| HB0960 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, allows members of the board of directors for the bureau of ethics and campaign finance to also receive electronic notice of any special meeting being called by the board's chair, in addition to the written notice required to be deliver...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
| SB1279 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates annual retail tobacco license, which must be obtained by retailers before engaging in the retail sale of tobacco products; establishes tax on closed-system and open-system vapor products. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB1477 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes the retail sale of marijuana; levies a 12 percent tax on the retail sale of marijuana. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 53, Chapter 11; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1109 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes, from 30 days to 35 days, the time within which a check must be presented for payment or given to a depositary bank for collection before the liability of the endorser is discharged under the Uniform Commercial Code. - Amends T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
| SB0236 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires each LEA to develop and implement instructional programs aligned with state academic standards that incorporate science and social studies concepts into the English language arts instruction for students in kindergarten throug...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
Withdrawn. |
| SB1042 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates different grade 11 student assessments for a student who intends to attend college and a student who intends to attend a career and technical college or pursue a career path. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1100 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, funds school social worker positions through the BEP at a ratio of one for each 250 or fewer students. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB0923 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes from February 1 to February 15, the date by which the commissioner is required to annually report to the governor and the general assembly on the implementation and compliance with the Schools Against Violence in Education Act....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1208 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits this state and any political subdivision of this state, or any official of this state or a political subdivision, from creating, enforcing, or endorsing policies that respect or promote non-secular self-asserted sex-based ide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1051 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, expands the maximum number of persons who may serve on a county solid waste authority's board of directors, from 15 to 17 members. - Amends TCA Title 55; Title 67 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB1545 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, expands definition of "retail food store" to include certain facilities that transfer, store, and deliver retail and other goods. - Amends TCA Section 57-3-802.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1164 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the state and county election commissions to maintain on their respective websites the name of each voter who requests an application to vote by absentee ballot and a link to the voter's digital or electronic signature on the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1214 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes from January 31 to January 15 the deadline for the commissioner to submit the annual report on implementation of a secure web portal for the submittal of online permit applications under the Water Quality Control Act. - Amends ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB1162 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes the state election commission and each county election commission to utilize technology to identify the fingerprints of voters for purposes of conducting elections in this state in collaboration with state agencies that main...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1094 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, allows chiropractors to complete annually required continuing education courses via remote learning; prohibits the board of chiropractic examiners from denying accreditation to or attendee credit for a continuing education course solel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SB1016 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, makes various changes regarding law enforcement use of drones, including revising the authorized uses for a drone without a warrant. - Amends TCA Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1522 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, reduces from 10 to five days the time within which a change in a person designated to check a school bus must be submitted to the local education agency, along with the name, address, and telephone number of the new designee. - Amends ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1578 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases from three full school days to four full school days, the minimum amount of parental notice that must be provided to a coach or administrator of a school athletic event that the parent's student will not be participating due ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB0894 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, includes a domestic relationship between the victim and the defendant as an aggravating factor in sentencing for first degree murder; adds strangulation as an aggravating factor for reckless aggravated assault; expands aggravated assau...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee |
| SB1065 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits persons from conditioning, reducing, withholding, or delaying payment pursuant to a construction agreement to a commercial building contractor by requiring a signed waiver, release, denial, discharge, negative affirmation, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB1404 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes, from December 31 to December 15, the date by which the bureau of workers' compensation must produce a report listing the name of each covered employer that failed, during the preceding fiscal year, to provide workers' compensa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB0971 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Fair Maps Act," which establishes requirements for the process of redistricting congressional and general assembly districts. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
Assigned to s/c Public Service Subcommittee |
| SB1061 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires each board to notify the commissioner of finance and administration when the estimate of board fees for a fiscal year is more than the certified amount of board fees required by the board for that fiscal year. - Amends TCA Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1244 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases from 60 to 70 days the period within which the departments of health, mental health and substance abuse services, and intellectual and developmental disabilities must file a written report with the health services and develop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB1110 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, limits present law exemption for attorneys who represent taxpayers at hearings before the board of equalization from the requirement that certain agents of taxpayers submit a registration fee and register as an agent; requires such reg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
Assigned to s/c Property & Planning Subcommittee |
| SR0014 | Intro
Sine Die | Urges the state board of education to include in rules promulgated by the board to establish an appeal process for students subject to mandatory retention in third grade, a provision that requires an appeal be brought by a student's parent or guardia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB0883 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes the timeframe within which written notice must be provided by a local board or director of schools to a teacher of dismissal or failure to reelect from received within five business days following the last instructional day of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
Withdrawn. |
| HB0931 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, specifies that the department of education must submit its annual early grades reading report by October 1. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
| SB0941 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes a qualified voter to register to vote and vote on any day of early voting and on election day for a primary, general, or runoff election in this state. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1182 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, designates June 12 as "Women Veterans' Day." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0949 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the comptroller of the treasury to develop a numerical grading system for all tax increment financing (TIF) plans; requires the comptroller to evaluate TIF plans based on the benefits the municipality is receiving from the pla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1384 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires LEAs to implement an adverse childhood experiences (ACE) program; creates a process to refer students who have experienced four or more ACEs to appropriate mental and behavioral health providers and makes other related changes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1495 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department of audit to obtain a comprehensive analysis, created by the Tennessee Human Rights Commission, of the extent to which an entity is in compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and include a summary of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1058 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a person or entity bidding on a state or local public construction contract to hold the appropriate Tennessee contractor's license prior to bidding on the project; deletes certain prohibitions regarding state residency and inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1548 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Racial Profiling Prevention Training Act," which prohibits a law enforcement officer from using a person's race or ethnicity to form probable cause or reasonable suspicion to stop a vehicle and requires state and local law ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB0990 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, directs the state board to consider and make recommendations to the general assembly as to whether further temporary adjustment should be made to student assessment-based and student growth model-based accountability measures due to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
Assigned to s/c Education Instruction Subcommittee |
| SB1311 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a law enforcement officer to make efforts to contact a parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian when issuing a citation to a child in lieu of continuing to keep the child in custody; changes the evidentiary requirement for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0920 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates a reporting deadline of February 1 of each year for the annual report that the board of regents, each state university board, and the board of trustees of University of Tennessee are required to provide regarding the grievance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB1093 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, deletes an expired provision specifying which highway projects were to benefit from the 1986 gasoline tax increases. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 9; Title 64 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
| SB1083 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, decreases from 30 to 21 days the time in which a licensed polygraph examiner or company must notify the private investigation and polygraph commission of a change in business address. - Amends TCA Title 62 and Title 63.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1549 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires that the written statement accompanying a certificate of voting rights restoration and explaining the procedure to apply for a voter registration card and become eligible to vote, be available in the languages most commonly sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0983 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, reduces from five years to two years the amount of time that a qualified 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(19) must be continuously operating in this state to qualify for and conduct an annual nonprofit gaming event. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 17...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1043 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits the department of environment and conservation from requiring a permit, inspection, review, or approval of plans for the construction, installation, or modification of a land application system that the board of water quality...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB0889 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes from within five business days to 10 business days after a second undeliverable healthcare liability letter the time within which the notice has to then be mailed to the provider's office or business address at the location whe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
| HB1014 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits a retailer, tobacco distributor, or other person from advertising, offering to sell, or selling cigarettes for less than an amount set by the department of revenue. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 25, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
Assigned to s/c Agriculture & Natural Resources Subcommittee |
| SB1300 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Good News for Students Act," which declares that, except in certain limited circumstances, a student journalist at a public institution of higher education has the right to exercise freedom of speech and freedom of the pres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1153 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, defines "sweepstakes" for purposes of consumer protection. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 17; Title 4; and Title 47, Chapter 18.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB1389 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires that the oath of a public official be filed with the secretary of state or county clerk, as applicable, within one week of the administration of the oath. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4 and Title 8.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0979 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits a local beer board from issuing multiple citations or civil penalties during a sting operation in which the beer board engages two or more minors to solicit or purchase beer from a permitted establishment. - Amends TCA Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| HB0922 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes from annually to semi-annually the frequency of the submission to the governor of reports of the board of dentistry’s proceedings and activities. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
