Tennessee Senator Raumesh Akbari [D]

Filter View [Reset All]
Syndicate content
StanceStateBillStatusSummary/TitleLast Actionsort icon
TNSR0328PassKennedy Polk
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-30
Signed by Senate Speaker
TNSR0329PassHannah Camille Glenn
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-30
Signed by Senate Speaker
TNSR0326PassDr. Joseph Wasmond
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-30
Signed by Senate Speaker
TNSB2911Intro
25%
As introduced, prohibits the purchase or possession of a firearm by a person under 25 years of age if the person was previously adjudicated delinquent for an act that, if committed by an adult, would have constituted one or more certain offenses; all...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-26
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB1266Engross
50%
As introduced, changes from February 1 to February 15, the date by which the commissioner is required to annually report to the governor and the general assembly on the implementation and compliance with the Schools Against Violence in Education Act....
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-25
Held on desk.
TNSB1260Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes the establishment of industrial development corporations solely to assist and benefit minority-owned businesses, locally owned businesses, small businesses, and women-owned businesses. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-24
Companion House Bill substituted
TNSB2659Intro
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.
TNSB1480Intro
25%
As introduced, requires an officer to provide an alleged victim of certain criminal offenses with a document notifying the victim of the global positioning monitoring system used as a condition of bail. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55, C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-24
Companion House Bill substituted
TNSB2530Intro
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.
TNSB2791Intro
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.
TNSB0756Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department of human services to advertise prominently on the home page of the department's website the division of adult protective services' toll-free telephone service that enables citizens within the state to call the d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB2146Intro
25%
As introduced, removes a report due by March 1, 2006, from the commissioner to legislative committees concerning the effectiveness of a demonstration project wherein a nursing home allowed a disabled volunteer to assume certain functions in the nursi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB2471Intro
25%
As introduced, expands the purposes for which the apportionment and distribution of state tax revenues to a sports authority owned by the city of Memphis can be used to include payment of, or the reimbursement of, expenses associated with securing re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-23
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2117Intro
25%
As introduced, defines a home for the aged that houses three or fewer nonrelated persons as a tier 1 home for the aged that is subject to licensure and regulation by the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities; defines a home for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-23
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB1987PassAs enacted, designates “Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree” by Brenda Lee as the official state holiday song; requires the secretary of state to include the song in the Tennessee Blue Book. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-22
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 719
TNSB2883Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Prostate-Specific Antigen Screening for High-risk Insured Men Act," which requires health insurance coverage for the early detection of prostate cancer for men who meet certain risk criteria or age thresholds. - Amends TCA ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB2877Engross
50%
As introduced, directs the Tennessee advisory committee on intergovernmental relations (TACIR), with the assistance of the Tennessee bureau of investigation, the district attorneys general conference, and the department of safety, to study the feasib...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-22
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.
TNSB2987Intro
25%
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]
2024-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB2711Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes a municipality to change the allocation of revenue, but not its designated use, of a privilege tax upon the privilege of occupancy in a hotel if the tax preexisted July 1, 2021. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 14.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB0616Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department to provide juveniles who are in the department's custody and housed in a juvenile detention facility approved, certified, or licensed by the department, including youth development centers, with 24-hour access, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB0750Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department to create and implement a promising futures program to provide scholarships to children who are not school age to assist them in developing early language and literacy skills in a high-quality early care and lea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB0231Intro
25%
As introduced, changes the amount of a minority teaching fellowship award for a recipient who is enrolled in a degree program leading to licensure as a teacher in an institution of higher education with an approved educator preparation program from $...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB0472Intro
25%
As introduced, increases the penalty for driving upon a highway without a valid driver license for the vehicle being driven from a Class C misdemeanor to a Class B misdemeanor for a first offense and a Class A misdemeanor for a second or subsequent o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1783Intro
25%
As introduced, reallocates 5 percent of the privilege tax collected from licensees that offer sports wagering in this state from the lottery for education account to a new Tennessee Promise completion grant special account created to assist the commi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2462Intro
25%
As introduced, directs the department to promulgate rules to establish a grant program for first-time home buyers. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 10; Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 47 and Title 66.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2612Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "African American Cultural and Historical Grant Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 13.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2728Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Menstrual Hygiene Products Accessibility Act." - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 49 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1977Intro
25%
As introduced, establishes the hunger-free campus grant program; provides grants to higher education institutions to address student hunger. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2509Intro
25%
As introduced, extends the school turnaround pilot program beyond the 2024-2025 school year; increases, from five to 15, the number of schools in need of intervention that may participate in the school turnaround pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 49,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSJR1269PassMadison Berry
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-19
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR1238Pass75th anniversary of Oak Ridge gate opening
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-19
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR1235PassMichael Maren
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-19
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR1192PassSenator Art Swann
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-19
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR1388PassRepresentative. Judd Matheny
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-19
Signed by Governor.
TNSR0314PassAlan Whittington, 50th birthday
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-19
Signed by Senate Speaker
TNSB2445PassAs enacted, adds three persons to the state child fatality review team who are each state residents with a child under 18; requires the state child fatality review team to distribute the team's annual report to each local education agency and to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024
TNSB1726PassAs enacted, requires the department, using existing resources, to develop a conflict resolution program that may be adopted and implemented by LEAs and public charter schools to assist students in any of the grades K-12 in developing the skills neces...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024
TNSB2021PassAs enacted, expands postsecondary academic programs in fermentation authorizing students to taste alcoholic beverages as part of the program. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/09/2024
TNSB2162PassAs enacted, authorizes the governing body of an incorporated city or town to approve a project or request of its board of waterworks and/or sewerage commissioners by passage of a proper ordinance or resolution. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 35.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024
TNSB1807PassAs enacted, requires the department, on or before January 1, 2025, and on or before January 1 of each subsequent year, to submit a report on the department's progress on passenger and freight rail and public transportation efforts at the state and fe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024
TNSB1787PassAs enacted, by May 31, 2025 and by each May 31 thereafter, requires the department of health to publish an annual report stating the total number of attempted suicides and completed suicides that have occurred in this state in the previous calendar y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024
TNSR0278PassUniversity of Memphis dance team, national champion
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-15
Signed by Senate Speaker
TNSB0877Intro
25%
As introduced, establishes an extended juvenile court jurisdiction pilot project through which a juvenile court in Davidson County or Shelby County may choose to proceed with a case against a juvenile that could be transferred to criminal court as an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-09
Re-refer to S. Cal Comm
TNSJR1174PassField Training Officer Taylor Heath, Fairview Police Department
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-09
Signed by Governor.
TNSB1505Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department to actively seek and apply for federal grants and other available federal funds, and utilize available federal funds, for the purpose of alleviating childhood hunger. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-09
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSR0180PassThe Equity Alliance
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-08
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB2060PassAs enacted, enacts "Danielle's Law," which extends the statute of limitations for injuries to a person, who is 18 or older, relating to sexual assault to three years or five years depending on if law enforcement was notified of the assault. - Amends ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 04/04/2024
TNSB2663PassAs enacted, requires adult cabarets and adult-oriented establishments to post a notice on the inside and outside of each bathroom door and door used by customers or patrons to enter or exit the facility that provides the contact information for the T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNSB1699PassAs enacted, expands the eligibility for filing a petition to obtain a lifetime order of protection to include victims of aggravated stalking, especially aggravated stalking, and felony harassment. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-08
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 632
TNSR0260PassThe Links, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-05
Signed by Senate Speaker
Syndicate content
feedback