Tennessee 2025 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB0159 Draft / Bill

Filed 01/15/2025

                     
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HOUSE BILL 159 
By McCalmon 
 
 
HB0159 
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, 
Chapter 13, Part 1, relative to reckless 
endangerment. 
 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE: 
 SECTION 1.  Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 39-13-103(b)(3), is amended by 
deleting the subdivision and substituting: 
(3)  Reckless endangerment by discharging a firearm or antique firearm into a 
habitation, as defined under § 39-14-401, or a motor vehicle, as defined by § 55-1-103, 
is a Class C felony, unless the habitation or motor vehicle was unoccupied at the time of 
the offense, in which event it is a Class D felony. 
 SECTION 2.  This act takes effect July 1, 2025, the public welfare requiring it.