| TN | HB1658 | Pass | As enacted, establishes a Class E felony for a person who commits assault against a participant in judicial proceedings who, while on the premises of a building in which judicial proceedings occur; makes revisions to law regarding wiretapping and ele...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1045 |
| TN | HB1872 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a court to enhance the statutory penalty, up to imprisonment for life without the possibility of parole, for a conviction under certain circumstances involving illegal aliens or crimes occurring on school property while student...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1063 |
| TN | HB2943 | Pass | As enacted, expands the application of certain indecent exposure offenses by including victims from 13 to 17 years of age; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1023 |
| TN | HB2323 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Chris Wright Act," which increases the penalty for a third or subsequent domestic assault conviction from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony; upgrades the offense classification for certain qualifying misdemeanor offens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2814 | Pass | As enacted, raises the penalty for the offense of drag racing from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB1881 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Back the Blue Act," which increases the penalty for assault against a law enforcement officer from a Class A misdemeanor with a mandatory minimum 30-day sentence and $5,000 fine to a Class E felony with a mandatory minimum 60-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB1628 | Pass | As enacted, enacts "Dr. Benjamin Mauck Act," which creates new criminal offenses of assault within a healthcare facility and aggravated assault within a healthcare facility. - Amends TCA Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 928 |
| TN | HB1641 | Pass | As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor of violating a condition of release on bail; authorizes a law enforcement officer to arrest such an offender without a warrant. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 942 |
| TN | HB1727 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that a parent or guardian who knowingly leaves their child under the care or supervision of a person who is required to register as a sexual offender commits a Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 4 and T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 952 |
| TN | HB1817 | Pass | As enacted, increases the penalty from a Class D felony to a Class B felony for a person who negligently, by act or omission, engages in conduct that places a child eight years of age or less in imminent danger of death, bodily injury, or physical or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2031 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a person who suffers loss or injury as a result of a defendant intentionally obstructing a highway, street, or other place used for the passage of vehicles or conveyances to bring a cause of action against such person to recove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 958 |
| TN | HB2198 | Pass | As enacted, increases the penalty for the offense of threatening to commit an act of mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2301 | Pass | As enacted, requires a violation of the law regarding criminal offenses and penalties for drugs or a conspiracy to violate such law to be punished as second degree murder if the substance involved is fentanyl or carfentanyl, or any analogue or deriva...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 957 |
| TN | HB2348 | Pass | As enacted, establishes a Class E felony for an entity that is supported in whole or in part by public funds to knowingly provide meeting spaces or other forums, including electronic and print platforms, to certain groups or organizations for the pur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 872 |
| TN | HB2790 | Pass | As enacted, establishes Class B misdemeanors for the tampering or otherwise making ineffective certain monitoring devices required as a condition of probation or parole; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 874 |
| TN | HB2504 | Pass | As enacted, establishes an offense for a person, on behalf of a debt collector or inbound telemarketer service, to knowingly cause a caller identification service to transmit misleading or inaccurate caller identification information to a subscriber ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2590 | Pass | As enacted, makes bullying and cyber-bullying offenses subject to the same penalties as harassment; requires an officer to make a report of bullying and notify a parent or guardian when victim is a minor. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 38; Title 39 and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2395 | Pass | As enacted, establishes that it is unlawful for a person to intentionally initiate or circulate a report of a past, present, or impending active shooter and hostage situation, knowing that the report is false or baseless if certain information is kno...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| 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 | 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 | HB2546 | Pass | As enacted, states that, as used in the offense of stalking, harassment must be committed by the defendant with reckless disregard for whether the victim will suffer emotional distress as a result of the conduct and the victim does suffer emotional d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 682 |
| TN | HB2848 | Pass | As enacted, creates the Class C felony offense of acquiring or otherwise exercising control over bees or a structure or equipment used to keep, handle, house, exhibit, breed, or offer for sale bees, without the consent of the owner and with the inten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 708 |
| 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 | HB2880 | Pass | As enacted, replaces references to "poisonous snakes" with "venomous snakes"; defines "venomous." - Amends TCA Section 39-17-101 and Title 70.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| 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 | HB1720 | Fail | As introduced, increases from Class E and Class D to a Class C felony the classification of theft of a firearm valued at less than $60,000 and related offenses; specifies that it is a Class C felony to receive, possess, store, barter, sell, transfer,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Failed 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 | HB2265 | Pass | As enacted, adds using, altering, encrypting, ransoming, destroying, or otherwise rendering unavailable without authorization, electronic data, electronic devices, or network providers of critical infrastructure or of a farm to the offense of committ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| 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 |
