Source: tennesseeconservativenews.com 12/13/24 [see HB1617 for update]
The Tennessee Conservative [By Kelly M. Jackson] –
The new General Session is just a few weeks away, and already a flurry of bills are being filed for introduction and consideration in what will be the 114th General Assembly.
One of those bills, House Bill 1617 (HB1617), sponsored by Representative Bryan Richey (R-D20-Maryville), if signed into law will extend the amount of time a person who has been convicted of a sexual offense and obligated to register as a sex offender must remain on the registry from 10 years to 15 years.
HB1617 states: “As introduced, extends from 10 years to 15 years the period of time following termination of active supervision on probation, parole, or any other alternative to incarceration, or discharge from incarceration without supervision after which an offender may file a request for termination of the requirement to register as a sexual offender or violent sexual offender. – Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2.”
Click here for the latest bill status and details
Tennessee residents, Show Up, Stand Up, and Speak Up to stop unjust bills SB0181 and HB1617! If you don’t do it, who will stop these terrible bills? Write your representatives! Show up to hearings! It works in California, and it can work in any state.
An increase in penalty for doing absolutely nothing wrong. Sure looks like retribution than seeking justice.
Those same conservatives that claim it is their righteous duty to protect children by being more punitive to those with sex offense histories better remember their hypocrisy on election day when they vote for someone who has admitted with their own mouth that it was okay, concerning women, to “Grab ’em by the pu**y”. Makes me sick.