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Bill Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As enacted, enacts "Joker's Law," which revises the offense of knowingly and unlawfully killing a police dog, fire dog, search and rescue dog, service animal, or police horse without the owner's effective consent; adds provisions regarding knowingly and unlawfully causing serious injury to such an animal; revises and enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Section 37-1-134 and Title 39, Chapter 14. Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As enacted, enacts "Joker's Law," which revises the offense of knowingly and unlawfully killing a police dog, fire dog, search and rescue dog, service animal, or police horse without the owner's effective consent; adds provisions regarding knowingly and unlawfully causing serious injury to such an animal; revises and enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Section 37-1-134 and Title 39, Chapter 14. us/states/tn Tennessee General Assembly 112 SB 2013 Tennessee SB 2013 (112)
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Tennessee SB 2013 (112) — Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As enacted, enacts "Joker's Law," which revises the offense of knowingly and unlawfully killing a police dog, fire dog, search and rescue dog, service animal, or police horse without the owner's effective consent; adds provisions regarding knowingly and unlawfully causing serious injury to such an animal; revises and enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Section 37-1-134 and Title 39, Chapter 14.

Version chain

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

  1. Amendment HA0504 (committee substitute) — source
  2. Amendment HA1021 (committee substitute) — source
  3. Amendment SA0905 (committee substitute) — source
  4. Current Version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • HOUSE FINANCE, WAYS, AND MEANS COMMITTEE: Rec. for pass. if am., ref. to Calendar & Rules Committee 4/26/2022 (3) — 00 (pass) · lower
  • FLOOR VOTE: REGULAR CALENDAR PASSAGE ON THIRD CONSIDERATION 4/27/2022 Passed (1) — 776 (pass) · lower
  • HOUSE CALENDAR & RULES COMMITTEE: H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 4/27/2022 4/26/2022 (2) — 00 (fail) · lower
  • HOUSE FINANCE, WAYS, AND MEANS SUBCOMMITTEE: Rec for pass if am by s/c ref. to Finance, Ways, and Means Committee 4/26/2022 (4) — 00 (fail) · lower
  • HOUSE CRIMINAL JUSTICE COMMITTEE: Rec. for pass. if am., ref. to Finance, Ways, and Means Committee 2/9/2022 (5) — 00 (pass) · lower
  • SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE: Recommended for passage with amendment/s, refer to Senate Calendar Committee Ayes 8, Nays 0 PNV 1 4/6/2022 Passed — 80 (pass) · upper
  • HOUSE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SUBCOMMITTEE: Rec for pass if am by s/c ref. to Criminal Justice Committee 2/2/2022 — 00 (fail) · lower
  • FLOOR VOTE: as Amended Third Consideration 4/20/2022 Passed (1) — 311 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Bell — primary (person)
  • Hall — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2021-12-01 Filed for introduction introduction, reading-1
  • 2022-01-11 Intro., P1C. introduction
  • 2022-01-12 Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee referral-committee
  • 2022-01-12 P2C, ref. to Criminal Justice Committee referral-committee
  • 2022-01-19 Placed on s/c cal Criminal Justice Subcommittee for 1/26/2022
  • 2022-01-19 Sponsor(s) Added.
  • 2022-01-25 Sponsor(s) Added.
  • 2022-01-26 Placed on s/c cal Criminal Justice Subcommittee for 2/2/2022
  • 2022-01-26 Action Def. in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee to 2/2/2022
  • 2022-01-27 Filed for introduction introduction, reading-1
  • 2022-01-31 Introduced, Passed on First Consideration introduction
  • 2022-02-02 Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
  • 2022-02-02 Placed on cal. Criminal Justice Committee for 2/9/2022
  • 2022-02-02 Rec for pass if am by s/c ref. to Criminal Justice Committee referral-committee
  • 2022-02-02 Sponsor(s) Added.
  • 2022-02-09 Sponsor(s) Added.
  • 2022-02-09 Rec. for pass. if am., ref. to Finance, Ways, and Means Committee committee-passage-favorable
  • 2022-02-16 Placed on s/c cal Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee for 2/23/2022
  • 2022-02-16 Assigned to s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee referral-committee
  • 2022-02-23 Placed behind the budget
  • 2022-02-24 Sponsor(s) Added.
  • 2022-03-23 Placed on Senate Judiciary Committee calendar for 3/29/2022
  • 2022-03-29 Action deferred in Senate Judiciary Committee to 3/30/2022
  • 2022-03-30 Placed on Senate Judiciary Committee calendar for 4/6/2022
  • 2022-03-30 Action deferred in Senate Judiciary Committee to 4/5/2022
  • 2022-03-30 Placed on Senate Judiciary Committee calendar for 3/30/2022
  • 2022-04-06 Recommended for passage with amendment/s, refer to Senate Calendar Committee Ayes 8, Nays 0 PNV 1
  • 2022-04-12 Placed on Senate Regular Calendar for 4/14/2022
  • 2022-04-14 Senate Reset on calendar for 4/20/2022
  • 2022-04-18 Placed on Senate Regular Calendar for 4/20/2022
  • 2022-04-20 Engrossed; ready for transmission to House
  • 2022-04-20 Passed Senate as amended, Ayes 31, Nays 1 passage
  • 2022-04-20 Senate adopted Amendment (Amendment 1 - SA0905)
  • 2022-04-20 Placed on s/c cal Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee for 4/26/2022
  • 2022-04-21 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.
  • 2022-04-21 Sponsor(s) Added.
  • 2022-04-26 H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 4/27/2022
  • 2022-04-26 Placed on cal. Calendar & Rules Committee for 4/26/2022
  • 2022-04-26 Rec. for pass. if am., ref. to Calendar & Rules Committee committee-passage-favorable
  • 2022-04-26 Placed on cal. Finance, Ways, and Means Committee for 4/26/2022
  • 2022-04-26 Rec for pass if am by s/c ref. to Finance, Ways, and Means Committee referral-committee
  • 2022-04-27 Passed H., Ayes 77, Nays 6, PNV 0 passage
  • 2022-04-27 Am. withdrawn. (Amendment 1 - HA0504) amendment-withdrawal
  • 2022-04-27 Am. withdrawn. (Amendment 2 - HA1021) amendment-withdrawal
  • 2022-04-27 Subst. for comp. HB.
  • 2022-04-27 Comp. SB subst.
  • 2022-04-27 Sponsor(s) Added.
  • 2022-05-13 Enrolled and ready for signatures
  • 2022-05-18 Signed by H. Speaker
  • 2022-05-18 Signed by Senate Speaker
  • 2022-05-23 Transmitted to Governor for action.
  • 2022-06-01 Signed by Governor. executive-signature
  • 2022-06-03 Effective date(s) 07/01/2022
  • 2022-06-03 Pub. Ch. 1106
  • 2022-06-03 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1106

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/393d4e73-6fba-478d-ab7d-c39d925a43f0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Tennessee legislature records).