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As enacted, specifies that the authority of wildlife resources officers to conduct certain searches does not permit search or inspection of the interior of an automobile without a search warrant. - Amends TCA Title 20; Title 29; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 70.
As enacted, requires juvenile court petitions and orders to be open to public inspection if the delinquent act would constitute an act of terrorism or an attempt to commit terrorism if committed by an adult; prohibits expunction of a juvenile's record relating to a delinquent act that would constitute an act of terrorism or an attempt to commit terrorism if committed by an adult. - Amends TCA Title 37.
As enacted, waives the lifetime handgun carry permit fees for retired law enforcement officers who served for at least 10 years, rather than former law enforcement officers who served for at least 10 years. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.
As enacted, revises provisions governing drug-free school zones and school safety zones and sentences related to violations. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4 and Section 49-2-116.
As enacted, revises and clarifies release eligibility for certain persons sentenced to life imprisonment for first degree murder. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.
As enacted, allows an elected official of any county or municipality in the actual discharge of official duties who has a valid handgun carry permit to carry inside a building in which judicial proceedings are in progress, but not in the room in which judicial proceedings are in progress; allows the county attorney in the actual discharge of official duties who has a valid handgun carry permit to carry inside a building in which judicial proceedings are in progress, but not in the room in which judicial proceedings are in progress. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
As introduced, changes, from March 1 to February 1, the date by which the department of children's services must appear before the judiciary committees of the senate and the house of representatives for a review of the department's policies affecting children served by the department. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.
As introduced, requires the court to notify a defendant at the time of sentencing if the conviction is for an expungeable offense and the time period after which a petition to expunge may be filed. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32; Title 40, Chapter 35, Part 3 and Chapter 244 of the Public Acts of 2019.
As introduced, requires the acceptance of enhanced handgun carry permits and concealed handgun carry permits as valid forms of government-issued photo identification the same as a driver license for purposes of access to goods, services, and facilities. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17 and Title 55, Chapter 50.
As introduced, requires the board of parole to create an application that a victim may use to submit a victim impact statement video to be considered at an inmate's parole hearing and at any future parole hearing involving the same inmate and offense. - Amends TCA Title 40.
As introduced, restores the voting rights of persons convicted of certain infamous crimes upon receipt of a pardon or completion of any sentence of incarceration, parole, or probation. - Amends TCA Section 2-2-102 and Title 40, Chapter 29.
As introduced, creates exceptions to the offense of open or concealed carrying of a firearm with the intent to go armed for any person legally in possession and not prohibited from possessing a firearm; converts existing defenses to be exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 10; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 50 and Title 70.
As introduced, specifies that a prisoner who has served greater than 50 percent of the sentence imposed on combined state sentences and has an active detainer to serve a term of imprisonment in another jurisdiction must be considered for parole to the detainer if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 28.
As introduced, requires an applicant for a concealed handgun carry permit renewal to pay a $50 renewal fee. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
As introduced, changes from February 1 to January 15 the date by which the Tennessee bureau of investigation is required to provide an annual report to the judiciary committees of the senate and house of representatives on the amount of money collected from gun dealers to perform background checks that are in excess of the costs to the bureau to perform the checks. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Section 50-3-201; Section 58-1-112; Section 70-4-123 and Section 70-5-101.
As introduced, expands the type of equipment for which law enforcement agencies may exchange confiscated weapons to include any equipment suitable for use for legitimate law enforcement purposes. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
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 damages, punitive damages, attorney's fees, and court costs. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 54 and Title 8, Chapter 47.
As introduced, repeals the law that allows handgun carry permit holders to transport or store a firearm or firearm ammunition in the permit holder's motor vehicle while on or utilizing a public or private parking area if the firearm or firearm ammunition is kept from ordinary observation. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 49 and Title 50.
As introduced, enacts the "Personal Privacy Protection Act," which prohibits the release of certain personal information by a public agency, makes certain personal information confidential and not an open record, and creates a civil cause of action and criminal offense for violations. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 10; Title 12; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.
As introduced, permits a person to carry a handgun in a concealed manner; permits a person carrying a handgun in a concealed manner to carry in parks, higher education campuses, and areas posted by local governments in the same manner permitted by handgun carry permit holders. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504; Section 33-6-413; Section 38-8-116; Title 39; Section 50-1-312; Title 70, Chapter 4, Part 1 and Section 70-5-101.
As introduced, extends from 30 days to 45 days the time within which the issuing judge is required to report to the attorney general following the expiration, extension, or denial of an order authorizing a wire, oral, or electronic interception. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504; Title 33; Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 49; Title 50; Title 55; Title 70 and Title 71.
As introduced, extends the validity of newly issued or renewed enhanced handgun carry permits for the lifetime of the permit holder, unless the permit holder no longer meets the requirements for an enhanced handgun carry permit. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
As introduced, authorizes a registered student at a public institution of higher education to carry a handgun in a concealed manner on property owned, operated, or controlled by that institution if the student is a handgun carry permit holder and otherwise in compliance with state law. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 49.
As introduced, allows law enforcement officers to carry handguns in posted areas under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.
Reaffirms that Tennessee is a sanctuary for the right of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms.
As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor of leaving a firearm or firearm ammunition unattended or with a person under 18 years of age in a motor vehicle or boat, if the firearm is not locked within a trunk, glove box, or interior of the person's motor vehicle or boat; punishable only by fine of at least $500. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Recognizes CNN and the Washington Post as fake news and condemns them for denigrating our citizens.
As introduced, makes various changes to the process for restoration of voting rights, including requiring an inmate's voting rights to be automatically restored upon completion of the sentence imposed. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 29.
As introduced, enacts the "Restore the Right to Vote Act." - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 40, Chapter 29.
As introduced, deletes obsolete reference to the Tennessee Sentencing Commission and clarifies that the department of correction must read to a prisoner the consequences of committing a felony while the prisoner is on a release program. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.
As introduced, allows a court to reduce a probation sentence by 30 days for each 30 consecutive days of probation served without a probation violation. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 35.
As introduced, creates the Class A misdemeanor of possession of a firearm while in possession of a Schedule I, II, III, or IV controlled substance or drug paraphernalia used to manufacture such a substance. - Amends TCA Title 39.
As introduced, permits expunction of certain nonviolent felonies after 10 years have elapsed since the completion of the sentence imposed for the most recent offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
As introduced, requires the department of state to maintain a printable Tennessee residential property condition disclosure form on the department's website for use by the public. - Amends TCA Title 12; Title 13; Title 29; Title 49; Title 66 and Title 68.
As introduced, increases the number of days prior to a parole revocation hearing the board of parole must send to specified individuals a notice of the date and place of the hearing from three days to five days. - Amends TCA Title 40.
Expels David Byrd from his seat as a member of the House of Representatives of the One Hundred Eleventh General Assembly.
As introduced, provides that the public records of a criminal defendant sentenced on or after July 1, 2020, are automatically expunged if the defendant has fulfilled the requirements for expunction by petitioning the court. - Amends TCA Title 40.
As introduced, creates a Class C misdemeanor of advertising the sale of a firearm if the seller intends to sell or transfer the firearm, or does actually sell or transfer the firearm, without conducting a criminal history background check on the buyer; removes exceptions to criminal history background check for collectors and occasional sales by dealers or other persons. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
As introduced, revises the definition of "blighted area" for purposes of redevelopment projects by housing authorities. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 20; Title 13, Chapter 21 and Title 29, Chapter 17.
As introduced, deletes the requirement that the petitioner pay the costs of a petition for a certificate of employability. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 29.
As introduced, makes various changes to expunction, including giving the clerks discretion over whether to charge a fee for expunction and allowing a person to have a conviction for fraudulent use of a debit or credit card for less than $500 expunged. - Amends TCA Section 8-21-401 and Title 40, Chapter 32.
As introduced, in the case of certain persons who are eligible for restoration of citizenship rights, authorizes the pardoning authority or agent or officer of the supervising or incarcerating authority that issues the certificate of restoration, to forward a copy of the certificate by mail or email to the state coordinator of elections. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 29.
As introduced, removes a provision regarding how the Tennessee POST commission determines if a retired law enforcement officer is eligible to carry a firearm under federal law. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8 and Title 39, Chapter 17.
As introduced, specifies that industrial hemp and products derived from industrial hemp, other than isolated THC, are not subject to scheduling as a controlled substance and are not subject to forfeiture based solely on their composition; applies that specification to hemp and hemp-derived products if the state obtains primacy to regulate hemp production under the 2018 Farm Bill; prohibits police searches based solely on the odor of cannabis. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 43; Title 53 and Section 67-4-2802.
As introduced, requires, when neither the seller nor purchaser of a firearm is a licensed gun dealer that the transaction be completed through a licensed gun dealer, and that the dealer perform the same background check required for purchases from licensed gun dealers. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 67, Chapter 6.
As introduced, permits the expunction of certain misdemeanor offenses not eligible under current law. - Amends TCA Title 40.
As introduced, requires the department to include information on certificates of employability in the existing prerelease orientation for inmates concerning relevant post-release or parole issues. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 12; Title 40 and Section 62-76-104.
As introduced, requires the board of parole to include the offenses of which a paroled person was convicted when forwarding the names of all persons released on parole to the appropriate standing committees of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 22 and Title 40.
As introduced, decreases from five to three years the amount of time from the completion of a person's sentence that must have elapsed before the person may apply for expunction of records. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32, Part 1.
As enacted, requires the secretary of state to issue state identification cards, which serve as proof that the holder is authorized to carry a firearm as law enforcement, to inmate relations coordinators and correctional officers who have completed the appropriate probationary period established by the department of correction, rather than only to those who are vested. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
As introduced, prohibits an offender who has been convicted of a sexual offense from being eligible for a community-based alternative to incarceration. - Amends TCA Section 40-36-106.
As introduced, requires the department to offer a former property owner of real property obtained through eminent domain the ability to repurchase the property at the price paid to the former owner if the department has not used the property in the previous 20 years. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12; Title 29 and Title 54.
Condemns private, user-funded probation statewide and urges the adoption of evidence-based probation models.
As introduced, clarifies that it is an offense for a person to purchase or possess a firearm in this state if the person has been prohibited from purchasing or possessing under the laws of another state and not just Tennessee law or federal law. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
As introduced, specifies that a person filing a petition for expunction of that person's public records involving offenses related to the person's status as a victim of human trafficking must not have been convicted of any federal offenses or offenses in any other state. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.
As introduced, prohibits the sale of firearms to persons who are listed on the federal terrorist watchlist. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1316.
Proposes an amendment to the Constitution of Tennessee recognizing that our liberties do not come from government, but from Almighty God.
As introduced, prohibits leaving a handgun in an unattended motor vehicle or boat or a motor vehicle or boat that contains only persons under 18 years of age, if the firearm is not kept from ordinary observation and secured, violation of which is punishable only by fine of $50 or $100 for a second or subsequent offense. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
As introduced, clarifies that a person seeking expunction of multiple offenses must petition the court in which the most recent conviction occurred; requires the clerk to serve the petition on the district attorney general for that judicial district and any other judicial district in which the person was convicted of an offense sought to be expunged. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.
As enacted, prevents an inmate convicted of a Class A, B, or C felony from using sentence reduction credits until the minimum release eligibility date applicable to the inmate is reached; establishes presumption that inmate convicted of Class E or Class D nonviolent felony is to be paroled upon reaching release eligibility date unless good cause is shown as to why inmate should not be released. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 41.
As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor offense for the transfer of a firearm to a person knowing that the person: has been judicially committed to a mental institution or adjudicated as a mental defective unless the person's right to possess firearms has been restored; or is receiving inpatient mental health or substance abuse treatment at a hospital or treatment resource. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 33 and Title 39, Chapter 17.
As enacted, creates a concealed handgun carry permit, which allows a person to carry a concealed handgun; redesignates the existing handgun carry permit as an enhanced handgun carry permit. - Amends TCA Title 10; Title 33; Title 38 and Title 39.
As enacted, extends the same police powers that municipal fire investigators have to certain salaried county fire investigators. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1315 and Title 68, Chapter 102.
As enacted, waives the fee for obtaining a lifetime handgun carry permit for former law enforcement officers who served at least 10 years and left the law enforcement agency while in good standing. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.
As enacted, requires that the following language be printed on the back of handgun carry permit cards: This permit is valid beyond the expiration date if the permit holder can provide documentation of the holder's active military status and duty station outside Tennessee. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.
As enacted, updates the definitions of "firearm" and "antique firearm" to mirror definitions under federal law; makes various changes related to updated definitions. - Amends TCA Section 39-11-106; Section 39-13-103 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
As enacted, revises provisions governing grants made by the department to fund reentry programs that reduce recidivism and probation revocations; redefines recidivism. - Amends TCA Title 40.
As enacted, requires court clerks to report the race, sex, and, if known, social security number of a person judicially committed or adjudicated a mental defective to the federal bureau of investigation-NICS index and the department of safety for use in determining a person's eligibility to purchase firearms; requires that such information be confidential. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 33 and Section 38-6-109.
As enacted, prohibits local government entities from imposing greater restrictions or requirements on privately owned or operated sport shooting ranges than are applicable to any range located within the same unit of local government and owned or operated by a government entity. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.
As enacted, requires a judge, at the time of sentencing, to notify a person convicted of a misdemeanor offense that is eligible for expunction of the person's eligibility to have all public records of the conviction destroyed and the time period after which the person can petition for expunction of the offense. - Amends TCA Title 40.
As enacted, authorizes the disposal of delinquent and unruly juvenile court records and documents after a period of 10 years following the juvenile reaching 18 years of age; requires notice of proposed order to district attorney general. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7 and Title 18, Chapter 1.
As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Public Participation Act," which creates a process by which a person may petition a court to dismiss a legal action that is based on the person's exercise of the right to free speech, right to petition, or right of association. - Amends TCA Title 20.
As enacted, permits an eligible petitioner to have multiple, nonviolent convictions for offenses that resulted from the petitioner's status as a victim of human trafficking expunged if the expunction is in the best interest of justice and public safety and other requirements met. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40, Chapter 32.
As enacted, removes $180 fee for an individual petitioning the court for an expunction of certain criminal offenses; removes $350 fee for a defendant applying for expunction of an offense following the completion of a diversion program. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32 and Title 40, Chapter 35.
As introduced, redefines "prisoner day" within the County Correctional Incentives Act to mean each day each state prisoner convicted by the trial court was held by a county after the first five days of incarceration following conviction, rather than the first five days following sentencing. - Amends TCA Title 41, Chapter 8.
As introduced, allows petitions for post-conviction relief based on new non-scientific evidence establishing that the petitioner is actually innocent of the offense for which the petitioner was convicted; establishes certain requirements for evidence on which such petitions are based. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 30, Part 1.
As enacted, authorizes the department of safety to contract with a local government agency for the provision of any service related to the renewal of handgun carry permits; authorizes an agency contracting with the department to charge an additional fee of $4.00 for each renewal application. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.
As enacted, enacts the "Sergeant Daniel Baker Act," which removes the appeal to the court of criminal appeals in death penalty cases; provides for automatic direct review by the Tennessee supreme court for convictions for which a sentence of death is imposed. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 2 and Title 40, Chapter 35.
As introduced, increases from 21 to 30 the number of calendar days within which a person granted an order of protection may apply for a temporary handgun carry permit from the department of safety after an order of protection has been granted. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
As introduced, confers criminal and civil immunity upon a person who uses or threatens force in self-defense, defense of another, or defense from a person committing a criminal offense, unless the person against whom force is used is a law enforcement officer during discharge of the officer's duties and the person knows the person is an officer. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 11, Part 6 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
As enacted, permits correctional officers and certain other people employed by the department of correction to carry a handgun the same as a law enforcement officer if they have completed their probationary period rather than when they are vested. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1350.
As introduced, requires the domestic violence coordinating council, in coordination with the administrative office of the courts, to revise the affidavit of firearms dispossession form to require only a signature from a defendant convicted of domestic violence. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-111.
As introduced, authorizes any county, including any county having a metropolitan form of government, or incorporated city or town, to acquire a school building owned by a county school system or city school system within its borders that is blighted or deteriorated; allows the local government to use any school building acquired by eminent domain to establish offices for the provision of community services. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13 and Title 49.
As introduced, makes various changes to the process for restoration of voting rights, including consolidating the process for the issuance of a certificate of voting rights restoration through the secretary of state's office. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 29.
As introduced, creates the Class A misdemeanor offense of illegal transfer of a firearm to a prohibited possessor; prohibits the intentional transfer to a person who is known or should be known to be prohibited from purchasing or possessing a firearm. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
As introduced, creates the innocence commission to study all post-conviction exonerations, ascertain errors in the criminal procedures used to prosecute a defendant's case at issue, identify errors in the criminal justice process, develop solutions to correct the identified errors, and develop procedures to prevent future wrongful convictions. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 53.
As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor of leaving a firearm or ammunition in a motor vehicle or boat without the firearm or ammunition being stored in a locked cabinet, safe, vault, case, or secured with a firearm locking device if the vehicle or boat is left unattended or with a person under 18 years of age; directs fines collected be deposited in the criminal injuries compensation fund and the domestic violence community education fund. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
As introduced, prohibits a law enforcement officer from seizing or destroying a person's photograph or recording of an event or person if it is not illegal and the person is in a place the person has a right to be when photographed or recorded; allows law enforcement to petition court for a copy of certain photographic or recorded material. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 6, Part 1.
As introduced, corrects error in code to clarify that a petitioner is required to pay $180 upon filing a petition for expunction, rather than $350; revises fee to be $180 instead of $350 for a defendant applying for expunction of an offense following the completion of a diversion program. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32 and Title 40, Chapter 35.
As introduced, prohibits a court from removing a person's constitutional rights for failure to pay court costs, fines, or any other monetary amount in a civil proceeding, if the person is unable to pay due to the person's indigency. - Amends TCA Title 20; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.
As introduced, requires the court to order that a defendant convicted of domestic violence who transfers possession of firearms to a third party must have the third party complete and return to the court an affidavit certifying that the third party is not prohibited from possessing firearms, acknowledges receipt of firearms from the defendant, and accepts their responsibility under this section. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 40.
As introduced, decreases from 30 to 25 the number of days in which an agency must establish a hearing date and set the case on the docket after a written claim is filed by a person asserting a claim to property seized under a forfeiture warrant. - Amends TCA Title 40.
Commends the initiative of President Donald J. Trump to re-establish the original intent, purpose, and limits of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution as it pertains to the citizenship of persons born within the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.
As introduced, allows persons employed in emergency management or as firefighters or emergency medical technicians to carry handguns while engaged in the performance of official duties; requires annual completion of a firearm training program. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.
As introduced, reduces the punishment for a person committing the offense of illegal possession of a handgun. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.