HB3984 - Tennessee - Criminal Offenses

Companion Bill SB3827. Criminal Offenses - Creates a new Class A misdemeanor of knowingly owning a pit bull dog in this state. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 44. Fiscal Summary for HB3984 / *SB3827Increase Local Revenue - Exceeds $100,000 Increase Local Expenditures* - Exceeds $2,700,000 Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for HB3984 / *SB3827 This bill prohibits any person from knowingly owning a "pit bull dog" in Tennessee. For purposes of this bill, a pit bull dog includes any American pit bull terrier, Staffordshire bull terrier, American bulldog, or American Staffordshire terrier breed of dog or any mixed breed of dog that contains as 50 percent of its breeding any of the foregoing breeds so as to be identifiable as partially of any such breed. Any violation of this bill would be a Class A misdemeanor,[...]

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