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2021 TN H.B. 969

Title - HOUSE BILL 969

Law Number - 2021 TN H.B. 969

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Enacts the Public Safety Through Hiring Act,prohibits law enforcement agencies from hiring a person as a police officer who was fired due to disciplinary infractions or while under investigation for misconduct in the line of duty, or who resigned or retir...

Enacts the Public Safety Through Hiring Act,prohibits law enforcement agencies from hiring a person as a police officer who was fired due to disciplinary infractions or while under investigation for misconduct in the line of duty, or who resigned or retired while under investigation for disciplinary infractions or misconduct in the line of duty.

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2021 TN H.B. 698

Title - HOUSE BILL 698

Law Number - 2021 TN H.B. 698

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Provides $800 pay supplement to campus police officers of public institutions of higher education who successfully complete an in-service training course.

2021 TN S.B. 461

Title - SENATE BILL 461

Law Number - 2021 TN S.B. 461

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Enacts the Public Safety Through Hiring Act, which prohibits law enforcement agencies from hiring a person as a police officer who was fired due to disciplinary infractions or while under investigation for misconduct in the line of duty, or who resigned o...

Enacts the Public Safety Through Hiring Act, which prohibits law enforcement agencies from hiring a person as a police officer who was fired due to disciplinary infractions or while under investigation for misconduct in the line of duty, or who resigned or retired while under investigation for disciplinary infractions or misconduct in the line of duty.

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2021 TN S.B. 457

Title - SENATE BILL 457

Law Number - 2021 TN S.B. 457

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Requires that members of a community oversight board complete the local police force’s citizen academy course within six months of beginning service on the board,removes authority from the board until all members have complied.

2021 TN H.B. 374

Title - HOUSE BILL 374

Law Number - 2021 TN H.B. 374

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Requires that members of a community oversight board complete the local police force’s citizen academy course within six months of beginning service on the board,removes authority from the board until all members have complied.

2021 TN S.B. 189

Title - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39 and Title 40, relative to criminal law.

Law Number - 2021 TN S.B. 189

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Enacts the 2021 Defense Doctrine, which adds imminent danger of grave sexual abuse as a justification for the use of deadly force in self defense and to defenses of duress and use of deadly force by law enforcement officer,defines grave sexual abuse as ra...

Enacts the 2021 Defense Doctrine, which adds imminent danger of grave sexual abuse as a justification for the use of deadly force in self defense and to defenses of duress and use of deadly force by law enforcement officer,defines grave sexual abuse as rape, aggravated rape, rape of a child, or aggravated rape of a child.

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2021 TN S.B. 189

Title - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39 and Title 40, relative to criminal law.

Law Number - 2021 TN S.B. 189

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Enacts the 2021 Defense Doctrine, which adds imminent danger of grave sexual abuse as a justification for the use of deadly force in self defense and to defenses of duress and use of deadly force by law enforcement officer,defines grave sexual abuse as ra...

Enacts the 2021 Defense Doctrine, which adds imminent danger of grave sexual abuse as a justification for the use of deadly force in self defense and to defenses of duress and use of deadly force by law enforcement officer,defines grave sexual abuse as rape, aggravated rape, rape of a child, or aggravated rape of a child.

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2021 TN H.B. 26

Title - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 39-11-611, relative to self-defense

Law Number - 2021 TN H.B. 26

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Provides that a person’s use of force in self-defense is not justified if the person was engaged in conduct that would constitute a felony or Class A misdemeanor, rather than unlawful activity, at the time of the use of force.

2021 TN H.B. 49

Title - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 38, Chapter 6 and Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5, relative to evidence of sexual offenses.

Law Number - 2021 TN H.B. 49

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Requires a local law enforcement agency to submit a sexual assault evidence collection kit to the state crime lab or other similar qualified laboratory for testing within a specified time period of a victim filing a police report.

2021 TN H.B. 49

Title - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 38, Chapter 6 and Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5, relative to evidence of sexual offenses.

Law Number - 2021 TN H.B. 49

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Requires a local law enforcement agency to submit a sexual assault evidence collection kit to the state crime lab or other similar qualified laboratory for testing within a specified time period of a victim filing a police report.

2021 TN H.B. 26

Title - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 39-11-611, relative to self-defense

Law Number - 2021 TN H.B. 26

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Provides that a person’s use of force in self-defense is not justified if the person was engaged in conduct that would constitute a felony or Class A misdemeanor, rather than unlawful activity, at the time of the use of force.

2021 TN S.B. 109

Title - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39,Title 40 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 41, relative to school discipline.

Law Number - 2021 TN S.B. 109

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Confers immunity from civil liability upon a teacher, principal, school employee, or school bus driver properly using reasonable force to correct or restrain a student or prevent bodily harm or death to another person.