| TN | SB1520 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the penalty for the criminal offense of bribery from a Class B felony to a Class A felony; requires the Tennessee bureau of investigation to investigate allegations of bribery when two or more reports have been received and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1165 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the annual written report submitted to the criminal justice committee of the house of representatives and the judiciary committee of the senate regarding activities of narcotics investigations by the bureau and the assistant d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1248 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires law enforcement officers to satisfactorily complete a diversity training program created by the peace officer standards and training commission by July 1, 2024, or within six months of the officer's date of employment. - Amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB0787 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes, from 30 days to 60 days, the time in which a respondent who is not satisfied with the amount deposited by a condemner, or otherwise objects to a taking through the use of eminent domain, must file an answer to the petition ini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1186 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires each law enforcement agency to post on the agency's website its written policy that prohibits racial profiling by its employees. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1502 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the Tennessee bureau of investigation to post information on its website about the Tennessee human trafficking resource center hotline. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB0905 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies that when sentencing a minor convicted as an adult, a court may impose a sentence less than the minimum under law; prohibits courts from sentencing juvenile offenders to life without the possibility of parole; authorizes mino...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1509 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes certain nonprofit property owners associations to employ and commission police officers. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 38.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1041 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to maintain staffing levels of case managers so that each region has enough case managers to allow caseloads not to exceed 20 active cases relating to initial assessments or 20 children monitored and supervised ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1497 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a law enforcement officer to use only an appropriately marked law enforcement vehicle to make traffic stops in non-emergency situations; defines an appropriately marked law enforcement vehicle as one that bears insignias, stri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1436 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a state, county, or municipal law enforcement agency, correctional agency, or court to include the location of a law enforcement-related death when submitting the required report of the death to the director of the Tennessee b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB0929 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires that an interview or interrogation of a child taken into custody for a delinquent act must be recorded or conducted in the presence of an attorney who represents the child. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1 and Title 38, Chapte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1051 | Intro
25% | As introduced, permits the department to electronically deliver the data related to complications of induced abortions, which is included in the department's annual report of selected induced termination of pregnancy data. - Amends TCA Title 37; Titl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1115 | Intro
25% | As introduced, includes fentanyl, carfentanil, remifentanil, alfentanil, thiafentanil, or certain fentanyl derivatives or analogues as a chemical warfare agent when intended for use in a war or other attack to cause disease or death in humans, animal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB0739 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes from March 31 to February 1, the date by which the Tennessee bureau of investigation (TBI) must annually provide to the commissioner of health and to the general assembly a report on all law enforcement-related deaths that occu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB0758 | Intro
25% | As introduced, provides a procedure for the enforcement of a victim's constitutional and statutory rights in a court exercising jurisdiction over the criminal offense committed against the victim by the district attorney general prosecuting the crimi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1126 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the form for use by a lay person petitioning the court for expunction to be made available to the public on the website of the district attorney general for each judicial district. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1496 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits a law enforcement agency from engaging in law enforcement activities which interfere with any person's First Amendment rights, engaging in First Amendment-related intelligence, or maintaining personal information about any pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1103 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to file a petition to terminate the parental rights of a parent if the parent has not substantially complied with the statement of responsibilities in the child's permanency plan and the period of time originall...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1083 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases from two years to three years, the time within which a family child care home, group child care home, or child care center must retain a signed acknowledgment from the child's parents or legal guardians of the fact that the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB0948 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the office of vital records to establish a procedure whereby the filing and registration of a birth certificate, and the attestation of the accuracy of the personal data provided for such filing, can be accomplished through el...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1157 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds information to be provided by the department of safety in a report detailing seizures for the previous calendar year and provided to the speakers of the senate and the house of representatives and the chairs of the appropriate com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1245 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the clerk of a court in which a petition for expunction may be filed to provide a petitioner with a simple form to enable a lay person to petition the court for expunction; deletes obsolete provision requiring the district att...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1489 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends the time period, from 30 days following a final determination of suspension or revocation of a handgun carry permit to 45 days, within which a person may file a petition for judicial review of the department of safety's determi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1036 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a handgun carry permit holder to notify the department of a change of address within 30 days, rather than 60 days. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 10; Title 13; Title 16; Title 29; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB0790 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a sheriff to enforce the resolutions of the county, if the county has expressed by resolution its intent to have the sheriff enforce its resolutions, and the county has filed a certified copy of its resolutions with the sherif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB0691 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes the "within 10 days after January 1, 2015" factor from the requirement that each medical practitioner, unless the practitioner meets an exception, must ensure that the undispensed inventory of opioids and benzodiazepines purcha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-02
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| TN | SB0687 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the director, during the bureau's annual budget hearing before the general assembly, to provide information regarding the number of special agent/forensic scientists employed by the bureau, whether any such positions are open,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-02
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| TN | SB0708 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes clerks to assess a transaction fee for electronic filing submitted by a party to a case in any court where electronic filing, signing, or verification of papers has been authorized by local court rule, and also approved by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-02
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| TN | SB0719 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates an evidentiary privilege for communications between human trafficking victims and employees or volunteers with an anti-human trafficking organization; requires nurses to obtain two hours in continuing education on human traffic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-02
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| TN | SB0730 | Intro
25% | As introduced, restores the voting rights of persons convicted of certain infamous crimes upon receipt of a pardon or completion of any sentence of incarceration, parole, or probation. - Amends TCA Section 2-2-102 and Title 40, Chapter 29.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-02
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| TN | SB0718 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Extended Juvenile Jurisdiction Act," which establishes a juvenile justice pilot program in Shelby County. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 40 and Title 41.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-02
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| TN | SB0645 | Intro
25% | As introduced, limits the circumstances under which a qualified civil liability action may be brought against certain manufacturers, dealers, and sellers of firearms and related products. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6; Title 29; Title 39 and Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-02
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| TN | SB0651 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the comptroller of the treasury to report to the general assembly which counties, if any, redrew precinct lines to ensure no split precincts in legislative districts. - Amends TCA Section 3-1-102.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-02
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| TN | SB0109 | Intro
25% | As introduced, deletes the requirement that a person file a petition with the court in order to have the public records regarding a criminal offense expunged if certain qualifying events have occurred, including the charge against the person was dism...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-31
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| TN | SB0566 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases from $5.00 per day to $15 per hour the minimum amount that an arbitrator or umpire is entitled to for time spent actually engaged in their duties for an arbitration. - Amends TCA Title 29.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
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| TN | SB0592 | Intro
25% | As introduced, clarifies that references in Tennessee code annotated to "life," in the context of when life begins, means the moment that an egg is fertilized in the womb and there exists the presence of human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG). - Amends T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
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| TN | SB0522 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends from 60 days to 90 days, the time within which a handgun carry permit holder must notify the department of safety in writing of a change in the permit holder's principal place of residence. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
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| TN | SB0612 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends from March 1 to April 1 of each year, the date by which the department of children's services must appear before the judiciary committee of the senate and the civil justice committee of the house of representatives for a review...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
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| TN | SB0563 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires that bail or release of persons charged with certain criminal offenses be determined by a trial court judge. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 11.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
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| TN | SB0432 | Intro
25% | As introduced, deletes the requirements that the following periods of time have passed before a person may file a petition for expunction of eligible criminal offenses: five years for eligible misdemeanors or Class E felonies; 10 years for eligible C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
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| TN | SB0425 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires that the department of children's services and the department of human services annually report to the judiciary committee of the senate and the children and family affairs subcommittee of the house of representatives the numb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
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| TN | SB0354 | Intro
25% | As introduced, lowers from two to one, the number of sureties required to sign a deed of trust, along with the defendant, when the defendant is seeking to secure a bail bond by real estate. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 16, Chapter 3, Part 8; Title 39 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
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| TN | SB0347 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits a utility district from condemning property outside the service area of the utility. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 82.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
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| TN | SB0306 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires, in order to recover for any tort, whether established at common law or by statute, a person to prove the claim by clear and convincing evidence; applies to actions, excluding workers' compensation claims, accruing on or after...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-24
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| TN | SB0243 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases, from within 90 days to within 120 days of receipt by the department of a valid judgment of conviction, the time period within which the department must notify the victim witness coordinator of the county of conviction of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-21
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| TN | SB0202 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates the Tennessee witness protection and relocation program, to be administered by the office of criminal justice programs, for the purpose of creating intrastate and interstate compacts to coordinate witness protection, relocation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-21
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| TN | SB0242 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends, from five working days to 10 working days, the time within which the clerk of a court sentencing a person to a special alternative incarceration unit must mail to the department of correction a certified copy of the sentence a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-21
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| TN | SB0168 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Free All Cannabis for Tennesseans 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 agricultu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-21
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| TN | SB0241 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases from 45 days to 60 days the time period a temporary injunction enjoining a person from removing certain material relevant to a violation of certain criminal offenses from the jurisdiction of the court may remain in effect bef...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-21
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