Civil Justice Subcommittee

TN - Representative Lowell Russell (R)

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TN - Representative Gino Bulso (R)

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TN - Representative Kip Capley (R)

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TN - Representative Rick Eldridge (R)

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TN - Representative Andrew Farmer (R)

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TN - Representative Rusty Grills (R)

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TN - Representative William Lamberth (R)

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TN - Representative Antonio Parkinson (D)

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TN - Representative Chris Todd (R)

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TN - HB2 Public Health - As enacted, makes permanent various provisions regarding COVID-19. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 14; Title 29, Chapter 20 and Section 49-7-159 and Chapter 896 of the Public Acts of 2022.

TN - HB26 Fines and Penalties - As enacted, prohibits a court clerk, upon request by an individual on a payment or installment plan, from requiring the individual to pay outstanding court-assessed fines, fees, taxes, or costs arising from a criminal proceeding during the 180-day period following the individual's release from a term of imprisonment sentence of one year or more for a felony offense; excludes from this provision restitution owed to a victim and certain fines, fees, taxes, or costs that ha...

TN - HB33 Assessors - As enacted, makes various changes to law relative to emergency response, including requiring certain information be provided to the assessor of property. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 2 and Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB37 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, removes, as exclusions from the Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act, a firearm that cannot be carried and used by one person, a firearm that discharges two or more projectiles with one activation of the trigger or other firing device, a firearm that has a bore diameter greater than one and one-half inches and that uses smokeless powder as a propellant, and ammunition with a projectile that explodes after leaving the firearm; creates the criminal offense of ...

TN - HB39 Civil Procedure - As enacted, specifies that recoverable costs on appeal include the cost of preparing and transmitting the record, the cost of a transcript of the evidence or proceedings, the cost of producing necessary copies of briefs and the record, premiums paid for bonds to preserve rights pending appeal and costs incurred to obtain the bonds such as the cost of letters of credit or other costs incurred to provide security for the bonds pending appeal, litigation taxes, and any other fe...

TN - HB41 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, expands, from only local boards of education in distressed rural counties to all local boards of education, the governing bodies for LEAs that are authorized to adopt a policy allowing their director of schools to authorize and select employees who may carry a concealed handgun on school grounds. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB43 Judges and Chancellors - As introduced, adds an additional trial court in the 23rd judicial district composed of Cheatham, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, and Stewart counties effective September 1, 2023, with the additional judge or chancellor to be appointed by the governor. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2, Part 5.

TN - HB45 Damages - As introduced, makes it a defense to a claim for civil damages based on killing or injuring a dog that the dog had been or was killing or worrying a person or wildlife. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 1; Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 2 and Title 44, Chapter 17.

TN - HB100 Taxes, Litigation - As enacted, clarifies that a county continues to have the authority to levy a local litigation tax on an adoption proceeding in chancery, circuit, or juvenile court, and that the exemption does not limit or repeal such authority. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 6.

TN - HB159 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, exempts from the offense of possessing or carrying a weapon on school property the possession or carrying of a pocket knife by a nonstudent adult on election day if the knife remains concealed at all times while the adult is on school property for the sole purpose of voting in an election for which the school is the adult's designated polling place. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17 and Title 49.

TN - HJR38 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article I, Section 26 of the Constitution of Tennessee to remove the provision that authorizes the legislature to regulate the wearing of arms with a view to prevent crime and to clarify that citizens have a right to keep and bear arms for their defense, and not just for common defense.

TN - HB187 Civil Procedure - As enacted, authorizes a plaintiff in certain civil actions filed against an owner and operator of an uninsured motor vehicle, where comparative fault is or becomes an issue, to amend the complaint to add certain persons as defendants or institute a separate action against such persons within a certain time following the filing of the first answer or first amended answer alleging such person's fault if such actions would otherwise be barred by the statute of limitations and ...

TN - HB190 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, adds a requirement that notice of the prohibition or restriction on the possession of weapons by an individual or entity must be posted no more than three feet from each entrance; requires the notice sign to measure at least 22 inches wide and 22 inches high, have a red background and white letters, and be mounted within a certain distance from the ground. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HB192 Handgun Permits - As introduced, exempts enhanced handgun carry permit holders from the prohibition against carrying a weapon on property that has been posted to prohibit possession of weapons on the premises; removes criminal penalty of Class B misdemeanor punishable only by $500 fine for carrying a weapon on posted property. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1359.

TN - HB237 Handgun Permits - As introduced, requires a person to obtain an enhanced or concealed handgun permit to carry a handgun in certain counties. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HB239 Statutes and Codification - As enacted, adds "sex" as a defined term for statutory construction purposes. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 8.

TN - HB249 Courts, General Sessions - As enacted, specifies that in general sessions court cases involving an order granting possession of real property, a writ of possession must issue by operation of law if no appeal is taken within the 10-day appellate period. - Amends TCA Title 27, Chapter 5 and Title 29, Chapter 18.

TN - HB287 Eminent Domain - As introduced, requires the commissioner of finance and administration to report the total amount of state funds paid to acquire property through eminent domain in the 2021-2022 year to the chairs of the finance, ways and means committees and the office of legislative budget analysis by January 1, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 29, Chapter 17; Title 29, Chapter 16 and Title 65, Chapter 27.

TN - HB395 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, allows persons who are not otherwise prohibited by law from possessing a handgun to carry a handgun while hunting under certain circumstances, rather than only persons with a handgun carry permit. - Amends TCA Title 44, Chapter 17 and Title 70, Chapter 4, Part 1.

TN - HB418 Judges and Chancellors - As enacted, removes provisions that allow parties in certain civil cases to agree to employ a retired or former judge to hear the case and provide for the process and manner of trial. - Amends TCA Title 17, Chapter 2, Part 1.

TN - HB541 Courts - As introduced, authorizes a party to civil litigation to petition the court for removal and destruction of records under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 9, Chapter 8; Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 16; Title 18; Title 20; Title 21; Title 27; Title 28; Title 29; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 66.

TN - HB560 Real Property - As introduced, provides a method for a property owner to seek just compensation for a diminution in value of the property caused by the enactment or enforcement of land use regulations on the property. - Amends TCA Title 29.

TN - HB570 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As introduced, allows civil actions for an injury or illness based on child sexual abuse occurring on or after a certain date to be brought at any time. - Amends TCA Section 28-3-116.

TN - HJR80 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges the Attorney General and Reporter to evaluate any newly passed federal statute, regulation, or executive order that may affect the rights of Tennesseans to bear arms, and, if such statute, regulation, or executive order infringes on that right, to bring suit on behalf of the state of Tennessee to challenge any such infringement.

TN - HB578 Handgun Permits - As introduced, eliminates the application and processing fee for an enhanced handgun carry permit. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HB606 Adoption - As enacted, makes various revisions to present law relative to adoption. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 36; Title 37; Title 47 and Title 71.

TN - HB640 Uniform Commercial Code - As introduced, incorporates into the Uniform Commercial Code the amendments adopted by the Uniform Law Commission in 2022. - Amends TCA Title 47.

TN - HB723 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, expands employees allowed to carry a handgun on property owned, operated, or controlled by a public institution of higher education to include retired law enforcement officers who retired in good standing with 20 years of service and are employed on a part-time basis by a public institution of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - HB746 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, removes the authorization for an individual, corporation, business entity, or local, state, or federal government entity to prohibit the possession of weapons by a person who is at a meeting conducted by or on property owned, operated, or managed or under the control of the individual, corporation, business entity, or government entity; removes the criminal offense of possession of a weapon in a building or on property that is properly posted. - Amends...

TN - HB760 Handgun Permits - As introduced, waives lifetime enhanced handgun carry permit fees for state residents who are retired veterans of the United States armed forces. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.

TN - HB795 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, limits the prohibition on a person intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly carrying a weapon on or about the person while inside any building in which judicial proceedings are in progress, by restricting the prohibition to just the rooms in which judicial proceedings are in progress. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB812 Civil Procedure - As introduced, requires a copy of a submitted complaint to be provided to the applicable licensed court reporter within five calendar days, instead of business days, of receipt by the Tennessee board of court reporting. - Amends TCA Title 20.

TN - HB872 Forfeiture of Assets - As introduced, adds information to be provided by the department of safety in a report detailing seizures for the previous calendar year and provided to the speakers of the senate and the house of representatives and the chairs of the appropriate committees. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33.

TN - HB905 Judges and Chancellors - As enacted, adds one additional criminal court judge in the thirteenth judicial district, one additional circuit court judge in the nineteenth judicial district, and one additional circuit court judge in the twenty-second judicial district. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.

TN - HB968 Law Enforcement - As introduced, changes, from February 1 to February 15 of each year, the date by which a community oversight board must submit a report to the chairs of the civil justice and criminal justice committees of the house of representatives and the judiciary committee of the senate that includes for the previous calendar year the number and nature of matters reported to the board, the number and nature of reviews conducted by the board, and the number and nature of advisory report...

TN - HB970 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, specifies that classes that qualify as training for issuance of an enhanced handgun carry permit or concealed handgun carry permit must include training on the use of gun locks. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14 and Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - HB977 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, allows law enforcement officers to carry a firearm when under the influence of alcohol or controlled substances and certain other circumstances; deletes the prohibition on carrying firearms and other weapons on higher education campuses and in parks; prohibits the carrying of weapons in K-12 schools except by certain persons, including any person permitted to carry a firearm under federal law. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13; Title 49, Chapt...

TN - HB985 Civil Procedure - As enacted, permits the use of a person's full social security number; taxpayer identification number; birth date; name, if the person is a minor; or financial account number in court filings regarding parenting plans. - Amends TCA Title 20, Chapter 6.

TN - HB987 Judges and Chancellors - As enacted, requires the board of judicial conduct to provide a complainant with a copy of the hearing panel's findings and judgment and the board's formal finding of fact and opinion and any sanction imposed; allows a complainant to appeal the board's decision to the Tennessee supreme court. - Amends TCA Title 17.

TN - HB1005 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, renames enhanced and concealed handgun carry permits as enhanced and concealed firearm carry permits and authorizes a permit holder to carry any firearms, rather than handguns, that the permit holder legally owns or possesses; expands the circumstances in which a permit holder may carry a firearm. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 10; Title 33; Title 36; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 50 and Title 70.

TN - HB1006 Forfeiture of Assets - As introduced, removes the requirement for a person to post a bond when filing a claim to seized property. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33.

TN - HB1017 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, requires the Tennessee bureau of investigation to post information on its website about the Tennessee human trafficking resource center hotline. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1041 Courts, Administrative Office of the - As introduced, requires the administrative office of the courts to provide the Tennessee commission on children and youth with access to juvenile justice data; requires the Tennessee commission on children and youth to prepare an annual report related to such data to be submitted to the governor and the members of the general assembly; authorizes the administrative office of the courts to maintain juvenile justice records for the sole purpose of conducti...

TN - HB1044 Handgun Permits - As introduced, requires the department of safety to issue permits with the designation "Enhanced Handgun Carry Permit" on the front of the permit; requires the department to issue replacement permits for any permit that contains the designation "Handgun Carry Permit" upon renewal or upon the permit holder's request. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HB1080 Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, clarifies that, in regard to a charitable organization's limitation of tort liability, providing shelter from adverse weather includes, but is not limited to, allowing persons to enter the premises for purposes of temporary shelter from severe storms. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 34.

TN - HB1158 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, lowers the age requirement to obtain an enhanced or concealed handgun carry permit or lawfully carry a handgun in public from 21 to 18 years of age; states that the statutory authorization to transport or store a firearm or firearm ammunition in a motor vehicle under certain circumstances does not apply to a person under 21 years of age in a parking area that is owned, operated, or while in use by any school, unless the person is at least 18 years of a...

TN - HB1161 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, declares that a person or entity posting signage prohibiting the possession of firearms on the person's or entity's property is not immune from civil liability with respect to a claim based on the person's or entity's adoption of a policy prohibiting weapons. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - HB1162 Arbitration - As enacted, makes various revisions to the "Uniform Arbitration Act." - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 5; Section 47-18-5519(f)(2); Section 56-7-1206(h)(1); Section 60-1-607(c)(2) and Section 66-34-104(f).

TN - HB1189 Remedies and Special Proceedings - As enacted, limits the circumstances under which a qualified civil liability action may be brought against certain manufacturers, dealers, and sellers of firearms and related products. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6; Title 29; Title 39 and Title 47.

TN - HB1202 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, authorizes a faculty or staff member of a school to carry a concealed handgun on school grounds subject to certain conditions, including obtaining an enhanced handgun carry permit and completing annual training. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 8.

TN - HB1237 Human Rights - As introduced, creates a civil right of action by an injured party against a law enforcement officer who subjects the injured party to the deprivation of an individual right secured by the Tennessee Constitution; declares that qualified immunity, governmental immunity, and statutory limitations on damages do not apply to this civil right of action; makes other provisions regarding the payment of damages. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 38, Chapter 8.

TN - HB1238 Attorney General and Reporter - As introduced, requires the attorney general and reporter to post online a listing of all current litigation that could impact the interpretation of this state's constitution in which this state is a party; requires the attorney general and reporter to post an annual report online of such litigation resulting in a final disposition. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1259 Real Property - As introduced, removes ambiguous language and clarifies that a transfer of a possibility of reverter or right of entry by a holder other than the original grantor is invalid unless the validity of the future interest was determined by a final judgment in a judicial proceeding, or by a settlement among interested persons, prior to July 1, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 66.

TN - HJR131 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Addresses and establishes the declared public policy of the State of Tennessee relative to the right of the citizens and those within the boundaries of this State to keep, bear, and wear arms.

TN - HB1307 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, authorizes the department of safety to create a voucher program for the purpose of offsetting the cost of persons taking a handgun safety course for the first time; requires the department to report the number of courses taken using vouchers to the senate judiciary committee and house criminal justice committee. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 39.

TN - HB1308 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, creates a process for a person to file a voluntary waiver of firearm rights for the purpose of prohibiting the person from purchasing or possessing a firearm; provides for a revocation of the voluntary waiver of firearm rights; creates the offense of selling or transferring a firearm to a person knowing that the person has executed a voluntary waiver of firearm rights that has not been revoked. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Pa...

TN - HB1346 Real Property - As enacted, prohibits this state and its political subdivisions from adopting or implementing policy recommendations that deliberately or inadvertently infringe or restrict private property rights without due process, as may be required by policy recommendations originating in, or traceable to, "Agenda 21," adopted by the United Nations in 1992 at its Conference on Environment and Development, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the U.N.'s proposal to reach net zer...

TN - HB1349 Civil Procedure - As introduced, increases from $4,000 to $25,000 the total amount of medical, hospital, and doctor bills that may be itemized with copies and attached as an exhibit to a complaint or civil warrant as prima facie evidence that the bills paid or incurred were necessary and reasonable. - Amends TCA Title 20, Chapter 1; Title 24, Chapter 5; Title 55, Chapter 12 and Title 56, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1350 Judicial Districts - As introduced, requires the speakers of the senate and house of representatives to appoint the members of the advisory task force to review the composition of judicial districts by January 1, 2025, rather than July 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 16; Title 17 and Title 18.

TN - HB1351 Sheriffs - As enacted, requires an action brought against a county for any wrong, injury, loss, damage or expense resulting from any act or failure to act on the part of any deputy appointed by the sheriff to be filed within one year after the cause of action accrued; clarifies that failure of the county to respond in 60 days is not a default but rather the county is deemed to have denied the material, well pleaded factual allegations of the complaint. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 8 and Tit...

TN - HB1355 Real Property - As introduced, updates requirements regarding public notice for a foreclosure sale of real property, including a requirement that public notice be posted on the secretary of state's website. - Amends TCA Title 35.

TN - HB1367 Attorney General and Reporter - As enacted, adds additional companies to the statewide opioid settlement agreement for which the attorney general and reporter has the authority to release pending or future claims. - Amends TCA Title 20 and Title 33.

TN - HB1374 Remedies and Special Proceedings - As enacted, revises present law provisions relative to persons who are eligible for compensation for criminal injuries. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 13, Part 1.

TN - HB1466 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, redefines "minor" to mean a person less than 21 years of age for the purpose of determining the legal age to purchase or own a firearm, unless the person is a military service member or honorably discharged or retired veteran at which point the person may be 18 years of age or older to purchase or own a firearm; makes it a Class A misdemeanor for a minor to purchase or own a firearm or for a person to sell, loan, or gift a firearm to a person younger t...

TN - HB1507 Claims Commission, Tennessee - As introduced, increases the amount of damages for which the state may be liable for damages in causes of action arising in tort from $300,000 per claimant and $1,000,000 per occurrence to $1,000,000 per claimant. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 8 and Title 29.

TN - HB1528 Internet and e-Commerce - As introduced, enacts the "Social Media Accountable Censorship Act"; creates a cause of action for adult social media website users whose speech is censored, subject to certain exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8, Chapter 6; Title 29 and Title 47.

TN - HB1574 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, allows a court to issue a 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 or a relative to petition for the risk protection order. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 38 and Title 39.

TN - HB1575 Handgun Permits - As introduced, removes the authority to issue and receive concealed handgun carry permits; authorizes a person who holds a concealed handgun carry permit on June 30, 2023, to apply to convert the permit to an enhanced handgun carry permit. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504; Section 33-6-413; Section 38-8-116; Section 39-16-702; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Section 70-2-104.

TN - HB1580 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, creates an offense for a person to possess or manufacture an ammunition feeding device that has capacity to accept more than 10 rounds, except for certain circumstances; 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 for sales or transfers that are not conducted through a gun dealer; allows a court to issue an extreme risk protection order upon...

TN - HB1586 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.

TN - HB1588 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.

TN - HB1591 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 prosec...

TN - HB1594 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 prote...

TN - HB1631 Schools, Private - As introduced, clarifies that a private school serving students in any of the grades pre-K through 12 is authorized to adopt a handgun carry policy for the private school's property. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13; Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 50.

TN - HB1645 Orders of Protection - As introduced, expands the eligibility for filing a petition to obtain a lifetime order of protection to include victims of aggravated stalking, especially aggravated stalking, and felony harassment. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39.

TN - HB1667 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, authorizes local governments to regulate the storage of a firearm in a motor vehicle when the motor vehicle is unoccupied; applies in counties having a population greater than 98,800, according to the 2020 or a subsequent federal census. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB1712 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, allows a court to issue a 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 to petition for the risk protection order. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 36; Title 38 and Title 39.

TN - HB1714 Domestic Violence - As introduced, requires a domestic assault offender who transferred possession of a firearm to a third party in order to dispossess the firearm to submit to the court an affidavit of firearms receipt in which the third party attests that the third party may lawfully possess a firearm, has received the firearm from the defendant, and accepts responsibility for possession of the firearm. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6 and Title 39.

TN - HB1716 Courts, General Sessions - As introduced, specifies that in a county with more than one general sessions judge, the management and supervision of any appointed judicial commissioners must rotate between the general sessions judges in the county on an annual basis. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 17 and Title 40.

TN - HB1717 Judicial Officers - As introduced, requires, upon request of the county legislative body, the judicial commissioners to submit any relevant information to the county legislative body at least seven days before the public hearing. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - HB1821 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, requires a person to obtain an enhanced handgun permit or a concealed handgun carry permit to carry a handgun in certain counties; requires the department of safety to create a three-year pilot program in certain counties that waives the application and processing fee for an enhanced handgun carry permit and a concealed handgun carry permit for applicants residing in those counties. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HB1822 Attorney General and Reporter - As introduced, changes the reporting month from January to March for when the attorney general and reporter must report information about orders for wiretapping and electronic surveillance to the administrative office of the United States courts, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Section 40-6-308.

TN - HB1823 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, defines "firearm hold agreement" as a private transaction between a licensed federal firearms dealer and a firearm owner under which the dealer takes possession of the owners firearm at the owner's request, holds the firearm for an agreed period of time, and then returns the firearm; states that a person does not have a cause of action against a licensed federal firearms dealer for any act or omission arising from a firearm hold agreement and resulting...

TN - HB1824 Opioids - As introduced, adds The Kroger Co. to the list of companies that are released by the attorney general and reporter for pending or future claims regarding opioids. - Amends TCA Title 20 and Title 33.

TN - HB1829 Judicial Districts - As introduced, creates one additional chancery court in the 19th judicial district. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.

TN - HB1830 Judicial Districts - As introduced, creates one additional circuit court in the 23rd judicial district. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.

TN - HB1904 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, exempts persons who are authorized to carry a firearm pursuant to an enhanced handgun carry permit or a concealed handgun carry permit from the criminal offense of possessing a firearm in a concealed manner at a meeting conducted by, or on property owned, operated, or managed or under the control of the individual, corporation, business entity, or government entity that is properly posted. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HB1906 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As introduced, allows a minor victim 30 years after the victim turns 18 years of age to sue the alleged perpetrator for any injury or illness stemming from the offense of trafficking for a commercial sex act. - Amends TCA Title 28 and Title 39.

TN - HB2000 Attorney General and Reporter - As introduced, empowers the attorney general to fix the attorney general's and their assistant's compensation; limits the attorney general's salary to an associate justice on the supreme court or a Class 1 official; permits the attorney general to pay salaries in periodic installments. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2001 Healthcare Liability - As introduced, extends, from three business days to five business days, the time in which a provider must send a claimant's medical records to a requesting party after receipt of payment for the records. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 26.

TN - HB2002 Judicial Districts - As introduced, creates one additional circuit court in the 4th judicial district. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.

TN - HB2014 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, permits a person to voluntarily waive their firearm rights through filing a waiver with the clerk of the circuit court in the county of the person's residence or with their healthcare provider; specifies procedures the clerk, healthcare provider, TBI, and department of health must follow upon receipt of a waiver. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Section 10-7-504 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HB2032 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, removes the offense of possessing a weapon in a building that prohibits or restricts weapons; allows a person with an enhanced handgun carry permit to carry a handgun into a business that prohibits or restricts weapons; removes penalties for violations of certain firearms provisions. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HB2035 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, preempts the entire field of legislation regarding extreme risk protection orders to the exclusion of all county, city, town, municipality, or metropolitan government law, ordinances, resolutions, enactments, or regulation; declares a federal statute, rule, executive order, or a federal judicial order that has the effect of enforcing an extreme risk protection order to be null and void; creates a Class A misdemeanor offense of attempting to enforce a f...

TN - HB2037 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, increases from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class C felony the offenses of unlawful purchase by or unlawful sale to a person who is prohibited by state or federal law from owning, possessing, or purchasing a firearm; prohibits the purchase or sale of ammunition by or to such a person; prohibits the transfer or sale of a firearm or ammunition to a person receiving treatment at a treatment resource for mental illness or serious emotional disturbance and no...

TN - HB2047 Liens - As introduced, adds former public officials to the list of officials who may contest liens on real property believed to lack any legal basis. - Amends TCA Section 47-9-513 and Title 66, Chapter 21, Part 1.

TN - HB2061 Mental Illness - As introduced, clarifies the meaning of local law enforcement for purposes of the required notification to law enforcement by an inpatient mental health treatment facility or hospital that a service recipient has been committed; requires the clerk of court who maintains records of the adjudication as a mental defective or judicial commitment to a mental institution of a Tennessee resident to notify the clerk of court in the county of the persons permanent residence. - Amends ...

TN - HB2066 Appeal and Review - As introduced, clarifies that a petition of certiorari that appeals a final order or judgment of a board or commission must name the board or commission as defendants; further clarifies that other parties of record have the right to intervene if they were involved in the hearing before the board and commission and did not join as petitioners. - Amends TCA Title 27, Chapter 9.

TN - HB2082 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, requires the TBI to submit a report on the amount of money collected for background checks associated with firearm sales in excess of the costs associated with conducting the background checks to the criminal justice committee of the house of representatives and the judiciary committee of the senate by March 1, rather than February 1, of each year. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB2101 Courts, Juvenile - As introduced, requires a court that makes mental health adjudications regarding children to enter a standing and continuing order instructing the juvenile court clerk to collect and report certain information regarding children who have been adjudicated as a mental defective or judicially committed to a mental institution within three business days for the purposes of complying with federal law. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 33; Title 34; Title 37; Title 38 and Title 39.

TN - HB2113 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As introduced, requires causes of action for unpaid wages for hours worked, overtime, minimum wage, salary, bonuses, commissions, or other compensation owed to an employee or independent contractor, including ones for breach of contract, unjust enrichment, or quantum merit for unpaid wages for hours worked, overtime, minimum wage, salary, bonuses, commissions, or other compensation, to be commenced within three years from the accruing of the cause of actio...

TN - HB2117 Local Government, General - As introduced, requires a political subdivision to provide a written attestation with the political subdivision's annual audit to the comptroller of the treasury certifying that the political subdivision has not sought or received a grant in intentional pursuit of certain prohibited policies. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 20; Title 21; Title 27; Title 28 and Title 29.

TN - HB2119 Eminent Domain - As introduced, specifies that a condemner bears the burden of proving by a preponderance of evidence certain facts regarding the condemnation; creates a right for property owners whose property is being condemned to have a court determine whether the taking is necessary to accomplish the public use. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 17.

TN - HB2120 Eminent Domain - As introduced, excludes recreational facilities, recreational purposes, and parks from the definition of "public use" as it applies to eminent domain. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 17, Part 1.

TN - HB2136 Fiduciaries - As introduced, requires the first publication for a sale of land to foreclose a deed of trust, mortgage, or other lien securing the payment of money or other thing of value or under judicial orders or process to be at least 30 days, instead of at least 20 days, previous to the sale. - Amends TCA Title 35.

TN - HB2139 Judicial Districts - As introduced, creates three additional trial courts in the 30th judicial district. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.

TN - HB2152 Courts, General Sessions - As introduced, requires the judge of the general sessions court in Scott County to devote full time to the duties of such office and prohibits the judge from the practice of law or any other employment which conflicts with the performance of their duties as judge. - Amends TCA Title 16 and Title 17.

TN - HB2195 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, prohibits the possession of an assault weapon; makes it a Class E felony to illegally possess an assault weapon; directs those in possession of an assault weapon before July 1, 2024, to apply for a certificate of possession; requires the department of safety to create a certificate of possession. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - HB2197 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearms Act," which creates a process for a person to file a voluntary waiver of firearm rights for the purpose of prohibiting the person from purchasing or possessing a firearm; provides for a revocation of the voluntary waiver of firearm rights; creates the offense of selling or transferring a firearm to a person who has executed a voluntary waiver of firearm rights form that has not been revoked. - Amends...

TN - HB2216 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As introduced, extends the statute of limitations for injuries to a person 18 years of age or older relating to sexual assault to three years or five years depending on if law enforcement was notified of the assault. - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2218 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, permits the largest municipality in Shelby, Davidson, Knox, or Hamilton county to regulate the manner of storage of firearms, firearm ammunition, and firearm accessories by ordinance, resolution, policy, rule, or other enactment. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HB2220 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, creates the Tennessee Do Not Sell List; requires the Tennessee bureau of investigation to develop and launch a secure internet-based platform to allow any person in the United States to register to add the person's own name to the Tennessee Do Not Sell List by January 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HB2224 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to annually notify each local education agency (LEA) in writing of all state and federal grant programs available to assist the LEA in expanding mental health services and resources in schools. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2267 Remedies and Special Proceedings - As introduced, lowers, from 15 to seven, the number of days by which a general sessions judge may postpone a trial for forcible entry and detainer; makes other changes related to forcible entry and detainers. - Amends TCA Title 27; Title 29 and Title 66.

TN - HB2282 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As introduced, requires a person with a court-ordered fiduciary responsibility toward a person who lacks capacity and a person holding a valid power of attorney for a person who lacks capacity to bring an action within the statute of limitations; clarifies an incapacitated person who regained capacity can still bring a suit; clarifies an agent or conservator is not shielded from liability if the agent or conservator commits a tort against the incapacitated...

TN - HB2310 Public Health - As introduced, creates a civil cause of action against any person who knowingly removes a minor from this state without the consent of a parent of the minor for the purpose of assisting the minor in obtaining a healthcare procedure that is for the purpose of enabling the minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor's sex or treating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor's sex and asserted identity. - Ame...

TN - HB2360 Judicial Officers - As introduced, establishes that in Knox County one magistrate judge must be appointed by a majority of the county's general sessions judges and the length of their term is decided by a majority of the county's general sessions judges; specifies the magistrates' duties as issuing arrest warrants and setting bonds. - Amends TCA Section 40-1-111.

TN - HB2372 Judges and Chancellors - As introduced, requires a general sessions court judge to return all marriage licenses under which the judge has solemnized the rites of matrimony to the office of the county clerk within 60 days, rather than 30 days. - Amends TCA Title 16.

TN - HB2384 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, changes, from August 1 of each year to before July 31 of each year, the date by which the name, address, and telephone number of the person designated to check a bus or vehicle for children at stops under the Tennessee Children with Disabilities Transportation Act must be sent to the appropriate LEA. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 49 and Title 54.

TN - HB2430 Real Property - As introduced, updates requirements regarding public notice for a foreclosure sale of real property, including a requirement that public notice be posted on the secretary of state's website. - Amends TCA Title 35.

TN - HB2434 Tort Liability and Reform - As introduced, declares a private entity to be not civilly liable in a class action resulting from a cybersecurity event unless the cybersecurity event was caused by willful, wanton, or gross negligence on the part of the private entity. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 47.

TN - HB2449 Attorney General and Reporter - As introduced, authorizes the electronic submission of the report the attorney general and reporter is required to submit quarterly regarding the compromise and settlement, in the amount of $25,000 or less, of civil litigation to which the state may be a party. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 6; Title 4, Chapter 15; Title 4, Chapter 18; Title 4, Chapter 21; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 15; Title 4, Chapter 49; Title 4, Chapter 5; Title 4, Chapter 56; Title 8, Chapter...

TN - HB2453 Remedies and Special Proceedings - As introduced, specifies that a cause of action for wrongful death must be commenced within three years after the cause of action accrued. - Amends TCA Title 28 and Title 29.

TN - HB2478 Interest Rates - As introduced, caps the maximum effective rate of interest on a judgment that is based upon medical debt at 3 percent per annum. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 14.

TN - HB2595 Remedies and Special Proceedings - As introduced, increases from $1,000 to $1,500 the compensation claim amount that may be reimbursed to a healthcare provider for performing a forensic medical examination on a victim of a sexual assault case. - Amends TCA Title 29.

TN - HB2604 Claims Commission, Tennessee - As introduced, increases the amount of damages for which the state may be liable for damages in causes of action arising in tort from $300,000 per claimant and $1,000,000 per occurrence to $1,250,000 per claimant. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 8 and Title 29.

TN - HB2648 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, deletes provisions authorizing permitless carry of handguns; requires range training for handgun carry permits. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HB2651 Courts - As introduced, requires the clerk of each court to compile a monthly report of all criminal fines and fees assessed by the court in the previous month and submit the report to the administrative office of the courts; requires the administrative office of the courts to create and maintain a statewide database and searchable public website that compiles the reports received by the office from the court clerks. - Amends TCA Title 16 and Title 18.

TN - HB2689 Remedies and Special Proceedings - 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.

TN - HB2695 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, authorizes an attorney to carry a handgun in a building and room in which judicial proceedings are in progress if the attorney is present in furtherance of the attorneys representation of a party with business before the court, is an enhanced handgun carry permit holder, and keeps the handgun concealed at all times. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB2715 Judicial Districts - As introduced, creates one additional trial court in the 18th judicial district. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.

TN - HB2746 Attorney General and Reporter - As introduced, requires the attorney general to obtain judicial approval from a chancery court judge in Davidson County, or a chancery court judge in the county in which the state's civil investigative demand is to be served, before issuing a civil investigative demand; makes various related changes. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6, Part 4 and Title 16.

TN - HB2752 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, deletes the offense of unlawful carrying with intent to go armed, deletes the prohibition on carrying after a domestic assault conviction; deletes the offense of a juvenile knowingly possessing a handgun; creates the offense of a juvenile carrying a weapon with the intent to go armed, with certain exceptions; allows a person with a permit to carry a firearm in all places within this state that an off-duty law enforcement officer is permitted to carry a...

TN - HB2782 Tort Liability and Reform - As introduced, increases from $10,000 to $15,000 the amount a parent or guardian is financially responsible for their child who maliciously or willfully caused personal injury to a person or destroyed property, real, personal, or mixed, belonging to a municipal corporation, county, town, village, school district, department of this state, persons, or religious organizations and lives with the parent or guardian at the time of the act. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Titl...

TN - HB2805 Civil Procedure - As introduced, increases time for a lienor to commence a proceeding or file the lienor's claim in a creditors' or foreclosure proceeding after service of a written demand by the owner, the owner's agent, or a prime contractor of the real property to which the lien is attached to from within 60 days to within 75 days after service. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 13; Title 20; Title 21; Title 26; Title 29; Title 35; Title 43; Title 45; Title 47...

TN - HB2806 Uniform Commercial Code - As introduced, increases, from 10 to 11 days, the time a merchant has to provide a written notice of objection to a writing or record that confirms a contract between the recipient and another merchant before the writing or record is considered sufficient to satisfy the statute of frauds under the Uniform Commercial Code. - Amends TCA Title 47.

TN - HB2809 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, expands the definition of a law enforcement officer to include retired law enforcement officers who are carrying a firearm pursuant to certain state laws for purposes of when a law enforcement officer may carry a firearm. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 39.

TN - HB2817 Statutes and Codification - As introduced, defines "life" for statutory construction purposes to mean the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death; excludes from the definition artificial intelligence, a computer algorithm, a software program, computer hardware, or any type of machine. - Amends TCA Title 1.

TN - HB2825 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, authorizes a county legislative body to elect not to permit persons within the county to lawfully carry a handgun without a handgun carry permit by passage of a resolution; requires a county that has passed such a resolution to provide notice to persons present within the county by posting notice of the resolution in conspicuous public locations throughout the county. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HB2839 Garnishments and Executions - As introduced, makes various revisions to provisions related to property that is exempt from execution, seizure, or attachment. - Amends TCA Section 26-2-111.

TN - HB2859 Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - As introduced, authorizes the operation of a golf cart on gravel roads within the campgrounds of state parks in addition to paved roads if such gravel roads are marked suitable for a golf cart. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 11; Title 68; Title 69 and Title 70.

TN - HB2872 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, requires clerks of court to collect and report a finding that a person is incompetent to stand trial in a criminal proceeding to the federal bureau of investigation and department of safety; prohibits the purchase or possession of a firearm by a person who has been adjudicated as a mental defective, including a person who has been found incompetent to stand trial in a criminal proceeding. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2883 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, allows law enforcement officers, whether on-duty or off-duty, retired law enforcement officers, active duty and retired members of the armed forces of the United States, whether in discharge of official duties or not, and enhanced handgun carry permit holders, except in certain circumstances, to possess or carry, whether openly or concealed, with or without the intent to go armed, a handgun in any Pre-K-12 public school building or bus, school campus, ...

TN - HB2888 Real Property - As introduced, enacts the "Private Property Protection Act," which provides a method for a property owner to seek just compensation for a diminution of value of the property caused by the enactment or enforcement of land use regulations on the property. - Amends TCA Title 29.

TN - HB2908 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, requires the Tennessee bureau of investigation to establish a program in which a person may enroll to voluntarily waive the right to purchase firearms. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HB2919 Judicial Officers - As introduced, increases the time in which a county must maintain records indicating judicial magistrates have satisfied the continuing legal education requirements from seven to 10 years. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 17; Title 18; Title 36 and Title 40.

TN - HB2926 Courts, General Sessions - As introduced, extends the time period in which a general sessions court judge has to return a marriage license that the judge has solemnized the rites of matrimony to the county clerk from 30 days to 35 days. - Amends TCA Title 16.

TN - HB2930 Courts, Administrative Office of the - As introduced, directs the administrative office of the courts (AOC) to define and develop a centralized system of case management, document management, electronic case filing, electronic payment methods, data reporting, and any other capability deemed necessary for collection and reporting of all state and local court public case level data. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 16 and Title 18.

TN - HB2931 Judges and Chancellors - As introduced, requires a judge who enters into a deferred discipline agreement regarding a matter before the board of judicial conduct to sign an affidavit stating that the judge consents to the recommendation of the investigative panel, the consent is freely and voluntarily rendered, there is a pending proceeding involving allegations of misconduct, which must be specifically set forth in the affidavit, and the facts set forth in the affidavit are true; requires the...