| SB0436 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes discretion of county boards of equalization to not hold complaint hearings virtually if each participant in the hearing has an opportunity to participate in, to hear, and, if technically feasible, to see the entire proceedings ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0402 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, restores longevity pay for employees of the executive branch in the service of the state hired after June 30, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 38.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0291 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department to provide each nurse, paramedic, and emergency medical technician who is a resident of this state and has provided healthcare services during the effective period of the state of emergency declared by the gover...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB0265 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, provides that if a prisoner is granted parole based on the requirement that the prisoner complete a pre-release program, class, coursework, or other activity, and the program, class, coursework, or activity cannot be commenced at no fa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0325 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires that the recommendations submitted by a regional historic zoning commission to a county or municipal legislative body regarding the creation of a historic district or zone identify the statutory criteria or criterion met by th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0387 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires public institutions of higher education to classify a student who is the spouse or dependent child of a service member as an in-state student for tuition purposes, regardless of the spouse's or dependent child's domicile or pl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB0367 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires local government entities to develop and implement policies to notify persons about whom an employee communicates images or statements on social networks or other methods of communication that the entity perceives as threateni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0341 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes a code provision that created a taskforce to study methods on how best to prevent cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and diabetes in this state, which ceased to exist as of December 15, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB0412 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, allows a court to issue an extreme risk protection order upon a finding by clear and convincing evidence that a person poses a significant risk of harm to the person or others if allowed to possess or purchase a firearm; authorizes a l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0398 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies that the training provided in the micro-lending program for low-income entrepreneurs who qualify for temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) includes entrepreneurial training. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 71...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SB0328 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes the county election commission to appoint as an emergency registrar, the licensed physician attending a hospitalized person when the person requests an emergency ballot; allows such appointment when the hospital administrato...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0366 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases, from $500 to $1,000, the penalty that a person is subject to, in addition to damages, when the person injures or destroys a portion of the gas fixtures, or other property belonging to a gas company, or willfully opens a comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0329 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, expresses legislative intent that the persons appointed to a charter commission for the consolidation of the functions of the county and creation of a metropolitan government be representative of both incorporated and unincorporated ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0389 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Adult Workforce Diploma Program" to direct the department to establish a two-year pilot program to assist persons who are 19 years of age or older with obtaining a high school diploma and developing employability and career...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB0190 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires municipal legislative bodies to change the dates of municipal elections to coincide with the August primary and November general elections. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 5 and Title 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0239 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes requirement to file pre-primary and pre-general election statements for candidates for state public office and political campaign committees for state elections. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0324 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes the district public defender of the fifteenth judicial district to employ two additional assistant district public defenders and one additional district investigator, effective July 1, 2021. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 16...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0194 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, urges department of transportation to study and report to the transportation committee of the house of representatives and transportation and safety committee of the senate on or before February 1, 2022, as to the overall impact of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| SB0470 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, adds the chairs of the government operations committees of the senate and the house of representatives to the list of persons who are to receive annual activity reports from development district boards. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7 an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
Withdrawn. |
| SB0198 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes the requirement that a person must be current in all child support obligations to be eligible for voting rights restoration. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 29, Part 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0313 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires landlords to provide applicants for tenancy of dwelling units with written notice of the landlord's tenant selection criteria and the grounds for which a rental application may be denied; requires refund of an applicant's appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB0272 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases the fines imposed against a licensee for accepting wagers from a minor or other person ineligible to place wagers in this state; increases the fines against a person unlawfully accepting wagers without a license in this state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0396 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the BEP review committee to analyze how education funding for the 2021-2022, 2022-2023, and 2023-2024 school years may be affected by changes to an LEA's enrollment in the 2020-2021 school year as a result of the COVID-19 pand...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB0346 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires county election commissions to designate public institutions of higher education with 20,000 or more enrolled students as polling places during early voting in federal and state general elections and presidential primaries for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0342 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes a code provision that created a taskforce to review the regulations of the residential and day provider agencies contracted by the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities, which ceased to exist as of June 30, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB0420 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, establishes a tiered essential wage for workers deemed essential starting at $15 per hour and increasing to $20 per hour by July 1, 2022. - Amends TCA Title 50 and Title 58.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB0355 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates a rural relocation tax credit for certain out-of-state businesses that relocate to tier 3 and tier 4 enhancement counties with a population less than 50,000 that can be applied against the business's franchise and excise tax li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
Withdrawn. |
| SB0330 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires that the notice sent to a taxpayer by an equalization board established by a modified city manager-council regarding the board's final decision on the taxpayer's appeal of a tax assessment, be sent within five business days in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0393 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the Tennessee bureau of investigation's report to the general assembly on the amount of money collected for handgun carry permit fees in excess of the costs associated with conducting background checks to be submitted by Janua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0423 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes the board of directors of a convention center authority to allow members to participate by electronic or other means of communication. - Amends TCA Title 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0499 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes, from 30 days to 60 days, the time in which a respondent who is not satisfied with the amount deposited by a condemner, or otherwise objects to a taking through the use of eminent domain, must file an answer to the petition ini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
Withdrawn. |
| SB0401 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the contracts between a county and a private prison contractor to meet the requirements of the Private Prison Contracting Act of 1986 if the department of correction contracts with such county for the incarceration of state in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0183 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department of transportation to submit a brief written summary to the transportation committee of the house of representatives and the transportation and safety committee of the senate no later than March 15 annually conce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| SB0155 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, exempts electric vehicles registered in Tennessee to active duty service members stationed outside Tennessee from the additional registration fee imposed on electric vehicles. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
Withdrawn. |
| SB0443 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases, from 15 days to 20 days, the notice a public university board must give prior to a meeting of the board to consider a proposed tuition and mandatory fee increase; extends the 15-day period for public comment to 20 days. - Am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB0193 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits a government entity from requiring an employee of the entity to attend or participate in a training, seminar, or continuing education which the employee objects to on the basis of the person's morals, ethics, values, or relig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0397 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases from 4 percent to 5 percent the percentage of general assembly candidates and their committees who will be selected for an audit by the registry. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0315 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes the statewide prohibition on local governments enacting inclusionary zoning regulations. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 35.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0210 | 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] | 2021-02-10
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SB0373 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes commissioners to identify hazardous duty positions and categorize hazardous working conditions; if a commissioner identifies such positions and categorizes such conditions, authorizes an appointing authority to apply for a h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0394 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires that the Tennessee bureau of investigation's annual report on narcotics investigations be submitted to the general assembly by February 15 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 16; Title 17; Title 22; Title 24; Title 27; T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0211 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies that a rural health clinic may employ a dentist or optometrist if the employment relationship is evidenced by a written contract, job description, or documentation containing language that does not restrict the dentist or opt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SB0860 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases the membership of the board of commissioners for the Powell-Clinch River Utility District from three to five members. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 82.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
Withdrawn. |
| SB0308 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, encourages department of human services to develop a partnership with minority and other community-based organizations to improve the health of racial and ethnic minorities and to extend public health legal services to minority and low...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SB0343 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases from 30 to 45 days the time within which a person issued a certificate of registration by the division of health related boards must notify the division of a change of address to receive a duplicate registration certificate. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB0338 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes the amount of child support obligations that must be paid, from current in all obligations to a consistent portion paid monthly, in order for a person to be eligible for voting rights restoration. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-09
Withdrawn. |
| SB0288 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, revises the definition of "blighted area" for purposes of redevelopment projects by housing authorities; clarifies that housing authorities may acquire real property without using eminent domain; authorizes housing authorities to pay m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-09
Withdrawn. |
| SB7009 | Pass | As enacted, makes appropriations sufficient to provide the first year's funding for any act which receives final passage during the first extraordinary session of the 112th General Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-09
Effective date(s) 02/03/2021 |
| SB0431 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy and Resilience Act." - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-09
Withdrawn. |
| SB0200 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes the statewide prohibition on local governments enacting rent control and inclusionary zoning regulations. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 35.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-09
Withdrawn. |
