Tennessee House Bill 2377 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-2)
Status: Passed on May 2 2016 - 100% progression
Action: 2016-05-02 - Comp. became Pub. Ch. 988
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [PDF]

As enacted, requires that all biological evidence collected for a criminal offense or offenses in which one or more of the defendants received a sentence of death based upon the same criminal acts, whether the defendants were tried separately or together, be preserved until all defendants receiving a death sentence based on the same conduct are executed, otherwise die, or all related charges for which the defendants were convicted are dismissed. - Amends TCA Title 24; Title 39 and Title 40.

As enacted, requires that all biological evidence collected for a criminal offense or offenses in which one or more of the defendants received a sentence of death based upon the same criminal acts, whether the defendants were tried separately or together, be preserved until all defendants receiving a death sentence based on the same conduct are executed, otherwise die, or all related charges for which the defendants were convicted are dismissed. - Amends TCA Title 24; Title 39 and Title 40.

Rep. Jeremy Faison [R]	Rep. Darren Jernigan [D]	Rep. Jason Powell [D]	Sen. Raumesh Akbari [D]
Rep. Mary Littleton [R]	Rep. G.A. Hardaway [D]	Rep. Joe Towns [D]	Rep. Karen Camper [D]
Rep. Larry Miller [D]	Rep. Johnnie Turner [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-05-02		Comp. became Pub. Ch. 988
2016-04-13	House	Sponsor(s) Added.
2016-04-13	House	Comp. SB subst.
2016-04-07	House	H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 4/13/2016
2016-04-06	House	Placed on cal. Calendar & Rules Committee for 4/7/2016
2016-03-30	House	Rec. for pass. if am., ref. to Calendar & Rules Committee
2016-03-23	House	Placed on cal. Criminal Justice Committee for 3/30/2016
2016-03-22	House	Rec for pass if am by s/c ref. to Criminal Justice Committee
2016-03-16	House	Placed on s/c cal Criminal Justice Subcommittee for 3/22/2016
2016-03-14	House	Sponsor(s) Added.
2016-03-01	House	Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
2016-02-24	House	Placed on s/c cal Criminal Justice Subcommittee for 3/1/2016
2016-02-16	House	Action Def. in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee to 3/1/2016
2016-02-10	House	Placed on s/c cal Criminal Justice Subcommittee for 2/16/2016
2016-01-27	House	Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee
2016-01-27	House	P2C, ref. to Criminal Justice Committee
2016-01-25	House	P1C.
2016-01-21	House	Intro.
2016-01-21	House	Filed for intro.

SB2342 (Crossfiled) 2016-05-02 - Pub. Ch. 988

Type	Source
Summary	https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/Billinfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=HB2377&ga=109
Text	https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/109/Bill/HB2377.pdf