| SB0527 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, extends from five to 10 days the amount of time a law enforcement officer has to file a written informational statement with the county court clerk after taking possession of illicit intoxicating liquors. - Amends TCA Title 57.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SJR0035 | Pass | James Story, 2020 Gallatin Citizen of the Year
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
Signed by Governor. |
| SJR0028 | Pass | Vice Mayor John Kerley
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
Signed by Governor. |
| SB0813 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires that a defendant receive a bail hearing within 48 hours of arrest; requires that a magistrate release a defendant on personal recognizance unless there is clear and convincing evidence of certain conditions; specifies that a m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0582 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes from February 1 to January 15, the date by which the bureau of TennCare must report to the general assembly a separate accounting of long-term expenditures for nursing facility services, home and community-based services made u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SB0612 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires emergency communications districts (ECDs) to utilize the direct dispatch method in response to emergency 911 calls and one of three methods in response to non-emergency calls; requires that all emergency 911 calls, with the ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SJR0029 | Pass | Sumner County Board of Education, 2020 TSBA School Board of the Year
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
Signed by Governor. |
| SB0826 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Right to Call for Help Act" to prohibit certain penalties based on a property owner or lessee calling for emergency assistance; creates a cause of action for violations. - Amends TCA Title 66.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB0491 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, allows Cannon County, upon the adoption of a resolution by a two-thirds majority vote of the county legislative body, to assess a privilege tax on litigation in court cases in an amount not to exceed $50 per case to be used exclusively...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0519 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, adds the state board of education to the list of entities that the Tennessee council for career and technical education must advise of findings and recommendations made by the council. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB0676 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, limits the use of the title of anesthesiologist only to those physicians licensed by the board of medical examiners or the board of osteopathic examination, who have completed a residency in anesthesiology, and who have a practice limi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SB0666 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, sets costs for the copying and mailing of healthcare records, including records relevant to a social security disability case. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SJR0040 | Pass | Chief Deputy Derrick Woods, 2020 East Tennessee Deputy of the Year
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
Signed by Governor. |
| SB0687 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a county purchasing direct recording electronic voting systems to ensure that the systems have the capability to create a voter-verifiable paper audit trail for each ballot cast. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 9.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0810 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes from five days to five business days, the time frame for giving notice to the defendant of the time, place, and court before which a motion for costs is made. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504; Title 18; Title 19; Title 20; Title 2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0733 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates a Class D felony for a person to knowingly and with unlawful intent possess a telecommunication device while present in any penal institution without the express written consent of the chief administrator of the institution. - ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0461 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Public Safety Through Hiring Act," which prohibits law enforcement agencies from hiring a person as a police officer who was fired due to disciplinary infractions or while under investigation for misconduct in the line of d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0526 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes from code an outdated requirement that the polysomnography professional standards committee hold at least one public meeting each year during the years 2007 through 2010 to allow public discussion of new developments in the pra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SJR0030 | Pass | Terry Lee McCrary
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
Signed by Governor. |
| SB0620 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires commissioner to annually transmit a report to transportation and safety committee of the senate and transportation committee of the house of representatives, on or before February 15, showing a list of the 10 oldest on-going r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| SJR0039 | Pass | Chief Deputy David Beverly
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
Signed by Governor. |
| SJR0044 | Pass | William Lehman McKnight and Maurene Ouita Grimes McKnight, 70th wedding anniversary
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
Signed by Governor. |
| SB0815 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, broadens the types of lessees with whom a housing authority may negotiate payments in lieu of taxes if the city or county for which the housing authority was created authorizes such negotiation. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 20, Part ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0546 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, deletes requirement that the commissioner include information on the work of the state board of equalization in the commissioner's report to the general assembly concerning a study of tax laws. - Amends TCA Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0648 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates a cap on the price that a health insurance carrier can charge for insulin. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 53; Title 56, Chapter 7; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB0674 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Anti-Lunch Shaming Act"; prohibits a school from taking certain actions against a student who cannot pay for a meal, or who has accumulated a meal debt; requires a school to provide a United States department of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1001 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a local board of education or the governing body of a public charter school to incorporate water bottle filling stations as part of any new school building construction; major renovation; or substantial repair, replacement, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
Withdrawn. |
| SB0668 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the commissioner of agriculture to include information on sustainable and organic farming techniques in information disseminated by the commissioner relative to winemaking. - Amends TCA Title 57.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0689 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits a political party from considering an incumbent legislator's legislative voting history when determining whether a candidate is a bona fide member of that party for purposes of appearing on the ballot. - Amends TCA Title 2, C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0789 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies that local boards of education are required to implement a policy that incorporates, at a minimum, biennial testing for lead levels in drinking water. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SJR0041 | Pass | Coach Thomas Joe Weathers, Sr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
Signed by Governor. |
| SB0830 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates a task force to study and report on pre-term births and infant mortality as it relates to African-American mothers. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB0690 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, extends the state board for licensing alarm systems contractors to June 30, 2022. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 62, Chapter 32, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SJR0042 | Pass | Terry Denniston
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
Signed by Governor. |
| SB0673 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department to direct each local board of education and charter school governing body to develop a plan to conduct mental and behavioral health screenings for all students in kindergarten through eighth grade in order to ev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB0559 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the attorney general and reporter to submit a report quarterly to the speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives of all compromises and settlements made without the written approval of the speaker of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0657 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits the provision of sexual identity change therapy to prepubescent minors; prohibits the provision of sexual identity change therapy to minors who have entered puberty unless a parent or guardian has written recommendations for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0986 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases the percentage of restitution for victims of aggravated assault, injured in the scope of their official duties as employees of a penal institution, that will be deducted from the inmate's commissary account from 50 percent to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
Withdrawn. |
| SJR0094 | Pass | American Heart Association/National Wear Red Day, February 5, 2021
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
Signed by Governor. |
| SB0700 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies that when changes are made to a citation in lieu of continued custody form, a law enforcement agency may destroy the agency's existing supply of forms and begin using a new form; clarifies the definition of "mistaken identity...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0691 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes, from 10 days to 20 days, the time in which a party aggrieved by an action by the commissioner of revenue in issuing or refusing to issue a certificate of title, in discharging or refusing to discharge a lien, and in issuing or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| SB0571 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the commissioner of education to include a comparison of the COVID-19 contact tracing policies, if any, implemented by LEAs in K-12 public schools in the 2020-2021 school year in the commissioner's annual report. - Amends TCA ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB0806 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases from 60 to 90 the number of days by which the department must submit any new policies adopted by the department to the judiciary committee of the senate and the committee of the house of representatives having oversight over ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SJR0115 | Intro
Sine Die | Awareness of organ harvesting in China
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SJR0142 | Pass | Recesses General Assembly for Presidents Day holiday at close of business on February 11, 2021; reconvenes House on Wednesday, February 17, 2021, and Senate on Thursday, February 18, 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
Signed by Governor. |
| SB0433 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, specifies that the county mayor, in unincorporated areas, and the highest-ranking elected official in a city in the official's jurisdiction, have the authority to establish and implement health policies that affect the county or city, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
Withdrawn. |
| SB0469 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases, from five to seven days, the time in which a party who brings a private action for identity theft must submit a copy of any judgment, order, or decrees of the action to the attorney general. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 4...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0601 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department to make accessible to the public on its website copies of reports generated by the department’s infections taskforce. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB0721 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department to submit a report to the judiciary committees of the senate and house of representatives on or before December 31, 2022, regarding the implementation of the Family First Prevention Services Act. - Amends TCA Ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0492 | Intro
Sine Die | Subject to local approval, authorizes the legislative body to adopt rules and regulations for the implementation and administration of the hotel motel tax, including the collection and remittance of the tax by a hotel operator and liability of such o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
Passed on Second Consideration, held on desk. Local Bill |
