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TNHB2068Intro
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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...
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2024-04-25
Held on desk.
TNHB1872Intro
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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...
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2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB2062Intro
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As introduced, 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-day sentence and $10,000 fine. - Am...
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2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2302Intro
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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...
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2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB2155Intro
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As introduced, 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 offenses to a Class E felony upon a defe...
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2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB2710Intro
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As introduced, 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.
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2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2943Intro
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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...
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2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB1727Intro
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As introduced, 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 an...
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2024-04-23
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2031Intro
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As introduced, increases the penalty for intentionally obstructing a highway, street, or other place used for the passage of vehicles or conveyances from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class D felony; allows a person who suffers loss or injury as a resul...
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2024-04-23
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2301Intro
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As introduced, requires the sheriff's department's and municipal law enforcement department's annual audit report of the disposition of goods seized and forfeited and fines imposed in relation to offenses involving controlled substances to be posted ...
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2024-04-23
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB1628Intro
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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.
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2024-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB1641Intro
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As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor of violating a condition of release on bail; authorizes a law enforcement officer to arrest a person without a warrant based on probable cause to believe that the person has violated a condition of release...
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2024-04-22
Comp. SB subst.
TNHB1658Intro
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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...
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2024-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB1193Intro
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As introduced, requires the administrative office of the courts to report the number of appeals filed appealing the finding that a criminal defendant is a repeat violent offender by no later than February 1 of each year to the senate judiciary commit...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1316Intro
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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...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1348Intro
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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...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1704Intro
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As introduced, increases from a Class E felony to a Class D felony the offense of burglary of a conveyance. - Amends TCA Title 39.
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1835Intro
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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...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1912Intro
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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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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2342Intro
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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. - ...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2669Intro
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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...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1487Intro
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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...
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2024-04-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNHB0484Intro
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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...
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2024-04-17
Returned to the Clerk's Desk.
TNHB1905Intro
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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...
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2024-04-17
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
TNHB1911Intro
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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...
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2024-04-17
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
TNHB1978Intro
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As introduced, increases from a Class E felony to a Class D felony the offense of burglary of a conveyance. - Amends TCA Title 39.
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2024-04-17
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
TNHB1954Intro
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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...
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2024-04-17
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
TNHB2538Intro
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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. - ...
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2024-04-17
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
TNHB2348Intro
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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...
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2024-04-16
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2790Intro
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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.
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2024-04-15
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB0688Intro
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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...
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2024-04-11
To House Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee
TNHB1875Intro
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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...
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2024-04-11
Re-ref. Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee
TNSB2263Intro
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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.
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2024-04-11
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB2662Intro
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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...
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2024-04-09
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB0908Intro
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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...
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2024-04-04
Withdrawn.
TNHB0994Intro
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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...
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2024-04-03
Def. to Summer Study in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
TNHB1302Intro
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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.
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2024-04-03
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
TNHB1728Intro
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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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2024-04-03
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
TNHB1932Intro
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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.
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2024-04-03
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
TNHB1934Intro
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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...
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2024-04-03
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
TNHB1981Intro
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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.
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2024-04-03
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
TNHB1949Intro
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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...
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2024-04-03
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
TNHB2196Intro
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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.
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2024-04-03
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
TNHB2837Intro
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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...
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2024-04-03
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
TNHB2785Intro
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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...
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2024-04-03
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
TNHB2912Intro
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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...
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2024-04-03
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
TNHB2960Intro
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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...
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2024-04-03
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
TNSB1485Intro
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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.
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2024-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB1482Intro
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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...
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2024-04-02
Deferred to Summer Study
TNHB1904Intro
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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...
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2024-04-02
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