Tennessee Senate Bill 2191 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 30 2024 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2024-03-18 - Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [PDF]

As introduced, imposes an additional 15-percent tax on the retail sale of firearms; requires revenue from the firearms tax to be deposited into the K-12 mental health counselor fund to be administered by the department of education and used exclusively to provide school counselors in elementary and secondary public schools and public charter schools in this state and for mental health assessments and services for students pursuant to a school counselor's referral. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13; Title 49, Chapter 5; Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 67.

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13; Title 49, Chapter 5; Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 67, relative to sales of firearms.

Sen. Heidi Campbell [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-03-18	Senate	Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
2024-02-01	Senate	Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
2024-01-31	Senate	Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
2024-01-30	Senate	Filed for introduction

HB2193 (Crossfiled) 2024-03-12 - Failed in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration

Type	Source
Summary	https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/Billinfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=SB2191&ga=113
Text	https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Bill/SB2191.pdf
Supplement	https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Fiscal/HB2193.pdf