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                             PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 468

                                                    SENATE BILL NO. 1399

                                                              By Roberts

                                           Substituted for: House Bill No. 1353

                          By Littleton, Kumar, Hardaway, Terry, Eldridge, Davis, Howell

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 16, relative to interference with
          government operations.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:

          SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 39-16-51 0(a), is amended by deleting the
subsection and substituting instead the following:

                    (a)(1) A person commits an offense who harms or threatens to harm an individual
                    involved in the judicial process or a family member of such person with the intent to
                    impede, intimidate, interfere with, or retaliate against the individual in connection with
                    the individual's participation in the judicial process.

                              (2) As used in subdivision (a)(1 ):

                                        (A) "Family member" means an individual's spouse, parent,
                              grandparent, stepparent, child, grandchild, stepchild, sibling, half-sibling, or
                              spouse's parents; and

                                        (B) "Individual involved in the judicial process" means:

                                                  (i) A witness;

                                                  (ii) A judge or former judge;

                                                  (iii) An employee of the judge;

                                                  (iv) A district attorney general or former district attorney
                                        general;

                                                  (v) An assistant district attorney general or former assistant
                                        district attorney general;

                                                  (vi) An employee of the district attorney general;

                                                  (vii) A law enforcement officer or former law enforcement
                                        officer;

                                                  (viii) A clerk or former clerk;

                                                  (ix) An employee of the clerk;

                                                  (x) A juror or former juror;

                                                  (xi) A district public defender or former district public defender;

                                                  (xii) An assistant district public defender or former assistant
                                        district public defender; or
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                                                   (xiii) An employee of the district public defender.

          SECTION 2. This act takes effect July 1, 2025, the public welfare requiring it.

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         SENATE BILL NO. 1399

PASSED:  April 21, 2025

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                         \                RANDY JcNALLY

                            SPEAKER OF THE SENATE

                         CAMERON"S'EXTON,SPEAKER
                         HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

APPROVED this ~ d a y o f ~               2025

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                      BILL LEE, GOVERNOR