298 total bills, 131 anti-gun bills,
65 pro-gun bills for this session
Proposed Tennessee Firearm Legislation
298 total bills, 131 anti-gun bills,
65 pro-gun bills for this session
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note: Legislation carries over from odd-numbered to even-numbered years. All bills that did not go to the Governor for action are carried over.
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 54 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: 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 disenfranchising another of the person's constitutional rights in violation of the Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act; prohibits an employee or elected or appointed official of a state or local government entity from enforcing a federal law in violation of the Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 54 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee of Civil Justice Committee
Last Action Date: March 21, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 49, Chapter 6, relative to weapons on school property.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: February 8, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, expands the exception to the offense of unlawful carrying of a firearm with the intent to go armed from handguns to firearms if a person meets the age requirements, lawfully possesses the firearm, and is in a place where the person is lawfully present. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.
Last Action: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
Last Action Date: March 21, 2023
Title: A RESOLUTION to address and establish 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.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Signed by Governor.
Last Action Date: April 22, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
Last Action Date: April 5, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 39-17-1359, relative to firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Withdrawn.
Last Action Date: January 30, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee of Civil Justice Committee
Last Action Date: March 21, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 67, Chapter 6, relative to taxation of gun safes and gun safety devices.
Description: As introduced, permanently exempts from sales and use tax, the retail sale of gun safes and gun safety devices; removes the temporary sales tax holiday. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.
Last Action: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
Last Action Date: April 18, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4 and Title 39, relative to gun violence.
Description: As introduced, requires certain departments to create programs to reduce gun violence in communities, including a youth employment program, violence intervention program, and a gun safety program; requires the department of health to submit an annual report to the legislature and counties and municipalities on the public health impacts of gun violence in communities. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 39.
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: February 8, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 44, Chapter 17 and Title 70, Chapter 4, Part 1, relative to the possession of firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 218
Last Action Date: May 3, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to enhanced handgun carry permits.
Description: As introduced, eliminates the application and processing fee for an enhanced handgun carry permit. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Withdrawn.
Last Action Date: February 8, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, relative to firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 149
Last Action Date: April 18, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: 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 TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Taken off notice for cal. in Civil Justice Committee
Last Action Date: January 31, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 39-17-1351, relative to military veterans.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
Last Action Date: April 18, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 7; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, extends from 60 days to 90 days, the time within which a handgun carry permit holder must notify the department of safety in writing of a change in the permit holder's principal place of residence. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.
Last Action: Sponsor(s) withdrawn.
Last Action Date: April 12, 2023
Title: A RESOLUTION to recognize the Tennessee Rifle as the historic rifle of the State of Tennessee.
Description: Tennessee Rifle
Last Action: Signed by Governor.
Last Action Date: April 22, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 14 and Title 39, Chapter 17, relative to firearm safety.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Sponsor(s) Added.
Last Action Date: April 5, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13; Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 55, Chapter 10, relative to firearms.
Description: 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, Chapter 6 and Title 55, Chapter 10.
Last Action: Withdrawn.
Last Action Date: January 9, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8; Title 10; Title 33; Title 36; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 50 and Title 70, relative to firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
Last Action Date: April 18, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Sponsor(s) Added.
Last Action Date: February 5, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 8; Title 10; Title 13; Title 16; Title 29; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 47; Title 49; Title 50; Title 55; Title 58; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 70, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, requires a handgun carry permit holder to notify the department of a change of address within 30 days, rather than 60 days. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 10; Title 13; Title 16; Title 29; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 47; Title 49; Title 50; Title 55; Title 58; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 70.
Last Action: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
Last Action Date: February 2, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to firearms.
Description: 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 age and meets certain military qualifications. - Amends TCA Title 39.
Last Action: Sponsor(s) Added.
Last Action Date: February 27, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 29 and Title 39, Chapter 17, relative to civil liability.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: February 7, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8, Chapter 6; Title 29; Title 39 and Title 47, relative to qualified civil liability actions.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
Last Action Date: May 24, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 8, relative to schools.
Description: As enacted, authorizes a faculty or staff member of a school to carry a concealed handgun on school grounds subject to certain conditions. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 8.
Last Action: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 801
Last Action Date: May 7, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 49, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, extends the time in which a handgun carry permit holder is required to inform the department of safety of any change in the permit holder's principal place of residence from 60 days to 90 days. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 49.
Last Action: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
Last Action Date: February 2, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, creates the offense of storing a firearm or firearm ammunition in a motor vehicle or boat while the person is not in the motor vehicle or boat unless the firearm or firearm ammunition is kept from ordinary observation and locked within the trunk, utility or glove box, or a locked container securely affixed to the motor vehicle or boat; requires the owner of a firearm to report the loss or theft of the firearm to law enforcement within 24 hours of the discovery of the loss or theft. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Sponsor(s) withdrawn.
Last Action Date: July 14, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4 and Title 39, relative to handgun safety courses.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 445
Last Action Date: May 24, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 10-7-504 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to a voluntary waiver of firearm rights.
Description: 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, Part 13.
Last Action: Sponsor(s) Added.
Last Action Date: April 13, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, creates the Class A misdemeanor of knowingly giving, selling, lending, delivering, or otherwise transferring a firearm to a person when the transferor knows or reasonably should know that the person receiving the firearm is prohibited from purchasing or possessing a firearm under state or federal law. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: February 7, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 55, relative to criminal law.
Description: As introduced, authorizes a handgun permit holder to notify the department of safety of a change of address through electronic means. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 55.
Last Action: Signed by Governor.
Last Action Date: May 11, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: 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 than 21 years of age if the person is not a military service member or veteran. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Action Def. in s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee to 2024
Last Action Date: March 21, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 8; Title 10; Title 16; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 45; Title 49; Title 50; Title 55; Title 58; Title 62; Title 67 and Title 70, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, changes from February 1 to February 15 the date by which the Tennessee bureau of investigation must report excess money collected pursuant to background check fees charged to gun dealers. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 10; Title 16; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 45; Title 49; Title 50; Title 55; Title 58; Title 62; Title 67 and Title 70.
Last Action: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
Last Action Date: February 2, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Chapter 272 of the Acts of 1901; as amended and rewritten by Chapter 115 of the Private Acts of 2006; as amended by Chapter 13 of the Private Acts of 2015 and Chapter 42 of the Private Acts of 2022; and any other acts amendatory thereto, relative to the Town of Petersburg.
Description: Subject to local approval, makes changes to the duties of the mayor; reduces the term of the mayor and vice mayor from four years to two; provides a method to fill vacancies on the board if the vacancies cause the board to lack a quorum; authorizes the board to set the salary of the board members by ordinance; revises the powers of the city; authorizes the appointment of a treasurer and town administrator; requires the town judge to be a licensed attorney. - Amends Chapter 272 of the Acts of 1901; as amended and rewritten.
Last Action: Pr. Ch. 19
Last Action Date: May 24, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 36; Title 38 and Title 39, relative to firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Sponsor(s) Added.
Last Action Date: March 26, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, 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, relative to handguns.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: January 10, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 54; Section 38-3-119 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to the transfer of firearms.
Description: 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. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 54; Section 38-3-119 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: January 10, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 54; Section 38-3-119 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, creates the Class E felony offense of purchasing, selling, possessing, or using a part, component, device, or attachment designed to accelerate the fire of a semi-automatic rifle and makes any semi-automatic rifle that includes an accelerated fire part, component, or device a prohibited weapon. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 54; Section 38-3-119 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: January 10, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to large-capacity magazines.
Description: 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. - Amends TCA Title 39.
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: January 10, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 54; Section 36-3-625; Section 38-3-119; Title 39 and Section 40-14-109, relative to restricting certain types of firearms.
Description: As introduced, prohibits the sale or purchase of an assault weapon as a Class A misdemeanor; defines assault weapon. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 54; Section 36-3-625; Section 38-3-119; Title 39 and Section 40-14-109.
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: January 10, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 8; Title 10; Title 13; Title 16; Title 29; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 47; Title 49; Title 50; Title 55; Title 58; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 70, relative to firearms.
Description: 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 a finding that a person poses a risk of causing bodily injury to the person or others if allowed to purchase or possess a firearm; makes other changes related to firearms. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 10; Title 13; Title 16; Title 29; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 47; Title 49; Title 50; Title 55; Title 58; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 70.
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: January 10, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 38; Title 39; Title 47; Title 56 and Title 68, relative to firearm insurance.
Description: As introduced, requires an individual who resides in this state and owns a firearm to maintain liability insurance in an amount of no less than $300,000 to insure the individual against losses or damages resulting from the accidental use of the individual's firearm; requires the individual to provide documentation of the insurance upon request by a party that suffers losses or damages resulting from the accidental use of the individual's firearm; specifies that a violation of the insurance requirements is a Class C misdemeanor punishable only by a fine of not more than $300. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38; Title 39; Title 47; Title 56 and Title 68.
Last Action: Failed in s/c Insurance Subcommittee of Insurance Committee
Last Action Date: March 12, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 33; Title 37; Title 38 and Title 39, relative to protection orders.
Description: 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.
Last Action: No Action Taken
Last Action Date: April 2, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 47 and Title 68, relative to firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Returned to the Clerk's Desk.
Last Action Date: April 3, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to the storage of firearms in motor vehicles.
Description: 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.
Last Action: No Action Taken
Last Action Date: April 2, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 54; Title 39, Chapter 17 and Title 40, relative to ammunition magazines for firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Returned to the Clerk's Desk.
Last Action Date: April 3, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 49 and Title 67, relative to sales tax proceeds collected on firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
Last Action Date: April 17, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 38 and Title 39, relative to firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: No Action Taken
Last Action Date: April 2, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to reporting the loss of a firearm.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Returned to the Clerk's Desk.
Last Action Date: April 3, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, 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, relative to the transfer of firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Returned to the Clerk's Desk.
Last Action Date: April 3, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 33; Title 38 and Title 39, Chapter 17, relative to extreme risk protection orders.
Description: 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.
Last Action: No Action Taken
Last Action Date: April 2, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40, relative to gun violence.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Returned to the Clerk's Desk.
Last Action Date: April 3, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 38, Chapter 6 and Section 39-17-1316, relative to the transfer of firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
Last Action Date: April 3, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 18; Title 37 and Title 39, relative to juvenile offenders.
Description: As enacted, prohibits the purchase or possession of a firearm by a person under 25 if the person was previously adjudicated delinquent for an act that, if committed by an adult, would have constituted certain offenses; allows the TBI access to juvenile court records for the limited purpose of performing a background check prior to the transfer of a firearm or to determine eligibility for a handgun carry permit pursuant to existing law. - Amends TCA Title 18; Title 37 and Title 39.
Last Action: Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
Last Action Date: May 28, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 16; Title 33; Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40, relative to mental health.
Description: As enacted, enacts "Jillian's Law," which makes various changes relative to being adjudicated as a mental defective or judicially committed to a mental institution, including requiring a person judicially committed to remain committed until the competency of the person to stand trial is restored or, if competency is unable to be restored but the person no longer meets the standard, until the court with criminal jurisdiction over the charges approves a mandatory outpatient treatment plan that accounts for the safety of the community. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 33; Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.
Last Action: Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
Last Action Date: May 1, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to firearm regulation by local governments.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee of Civil Justice Committee
Last Action Date: April 2, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, creates the Class A misdemeanor of knowingly giving, selling, lending, delivering, or otherwise transferring a firearm to a person when the transferor knows or reasonably should know that the person receiving the firearm is prohibited from purchasing or possessing a firearm under state or federal law. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: January 11, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6 and Title 39, relative to dispossession of firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: January 11, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39 and Title 40, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, increases from Class E and Class D to a Class C felony the classification of theft of a firearm valued at less than $60,000 and related offenses; specifies that it is a Class C felony to receive, possess, store, barter, sell, transfer, or dispose of a stolen firearm or firearm ammunition. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
Last Action: Failed in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
Last Action Date: April 3, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 54; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13; Title 45 and Title 47, relative to financial transactions involving firearms.
Description: As introduced, makes it an unfair or deceptive practice under the Consumer Protection Act of 1977 for a financial institution to require a firearms retailer to use firearms-specific transaction codes. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 54; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13; Title 45 and Title 47.
Last Action: Sponsor(s) Added.
Last Action Date: February 15, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee of Civil Justice Committee
Last Action Date: April 2, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to firearm hold agreements.
Description: 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 owner’s 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 in personal injury or death of any natural person unless the action was the result of unlawful conduct by the licensed federal firearms dealer. - Amends TCA Title 39.
Last Action: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee of Civil Justice Committee
Last Action Date: April 2, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 9, Chapter 4 and Title 45, relative to financial practices.
Description: As introduced, requires financial institutions to make determinations about the provision or denial of services based on an analysis of risk factors unique to each current or prospective customer; prohibits financial institutions from denying or canceling services to a person, or otherwise discriminating against a person, based upon the use of a social credit score or other factors. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4 and Title 45.
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Banking & Consumer Affairs Subcommittee
Last Action Date: January 24, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, prohibits a gun dealer from delivering to a purchaser a trigger crank, bump stock, bump-fire device, or any other part, combination of parts, component, device, attachment, or accessory that is designed or functions to accelerate the rate of fire of a firearm until 72 hours have passed from the initial time at which the sale of the firearm accessory was sought by the purchaser. - Amends TCA Title 39.
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: February 7, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 9; Title 45; Title 47 and Title 56, relative to consumer protection.
Description: As introduced, requires financial institutions and insurers to make determinations about the provision or denial of services based on an analysis of risk factors unique to each current or prospective customer; prohibits financial institutions and insurers from denying or canceling services to a person, or otherwise discriminating against a person, based upon the use of a social credit score or other factors. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 9; Title 45; Title 47 and Title 56.
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Banking & Consumer Affairs Subcommittee
Last Action Date: January 30, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 29; Title 45 and Title 47, relative to the use of merchant codes.
Description: As introduced, prohibits certain financial entities from assigning a merchant code to or otherwise classifying a merchant that is a seller of firearms or ammunition separately from a general merchandise retailer or sporting goods retailer; authorizes the department of financial institutions to assess a civil penalty of no more than $10,000 for a violation, or to bring an action to enjoin a violation of the prohibition. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 45 and Title 47.
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Banking & Consumer Affairs Subcommittee
Last Action Date: January 30, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to the possession of weapons.
Description: 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.
Last Action: No Action Taken
Last Action Date: April 2, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39 and Title 49, relative to self-defense.
Description: As enacted, enacts the "Laken Riley Act of 2024," which generally prohibits a public institution of higher education from prohibiting adults lawfully present on the institution's property from carrying a non-lethal weapon for purposes of self-defense; allows certain exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 49.
Last Action: Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
Last Action Date: May 1, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 38 and Title 39, relative to the sale of firearms.
Description: As introduced, requires the bureau to conduct a feasibility study on the development and implementation of a software application capable of being utilized on a voluntary basis by gun owners in this state who are not engaged in the business of importing, manufacturing, or dealing in firearms pursuant to federal law for the purpose of conducting a criminal history record check on a proposed purchaser of a used or second-hand firearm through a private sale; requires the bureau to submit a report to the speakers of the senate and the house of representatives, the chair of the civil justice committee of the house of representatives, and the chair of the judiciary committee of the senate by January 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38 and Title 39.
Last Action: Withdrawn.
Last Action Date: January 31, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 54; Section 36-3-625; Section 38-3-119; Title 39 and Section 40-14-109, relative to restricting access to certain firearms.
Description: As introduced, prohibits sales and purchases of certain high-capacity, semi-automatic firearms. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 54; Section 36-3-625; Section 38-3-119; Title 39 and Section 40-14-109.
Last Action: Failed for lack of motion in: Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: March 5, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 3; Section 10-7-504 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to the "Tennessee Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearms Act."
Description: As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearms Act," which 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.
Last Action: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee of Civil Justice Committee
Last Action Date: April 2, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 33; Title 36; Title 38 and Title 39, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, extends from 60 days to 120 days, the time within which a handgun carry permit holder must notify the department of safety in writing of a change in the permit holder's principal place of residence. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 36; Title 38 and Title 39.
Last Action: Sponsor(s) Added.
Last Action Date: February 8, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Taken off notice for cal. in Civil Justice Committee
Last Action Date: April 9, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 36; Title 38 and Title 39, relative to extreme risk protection orders.
Description: As enacted, 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. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 38 and Title 39.
Last Action: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1062
Last Action Date: June 3, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to possession of firearms.
Description: As introduced, creates a Class D felony offense for a person to unlawfully possess a firearm, or firearm ammunition, while under indictment for a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term of one year or more. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Withdrawn.
Last Action Date: January 31, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: 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 not just when the person is receiving inpatient treatment. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Withdrawn.
Last Action Date: February 1, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 29 and Title 39, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, reduces the time within which a handgun carry permit holder must notify the department of safety of a change of residence from 60 days to 30 days. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 39.
Last Action: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
Last Action Date: January 29, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to weapons.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Sponsor(s) Added.
Last Action Date: April 23, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 9; Title 45; Title 47 and Title 56, relative to consumer protection.
Description: As enacted, requires financial institutions and insurers to make determinations about the provision or denial of services based on certain analysis; prohibits financial institutions and insurers from denying or canceling services to a person, or otherwise discriminating against a person, based upon certain factors, including the person's political opinions, speech, or affiliations, or religious beliefs, religious exercise, or religious affiliations. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 45; Title 47 and Title 56.
Last Action: Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
Last Action Date: May 1, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearm transactions.
Description: As introduced, requires a gun dealer to ensure that 14 days have passed since the transaction was initiated by the purchaser before transferring a firearm to a purchaser. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
Last Action Date: April 3, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13; Title 49, Chapter 5; Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 67, relative to sales of firearms.
Description: As introduced, imposes an additional 15-percent tax on the retail sale of firearms; requires revenue from the firearms tax to be deposited into the K-12 mental health counselor fund to be administered by the department of education and used exclusively to provide school counselors in elementary and secondary public schools and public charter schools in this state and for mental health assessments and services for students pursuant to a school counselor's referral. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13; Title 49, Chapter 5; Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 67.
Last Action: Failed in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration
Last Action Date: March 12, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, relative to firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Failed for lack of motion in: Civil Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: April 2, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to large-capacity magazines.
Description: 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, unless certain circumstances apply. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
Last Action Date: April 3, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 3; Section 10-7-504 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to the creation of the "Tennessee Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearms Act."
Description: 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 TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Section 10-7-504 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: January 31, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 39-13-103, relative to the offense of reckless endangerment.
Description: As introduced, enacts "MaKayla's Law," which expands the offense of reckless endangerment to include a person's reckless failure to render inoperable or safely secure or lock a firearm, resulting in a child under 13 gaining possession of the firearm and injuring or killing the child or another. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-103.
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: January 31, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms regulations.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: January 31, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: January 31, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to large capacity magazines.
Description: As introduced, creates the Class B misdemeanor of possessing, with intent to go armed, a large-capacity magazine outside of the person's residence, business, or premises; defines a large-capacity magazine as an ammunition feeding device with capacity to accept more than 10 rounds. - Amends TCA Title 39.
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: January 31, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 8; Title 10; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 50 and Title 71, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, extends the time period within which a person may file a petition for judicial review of the department of safety's determination of suspension or revocation of a handgun carry permit from 30 days to 60 days of the issuance of the department's final determination. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 10; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 50 and Title 71.
Last Action: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
Last Action Date: January 31, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, relative to firearm sales.
Description: As introduced, prohibits the sale of firearms to persons under 21 years of age; classifies the sale or attempted sale of a firearm to a person under 21 years of age as a Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.
Last Action: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
Last Action Date: April 3, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39 and Title 40, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, creates the Class D felony employing a firearm during the commission of, attempt to commit, or flight or escape from an offense other than a dangerous felony; requires a person convicted of the offense to be sentenced to a mandatory minimum sentence of five years imprisonment. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
Last Action: Taken off notice for cal. in Criminal Justice Committee
Last Action Date: March 26, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Failed in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
Last Action Date: March 19, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, prohibits the possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of a switch or auto sear device designed, made, or adapted for the purpose of converting a weapon to shoot automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger, and a firearm built from a weapon parts kit, including a frame or receiver parts kit, and not marked with a serial number, unless certain exceptions apply. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.
Last Action: Def. to Summer Study in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: March 19, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 38 and Title 39, relative to firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Failed in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
Last Action Date: March 19, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, creates the Class A misdemeanor of knowingly or recklessly permitting a child under 12 years of age to have access to or possession, custody, or use of a firearm unless the person has the permission of the child's parent or guardian, the child is under the supervision of an adult, and the firearm was used for lawful sporting activity. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Returned to the Clerk's Desk.
Last Action Date: April 3, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, requires the owner of a firearm to report the loss or theft of the firearm to law enforcement within 48 hours of discovery of the loss or theft unless the owner is physically incapable of making a report, and to notify the law enforcement agency if the firearm is subsequently recovered; imposes a civil penalty of not more than $500 for the first violation of the reporting requirement and punishes a second or subsequent violation as a Class B misdemeanor; requires a gun dealer to inform the purchaser of a firearm of the requirement to report a lost or stolen firearm to law enforcement. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Failed in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
Last Action Date: March 19, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: February 6, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 29; Title 45 and Title 47, relative to merchant codes.
Description: As introduced, prohibits certain financial entities from assigning a merchant code to or otherwise classifying a merchant that is a seller of firearms or ammunition separately from a general merchandise retailer or sporting goods retailer; authorizes the department of financial institutions to assess a civil penalty of no more than $10,000 for a violation, or to bring an action to enjoin a violation of the prohibition. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 45 and Title 47.
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Banking & Consumer Affairs Subcommittee
Last Action Date: February 6, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 43; Title 45; Title 50; Title 53; Title 57; Title 63; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71, relative to the "Tennessee Medical Autonomy Related to Cannabis Act."
Description: As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Medical Autonomy Related to Cannabis Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 43; Title 45; Title 50; Title 53; Title 57; Title 63; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.
Last Action: Failed in s/c Health Subcommittee of Health Committee
Last Action Date: March 26, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, relative to firearm ammunition.
Description: As introduced, requires retailers and sellers of firearm ammunition to maintain ammunition in an area inaccessible to a customer in a retail establishment; classifies a violation as a Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.
Last Action: Failed in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
Last Action Date: March 19, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 36 and Title 39, relative to emergency protection orders.
Description: As introduced, allows a court to issue an emergency protection order upon a finding that a person poses an imminent risk of harm to the person or others if allowed to purchase or possess a firearm; authorizes a family member, household member, intimate partner, or law enforcement officer to petition for such an order. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39.
Last Action: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
Last Action Date: April 3, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, deletes provisions authorizing permitless carry of handguns; requires range training for handgun carry permits. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Failed for lack of second in: Civil Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: April 2, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 45 and Title 47, Chapter 18, relative to financial services.
Description: As introduced, enacts the "Equality in Financial Services Act." - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47, Chapter 18.
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Banking & Consumer Affairs Subcommittee
Last Action Date: February 7, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
Last Action Date: February 5, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 54, relative to the Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Taken off notice for cal. in Civil Justice Committee
Last Action Date: April 9, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to firearms transactions.
Description: As introduced, creates a Class E felony that is committed when a person provides to a gun dealer or private seller of firearms what the person knows to be materially false information with intent to deceive the dealer or seller about the legality of a transfer of a firearm; creates a Class E felony that is committed when a person knowingly obtains a firearm for the purposes of transferring the firearm to another who is prohibited from receiving or possessing a firearm by state or federal law. - Amends TCA Title 39.
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: February 7, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8; Title 10; Title 33; Title 36; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 50 and Title 70, relative to firearms.
Description: 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 firearm; prohibits implementation of any federal firearms law rather than just unconstitutional ones; makes various other changes to the issuance of an enhanced handgun carry permit. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 10; Title 33; Title 36; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 50 and Title 70.
Last Action: Sponsor(s) Added.
Last Action Date: March 5, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8, Chapter 6; Title 29; Title 38; Title 39; Title 45 and Title 47, relative to merchant codes.
Description: As enacted, enacts the "Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act." - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6; Title 29; Title 38; Title 39; Title 45 and Title 47.
Last Action: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 773
Last Action Date: May 1, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 38 and Title 39, relative to firearms.
Description: As enacted, 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.
Last Action: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1065
Last Action Date: June 3, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to use of force.
Description: As introduced, grants a defendant who has been charged with a criminal offense based on the use of force or threatened use of force and who asserts that the force was justified by law the right to a justifiable use of force hearing prior to trial, at which the prosecution has the burden to prove by clear and convincing evidence that the use of force was unlawful; requires the court to dismiss the criminal charges and find the defendant immune from criminal prosecution if the prosecution fails to meet that burden. - Amends TCA Title 39.
Last Action: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
Last Action Date: April 3, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 38; Title 39; Title 47 and Title 68, relative to gun violence.
Description: As introduced, creates an office of gun violence prevention within the department of safety with the goal of collecting and analyzing gun violence data in this state to develop and implement strategies to prevent gun violence and mass shootings; places the office in sunset review in 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38; Title 39; Title 47 and Title 68.
Last Action: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
Last Action Date: April 3, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to the carrying of firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee of Civil Justice Committee
Last Action Date: April 2, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, exempts the retail sale of firearms that have a barrel less than an internal diameter of .50 caliber and shotguns of 10 gauge or greater from the sales and use tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee
Last Action Date: February 7, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 8; Title 39; Title 45 and Title 47, relative to firearm, ammunition, and firearm accessories merchants.
Description: As introduced, prohibits certain entities from assigning a merchant category code to, or a separate classification for, a merchant that is a seller of firearms, ammunition, or firearm accessories separately from general merchandise retailers or sporting goods retailers; establishes criminal and civil penalties for violations. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 39; Title 45 and Title 47.
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Banking & Consumer Affairs SubcommitteeHB2856
Last Action Date: February 7, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 16; Title 39 and Title 40, relative to mental health findings.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: February 7, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 54; Title 39 and Title 40, relative to identifying characteristics of firearms.
Description: As introduced, subject to exceptions for confiscated firearms, makes it a Class E felony offense for a person to knowingly receive, possess, conceal, store, barter, sell, transfer, or dispose of a firearm that has had the importer’s or manufacturer’s serial number removed, obliterated, or altered. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 54; Title 39 and Title 40.
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: February 7, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 38; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 49, relative to firearms.
Description: 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, grounds, recreation area, athletic field, or any other property owned, operated, or while in use by any public board of education or Pre-K-12 school. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 49.
Last Action: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee of Civil Justice Committee
Last Action Date: April 2, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, changes, from February 1, 2025, to January 1, 2025, the date by which the department of safety must report to the chair of the judiciary committee of the senate and the chair of the criminal justice committee of the house of representatives the number of handgun safety courses provided, or expected to have been provided, to persons under a fee reimbursement program during the preceding year. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
Last Action Date: February 5, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 54 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms accessories.
Description: As introduced, adds bipods to the list of items that are considered to be a firearms accessory for purposes of the Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 54 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: February 7, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 33 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Taken off notice for cal. in Civil Justice Committee
Last Action Date: April 9, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: 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 not just when the person is receiving inpatient treatment. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: February 7, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to firearm storage.
Description: As introduced, creates the offense of storing a firearm when the person knows or reasonably should know that a minor without parental consent or a person who is ineligible to possess a firearm is likely to gain access to the firearm; provides an exception to the offense if the person secures the firearm or carries the firearm on the person’s self; designates the offense as a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by fine only, or a Class E felony if a person is injured or killed as a result of the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39.
Last Action: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
Last Action Date: April 3, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, prohibits the possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of a switch or auto sear device designed, made, or adapted for the purpose of converting a weapon to shoot automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger unless certain exceptions apply. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
Last Action Date: April 3, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 39, Chapter 17 and Chapter 445 of the Public Acts of 2023, relative to firearm safety.
Description: 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; Title 39, Chapter 17 and Chapter 445 of the Public Acts of 2023.
Last Action: Failed for lack of second in: Civil Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: August 22, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3, relative to firearm safety.
Description: As enacted, directs the department of safety to provide free firearm locks to Tennessee residents upon request, subject to appropriations; requires department-approved handgun safety courses to contain instruction on the safe storage of firearms; exempts the retail sale of firearm safes and firearm safety devices from sales and use taxes beginning November 1, 2023. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.
Last Action: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1
Last Action Date: December 27, 2023
Title: A RESOLUTION to urge the Department of Safety to provide its "Safe & Secure Firearms in Tennessee" brochure at all Driver Service Center locations.
Description: Urges the Department of Safety to provide its "Safe & Secure Firearms in Tennessee" brochures at all Driver Service Centers alongside other information provided to public that deals with public safety.
Last Action: Sponsor(s) Added.
Last Action Date: August 29, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 16; Title 33; Title 34; Title 37; Title 38 and Title 39, relative to juveniles.
Description: 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.
Last Action: H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 8/29/2023
Last Action Date: August 28, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 49, relative to school safety.
Description: As introduced, authorizes persons with an enhanced handgun carry permit to carry a handgun on school property unless the person knows that the respective school provides armed security on the school property; removes certain exemptions of a law enforcement officer's authority to possess a firearm on school property; authorizes certain community corrections officers to possess a handgun on school property. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 49.
Last Action: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee of Civil Justice Committee
Last Action Date: August 22, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 8; Title 38 and Title 39, relative to firearm locks.
Description: As introduced, requires the department of safety to distribute firearm locks to each county's sheriff for distribution to members of the public; requires each sheriff to distribute firearm locks to any person who makes a request; authorizes the sheriff to distribute multiple locks to the same person; authorizes transfers of locks amongst sheriffs based on demand. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 38 and Title 39.
Last Action: Failed for lack of second in: Civil Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: August 22, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 67, Chapter 6, relative to taxation of gun safes and gun safety devices.
Description: As introduced, permanently exempts from sales and use tax, the retail sale of gun safes and gun safety devices; removes the temporary sales tax holiday. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.
Last Action: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of 1st Extraordinary Session of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee of 1st Extraordinary Session
Last Action Date: August 24, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms in motor vehicles.
Description: As introduced, exempts a person from civil liability for damages, injuries, or death resulting from or arising out of the theft of the person's firearm that is properly stored in the person's motor vehicle unless the person commits an offense involving the use of the stored firearm or intentionally solicits or procures the conduct resulting in damage, injury, or death. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Taken off notice for cal. in Calendar & Rules Committee of 1st Extraordinary Session
Last Action Date: August 24, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 38; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13; Title 49; Chapter 142 of the Public Acts of 2023 and Chapter 149 of the Public Acts of 2023, relative to firearms.
Description: 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 public school building or bus, on any public school campus, grounds, recreation area, athletic field, or any other property owned, operated, or while in use by any public board of education, school, college, or university board of trustees, regents, or directors for the administration of any public educational institution. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13; Title 49; Chapter 142 of the Public Acts of 2023 and Chapter 149 of the Public Acts of 2023.
Last Action: Failed in Education Administration of 1st Extraordinary Session
Last Action Date: August 23, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 38, relative to reporting of mass shootings.
Description: As introduced, requires the bureau to submit a report on the number of mass shootings that occur in this state to the governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the speaker of the senate by January 1, 2024, and by each January 1 thereafter. - Amends TCA Title 38.
Last Action: Received from House, Passed on First Consideration
Last Action Date: August 28, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to the safe storage of firearms.
Description: As introduced, encourages lawful owners and possessors of firearms to store guns safely in a locked compartment; with a trigger locking device; or with a locked device rendering the firearm inaccessible to a person other than the owner or person in lawful possession of the firearm and immovable from the stored location. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Tabled
Last Action Date: August 22, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to the safe storage of firearms.
Description: As introduced, requires a person who purchases a firearm, or who applies for a permit to carry a handgun either openly or concealed, to sign an affidavit on a form prescribed by the department of safety affirming that the applicant will, while not lawfully carrying the firearm, store the firearm in a locked compartment; with a trigger locking device; or with a locked device rendering the firearm inaccessible to a person other than the owner or person in lawful possession of the firearm and immovable from the stored location; requires a firearm stored in a vehicle to be stored out of plain sight. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Failed in s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee of Civil Justice Committee
Last Action Date: August 22, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearm safety devices.
Description: As introduced, requires a federally licensed firearm dealer to install a firearm safety device on a firearm before delivering the firearm to a purchaser if the purchaser is not a federally licensed firearm dealer; defines a firearm safety device as a device that, when installed on a firearm, is designed to prevent the firearm from being operated without first deactivating the device. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Sponsor(s) Added.
Last Action Date: August 23, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to offenses of mass violence.
Description: As introduced, enhances the penalty for the offense of reckless endangerment when a person's reckless failure to render inoperable or safely secure or lock a firearm, results in a child under 13 years of age gaining possession of the firearm and committing an act of mass violence that injures or kills the child or another. - Amends TCA Title 39.
Last Action: Sponsor(s) Added.
Last Action Date: August 23, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-6-815, relative to school safety.
Description: 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 basic training in school policing. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-815.
Last Action: Taken off notice for cal. in Civil Justice Committee of 1st Extraordinary Session
Last Action Date: August 23, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 54 and Title 55, relative to the safe storage of firearms.
Description: As introduced, requires the department, in the months of November 2023, February 2024, and May 2024, to use its existing permanent electronic overhead informational displays located on the interstate system to provide periodic messages to the motoring public that encourage the safe storage of firearms; allows the department to develop guidelines, in consultation with the department of safety, for the content of a message to be placed on the displays. - Amends TCA Title 54 and Title 55.
Last Action: Sponsor(s) Added.
Last Action Date: August 22, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to threats of mass violence.
Description: As introduced, creates the Class E felony of knowingly threatening to commit an act of mass violence against another and frightening the other person; classifies the offense as a hate crime, to be punished one classification higher than otherwise provided, if the offense was committed by carrying a firearm into certain venues. - Amends TCA Title 39.
Last Action: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
Last Action Date: August 22, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 33 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, requires the department to establish the Tennessee voluntary do not sell firearms list to prohibit the possession, transportation, and sale of firearms to any person who is voluntarily admitted to a public or private hospital or treatment resource for diagnosis, observation, and treatment of a mental illness or serious emotional disturbance and voluntarily registers to be enrolled to the list. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee of Civil Justice Committee
Last Action Date: August 22, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 33; Title 36; Title 38 and Title 39, relative to orders of protection.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Sponsor(s) Added.
Last Action Date: August 23, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to temporary mental health orders of protection.
Description: As introduced, establishes a process for law enforcement to petition a circuit court for a temporary mental health order of protection for a person who poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to themselves or others by having a firearm. - Amends TCA Title 39.
Last Action: Sponsor(s) Added.
Last Action Date: August 23, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 33; Title 36; Title 38 and Title 39, relative to temporary mental health orders of protection.
Description: As introduced, establishes a process for law enforcement to petition a circuit court for a temporary mental health order of protection for a person who poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to themselves others by having a firearm. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 36; Title 38 and Title 39.
Last Action: Sponsor(s) Added.
Last Action Date: August 23, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 38 and Title 39, relative to the safe storage of firearms.
Description: As introduced, encourages that a firearm be 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. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 39.
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee of 1st Extraordinary Session
Last Action Date: August 25, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 33; Title 46; Title 49 and Title 67, relative to the use of sales tax proceeds for mental health resources and services.
Description: As introduced, allocates sales tax proceeds collected on firearms, ammunition, and firearm accessories to a mental health resources account for local governments and nonprofit organizations to provide mental health resources or services within this state. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 46; Title 49 and Title 67.
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of 1st Extraordinary Session
Last Action Date: August 25, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 38 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, requires the bureau to compile and maintain information on any available serial numbers on firearm parts that were used to a make a firearm that does not contain a serial number or other mark in a manner that conforms with federal requirements and that was used in an incident of mass violence or possessed by a person who threatened to commit an incident of mass violence. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of 1st Extraordinary Session
Last Action Date: August 25, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 33; Title 37; Title 38 and Title 39, relative to mental health orders of protection.
Description: As introduced, allows a law enforcement officer to petition for a mental health order of protection; requires the court to issue a mental health order of protection order if, after notice and a hearing on the petition, the court finds by clear and convincing evidence that the person poses a substantial likelihood of serious harm 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.
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee of 1st Extraordinary Session
Last Action Date: August 25, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 38 and Title 39, relative to the safe storage of firearms.
Description: As introduced, encourages that a firearm be secured in a home or in a vehicle in a locked container, unloaded, and separate from parts, accessories, and 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. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 39.
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee of 1st Extraordinary Session
Last Action Date: August 25, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to the storage of firearms in motor vehicles.
Description: As introduced, prohibits the storage of a firearm or firearm ammunition in a motor vehicle unless the firearm or ammunition is not plainly observable when the owner is present in the vehicle or the firearm or ammunition is not plainly visible and inside a locked compartment when the owner is not present in the vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee of 1st Extraordinary Session
Last Action Date: August 25, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4 and Title 39, relative to gun violence.
Description: As introduced, requires certain departments to create programs to reduce gun violence in communities, including a youth employment program, violence intervention program, and a gun safety program; requires the department of health to submit an annual report to the legislature and counties and municipalities on the public health impacts of gun violence in communities. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 39.
Last Action: Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: March 13, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4 and Title 39, relative to handgun safety courses.
Description: As introduced, 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.
Last Action: Withdrawn.
Last Action Date: January 19, 2023
Title: A RESOLUTION to recognize the Tennessee Rifle as the historic rifle of the State of Tennessee.
Description: Tennessee Rifle
Last Action: Assigned to s/c Public Service Subcommittee
Last Action Date: January 10, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4 and Title 39, relative to handgun safety courses.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Effective date(s) 01/01/2024
Last Action Date: May 24, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 67, Chapter 6, relative to taxation of gun safes and gun safety devices.
Description: As introduced, permanently exempts from sales and use tax, the retail sale of gun safes and gun safety devices; removes the temporary sales tax holiday. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.
Last Action: Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/23/2024
Last Action Date: April 19, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, expands the exception to the offense of unlawful carrying of a firearm with the intent to go armed from handguns to firearms if a person meets the age requirements, lawfully possesses the firearm, and is in a place where the person is lawfully present. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.
Last Action: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: March 7, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 39-17-1359, relative to firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Sponsor(s) Added.
Last Action Date: February 15, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 44, Chapter 17 and Title 70, Chapter 4, Part 1, relative to the possession of firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
Last Action Date: May 3, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, relative to firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
Last Action Date: April 18, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 39-17-1351, relative to military veterans.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/23/2024
Last Action Date: April 19, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 7; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, extends from 60 days to 90 days, the time within which a handgun carry permit holder must notify the department of safety in writing of a change in the permit holder's principal place of residence. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.
Last Action: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: January 30, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8, Chapter 6; Title 29; Title 39 and Title 47, relative to qualified civil liability actions.
Description: As introduced, 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.
Last Action: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: February 2, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 54 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: 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 disenfranchising another of the person's constitutional rights in violation of the Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act; prohibits an employee or elected or appointed official of a state or local government entity from enforcing a federal law in violation of the Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 54 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: March 21, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8, Chapter 6; Title 29; Title 39 and Title 47, relative to qualified civil liability actions.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 409
Last Action Date: May 24, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13; Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 55, Chapter 10, relative to firearms.
Description: 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, Chapter 6 and Title 55, Chapter 10.
Last Action: Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: March 7, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 10-7-504 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to a voluntary waiver of firearm rights.
Description: 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, Part 13.
Last Action: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: March 7, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 14 and Title 39, Chapter 17, relative to firearm safety.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Sponsor(s) Added.
Last Action Date: February 15, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, creates the Class A misdemeanor of knowingly giving, selling, lending, delivering, or otherwise transferring a firearm to a person when the transferor knows or reasonably should know that the person receiving the firearm is prohibited from purchasing or possessing a firearm under state or federal law. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: March 14, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, creates the offense of storing a firearm or firearm ammunition in a motor vehicle or boat while the person is not in the motor vehicle or boat unless the firearm or firearm ammunition is kept from ordinary observation and locked within the trunk, utility or glove box, or a locked container securely affixed to the motor vehicle or boat; requires the owner of a firearm to report the loss or theft of the firearm to law enforcement within 24 hours of the discovery of the loss or theft. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: April 2, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 8; Title 10; Title 13; Title 16; Title 29; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 47; Title 49; Title 50; Title 55; Title 58; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 70, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, requires a handgun carry permit holder to notify the department of a change of address within 30 days, rather than 60 days. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 10; Title 13; Title 16; Title 29; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 47; Title 49; Title 50; Title 55; Title 58; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 70.
Last Action: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: February 6, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: 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 TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: March 13, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 49, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, extends the time in which a handgun carry permit holder is required to inform the department of safety of any change in the permit holder's principal place of residence from 60 days to 90 days. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 49.
Last Action: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: March 7, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to enhanced handgun carry permits.
Description: As introduced, eliminates the application and processing fee for an enhanced handgun carry permit. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: February 6, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: March 28, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 10-7-504; Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49 and Title 70, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, requires the administrative office of the courts to conduct a study, within existing resources, of the number of individuals convicted under offenses for carrying or possessing weapons with the intent to go armed and the penalties assessed for the convictions, and submit a report of the study's findings to the chairs of the senate judiciary committee and the criminal justice committee of the house of representatives by January 15, 2024. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504; Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49 and Title 70.
Last Action: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: February 6, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: April 2, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 8, relative to schools.
Description: As enacted, authorizes a faculty or staff member of a school to carry a concealed handgun on school grounds subject to certain conditions. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 8.
Last Action: Effective date(s) 04/26/2024
Last Action Date: May 7, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: 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 than 21 years of age if the person is not a military service member or veteran. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Sponsor(s) Added.
Last Action Date: February 15, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 55, relative to criminal law.
Description: As introduced, authorizes a handgun permit holder to notify the department of safety of a change of address through electronic means. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 55.
Last Action: Companion House Bill substituted
Last Action Date: April 21, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 49, Chapter 6, relative to weapons on school property.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
Last Action Date: February 6, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 29 and Title 39, Chapter 17, relative to civil liability.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Sponsor(s) Added.
Last Action Date: April 18, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, extends the time period, from 30 days following a final determination of suspension or revocation of a handgun carry permit to 45 days, within which a person may file a petition for judicial review of the department of safety's determination. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: February 6, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to firearms.
Description: 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 age and meets certain military qualifications. - Amends TCA Title 39.
Last Action: Action deferred in Senate Judiciary Committee to 1/23/2024
Last Action Date: March 7, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8; Title 10; Title 33; Title 36; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 50 and Title 70, relative to firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Sponsor(s) Added.
Last Action Date: April 25, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 36; Title 38 and Title 39, relative to firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: February 5, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to large-capacity magazines.
Description: 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. - Amends TCA Title 39.
Last Action: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: February 5, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 54; Section 38-3-119 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, creates the Class E felony offense of purchasing, selling, possessing, or using a part, component, device, or attachment designed to accelerate the fire of a semi-automatic rifle and makes any semi-automatic rifle that includes an accelerated fire part, component, or device a prohibited weapon. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 54; Section 38-3-119 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: February 5, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 54; Section 38-3-119 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to the transfer of firearms.
Description: 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. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 54; Section 38-3-119 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: February 5, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, 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, relative to handguns.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: February 5, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 54; Section 36-3-625; Section 38-3-119; Title 39 and Section 40-14-109, relative to restricting certain types of firearms.
Description: As introduced, prohibits the sale or purchase of an assault weapon as a Class A misdemeanor; defines assault weapon. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 54; Section 36-3-625; Section 38-3-119; Title 39 and Section 40-14-109.
Last Action: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: February 5, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 8; Title 10; Title 13; Title 16; Title 29; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 47; Title 49; Title 50; Title 55; Title 58; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 70, relative to firearms.
Description: 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 a finding that a person poses a risk of causing bodily injury to the person or others if allowed to purchase or possess a firearm; makes other changes related to firearms. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 10; Title 13; Title 16; Title 29; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 47; Title 49; Title 50; Title 55; Title 58; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 70.
Last Action: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: February 5, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39 and Title 40, relative to theft of firearms.
Description: As introduced, makes persons convicted of felony theft of a firearm permanently ineligible to purchase firearms in this state. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
Last Action: Withdrawn.
Last Action Date: December 5, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 33; Title 36; Title 38 and Title 39, relative to orders of protection.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: January 10, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, creates the Class A misdemeanor of knowingly giving, selling, lending, delivering, or otherwise transferring a firearm to a person when the transferor knows or reasonably should know that the person receiving the firearm is prohibited from purchasing or possessing a firearm under state or federal law. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: February 27, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6 and Title 39, relative to dispossession of firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: April 2, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to the carrying of firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: March 20, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 38; Title 39; Title 47 and Title 68, relative to gun violence.
Description: As introduced, creates an office of gun violence prevention within the department of safety with the goal of collecting and analyzing gun violence data in this state to develop and implement strategies to prevent gun violence and mass shootings; places the office in sunset review in 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38; Title 39; Title 47 and Title 68.
Last Action: Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: April 2, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to firearm regulation by local governments.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: March 26, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to firearm hold agreements.
Description: 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 owner’s 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 in personal injury or death of any natural person unless the action was the result of unlawful conduct by the licensed federal firearms dealer. - Amends TCA Title 39.
Last Action: Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: March 12, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 54; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13; Title 45 and Title 47, relative to financial transactions involving firearms.
Description: As introduced, makes it an unfair or deceptive practice under the Consumer Protection Act of 1977 for a financial institution to require a firearms retailer to use firearms-specific transaction codes. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 54; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13; Title 45 and Title 47.
Last Action: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
Last Action Date: January 22, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39 and Title 40, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, creates the Class D felony employing a firearm during the commission of, attempt to commit, or flight or escape from an offense other than a dangerous felony; requires a person convicted of the offense to be sentenced to a mandatory minimum sentence of five years imprisonment. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
Last Action: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: March 19, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 9, Chapter 4 and Title 45, relative to financial practices.
Description: As introduced, requires financial institutions to make determinations about the provision or denial of services based on an analysis of risk factors unique to each current or prospective customer; prohibits financial institutions from denying or canceling services to a person, or otherwise discriminating against a person, based upon the use of a social credit score or other factors. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4 and Title 45.
Last Action: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
Last Action Date: January 22, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 3; Section 10-7-504 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to the "Tennessee Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearms Act."
Description: As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearms Act," which 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.
Last Action: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: April 2, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 39-13-103, relative to the offense of reckless endangerment.
Description: As introduced, enacts "MaKayla's Law," which expands the offense of reckless endangerment to include a person's reckless failure to render inoperable or safely secure or lock a firearm, resulting in a child under 13 gaining possession of the firearm and injuring or killing the child or another. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-103.
Last Action: Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: March 26, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39; Title 49 and Title 50, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, removes the ability of a person who is a handgun carry permit holder or otherwise authorized to lawfully carry a handgun with the intent to go armed to transport and store a firearm or firearm ammunition in the person's motor vehicle while on or utilizing any public or private parking area in which firearms are otherwise prohibited. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 49 and Title 50.
Last Action: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: March 11, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to possession of firearms.
Description: As introduced, creates a Class D felony offense for a person to unlawfully possess a firearm, or firearm ammunition, while under indictment for a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term of one year or more. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Withdrawn.
Last Action Date: February 5, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: 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 not just when the person is receiving inpatient treatment. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Withdrawn.
Last Action Date: February 5, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: April 1, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39 and Title 49, relative to self-defense.
Description: As enacted, enacts the "Laken Riley Act of 2024," which generally prohibits a public institution of higher education from prohibiting adults lawfully present on the institution's property from carrying a non-lethal weapon for purposes of self-defense; allows certain exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 49.
Last Action: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 791
Last Action Date: May 1, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms regulations.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: April 2, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 29 and Title 39, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, reduces the time within which a handgun carry permit holder must notify the department of safety of a change of residence from 60 days to 30 days. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 39.
Last Action: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: January 29, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: January 29, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to large capacity magazines.
Description: As introduced, creates the Class B misdemeanor of possessing, with intent to go armed, a large-capacity magazine outside of the person's residence, business, or premises; defines a large-capacity magazine as an ammunition feeding device with capacity to accept more than 10 rounds. - Amends TCA Title 39.
Last Action: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: January 31, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8; Title 37; Title 38; Title 49 and Title 62, relative to school safety.
Description: As introduced, authorizes LEAs and public charter schools to employ retired law enforcement officers who are retired from a federal, state, or local law enforcement agency and honorably discharged veterans of the United States armed forces to serve as school resource officers on school premises. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 37; Title 38; Title 49 and Title 62.
Last Action: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
Last Action Date: January 31, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 43; Title 45; Title 50; Title 53; Title 57; Title 63; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71, relative to the "Tennessee Medical Autonomy Related to Cannabis Act."
Description: As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Medical Autonomy Related to Cannabis Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 43; Title 45; Title 50; Title 53; Title 57; Title 63; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.
Last Action: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: March 27, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to firearms transactions.
Description: As introduced, creates a Class E felony that is committed when a person provides to a gun dealer or private seller of firearms what the person knows to be materially false information with intent to deceive the dealer or seller about the legality of a transfer of a firearm; creates a Class E felony that is committed when a person knowingly obtains a firearm for the purposes of transferring the firearm to another who is prohibited from receiving or possessing a firearm by state or federal law. - Amends TCA Title 39.
Last Action: Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: April 2, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 9; Title 45; Title 47 and Title 56, relative to consumer protection.
Description: As enacted, requires financial institutions and insurers to make determinations about the provision or denial of services based on certain analysis; prohibits financial institutions and insurers from denying or canceling services to a person, or otherwise discriminating against a person, based upon certain factors, including the person's political opinions, speech, or affiliations, or religious beliefs, religious exercise, or religious affiliations. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 45; Title 47 and Title 56.
Last Action: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 746
Last Action Date: May 1, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39 and Title 55, relative to road rage.
Description: As introduced, enacts the "Anti-Road Rage Act of 2024"; creates a Class E felony for the reckless discharge of a firearm while operating, or as a passenger in, a motor vehicle; creates a Class A misdemeanor for the reckless brandishing or display of a firearm while operating, or as a passenger in, a motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55.
Last Action: Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: April 2, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 33 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: April 2, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to the possession of weapons.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: March 26, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, relative to firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: April 2, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, relative to firearm sales.
Description: As introduced, prohibits the sale of firearms to persons under 21 years of age; classifies the sale or attempted sale of a firearm to a person under 21 years of age as a Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.
Last Action: Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: April 2, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearm transactions.
Description: As introduced, requires a gun dealer to ensure that 14 days have passed since the transaction was initiated by the purchaser before transferring a firearm to a purchaser. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: April 2, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: February 1, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: February 1, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 29; Title 45 and Title 47, relative to the use of merchant codes.
Description: As introduced, prohibits certain financial entities from assigning a merchant code to or otherwise classifying a merchant that is a seller of firearms or ammunition separately from a general merchandise retailer or sporting goods retailer; authorizes the department of financial institutions to assess a civil penalty of no more than $10,000 for a violation, or to bring an action to enjoin a violation of the prohibition. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 45 and Title 47.
Last Action: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
Last Action Date: February 1, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8, Chapter 6; Title 29; Title 38; Title 39; Title 45 and Title 47, relative to merchant codes.
Description: As enacted, enacts the "Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act." - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6; Title 29; Title 38; Title 39; Title 45 and Title 47.
Last Action: Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
Last Action Date: May 1, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to firearm storage.
Description: As introduced, creates the offense of storing a firearm when the person knows or reasonably should know that a minor without parental consent or a person who is ineligible to possess a firearm is likely to gain access to the firearm; provides an exception to the offense if the person secures the firearm or carries the firearm on the person’s self; designates the offense as a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by fine only, or a Class E felony if a person is injured or killed as a result of the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39.
Last Action: Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: April 2, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 3; Section 10-7-504 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to the creation of the "Tennessee Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearms Act."
Description: 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 TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Section 10-7-504 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Sponsor(s) Added.
Last Action Date: February 13, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, creates the Class A misdemeanor of knowingly or recklessly permitting a child under 12 years of age to have access to or possession, custody, or use of a firearm unless the person has the permission of the child's parent or guardian, the child is under the supervision of an adult, and the firearm was used for lawful sporting activity. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: April 2, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, requires the owner of a firearm to report the loss or theft of the firearm to law enforcement within 48 hours of discovery of the loss or theft unless the owner is physically incapable of making a report, and to notify the law enforcement agency if the firearm is subsequently recovered; imposes a civil penalty of not more than $500 for the first violation of the reporting requirement and punishes a second or subsequent violation as a Class B misdemeanor; requires a gun dealer to inform the purchaser of a firearm of the requirement to report a lost or stolen firearm to law enforcement. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: March 20, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 54; Section 36-3-625; Section 38-3-119; Title 39 and Section 40-14-109, relative to restricting access to certain firearms.
Description: As introduced, prohibits sales and purchases of certain high-capacity, semi-automatic firearms. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 54; Section 36-3-625; Section 38-3-119; Title 39 and Section 40-14-109.
Last Action: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: March 11, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 54; Title 39 and Title 40, relative to identifying characteristics of firearms.
Description: As introduced, subject to exceptions for confiscated firearms, makes it a Class E felony offense for a person to knowingly receive, possess, conceal, store, barter, sell, transfer, or dispose of a firearm that has had the importer’s or manufacturer’s serial number removed, obliterated, or altered. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 54; Title 39 and Title 40.
Last Action: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: February 1, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, prohibits a gun dealer from delivering to a purchaser a trigger crank, bump stock, bump-fire device, or any other part, combination of parts, component, device, attachment, or accessory that is designed or functions to accelerate the rate of fire of a firearm until 72 hours have passed from the initial time at which the sale of the firearm accessory was sought by the purchaser. - Amends TCA Title 39.
Last Action: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: April 1, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 8; Title 10; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 50 and Title 71, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, extends the time period within which a person may file a petition for judicial review of the department of safety's determination of suspension or revocation of a handgun carry permit from 30 days to 60 days of the issuance of the department's final determination. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 10; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 50 and Title 71.
Last Action: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: February 1, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, relative to firearm ammunition.
Description: As introduced, requires retailers and sellers of firearm ammunition to maintain ammunition in an area inaccessible to a customer in a retail establishment; classifies a violation as a Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.
Last Action: Reset on Final calendar of Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: March 5, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Reset on Final calendar of Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: March 5, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, prohibits the possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of a switch or auto sear device designed, made, or adapted for the purpose of converting a weapon to shoot automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger, and a firearm built from a weapon parts kit, including a frame or receiver parts kit, and not marked with a serial number, unless certain exceptions apply. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.
Last Action: Reset on Final calendar of Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: March 5, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 38 and Title 39, relative to firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Reset on Final calendar of Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: March 5, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, deletes provisions authorizing permitless carry of handguns; requires range training for handgun carry permits. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: April 2, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to weapons.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Recommended for passage with amendment/s, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee, Ayes 8, Nays 3 PNV 0
Last Action Date: April 16, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 54, relative to the Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: April 2, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 45 and Title 47, Chapter 18, relative to financial services.
Description: As introduced, enacts the "Equality in Financial Services Act." - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47, Chapter 18.
Last Action: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
Last Action Date: February 5, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to use of force.
Description: As introduced, grants a defendant who has been charged with a criminal offense based on the use of force or threatened use of force and who asserts that the force was justified by law the right to a justifiable use of force hearing prior to trial, at which the prosecution has the burden to prove by clear and convincing evidence that the use of force was unlawful; requires the court to dismiss the criminal charges and find the defendant immune from criminal prosecution if the prosecution fails to meet that burden. - Amends TCA Title 39.
Last Action: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: February 5, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 36; Title 38 and Title 39, relative to extreme risk protection orders.
Description: As enacted, 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. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 38 and Title 39.
Last Action: Effective date(s) 05/28/2024
Last Action Date: June 3, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 16; Title 33; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 49, relative to criminal offenses.
Description: As introduced, authorizes the enhancement of criminal penalties up to life in prison without parole upon conviction of violent crimes by illegal aliens; conviction of possession of a firearm or deadly weapon by an illegal alien; or conviction of a violent crime on the property of a school by any person. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 33; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 49.
Last Action: Signed by Governor.
Last Action Date: May 28, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 38; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 49, relative to firearms.
Description: 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, grounds, recreation area, athletic field, or any other property owned, operated, or while in use by any public board of education or Pre-K-12 school. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 49.
Last Action: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: March 20, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 54 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms accessories.
Description: As introduced, adds bipods to the list of items that are considered to be a firearms accessory for purposes of the Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 54 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: March 13, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, changes, from February 1, 2025, to January 1, 2025, the date by which the department of safety must report to the chair of the judiciary committee of the senate and the chair of the criminal justice committee of the house of representatives the number of handgun safety courses provided, or expected to have been provided, to persons under a fee reimbursement program during the preceding year. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: March 13, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 38 and Title 39, relative to firearms.
Description: As enacted, 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.
Last Action: Effective date(s) 07/07/2024
Last Action Date: June 3, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 16; Title 33; Title 34; Title 37; Title 38 and Title 39, relative to juveniles.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: February 5, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 8; Title 39; Title 45 and Title 47, relative to firearm, ammunition, and firearm accessories merchants.
Description: As introduced, prohibits certain entities from assigning a merchant category code to, or a separate classification for, a merchant that is a seller of firearms, ammunition, or firearm accessories separately from general merchandise retailers or sporting goods retailers; establishes criminal and civil penalties for violations. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 39; Title 45 and Title 47.
Last Action: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: March 8, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, exempts the retail sale of firearms that have a barrel less than an internal diameter of .50 caliber and shotguns of 10 gauge or greater from the sales and use tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.
Last Action: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate FW&M Revenue Subcommittee
Last Action Date: March 19, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: 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 not just when the person is receiving inpatient treatment. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: February 5, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 3; Title 4; Title 38 and Title 39, relative to valid enhanced handgun carry permits.
Description: As introduced, permits sergeants-at-arms to carry a handgun while in the course and scope of their duties within the legislative complex provided that they have a valid handgun carry permit; imposes a duty on the department of safety to implement a training program to train the sergeants-at-arms in all safety procedures for the legislative complex; requires a sergeant-at-arms who carries a firearm while in the course and scope of their duties to attend a firearms training course if hired on or after October 1, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 38 and Title 39.
Last Action: Sponsor(s) Added.
Last Action Date: March 5, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to firearms offenses involving minors.
Description: As introduced, increases the penalty for illegally transferring a firearm to a minor from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class D felony and requires that an adult who is convicted be punished as criminally responsible for any resulting crime; creates the Class D felony of inducing or coercing a minor to commit theft of a firearm or robbery or burglary involving theft of a firearm. - Amends TCA Title 39.
Last Action: Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: April 2, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, prohibits the possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of a switch or auto sear device designed, made, or adapted for the purpose of converting a weapon to shoot automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger unless certain exceptions apply. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: April 2, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 29; Title 45 and Title 47, relative to merchant codes.
Description: As introduced, prohibits certain financial entities from assigning a merchant code to or otherwise classifying a merchant that is a seller of firearms or ammunition separately from a general merchandise retailer or sporting goods retailer; authorizes the department of financial institutions to assess a civil penalty of no more than $10,000 for a violation, or to bring an action to enjoin a violation of the prohibition. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 45 and Title 47.
Last Action: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
Last Action Date: March 13, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 18; Title 37 and Title 39, relative to juvenile offenders.
Description: As enacted, prohibits the purchase or possession of a firearm by a person under 25 if the person was previously adjudicated delinquent for an act that, if committed by an adult, would have constituted certain offenses; allows the TBI access to juvenile court records for the limited purpose of performing a background check prior to the transfer of a firearm or to determine eligibility for a handgun carry permit pursuant to existing law. - Amends TCA Title 18; Title 37 and Title 39.
Last Action: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 973
Last Action Date: May 28, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
Last Action Date: April 2, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, Chapter 6, relative to firearm safety instruction.
Description: As enacted, requires, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, each local education agency and public charter school to provide students with age-appropriate and grade-appropriate instruction on firearm safety. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
Last Action: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 800
Last Action Date: May 1, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 38; Title 39; Title 47; Title 56 and Title 68, relative to firearm insurance.
Description: As introduced, requires an individual who resides in this state and owns a firearm to maintain liability insurance in an amount of no less than $300,000 to insure the individual against losses or damages resulting from the accidental use of the individual's firearm; requires the individual to provide documentation of the insurance upon request by a party that suffers losses or damages resulting from the accidental use of the individual's firearm; specifies that a violation of the insurance requirements is a Class C misdemeanor punishable only by a fine of not more than $300. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38; Title 39; Title 47; Title 56 and Title 68.
Last Action: Refer to Senate Delayed Bills Committee
Last Action Date: February 15, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 33; Title 37; Title 38 and Title 39, relative to protection orders.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Refer to Senate Delayed Bills Committee
Last Action Date: February 15, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 47 and Title 68, relative to firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Refer to Senate Delayed Bills Committee
Last Action Date: February 15, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to the storage of firearms in motor vehicles.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Refer to Senate Delayed Bills Committee
Last Action Date: February 15, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 54; Title 39, Chapter 17 and Title 40, relative to ammunition magazines for firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Refer to Senate Delayed Bills Committee
Last Action Date: February 15, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 49 and Title 67, relative to sales tax proceeds collected on firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Refer to Senate Delayed Bills Committee
Last Action Date: February 15, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 38 and Title 39, relative to firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Refer to Senate Delayed Bills Committee
Last Action Date: February 15, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to reporting the loss of a firearm.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Refer to Senate Delayed Bills Committee
Last Action Date: February 15, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, 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, relative to the transfer of firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Refer to Senate Delayed Bills Committee
Last Action Date: February 15, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 33; Title 38 and Title 39, Chapter 17, relative to extreme risk protection orders.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Refer to Senate Delayed Bills Committee
Last Action Date: February 15, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40, relative to gun violence.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Refer to Senate Delayed Bills Committee
Last Action Date: February 15, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 38, Chapter 6 and Section 39-17-1316, relative to the transfer of firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Refer to Senate Delayed Bills Committee
Last Action Date: February 15, 2024
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms in motor vehicles.
Description: As introduced, exempts a person from civil liability for damages, injuries, or death resulting from or arising out of the theft of the person's firearm or firearm ammunition properly stored in the person's motor vehicle unless the person commits an offense involving the use of the stored firearm or firearm ammunition or intentionally solicits or procures the conduct resulting in the damage, injury, or death. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Withdrawn.
Last Action Date: August 21, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39; Title 49 and Chapter 367 of the Public Acts of 2023, relative to school safety plans.
Description: As introduced, requires each district-wide school safety plan and building-level school safety plan to prohibit the possession, carrying, or storage of firearms or firearm ammunition on school property by students; eliminates the authorization to transport or store a firearm or firearm ammunition in a motor vehicle if doing so would be in violation of a school safety plan. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 49 and Chapter 367 of the Public Acts of 2023.
Last Action: Withdrawn.
Last Action Date: August 21, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39 and Title 55, relative to acts of mass violence.
Description: As introduced, creates a Class E felony of threatened mass violence for the reckless handling, display, or discharge of a firearm while operating, or as a passenger in, a motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55.
Last Action: Lay on the Table
Last Action Date: August 22, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 38, relative to reporting of mass shootings.
Description: As introduced, requires the bureau to submit a report on the number of mass shootings that occur in this state to the governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the speaker of the senate by January 1, 2024, and by each January 1 thereafter. - Amends TCA Title 38.
Last Action: Lay on the Table
Last Action Date: August 22, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 38; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13; Title 49; Chapter 142 of the Public Acts of 2023 and Chapter 149 of the Public Acts of 2023, relative to firearms.
Description: 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 public school building or bus, on any public school campus, grounds, recreation area, athletic field, or any other property owned, operated, or while in use by any public board of education, school, college, or university board of trustees, regents, or directors for the administration of any public educational institution. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13; Title 49; Chapter 142 of the Public Acts of 2023 and Chapter 149 of the Public Acts of 2023.
Last Action: Lay on the Table
Last Action Date: August 22, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 49, relative to school safety.
Description: As introduced, authorizes persons with an enhanced handgun carry permit to carry a handgun on school property unless the person knows that the respective school provides armed security on the school property; removes certain exemptions of a law enforcement officer's authority to possess a firearm on school property; authorizes certain community corrections officers to possess a handgun on school property. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 49.
Last Action: Lay on the Table
Last Action Date: August 23, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 33 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Description: As introduced, requires the department to establish the Tennessee voluntary do not sell firearms list to prohibit the possession, transportation, and sale of firearms to any person who is voluntarily admitted to a public or private hospital or treatment resource for diagnosis, observation, and treatment of a mental illness or serious emotional disturbance and voluntarily registers to be enrolled to the list. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Lay on the Table
Last Action Date: August 22, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to temporary mental health orders of protection.
Description: As introduced, establishes a process for law enforcement to petition a circuit court for a temporary mental health order of protection for a person who poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to themselves or others by having a firearm. - Amends TCA Title 39.
Last Action: Lay on the Table
Last Action Date: August 22, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 54 and Title 55, relative to the safe storage of firearms.
Description: As introduced, requires the department, in the months of November 2023, February 2024, and May 2024, to use its existing permanent electronic overhead informational displays located on the interstate system to provide periodic messages to the motoring public that encourage the safe storage of firearms; allows the department to develop guidelines, in consultation with the department of safety, for the content of a message to be placed on the displays. - Amends TCA Title 54 and Title 55.
Last Action: Lay on the Table
Last Action Date: August 22, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 33; Title 36; Title 38 and Title 39, relative to temporary mental health orders of protection.
Description: As introduced, establishes a process for law enforcement to petition a circuit court for a temporary mental health order of protection for a person who poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to themselves others by having a firearm. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 36; Title 38 and Title 39.
Last Action: Lay on the Table
Last Action Date: August 22, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to the safe storage of firearms.
Description: As introduced, requires a person who purchases a firearm, or who applies for a permit to carry a handgun either openly or concealed, to sign an affidavit on a form prescribed by the department of safety affirming that the applicant will, while not lawfully carrying the firearm, store the firearm in a locked compartment; with a trigger locking device; or with a locked device rendering the firearm inaccessible to a person other than the owner or person in lawful possession of the firearm and immovable from the stored location; requires a firearm stored in a vehicle to be stored out of plain sight. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Lay on the Table
Last Action Date: August 22, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to the safe storage of firearms.
Description: As introduced, encourages lawful owners and possessors of firearms to store guns safely in a locked compartment; with a trigger locking device; or with a locked device rendering the firearm inaccessible to a person other than the owner or person in lawful possession of the firearm and immovable from the stored location. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Lay on the Table
Last Action Date: August 22, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to offenses of mass violence.
Description: As introduced, enhances the penalty for the offense of reckless endangerment when a person's reckless failure to render inoperable or safely secure or lock a firearm, results in a child under 13 years of age gaining possession of the firearm and committing an act of mass violence that injures or kills the child or another. - Amends TCA Title 39.
Last Action: Lay on the Table
Last Action Date: August 22, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 8; Title 38 and Title 39, relative to firearm locks.
Description: As introduced, requires the department of safety to distribute firearm locks to each county's sheriff for distribution to members of the public; requires each sheriff to distribute firearm locks to any person who makes a request; authorizes the sheriff to distribute multiple locks to the same person; authorizes transfers of locks amongst sheriffs based on demand. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 38 and Title 39.
Last Action: Lay on the Table
Last Action Date: August 22, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearm safety devices.
Description: As introduced, requires a federally licensed firearm dealer to install a firearm safety device on a firearm before delivering the firearm to a purchaser if the purchaser is not a federally licensed firearm dealer; defines a firearm safety device as a device that, when installed on a firearm, is designed to prevent the firearm from being operated without first deactivating the device. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Lay on the Table
Last Action Date: August 22, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 39, Chapter 17 and Chapter 445 of the Public Acts of 2023, relative to firearm safety.
Description: 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; Title 39, Chapter 17 and Chapter 445 of the Public Acts of 2023.
Last Action: Lay on the Table
Last Action Date: August 22, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to mass violence.
Description: As introduced, makes a person who illegally transfers a firearm to a minor criminally responsible for any resulting act of mass violence or a threat of mass violence in which the minor threatens to use the firearm. - Amends TCA Title 39.
Last Action: Lay on the Table
Last Action Date: August 22, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms in motor vehicles.
Description: As introduced, exempts a person from civil liability for damages, injuries, or death resulting from or arising out of the theft of the person's firearm that is properly stored in the person's motor vehicle unless the person commits an offense involving the use of the stored firearm or intentionally solicits or procures the conduct resulting in damage, injury, or death. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Last Action: Lay on the Table
Last Action Date: August 22, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3, relative to firearm safety.
Description: As enacted, directs the department of safety to provide free firearm locks to Tennessee residents upon request, subject to appropriations; requires department-approved handgun safety courses to contain instruction on the safe storage of firearms; exempts the retail sale of firearm safes and firearm safety devices from sales and use taxes beginning November 1, 2023. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.
Last Action: Effective date(s) 09/08/2023, 11/01/2023
Last Action Date: December 27, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 16; Title 33; Title 34; Title 37; Title 38 and Title 39, relative to juveniles.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Lay on the Table
Last Action Date: August 22, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 67, Chapter 6, relative to taxation of gun safes and gun safety devices.
Description: As introduced, permanently exempts from sales and use tax, the retail sale of gun safes and gun safety devices; removes the temporary sales tax holiday. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.
Last Action: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Finance, Ways & Means Committee
Last Action Date: August 23, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 33; Title 36; Title 38 and Title 39, relative to orders of protection.
Description: 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.
Last Action: Lay on the Table
Last Action Date: August 22, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to the safe storage of firearms.
Description: As introduced, encourages the owner of a firearm, or a person authorized to use the firearm, to report theft or loss of the firearm to law enforcement within 24 hours of discovering the theft or loss. - Amends TCA Title 39.
Last Action: Lay on the Table
Last Action Date: August 22, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 38 and Title 39, relative to the safe storage of firearms.
Description: As introduced, encourages that a firearm be 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. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 39.
Last Action: Lay on the Table
Last Action Date: August 22, 2023
Title: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, relative to safe storage of firearms.
Description: As introduced, states that a person is urged not to leave or store a firearm or firearm ammunition in an unattended motor vehicle unless the firearm or firearm ammunition is kept from ordinary observation and locked within the trunk, glove box, interior of the person's motor vehicle, or a container securely affixed to the motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.
Last Action: Lay on the Table
Last Action Date: August 22, 2023
