| Bill # |
Summary |
Status |
Notes |
|---|
| HJR0231 | Designates the Barrett Model
M82/M107 as the official rifle of the State of Tennessee. | 2016-02-29 /
Passed
Signed by Governor. | |
| HB1458 | As introduced, increases the penalty
for reckless endangerment by discharging a firearm from within a motor vehicle from a Class E felony
to a Class C felony, and specifies that each person endangered by the conduct constitutes a
separate offense. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-103. | 2016-03-02 /
Introduced
[Hearing: Mar 8 @ 1:30 pm in HHR31]
Placed on s/c cal Criminal Justice Subcommittee
for 3/8/2016 | |
| HB1513 | As
introduced, authorizes sheriffs and deputy sheriffs to retain service weapon upon retirement and
approval by 2/3 vote of county legislative body. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 8, Part 2. | 2016-03-03 / Introduced
Sponsor(s)
Added. | |
| HB1532 | As
introduced, allows the Tennessee POST commission to deny a retired law enforcement officer's
application to carry as a law enforcement officer if the retired officer is prohibited from purchasing or
possessing a firearm, or obtaining a handgun carry permit, or if the retired officer has been convicted
of DUI once within five years, or twice or more within 10 years, of the application date. - Amends
TCA Title 38, Chapter 8, Part 1. | 2016-03-02 / Introduced
[Hearing: Mar 8 @ 9:00 am in HHR31]
Placed on cal. Civil Justice Committee for 3/8/2016 | |
| HB1563 | As
introduced, clarifies that deadly force may be used by nuclear security officers at nuclear power
reactor facilities and not just category I nuclear facilities. - Amends TCA Section 39-11-611. | 2016-03-02 / Introduced
[Hearing: Mar 9 @ 10:30
am in HHR31]
Placed on cal. Criminal Justice
Committee for 3/9/2016 | |
| HB1565 | As
introduced, permits the use of certain defenses to unlawful possession or carrying of a weapon by a
person with a prior conviction for a felony involving the use of force, violence, deadly weapon, or
drugs and whose rights of citizenship have been restored. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-
1308. | 2016-03-02 / Engrossed
Received from
House, Passed on First Consideration | |
| HB1641 | As introduced, exempts honorably discharged and retired
veterans of the United States armed forces from firing range and classroom training requirements for
handgun carry permits upon presenting a DD 214 form indicating a discharge or retirement date
within five years of application for the permit. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13. | 2016-03-02 / Introduced
[Hearing: Mar 9 @ 3:00
pm in HHR31]
Placed on s/c cal Civil Justice
Subcommittee for 3/9/2016 | |
| HB1644 | As
introduced, requires the chief administrative officer of a private K-12 school or private institution of
higher education to implement a handgun carry policy that either permits or prohibits a person who
has a handgun carry permit from carrying on the grounds or buildings of a private K-12 school or
private university. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 1 and Title 49, Chapter 50, Part
8. | 2016-03-02 / Introduced
[Hearing: Mar 9
@ 10:30 am in HHR29]
Placed on s/c cal
Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee for 3/9/2016 | |
| HB1736 | As introduced, permits full-time employees of state public
colleges or universities to carry a handgun while on property owned, operated, or used by the
employing college or university if the employee has a valid Tennessee handgun carry permit. -
Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 49. | 2016-03-02 / Introduced
[Hearing: Mar 9 @ 3:00 pm in HHR31]
Placed on s/c cal Civil Justice Subcommittee for 3/9/2016 | |
| HB1748 | As introduced, authorizes anyone 21
years of age or older who is not prohibited by law from possessing a handgun to carry a handgun
without a permit under the same circumstances and in the same places as a handgun permit holder. -
Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 11, Part 1; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13; Title 50 and Title 70. | 2016-03-02 / Introduced
[Hearing: Mar 9 @ 3:00
pm in HHR31]
Placed on s/c cal Civil Justice
Subcommittee for 3/9/2016 | 2016/02/22 - Constitutional Carry with an
optional permit. Effects this by amending TCA 39-17-1307 to add a new exception for permitless
carry while retaining the option to obtain a handgun permit. |
| HB1750 | As
introduced, specifies that the authorization for a law enforcement officer to carry firearms at all times,
regardless of the officer's regular duties, unless otherwise prohibited by federal law, court order, or
otherwise by law, applies to a sheriff who has been certified by the POST commission, and a deputy
sheriff employed by a county as a court officer or corrections officer as authorized in writing by the
sheriff. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1350. | 2016-03-02 / Engrossed
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration | |
| HB1751 | As introduced, permits each LEA and
each school board for private schools to determine whether someone with a Tennessee-issued
handgun carry permit may carry a handgun while on the property of the public or private school and
while traveling on school functions with students. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 49, Chapter
6. | 2016-03-02 / Introduced
[Hearing: Mar 9
@ 3:00 pm in HHR31]
Placed on s/c cal Civil
Justice Subcommittee for 3/9/2016 | |
| HB1752 | As introduced, requires public criminal records to be
automatically expunged after two years from date of entry of any dismissal, nolle prosequi, or no true
bill if not previously expunged upon court order or petition; establishes certain procedures for
expunction without cost when charge is dismissed or nolle prosequi is entered. - Amends TCA Title
40, Chapter 32. | 2016-03-02 / Introduced
[Hearing: Mar 9 @ 10:30 am in HHR31]
Placed on cal. Criminal Justice Committee for 3/9/2016 | |
| HB1929 | As introduced, extends immunity from
civil liability to national guard members who are authorized by the military department to carry a
personally owned handgun while in uniform and who use that handgun in self-defense or defense of
others. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 1. | 2016-03-02 / Introduced
[Hearing: Mar 8 @ 9:00 am in HHR31]
Placed on cal. Civil Justice Committee for 3/8/2016 | |
| HB2031 | As introduced, permits a person to
petition the court for the expunction of multiple convictions provided all the offenses are currently
eligible for expunction, the petitioner has completed all requirements of each sentence, and five
years have elapsed since the most recent offense. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32. | 2016-03-02 / Introduced
[Hearing: Mar 8 @ 1:30
pm in HHR31]
Placed on s/c cal Criminal
Justice Subcommittee for 3/8/2016 | |
| HB2033 | As introduced, establishes that if a person or entity posts to
prohibit the possession of firearms on the property, the posting entity, for purposes of liability,
assumes custodial responsibility for the safety and defense of any handgun carry permit holder
harmed while on the posted property. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13. | 2016-03-02 / Introduced
Taken off notice for cal in s/c
Civil Justice Subcommittee of Civil Justice Committee | |
| HB2058 | As introduced, creates offense of
recklessly leaving a loaded firearm unattended and readily accessible to a child under 13 years of
age; creates certain defense. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13. | 2016-03-02
/ Introduced
Action Def. in s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee to
3/16/2016 | |
| HB2072 | As
introduced, authorizes community corrections officers who hold a valid Tennessee handgun permit to
carry a handgun while in the course of employment and engaged in the actual discharge of official
duties. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1350. | 2016-03-02 / Introduced
[Hearing: Mar 9 @ 3:00 pm in HHR31]
Placed on s/c cal Civil Justice Subcommittee for 3/9/2016 | |
| HB2131 | As introduced, prohibits public
postsecondary institutions from taking any adverse action against an employee or student as a result
of such person's lawful transportation and storage of a firearm or ammunition in the person's parked
motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 1. | 2016-03-02 / Introduced
[Hearing: Mar 9 @ 10:30
am in HHR31]
Placed on cal. Education
Administration & Planning for 3/8/2016 | |
| HB2428 | As introduced, enacts the "Forfeiture Act," which creates a
new process for civil forfeiture actions. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 53 and Title
55. | 2016-03-02 / Introduced
[Hearing: Mar
9 @ 3:00 pm in HHR31]
Placed on s/c cal Civil
Justice Subcommittee for 3/9/2016 | |
| HB2575 | As introduced, makes various changes to handgun carry
permits, including extending permit renewals to occur every eight years and lowering the initial
application fee from $115 to $100. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351. | 2016-03-02 /
Introduced
[Hearing: Mar 8 @ 3:00 pm in HHR16]
Placed on cal. Finance, Ways & Means
Committee for 3/8/2016 | |
| HB2580 | As
introduced, establishes the offense of theft of a firearm, which is graded as one classification higher
than the value of the firearm under the grading of theft. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 1
and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13. | 2016-03-02 / Introduced
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee of Civil Justice
Committee | |
| SJR0391 | Urges
the President, Congress, and the Secretary of Defense to review and revise law and policy
regarding the carrying of firearms by military service members on military installations. | 2016-03-03 / Engrossed
Ref. to State Government
Committee | |
| SB0774 | As
introduced, rewrites the minimum requirements for phrases and symbols on signs prohibiting firearms
in certain places open to the public. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13. | 2016
-03-03 / Introduced
Placed on Senate Regular Calendar
calendar for 3/7/2016 | |
| SB1008 | As
introduced, permits constables who have law enforcement powers to carry firearms at all times and
in all places in Tennessee that other law enforcement officers are permitted to carry firearms. -
Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 10 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13. | 2016-03-02 /
Introduced
[Hearing: Mar 8 @ 3:30 pm in Legislative
Plaza Room 12 Lp]
Placed on Senate Judiciary
Committee calendar for 3/8/2016 | |
| SB1483 | As introduced, authorizes anyone 21 years of age or older
who is not prohibited by law from possessing a handgun to carry a handgun without a permit under
the same circumstances and in the same places as a handgun permit holder. - Amends TCA Title 39,
Chapter 11, Part 1; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13; Title 50 and Title 70. | 2016-03-02 /
Introduced
[Hearing: Mar 8 @ 3:30 pm in Legislative
Plaza Room 12 Lp]
Placed on Senate Judiciary
Committee calendar for 3/8/2016 | 2016/02/22 - [Firearms] -
Constitutional Carry with an optional permit. Effects this by amending TCA 39-17-1307 to add a new
exception for permitless carry while retaining the option to obtain a handgun permit. |
| SB1490 | As introduced, exempts honorably discharged and retired
veterans of the United States armed forces from firing range and classroom training requirements for
handgun carry permits upon presenting a DD 214 form indicating a discharge or retirement date
within five years of application for the permit. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13. | 2016-03-02 / Introduced
[Hearing: Mar 8 @ 3:30
pm in Legislative Plaza Room 12 Lp]
Placed on
Senate Judiciary Committee calendar for 3/8/2016 | |
| SB1559 | As introduced, requires the chief administrative officer of a
private K-12 school or private institution of higher education to implement a handgun carry policy that
either permits or prohibits a person who has a handgun carry permit from carrying on the grounds or
buildings of a private K-12 school or private university. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 49, Chapter 7,
Part 1 and Title 49, Chapter 50, Part 8. | 2016-03-02 / Introduced
[Hearing: Mar 8 @ 3:30 pm in Legislative Plaza Room 12 Lp]
Placed on Senate Judiciary Committee calendar
for 3/8/2016 | |
| SB1627 | As
introduced, clarifies that deadly force may be used by nuclear security officers at nuclear power
reactor facilities and not just category I nuclear facilities. - Amends TCA Section 39-11-611. | 2016-03-03 / Engrossed
Rcvd. from S., held on H.
desk. | |
| SB1658 | As introduced, authorizes sheriffs
and deputy sheriffs to retain service weapon upon retirement and approval by 2/3 vote of county
legislative body. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 8, Part 2. | 2016-03-03 /
Introduced
Placed on Senate Consent Calendar 2 calendar
for 3/7/2016 | |
| SB1665 | As
introduced, waives the application and processing fee required with a lifetime handgun carry permit
application for retired federal, state, and local law enforcement officers who retired in good standing
as certified by the chief enforcement officer from the organization from which the applicant retired. -
Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351. | 2016-03-01 / Introduced
Recommended for passage with amendment/s, refer to Senate Calendar
Committee Ayes 9, Nays 0 PNV 0 | 2016/01/21 - TFA does not support
legislation that draws distinctions between and among civilians based on jobs, prior jobs, or honorary
titles. |
| SB1667 | As introduced, specifies that the
authorization for a law enforcement officer to carry firearms at all times, regardless of the officer's
regular duties, unless otherwise prohibited by federal law, court order, or otherwise by law, applies to
a sheriff who has been certified by the POST commission, and a deputy sheriff employed by a county
as a court officer or corrections officer as authorized in writing by the sheriff. - Amends TCA Section
39-17-1350. | 2016-03-03 / Introduced
Placed
on Senate Consent Calendar 2 calendar for 3/7/2016 | |
| SB1736 | As introduced, establishes that if a person or entity posts to
prohibit the possession of firearms on the property, the posting entity, for purposes of liability,
assumes custodial responsibility for the safety and defense of any handgun carry permit holder
harmed while on the posted property. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13. | 2016-03-02 / Introduced
[Hearing: Mar 8 @ 3:30
pm in Legislative Plaza Room 12 Lp]
Placed on
Senate Judiciary Committee calendar for 3/8/2016 | |
| SB1760 | As introduced, extends immunity from civil liability to
national guard members who are authorized by the military department to carry a personally owned
handgun while in uniform and who use that handgun in self-defense or defense of others. - Amends
TCA Title 58, Chapter 1. | 2016-03-03 / Introduced
Placed on Senate Regular Calendar calendar for 3/7/2016 | |
| SB1855 | As introduced, establishes the
offense of theft of a firearm, which is graded as one classification higher than the value of the firearm
under the grading of theft. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 1 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part
13. | 2016-03-01 / Introduced
Assigned to
General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee | |
| SB1921 | As introduced, requires the instant
check unit of the TBI to contact the agency making an entry of an order of protection into the national
crime information center within one day if the subject of the order of protection attempts to purchase
a firearm. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 38, Chapter 6 and Title 39, Chapter 17,
Part 13. | 2016-03-02 / Introduced
[Hearing:
Mar 8 @ 3:30 pm in Legislative Plaza Room 12 Lp]
Placed on Senate Judiciary Committee calendar for 3/8/2016 | |
| SB1991 | As introduced, prohibits public
postsecondary institutions from taking any adverse action against an employee or student as a result
of such person's lawful transportation and storage of a firearm or ammunition in the person's parked
motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 1. | 2016-03-03 / Introduced
Placed on Senate Regular
Calendar calendar for 3/7/2016 | |
| SB2294 | As introduced, creates offense of recklessly leaving a
loaded firearm unattended and readily accessible to a child under 13 years of age; creates certain
defense. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13. | 2016-03-01 /
Introduced
Action deferred in Senate Judiciary Committee to
3/15/2016 | |
| SB2376 | As
introduced, permits full-time employees of state public colleges or universities to carry a handgun
while on property owned, operated, or used by the employing college or university if the employee
has a valid Tennessee handgun carry permit. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 49. | 2016
-03-02 / Introduced
[Hearing: Mar 8 @ 3:30 pm in
Legislative Plaza Room 12 Lp]
Placed on
Senate Judiciary Committee calendar for 3/8/2016 | |
| SB2493 | As introduced, prohibits an administrator, professor, or
employee of a public institution of higher education from requiring a student or employee to provide
information on firearm ownership; prohibits taking adverse disciplinary or employment action against
a student or employee of the institution for information on firearm ownership that is voluntarily given.
- Amends TCA Title 49. | 2016-03-03 / Introduced
[Hearing: Mar 9 @ 2:30 pm in Legislative Plaza Room 12 Lp]
Placed on Senate Education Committee calendar
for 3/9/2016 | |
