| TN | SB0624 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to the law relevant to juvenile courts and proceedings. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Effective date(s) 01/01/2025 |
| TN | SB2589 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the TBI to notify the district attorney general for the judicial district in which a person petitions a court for expunction if the petitioner has been granted a prior expunction; clarifies what constitutes public records for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 992 |
| TN | SB2710 | Pass | As enacted, raises the penalty for the offense of drag racing from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1000 |
| TN | SB2711 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits Memphis and Nashville, with regard to hotel motel taxes, having a preexisting privilege tax or authority, from changing the designated use; authorizes those municipalities to otherwise change the allocations of the revenue, exce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1001 |
| TN | SB0795 | Pass | As enacted, enacts anti-squatter laws. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 66.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB0757 | Pass | As enacted, generally requires, when a person is arrested, booked, or confined in the jail of a county or municipality, the arresting law enforcement agency and the keeper of a jail to collaborate to verify the citizenship status of the person and th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2987 | Pass | Subject to local approval, changes the allocation of the revenue from the privilege tax on occupancy in a hotel. - Amends Chapter 131 of the Private Acts of 1969; as amended.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 67 |
| TN | SB2791 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "TennCare for Working Individuals with Disabilities Act." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1002 |
| TN | SB2557 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Innovative School District Act," which authorizes a public university in this state that is a comprehensive doctoral-extensive institution of higher learning, is the home to a public training school compendium that includes Pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB2559 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the import or export of human remains by law enforcement agencies for the purpose of human remains detection training if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 11; Title 38 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB2566 | Pass | As enacted, requires any conditions of release imposed on certain felony defendants 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 a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB2763 | Pass | As enacted, 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. - Amends TCA T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | 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. |
| TN | SB2062 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Back the Blue Act," which increases the penalty for assault against a law enforcement officer from a Class A misdemeanor with a mandatory minimum 30-day sentence and $5,000 fine to a Class E felony with a mandatory minimum 60-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 976 |
| TN | SB2911 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits the purchase or possession of a firearm by a person under 25 if the person was previously adjudicated delinquent for an act that, if committed by an adult, would have constituted certain offenses; allows the TBI access to juveni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 973 |
| TN | SB2556 | Pass | As enacted, requires each district attorney general to provide an annual report on arrests, indictments, transferred cases, dispositions, and similar information; requires the district attorneys general conference to compile a statewide report summar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 895 |
| TN | SB2563 | Pass | As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor of violating a condition of release on bail; authorizes a law enforcement officer to arrest such an offender without a warrant. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2570 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a person who suffers loss or injury as a result of a defendant intentionally obstructing a highway, street, or other place used for the passage of vehicles or conveyances to bring a cause of action against such person to recove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2583 | Pass | As enacted, redefines a "qualified data center," for purposes of sales and use taxes, to include a data center that previously made the required capital investment in excess of $100 million and previously created at least 15 net new full-time employe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 886 |
| TN | SB2578 | Pass | As enacted, revises provisions related to the special account in the general fund known as the "pre-need funeral account"; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Section 62-5-414.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/09/2024, 01/01/2025 |
| TN | SB2593 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a local board of education to contract for services with a nonprofit or for-profit entity for the operation and management of an adult high school. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/09/2024 |
| TN | SB2588 | Pass | As enacted, requires state regulatory boards within the department of commerce and insurance and state health related boards within the department of health to issue advisory private letter rulings, upon request. - Amends TCA Title 62 and Title 63.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/06/2024, 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2571 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Parental Accountability Act." - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2585 | Pass | As enacted, creates an offense for possessing or distributing a license plate flipper. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2599 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a law enforcement officer to execute a search warrant for medical records or a test to determine the alcohol or drug content, or both, of a person's blood anywhere in the state, rather than in the county in which the warrant wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 892 |
| TN | SB2586 | Pass | As enacted, requires a person collecting a voter registration form submitted by an applicant during a voter registration drive to, within 15 calendar days of receipt of the form, deliver or mail the form to the county election commission in which the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2565 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits a magistrate from considering a defendant's ability to pay when determining the amount of bail necessary to reasonably assure the appearance of the defendant while at the same time protecting the safety of the public. - Amends T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2103 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the commissioner of revenue to issue refunds under certain conditions to taxpayers who properly file a claim for refund for franchise taxes paid; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 1 and Title 67, Chapter 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/10/2024 |
| TN | SB2946 | Pass | Subject to local approval, creates the "West Tennessee Regional Utility Authority."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 56 |
| TN | SB2793 | Pass | As enacted, requires a judge who enters into a deferred discipline agreement regarding a matter before the board of judicial conduct to sign an affidavit stating that the judge consents to the recommendation of the investigative panel, the consent is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 922 |
| TN | SB2587 | Pass | As enacted, requires the county election commission to select the voting machines to be purchased for use in the county and ensure the destruction of the voting machines when the machines are deemed obsolete; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Effective date(s) 04/29/2024 |
| TN | SB2561 | Pass | As enacted, requires, if a written request is made jointly by the speakers of the senate and the house of representatives, a nonprofit organization that has entered into a contract or memorandum of understanding with the district attorney general rel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1802 | Pass | As enacted, enacts "The District Attorney General Second Opinion Act," which authorizes, in any investigation involving a human trafficking offense, an organized crime offense, or an offense classified as a Class A or B felony, in which a district at...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Effective date(s) 04/29/2024 |
| TN | SB2186 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that in a county with more than one general sessions judge in which the judicial commissioners are supervised by the general sessions judges, the management and supervision of any judicial commissioners appointed pursuant to thi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 786 |
| TN | SB2591 | Pass | As enacted, makes certain revisions to the "Neighborhood Preservation Act." - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 796 |
| TN | SB2100 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the use of certain third-party examiners, inspectors, engineers, and professionals in lieu of a local or state examiner, inspector, engineer, or professional for certain permitted processes and requirements; establishes procedu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 10/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2223 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act." - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6; Title 29; Title 38; Title 39; Title 45 and Title 47.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2148 | Pass | As enacted, requires financial institutions and insurers to make determinations about the provision or denial of services based on certain analysis; prohibits financial institutions and insurers from denying or canceling services to a person, or othe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 746 |
| TN | SB1859 | Pass | As enacted, extends the percentage of a misdemeanor sentence that a court may require a defendant to serve from 75 percent to 100 percent. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 41, Chapter 21, Part 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 743 |
| TN | SB2576 | Pass | As enacted, requires, rather than authorizes, law enforcement agencies to communicate with the appropriate federal official regarding the immigration status of any individual, including reporting knowledge that a particular alien is not lawfully pres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 716 |
| TN | SB2577 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes sellers of pre-need funeral contracts to keep the interest that accrues on the contract after payment is made for the merchandise and services set forth in the contracts. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1681 | Pass | As enacted, requires, in cases where a person is ordered into emergency or nonemergency admission to involuntary commitment and is to be released, the chief officer of the releasing facility to notify, by electronic means, local law enforcement prior...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 10/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2569 | Pass | As enacted, allows a juvenile court to transfer a child, who is 15 or older, to be tried as an adult in criminal court for the offense of organized retail crime, theft of a firearm, or an attempt to commit such offense; revises law with regard to con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 635 |
| TN | SB2584 | Pass | As enacted, requires that each year of progressive practical experience required of an applicant to qualify as a registered land surveyor be spent under the direct supervision of a practicing professional land surveyor rather than just part of the ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 04/04/2024 |
| TN | SB2590 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the board of osteopathic examination to issue advisory private letter rulings upon request to affected licensees regarding matters within the board's primary jurisdiction; provides that such rulings only affect the licensee mak...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 04/04/2024 |
| TN | SB2185 | Pass | As enacted, requires, upon request of the county legislative body, the judicial commissioners to submit any relevant information to the county legislative body at least seven days before the public hearing. - Amends TCA Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 616 |
| TN | SB2572 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits a local governmental entity or official from adopting or enacting a resolution, ordinance, or policy that prohibits or limits the ability of a law enforcement agency to conduct traffic stops based on observation of or reasonable...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 631 |
| TN | SB2581 | Pass | As enacted, requires only marriage license applicants under the age of 18 to provide the name and address of the applicant's parents, guardian, or next of kin. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Effective date(s) 03/27/2024 |
| TN | SB2562 | Pass | As enacted, revises various provisions regarding pretrial release of a defendant charged with a criminal offense to require the magistrate to give first consideration to ensuring the safety of the community when determining whether to impose conditio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 612 |
| TN | SB2070 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that a juvenile court proceeding may be commenced by the taking of a child into custody or the removal of custody from a parent or legal guardian; requires the juvenile court in a dependency and neglect proceeding to determine w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 613 |
