TN Legislation | 2021-2022 | 112th General Assembly

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
SB1249	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, requires health plans and pharmacy benefits managers to provide to enrollees upon request certain information about covered drugs and benefits under the enrollee’s health plan. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 56. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
HB1043	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, requires orientation of new members to take place within 90 days after election or appointment. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 3. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
SB1129	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, requires the Tennessee higher education commission to post a notice to the commission's website within 30 days of designating a degree-granting institution of higher learning a university. - Amends TCA Title 49. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 To Senate Education Committee
SB1441	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, requires the commissioner to conduct a study of programs to reduce recidivism for persons formerly incarcerated. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 41 and Title 71. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB1168	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, requires the bureau of workers' compensation, on or before January 1, 2023, and annually thereafter, to review the impact of the Workers' Compensation Reform Act of 2013 on the workers' compensation system in this state and deliver a r... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB1250	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 To Senate Health and Welfare Committee
HB0906	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, changes the allocation formula for moneys paid into the court by adding restitution owed to the victim to the formula, and directing that the payment of restitution is to be credited first, until paid in full, then litigation taxes, pa... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee
SB1288	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, makes a violation of the heritage protection laws by a public official a Class C misdemeanor and holds such official personally liable for penalties and fines arising from such violation. - Amends TCA Section 4-1-412; Title 4, Chapter ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB1241	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, removes an obsolete reference regarding when the department of health must provide recommendations related to protecting nursing home residents from vendors and others who would seek to provide inappropriate or unneeded goods and servi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 To Senate Health and Welfare Committee
SB1215	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, changes from February 1 to January 15 the due date for the commissioner's report concerning the time within which permit applications are acted on during the first six months of each fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 68 and Titl... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee
SB0894	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, extends the effective date for newly published regulations involving cooperative agreements between the TWRA and federal agencies, from 30 days to 45 days after the publication date by the TWRA; revises due date for the submission of f... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee
SB1021	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, requires commissioner of education to give county legislative body or special school district board written notice of at least 60 days, rather than 90 days as provided under current law, of an action of the state building commission to... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 To Senate Education Committee
SB0943	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, requires the department to update the court access catalog on the department's website when necessary. - Amends TCA Title 49. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 To Senate Education Committee
SB1342	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, requires that elections in Shelby and Davidson counties for judicial offices and offices elected in countywide elections and for the legislative bodies be nonpartisan. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 5; Title 7; Title 16 and Title 17. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB1539	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, enacts the "Accountability and Engagement Through Transparency Act." - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 10. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB1089	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, authorizes persons aggrieved by final decisions of public four-year institutions of higher education to file petitions for contested case hearings to object to such decisions. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5 and Title 49. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 To Senate Education Committee
SJR0143	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
SB1385	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, entitles a parent or legal guardian to access the medical records of a child legally within the legal guardian or parent's care; requires that a child must provide voluntary, written consent for the legal guardian or parent to access m... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 To Senate Health and Welfare Committee
SB1017	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, increases fine that may be assessed against persons who fail to give notice of blasting operations prior to conducting such operations; reduces maximum allowable peak particle velocity limits for blasting site distances; revises other ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
HB1065	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, extends, from December 31 to January 15, the date by which the transportation equity fund annual report, which includes tax revenues from fuels used for aviation, railways, and water carriers, must be submitted to the governor and memb... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
SB1383	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, deletes provision establishing that all persons employed in a position for which no teaching license is required are at-will employees of the director of schools; extends the due process protections provided to nontenured, licensed emp... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 To Senate Education Committee
SB1283	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, authorizes municipalities to create a fund that provides grants for the study of juveniles involved in prostitution and homicides committed by juveniles; requires such study to be conducted at the direction of the chief executive of a ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
HB1051	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, authorizes the division of property assessments to electronically submit to the state board of equalization the division's annual report that summarizes the division's work and makes recommendations to the state board of equalization t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
SB1073	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, modifies the appointing authority of the governor, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives to the advisory council on workers' compensation by requiring the governor's employee appointment to be from ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
HB1068	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, increases the threshold, from under $10,000 to under $25,000, that a county operating pursuant to the general law for purchasing may make purchases and enter leases without public advertisement and competitive bidding. - Amends TCA Tit... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 Withdrawn.
SB1600	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, extends the prohibition on a former county official or employee purchasing surplus property from the county except by public auction or competitive sealed bid from six months after leaving employment to 12 months. - Amends TCA Title 5,... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB1305	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, prohibits a utility governing body from discontinuing service on a day on which reconnections cannot take place within 24 hours or on the day preceding or following a legal holiday; makes statewide the requirement, which currently appl... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB1069	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, clarifies that the education administration committee of the house must receive the higher education commission's report regarding state workforce need projections and credential production by January 15 of each year. - Amends TCA Titl... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 To Senate Education Committee
SB0864	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, authorizes municipalities in counties recognized by the department of economic and community development as tier 3 or tier 4 counties to provide incentives that promote the development of single-family housing through contributions to ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB0902	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, requires certain employers to utilize an e-verification program in hiring; removes immunity for an employer's reliance on other forms of verification; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
HB1026	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, requires each governing body to provide a copy of the ethical standards adopted by the governing body to each official and employee of the governing body within 10 days of the beginning of the official's or employee's service. - Amends... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
SB1238	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, specifies, for the offense of observation without consent, that a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy from members of the opposite sex in a single-sex multi-person use bathroom, locker room, dressing room or shower; defines ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB1540	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, reduces the number of days a business has to notify a consumer of a data breach involving the consumer's personal information from 45 days to 30 days. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5 and Title 47. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
HB0985	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 P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
SB1252	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, enacts the "Opportunity Scholarships Program," which creates a scholarship program for students who reside in certain LEAs with a minimum average growth of two percent in average daily membership over the previous five fiscal years to ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 To Senate Education Committee
SB1295	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, prohibits the method of calculating payment for services rendered by a chiropractor from being different from the calculation for a medical physician pursuant to a policy of insurance, sickness and accident policy, medical service plan... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
HB1005	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, decreases from 30 to 25 the number of days in which an agency must establish a hearing date and set the case on the docket after a written claim is filed by a person asserting a claim to property seized under a forfeiture warrant. - Am... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
HB1041	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 P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
SB1169	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, reduces from 60 to 45 days the period for which the governor may declare a state of emergency. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 8; Title 58 and Title 68. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB1220	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, permits virtual school students to participate in interscholastic athletics in the LEAs in which the students reside. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 16, Part 2. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 To Senate Education Committee
SB0906	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, requires a county or municipality to retain a detailed record of the sale of surplus property by public auction to a county or municipal official or employee, or former county or municipal official or employee, for at least 12 months a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB1299	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, changes from the tenth to the fifteenth of each month that is not the first month of a calendar quarter the date by which a county maintaining a subsidized receiving home must submit to the department an itemized statement of the costs... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB1068	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, creates the state opioid task force to determine best practices for addressing opioid abuse and addiction and the resources needed to implement such practices. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 68. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 To Senate Government Operations Committee
SB0876	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, prohibits wildlife resources officers from entering private property to install monitoring device without a search warrant, order for electronic surveillance, or written permission of the landowner. - Amends TCA Title 70. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee
SB0861	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, sets certain limits on economic damages recoverable under the governmental tort liability act. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 20. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 To Senate Judiciary Committee
HB1129	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, requires the department of correction to pay an additional $5.00 per day recidivism-reduction stipend for certain county jails housing convicted felons, in which the felons attend evidence-based programs to reduce recidivism rates upon... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 Assigned to s/c Corrections Subcommittee
HB1083	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, enacts the "Support Micro-Businesses Act" to create a revolving loan fund to support certain small businesses. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 9; Title 10; Title 13; Title 45 and Title 67. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 Assigned to s/c Business & Utilities Subcommittee
SB1547	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, changes from a Class E felony to a Class A misdemeanor, the criminal penalty for a person engaged in camping on state property knowing that the area is not specifically designated for use as a camping area by the department or agency r... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB0891	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, changes, from 45 days to 60 days, the limitation on delaying notification to persons affected by the breach of a system security when a law enforcement agency determines that the notification will impede a criminal investigation. - Ame... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
HB0940	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, reduces from 90 to 60 days the period, after the end of the fiscal year in which savings are realized, that a cash award must be paid to a state employee under the employee suggestion award plan for an adopted suggestion that results i... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-02-22 P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.