Criminal Offenses

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary and text do not provide details on the implementation costs or specific actions required of property owners/managers.

Automatic Notification for Rental Property Crime Patterns

This bill requires law enforcement agencies to notify certain nonprofits about emergency calls at rental properties and allows property owners or managers to sign up for these notifications.

What This Bill Does

• Requires law enforcement agencies to send automatic notifications to qualified nonprofit organizations when they receive emergency assistance calls at rental homes or apartment complexes, if the nonprofit has registered the address with the agency.
• Allows rental property owners or managers to contact a registered nonprofit organization to sign up for receiving these automatic notifications about emergency calls.

Who It Names or Affects

• Law enforcement agencies
• Rental property owners and managers
• Qualified nonprofits

Terms To Know

qualified nonprofit organization

A legally constituted, non-governmental entity incorporated under state law as a charitable or tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify how the cost of implementing this system will be covered.
• It is unclear what kind of action rental property owners and managers can take with the information received from these notifications.

Official Summary Text

This bill requires

a
law enforcement agency
to
send automatic notification to a qualified no
n
profit organization of calls received for emergenc
y assistance services at a rental home or apartment complex, if the qualified nonprofit organization has registered the address of the rental home or apartment complex with the law enforcement agency for the purpose of distributing the calls for service t
o
rental property owners and managers.

This bill authorizes a
rental property owner or manager
to
contact a registered qualified nonprofit organization to sign up to receive the distribution of the automatic notification of calls for emergency assistance
at the owner or manager's properties for the purpose of detecting and acting on crime patterns.

As used in this bill, a "
qualified nonprofit organization" means a legally constituted, non-governmental entity incorporated under state law as a charitable o
r
a 501(c)(3)
non-profit organization
.

Current Bill Text

SENATE BILL 236
By Taylor

HOUSE BILL 305
By Gillespie

HB0305
000582
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 38,
relative to detection of criminal patterns.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 38, Chapter 1, is amended by adding
the following as a new part:
38-1-1001. Part definitions.
As used in this part, "qualified nonprofit organization" means a legally
constituted, non-governmental entity incorporated under state law as a charitable or non-
profit organization that is tax-exempt according to 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3).
38-1-1002. Automatic notification of emergency assistance services for rental
properties.
(a) A law enforcement agency must send automatic notification to a qualified no-
profit organization of calls received for emergency assistance services at a rental home
or apartment complex, if the qualified nonprofit organization has registered the address
of the rental home or apartment complex with the law enforcement agency for the
purpose of distributing the calls for service to rental property owners and managers.
(b) A rental property owner or manager may contact a registered qualified
nonprofit organization to sign up to receive the distribution of the automatic notification of
calls for emergency assistance at the owner or manager's properties for the purpose of
detecting and acting on crime patterns.

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SECTION 2. The headings in this act are for reference purposes only and do not
constitute a part of the law enacted by this act. However, the Tennessee Code Commission is
requested to include the headings in any compilation or publication containing this act.
SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.