republic-os/legislation/us/states/tn/113/sb-2229.md

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Bill	Criminal Offenses - As enacted, requires a violation of the law regarding criminal offenses and penalties for drugs or a conspiracy to violate such law to be punished as second degree murder if the substance involved is fentanyl or carfentanyl, or any analogue or derivative thereof, either alone or in combination with any substance scheduled as a controlled substance by the Tennessee Drug Control Act of 1989, including controlled substance analogues, and the violation resulted in the death of another person. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.	Criminal Offenses - As enacted, requires a violation of the law regarding criminal offenses and penalties for drugs or a conspiracy to violate such law to be punished as second degree murder if the substance involved is fentanyl or carfentanyl, or any analogue or derivative thereof, either alone or in combination with any substance scheduled as a controlled substance by the Tennessee Drug Control Act of 1989, including controlled substance analogues, and the violation resulted in the death of another person. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.	us/states/tn	Tennessee General Assembly	113	SB 2229	Tennessee SB 2229 (113)	bill	Criminal Offenses	enacted	Lowe	3	28	3	2024-01-30	2024-05-13	openstates	ocd-bill/176fb656-9d38-4f5b-928c-11ed177b634d	http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=SB2229&GA=113	5d27bfd0cfbded439bbc09913decf8a87526a68d6fa70fa4220cbbee83e7040f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-tn

Tennessee SB 2229 (113) — Criminal Offenses - As enacted, requires a violation of the law regarding criminal offenses and penalties for drugs or a conspiracy to violate such law to be punished as second degree murder if the substance involved is fentanyl or carfentanyl, or any analogue or derivative thereof, either alone or in combination with any substance scheduled as a controlled substance by the Tennessee Drug Control Act of 1989, including controlled substance analogues, and the violation resulted in the death of another person. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment HA0930 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment SA0924 (committee substitute) — source
3. Current Version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• FLOOR VOTE: as Amended Third Consideration 4/11/2024 Passed (1) — 28–0 (pass) · upper
• SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE: Recommended for passage with amendment/s, refer to Senate Calendar Committee Ayes 8, Nays 0 PNV 0 4/1/2024 Passed (2) — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• FLOOR VOTE: REGULAR CALENDAR PASSAGE ON THIRD CONSIDERATION 4/23/2024 Passed (1) — 92–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Lowe — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-30 Filed for introduction filing
• 2024-01-31 Introduced, Passed on First Consideration introduction
• 2024-02-01 Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee passage
• 2024-03-20 Placed on Senate Judiciary Committee calendar for 3/26/2024
• 2024-03-26 Placed on Senate Judiciary Committee calendar for 3/27/2024
• 2024-03-26 Action deferred in Senate Judiciary Committee to 3/27/2024
• 2024-03-27 Placed on Senate Judiciary Committee calendar for 4/1/2024
• 2024-03-27 Action deferred in Senate Judiciary Committee to 4/2/2024
• 2024-04-01 Recommended for passage with amendment/s, refer to Senate Calendar Committee Ayes 8, Nays 0 PNV 0
• 2024-04-08 Placed on Senate Regular Calendar for 4/10/2024
• 2024-04-10 Placed on Senate Regular Calendar for 4/11/2024
• 2024-04-10 Senate Reset on calendar for 4/11/2024
• 2024-04-11 Engrossed; ready for transmission to House receipt
• 2024-04-11 Passed Senate as amended, Ayes 28, Nays 0 passage
• 2024-04-11 Senate adopted Amendment (Amendment 1 - SA0924)
• 2024-04-11 Sponsor(s) Added. sponsorship
• 2024-04-11 Sponsor change. sponsorship
• 2024-04-15 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.
• 2024-04-23 Passed H., Ayes 92, Nays 0, PNV 1 passage
• 2024-04-23 Am. withdrawn. (Amendment 1 - HA0930) amendment-withdrawal
• 2024-04-23 Subst. for comp. HB. substitution
• 2024-04-25 Signed by Senate Speaker passage
• 2024-04-25 Enrolled and ready for signatures enrolled
• 2024-04-26 Signed by H. Speaker passage
• 2024-04-29 Transmitted to Governor for action. executive-receipt
• 2024-05-09 Signed by Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-05-13 Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
• 2024-05-13 Pub. Ch. 957

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/176fb656-9d38-4f5b-928c-11ed177b634d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Tennessee legislature records).