Tennessee Bills

sponsored by Justin Pearson

Bill Title Introduced Latest Action↓
HB 1590 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Taxes, Sales - As introduced, allocates sales tax proceeds collected on firearms, ammunition, and firearm accessories to a mental health care in Tennessee schools' account for local education agencies to obtain school counselors, school therapists, and after school programs that promote being involved in positive extracurricular activities. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49 and Title 67.
Apr 20 2023 Taken Off Notice For Cal In S/C Finance, Ways, And Means Subcommittee Of Finance, Ways, And Means Committee
Apr 17 2024
HB 1584 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, requires the administrative office of the courts to ensure that all circuit, criminal, chancery, general sessions, and county courts accurately, completely, and timely submit relevant information to the TBI to be included in databases used to check a person's criminal history; requires the TBI to review all databases of criminal history background information maintained by the TBI to determine how the process for submitting information to databases could be improved and submit a report by July 1, 2023, to the governor and the speakers of the senate and the house of representatives that identifies any barriers to complete, accurate, and timely reporting of information. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 18; Title 33; Title 37; Title 38 and Title 39.
Apr 20 2023 Returned To The Clerk's Desk.
Apr 03 2024
HB 1587 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, prohibits the manufacture of semi-automatic rifles in this state; specifies that a violation of this prohibition is a Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 47 and Title 68.
Apr 20 2023 Returned To The Clerk's Desk.
Apr 03 2024
HB 1593 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, requires, subject to certain exemptions, that a sale or transfer of a firearm be done through a federally licensed gun dealer; creates a Class B misdemeanor offense for sales or transfers that are not conducted through a gun dealer; changes the time frame for clerks of court to report certain mental health adjudications from no later than three business days to within 72 hours; changes the time frame for clerks of court to report a final disposition of a criminal proceeding to the Tennessee bureau of investigation from not later than 30 days to within 72 hours. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 18, Chapter 4; Title 33, Chapter 3; Title 38, Chapter 6; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 68, Chapter 11.
Apr 20 2023 Returned To The Clerk's Desk.
Apr 03 2024
HB 1596 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, prohibits a gun dealer from delivering a firearm to a purchaser until 15 business days after the completion of certain requirements. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6 and Section 39-17-1316.
Apr 20 2023 Returned To The Clerk's Desk.
Apr 03 2024
HB 1589 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, prohibits the manufacture, transfer, or purchase in this state of a detachable firearm ammunition magazine that is capable of storing and feeding more than 10 rounds of ammunition; a violation is subject to a civil penalty of up to $5,000; subjects to criminal forfeiture any magazines manufactured, transferred, or purchased in violation of this bill; grandfathers possession of magazines lawfully obtained prior to July 1, 2023. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 54; Title 39, Chapter 17 and Title 40.
Apr 20 2023 Returned To The Clerk's Desk.
Apr 03 2024
HB 1592 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, requires the owner of a firearm to report loss or theft of the firearm to law enforcement within 24 hours of discovery of the loss or theft; a violation is punishable only by a civil penalty of up to $500. - Amends TCA Title 39.
Apr 20 2023 Returned To The Clerk's Desk.
Apr 03 2024
HB 1595 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
General Assembly, Studies - As introduced, creates a committee to study the impacts of gun violence in communities in this state, prioritizing those that are of lower socioeconomic status and who have been disproportionately impacted by gun violence. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.
Apr 20 2023 Returned To The Clerk's Desk.
Apr 03 2024
HB 1594 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, allows a court to issue an extreme risk protection order upon a finding by clear and convincing evidence that a person poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to the person or others if allowed to possess or purchase a firearm; authorizes a law enforcement officer, relative, or school administrator to petition for the extreme risk protection order; requires training for law enforcement officers on how to petition for an extreme risk protection order; requires the department of safety to develop a public awareness campaign to educate the public about extreme risk protection orders. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 38 and Title 39, Chapter 17.
Apr 20 2023 No Action Taken
Apr 02 2024
HB 1588 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, prohibits the storage of a firearm or firearm ammunition in a motor vehicle unless the firearm or ammunition is not plainly observable and either the owner is present in the vehicle or the firearm or ammunition is inside a locked compartment; authorizes a civil penalty of up to $500 per violation. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Apr 20 2023 No Action Taken
Apr 02 2024
HB 1586 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, allows a law enforcement officer to petition for an extreme risk protection order; requires the court to issue an extreme risk protection order if, after notice and a hearing on the petition, the court finds by clear and convincing evidence that the person poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to the person's self or others by purchasing or possessing a firearm or ammunition. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 37; Title 38 and Title 39.
Apr 20 2023 No Action Taken
Apr 02 2024
HB 1591 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, creates an offense to store or keep a firearm in any place unless the firearm is secured in a locked container, unloaded, and separate from ammunition so as to render the firearm inoperable by any person other than the owner or another lawfully authorized user except when the firearm is carried by or under the control of the owner or other lawfully authorized user; exempts a juvenile who is knowingly in a mental health crisis to use a defense to prosecution for illegally possessing a handgun. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 39.
Apr 20 2023 No Action Taken
Apr 02 2024
HB 2334 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Health Care - As introduced, requires the department of health, in conjunction with the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities, to submit an annual report concerning the level of compliance with state law of each healthcare facility in this state charged with providing services to the elderly and individuals with disabilities; requires the reports to be made accessible, at no charge, to the public on the department of health's website. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
Jan 30 2024 Failed In S/C Health Subcommittee Of Health Committee
Mar 26 2024
HB 1585 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, directs the department to develop and implement, in consultation with the department of health, a public awareness campaign on mental health and gun safety; requires the department to make campaign materials available to the public for free on its website during calendar years 2024 and 2025; authorizes county health departments to develop a public awareness campaign on mental health and gun safety. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 68.
Apr 20 2023 Failed In S/C Health Subcommittee Of Health Committee
Mar 26 2024
HB 2335 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Local Education Agencies - As introduced, enacts the "Separation of Need Act"; removes income eligibility requirements from free school lunch and breakfast programs; requires each local board of education and governing body of a public charter school to provide a free breakfast and lunch to all enrolled students; requires the state to reimburse each LEA and public charter school for the cost of providing a free breakfast and lunch to enrolled students after all available federal funds have been applied. - Amends TCA Section 8-11-110 and Title 49.
Jan 30 2024 Failed For Lack Of Second In: K-12 Subcommittee
Mar 26 2024
HB 2343 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, requires the department to create and maintain an informational tool on the department's website that provides data related to the presence of facilities that are required to submit toxic release inventory data to the environmental protection agency. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 59; Title 60; Title 68 and Title 69.
Jan 30 2024 Action Def. In Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee To 5/15/2024
Mar 20 2024
HB 2331 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires a law enforcement agency to assign a law enforcement officer to begin an investigation of a suspected homicide within the agency’s jurisdiction and, in determining which law enforcement officer will lead the investigation, requires the law enforcement agency to assign the investigation to an officer who will be available to investigate the offense for at least two days following the opening of an investigation. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 2 and Title 40.
Jan 30 2024 Failed For Lack Of Motion In: Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Mar 19 2024
HB 2336 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, prohibits the manufacture, distribution, sale, or transfer of an 80 percent frame or 80 percent receiver on or after July 1, 2024, without a manufacturer's serial number prominently stamped on the item or on a piece of metal securely affixed to the item; creates the Class A misdemeanor of manufacturing, distributing, selling, or transferring an 80 percent frame or 80 percent receiver without a serial number prominently stamped on the item or on a piece of metal securely affixed thereto, which is punishable by a $5,000 fine. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38 and Title 39.
Jan 30 2024 Failed In S/C Criminal Justice Subcommittee Of Criminal Justice Committee
Mar 19 2024
HB 2329 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, deletes an exception to the offense of carrying a firearm with the intent to go armed for persons carrying, whether openly or concealed, a handgun if the person lawfully possesses the handgun, is in a place where the person is lawfully present, and the person meets certain age requirements. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Jan 30 2024 Failed In S/C Criminal Justice Subcommittee Of Criminal Justice Committee
Mar 19 2024
HB 2340 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Consumer Protection - As introduced, creates a violation under the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977 for a person or entity that alters the appearance, action, or speech of an individual through the use of synthetic media in a communication that is knowingly distributed publicly with the intent to malign, slander, defame, or otherwise intentionally mislead the public and damage the reputation of the individual. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 8; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 47, Chapter 18.
Jan 30 2024 Taken Off Notice For Cal In S/C Banking & Consumer Affairs Subcommittee Of Commerce Committee
Mar 19 2024

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