Criminal Offenses - As introduced, makes it an offense for a person, on behalf of a debt collector or inbound telemarketer service, to knowingly cause any caller identification service to transmit misleading or inaccurate caller identification information, including caller identification information that does not match the area code of the person or the debt collector or inbound telemarketer service the person is calling on behalf of, or is not a toll-free phone number, to a subscriber with the intent to induce the subscriber to answer. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 47, Chapter 18.

Memorials, Recognition - Claiborne Ferguson, 2023-2024 President of Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers -

Education - As introduced, adds to requirements for school safety plans that the plans include measures to ensure district employees, including substitute teachers, have classroom access to communications devices that allow for immediate contact with first responders. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Chapter 367 of the Public Acts of 2023.

Education - As introduced, requires the department of education to establish a school bulletproofing grant program to provide grants to public schools located in counties with a crime rate of 13 percent or higher for violent offenses, for the purpose of offsetting expenses for the installation of bulletproof film on doors and windows. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 49; Title 67 and Chapter 367 of the Public Acts of 2023.

Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to report in detail to the general assembly the types of threats of violence reported by LEAs and public charter schools and include its findings and any recommendations related to school safety; requires the report to be submitted by January 1 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 49 and Chapter 367 of the Public Acts of 2023.