TN Legislation | 2019-2020 | 111th General Assembly | Senate

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
SB0338	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, adds students who attended a nonpublic school or home school for the preceding school year to the category of students eligible for their parent to participate in the individualized education account program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Cha... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-04 To Senate Education Committee
SB0339	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, changes from February 15 to March 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 effecti... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-04 To Senate Education Committee
SB0327	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, requires the department to create and administer a coaching network for pre-kindergarten and kindergarten teachers throughout the state, to begin in the 2019-2020 school year; declares certain goals for the coaching network; requires t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-04 To Senate Education Committee
SB0300	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, specifies that the commissioner of agriculture may cooperate with state officials in carrying out the purposes of federal, state, and local laws concerning the transportation, sale, and handling of certain animals. - Amends TCA Title 4... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-04 To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee
SB0347	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, requires the commission to create a baccalaureate degree for veterans who retire with 20 years of service; requires each state institution of higher education that offers a baccalaureate degree program to award the degree created by th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-04 To Senate Education Committee
SB0298	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, changes the amount of physical education class time that must be taught by a licensed teacher with an endorsement in physical education from at least 60 minutes to at least 30 minutes; authorizes LEAs to allow additional physical educa... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-04 To Senate Education Committee
SB0291	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, extends from 30 days to 35 days the minimum period of time that must be allotted for written public comments on a proposed new solid waste landfill. - Amends TCA Title 68. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-04 To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee
SB0365	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, requires local boards of education to notify the commissioner of education when a board declares itself a high performing school district; requires the commissioner to post a list of high performing school districts on the department's... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-04 To Senate Education Committee
SB0337	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, requires the department to pay for certain background investigations conducted by the Tennessee bureau of investigation and the federal bureau of investigation for LEA employees who hold a position as a teacher or any other position re... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-04 To Senate Education Committee
SB0370	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, increases from 30 to 45 days the time that a public water system or waterworks system has to give public notice to its customers in a general mailing prior to the meeting in which the system will determine to initiate or permanently ce... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-04 To Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB0299	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, permits certain incarcerated persons who are allowed to enroll in courses offered by a community college or Tennessee college of applied technology pursuant to an approved release plan to receive a Tennessee reconnect grant. - Amends T... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-04 To Senate Education Committee
SB0296	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, enacts the Truth in Teacher Pay Act; requires the salary schedules approved by the state board of education to reflect certain increases to the instructional salaries and wages component of the BEP in the general appropriations act. - ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-04 To Senate Education Committee
SB0334	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, increases, from 10 days to 15 business days, the deadline for an LEA to deliver to the commissioner of education a copy of the audit report of the LEA's school funds. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-04 To Senate Education Committee
SB0034	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, enacts the Prospective Employee Credit Information Privacy Act, which prohibits an employer from failing or refusing to recruit or interview a prospective employee with respect to certain employment based on that person's credit inform... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-04 Withdrawn.
SB0356	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, under certain circumstances, waives waiting period to reschedule skills examination for applicants for school bus endorsement; revises other related requirements. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 21 and Title 55, Chapter 50. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-04 To Senate Education Committee
SB0002	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, allows owners and operators of vehicles with an illuminated check engine light to elect to have the tailpipe test performed in lieu of the onboard diagnostics test. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4, Part 1; Title 55, Chapter 6 and Titl... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-02-04 Withdrawn.
SB0258	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, expands the offense of reckless endangerment to include a person's reckless failure to render inoperable or safely secure or lock a firearm, resulting in a child under 13 years of age gaining possession of the firearm and injuring or k... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-31 To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB0184	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, eliminates an unused definition from the lottery scholarship provisions. - Amends TCA Title 49. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-31 To Senate Education Committee
SB0186	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, decreases from 30 to 20 the number of days a municipal corporation must wait before enforcing or ceasing to enforce traffic ordinances on the campus of a state institution within its borders after receiving a request from the instituti... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-31 To Senate Education Committee
SJR0108	Pass	Charlie Daniel [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-31 Signed by Governor.
SB0190	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, changes from February 1 to February 15 the date by which the commissioner must annually report to the governor and the general assembly on implementation of and compliance with the SAVE Act. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-31 To Senate Education Committee
SB0189	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, requires the commissioner of education to inform LEAs before each school year if sufficient funds have been appropriated to pay the cost of the required college entrance examination for students who want to take the examination a secon... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-31 To Senate Education Committee
SB0188	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, requires each institution governed by the board of regents or a state university board to make the grievance procedure for its support staff employees available on its website. - Amends TCA Title 49. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-31 To Senate Education Committee
SB0287	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, changes from March 1 to February 15 the date by which the executive director of the commission must file an annual report concerning rules promulgated during the prior year with the state and local government committee of the senate an... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-31 To Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB0274	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, changes from March 15 to March 1 the date by which the Tennessee higher education commission must submit the annual Tennessee Postsecondary Education Fact Book to the governor and the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 49. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-31 To Senate Education Committee
SB0270	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, includes preschool programs operated by an LEA for children with disabilities in the programs subject to annual appropriations; directs the commissioner to annually recommend a funding amount per classroom for preschool programs for ch... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-31 To Senate Education Committee
SB0257	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, updates the definition of "marijuana" for purposes of taxation on unauthorized substances to match the definition of "marijuana" as it applies to criminal offenses. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 33; Title ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-31 To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB0160	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, reduces the sunset termination date for the board of medical examiners from June 30, 2020 to June 30, 2019. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 6. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-30 To Senate Government Operations Committee
SB0162	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, requires the board of chiropractic examiners to post the names of X-ray operators who hold a current certificate of proficiency on the board’s website. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 4. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-30 To Senate Health and Welfare Committee
SB0067	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, prohibits certain flame retardants in juvenile products and upholstered furniture. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 68. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-30 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB0091	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, requires commissioner of health to report to the speakers and the health committees the impact of recent legislation reducing the abuse of opioids in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 34; Title 36; Title 37; Title 39; T... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-30 To Senate Health and Welfare Committee
SB0070	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, increases, from one to three, the minimum number of board members who must be employed, at the time of the appointment, as a K-12 public school teacher, beginning with appointments made on or after January 1, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 4... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-30 To Senate Education Committee
SB0221	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, raises the threshold of contributions, from $30,000 to $50,000, under which a charitable organization is not required to file a registration statement and fee with the secretary of state in order to solicit contributions. - Amends TCA ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-30 Recalled from Clerk''s Desk
SB0052	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, requires TSAC to award $500 for each of the first four courses taken under a dual enrollment grant. - Amends TCA Title 49. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-30 To Senate Education Committee
SB0025	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, specifies that circuit and chancery courts' concurrent jurisdiction over divorce actions or actions to modify or alter a decree regarding child custody includes actions that contain allegations that a child is delinquent, unruly, or de... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-30 Withdrawn.
SB0089	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, allows a once-yearly bonus subsidy payment to participating child care agencies with a three-star quality rating that accept the department's child care assistance subsidy payment. - Amends TCA Title 71. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-30 To Senate Health and Welfare Committee
SB0164	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, requires each state agency head to complete periodic training for purposes of complying with the requirements of the "Regulatory Flexibility Act of 2007." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-30 To Senate Government Operations Committee
SB0030	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, expands, from five days to 10 days, the time period in which members of the board of water quality, oil, and gas must be notified of meetings to review permit matters. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 3. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-29 Withdrawn.
SB0202	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, requires that Schedule II opioids, Schedule II stimulants, and Schedule IV benzodiazepines be dispensed in a lockable vial; provides exceptions where it is not practicable to dispense the controlled substance in a lockable vial or ther... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-29 Withdrawn.
SB0211	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, extends state employee defense protections to nonprofit organizations that partner with the state to provide foster home care for children in the care and custody of the state. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 9. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-29 Withdrawn.
SB0216	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, limits the number of patients assigned to a nursing assistant at a nursing home to no more than 10. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-29 Withdrawn.
SB0004	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, exempts farms where rabbit is slaughtered and processed and the meat is sold directly to consumers from permitting requirements for retail food stores. - Amends TCA Title 53 and Title 68, Chapter 14, Part 7. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-29 Withdrawn.
SB0228	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, gives sole authority to request an autopsy to the district attorney general for each county; removes authority for county medical examiner to request an autopsy. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 7, Part 1. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-29 Recalled from the Clerk''s Desk
SB0003	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, prohibits misrepresenting a product as meat or poultry that is not removed from the carcass of slaughtered livestock or poultry. - Amends TCA Title 44; Title 53 and Title 68. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-29 Withdrawn.
SJR0022	Pass	Stephen Richards, Jr., 2019 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30 [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-28 Signed by Governor.
SJR0031	Pass	Lauren M. Spahn, 2019 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30 [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-28 Signed by Governor.
SJR0049	Pass	Dr. Teresa M. Kidd [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-28 Signed by Governor.
SJR0032	Pass	Kaya Grace Porter, 2019 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30 [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-28 Signed by Governor.
SB0017	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, removes requirement that 52 percent of the 5 percent commission retained by county registers for collecting and reporting recordation tax must be remitted to state treasurer and credited to state general fund. - Amends TCA Section 67-4... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-28 Withdrawn.
SJR0007	Pass	Virginia "Ginny" Edwards [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2019-01-28 Signed by Governor.