2023-2024 Regular Session • Tennessee Legislature
HB1245: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 40, Chapter 23, relative to the death penalty.
Legislative Summary
As introduced, allows for a sentence of death to be carried out by electrocution as an alternative to lethal injection if the commissioner of correction certifies to the governor that the department is unable to adhere to the lethal injection protocol required to carry out the sentence of death. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 23.
Bill History
1/31/2023
Filed for introduction
House of Representatives
2/1/2023
Intro., P1C.
House of Representatives
2/2/2023
P2C, ref. to Criminal Justice Committee
House of Representatives
2/7/2023
Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee
House of Representatives
2/8/2023
Placed on s/c cal Criminal Justice Subcommittee for 2/14/2023
House of Representatives
2/14/2023
Action Def. in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee to 2/21/2023
House of Representatives
2/15/2023
Placed on s/c cal Criminal Justice Subcommittee for 2/21/2023
House of Representatives
2/21/2023
Rec for pass if am by s/c ref. to Criminal Justice Committee
House of Representatives
2/22/2023
Placed on cal. Criminal Justice Committee for 2/28/2023
House of Representatives
2/27/2023
Sponsor(s) Added.
House of Representatives
2/28/2023
Rec. for pass. if am., ref. to Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
House of Representatives
3/8/2023
Assigned to s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee
House of Representatives
3/8/2023
Placed on s/c cal Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee for 3/15/2023
House of Representatives
3/15/2023
Placed behind the budget
House of Representatives
3/29/2023
Sponsor(s) Added.
House of Representatives
4/12/2023
Placed on s/c cal Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee for 4/18/2023
House of Representatives
4/18/2023
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
House of Representatives
3/20/2024
Placed on s/c cal Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee for 3/27/2024
House of Representatives
3/27/2024
Action Def. in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee to 4/3/2024
House of Representatives
3/27/2024
Placed on s/c cal Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee for 4/3/2024
House of Representatives
4/3/2024
Placed behind the budget
House of Representatives
4/3/2024
Def. to Special Calendar to be Published with Final Calendar in Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee
House of Representatives
4/11/2024
Placed on s/c cal Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee for 4/16/2024
House of Representatives
4/17/2024
Returned to the Clerk's Desk.
House of Representatives
Amendments
HA0059
Amendment 1-0 to HB1245
3/1/2023Not Adopted
Status Information
Current Status
Introduced(1/31/2023)
Chamber
House of Representatives
Sine DiePrior Session
Sponsors
Republican: 6
Primary Sponsor
Dennis Powers
Republican