Criminal Offenses
Tennessee 114th General Assembly
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to threats of violence. [HB-1273]
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[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
As introduced, creates the Class E felony of recklessly, by any means of communication, threatening to commit an act of mass violence on the property of a child care agency, preschool, or religious institution; creates the Class B misdemeanor of failing to report a threat to commit an act of mass violence on the property of a child care agency, preschool, or religious institution. - Amends TCA Title 39.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Cochran
P2c, Ref. To Judiciary Committee on 02/12/2025
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8; Title 10; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 49; Title 50; Title 55 and Title 70, relative to criminal justice. [HB-1256]
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[Public Safety ]
As enacted, revises provisions of present law relative to placing certain defendants on a fugitives list for failure to appear. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 10; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 49; Title 50; Title 55 and Title 70.
Sponsored by: Rep. Cameron Sexton
Pub. Ch. 352 on 05/08/2025
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 8 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 3, relative to criminal offenses. [SB-1296]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
As enacted, 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: Sen. Ferrell Haile
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 522 on 05/27/2025
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39 and Title 55, relative to driving under the influence of an intoxicant. [HB-1204]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
[Crime ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
As enacted, revises present law concerning driving under the influence. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sabi Kumar
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 403 on 05/13/2025
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 28 and Title 39, Chapter 17, relative to the unauthorized use of deepfake or actual likeness. [SB-1346]
[Crime ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
As enacted, creates a civil and criminal action for individuals who are the subject of an intimate digital depiction that is intentionally disclosed without the individual's consent under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 28 and Title 39, Chapter 17.
Sponsored by: Sen. Paul E. Bailey
Pub. Ch. 466 on 05/15/2025
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 16, relative to interference with government operations. [SB-1399]
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[Law Enforcement ]
As enacted, creates an offense for a person who harms or threatens to harm an individual involved in the judicial process or a family member of such person with the intent to impede, intimidate, interfere with, or retaliate against the justice system participant in connection with their participation in the judicial process, punishable as a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 16.
Sponsored by: Sen. Kerry Roberts
Pub. Ch. 468 on 05/15/2025
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 53, relative to criminal justice. [HB-1232]
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As enacted, makes various changes to present law concerning criminal justice. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 53.
Sponsored by: Rep. William G. Lamberth
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 462 on 05/15/2025
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 40, Chapter 39; Title 43; Title 44 and Title 53, relative to the treatment of animals. [HB-1261]
[Animals ]
[Agriculture ]
[Consumer Protection ]
As introduced, makes it an offense for farmers to keep breeding pigs and veal calves in certain small enclosures, subject to certain exceptions, effective July 1, 2030. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 40, Chapter 39; Title 43; Title 44 and Title 53.
Sponsored by: Rep. Justin Jones
Taken Off Notice For Cal In S/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee Of Judiciary Committee on 04/01/2025
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55, relative to criminal law. [HB-1266]
[Crime ]
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[Public Safety ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Law Enforcement ]
As introduced, requires notice of the Class B misdemeanor of transferring dangerous materials to a metals recycling facility without first obtaining a signed written acknowledgment that the item has been transferred to be posted in a conspicuous location at each public entrance to the facility. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.
Sponsored by: Rep. Richard Scarbrough
P2c, Caption Bill, Held On Desk - Pending Amdt. on 02/12/2025
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 40, Chapter 39; Title 43; Title 44 and Title 53, relative to the treatment of animals. [SB-1325]
[Animals ]
[Agriculture ]
[Consumer Protection ]
As introduced, makes it an offense for farmers to keep breeding pigs and veal calves in certain small enclosures, subject to certain exceptions, effective July 1, 2030. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 40, Chapter 39; Title 43; Title 44 and Title 53.
Sponsored by: Sen. Sara Kyle
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Judiciary Committee on 04/01/2025
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to criminal offenses. [HB-1190]
[Crime ]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
As introduced, creates a Class E felony that is committed when a person exercises control over a motor vehicle knowing that the person does not have the permission of the owner of the motor vehicle; creates a Class A misdemeanor of possessing a firearm that the person knows or reasonably should know has been stolen. - Amends TCA Title 39.
Sponsored by: Rep. Johnny W. Shaw
Ref. To Judiciary Committee on 03/26/2025
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 39-17-402, relative to testing equipment used to determine the presence of a synthetic opioid. [SB-1290]
[Crime ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
[Public Safety ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
As enacted, makes permanent the exclusion of narcotic testing equipment used to determine whether a controlled substance contains a synthetic opioid, unless the narcotic testing equipment is possessed for purposes of the commission of a drug offense, from the definition of drug paraphernalia; removes the July 1, 2025, repeal date for that exclusion. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-402.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jack Johnson
Pub. Ch. 128 on 04/08/2025
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39 and Title 49, Chapter 6, relative to assault upon school employees. [SB-1411]
[Education ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Law Enforcement ]
As introduced, makes assault against school employees a Class E felony offense under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joseph Hensley
Action Deferred In Senate Finance, Ways & Means Committee To 1st Calendar Of 2026 on 04/14/2025
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 29 and Title 39, relative to interference with property. [SB-1128]
[Crime ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Public Safety ]
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
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jeff Yarbro
Action Deferred In Senate Judiciary Committee To 1st Calendar Of 2026 on 04/08/2025
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to criminal offenses. [SB-1129]
[Crime ]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
As introduced, creates a Class E felony that is committed when a person exercises control over a motor vehicle knowing that the person does not have the permission of the owner of the motor vehicle; creates a Class A misdemeanor of possessing a firearm that the person knows or reasonably should know has been stolen. - Amends TCA Title 39.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jeff Yarbro
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Judiciary Committee on 04/08/2025
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8; Title 10; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 49; Title 50; Title 55 and Title 70, relative to criminal justice. [SB-1133]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
As enacted, revises provisions of present law relative to placing certain defendants on a fugitives list for failure to appear. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 10; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 49; Title 50; Title 55 and Title 70.
Sponsored by: Sen. Randy McNally
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 352 on 05/08/2025
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40, relative to criminal offenses. [SB-1225]
[Crime ]
[Public Health ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
As introduced, requires all persons who disseminate smoking paraphernalia to display the sign providing notice of the legal age for purchasing such products required by the Prevention of Youth Access to Tobacco, Smoking Hemp, and Vapor Products Act; removes authorization for a person to substitute a tobacco-related warning sign required by law prior to April 22, 1994. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.
Sponsored by: Sen. Paul Rose
Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate Judiciary Committee on 02/12/2025
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 53, relative to criminal justice. [SB-1233]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
As enacted, makes various changes to present law concerning criminal justice. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 53.
Sponsored by: Sen. Todd Gardenhire
Pub. Ch. 462 on 05/15/2025
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 10; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 55 and Title 58, relative to terrorism. [HB-1172]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[National Security ]
As introduced, requires the district attorneys general conference to compile a yearly report detailing convictions made pursuant to the Terrorism Prevention and Response Act of 2002 during the previous year; requires the report to be provided to the general assembly no later than January 15 each year. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 10; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 55 and Title 58.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ryan Williams
P2c, Caption Bill, Held On Desk - Pending Amdt. on 02/12/2025
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 11; Title 39, Chapter 12; Title 39, Chapter 13; Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 40, Chapter 24; Title 40, Chapter 35 and Title 40, Chapter 39, relative to criminal offenses. [SB-1170]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
As introduced, removes the killing of another committed in the perpetration of or attempt to perpetrate certain crimes from the elements of first degree murder; deletes the offense of criminal responsibility for conduct of another; deletes the offense of criminal responsibility for the facilitation of a felony. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 11; Title 39, Chapter 12; Title 39, Chapter 13; Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 40, Chapter 24; Title 40, Chapter 35 and Title 40, Chapter 39.
Sponsored by: Sen. Raumesh A. Akbari
Placed On Senate Judiciary Committee Calendar For 8/14/2025 on 07/22/2025