| TN | HB0248 | Pass | As enacted, requires a person convicted of domestic assault involving strangulation to serve a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 days incarceration; enhances offenses involving strangulation or attempted strangulation based on certain circumstances. -...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 440 |
| TN | HB1189 | Pass | As enacted, limits the circumstances under which a qualified civil liability action may be brought against certain manufacturers, dealers, and sellers of firearms and related products. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6; Title 29; Title 39 and Title 47.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0170 | Pass | As enacted, states that property owners should expect that a permit application will be judged on the law in effect at the time of application; declares that the general assembly rejects the pending ordinance doctrine, as described by the Tennessee s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 453 |
| TN | HB1242 | Pass | As enacted, makes it a Class A misdemeanor to knowingly possess xylazine; makes it a Class C felony to knowingly manufacture, deliver, or sell xylazine, or to knowingly possess xylazine with intent to manufacture, deliver, or sell xylazine; provides ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB1380 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Mature Minor Doctrine Clarification Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 14; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 477 |
| TN | HB1459 | Pass | As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor for a warden or chief administrative officer employed by a penal institution, who knows that certain offenses have occurred within the institution, to fail to report such offenses to the district attorney gen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 347 |
| TN | HB0239 | Pass | As enacted, adds "sex" as a defined term for statutory construction purposes. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 8.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 486 |
| TN | HB1346 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits this state and its political subdivisions from adopting or implementing policy recommendations that deliberately or inadvertently infringe or restrict private property rights without due process, as may be required by policy rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 479 |
| TN | HB1269 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that a teacher or other employee of a public school or LEA is not required to refer to a student using the student's preferred pronoun if the pronoun is not consistent with the student's biological sex; insulates a teacher or ot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 448 |
| TN | HB0158 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits a local education agency, public charter school, public institution of higher education, the state board of education, and the department of education from requiring an educator, employee of an LEA or charter school, faculty mem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 438 |
| TN | HB0706 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to the present law relative to reemployment after retirement from public employment. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 36, Part 8.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0702 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "One Pill Will Kill Act," which adds fentanyl, carfentanil, remifentanil, alfentanil, and thiafentanil to what constitutes a qualifying controlled substance for purposes of certain felony offenses. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0905 | Pass | As enacted, adds one additional criminal court judge in the thirteenth judicial district, one additional circuit court judge in the nineteenth judicial district, and one additional circuit court judge in the twenty-second judicial district. - Amends ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023 |
| TN | HB0817 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits members of local governing bodies to be elected through an election procedure that requires candidates to be nominated from a district and elected at large. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 01/01/2024 |
| TN | HB1031 | Pass | As enacted, creates the inmate disciplinary oversight board for the purpose of granting or denying sentence credits for good institutional behavior and determining whether sentence credits previously awarded should be removed for commission of certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 01/01/2024 |
| TN | HB1072 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department to establish an honor guard grant program to provide grants to veteran service organizations to offset expenses incurred by the organization and members of the organization's honor guard in providing military funer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 01/01/2024 |
| TN | HB0323 | Pass | As enacted, makes various revisions to present tax law. - Amends TCA Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 05/05/2023, 04/01/2024, 01/01/2024, 07/01/2024, 01/01/2025 |
| TN | HB0328 | Pass | As enacted, renames the "Tennessee Local Development Authority Act" to be the "Tennessee Local Development Authority Public Safety Protection Act of 2023" and makes various changes to its existing provisions. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 9.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023 |
| TN | HB0814 | Pass | As enacted, requires the state fire marshal to create a state fire permit that mobile food units may obtain annually to demonstrate fire safety and electrical code compliance to local governments; requires a local government to recognize the state fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023 |
| TN | HB0413 | Pass | As enacted, states that the four years of qualifying full-time professional experience required to be a probation and parole officer may include experience in law enforcement. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 05/05/2023 |
| TN | HB0562 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that compensation for members of the national guard must accrue upon them being ordered to active state service and the payment of compensation to members must use this state's established weekly pay cycle as needed to effectuat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0155 | Pass | As enacted, requires an annual training pay bonus supplement for eligible emergency medical services personnel in the amount of $800. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 140, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 01/01/2024 |
| TN | HB0002 | Pass | As enacted, makes permanent various provisions regarding COVID-19. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 14; Title 29, Chapter 20 and Section 49-7-159 and Chapter 896 of the Public Acts of 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 48 |
| TN | HB1008 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that a course of conduct for purposes of stalking includes one instance of placing an electronic tracking device on a person or in or on a person's property, unless the electronic tracking device is placed by or at the direction...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 349 |
| TN | HB0727 | Pass | As enacted, requires a student's parent or legal guardian, or the student if the student has reached the age of majority, to provide certain consent before the student may engage in certain activities at school. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Titl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 353 |
| TN | HB1444 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to present law relative to criminal offenses involving motor vehicles. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 55.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HJR0633 | Pass | Cortney McCormick, Unity School Teacher of the Year
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-09
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR0613 | Pass | Tom Deal, Riverside Christian Academy Teacher of the Year
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-05
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR0614 | Pass | Nicole White, Highland Rim School Teacher of the Year
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-05
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR0167 | Pass | James K. Polk
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR0027 | Pass | Expresses strong support for completion of the southern border wall and urges Congress to immediately take action to fund the construction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB0306 | Pass | As enacted, limits the ability of a student enrolled in a private school to participate in an interscholastic athletic activity or event, to such activity or event where membership in the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association is required, i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 285 |
| TN | HJR0522 | Pass | Sexual Assault Awareness Month
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR0120 | Pass | Honors the memories of Zackery Grooms and Chance Black and requests TWRA to erect a marker in remembrance of the young men.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB0897 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes, upon a request of a director of schools or the director of a public charter school, the commissioner of education to issue an endorsement exemption to a teacher, in accordance with state board rules, to teach a physical educat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 280 |
| TN | HJR0578 | Pass | Zoey Zakyia Carruth, Salutatorian, Cordova High School
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR0580 | Pass | Petra Rayo Jimenez, Valedictorian, Kingsbury High School
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR0576 | Pass | Karla Yanely Pacheco, Salutatorian, Raleigh Egypt High School
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR0581 | Pass | Kierra Thrill, Salutatorian, Kingsbury High School
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR0579 | Pass | Ashton Rose Ramirez, Valedictorian, Cordova High School
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR0577 | Pass | Maria Fernanda Arredondo, Valedictorian, Raleigh-Egypt High School
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB0962 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes an LEA to award a high school student credit for a course offered by the LEA's high school if the student attains a qualifying score on the course's final examination without requiring the student to enroll in the course. - Ame...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 269 |
| TN | HB1022 | Pass | As enacted, requires the court to place 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 f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 260 |
| TN | HB0752 | Pass | As enacted, creates a criminal offense of a foster parent from a kinship placement knowingly allowing a child in the foster parent's care to visit with the child's parent if the foster parent has knowledge of a current court order prohibiting the par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0577 | Pass | As enacted, adds as a factor the court may consider for the purpose of enhancing a defendant's sentence upon conviction of a criminal offense, consideration of whether the defendant committed the offense of aggravated assault or attempted first degre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB1198 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Silas Gable Flatt Law," which creates an offense of knowingly providing a motor vehicle to another person who the provider of the vehicle knows or should know is under the influence of an intoxicant or whose driver license has...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0165 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes an employee of a public accommodation to ask for certain information about a dog guide in training; specifies that an individual utilizing a service animal or training a service animal in training is liable for damages to the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 194 |
| TN | HB1002 | Pass | As enacted, grants the attorney general and reporter, in cases where a defendant has been sentenced to death and is seeking collateral or direct review of a conviction or sentence, exclusive control over the state's defense of the request for review ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | HB0395 | Pass | As enacted, allows persons who are not otherwise prohibited by law from possessing a handgun to carry a handgun while hunting under certain circumstances, rather than only persons with a handgun carry permit. - Amends TCA Title 44, Chapter 17 and Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 218 |
| TN | HB0318 | Pass | As enacted, revises present law provisions governing adoption and foster care. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 37, Chapter 2, Part 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 187 |
