2025-2026 Regular SessionTennessee Legislature

HB1295: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 29 and Title 39, relative to interference with property.

Legislative Summary

As introduced, enacts the "Shielding Tennesseans from Oligarchic Power and Eliminating Lawless Obstruction of Necessities Act (STOP ELON Act)," which creates a new offense of interfering with an individual's or entity's receipt of a loan, grant, or financial assistance that the individual or entity is lawfully entitled to receive from the federal, state, or local government, with intent to deprive the individual of the loan, grant, or financial assistance, which is punished as theft; authorizes a victim of an offense to bring a civil action to recover the funds that the victim did not receive because of the offense. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 39.

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Bill History

2/6/2025
Filed for introduction
House of Representatives
2/10/2025
Intro., P1C.
House of Representatives
2/12/2025
P2C, ref. to Judiciary Committee
House of Representatives
2/12/2025
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(2/6/2025)
Chamber
House of Representatives
Committee
Criminal Justice Subcommittee(House of Representatives)

Sponsors

Democrat: 1

Primary Sponsor

Jason Powell
Jason Powell
Democrat

Documents

Draft
Bill Text2/6/20258.8 KB
Fiscal Note
Fiscal Note3/4/2025137.2 KB