---
type: "Bill"
title: "Law Enforcement - As enacted, requires a blood test for the presence of the hepatitis and AIDS/HIV viruses to be administered to an arrested person if requested by a law enforcement officer, TBI employee, firefighter, EMT-paramedic, or EMT who may have been exposed to the virus; specifies that the test is for any hepatitis virus, rather than just hepatitis B. - Amends TCA Section 68-10-116."
description: "Law Enforcement - As enacted, requires a blood test for the presence of the hepatitis and AIDS/HIV viruses to be administered to an arrested person if requested by a law enforcement officer, TBI employee, firefighter, EMT-paramedic, or EMT who may have been exposed to the virus; specifies that the test is for any hepatitis virus, rather than just hepatitis B. - Amends TCA Section 68-10-116."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tn"
legislature: "Tennessee General Assembly"
session: "110"
identifier: "HB 1283"
citation: "Tennessee HB 1283 (110)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Law Enforcement"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dunn", "Massey"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 46
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-02-09"
last_action: "2017-05-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/304921d2-bf77-4a63-ac1c-422466bcb8be"
source_url: "http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=HB1283&GA=110"
source_hash: "3b012b27f8e320f760088e404aea23f85a5e6b11d63e690da198cddc428cffdb"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-tn"]
---

# Tennessee HB 1283 (110) — Law Enforcement - As enacted, requires a blood test for the presence of the hepatitis and AIDS/HIV viruses to be administered to an arrested person if requested by a law enforcement officer, TBI employee, firefighter, EMT-paramedic, or EMT who may have been exposed to the virus; specifies that the test is for any hepatitis virus, rather than just hepatitis B. - Amends TCA Section 68-10-116.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Current Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/110/Bill/HB1283.pdf)

## Votes

- CRIMINAL JUSTICE COMMITTEE: Rec. for pass. if am., ref. to Calendar & Rules Committee 4/12/2017 (2) — **0–0** (pass) · lower
- CALENDAR & RULES COMMITTEE: H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 4/27/2017 4/20/2017 (1) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- CRIMINAL JUSTICE SUBCOMMITTEE: Rec for pass if am by s/c ref. to Criminal Justice Committee 3/28/2017 (3) — **0–0** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dunn — primary (person)
- Massey — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-02-09** Intro. `introduction`
- **2017-02-09** Filed for intro. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-09** Introduced, Passed on First Consideration `introduction`
- **2017-02-09** Filed for introduction `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-13** P1C.
- **2017-02-13** Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
- **2017-02-15** P2C, ref. to Criminal Justice Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-15** Sponsor(s) Added.
- **2017-02-17** Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-28** Sponsor(s) Added.
- **2017-03-08** Placed on s/c cal Criminal Justice Subcommittee for 3/14/2017
- **2017-03-08** Placed on Senate Judiciary Committee calendar for 3/14/2017
- **2017-03-10** Sponsor(s) Added.
- **2017-03-14** Action Def. in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee to 3/21/2017
- **2017-03-14** Recommended for passage with amendment/s, refer to Senate Calendar Committee Ayes 8, Nays 0 PNV 0
- **2017-03-15** Placed on s/c cal Criminal Justice Subcommittee for 3/21/2017
- **2017-03-17** Placed on Senate Regular Calendar calendar for 3/20/2017
- **2017-03-20** Passed Senate as amended, Ayes 32, Nays 0 `passage`
- **2017-03-20** Senate adopted Amendment (Amendment 2 - SA0130)
- **2017-03-20** Senate adopted Amendment (Amendment 1 - SA0129)
- **2017-03-21** Action Def. in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee to 3/28/2017
- **2017-03-21** Engrossed; ready for transmission to House
- **2017-03-22** Placed on s/c cal Criminal Justice Subcommittee for 3/28/2017
- **2017-03-23** Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.
- **2017-03-28** Rec for pass if am by s/c ref. to Criminal Justice Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-29** Placed on cal. Criminal Justice Committee for 4/5/2017
- **2017-04-05** Placed on cal. Criminal Justice Committee for 4/12/2017
- **2017-04-05** Action def. in Criminal Justice Committee to 4/12/2017
- **2017-04-11** Sponsor(s) Added.
- **2017-04-12** Rec. for pass. if am., ref. to Calendar & Rules Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-13** Sponsor(s) Added.
- **2017-04-19** Placed on cal. Calendar & Rules Committee for 4/20/2017
- **2017-04-20** H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 4/27/2017
- **2017-04-27** Sponsor(s) Added.
- **2017-04-27** Comp. SB subst.
- **2017-04-27** Passed H., Ayes 94, Nays 0, PNV 0 `passage`
- **2017-04-27** Am. withdrawn. (Amendment 1 - HA0378) `amendment-withdrawal`
- **2017-04-27** Subst. for comp. HB.
- **2017-05-01** Signed by H. Speaker
- **2017-05-01** Signed by Senate Speaker
- **2017-05-01** Enrolled and ready for signatures
- **2017-05-02** Transmitted to Governor for action.
- **2017-05-09** Signed by Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-22** Comp. became Pub. Ch. 345
- **2017-05-22** Pub. Ch. 345
- **2017-05-22** Effective date(s) 05/09/2017

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/304921d2-bf77-4a63-ac1c-422466bcb8be`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Tennessee legislature records).