Legislation passed in Tennessee on April 10, 2025, requires autopsies for mass shooters for the purposes of identifying links to psychiatric drugs.

The bill, HB 1349, and companion bill SB 1146, require “the medical examiner’s office to ascertain and document current drug use, including psychotropic drugs, by a deceased individual who committed a mass shooting; directs the University of Tennessee’s health science center to study drug interactions between the psychotropic drugs and any other drugs present in the deceased individual’s system; requires the department of health to disclose the psychotropic drug use of the individual to the public upon request.”

WBIR noted that HB 1349 passed in the Tennessee House on a vote of 76- 20. The companion bill, SB 1146, passed in the Tennessee Senate on a vote of 27-5.