Tennessee House Bill 2735 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 31 2024 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2024-02-07 - Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [PDF]

As introduced, creates a Class E felony that is committed when a person provides to a gun dealer or private seller of firearms what the person knows to be materially false information with intent to deceive the dealer or seller about the legality of a transfer of a firearm; creates a Class E felony that is committed when a person knowingly obtains a firearm for the purposes of transferring the firearm to another who is prohibited from receiving or possessing a firearm by state or federal law. - Amends TCA Title 39.

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to firearms transactions.

Rep. Caleb Hemmer [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-02-07	House	Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee
2024-02-05	House	P2C, ref. to Criminal Justice Committee
2024-02-01	House	Intro., P1C.
2024-01-31	House	Filed for introduction

SB2123 (Crossfiled) 2024-04-02 - Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee

Type	Source
Summary	https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/Billinfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=HB2735&ga=113
Text	https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Bill/HB2735.pdf
Supplement	https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Fiscal/SB2123.pdf