| TN | SB0245 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands the proceedings for which a district attorney general pro tem may be appointed to include certain civil proceedings; declares meetings of the district attorneys general conference to be open meetings except for meetings related...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
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| TN | SB0234 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands the notification and uniform requirements for peace officers who provide security or other duties outside of their primary jurisdiction to apply statewide rather than only in certain counties. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 35.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
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| TN | SB0254 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires, by February 1 of each year, that the department submit its report regarding the effectiveness of diversion of offenders from state correctional institutions to the committee of the house of representatives with jurisdiction o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
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| TN | SB0262 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the age of an infant from 14 days or younger to 45 days or younger, who can be received by a facility without the mother being subject to criminal liability. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 11, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
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| TN | SB0218 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes a presumption that a defendant should not be released on the defendant’s personal recognizance if the defendant is charged with an offense that involved the use or display of a firearm or resulted in the serious bodily in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
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| TN | SB0253 | Intro
25% | As introduced, lessens, from 90 calendar days to 60 calendar days, the time within which a clerk of court must notify the health facilities commission of a conviction for certain offenses committed against elderly or vulnerable adults for inclusion o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
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| TN | SB0250 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor for recklessly storing a firearm in a manner that a person knows or reasonably should know will allow a child younger than 18 years of age to access the firearm and the child brings the firearm to a school...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
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| TN | SB0271 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits a person from acting as a professional bondsman, directly or indirectly, while owning, operating, or being employed by a qualified contract service provider that supervises persons who have been released prior to trial with c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
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| TN | SB0194 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Unborn Child Protection Act of 2025." - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 2; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
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| TN | SJR0026 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Speaker of Senate to appoint a committee to meet with a like committee from the House of Representatives to consider the removal of Steven J. Mulroy from the office of District Attorney General for the Thirtieth Judicial District by th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
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| TN | SB0187 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Reproductive Freedom Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 20; Title 29; Title 37; Title 39; Title 49; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
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| TN | SB0166 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds one additional circuit court in the 28th judicial district composed of Crockett, Gibson, and Haywood counties, effective September 1, 2025, with the additional judge to be appointed by the governor. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
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| TN | SB0163 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the penalty for reckless endangerment when the offense is committed by discharging a firearm or antique firearm into a motor vehicle from a Class E felony to a Class C felony, if the motor vehicle is occupied, or a Class D fe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
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| TN | SB0175 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-27
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| TN | SB0170 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires suspension of a minor's driving privileges or ability to obtain a driver license for a period of one year as part of the disposition if a minor is adjudicated delinquent for an act that would constitute the offense of harassme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
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| TN | SB0043 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-15
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| TN | SB0034 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-15
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| TN | SB0006 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a law enforcement agency in custody of an individual unlawfully present in the United States to request an immigration detainer and detain such individual for the maximum period as specified in the detainer; requires such agen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
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| TN | SB0033 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-15
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| TN | SB0017 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires law enforcement agencies and officials to communicate with federal officials regarding the immigration status only for an individual who has been arrested for a criminal offense; sets a civil penalty of up to $1,000 for a law ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
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| TN | SB0120 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands the Class C felony offense of aggravated assault against a first responder to include knowingly possessing fentanyl, carfentanil, remifentanil, alfentanil, thiafentanil, or a fentanyl analogue in a manner that would be reasonab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
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| TN | SJR0003 | Intro
25% | Establishes a definition of antisemitism and encourages departments and agencies of state government to use such definition in determining discriminatory intent for any law or policy in this state that prohibits discrimination based on race, color, r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
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| TN | SB0048 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC, Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc. to the list of companies that may be released by the attorney general and reporter for pending or future claims regarding opioids....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
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| TN | SB0029 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the penalty for civil rights intimidation from a Class D felony to a Class C felony if the victim of the offense was a minor or was selected by the defendant based on the victim’s status as a minister, preacher, pastor, pri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
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| TN | SB0003 | Intro
25% | As introduced, clarifies that the term "abortion," as defined for the offense of criminal abortion, does not include the use of contraceptives, including any device, medication, biological product, or procedure that is generally intended for use in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
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| TN | SB0030 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates new misdemeanor offenses, including intentionally refusing to give one's name or giving a false name to a law enforcement officer who has lawfully detained or arrested the person and requested the information. - Amends TCA Titl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
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| TN | SB0028 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands the criminal offense of harassment to include harassment that occurs by communicating in the physical presence of the victim, in addition to in writing, by telephone, or electronically. - Amends TCA Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
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