Bills Pending Tennessee Senate Judiciary Committee

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TNSB2196Intro
25%
As introduced, changes from January 15 to July 1 the date by which district attorneys general must report to the senate judiciary committee and the criminal justice committee of the house of representatives the number of reports received concerning v...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2197Intro
25%
As introduced, changes from September 1 to October 1 the date by which the commission on children and youth must make budget recommendations for the following fiscal year to the governor, finance committees of the house and senate, legislative budget...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2199Intro
25%
As introduced, deletes an exception to the offense of carrying a firearm with the intent to go armed for persons carrying, whether openly or concealed, a handgun if the person lawfully possesses the handgun, is in a place where the person is lawfully...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2271Intro
25%
As introduced, increases from three to five business days, the amount of time within which the department must notify the state board of education that a license has been issued to a facility that intends to provide care to children who are transport...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2308Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the commissioner of health to maintain any record or report on disposition of an aborted fetus or aborted fetal tissue for at least 15 years. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 16; Title 20; Title 29; Title 37; Title 39; Title 62; Ti...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2469Intro
25%
As introduced, changes from 20 days to 15 days the notice of a hearing on a petition for restoration of rights of citizenship that must be given to the district attorney general of the county in which the petitioner currently resides and the district...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2408Intro
25%
As introduced, extends the time period within which a person may file a petition for judicial review of the department of safety's determination of suspension or revocation of a handgun carry permit from 30 days to 60 days of the issuance of the depa...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2090Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the sheriff to give the parties involved in a lawsuit to secure an easement or right-of-way four days' notice of the time and place of the proceeding before a jury instead of three days' notice. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; ...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2346Intro
25%
As introduced, reduces from 20 days to 15 days, the amount of notice that a person rendered infamous or deprived of the rights of citizenship by the judgment of a state court must provide to the district attorney general in whose county the petitione...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2272Intro
25%
As introduced, increases, from 10 days to 10 business days, the amount of time prior to a meeting that written notice of the meeting must be given by the president of the public defenders conference to members of the conference. - Amends TCA Title 8;...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2305Intro
25%
As introduced, subject to exceptions for confiscated firearms, makes it a Class E felony offense for a person to knowingly receive, possess, conceal, store, barter, sell, transfer, or dispose of a firearm that has had the importer’s or manufacturer...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2310Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes the electronic submission of the report the attorney general and reporter is required to submit quarterly regarding the compromise and settlement, in the amount of $25,000 or less, of civil litigation to which the state may ...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2258Intro
25%
As introduced, creates a process whereby an adult suffering from a terminal disease may request medication for the purpose of ending the adult's life in a humane and dignified manner if certain requirements are met. - Amends TCA Title 32; Title 39; T...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2252Intro
25%
As introduced, prohibits a court, magistrate, or clerk from requiring a corporate surety that is regulated by the department of commerce and insurance to post any additional deposit of security with the court in addition to a bail bond; authorizes a ...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2206Intro
25%
As introduced, deletes an exception to the offense of carrying a firearm with the intent to go armed for persons carrying, whether openly or concealed, a handgun if the person lawfully possesses the handgun, is in a place where the person is lawfully...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2452Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Reparations for Descendants of Enslaved People Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21.
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2024-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2474Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the clerk of each court to compile a monthly report of all criminal fines and fees assessed by the court in the previous month and submit the report to the administrative office of the courts; requires the administrative offic...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2309Intro
25%
As introduced, permits the licensed medical laboratory to report the results of the HIV test to the victim of assault electronically. - Amends TCA Title 39.
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2024-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2344Intro
25%
As introduced, clarifies that including noncontiguous land islands of a county as part of a senate district that the rest of the county is located in does not violate the legislative intent of keeping districts contiguous. - Amends TCA Section 3-1-10...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2433Intro
25%
As introduced, increases from $1,000 to $1,500 the compensation claim amount that may be reimbursed to a healthcare provider for performing a forensic medical examination on a victim of a sexual assault case. - Amends TCA Title 29.
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2024-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2412Intro
25%
As introduced, requires defendants charged with certain offenses to wear a global positioning monitoring system device if the defendant is released on the person's personal recognizance, upon the execution of an unsecured bond, or on bail. - Amends T...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2413Intro
25%
As introduced, adds that a person who is an accessory after the fact for a crime in which a claim for criminal injuries compensation is based is ineligible to receive an award of these funds. - Amends TCA Section 29-13-105.
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2024-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB1989Intro
25%
As introduced, creates the Class B misdemeanor of possessing, with intent to go armed, a large-capacity magazine outside of the person's residence, business, or premises; defines a large-capacity magazine as an ammunition feeding device with capacity...
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2024-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2038Intro
25%
As introduced, increases the penalties for threatening to commit an act of mass violence on school property and failing to report a threat to commit an act of mass violence on school property; requires, rather than permits, a court to order a defenda...
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2024-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2003Intro
25%
As introduced, expands the offense of unlawful exposure to include the distribution, with the intent to cause emotional distress, of an image of the intimate parts of another identifiable person or an image of an identifiable person engaged in sexual...
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2024-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2005Intro
25%
As introduced, decreases from 60 to 30 days when the district attorney may submit recommendations to the court and the petitioner regarding a person's petition to expunge an offense. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3 and Title 40.
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2024-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2053Intro
25%
As introduced, changes the reporting month from January to July for when the attorney general and reporter must report information about orders for wiretapping and electronic surveillance to the administrative office of the United States courts, the ...
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2024-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB1966Intro
25%
As introduced, creates the Tennessee Do Not Sell List; requires the Tennessee bureau of investigation to develop and launch a secure internet-based platform to allow any person in the United States to register to add the person's own name to the Tenn...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB1954Intro
25%
As introduced, provides that a victim-witness coordinator, in addition to the district attorney general, may inform a victim of a criminal offense of the victim's rights under the Tennessee Constitution, Article I, § 35, and of the dates of all futu...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB1922Intro
25%
As introduced, caps the maximum effective rate of interest on a judgment that is based upon medical debt at 3 percent per annum. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 14.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB1920Intro
25%
As introduced, states that it is not a violation of the criminal offense of abuse of a corpse for a person to dispose of the person’s miscarriage; defines miscarriage as the unintentional loss of pregnancy, which may occur spontaneously or as the r...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB1918Intro
25%
As introduced, states 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 intended for use in the prevention...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB1982Intro
25%
As introduced, specifies that a person commits the offense of wage theft who, acting as an employer, hires an employee and intentionally does not pay the employee for the services the employee provides, at the minimum wage rate required under the fed...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB1949Intro
25%
As introduced, reduces the time within which a handgun carry permit holder must notify the department of safety of a change of residence from 60 days to 30 days. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 39.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB1878Intro
25%
As introduced, clarifies that the notification given by the court to a petitioning parent that the duty of future child support by the parent who is the subject of a termination petition will be forever terminated by entry of an order terminating par...
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2024-01-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB1770Intro
25%
As introduced, requires a school resource officer who suspects that a student has committed a delinquent act, unruly conduct, or a criminal offense, to inform the student that the student's parent or legal guardian may be present prior to a formal in...
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2024-01-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB1781Intro
25%
As introduced, defines "law enforcement activity" for the offense of criminal impersonation to include operating a motor vehicle that displays logos or decals that give the appearance of being operated by a law enforcement officer or the use of blue ...
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2024-01-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB1906Intro
25%
As introduced, changes, from January 15 to February 15, the date by which district attorneys general must annually report on the status and progress of child protective teams organized in their respective district to the judiciary committee of the se...
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2024-01-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB1826Intro
25%
As introduced, specifies that the offense of criminal abortion does not include an abortion that was necessary due to a medical emergency affecting the physical or mental health of the pregnant person or performed on a patient whose pregnancy was the...
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2024-01-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB1809Intro
25%
As introduced, expands the offenses of assault against a first responder or nurse and aggravated assault against a first responder or nurse to apply to assaults committed against licensed physicians and osteopathic physicians, and to hospital employe...
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2024-01-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB1847Intro
25%
As introduced, changes, from 24 hours to 48 hours following receipt of an allegation of a criminal offense committed against livestock, the time frame within which the commissioner of agriculture, the commissioner's agent, a graduate of an accredited...
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2024-01-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB1757Intro
25%
As introduced, increases, from 10 days to 10 business days, the time period from receipt of a complaint of a discriminatory practice having been committed in which the human rights commission must serve on the complainant a notice acknowledging the f...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB1700Intro
25%
As introduced, changes the return date for a search warrant from five to seven days. - Amends TCA Title 10; Title 16; Title 24; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.
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2024-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB1729Intro
25%
As introduced, expands the offense of aggravated stalking to include persons who purchase a semi-automatic rifle or attempt to use a semi-automatic rifle for the course and furtherance of stalking. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39, Chapter 17.
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2024-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB1728Intro
25%
As introduced, specifies that the offense of criminal abortion does not include an abortion that was necessary due to a medical emergency affecting the physical or mental health of the pregnant person or performed on a patient whose pregnancy was the...
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2024-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB1652Intro
25%
As introduced, allows a court to issue a 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 firearm; au...
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2024-01-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB1584Intro
25%
As introduced, changes the deadline, from five to three business days, for a warden or chief administrative officer to report certain offenses to the district attorney general. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.
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2024-01-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNHJR0013Engross
50%
Proposes an amendment to Article VII, Section 5 of the Constitution of Tennessee to change the date of elections for judicial and other civil officers from the first Thursday in August to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
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2024-01-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSJR0158Intro
25%
Proposes additional language in Article II, Section 28 to prohibit the general assembly from levying, authorizing, or otherwise permitting a state tax on property.
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2024-01-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB7106Intro
25%
As introduced, requires a sentencing court to order a defendant convicted of stalking, aggravated stalking, or especially aggravated stalking to carry or wear a global positioning monitoring system device and, unless the defendant is indigent, pay th...
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2023-08-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee
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