| SJR1259 | Pass | Kim Morgan, Dover Elementary School, Teacher of the Year
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-05
Signed by Governor. |
| SJR1258 | Pass | Jamie Scism, Erin Elementary School, Teacher of the Year
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-05
Signed by Governor. |
| SJR1254 | Pass | Marty DeJarnette, National Christian Schools Association Coach of the Year
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-05
Signed by Governor. |
| SJR0723 | Engross
Sine Die | Urges the federal government, TVA, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and TWRA to assist in the control of the Asian carp invasion in Tennessee waters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-04
Reset on Final cal. of Calendar & Rules Committee |
| SJR0505 | Engross
Sine Die | Requests Tennessee Board of Pharmacy to study the work environment of pharmacies to determine if rules should be promulgated to promote patient safety.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-04
Reset on Final cal. of Calendar & Rules Committee |
| SB2875 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the commissioner of commerce and insurance to develop a proposal to create an insurance pool for the purpose of providing full coverage to vendors operating horseback riding services in Tennessee state parks. - Amends TCA Titl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB2827 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department of human resources to make an annual report on or before January 15, instead of periodically, to the governor on recommendations for improvements of the state service system. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB2617 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, allows an age-restricted venue to continue to permit smoking in the venue even if the venue employs a person under 21 years of age if the employee is a child of the owner of the venue. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 18; Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB1787 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, deletes the Tennessee Education Savings Account Pilot Program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2568 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, establishes a reporting date of January 15 of each year for the board of regents, each state university board, and the board of trustees of University of Tennessee to submit a report summarizing grievance activities for the previous ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1565 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, allows an LEA to choose to administer TCAP tests to its students in a paper format beginning with the 2020-2021 school year if the commissioner authorizes TCAP tests to be administered in a computerized format; requires the department ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2816 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, decreases the number of days a business may advertise that the business is going out of business from 90 to 60 days. - Amends TCA Title 47.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB1350 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes from 30 business days to 20 business days after issuance of the notice of assessment the time by which an ambulance provider must pay the assessment to the bureau of TennCare. - Amends TCA Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SB2252 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Teacher's Discipline Act"; establishes a disciplinary process for students who have been removed from the classroom by the teacher. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1589 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department of safety to report to the transportation committees of both houses by February 1, 2020, the number of commercial driver license holders who previously held military commercial driver licenses, and whether they ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Calendar Committee |
| SB2855 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, allows electronic submission of the report that an association formed under the provisions governing sheep producers indemnity must file with the commissioner. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12; Title 13; Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB2802 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires commissioner of safety to design and make available to persons with autism spectrum disorder a blue envelope containing written information and guidance on ways to enhance effective communication between a law enforcement offi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| SB2578 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes LEAs serving any of the grades three through 12 to offer advanced mathematics courses; requires an LEA that offers advanced mathematics courses to place students achieving a benchmark score as determined by the state board o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB0496 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes, from 10 days to 10 business days, the period for which public notice must be given in advance of an LEA's acceptance of bids for contracts for the construction of a school building, or an addition to an existing school buildin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2437 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, confers civil immunity upon a teacher, principal, school employee, or school bus driver properly using reasonable force to correct or restrain a student or prevent bodily harm or death to another person. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2909 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies statutes related to retaliatory termination of an employee. - Amends TCA Title 20; Title 29 and Title 50, Chapter 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB2901 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes the date, from February 15 to March 1, by which each motor vehicle dealer must submit to the motor vehicle commission an annual sales report indicating the number of motor vehicles sold during the preceding calendar year, the n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| SB2029 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes owners of real property to construct certain residential buildings on that property without obtaining a contractor license; requires notice of such construction to be made to the board for licensing contractors, the register...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB2633 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases from $10,000 or more to $25,000 or more, the amount for which a local board of education or the governing body of a public charter school must make purchases or expenditures by competitive bids; requires the amount to be incr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2160 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, establishes various requirements relating to literacy instruction provided to students in any of the grades kindergarten through two; establishes methods of evaluating the reading proficiency of students in any of the grades kindergart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1738 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes, from August 15 to June 1, the date on which a child must be five years of age to enroll in kindergarten; changes, from September 30 to July 31, the date on which a child determined by the director of schools to be sufficiently...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2090 | Fail | As introduced, authorizes the use of surveillance cameras on interstate highways for aiding law enforcement with criminal investigations only. - Amends TCA Title 55.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| SB1598 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies that a motorized wheelchair is not a motor vehicle for purposes of the rules of the road, accidents, and crimes involving motor vehicles. - Amends TCA Title 55.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| SB2283 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the comptroller of the treasury to conduct a performance audit of the department's office for civil rights every two years; requires the department to promulgate rules to assist the office for civil rights with effectuating th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1947 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates the rural at-risk pre-kindergarten fund to provide an additional source of funding for local education agencies operating an approved voluntary pre-kindergarten program in a distressed rural county or in an at-risk county that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2641 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits private employers with 50 or more employees and public employers from making employment decisions with regard to an applicant or current employee based on wage or salary history. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 12 and Title 50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB1739 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, deletes requirement for LEAs to provide a physical education class taught by a licensed teacher with an endorsement in physical education or by a specialist in physical education; deletes reporting requirements; requires each LEA to in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2034 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes obsolete language describing a polysomnographic professional standards committee that met annually from 2007-2010 to allow public discussion of new developments in the practice of polysomnography. - Amends TCA Title 63.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SB1580 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, deletes the requirement that a high school student must be a Tennessee resident for at least one year in order to be eligible to receive a dual enrollment grant. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2288 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes a registered student at a public institution of higher education to carry a handgun in a concealed manner on property owned, operated, or controlled by that institution if the student is a handgun carry permit holder and oth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB0378 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes the requirement that the governor receive authorization by the general assembly prior to making any decision or obligating the state with regard to the expansion of optional enrollment in the medical assistance program. - Amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SB2453 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, extends, from March 1 to March 15, the deadline by which an owner of land may submit an application to the assessor of property for its classification to be designated as agricultural. - Amends TCA Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
Deferred to Summer Study |
| SB2814 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, defines race and protective hairstyle for the purposes of the Tennessee Human Rights Act. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21; Title 8; Title 49 and Title 50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB2519 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the administrator of a recovery high school to provide the department of education and the state board of education an annual report, which includes not only the school's overall high school graduation rate but its overall gra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1736 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits a student from participating in a single-sex interscholastic sport or athletic event provided by the student's public school unless the student verifies with the public school that the student is of the respective sex. - Amen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2103 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires insurers who write automobile liability insurance policies in this state to include coverage for diminution in value on motor vehicles that are three years of age or newer and have less than 100,000 miles on the odometer; esta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB0055 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates the professional art therapist advisory committee of the board of examiners in psychology to regulate the practice of art therapy. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 63.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SB1735 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the board to abolish all academic standards for science and social studies for students in kindergarten through grade two; allows the subjects of science and social studies to be incorporated into the curriculum aligned with t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1816 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department to annually compile a list of courses that may be substituted for certain high school course requirements; requires the department, by April 15 of each year, to distribute the list to each LEA and public charter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1893 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires each high school to designate an apprenticeship training program contact; requires the department to compile and publish a list of the apprenticeship program contacts. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49; Title 62 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2284 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department to survey all LEAs, public charter schools, and state special schools to determine whether there are enough licensed speech-language pathologists to serve the needs of public school students with speech disorder...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1811 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes an offeree to cancel a contract or agreement, within 30 days from the offeree signing the agreement or contract, that was entered into following an unsolicited offer to purchase the offeree's real property that was sent thro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB2355 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a records custodian to ensure that the public disclosure of any report of the county medical examiner, toxicological report, or autopsy report complies with HIPAA in accordance with guidance developed by the department of heal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SB1746 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates a reward for information leading to the recovery of a civil penalty against a person who knowingly causes any caller identification service to transmit misleading or inaccurate caller identification information to a subscriber ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB2574 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes, from November 1 to November 15, the date by which the commissioner's annual report must be published. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Education Committee |
