2025-2026 Regular Session • Tennessee Legislature
HB0599: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13, relative to firearms.
Legislative Summary
As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor for knowingly giving, selling, lending, delivering, or otherwise transferring a firearm to a person when the transferor knows or reasonably should know that the person receiving the firearm is prohibited from purchasing or possessing a firearm under state or federal law. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
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Bill History
1/30/2025
Filed for introduction
House of Representatives
2/3/2025
Intro., P1C.
House of Representatives
2/5/2025
P2C, ref. to Judiciary Committee
House of Representatives
2/5/2025
Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee
House of Representatives
3/19/2025
Placed on s/c cal Criminal Justice Subcommittee for 3/26/2025
House of Representatives
3/26/2025
Action Def. in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee to 4/2/2025
House of Representatives
3/26/2025
Placed on s/c cal Criminal Justice Subcommittee for 4/2/2025
House of Representatives
4/1/2025
Action Def. in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee to First Calendar of 2026
House of Representatives
Status Information
Current Status
Introduced(1/30/2025)
Chamber
House of Representatives
Committee
Criminal Justice Subcommittee(House of Representatives)
Sponsors
Democrat: 1
Primary Sponsor
Bob Freeman
Democrat