Tennessee § 40-35-217 - Sentence conditioned or based upon defendant submitting to birth control, sterilization, or family planning services prohibited.

§ 40-35-217. Sentence conditioned or based upon defendant submitting to birth control, sterilization, or family planning services prohibited.

As used in this section, “sterilization” means the process of rendering an individual incapable of sexual reproduction by castration, vasectomy, salpingectomy, or some other procedure and includes endoscopic techniques for female sterilization that can be performed outside of a hospital without general anesthesia such as culdoscopic, hysteroscopic, and laparoscopic sterilization. No guilty plea agreement or plea of nolo contendere shall be accepted by the court nor shall any criminal sentence be imposed by a judge if any part of the plea or sentence is in whole or in part conditioned or based upon the criminal defendant submitting to any form of temporary or permanent birth control, sterilization, or family planning services, regardless of whether the defendant's consent is voluntarily given. A sentencing court shall not make a sentencing determination that is based in whole or in part on the defendant's consent or refusal to consent to any form of temporary or permanent birth control, sterilization, or family planning services, regardless of whether the defendant's consent is voluntarily given. This section shall not apply to the provision of educational services on the matters of temporary or permanent birth control, sterilization, or family planning services. Acts 2018, ch. 917, § 1. Compiler's Notes. Acts 2018, ch. 917, § 3 provided that the act, which enacted this section, shall apply to any plea agreement or plea of nolo contendere entered into or sentencing determination made on or after May 1, 2018.