Tennessee Senator Dawn White [R]

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State	Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
TN	SR0326	Pass	Dr. Joseph Wasmond [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-30 Signed by Senate Speaker
TN	SB1664	Pass	As enacted, requires the juvenile court to include in the disposition for a juvenile who has been found to have made a threat to commit mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity, in addition to any other disposition authorized ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-29 Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TN	SB2665	Enroll 75%	As introduced, creates a street racing task force to study and determine best practices for curbing illegal street racing in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 55. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-29 Enrolled and ready for signatures
TN	SB2664	Enroll 75%	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]	2024-04-29 Enrolled and ready for signatures
TN	SB0517	Pass	As enacted, enacts the "Representative Darren Jernigan Act," which requires, beginning on January 1, 2025, and each year thereafter, the department of revenue to verify that the owner of each disabled parking placard has not died; requires the depart... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-29 Effective date(s) 4/19/2024
TN	SB2337	Enroll 75%	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]	2024-04-29 Enrolled and ready for signatures
TN	SB2749	Enroll 75%	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]	2024-04-29 Enrolled and ready for signatures
TN	SB0757	Enroll 75%	As introduced, extends from 90 days to 100 days, the amount of time in which captured plate data collected or retained by a governmental entity through the use of an automated license plate recognition system may be stored unless the data is retained... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-29 Enrolled and ready for signatures
TN	SB1802	Pass	As introduced, authorizes the attorney general and reporter to investigate human trafficking offenses, organized crime offenses, and related criminal activity; authorizes the attorney general and reporter to prosecute such offenses either with consen... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-29 Signed by Governor.
TN	SB1792	Enroll 75%	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]	2024-04-29 Enrolled and ready for signatures
TN	SB2221	Enroll 75%	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]	2024-04-29 Enrolled and ready for signatures
TN	SB2763	Enroll 75%	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]	2024-04-29 Enrolled and ready for signatures
TN	SB2116	Enroll 75%	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]	2024-04-29 Enrolled and ready for signatures
TN	SB2566	Enroll 75%	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]	2024-04-29 Enrolled and ready for signatures
TN	SB0795	Enroll 75%	As introduced, removes ambiguous language and clarifies that a transfer of a possibility of reverter or right of entry by a holder other than the original grantor is invalid unless the validity of the future interest was determined by a final judgmen... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-29 Enrolled and ready for signatures
TN	SJR1485	Enroll 75%	Dr. Keith Norman, 25th pastoral anniversary [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-29 Transmitted to Governor for action.
TN	SB2689	Enroll 75%	As introduced, directs the administrative office of the courts (AOC) to define and develop a centralized system of case management, document management, electronic case filing, electronic payment methods, data reporting, and any other capability deem... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-25 Transmitted to Governor for action.
TN	SB0135	Enroll 75%	As introduced, increases from 16 to 20 point font the minimum font size that a postsecondary educational institution must use for the required transferability of credits disclosure given to a student prior to the student signing an enrollment contrac... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-25 Transmitted to Governor for action.
TN	SB2183	Intro 25%	As introduced, changes, from 10 days to 10 business days, the maximum amount of time the commissioner of education can suspend schools in a year when the commissioner requires all teachers to attend county institutes or educational meetings. - Amends... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-25 Conf. comm. report adopted, Ayes 82, Nays 3 PNV 0
TN	SB2563	Enroll 75%	As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor of violating a condition of release on bail; authorizes a law enforcement officer to arrest a person without a warrant based on probable cause to believe that the person has violated a condition of release... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-25 Transmitted to Governor for action.
TN	SB2062	Intro 25%	As introduced, 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-day sentence and $10,000 fine. - Am... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-24 Sponsor(s) Added.
TN	SB2659	Intro 25%	As introduced, expands student eligibility for a Tennessee future teacher scholarship to include students enrolled in an approved educator preparation program at Western Governors University. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 7. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-24 Sponsor(s) Added.
TN	SB2530	Intro 25%	As introduced, creates the artificial intelligence advisory council to recommend an action plan to guide awareness, education, and usage of artificial intelligence in state government that aligns with the state’s policies and goals and that support... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-24 Sponsor(s) Added.
TN	SJR1382	Pass	Cheri Doane, Ms. Tennessee Senior America 2023 [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-24 Signed by Governor.
TN	SJR1362	Pass	Hannah-Kate McFadden [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-24 Signed by Governor.
TN	SJR1489	Pass	Officer Joseph McKinney, Memphis Police Department [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-24 Signed by Governor.
TN	SB1709	Enroll 75%	As introduced, creates new criminal offenses of assault within a healthcare facility and aggravated assault within a healthcare facility. - Amends TCA Title 39. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-24 Signed by H. Speaker
TN	SB2158	Intro 25%	As introduced, requires the review of executive branch agency policies and spending as it relates to illegal immigration; requires a report to be compiled and delivered to the governor and the speakers of the senate and house of representatives regar... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-24 Sponsor(s) Added.
TN	SB2791	Intro 25%	As introduced, enacts the "TennCare for Working Individuals with Disabilities Act." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-24 Sponsor(s) Added.
TN	SJR1557	Engross 50%	Morgan Price, NCAA gymnastics champion [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-24 Concurred, Ayes 96, Nays 1, PNV 1
TN	SB0544	Intro 25%	As introduced, requires the department to employ a guardian ad litem within each region of the state to advocate for each child who is in the custody of the department due to allegations of dependency and neglect and located within the region that th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-23 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TN	SJR1524	Engross 50%	Assistant Commissioner Gary Farley [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-23 Concurred, Ayes 96, Nays 0, PNV 0
TN	SJR1525	Engross 50%	Rhedona Rose [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-23 Concurred, Ayes 96, Nays 0, PNV 0
TN	SB1210	Intro 25%	As introduced, changes from February 15 to February 1, the date by which the state board of education, with the assistance of the department of education and the Tennessee higher education commission, must issue a report card or assessment on the eff... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-22 Sponsor(s) Added.
TN	SB1822	Pass	As enacted, designates as official state books: "Farewell Address to the American People" by George Washington; "The Papers of Andrew Jackson"; "Democracy in America" by Alexis de Tocqueville; "All the King's Men" by Robert Penn Warren; "A Death in t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-22 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 720
TN	SJR1436	Enroll 75%	Jeffrey "J.R." Russell [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-22 Transmitted to Governor for action.
TN	SB1305	Intro 25%	As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Special Educator Scholarship Act." - Amends TCA Title 49. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-19 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TN	SB0536	Intro 25%	As introduced, adds, for purposes of juvenile court proceedings and termination of parental rights proceedings, certain offenses to those that constitute severe child abuse if the act was committed toward the child or there was a knowing failure to p... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-19 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TN	SB0531	Intro 25%	As introduced, requires the department to maintain staffing to allow case managers to have no more than 20 open cases, rather than an average of 20 active cases; states that a "person residing in the child's home" includes a person living in a reside... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-19 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TN	SB2674	Enroll 75%	As introduced, authorizes the issuance of temporary teaching permits for courses for which an end-of-course examination is required. - Amends TCA Title 49. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-19 Transmitted to Governor for action.
TN	SB2688	Intro 25%	As introduced, directs the department to conduct a study, utilizing existing resources, on the effectiveness of state programs incentivizing students to pursue careers in mental health care; requires the study to include an analysis of similar progra... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-19 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TN	SB2652	Pass	As enacted, requires local boards of education to include school safety training in the training requirements for substitute teachers; clarifies that LEAs are prohibited from hiring a substitute teacher whose license in another state is revoked; make... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-19 Signed by Governor.
TN	SB2655	Enroll 75%	As introduced, requires public charter schools to provide educators six work weeks of paid leave after the birth or stillbirth of the educator's child or after the educator's adoption of a newly placed minor child. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-19 Transmitted to Governor for action.
TN	SB2669	Intro 25%	As introduced, increases the penalties for certain violations of the offense of unlawful photography; requires the court, rather than allowing the court discretion, to order a person convicted of certain unlawful photography offenses to register as a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-19 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TN	SB2654	Enroll 75%	As introduced, creates a Class B misdemeanor that is committed when a person knowingly tampers with, removes, or vandalizes a monitoring device that the person is required to use as a condition of bond, probation, or parole; requires an entity monito... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-19 Transmitted to Governor for action.
TN	SB2670	Intro 25%	As introduced, allows a Tennessee HOPE scholarship student or a nontraditional Tennessee HOPE scholarship student who earned the student's first baccalaureate degree between July 1, 2022, and July 1, 2023, in less than five years from the date of the... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-19 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TN	SB2066	Pass	As introduced, requires installation of carbon monoxide alarms in each room of a child care agency where care is provided to a child; requires the alarms to meet certain national certification standards and be installed in accordance with national fi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-19 Signed by Governor.
TN	SJR1235	Pass	Michael Maren [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-19 Signed by Governor.
TN	SJR1192	Pass	Senator Art Swann [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-19 Signed by Governor.
TN	SJR1388	Pass	Representative. Judd Matheny [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-19 Signed by Governor.