| SB2872 | Pass | As enacted, creates a task force to study retirement benefits for law enforcement officers. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35 and Title 8, Chapter 36.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-06
Effective date(s) 06/03/2022 |
| SB2583 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department to design and adopt a certificate of licensure for issuance to educators who have met the requirements for licensure established by the state board of education; requires that the certificate of licensure present a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-06
Effective date(s) 07/01/2022 |
| SB2558 | Pass | As enacted, requires that, on and after January 1, 2024, each voting machine used by a county election commission produce a voter-verifiable paper audit trail, instead of being capable of producing a voter-verified paper audit trail. - Amends TCA Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-06
Effective date(s) 06/03/2022 |
| SB2491 | Pass | As enacted, creates a waiver for the registration fee for a Class A or Class B motor vehicle upon the renewal of the motor vehicle's registration if the renewal occurs during the period of time beginning July 1, 2022, and ending June 30, 2023. - Amen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-06
Effective date(s) 07/01/2022 |
| SB2445 | Pass | As enacted, creates a Class E felony of an employer influencing or attempting to influence an employee who is a public servant to vote or not to vote in a particular manner or to resign as a public servant or unnecessarily recuse themselves from a pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-06
Effective date(s) 07/01/2022 |
| SB2442 | Pass | As enacted, establishes qualifications necessary to receive an occupational teaching license. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-06
Effective date(s) 06/03/2022, 07/01/2023 |
| SB2377 | Pass | As enacted, requires the Tennessee sheriffs' association to provide a criminal proceedings notification system, as a three-year pilot program that will begin July 1, 2022, and end June 30, 2025, for the purpose of increasing the transparency and effi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-06
Effective date(s) 06/03/2022 |
| SB2304 | Pass | As enacted, creates a healthcare task force to review the reimbursement of health professionals employed by agencies performing health care services in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 33; Title 63 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-06
Effective date(s) 06/03/2022, 07/01/2022 |
| SB2350 | Pass | As enacted, updates the definition of a certified green energy production facility to include the storage of electricity for purposes of calculating a minimum tax base for the franchise tax or for a pollution control credit. - Amends TCA Section 67-4...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-06
Effective date(s) 07/01/2022 |
| SB2247 | Pass | As enacted, expands the membership of the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission; requires the commission to issue guidance for LEAs and public charter schools to use when reviewing materials in a library collection; creates ot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-06
Effective date(s) 06/03/2022, 07/01/2022 |
| SB2087 | Pass | As enacted, requires that a person convicted of aggravated assault that involved the use or display of a deadly weapon be punished one classification higher than otherwise provided by law if the violation was committed by discharging a firearm from w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-06
Effective date(s) 07/01/2022 |
| SB1997 | Pass | As enacted, adds tianeptine and any salt, sulfate, free acid, or other preparation of tianeptine, and any salt, sulfate, free acid, compound, derivative, precursor, or preparation thereof that is substantially chemically equivalent or identical with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-06
Effective date(s) 07/01/2022 |
| SB0882 | Pass | As enacted, requires a court, in setting bail for a defendant charged with driving under the influence of an intoxicant or another offense in which alcohol was involved, to require the person to operate only a motor vehicle equipped with a functionin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-06
Effective date(s) 07/01/2022 |
| SB2899 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the index of appropriations from state tax revenues for 2021-2022 fiscal year to exceed the index of estimated growth in the state's economy by $2,997,600,000 or 16.08 percent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-03
Effective date(s) 06/01/2022 |
| SB2897 | Pass | As enacted, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2021, and July 1, 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-03
Effective date(s) 06/01/2022, 07/01/2022 |
| SB2898 | Pass | As enacted, increases, for FY22-23, the state employer match to 200 percent of the amount contributed by each state employee to the state's 401(k) plan per month, up to a maximum of $100 per month; exempts from sales tax the retail sale of food and f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-03
Effective date(s) 06/01/2022, 07/01/2022 |
| SB2901 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the state to issue and sell bonds of up to $583.5 million; cancels the bonds authorized by Chapter 758, Public Acts of 2020; allocates proceeds of $500 million of bonds to the department of finance and administration to provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-03
Effective date(s) 06/01/2022 |
| SB2849 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits regional and municipal planning commissions, in exercising their platting power, from requiring an owner of private property to dedicate real property to the public, or pay money to a public entity in an amount that is determine...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2022 |
| SB2852 | Pass | As enacted, requires a utility system, upon request or application for a connection of utility service by a customer, to promptly provide the customer the connection cost. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 65 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2022 |
| SB2774 | Pass | As enacted, vacates and reconstitutes the membership of the Tennessee human rights commission effective September 1, 2022, and makes other changes concerning the commission. - Amends TCA Title 4; Section 8-50-103 and Section 68-1-113.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-03
Effective date(s) 06/01/2022 |
| SB2574 | Pass | As enacted, requires nursing homes and assisted-care living facilities to permit at least one family member or resident representative who meets certain conditions to visit a resident of the facility during end-of-life situations if a disaster, emerg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2022 |
| SB2729 | Pass | As enacted, revises various provisions governing child care agencies; enacts provisions governing nontraditional child care agencies. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 49; Title 50; Title 55...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-03
Effective date(s) 06/01/2022, 07/01/2022 |
| SB2631 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that a student who graduates early from an eligible high school, or who completes high school at an eligible home school early, or who obtains an equivalency diploma before the spring semester immediately preceding the student's...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-03
Effective date(s) 06/01/2022 |
| SB2602 | Pass | As enacted, requires TACIR to prepare a report surveying projects initiated over the past 10 years involving the initiation of new state-sponsored Amtrak intercity passenger rail. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 10; Title 4, Chapter 23; Title 7; Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-03
Effective date(s) 06/01/2022 |
| SB2478 | Pass | As enacted, requires that judges of the supreme court, court of appeals, chancery courts, circuit courts, criminal courts, and courts exercising the jurisdiction imposed in one or more of the chancery courts, circuit courts or criminal courts be in g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-03
Effective date(s) 10/01/2022 |
| SB2514 | Pass | As enacted, enacts "Dallas's Law," which revises various provisions governing security guards/officers. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 57 and Title 62, Chapter 35.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-03
Effective date(s) 01/01/2023 |
| SB2466 | Pass | As enacted, renames the health services and development agency as the health facilities commission; designates references to the health services and development agency in state law as references to the health facilities commission; requests the Tenne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2022 |
| SB2463 | Pass | As enacted, requires the comptroller of the treasury, in conjunction with the bureau of TennCare and the department of health, to study the use of temporary staffing provided by healthcare staffing agencies in long-term care facilities; requires that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-03
Effective date(s) 06/01/2022 |
| SB2522 | Pass | As enacted, revises the pay schedule in Tennessee Code Annotated for assistant district attorneys and assistant district public defenders. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14 and Title 8, Chapter 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-03
Effective date(s) 06/01/2022 |
| SB2448 | Pass | As enacted, extends termination date from July 1, 2022, to July 1, 2023, for limitations on claims against a person for loss, damage, injury, or death arising from COVID-19. - Amends TCA Section 9-8-307; Title 14, Chapter 5; Title 29, Chapter 20 and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-03
Effective date(s) 06/01/2022 |
| SB2405 | Pass | As enacted, revises various provisions governing lottery-funded scholarships and financial aid. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-03
Effective date(s) 06/01/2022, 07/01/2022 |
| SB2400 | Pass | As enacted, raises the age of a victim whose testimony the court may allow to be taken outside the courtroom by means of two-way closed circuit television from "13 or younger" to "under 18 years of age"; adds human trafficking offenses to those for w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2022 |
| SB2282 | Pass | As enacted, requires certain utilities to prepare and implement a cyber security plan to provide for the protection of the utility's facilities from unauthorized use, alteration, ransom, or destruction of electronic data and imposes certain requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-03
Effective date(s) 06/01/2022 |
| SB2343 | Pass | As enacted, requires TACIR to conduct a study and make recommendations regarding the potential for passenger rail service linking the major cities in each of the grand divisions of the state. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 9; Title 54; Title 55 and Titl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-03
Effective date(s) 06/01/2022 |
| SB2295 | Pass | As enacted, makes various changes to the qualifications for certification as a medication aide by the board of nursing. - Amends TCA Title 63.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-03
Effective date(s) 06/01/2022, 01/01/2023 |
| SB2342 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the state treasurer to develop, implement, and administer a program to award grants to eligible employers for the purpose of funding of a length of service award program. - Amends TCA Section 8-25-115.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-03
Effective date(s) 06/01/2022 |
| SB2219 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes local governments to regulate, including the prohibition of, smoking and the use of vapor products in age-restricted venues; defines the terms “age-restricted venue” and “retail tobacco store” for the purposes of the Pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2022 |
| SB2167 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act." - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 27 and Title 66.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2022 |
| SB2150 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department to collaborate with the bureau of TennCare in order to study existing doula certification programs; requires that a report on the study be provided to the members of the general assembly and to the legislative libr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2022 |
| SB2078 | Pass | As enacted, increases from 0.5344 percent to 0.88 percent the portion of the state gasoline tax apportioned for distribution to the wildlife resources fund; specifies that in addition to any other purposes authorized by law for which such funds may b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2022 |
| SB2019 | Pass | As enacted, revises various provisions governing the Tennessee student assistance corporation (TSAC) and financial aid. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2022 |
| SB2012 | Pass | As enacted, includes as a form of littering for any commercial purposes, which is considered aggravated criminal littering, the act of knowingly placing, dropping, or throwing two or more tires on public or private property without permission and wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2022 |
| SB2013 | Pass | As enacted, enacts "Joker's Law," which revises the offense of knowingly and unlawfully killing a police dog, fire dog, search and rescue dog, service animal, or police horse without the owner's effective consent; adds provisions regarding knowingly ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2022 |
| SB0905 | Pass | As enacted, revises provisions governing the sales and use tax exemption for qualified farmers and nurserymen in regard to certain farm equipment and machinery used in agricultural operations. - Amends TCA Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-03
Effective date(s) 01/801/2023 |
| SB2932 | Pass | Subject to local approval, authorizes the sale, lease, or other transfer of the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Hospital Authority's assets or liabilities. - Amends amend Chapter 297 of the Private Acts of 1976; as amended.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-01
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 68 |
| SB2931 | Pass | Subject to local approval, establishes the office of county attorney.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-01
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 67 |
| SB2930 | Pass | Subject to local approval, sets the compensation for the juvenile court judge to equal the compensation of the Hawkins County general sessions judge; requires the juvenile court judge to serve in that capacity full time; prohibits the juvenile court ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-01
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 66 |
| SB2929 | Pass | Subject to local approval, increases number of persons serving on the board of education from nine to 10 members. - Amends Chapter 118 of the Private Acts of 2002.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-01
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 64 |
| SB2928 | Pass | Subject to local approval, creates the Rutherford County Board of Juvenile Detention Center Commissioners.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-01
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 65 |
| SB2927 | Pass | Subject to local approval, adds a one-year residency requirement to be eligible to run for the offices of mayor and city councilperson. - Amends Chapter 57 of the Private Acts of 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-01
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 63 |
