| SB2138 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a rural electric and community services cooperative to allow directors or cooperative members to participate in cooperative meetings by means of virtual or remote communication if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 811 |
| SB2468 | Pass | As enacted, provides that an owner, tenant, or lessee is not liable for injuries to a person that occur when the person is on the land of the owner, tenant, or lessee without paying to the owner, tenant, or lessee a valuable consideration for use of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-13
Effective date(s) 04/08/2022 |
| SB1801 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that a statewide building construction standard or another standard or requirement adopted by a local government shall not prohibit or limit the use of equipment with refrigerants, if the equipment contains a refrigerant listed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-13
Effective date(s) 04/08/2022 |
| SB2228 | Pass | As enacted, limits the time a prior misdemeanor or Class E felony may be considered for purposes of issuing an insurance producer license to within 10 years of the date upon which an individual applies for an insurance producer license; specifies, in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 814 |
| SB0472 | Pass | As enacted, changes a professional bondsman's capacity with regard to collateral pledged as cash or an item readily converted to cash from 10 times to 15 times. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 11.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 800 |
| SB2812 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a member of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system to purchase, instead of obtain, retirement credit for all of the member's previous service rendered while a full-time employee and participating member of a political sub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-13
Effective date(s) 04/08/2022 |
| SB2016 | Pass | As enacted, limits the liability of a person or entity that contracts with the department of children's services to provide foster care services to children in the department's custody in the same manner that the department's liability is limited fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2022 |
| SB2182 | Pass | As enacted, enacts "Noah's Law," which allows a custodial parent, under certain circumstances, to seek an emergency court order declaring a child to be in imminent danger of serious bodily injury or death and ordering the noncustodial parent to retur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-12
Effective date(s) 04/06/2022 |
| SB2453 | Pass | As enacted, extends the statutory provision regulating reimbursements for healthcare services provided during a telehealth encounter beyond April 1, 2022; tolls, for the duration of any state of emergency, the 16-month period that a provider can offe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-12
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 766 |
| SB2224 | Pass | As enacted, designates April 7 as "Alexander Disease Day." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-12
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 768 |
| SB1047 | Pass | As enacted, adds use of vapor products to the acts that are prohibited in enclosed public places under the Non-Smoker Protection Act; revises provision whereby a local government may prohibit smoking by a distance of up to 50 feet from a hospital's e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| SB1706 | Pass | As enacted, extends the department of education to June 30, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 03/24/2022 |
| SB1737 | Pass | As enacted, extends the Tennessee medical laboratory board to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 68, Chapter 29.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 03/24/2022 |
| SB1868 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to the definition of "travel insurance" and related terms; requires a travel insurer to pay premium taxes on travel insurance premiums paid by certain policyholders; makes other changes related to travel insurance. - Amends ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 03/18/2022, 07/01/2022 |
| SB2515 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that "vacant public land" for purposes of the Tennessee Community Gardening Act includes property controlled by a parks and recreation department or similar entity that is not currently being used as park land. - Amends TCA Titl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 03/31/2022 |
| SB2180 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes commission to require a second appraisal prior to the disposal of certain government property. - Amends TCA Section 12-2-112 and Section 49-8-111.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 03/24/2022 |
| SB2397 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that, for excise tax purposes, effective for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2022, Section 174 of the Internal Revenue Code, concerning the deduction for research and experimental expenditures, must be applied as it w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 03/24/2022 |
| SB2353 | Pass | As enacted, extends the deadline, from the last day of the sixth month following the end of the fiscal year to the last day of the ninth month, for an employer to file an annual certified financial statement with the department of commerce and insura...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 03/24/2022 |
| SB2664 | Pass | As enacted, requires the comptroller to annually review and report on the implementation of the Tennessee Literacy Success Act and submit the report to the education committees of the house of representatives and senate and the state board of educati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 03/18/2022 |
| SB1686 | Pass | As enacted, creates a common carrier license to be issued by the alcoholic beverage commission to a person, firm, or corporation that transports goods for a fee and maintains a regularly established schedule of service within this state to transport ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 03/18/2022, 01/01/2023 |
| SB1959 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Natural Gas Innovation Act." - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 65.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 03/18/2022 |
| SB1756 | Pass | As enacted, requires chief procurement officer to establish and maintain a central database of information regarding grant recipients and sub-recipients for monitoring purposes; requires state agencies to update information in the database; requires ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 03/24/2022 |
| SB1927 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a licensed assistant behavior analyst (LBA) to administer behavioral scales that are within the scope of the practice of applied behavior analysis. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 11.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 03/31/2022 |
| SB2403 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes rather than requires the Megasite Authority of West Tennessee to provide water and wastewater services to customers located on the megasite property. - Amends TCA Title 64, Chapter 9, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 03/31/2022 |
| SB2485 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that an international medical school graduate applying to practice medicine must provide evidence of satisfactory completion of a three-year post-graduate training program instead of providing evidence of satisfactory completion...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 03/24/2022 |
| SB0029 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits local governments dismissing, disciplining, fining, or penalizing a first responder employed by a local government, or denying employment to a person applying to be a first responder, based on where the first responder or applic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 03/24/2022 |
| SB2881 | Pass | As enacted, requires contracts procured by local governments and similar entities for services provided by an insurance producer to be procured on the basis of competence and integrity rather than by competitive bidding. - Amends TCA Section 12-3-120...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 03/18/2022 |
| SB2413 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that the average caseloads of case managers must be calculated at least monthly. - Amends TCA Section 37-5-132.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 03/18/2022 |
| SB1745 | Pass | As enacted, terminates the West Fork Drakes Creek dam and reservoir interstate authority with no wind down period. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 64, Chapter 1, Part 9.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 03/24/2022 |
| SB1697 | Pass | As enacted, extends the board of examiners for nursing home administrators to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 16.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 03/24/2022 |
| SB1682 | Pass | As enacted, requires a records custodian to cite the state law prohibiting disclosure of a public record if the denial of the public records request is based on state law; clarifies the forms of identification a governmental entity may request as evi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 07/01/2022 |
| SB2038 | Pass | As enacted, designates a segment of Tazewell Pike in Knox County as the "SSG Ryan C. Knauss Memorial Highway." - Amends TCA Title 54.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 03/24/2022 |
| SB2008 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a member of the clergy who has been preparing a condemned person for death, rather than a priest or minister of the gospel, to witness the person's execution. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 03/24/2022 |
| SB2419 | Pass | As enacted, increases the monetary threshold for purposes of defining "major maintenance" with respect to the repair or renovation of state buildings and structures; increases the monetary threshold of state lease agreements for purposes of having su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 03/18/2022 |
| SB1812 | Pass | As enacted, changes the process by which the utility management review board may address financially distressed utility districts by merger or consolidation; creates a fund administered by the board to provide grants to utility districts that have me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 03/31/2022 |
| SB1789 | Pass | As enacted, removes references to conditions of participation from Medicare and Medicaid in the title definitions of "governmental entity" and "private business" that apply to certain statutes related to addressing COVID-19. - Amends TCA Title 14.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 03/31/2022 |
| SB2015 | Pass | As enacted, increases the amount that must be held as homestead from the sale of real estate that is so situated that homestead cannot be set apart from $5,000 to $35,000. - Amends TCA Title 26, Chapter 2, Part 3 and Title 30, Chapter 2, Part 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 07/01/2022 |
| SB2427 | Pass | As enacted, excludes narcotic testing equipment used to determine whether a controlled substance contains a synthetic opioid from the definition of "drug paraphernalia"; exclusion does not apply if the equipment is possessed for purposes of a person'...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 03/31/2022 |
| SB2553 | Pass | As enacted, deletes requirements for biennial audits of municipal governments in favor of annual audits supervised by the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 3; Title 6, Chapter 56 and Section 16-18-310.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 03/18/2022 |
| SB1698 | Pass | As enacted, extends the board of parole to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 40, Chapter 28, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 03/24/2022 |
| SB2437 | Pass | As enacted, increases the number of terms a judge of the workers' compensation appeals board may be appointed to serve; changes the conditions to appeal the board's decision on whether to certify a compensation order of the court; makes other related...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 07/01/2022 |
| SB2420 | Pass | As enacted, requires that the transfer of surplus personal property of this state to a local government satisfy certain requirements. - Amends TCA Section 12-2-420.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 03/18/2022 |
| SB2117 | Pass | As enacted, requires that proprietary information submitted by commercial operators to the department of environment and conservation regarding the operators' commercial or financial information be treated as confidential and not be open for inspecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 03/18/2022 |
| SB2017 | Pass | As enacted, extends the authorization for state colleges and universities under the board of regents or a state university board to contract with a board of education to provide for the teaching of the children of public school age in the training sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 03/31/2022 |
| SB1661 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a court to allow mediation between parties in a divorce proceeding to occur by video conference when appropriate. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 07/01/2022 |
| SB1660 | Pass | As enacted, holds the directors, trustees, or members of the governing body of a 501(c)(19) nonprofit corporation, association, or organization immune from suit arising from the conduct of the affairs of the corporation, association, or organization ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 03/18/2022 |
| SB1743 | Pass | As enacted, extends the Tennessee student assistance corporation, board of directors to June 30, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 03/28/2022 |
| SB1931 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the members and proxyholders of nonprofit corporations to meet remotely under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 57.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 07/01/2022 |
| SB1713 | Pass | As enacted, extends the housing development agency, board of directors to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 13, Chapter 23, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 03/24/2022 |
| SB2268 | Pass | As enacted, exempts records generated as a result of a Handle With Care Program notification, which is an alert provided to a school system regarding a child's potential exposure to an adverse childhood experience, from the open records requirement t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Effective date(s) 03/24/2022 |
