| TN | SB1487 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
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| TN | SB1488 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, declares that a person or entity posting signage prohibiting the possession of firearms on the person's or entity's property is not immune from civil liability with respect to a claim based on the person's or entity's adoption of a pol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
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| TN | SB2502 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the TBI to submit a report on the amount of money collected for background checks associated with firearm sales in excess of the costs associated with conducting the background checks to the criminal justice committee of the h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
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| TN | SR0277 | Intro
Sine Die | Urges the U.S. House of Representatives to restore TBI report relative to the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., to Ellington Papers housed at the State Library and Archives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
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| TN | HJR0856 | Engross
Sine Die | Recognizes negative effects of parental incarceration on children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
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| TN | SB2887 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits the possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of a switch or auto sear device designed, made, or adapted for the purpose of converting a weapon to shoot automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
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| TN | SB1029 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates the offense of storing a firearm or firearm ammunition in a motor vehicle or boat while the person is not in the motor vehicle or boat unless the firearm or firearm ammunition is kept from ordinary observation and locked within...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
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| TN | SB2516 | Fail | As introduced, creates a civil action against any person or government entity that infringes upon a person's right to bear arms under the Tennessee or United States Constitutions; requires the person or entity to be liable for actual or statutory dam...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
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| TN | SB1479 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates a Class E felony of a law enforcement officer operating a law enforcement body camera in any manner that would prevent the creation or recordation of evidence with the intent to obstruct justice. - Amends TCA Title 10; Title 38...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
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| TN | SB0893 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes driver licenses from the list of licenses that can be revoked for failure to pay child support; removes process for issuance of a restricted driver license for a person who is enrolled in a payment plan to pay child support arr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
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| TN | SB2459 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department, the department of children's services, the Tennessee council of juvenile and family court judges, and state and local law enforcement agencies to each submit a separate report to the general assembly listing al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
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| TN | SB1746 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearms Act," which permits a person to voluntarily waive their firearm rights through filing a waiver with the clerk of the circuit court in the county of the person's residence or with the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
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| TN | SB2488 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-04-02
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| TN | SB2034 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-04-02
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| TN | SB0652 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a copy of a submitted complaint to be provided to the applicable licensed court reporter within five calendar days, instead of business days, of receipt by the Tennessee board of court reporting. - Amends TCA Title 20.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
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| TN | SB2886 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a law enforcement officer who becomes aware that an order of protection has been entered against a person in the officer’s presence but has not been served on the person to take appropriate steps to facilitate service of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
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| TN | SB2912 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes the offense of possessing a weapon in a building that prohibits or restricts weapons; allows a person with an enhanced handgun carry permit to carry a handgun into a business that prohibits or restricts weapons; removes penalti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
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| TN | SB2475 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, deletes provisions authorizing permitless carry of handguns; requires range training for handgun carry permits. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
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| TN | SB2752 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires monthly reports from a volunteer of the office of community contact within the department of education evaluating the progress of the juvenile assigned to the volunteer. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 37; Title 38; Title 40; Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
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| TN | SB2468 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes the retail sale of marijuana; levies a 12 percent tax on the retail sale of marijuana. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 53, Chapter 11; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
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| TN | SB1869 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires clerks of court to collect and report a finding that a person is incompetent to stand trial in a criminal proceeding to the federal bureau of investigation and department of safety; prohibits the purchase or possession of a fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
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| TN | SB2755 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases the education good time sentence reduction credit from 60 days to 90 days. - Amends TCA Title 41.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
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| TN | SB2794 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases the time in which a county must maintain records indicating judicial magistrates have satisfied the continuing legal education requirements from seven to 10 years. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 17; Title 18; Title 36 and Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
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| TN | SB1485 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-04-02
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| TN | SB2783 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, limits the situations in which a wildlife officer may enter private property without the owner's consent to those in which the officer has a warrant, there are exigent circumstances, the officer observed a crime taking place, or anothe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
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| TN | SB1927 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, permits the largest municipality in Shelby, Davidson, Knox, or Hamilton county to regulate the manner of storage of firearms, firearm ammunition, and firearm accessories by ordinance, resolution, policy, rule, or other enactment. - Ame...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
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| TN | SB2884 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, grants the district attorney general, in cases where a defendant has been sentenced to death and is seeking collateral or direct review of a conviction or sentence, exclusive control over the state's defense of the request for review, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
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| TN | SB2695 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, reduces the offenses for which a defendant must be placed on a state or federal list as a fugitive for failure to appear in court from all felonies and Class A or Class B misdemeanors that are violent or sexual in nature to only feloni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
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| TN | SB2189 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits the possession of an assault weapon; makes it a Class E felony to illegally possess an assault weapon; directs those in possession of an assault weapon before July 1, 2024, to apply for a certificate of possession; requires t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
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| TN | SB2757 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the Restoration of Dignity for the Elderly Act, which requires the department to create a five-year pilot program for the release of elderly inmates to home detention; defines an elderly inmate as a person who is 60 years of age...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
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| TN | SB1322 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department of safety to issue permits with the designation "Enhanced Handgun Carry Permit" on the front of the permit; requires the department to issue replacement permits for any permit that contains the designation "Hand...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
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| TN | SB1880 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-04-02
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| TN | SB1852 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-04-02
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| TN | SB2785 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies when a person, who has been sentenced to the punishment of death and the jury has determined that the sentence must be expedited, has concluded any appeal and exhausted all available methods of post-conviction relief; require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
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| TN | SB2280 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the bureau to report its findings on criminal background checks to persons, organizations, or entities who request such information within five business days of the bureau's completion of the background check. - Amends TCA Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
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| TN | SB2832 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, extends the time period in which a general sessions court judge has to return a marriage license that the judge has solemnized the rites of matrimony to the county clerk from 30 days to 35 days. - Amends TCA Title 16.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
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| TN | SB2888 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, states that, for the purposes of the criminal offense of child endangerment, a person engages in conduct that places a child in imminent danger of death, bodily injury, or physical or mental impairment if the person engages in domestic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
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| TN | SB2880 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, deletes the Class B misdemeanor of parentage fraud. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
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| TN | SB2529 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a sexual offender or violent sexual offender to report any change to the offender's social media username to the offender's designated law enforcement agency within three days, excluding holidays. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
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| TN | SB2567 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits the release of a person charged with a Class A or B felony on their own recognizance; requires a magistrate to set bail for a person charged with a Class A felony at $20,000 or more and for a person charged with a Class B fel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
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| TN | SB2835 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, upon written request by a member of the general assembly, requires all state and local law enforcement agencies to release to the member making the request a copy of all records collected by the agency, including, but not limited to, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
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| TN | SB1484 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies that a sexual offender whose victim was a minor may not engage in community service or volunteer work that would cause the offender to be in contact with a minor while required to register with the sexual offender registry. -...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
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| TN | SB2388 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits a gun dealer from delivering to a purchaser a trigger crank, bump stock, bump-fire device, or any other part, combination of parts, component, device, attachment, or accessory that is designed or functions to accelerate the r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
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| TN | SB2831 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-04-01
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| TN | SB1526 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Demilitarization of Police Act." - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
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| TN | SB2573 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-03-27
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| TN | SB2056 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, specifies that if a man has executed a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity, then the man and the mother of the child born out of wedlock are legal parents of the child; specifies that the mother of a child born out of wedlock is the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
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| TN | SB2104 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Medical Autonomy Related to Cannabis Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 43; Title 45; Title 50; Title 53; Title 57; Title 63; Title 67; Title 68 and Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
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| TN | SB2477 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes an attorney to carry a handgun in a building and room in which judicial proceedings are in progress if the attorney is present in furtherance of the attorney’s representation of a party with business before the court, is a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
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| TN | SB2637 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases time for a lienor to commence a proceeding or file the lienor's claim in a creditors' or foreclosure proceeding after service of a written demand by the owner, the owner's agent, or a prime contractor of the real property to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
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