Legislation Database

Amended T.C.A. § 40-35-321(d). Requires the biological specimen to be gathered within thirty days of sentencing or, where the term…

Added quarterly TBI reporting requirements to legislative committees on forensic-services staffing and analysis timelines for sexual offense evidence.

Amended T.C.A. § 40-35-321 to require an offender not incarcerated at sentencing to report to the supervising probation division (or…

Expanded the arrest-triggered collection list by adding five homicide offenses (aggravated vehicular homicide, criminally negligent homicide, reckless homicide, vehicular homicide,…

Amended T.C.A. § 38-6-113(c) to require the TBI’s centralized DNA cross-reference system to include violent juvenile sexual offender profiles (persons…

Added collection from arrestees of violent felonies (effective January 1, 2008) upon probable cause determination; required destruction of the sample…

Amended T.C.A. § 40-35-321(d) to extend biological-specimen collection beyond felonies to persons convicted of any misdemeanor whose conviction requires sex-offender…

Expanded the centralized database to include convicted felon, forensic unknown, criminal suspect, and missing person profiles; codified the ‘no-error’ provision.

Expanded Tennessee DNA collection from a short list of sex offenses to ALL felonies by requiring the court to order…

Amended T.C.A. §§ 38-6-113(b) and 40-35-321(b)-(c) to add rape of a child (§ 39-13-522, including attempts) to the sexual offenses…

Rewrote T.C.A. § 40-35-321(b) to require a court, before sentencing a person convicted of (or a juvenile court adjudicating a…

Amended T.C.A. § 40-35-321(b)-(c) to change the forwarding of biological specimens for DNA analysis so they are transmitted to the…