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TNSB1587Engross
50%
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
Passed H., Ayes 86, Nays 4, PNV 4
TNHB1727Intro
25%
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.
TNHB1817Enroll
75%
As introduced, increases the penalty from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class D felony for the offense of child endangerment by a parent or custodian of a child eight years of age or less if the parent or guardian knowingly exposes the child to, or know...
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2024-04-23
Transmitted to Governor for his action.
TNHB1872Intro
25%
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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2024-04-23
To House Calendar and Rules Committee
TNHB1881Engross
50%
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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2024-04-23
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration
TNHB2031Intro
25%
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.
TNHB2198Enroll
75%
As introduced, 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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2024-04-23
Transmitted to Governor for his action.
TNSB2062Intro
25%
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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2024-04-23
To Senate Calendar Committee
TNHB2301Intro
25%
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.
TNHB2302Intro
25%
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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2024-04-23
[Hearing: Apr 23 @ 9:00 am]
To House Calendar and Rules Committee
TNSB2155Intro
25%
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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2024-04-23
To Senate Calendar Committee
TNSB2221Engross
50%
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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2024-04-23
Concurred, Ayes 27, Nays 2, PNV 1 (Amendment 2 - HA1074)
TNSB2229Engross
50%
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
Passed H., Ayes 92, Nays 0, PNV 1
TNHB2590PassAs introduced, makes bullying and cyber-bullying offenses subject to the same penalties as harassment; requires an officer to make a report of bullying and notify a parent or guardian when victim is a minor. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 38; Title 39 ...
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2024-04-23
Signed by Governor.
TNSB2570Engross
50%
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
Passed H., Ayes 73, Nays 22, PNV 2
TNSB2710Intro
25%
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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2024-04-23
To Senate Calendar Committee
TNHB2943Intro
25%
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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2024-04-23
To House Calendar and Rules Committee
TNHB1628Intro
25%
As introduced, 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
25%
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
25%
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.
TNSB1709Engross
50%
As introduced, 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
Passed H., Ayes 89, Nays 5, PNV 0
TNHB2504PassAs introduced, makes it an offense for a person, on behalf of a debt collector or inbound telemarketer service, to knowingly cause any caller identification service to transmit misleading or inaccurate caller identification information, including cal...
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2024-04-22
Signed by Governor.
TNSB2563Engross
50%
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
Passed H., Ayes 75, Nays 17, PNV 1
TNHB2814Intro
25%
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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2024-04-22
To House Calendar and Rules Committee
TNSB2770Engross
50%
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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2024-04-22
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.
TNSB1193Intro
25%
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
25%
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
25%
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
25%
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
25%
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
25%
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
25%
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
TNSB2610Enroll
75%
As introduced, prohibits an entity supported in whole or in part by public funds from knowingly providing meeting spaces or other forums, including, but not limited to, electronic and print platforms, to a designated entity by which the designated en...
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2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSB2669Intro
25%
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
TNSB2654Enroll
75%
As introduced, creates a Class B misdemeanor that is committed when a person knowingly tampers with, removes, or vandalizes a monitoring device that the person is required to use as a condition of bond, probation, or parole; requires an entity monito...
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2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSB1487Intro
25%
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
TNSB2116Engross
50%
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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2024-04-18
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.
TNHB0484Intro
25%
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
25%
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
25%
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
25%
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
25%
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
TNSB1953PassAs enacted, states that, as used in the offense of stalking, harassment must be committed by the defendant with reckless disregard for whether the victim will suffer emotional distress as a result of the conduct and the victim does suffer emotional d...
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2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNHB2323Intro
25%
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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2024-04-17
To House Calendar and Rules Committee
TNHB2538Intro
25%
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
TNHB2546PassAs enacted, states that, as used in the offense of stalking, harassment must be committed by the defendant with reckless disregard for whether the victim will suffer emotional distress as a result of the conduct and the victim does suffer emotional d...
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2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 682
TNHB2848PassAs enacted, creates the Class C felony offense of acquiring or otherwise exercising control over bees or a structure or equipment used to keep, handle, house, exhibit, breed, or offer for sale bees, without the consent of the owner and with the inten...
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2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 708
TNSB2650PassAs enacted, creates the Class C felony offense of acquiring or otherwise exercising control over bees or a structure or equipment used to keep, handle, house, exhibit, breed, or offer for sale bees, without the consent of the owner and with the inten...
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2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNHB2068Intro
25%
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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2024-04-16
To House Calendar and Rules Committee
TNHB2348Intro
25%
As introduced, prohibits an entity supported in whole or in part by public funds from knowingly providing meeting spaces or other forums, including, but not limited to, electronic and print platforms, to a designated entity by which the designated en...
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2024-04-16
Sponsor(s) Added.
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