| TN | HB2068 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-04-25
Held on desk. |
| TN | HB1872 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes the enhancement of criminal penalties up to life in prison without parole upon conviction of violent crimes by illegal aliens; conviction of possession of a firearm or deadly weapon by an illegal alien; or conviction of a vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | HB2302 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases from 15 days to 15 business days the time period a court may send notification of a defendant's conviction of aggravated cruelty to animals to the appropriate protective agencies if the defendant resides in a household with m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | HB2943 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands the application of certain indecent exposure offenses by including victims from 13 to 17 years of age; increases the penalty for indecent exposure if the victim is between 13 and 17 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 39...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | HB1658 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates the Class E felony offense of assault against a participant in judicial proceedings, which occurs when a person, while on the premises of a building in which judicial proceedings occur, knowingly assaults a victim that the pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | HB0484 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the penalty for the offense of possession of a used, detached catalytic converter by an unauthorized person from a Class A misdemeanor punishable only by fine to a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 55 and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Returned to the Clerk's Desk. |
| TN | HB1905 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the penalty from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony for a person who commits child abuse by knowingly treating a child under 18 in such a manner as to inflict injury. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37; Title 39 and Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee |
| TN | HB1911 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the penalties for certain violations of the offense of unlawful photography; requires the court, rather than allowing the court discretion, to order a person convicted of certain unlawful photography offenses to register as a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee |
| TN | HB1978 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases from a Class E felony to a Class D felony the offense of burglary of a conveyance. - Amends TCA Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee |
| TN | HB1954 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the penalty for illegally transferring a firearm to a minor from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class D felony and requires that an adult who is convicted be punished as criminally responsible for any resulting crime; creates the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee |
| TN | HB2538 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates the criminal offense of recklessly, by any means of communication, threatening to commit an act of mass violence and the threat causes a reasonable expectation or reasonable fear of the commission of an act of mass violence. - ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee |
| TN | HB0688 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates a Class C felony of reckless endangerment committed against a population within a geographic territory by members of a criminal gang and the commission of the offense is gang-related; authorizes a court to revoke or prohibit th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee |
| TN | HB1875 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands the definition of "racketeering activity" to include committing, conspiring to commit, aiding, attempting to aid, soliciting, coercing, facilitating, or intimidating another person to commit the criminal offense of animal fight...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Re-ref. Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | HB0994 | Intro
25% | As introduced, clarifies that a threat to use deadly force by a private citizen making an arrest is not in itself considered a use of deadly force; prohibits a private citizen from threatening to use deadly force during the course of a citizen's arre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Def. to Summer Study in Criminal Justice Subcommittee |
| TN | HB1302 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds a requirement that a licensed medical laboratory reporting an offender's HIV test results to the victim of an assault also provide the victim with a written copy of the test results. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee |
| TN | HB1728 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee |
| TN | HB1932 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies that punishment for organized retail theft or shoplifting should not be less than a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee |
| TN | HB1934 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates the Class A misdemeanor of knowingly selling, loaning, or making a gift of a firearm to a minor for the purpose of inducing or coercing the minor to commit an offense; subjects a person convicted for such offense to civil liabi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee |
| TN | HB1981 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates the criminal offense of possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of the offense of stalking, punishable as a Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee |
| TN | HB1949 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands the offense of observation without consent to include a person or entity that adopts rules or enforces a policy or other work-related guidance for employees or contractors to promote or assist in the commission of observation w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee |
| TN | HB2196 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates an offense for a person to possess or manufacture an ammunition feeding device that has capacity to accept more than 10 rounds, unless certain circumstances apply. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee |
| TN | HB2837 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a court to order the revocation of a person's driver license if the person is convicted of the offense of reckless endangerment involving the display of a firearm from within a motor vehicle and the person has a prior convicti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee |
| TN | HB2785 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes the killing of another committed in the perpetration of or attempt to perpetrate certain crimes from the elements of first degree murder; deletes the offense of criminal responsibility for conduct of another; deletes the offens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee |
| TN | HB2912 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces the minimum number of criminal investigators from the criminal investigation division of the Tennessee bureau of investigation that must be normally detailed to serve in each grand division of the state from two to one. - Amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee |
| TN | HB2960 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds first degree murder, second degree murder, and voluntary manslaughter to the offenses for which a defendant, who has been convicted of a violation that resulted in the death of a parent of a minor child, must pay restitution in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee |
| TN | HB1904 | Intro
25% | As introduced, exempts persons who are authorized to carry a firearm pursuant to an enhanced handgun carry permit or a concealed handgun carry permit from the criminal offense of possessing a firearm in a concealed manner at a meeting conducted by, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
No Action Taken |
| TN | HB2417 | Intro
25% | As introduced, permits a person who was convicted of an infamous crime after July 1, 1986, but before July 1, 1996, to petition a circuit court for restoration of the person's full rights of citizenship in the same manner established for persons conv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Def. to Summer Study in Criminal Justice Committee |
| TN | HB2681 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the penalty for use or possession of drug paraphernalia from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony if the drug paraphernalia used or possessed is a pill press device or pieces of a pill press device. - Amends TCA Title 39...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Taken off notice for cal. in Criminal Justice Committee |
| TN | HB2078 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits any person from transporting an illegal alien into this state; increases from $1,000 to $5,000 the fine for transporting illegal aliens. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Taken off notice for cal. in Criminal Justice Committee |
| TN | HB2288 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates the Class D felony employing a firearm during the commission of, attempt to commit, or flight or escape from an offense other than a dangerous felony; requires a person convicted of the offense to be sentenced to a mandatory mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Taken off notice for cal. in Criminal Justice Committee |
| TN | HB2432 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases, from $1,000 to $5,000, the fine for transporting into the state, for the purpose of commercial advantage or private financial gain, an individual who the person knows or should have known has illegally entered or remained in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Assigned to s/c Banking & Consumer Affairs Subcommittee |
| TN | HB2947 | Intro
25% | As introduced, decreases from 30 to 15, the number of days a law enforcement agency, after taking possession of a sexual assault evidence collection kit with the victim's name affixed to it, shall submit the kit to the Tennessee bureau of investigati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
Sponsor change. |
| TN | HB2084 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
No Action Taken |
| TN | HB1721 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits a merchant from taking adverse employment action against an employee based solely on the employee reporting theft of merchandise or organized retail crime to law enforcement; defines "adverse employment action" as dismissing,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Banking & Consumer Affairs Subcommittee of Commerce Committee |
| TN | HB0648 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the penalty, from a Class C misdemeanor to a Class B misdemeanor, for educational neglect of a child who is in poor academic standing; requires a petition filed with a juvenile court alleging educational neglect to state whet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
Withdrawn. |
| TN | HB2030 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
Assigned to s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee |
| TN | HB2731 | Intro
25% | As introduced, replaces references to "poisonous snakes" with "venomous snakes." - Amends TCA Section 39-17-101 and Title 70.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
Assigned to s/c Departments & Agencies Subcommittee |
| TN | HB2741 | Intro
25% | As introduced, makes it an offense to manufacture, distribute, or possess, with the intent to distribute, remote vehicle disabling technology on passenger motor vehicles. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 55.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee |
| TN | HB2920 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires, as a condition of bail or other pretrial release, that a person charged with stalking, aggravated stalking, or especially aggravated stalking undergo a mental health evaluation prior to release. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee |
| TN | HB2928 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires each district attorney general to file a quarterly report with the administrative office of the courts that includes information regarding criminal proceedings within the judicial district; requires the administrative office o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee |
| TN | HB1979 | Intro
25% | As introduced, permits the transfer of a juvenile to criminal court for the offense of theft of a firearm from a motor vehicle if the child was 14 years of age or older but younger than 17 years of age; increases from a Class E felony to a Class D fe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | HB2810 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
| TN | HB2777 | Intro
25% | As introduced, decreases from 10 to nine days, the amount of time before trial a person shall notify the district attorney general in writing of their intention to rely upon an affirmative defense. - Amends TCA Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
| TN | HB2918 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows the warden or chief administrative officer's report to the district attorney general of certain offenses that occur within a penal institution to be submitted electronically. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37; Title 39 and Title 4...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
| TN | HB2917 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows the warden or chief administrative officer's report to the district attorney general of certain offenses that occur within a penal institution to be submitted electronically. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37; Title 39 and Title 4...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
| TN | HB2172 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee |
| TN | HB2199 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts "MaKayla's Law," which expands the offense of reckless endangerment to 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 the firearm ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee |
| TN | HB2229 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee |
| TN | HB2221 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee |
| TN | HB1856 | Intro
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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee |
