republic-os/legislation/us/states/tn/111/hb-917.md

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Bill	Child Abuse - As enacted, creates the Class A misdemeanor and Class E felony offenses of withdrawing, transferring, or altering a child's school enrollment with intent to hinder an active child abuse or child neglect investigation. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 49.	Child Abuse - As enacted, creates the Class A misdemeanor and Class E felony offenses of withdrawing, transferring, or altering a child's school enrollment with intent to hinder an active child abuse or child neglect investigation. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 49.	us/states/tn	Tennessee General Assembly	111	HB 917	Tennessee HB 917 (111)	bill	Child Abuse	enacted	Keisling Yager	3	39	8	2019-02-05	2019-05-15	openstates	ocd-bill/a10e33aa-f1ff-4a38-88b9-aa6e993e130e	http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=HB0917&GA=111	1d16c24c1acb326072f66fed8368410d60babbd44445c2bcb6c49db5816352ed	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-tn

Tennessee HB 917 (111) — Child Abuse - As enacted, creates the Class A misdemeanor and Class E felony offenses of withdrawing, transferring, or altering a child's school enrollment with intent to hinder an active child abuse or child neglect investigation. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 49.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment HA0198 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment SA0062 (committee substitute) — source
3. Current Version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• HOUSE FINANCE, WAYS, AND MEANS SUBCOMMITTEE: Rec. for pass by s/c ref. to Finance, Ways, and Means Committee 4/24/2019 (4) — 0–0 (pass) · lower
• HOUSE FINANCE, WAYS, AND MEANS COMMITTEE: Rec. for pass; ref to Calendar & Rules Committee 4/24/2019 (3) — 0–0 (pass) · lower
• FLOOR VOTE: REGULAR CALENDAR PASSAGE ON THIRD CONSIDERATION 4/30/2019 Passed (1) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE: Rec. for pass. if am., ref. to Finance, Ways, and Means Committee 3/27/2019 (5) — 0–0 (pass) · lower
• FLOOR VOTE: as Amended Third Consideration 3/11/2019 Passed (1) — 29–0 (pass) · upper
• SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE: Recommended for passage with amendment/s, refer to Senate Calendar Committee Ayes 9, Nays 0 PNV 0 3/5/2019 Passed (2) — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• HOUSE CHILDREN & FAMILIES SUBCOMMITTEE: Rec for pass if am by s/c ref. to Judiciary 3/19/2019 (6) — 0–0 (fail) · lower
• HOUSE CALENDAR & RULES COMMITTEE: H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 4/30/2019 4/29/2019 (2) — 0–0 (fail) · lower

Sponsors

• Keisling — primary (person)
• Yager — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-05 Filed for introduction reading-1, introduction
• 2019-02-06 Intro., P1C. introduction
• 2019-02-07 P2C, ref. to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2019-02-07 Introduced, Passed on First Consideration introduction
• 2019-02-07 Filed for introduction reading-1, introduction
• 2019-02-11 Assigned to s/c Children & Families Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2019-02-11 Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
• 2019-02-27 Placed on Senate Judiciary Committee calendar for 3/5/2019
• 2019-03-05 Recommended for passage with amendment/s, refer to Senate Calendar Committee Ayes 9, Nays 0 PNV 0
• 2019-03-08 Placed on Senate Floor Session calendar for 3/11/2019
• 2019-03-11 Passed Senate as amended, Ayes 29, Nays 0 passage
• 2019-03-11 Senate adopted Amendment (Amendment 1 - SA0062)
• 2019-03-12 Engrossed; ready for transmission to House
• 2019-03-13 Placed on s/c cal Children & Families Subcommittee for 3/19/2019
• 2019-03-14 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.
• 2019-03-19 Rec for pass if am by s/c ref. to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2019-03-20 Placed on cal. Judiciary for 3/27/2019
• 2019-03-27 Placed on s/c cal Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee for 4/3/2019
• 2019-03-27 Assigned to s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2019-03-27 Rec. for pass. if am., ref. to Finance, Ways, and Means Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-04-03 Placed behind the budget
• 2019-04-17 Placed on s/c cal Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee for 4/24/2019
• 2019-04-24 Placed on cal. Calendar & Rules Committee for 4/29/2019
• 2019-04-24 Rec. for pass; ref to Calendar & Rules Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-04-24 Placed on cal. Finance, Ways, and Means Committee for 4/24/2019
• 2019-04-24 Rec. for pass by s/c ref. to Finance, Ways, and Means Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-04-29 H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 4/30/2019
• 2019-04-30 Comp. SB subst.
• 2019-04-30 Passed H., Ayes 95, Nays 0, PNV 0 passage
• 2019-04-30 Am. withdrawn. (Amendment 1 - HA0198) amendment-withdrawal
• 2019-04-30 Subst. for comp. HB.
• 2019-05-02 Signed by H. Speaker
• 2019-05-02 Signed by Senate Speaker
• 2019-05-02 Enrolled and ready for signatures
• 2019-05-03 Transmitted to Governor for action.
• 2019-05-10 Signed by Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-05-15 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 398
• 2019-05-15 Pub. Ch. 398
• 2019-05-15 Effective date(s) 07/01/2019

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a10e33aa-f1ff-4a38-88b9-aa6e993e130e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Tennessee legislature records).