| 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 | HB2310 | Pass | As introduced, creates a civil cause of action against any person who intentionally recruits, harbors, or transports an unemancipated minor within this state for the purpose of receiving a prohibited medical procedure, regardless of where the medical...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1064 |
| TN | HB2062 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Jacob (Jake) T. Barnhardt Act," which creates a street racing task force to study and determine best practices for curbing illegal street racing in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 55.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1058 |
| TN | HB0587 | Pass | As enacted, lowers the threshold for enhancing the minimum sentence of a person convicted of driving under the influence of an intoxicant, from a blood alcohol concentration of 0.20 percent or more to a blood alcohol concentration of 0.15 percent or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1011 |
| TN | HB1614 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Protect Tennessee Minors Act"; requires an individual or commercial entity that publishes or distributes in this state a website that contains a substantial portion of material harmful to minors perform reasonable age-verifica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1021 |
| TN | HB1895 | Pass | As enacted, creates the criminal offense of abortion trafficking of a minor; provides for a civil action against a person committing the offense of abortion trafficking of a minor if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6; Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1032 |
| TN | HB2188 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to law relating to the sentencing of a defendant who commits a nonviolent property offense on or after July 1, 2010. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1038 |
| TN | HB2692 | Pass | As enacted, enacts "The Debbie and Marie Domestic Violence Protection Act," which makes revisions to law related to global positioning monitoring system devices, including requiring the court to order an offender to wear such a device under certain c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1033 |
| TN | HB1731 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Modernization of Towing, Immobilization, and Oversight Normalization (MOTION) Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 39; Title 47; Title 48; Title 55; Title 56; Title 62; Title 66 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1017 |
| 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 | HB1259 | Pass | As enacted, enacts anti-squatter laws. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 66.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1009 |
| TN | HB0526 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits the comptroller of the treasury, in determining whether a utility system is financially distressed, from considering the straight-line depreciation of an asset acquired or completed in the 12 calendar months preceding the audit,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1004 |
| TN | HB0689 | Pass | As enacted, requires an officer to provide an alleged victim of certain criminal offenses with a document notifying the victim of the global positioning monitoring system used as a condition of bail. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55, Chap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
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 | HB2002 | Pass | As enacted, creates one additional circuit court in the 4th judicial district, creates one additional trial court in the 19th judicial district; eliminates part VII of the circuit court in the 13th judicial district; and eliminates part IX of the cri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Effective date(s) 05/21/2024 |
| TN | HB2054 | Pass | As enacted, increases from 1,500 to 3,000, for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, the amount of acreage of land permitted to be placed within any one taxing jurisdiction under the Agricultural, Forest and Open Space Land Act. - Amends T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Effective date(s) 05/21/2024 |
| TN | HB2972 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the state to issue and sell bonds of up to $87,700,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-20
Effective date(s) 05/15/2024 |
| TN | HB2971 | Pass | As enacted, deletes the Tennessee job skills program and fund. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 11; Title 12; Title 13; Title 16; Title 17; Title 18; Title 29; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-20
Effective date(s) 05/15/2024 |
| TN | HB2973 | Pass | As enacted, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2023, and July 1, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-20
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB1016 | Pass | As enacted, makes various changes to the present law relative to the offense of communicating a threat concerning a school employee. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB1643 | Pass | As enacted, requires the state to pay the cost of a court-ordered mental health evaluation and treatment for criminal defendants who have been charged with a misdemeanor and are believed to be incompetent to stand trial or for whom there is a questio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| 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 | HB1695 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that the reports of county medical examiners and autopsy reports of minors whose manner of death is listed as a homicide are generally not public documents; authorizes such reports to be released or inspected if certain conditio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/03/2024 |
| TN | HB1663 | Pass | As introduced, authorizes the death penalty as a punishment for rape of a child, aggravated rape of a child, or especially aggravated rape of a child. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Chapter 1062 of the Public Acts of 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 951 |
| 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 | HB1893 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the commissioner of revenue to issue refunds under certain conditions to taxpayers who properly file a claim for refund for franchise taxes paid; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 1 and Title 67, Chapter 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 950 |
| TN | HB1891 | Pass | As enacted, creates the "Protecting Children from Social Media Act." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 01/01/2025 |
| 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 | HB2088 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the military department to administer a critical skills retention bonus program to be used to award retention bonuses of up to $10,000 to enlisted service members in the Tennessee national guard; entitles certain state employee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 847 |
| TN | HB2163 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that for the purposes of sexual exploitation of children offenses, the term "material" includes computer-generated images created, adapted, or modified by artificial intelligence; defines "artificial intelligence." - Amends TCA ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| 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 | HB2641 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes counties and municipalities, by resolution or ordinance of their governing bodies, to levy a tax on the retail sale of food and food ingredients for human consumption within the county or municipality at a rate less than the lo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/03/2024 |
| TN | HB2642 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits a governmental entity that regulates entertainment transportation from refusing to renew a permit to a business that provides such transportation if the entity issued the permit to the business to provide such transportation pri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/01/2024 |
| 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 | HB1830 | Pass | As enacted, creates one additional circuit court in the 23rd judicial district. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 880 |
| TN | HB2000 | Pass | As enacted, empowers the attorney general to fix the attorney general's and their assistant's compensation; limits the attorney general's salary to an associate justice on the supreme court or a Class 1 official; permits the attorney general to pay s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/03/2024 |
| TN | HB2686 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to the law relative to expunction, including clarifying that an eligible petitioner may file a petition for expunction under certain circumstances if the offense the person is seeking to expunge occurred prior to any convi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 962 |
| TN | HB2386 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a law enforcement officer to execute a search warrant for medical records or a test to determine the alcohol or drug content, or both, of a person's blood anywhere in the state, rather than in the county in which the warrant wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2845 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Prevention of Drunk Driving Act." - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 55 and Title 57.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 961 |
| TN | HB2182 | Pass | As enacted, redefines a "qualified data center," for purposes of sales and use taxes, to include a data center that previously made the required capital investment in excess of $100 million and previously created at least 15 net new full-time employe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/01/2024 |
| 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 | HB0869 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to the law relative to confirmation of membership on the board of Regents for the State University and Community College System; the Tennessee Promise Scholarship Act of 2014; the Wilder-Naifeh technical skills grant; and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 925 |
| TN | HB2930 | Pass | As enacted, directs the administrative office of the courts (AOC) to define and develop a centralized system of case management, document management, electronic case filing, electronic payment methods, data reporting, and any other capability deemed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 947 |
| TN | HB0133 | Pass | As enacted, changes from April to March, the month in which certain nominating petitions need to be filed. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 8.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 822 |
| TN | HB1059 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to present law regarding an intercollegiate athlete's name, image, or likeness. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 823 |
| TN | HB2460 | Pass | As enacted, expands the definition of "victim" for the purposes of restitution to include a reciprocal, as defined by current law, when the reciprocal has compensated a subscriber for loss incurred as a result of the offense to the extent that the re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 811 |
| TN | HJR1465 | Pass | Captain Danny Hurst, Sumner County Sheriff's Office
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR1498 | Pass | Memphis Police Department and Shelby County District Attorney
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR1503 | Pass | Mike Morrow
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Signed by Governor. |
