODIAL LAW ENFORCEMENT SEXUAL PENETRATION - Prohibits members of law enforcement from engaging in sexual penetration with individuals in their custody. The act also provides that a person convicted of custodial law enforcement sexual penetration would face imprisonment for not more than 3 years.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Ana Quezada Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study on 02/25/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Establishes the Rhode Island Assault Weapons Ban Act of 2025. [HB-5436]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- RHODE ISLAND ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN ACT OF 2025 - Establishes the Rhode Island Assault Weapons Ban Act of 2025.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Carol McEntee Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study on 03/26/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Prohibits individuals from conveying items to or from the training school for youth without prior consent by the executive director of the division of youth development at the department of children, youth and families. [HB-5437]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- JAILS AND PRISONS - Prohibits individuals from conveying items to or from the training school for youth without prior consent by the executive director of the division of youth development at the department of children, youth and families.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Arthur Corvese Scheduled For Hearing And/or Consideration (04/01/2025) on 03/28/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Expands meaning of bomb threats and false reports to include any warning or threat of the existence of an explosive device and allows judge to impose conditions of bail to include extreme risk protection orders, no trespass orders and counseling. [HB-5442]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- PUBLIC UTILITIES - Expands meaning of bomb threats and false reports to include any warning or threat of the existence of an explosive device and allows judge to impose conditions of bail to include extreme risk protection orders, no trespass orders and counseling.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Lauren Carson Referred To Senate Judiciary on 03/21/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Amends the statute punishing child pornography by replacing the term "child pornography" with the term "child sexual abuse material." [SB-207]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- CHILDREN - Amends the statute punishing child pornography by replacing the term "child pornography" with the term "child sexual abuse material."

  

Sponsored by: Sen. John Burke Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study on 03/18/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Under certain circumstances, provides immunity from arrest and prosecution for prostitution, procurement of sexual conduct for a fee, loitering for prostitution and soliciting from motor vehicles for indecent purposes. [HB-5358]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- COMMERCIAL SEXUAL ACTIVITY - Under certain circumstances, provides immunity from arrest and prosecution for prostitution, procurement of sexual conduct for a fee, loitering for prostitution and soliciting from motor vehicles for indecent purposes.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Craven Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study on 02/25/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Adds definitions to prohibition of hazing, make coaches and others responsible for knowingly failing to take reasonable measures to prevent hazing and would punish serious bodily injury by up to ten (10) years in imprisonment. [SB-203]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- HAZING - Adds definitions to prohibition of hazing, make coaches and others responsible for knowingly failing to take reasonable measures to prevent hazing and would punish serious bodily injury by up to ten (10) years in imprisonment.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Virginia Sosnowski Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study on 03/11/2025

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State (Tennessee)
Tennessee 114th General Assembly

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 29 and Title 39, relative to interference with property. [HB-1295]
As introduced, enacts the "Shielding Tennesseans from Oligarchic Power and Eliminating Lawless Obstruction of Necessities Act (STOP ELON Act)," which creates a new offense of interfering with an individual's or entity's receipt of a loan, grant, or financial assistance that the individual or entity is lawfully entitled to receive from the federal, state, or local government, with intent to deprive the individual of the loan, grant, or financial assistance, which is punished as theft; authorizes a victim of an offense to bring a civil action to recover (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Powell Action Def. In S/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee To 4/2/2025 on 03/26/2025

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State (Tennessee)
Tennessee 114th General Assembly

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 8 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 3, relative to criminal offenses. [HB-1314]
As introduced, creates the criminal offense of threatening to commit an act of mass violence; creates the criminal offense of posting on a publicly accessible website the telephone number or home address of an individual with the intent to cause harm or a threat of harm to the individual or a member of the individual's family or household. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 8 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 3.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. William Lamberth Sponsor(s) Added. on 03/26/2025

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