Tennessee legislation · 114th General Assembly
Tennessee HB1484: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8, Chapter 7 and Title 39, relative to district attorneys general.
Status: Chaptered, May 15, 2026
Fiscal Summary NOT SIGNIFICANT Bill Summary This bill enacts the "The Memphis Safe Task Force Accountability Act," which requires the district attorney general of any judicial district in which operation viper or the Memphis safe task force is in effect to submit a report to the attorney general and reporter, speaker of the senate, speaker of the house of representatives, district attorneys general conference, and United States attorney with jurisdiction in the judicial district whenever the district attorney general takes any of the following actions with regard to a felony offense the charges of which resulted from operation viper or the task force: Enters into a plea agreement. Lowers the charged offense. Dismisses or otherwise declines to prosecute the offense. This bill requires a district attorney general to submit such a report within 24 hours of the entry of an agreed plea, reduction in charged offense, issuance of an order of nolle prosequi or dismissal, or another formal action indicating a declination to prosecute. "MEMPHIS SAFE TASK FORCE" DEFINED As used in this bill, "Memphis safe task force" means a federal task force operating with the objective of ending street and violent crime in Memphis to the greatest possible extent through the promotion and facilitation of hypervigilant policing, aggressive prosecution, complex investigations, financial enforcement, and large-scale saturation of besieged neighborhoods with law enforcement personnel, while coordinating closely with state and local officials. "OPERATION VIPER" DEFINED As used in this bill, "operation viper" means an ongoing federal bureau of investigation mission with a dedicated task force of federal, state, and local law enforcement engaging in a multi-phased, strategic plan to combat crime by leveraging the full extent of both federa
What the bill says
From the amended text:
House Judiciary 1 Amendment No. 1 to HB1484 Farmer Signature of Sponsor AMEND S e n ate Bill No. 1467* House Bill No. 1484 by deleting all language after the enacting clause and substituting: SECTION 1. This act is known and may be cited as "The Memphis Safe Task Force Accountability Act." SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8, Chapter 7, Part 1, is amended by adding the following new section: (a) The district attorney general of any judicial district in which the Memphis safe task force or a federal task force to combat violent crime is in effect shall submit a report, as provided in subsection (b), to the attorney general and reporter, speaker of the senate, speaker of the house of representatives, district attorneys general conference, and United States attorney with jurisdiction in the judicial district whenever the district attorney general takes any of the following actions with regard to a serious offense the charges of which resulted from the Memphis safe task force or a federal task force to combat violent (2) Lowers the charged offense; or (3) Dismisses or otherwise declines to prosecute the offense. (b) A district attorney general must submit, at the end of each month in which an action listed in subdivisions (a)(1)-(3) occurs, a compilation of the reports of any such action …