Tennessee Senator Raumesh Akbari [D] | Introduced

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TNSB2471Intro
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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...
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2024-04-23
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
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, ...
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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...
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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 $...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB0877Intro
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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...
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2024-04-09
Re-refer to S. Cal Comm
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.
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2024-04-09
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB1269Intro
25%
As introduced, removes the prohibition on the governor expanding optional enrollment in the TennCare program pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act unless authorized by joint resolution of the general assembly. - Amends TC...
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2024-04-04
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee
TNSB0893Intro
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As introduced, removes driver licenses from the list of licenses that can be revoked for failure to pay child support; removes process for issuance of a restricted driver license for a person who is enrolled in a payment plan to pay child support arr...
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2024-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB1927Intro
25%
As introduced, permits the largest municipality in Shelby, Davidson, Knox, or Hamilton county to regulate the manner of storage of firearms, firearm ammunition, and firearm accessories by ordinance, resolution, policy, rule, or other enactment. - Ame...
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2024-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2475Intro
25%
As introduced, deletes provisions authorizing permitless carry of handguns; requires range training for handgun carry permits. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
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2024-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2468Intro
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As introduced, authorizes the retail sale of marijuana; levies a 12 percent tax on the retail sale of marijuana. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 53, Chapter 11; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.
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2024-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2459Intro
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As introduced, requires the department, the department of children's services, the Tennessee council of juvenile and family court judges, and state and local law enforcement agencies to each submit a separate report to the general assembly listing al...
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2024-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2752Intro
25%
As introduced, requires monthly reports from a volunteer of the office of community contact within the department of education evaluating the progress of the juvenile assigned to the volunteer. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 37; Title 38; Title 40; Tit...
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2024-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2755Intro
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As introduced, increases the education good time sentence reduction credit from 60 days to 90 days. - Amends TCA Title 41.
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2024-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2757Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the Restoration of Dignity for the Elderly Act, which requires the department to create a five-year pilot program for the release of elderly inmates to home detention; defines an elderly inmate as a person who is 60 years of age...
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2024-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2166Intro
25%
As introduced, permits a person who was convicted of an infamous crime after July 1, 1986, but before July 1, 1996, to petition a circuit court for restoration of the person's full rights of citizenship in the same manner established for persons conv...
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2024-04-02
To Senate Calendar Committee
TNSB1252Intro
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As introduced, enacts the "Consumer Wheelchair Repair Bill of Rights Act." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.
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2024-03-27
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB2056Intro
25%
As introduced, specifies that if a man has executed a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity, then the man and the mother of the child born out of wedlock are legal parents of the child; specifies that the mother of a child born out of wedlock is the ...
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2024-03-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2476Intro
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As introduced, directs the governor to seek a new TennCare waiver within 180 days of the effective date of this act to provide medical assistance coverage for the same population groups and services as the Insure Tennessee proposal; clarifies that th...
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2024-03-27
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee
TNSB2454Intro
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As introduced, requires the department of health, in conjunction with the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities, to submit an annual report concerning the level of compliance with state law of each healthcare facility in this stat...
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2024-03-27
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee
TNSB2443Intro
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As introduced, creates the temporary youth mental health service program. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 49.
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2024-03-27
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee
TNSB2726Intro
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As introduced, requires county election commissions to include three non-binding questions related to the legalization of marijuana on the November 2024 ballot; requires the secretary of state to compile the results of the non-binding, advisory refer...
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2024-03-27
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
TNSB2753Intro
25%
As introduced, exempts a child care agency from the registration requirements for charitable organizations. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 101.
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2024-03-27
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB0322Intro
25%
As introduced, prohibits an LEA from suspending or expelling a student enrolled in any of the grades pre-kindergarten through two unless the student's behavior endangers the physical safety of others; authorizes an LEA to suspend such a student for s...
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2024-03-20
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB1932Intro
25%
As introduced, allows certain felony offenders to petition to have the offender's criminal history records sealed after completion of all requirements of sentencing and at least five years without being convicted of a new offense. - Amends TCA Title ...
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2024-03-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB1933Intro
25%
As introduced, allows expunction of a misdemeanor or felony offense if the petitioner has not been convicted of certain offenses, is 65 years of age or more, 10 years have elapsed since the completion of the sentence, and the petitioner has not had a...
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2024-03-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2465Intro
25%
As introduced, requires each local school board to establish programs for free school lunch and free school breakfast for students regardless of income eligibility; requires the state to reimburse each LEA the cost of providing a free breakfast and l...
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2024-03-20
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2440Intro
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As introduced, authorizes a director of schools to delegate one or more of the director's official duties to another person employed by the LEA, if the local board of education has adopted a policy authorizing such delegation. - Amends TCA Title 49, ...
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2024-03-20
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2754Intro
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As introduced, requires the commissioner of education, subject to appropriations, for the 2024-2025 school year, to approve voluntary pre-kindergarten programs in an amount sufficient to provide up to 1,200 pre-kindergarten classrooms. - Amends TCA T...
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2024-03-20
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB1256Intro
25%
As introduced, requires residential landlords in Shelby County to register with the county or with the respective jurisdiction in Shelby County in which the dwelling units are located. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 28.
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2024-03-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2458Intro
25%
As introduced, increases, from three days to three months, the amount of paid leave provided to the officers and employees of the various agencies, boards, and departments of state government in the event of death of such officers' or employees' chil...
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2024-03-19
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
TNSB2457Intro
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As introduced, requires the agency to establish the payment standard amount for the monthly housing assistance payment under the federal housing choice voucher program to the maximum allowed by federal law. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 23.
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2024-03-19
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
TNSB2461Intro
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As introduced, requires each department of the executive branch to develop a plan to prevent the malicious and unlawful use of artificial intelligence for the purpose of interfering with the operation of the department, its agencies and divisions, an...
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2024-03-19
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
TNSB2450Intro
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As introduced, authorizes the governor to expand medicaid pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; authorizes the governor to negotiate with the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services to determine the terms of t...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee
TNSB2279Intro
25%
As introduced, changes the reporting month from February to January for when the department of revenue must report sales taxes collected for all electronic nicotine delivery devices to the speaker of the senate, speaker of the house of representative...
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2024-03-19
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate FW&M Revenue Subcommittee
TNSJR1147Intro
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Proposes an amendment to Article VII, Section 1 of the Constitution of Tennessee to specify the duties of the sheriff, trustee, register, county clerk, and assessor of property.
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2444Intro
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As introduced, reduces, from 25 to 15, the maximum class size in grades K-2 at a priority school. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2460Intro
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As introduced, creates a violation under the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977 for a person or entity that alters the appearance, action, or speech of an individual through the use of synthetic media in a communication that is knowingly distr...
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2024-03-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB2435Intro
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As introduced, prohibits a person engaged in the business of installing vehicle immobilization devices on motor vehicles from installing a device on a motor vehicle after sunset or before sunrise. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.
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2024-03-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB2729Intro
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As introduced, extends, from February 1 to March 1, the date by which the commissioner of education and the commissioner of safety are required to report to the governor and the general assembly on the implementation and compliance with the Schools A...
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2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB0208Intro
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As introduced, requires each local school board to establish a school lunch program and a school breakfast program that provides a free breakfast and lunch to each student enrolled in a school under the board's jurisdiction; requires the state to rei...
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2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2467Intro
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As introduced, requires a full-time state employee's annual compensation to be sufficient to disqualify the employee for state supplemental benefit or public assistance programs, including, but not limited to, the temporary assistance for needy famil...
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2024-03-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB2447Intro
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As introduced, requires the department of economic and community development to establish and support, subject to appropriation, entrepreneurship assistance centers, the purpose of which is to train minority group members, women, individuals with a d...
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2024-03-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
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