| TN | HB1242 | Pass | As enacted, makes it a Class A misdemeanor to knowingly possess xylazine; makes it a Class C felony to knowingly manufacture, deliver, or sell xylazine, or to knowingly possess xylazine with intent to manufacture, deliver, or sell xylazine; provides ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24 Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB1459 | Pass | As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor for a warden or chief administrative officer employed by a penal institution, who knows that certain offenses have occurred within the institution, to fail to report such offenses to the district attorney gen... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 347 |
| TN | HB1013 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that a sheriff and sheriff's deputy are law enforcement officers for purposes of the criminal code; clarifies that a deputy jailer is a law enforcement officer only for the purposes of enhancement of a crime under the criminal c... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18 Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB1008 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that a course of conduct for purposes of stalking includes one instance of placing an electronic tracking device on a person or in or on a person's property, unless the electronic tracking device is placed by or at the direction... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 349 |
| TN | HB1109 | Pass | As enacted, adds to the offense of custodial interference, a parent or other family member who harbors or hides a child within or outside this state, knowing that the child has been placed in the custody of the department of children's services pursu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 286 |
| TN | HB1400 | Pass | As enacted, requires certain persons convicted of rape, when the victim is 13-17, or incest, when the victim is a minor, to be punished as a Range II offender; allows the sentence imposed, if appropriate, to be within Range III but in no case lower t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 283 |
| TN | HB0253 | Pass | As enacted, establishes the Class B misdemeanor of parentage fraud. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 189 |
| TN | HB0482 | Pass | As enacted, revises the punishment for critical infrastructure vandalism. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 40 and Title 65, Chapter 35. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03 Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0548 | Pass | As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor offense for the possession of a device, tool, machine, implement, or other item capable of programming a smart key or key fob with the intent to use it or allow it to be used to commit theft. - Amends TCA Tit... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03 Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0535 | Pass | As enacted, enacts "Dillard's Law," which allows the surviving parent or guardian of a child whose parent was a victim of vehicular homicide to convert a restitution order for child maintenance payments to a civil judgment at any time rather than fol... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 217 |
| TN | HB0722 | Pass | As enacted, increases the classification for voluntary manslaughter from a Class C felony to a Class B felony. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03 Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB1193 | Pass | As enacted, broadens the offense of desecration of a venerable object by changing the culpable mental state from intentionally to recklessly or knowingly desecrating a place of worship or burial or a state or national flag. - Amends TCA Title 39, Cha... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03 Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB1492 | Pass | As enacted, generally requires by January 1, 2024, each law enforcement agency to develop and enforce a policy that prohibits an officer from using a drone or other substantially similar device as a weapon under any circumstances while in the exercis... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03 Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | HB0159 | Pass | As enacted, exempts from the offense of possessing or carrying a weapon on school property the possession or carrying of a pocket knife by a nonstudent adult on election day if the knife remains concealed at all times while the adult is on school pro... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-27 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 142 |
| TN | HB0005 | Pass | As enacted, requires that a person convicted of especially aggravated kidnapping, aggravated rape, or rape be sentenced from within at least Range II for the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25 Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0144 | Pass | As enacted, changes from 25 to 17 the number of days of incarceration a person convicted of a second offense of driving under the influence of an intoxicant must serve before the person can participate in a substance abuse treatment program; requires... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 116 |
| TN | HB1475 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases the mandatory period of confinement for the felony offense of evading arrest from 30 days to 90 days; increases the mandatory period of confinement for the felony offense of evading arrest from 60 days to 120 days if the offe... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18 Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee |
| TN | HB1017 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2023-04-17 To House Civil Justice Subcommittee |
| TN | HB0003 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 all healthcare professionals. - Amends TCA Title 39. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28 To House Criminal Justice Committee |
| TN | HB0986 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony the punishment for the offense of assault by intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly causing bodily injury to another if the offense occurred while the defendant was trespassing ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28 Taken off notice for cal. in Criminal Justice Committee |
| TN | HB1383 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits the arrest, charge, or prosecution of a person for prostitution if the evidence for the arrest, charge, or prosecution results solely from the person's report of the criminal act; increases the penalty for patronizing prostit... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21 Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee |
| TN | HB0285 | Fail | As introduced, raises from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony certain animal cruelty offenses involving a cock; requires a fine of not less than $1,000 nor more than $2,500 for the offense of being a spectator at a cock fight. - Amends TCA Tit... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07 Failed in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee |
| TN | HB0510 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, justifies, under certain circumstances, the use of deadly force against another to prevent or terminate the other from committing or attempting to commit certain property offenses; specifies that the display or brandishing of a weapon ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07 Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | HB0659 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, specifies that certain sexual offenses committed against minor victims of a certain age apply based on the age of the victim at the time of the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07 Def. to Summer Study in Criminal Justice Subcommittee |
| TN | HB0015 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases the penalty for aggravated assault involving strangulation or attempted strangulation from a Class C felony to a Class B felony if the victim was pregnant at the time of the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08 Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | HB0945 | Intro
Sine Die | As enacted, expands the criminal offenses of assault and aggravated assault against a first responder or nurse who is discharging or attempting to discharge official duties to include healthcare providers and increases the penalty for assault against... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07 Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee |
| TN | HB1436 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2023-02-07 Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee |
| TN | HB1320 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates the Class C misdemeanor of restraining a dog with a chain, cord, tether, cable, or similar device while a disaster is imminent or occurring; states that a person is not subject to prosecution for a violation unless the person h... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07 Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee |
| TN | HB1425 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates a Class C misdemeanor for a person who has not attained 21 years of age to consume or possess vapor products on public school property that serves any of the grades kindergarten through 12. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and T... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07 Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee |
| TN | HB1439 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates the Class A misdemeanor of 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 ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07 Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee |
| TN | HB0912 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies that a sheriff and sheriff's deputy are law enforcement officers for purposes of the criminal code; clarifies that a deputy jailer is a law enforcement officer only for the purposes of enhancement of a crime under the crimina... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-02 P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
| TN | HB1083 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes from two days to two business days the time frame during which an adversary hearing on a petition to enjoin or restrain removal from the jurisdiction of material the district attorney general believes violates certain laws rega... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-02 P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
| TN | HB1028 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the administrative office of the courts to conduct a study, within existing resources, of the number of individuals convicted under offenses for carrying or possessing weapons with the intent to go armed and the penalties asse... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-02 P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
| TN | HB1391 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes, from 21 days to 30 days, the time in which a court must hold a hearing from the date a claimant's motion is filed to have the state show cause why forfeited property should not be returned or a lien lis pendens released. - Ame... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-02 P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
| TN | HB0095 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates a Class C felony of reckless endangerment that involves community terrorism; authorizes a court to revoke or prohibit the issuance of a driver license to individuals convicted of such offenses for a five-year period. - Amends T... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30 Withdrawn. |
| TN | HB0059 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2023-01-12 Caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |