| TN | HB0679 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, increases from $1,000 to $2,500 the amount of compensation that may be awarded from the criminal injuries compensation fund to a health care provider who performed a forensic medical examination on a victim of a sexually oriented crime...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1232 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, allows a person to petition for expunction of an eligible criminal offense that occurred at least 10 years after a conviction for the offense of driving under the influence of an intoxicant. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0468 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, enacts the "Women's Safety and Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 37; Title 41; Title 49 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0642 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearms Act," which permits a person to voluntarily waive their firearm rights through filing a waiver with the clerk of the circuit court in the county of the person's residence; specifies ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1244 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, requires, if the respondent on an order of protection dispossesses firearms by transferring possession to a third party who is not prohibited from possessing firearms, the respondent to specify the third party and the physical address ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0043 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, authorizes a county legislative body to elect not to permit persons within the county to lawfully carry a handgun without a handgun carry permit by passage of a resolution; requires a county that has passed such a resolution to provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1186 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, authorizes a juvenile court to order a child who is accused of being delinquent or unruly and released prior to a hearing to wear a global positioning monitoring system device; if the court issues such an order, requires the entity ope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1350 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, allows a court to issue an extreme risk protection order upon a finding by clear and convincing evidence that a person poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to the person or others if allowed to possess or purchase a fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0034 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor for knowingly giving, selling, lending, delivering, or otherwise transferring a firearm to a person when the transferor knows or reasonably should know that the person receiving the firearm is prohibited f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1128 | Intro
Recessed | 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 f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1191 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, enacts "Akilah's Law," which creates the offense of selling, offering to sell, delivering, or transferring a firearm to a person knowing the person has been a patient in a mental institution at any time within the previous five years. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0862 | Intro
Recessed | 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 loca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1176 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, permits the largest municipality in Shelby, Davidson, Knox, or Hamilton county to regulate the manner of storage of firearms, firearm ammunition, and firearm accessories by ordinance, resolution, policy, rule, or other enactment. - Ame...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0662 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, establishes a rebuttable presumption that a person poses an imminent substantial likelihood of serious harm and needs emergency detention and examination if the person was charged with one of certain criminal offenses and ordered by th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0175 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, removes the requirement that an inmate be chronically debilitated or incapacitated for the commissioner of correction to be able to certify an inmate as eligible for parole; empowers the commissioner to grant an inmate furlough if the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0957 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, prohibits the possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of a switch or auto sear device designed, made, or adapted for the purpose of converting a weapon to shoot automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0819 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, creates a civil action against any person or government entity that infringes upon a person's right to bear arms under the Tennessee or United States Constitutions; requires the person or entity to be liable for actual or statutory dam...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0595 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, requires a sheriff to accept the surrender of a criminal defendant on pretrial release by a bail bondsman or surety for good cause, pending a hearing by a court with jurisdiction to admit to bail to determine whether there is good caus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0673 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, enacts the "Comprehensive Assault Crime Intervention Act." - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1129 | Intro
Recessed | 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 firea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1184 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, requires a person who is convicted of domestic assault or subject to an order of protection to dispossess any firearm in the person's possession by transferring the firearm to a law enforcement agency and to provide the court with an a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SJR0346 | Intro
Recessed | Supports regulation or ban on the sale of Kratom in Tennessee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0349 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, specifies that a commissioned reserve deputy sheriff or commissioned reserve or auxiliary police officer receiving compensation for services as a guard, patrol, or watchperson under a contract with a private business that is properly l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1187 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, makes various changes to criminal law, including requiring defendants accused of certain offenses to be subject to a global positioning monitoring system as condition of bail. - Amends TCA Title 10; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Chapte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1105 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, expands the circumstances under which a law enforcement agency may petition a court for permission to destroy a firearm that has been confiscated by a law enforcement officer and declared to be contraband by a court, to any firearm, ra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0923 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, decriminalizes the possession of less than one ounce of marijuana or less than five marijuana plants; authorizes municipalities and counties to impose civil penalties on the possession of marijuana in certain circumstances. - Amends TC...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0033 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, enacts "MaKayla's Law," which amends the offense of reckless endangerment to specifically 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1396 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, permits a professional bondsman to issue and retain the required receipt for money or other consideration received in a digital format. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 11.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1183 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, creates a criminal offense of storing or keeping a firearm in any place if the firearm is not secured in a locked container or equipped with a tamper-resistant mechanical lock or other safety device that is properly engaged so as to re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0600 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, specifies that the administrative office of the courts may distribute to the courts electronically the discharge from conditions of release form that is required to be sent to law enforcement agencies by the court when a defendant upon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1325 | Intro
Recessed | 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 T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0914 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, extends the time, from 30 to 45 days, within which a person whose handgun carry permit has been suspended or revoked may petition the chancery court for judicial review of the department of safety's final determination. - Amends TCA Ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0493 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, increases the burden of proof required to be met by the state in civil asset forfeiture proceedings from a preponderance of evidence standard to a clear and convincing evidence standard. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1424 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, expands the definition of "adult-oriented establishment", for purposes of imposing certain requirements, to include commercial establishments that offer sexually oriented material, devices, or paraphernalia, adult cabaret entertainment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0441 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, specifies that a person does not commit an offense if the person possesses or carries a firearm into an area that is posted if, upon the request of an individual authorized to control access to the property, the person immediately leav...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1253 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, creates the offense of carrying or possessing a firearm, including a firearm that was privately assembled and does not contain a serial number or other mark that conforms with federal law, if, at the time of carrying or possessing, the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1348 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, deletes the exception to the criminal offense of unlawfully carrying a firearm with intent to go armed for persons who lawfully possess a handgun, are in a place where the person is lawfully present, and are at least 21 years old or 18...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0906 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Sexual Violence Justice Act," making various changes to the requirements for investigating sexual offenses. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1234 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, revives causes of action based on a sexual assault that occurred when the injured party was 18 years of age or older and are time-barred because the applicable statute of limitations has expired; allows such actions to be commenced wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1349 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, requires a clerk of a court with criminal jurisdiction to automatically remove and destroy all public records of a conviction for a Class E felony or misdemeanor that is eligible for expunction, one year after the person has completed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0892 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, increases, from 15 to 20, the number of background investigations that the speaker of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives may request a year for persons under consideration for appointment to a position of trust and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0921 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, enacts the "Pot for Potholes Act"; establishes a regulatory structure for the cultivation, processing, and retail sale of marijuana and marijuana products in this state to be administered by the department of agriculture. - Amends TCA ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1353 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, restores the right of suffrage for persons convicted of an infamous crime after expiration of the sentence imposed for the infamous crime; removes requirement that the person pay restitution and court costs and be current in all child ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0572 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, increases from $25,000 to $50,000 the jurisdictional dollar limit for general sessions courts in civil cases generally. - Amends TCA Title 13; Title 16 and Title 29.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1026 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, changes from September 1 to October 1 the date by which the commission must make budget recommendations for the following fiscal year to the governor, finance committees of the house and senate, legislative budget offices, and affected...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0236 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, requires a law enforcement agency to release calls for emergency assistance services at rental homes and apartment complexes to qualified nonprofit organizations for the purpose of distributing the calls to rental property managers and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1204 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, enacts the "Anti-Road Rage Act of 2024," which creates a Class E felony for the reckless discharge of a firearm while operating, or as a passenger in, a motor vehicle; creates a Class A misdemeanor for the reckless brandishing or displ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0389 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, creates a Class C felony of reckless endangerment involving community terrorism, which is committed against a population within a geographic territory by members of a criminal gang or within 1,000 feet of a school or park; requires the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1032 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, requires officials who are employed or contracted by the federal government, the state government, or a local government within this state, or an agency or department thereof, to obtain a search warrant that identifies the person or pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0846 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, requires the annual written report submitted to the committee of the house of representatives with jurisdiction over criminal justice matters and the judiciary committee of the senate regarding activities of narcotics investigations by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-31
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