| SB2968 | Pass | Subject to local approval, creates the East Bank Development Authority for the metropolitan government of Nashville and Davidson County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2926 | Pass | As introduced, deletes a redundant definition in law relative to intoxicating liquors that defines the commission. - Amends TCA Title 57 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2879 | Pass | As introduced, creates a committee to study the establishment of incarcerated parenting plans to facilitate the ongoing relationships between incarcerated parents and their children within this state; requires the committee to report its findings and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2822 | Pass | As introduced, requires the office of the comptroller of the treasury to include in any audit conducted by the office of a governing board of a public institution of higher education an examination into whether each institution governed by the board ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2797 | Pass | As introduced, expands the definition of a law enforcement officer to include retired law enforcement officers who are carrying a firearm pursuant to certain state laws for purposes of when a law enforcement officer may carry a firearm. - Amends TCA ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2820 | Pass | As introduced, authorizes the department of education to make its standardized form for reporting student allergies available to all local education agencies on its website. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2664 | Pass | As introduced, requires each institution of higher education in this state to classify a student who is the spouse or dependent child of a service member as an in-state student for tuition purposes if certain criteria are met. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2749 | Pass | As introduced, enacts the “Families’ Rights and Responsibilities Act." - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2730 | Pass | As introduced, requires a supplemental adjustment to state funding for public defender offices in the twentieth and thirtieth judicial districts for pay parity purposes. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2770 | Pass | As introduced, authorizes the enhancement of criminal penalties up to life in prison without parole upon conviction of violent crimes by illegal aliens; conviction of possession of a firearm or deadly weapon by an illegal alien; or conviction of a vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2782 | Pass | As introduced, creates a civil cause of action against any person who knowingly removes a minor from this state without the consent of a parent of the minor for the purpose of assisting the minor in obtaining a healthcare procedure that is for the pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2763 | Pass | As introduced, preempts the entire field of legislation regarding extreme risk protection orders to the exclusion of all county, city, town, municipality, or metropolitan government law, ordinances, resolutions, enactments, or regulation; declares a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2732 | Pass | As introduced, requires a holder of a certificate of registration to notify the state board of cosmetology and barber examiners within 35 days, instead of 30 days, of a change to the certificate holder's mailing address. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 4...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2566 | Pass | As introduced, requires any conditions of release imposed on a defendant to include a requirement that the defendant submit to pretrial monitoring to ensure compliance with the conditions; requires the court to order bail to be forfeited and an arres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2550 | Pass | As enacted, makes various revisions to laws governing property tax liens, delinquent property taxes, and property tax proceedings. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 8; Title 13; Title 26 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 967 |
| SB2605 | Pass | As introduced, authorizes the Tennessee wildlife resources agency to enter into license agreements for the operation of facilities on lands under the control or supervision of the agency for the improved utilization of state lands and facilities; suc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2559 | Pass | As introduced, authorizes the import and export of human remains by state, local, and municipal law enforcement agencies for the purpose of human remains detection training; requires the Tennessee bureau of investigation, in consultation with the dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2557 | Pass | As introduced, changes from November 1 to October 15 the deadline for the comptroller to annually submit a report concerning the implementation of the Tennessee Literacy Success Act. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2517 | Pass | As enacted, creates one additional circuit court in the 4th judicial district, creates one additional trial court in the 19th judicial district; eliminates part VII of the circuit court in the 13th judicial district; and eliminates part IX of the cri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 977 |
| SB2539 | Pass | As enacted, vacates and reconstitutes the state energy policy council. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 59; Title 60; Title 65 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 981 |
| SB2538 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the governor to deploy up to a brigade-sized force to Texas to assist in repelling the invasion at the southern border of the United States during fiscal year 2024-2025. - Amends TCA Title 58.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 983 |
| SB2536 | Pass | As introduced, allows a prisoner of a county workhouse or jail to be released from custody on work release or otherwise allowed to leave the grounds of the county workhouse or jail for employment or to perform work in the community, whether paid or u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2496 | Pass | As introduced, authorizes the chief legislative body of a municipality to create a voluntary attainable housing incentive program by ordinance for the purpose of authorizing certain incentives to be provided to property owners who seek to build attai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2368 | Pass | As introduced, requires the commissioner of finance and administration, or the commissioner's designee, to make available to the public on the department's website any proposed budget document or other financial publication that lists complex rehabil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2337 | Pass | As introduced, increases the penalty for indecent exposure from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony if the person was confined in a penal institution at the time of the commission of the offense and the offense was committed with the intent to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2304 | Pass | As introduced, requires a defendant for whom a bench warrant is issued due to failure to appear on a felony or a Class A or Class B misdemeanor that is violent or sexual in nature as determined by the court, or who is charged with a failure to appear...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2269 | Pass | As introduced, directs the department to identify federal and state regulations that inhibit the efficient processing of applications and delivery of benefits for the food assistance program; requires the department to submit any necessary waiver app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2204 | Pass | As introduced, authorizes available funds in the Ocoee River recreation and economic development fund to be paid to the Tennessee Valley Authority for additional releases of water on the Ocoee River. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11; Title 65, Chapter ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2221 | Pass | As introduced, creates the Class E felony offense of assault against a participant in judicial proceedings, which occurs when a person, while on the premises of a building in which judicial proceedings occur, knowingly assaults a victim that the pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2246 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a healthcare provider licensed as a nurse or physician assistant to prescribe a buprenorphine product as approved by the FDA for use in recovery or medication-assisted treatment if certain criteria is met. - Amends TCA Title 33...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 980 |
| SB2230 | Pass | As introduced, defines "hospital-based laboratory" and "hospital-based laboratory supervisor" for purposes of the Tennessee Medical Laboratory Act; provides hospital-based laboratory supervisors the authority to supervise up to four hospital-based la...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2134 | Pass | As introduced, enacts the Social Work Licensure Compact. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2136 | Pass | As introduced, makes various changes to the authorized scope of practice of physician assistants and advanced practice nurses who meet certain qualifications. - Amends TCA Title 55; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2116 | Pass | As introduced, increases from 15 days to 15 business days the time period a court may send notification of a defendant's conviction of aggravated cruelty to animals to the appropriate protective agencies if the defendant resides in a household with m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2044 | Pass | As introduced, states that, for inmates serving a sentence of two years or more for an offense committed on or after July 1, 2024, sentence reduction credits shall not operate to alter the defendant's sentence expiration date, but may be used to redu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2015 | Pass | As introduced, extends the nursing home annual assessment fee to June 30, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 10.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2007 | Pass | As introduced, authorizes public hospitals, upon approval of the hospital's governing body, to establish a state employee and retiree healthcare incentive program that will allow for the waiver of applicable out-of-pocket expenses associated with med...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2004 | Pass | As introduced, prohibits a licensed professional counselor, licensed marital and family therapist, or licensed clinical pastoral therapist from receiving compensation for services rendered in a free health clinic, including, but not limited to, reimb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB1972 | Pass | As introduced, requires the court to order an offender to wear a global positioning monitoring system device under certain circumstances unless the court finds the offender no longer poses a threat to the alleged victim or public safety; specifies th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB1984 | Pass | As introduced, excludes recreational facilities, recreational purposes, and parks from the definition of "public use" as it applies to eminent domain. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 17, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB1971 | Pass | As introduced, creates the criminal offense of abortion trafficking of a minor; provides for a civil action against a person committing the offense of abortion trafficking of a minor for the wrongful death of an unborn child that was aborted. - Amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB1969 | Pass | As introduced, requires the court that finds a person incompetent to stand trial for a criminal offense due to intellectual disability to also determine whether the person is subject to involuntary care and treatment at the hearing in which the perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB1963 | Pass | As introduced, permits a court to award the reasonable court costs and attorney's fees to a petitioner successfully proving that a governing body knowingly and willfully violated the public meetings laws in this state. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 4...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB1931 | Pass | As introduced, requires the department to annually notify each local education agency (LEA) in writing of all state and federal grant programs available to assist the LEA in expanding mental health services and resources in schools. - Amends TCA Titl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB1866 | Pass | As introduced, clarifies that in determining whether a person is an illegal alien for employment purposes, the person's status is considered with respect to the employment of the person at a particular time. - Amends TCA Title 50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB1881 | Pass | As introduced, removes from the definition of "provider-based telemedicine" the requirement that the healthcare service provider or the provider's practice group or healthcare system have an established provider-patient relationship that is documente...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB1862 | Pass | As introduced, enacts the "Dietitian Licensure Compact." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB1811 | Pass | As introduced, expands the application of certain indecent exposure offenses by including victims from 13 to 17 years of age; increases the penalty for indecent exposure if the victim is between 13 and 17 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 39...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB1792 | Pass | As introduced, enacts the "Protect Tennessee Minors Act"; requires an individual or commercial entity that publishes or distributes in this state a website that contains a substantial portion of material harmful to minors perform reasonable age-verif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| SB1806 | Pass | As introduced, requires the department to submit written summaries of policies and guidelines adopted by it to the chairs of the government operations committees of each house, with the policies and guidelines to be posted on the subsequent joint rul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
