TN Legislation | 2023-2024 | 113th General Assembly | Senate

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2023-01-25
Signed by Senate Speaker
SB0330Intro
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As introduced, changes, from October 1 to March 30, the date by which the Tennessee student assistance corporation and the Tennessee higher education commission must report the findings of its research and analysis of data concerning the Tennessee Pr...
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2023-01-25
To Senate Education Committee
SB0310Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes certain visa holders to seek employment or an internship in this state consistent with federal law without verification by a state or local governmental entity through the systematic alien verification for entitlements (SAVE...
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2023-01-24
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB0304Intro
25%
As introduced, revises the manner for determining the percentage of alcohol in beer, high alcohol content beer, and other alcoholic beverages, from a weight measurement to a volume measurement, for purposes of regulating alcoholic beverages and beer ...
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2023-01-24
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB0306Intro
25%
As introduced, requires, in order to recover for any tort, whether established at common law or by statute, a person to prove the claim by clear and convincing evidence; applies to actions, excluding workers' compensation claims, accruing on or after...
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2023-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB0309Intro
25%
As introduced, deletes provisions related to the infections taskforce that focused on strategies and recommendations for the prevention and control of antibiotic resistant infections, including MRSA, and reported aggregate data on incidence and trend...
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2023-01-24
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB0312Intro
25%
As introduced, defines Sevierville as a premiere type tourist resort for purposes of sales tax distribution. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 1.
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2023-01-24
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB0321Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department of correction, the department of children's services, and local jails to provide persons in their custody and confined in a prison, youth development center, or jail with accessible, functional voice communicati...
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2023-01-24
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB0314Intro
25%
As introduced, prohibits, as an unfair claims settlement practice, an auto insurer from directing a body shop to repair a motor vehicle without first providing the insured with written notice of the insured's right to approve the type of body parts t...
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2023-01-24
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB0204Intro
25%
As introduced, establishes an office of the guardian ad litem pilot project within the twenty-second judicial district to represent the best interest of children in dependency and neglect cases; requires the pilot project to be supervised by the secr...
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2023-01-23
Withdrawn.
SB0288Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes issuance of a license plate in the emergency category to emergency communication dispatchers. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.
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2023-01-23
Withdrawn.
SB0240Intro
25%
As introduced, extends, from 10 days to 15 days after the injury or death, the period of time within which a prison warden must report to the commissioner the death or injury of an inmate by violence or accident. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 41.
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2023-01-21
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB0286Intro
25%
As introduced, requires a lobbyist to wear a badge displaying certain information while engaged in lobbying the general assembly; requires the Tennessee ethics commission to design and produce the badges and authorizes the commission to charge a lobb...
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2023-01-21
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB0174Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes Sevierville to obtain a license to sell alcohol and beer for consumption on premises designated by the city with the alcoholic beverage commission and local beer board. - Amends TCA Title 57.
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2023-01-21
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB0188Intro
25%
As introduced, removes the requirement that the principal-administrator academy offer training to educators in evaluation techniques and procedures consistent with processes provided in provisions that have been repealed. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2023-01-21
To Senate Education Committee
SB0228Intro
25%
As introduced, extends, from 60 days to 12 months, the period of postpartum coverage for pregnant women who meet certain medical assistance eligibility requirements in accordance with provisions of the American Rescue Plan. - Amends TCA Title 4 and T...
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2023-01-21
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee
SB0243Intro
25%
As introduced, increases, from within 90 days to within 120 days of receipt by the department of a valid judgment of conviction, the time period within which the department must notify the victim witness coordinator of the county of conviction of the...
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2023-01-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB0224Intro
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As introduced, requires the commissioner to study the factors that influence the availability of affordable child care options for working families, the impacts of recent inflationary pressures and cost of living increases on the cost of child care f...
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2023-01-21
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee
SB0211Intro
25%
As introduced, increases from $1.00 to $2.00, the amount of the voluntary donation that a registrant must have the opportunity to make upon the registration or registration renewal of any motor vehicle in any county in which the county clerk particip...
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2023-01-21
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee
SB0165Intro
25%
As introduced, adds the state and local government committee of the senate and the state government committee of the house of representatives to the list of entities to which the Tennessee Wine and Grape Board must submit its annual report. - Amends ...
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2023-01-21
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB0251Intro
25%
As introduced, directs the department of education to publish the TISA guide on its website. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2023-01-21
To Senate Education Committee
SB0254Intro
25%
As introduced, updates the maximum potential penalties for violations of the Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Act to match those allowed under federal law. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 3, Part 4.
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2023-01-21
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB0202Intro
25%
As introduced, creates the Tennessee witness protection and relocation program, to be administered by the office of criminal justice programs, for the purpose of creating intrastate and interstate compacts to coordinate witness protection, relocation...
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2023-01-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB0250Intro
25%
As introduced, extends, from 30 days to 45 days, the period of time before a teacher on leave is scheduled to return to work that the teacher must give the director of schools notice if the teacher does not intend to return to the position from which...
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2023-01-21
To Senate Education Committee
SB0205Intro
25%
As introduced, requires an LEA that provides suspended students with remote instruction as part of an alternative school or alternative program to record the students as present for attendance purposes in the same manner as students attending regular...
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2023-01-21
To Senate Education Committee
SB0189Intro
25%
As introduced, deletes a section requiring the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee to, by December 15, 2014, perform a study on the economic feasibility of creating and utilizing a statewide comprehensive energ...
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2023-01-21
To Senate Education Committee
SB0242Intro
25%
As introduced, extends, from five working days to 10 working days, the time within which the clerk of a court sentencing a person to a special alternative incarceration unit must mail to the department of correction a certified copy of the sentence a...
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2023-01-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB0168Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Free All Cannabis for Tennesseans Act"; establishes a regulatory structure for the cultivation, processing, and retail sale of marijuana and marijuana products in this state to be administered by the department of agricultu...
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2023-01-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB0192Intro
25%
As introduced, corrects the name of the Cumberland Museum and Science Center to the Adventure Science Center for purposes of receipt of appropriations of state funds made for educational grants-in-aid under allotments of the commissioner of finance a...
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2023-01-21
To Senate Education Committee
SB0216Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the office of legislative information systems to archive the webpage of the house select committee on redistricting for the 112th General Assembly and to strive to ensure that all videos, documents, maps, and other information...
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2023-01-21
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB0179Intro
25%
As introduced, allows courts to order a person into a program of assisted outpatient mental health treatment upon finding certain conditions are met; provides a process for certain persons to petition a court on behalf of a proposed patient; establis...
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2023-01-21
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee
SB0278Intro
25%
As introduced, extends the repeal date for the Virtual Public Schools Act from June 30, 2023, to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Section 49-16-216.
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2023-01-21
To Senate Education Committee
SB0260Intro
25%
As introduced, extends from 30 to 60 days the period by which a business entity that maintains a fleet of 200 or more motor vehicles and that has contracted with the department of revenue to provide titling and registration of the vehicle fleet to co...
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2023-01-21
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee
SB0175Intro
25%
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...
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2023-01-21
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee
SB0223Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the commissioner to study the challenges facing child care centers in hiring and maintaining adequate staff; the effects of inflationary pressures on child care staff wages and benefits and the impact of those effects on staff...
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2023-01-21
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee
SB0227Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes 12 workweeks of paid family leave during a 12-month period for qualified state employees. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 8.
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2023-01-21
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB0187Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Maternal and Infant Mortality Prevention Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71, Chapter 5.
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2023-01-21
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee
SB0180Intro
25%
As introduced, requires an insurer or insured individual to remove an automobile deemed a total loss from a repair facility's property within five business days of the date upon which the automobile is deemed a total loss; specifies additional requir...
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2023-01-21
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB0241Intro
25%
As introduced, increases from 45 days to 60 days the time period a temporary injunction enjoining a person from removing certain material relevant to a violation of certain criminal offenses from the jurisdiction of the court may remain in effect bef...
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2023-01-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB0156Intro
25%
As introduced, creates a presumption of injury, death, or disability for arson investigators who are sworn deputies of a county sheriff's department as the result of exposure to smoke and other toxins for purposes of qualifying for certain benefits. ...
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2023-01-21
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB0245Intro
25%
As introduced, specifies that a copy of the order obtained by prospective adoptive parents terminating parental or guardianship rights must be filed as an exhibit to a petition for adoption and must be certified by the clerk of the court that entered...
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2023-01-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB0171Intro
25%
As introduced, requires a local governmental entity to hold a referendum to approve a property tax increase that exceeds specified thresholds. - Amends TCA Title 48 and Title 67.
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2023-01-21
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB0232Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department of transportation to report on or before February 1, 2024, to the transportation committee of the house of representatives and the transportation and safety committee of the senate on any recommendations for cha...
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2023-01-21
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee
SB0185Intro
25%
As introduced, extends the amount of time, from within 10 days to within 30 days, from the order making the assignment, within which a parent who is dissatisfied with the assignment of the parent's student may make a written application to the board ...
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2023-01-21
To Senate Education Committee
SB0283Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the board to develop and administer a two-year pilot program to award grants to students enrolled in an eligible program and to students pursuing a quality non-degree credential. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2023-01-21
To Senate Education Committee
SB0133Intro
25%
As introduced, requires that the treasurer's report on the amount of any surplus in the electronic monitoring indigency fund be reported to the commissioner of finance and administration on or before January 15 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 39; Ti...
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2023-01-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB0028Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the chair of the emergency medical services board to convene the board for meetings at least once each quarter rather than twice in one year. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 68, Chapter 140.
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2023-01-20
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee
SB0069Intro
25%
As introduced, reduces from 10 to five business days after a death, the time within which the commissioner must report the death of a person in custody to members of the general assembly representing the legislative districts where the deceased perso...
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2023-01-20
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB0095Intro
25%
As introduced, increases from 24 months to 36 months the period for which vehicle registrations by businesses that register at least 15,000 vehicles annually and that are engaged in the rental of motor vehicles, trucks, and trailers may be issued; sp...
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2023-01-20
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee
SB0088Intro
25%
As introduced, prohibits the manufacture, sale, or delivery, holding, or offering for sale of any food that contains a vaccine or vaccine material unless the food labeling contains a conspicuous notification of the presence of the vaccine or vaccine ...
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2023-01-20
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee
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