| SB2652 | Pass | As enacted, requires local boards of education to include school safety training in the training requirements for substitute teachers; clarifies that LEAs are prohibited from hiring a substitute teacher whose license in another state is revoked; make...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/19/2024 |
| SB1887 | Pass | As enacted, makes bullying and cyber-bullying offenses subject to the same penalties as harassment; requires an officer to make a report of bullying and notify a parent or guardian when victim is a minor. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 38; Title 39 and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 797 |
| SB1915 | Pass | As enacted, generally prohibits certain licensing boards for professions, including medical professions, from using a vague term in their consideration and their notice or decision for denying a license due to a prior criminal prosecution unless an e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 788 |
| SB2391 | Pass | As enacted, revises provisions governing trade practices and consumer protection. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6, Part 4 and Title 47.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/23/2024 |
| SB1313 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to the law regarding costs of reproduction, copying, or mailing of certain medical records. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Section 63-2-102.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 737 |
| SB2525 | Pass | As enacted, adds state university boards of trustees to the list of governing boards authorized to promulgate rules to effectuate the requirement that persons required to register for the federal draft must be registered for the draft in order to be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/23/2024 |
| SB2503 | Pass | As enacted, requires the attorney general to conduct a review of the responsibilities and functions of the human rights commission and make a recommendation to the general assembly as to how the attorney general could assume the responsibilities and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/23/2024 |
| SB1657 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department to submit an annual report to the governor stating the total number of firearm injuries and deaths caused by firearms in this state per 100,000 people that have occurred in the previous calendar year. - Amends TCA ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/23/2024 |
| SB1919 | Pass | As enacted, requires a health benefit plan that amends, renews, or delivers a policy of coverage on or after July 1, 2024, and that provides coverage for prescription contraceptives, to provide coverage for a 12-month refill of contraceptives obtaine...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 01/01/2025 |
| SB1983 | Pass | As enacted, establishes generally that a condemner bears the burden of proving by a preponderance of the evidence certain facts relative to public use; grants the property owner a right to have a court of competent jurisdiction determine if the takin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 748 |
| SB1060 | Pass | As enacted, revises various provisions of present law pertaining to the "Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022" and the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 782 |
| SB2923 | Pass | As enacted, requires, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, each local education agency and public charter school to provide students with age-appropriate and grade-appropriate instruction on firearm safety. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 800 |
| SB1874 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies, for the purposes of regulation of health and related facilities, what constitutes "home health services." - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 741 |
| SB1985 | Pass | As enacted, lowers, from 15 to seven, the number of days by which a general sessions judge may postpone a trial for forcible entry and detainer; makes other changes related to forcible entry and detainers. - Amends TCA Title 27; Title 29 and Title 66...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 755 |
| SB1868 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Laken Riley Act of 2024," which generally prohibits a public institution of higher education from prohibiting adults lawfully present on the institution's property from carrying a non-lethal weapon for purposes of self-defense...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 791 |
| SB2148 | Pass | As enacted, requires financial institutions and insurers to make determinations about the provision or denial of services based on certain analysis; prohibits financial institutions and insurers from denying or canceling services to a person, or othe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 746 |
| SB2591 | Pass | As enacted, makes certain revisions to the "Neighborhood Preservation Act." - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 796 |
| SB2769 | Pass | As enacted, requires an assessor of property to notify the register of deeds as to which records are "permanent records"; revises the definition of a "movable structure" for purposes of classification and assessment of property taxes; authorizes the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/23/2024 |
| SB2222 | Pass | As enacted, establishes that it is unlawful for a person to intentionally initiate or circulate a report of a past, present, or impending active shooter and hostage situation, knowing that the report is false or baseless if certain information is kno...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 794 |
| SB2257 | Pass | As enacted, requires a court to place a constable on administrative leave pending a preliminary hearing, instead of until the conclusion of the criminal prosecution, if the constable is indicted or formally charged with a misdemeanor involving gambli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 753 |
| SB1641 | Pass | As enacted, establishes that generally an attorney or an agent designated to make healthcare decisions under a durable power of attorney for health care has a right to in-person visitation with the principal at a hospital where the principal is locat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| SB2548 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits a member of a county legislative body, who is also an employee of the county or whose spouse is such an employee, from voting on matters in which such member has a conflict of interest; requires each vote taken by a county legis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 798 |
| SB2317 | Pass | As enacted, requires, when legal notices must be published in a newspaper of general circulation, that the notice also be published on a news and information website that has a URL, if such a website exists, that meets certain requirements. - Amends ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 793 |
| SB2011 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes TennCare to adopt or amend a state preferred drug list (PDL) without rulemaking; requires TennCare to ensure that reimbursement is provided to a healthcare provider who provides a non-opioid treatment to a recipient under the m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 762 |
| SB1938 | Pass | As enacted, names the law prohibiting an LEA from deducting dues from the wages of the LEA's employees for a professional employees' organization the "Michael Maren Paycheck Protection Act." - Amends TCA Section 49-2-123.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/23/2024 |
| SB1791 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department, when screening for a condition is not implemented within 36 months of being added to the Recommended Uniform Screening Panel, to provide a report on the status and the reason for delay to the health and welfare co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| SB2549 | Pass | As enacted, requires former and current district attorneys general, in order to solemnize the rite of matrimony, to opt in by filing notice of intention to solemnize the rite of matrimony with the office of vital records. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 759 |
| SB1859 | Pass | As enacted, extends the percentage of a misdemeanor sentence that a court may require a defendant to serve from 75 percent to 100 percent. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 41, Chapter 21, Part 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 743 |
| SB0468 | Pass | As enacted, removes certain limitations placed on a person trying to meet the educational requirement for licensure as a polysomnographic technologist by presenting proof of successful completion of an accredited sleep technologist educational progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 736 |
| SB1903 | Pass | As enacted, defines food that contains a vaccine or vaccine material as a drug for purposes of the Tennessee Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 53.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 742 |
| SB2482 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Cassie Wright Act," which makes changes to law relative to a parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian having access to certain medical information of their unemancipated minor. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 66 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 761 |
| SB2030 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that documents provided through a website with the primary function of providing certificates, registrations, licenses, or similar documents for assistance animals in exchange for payment of a fee are not reliable documentation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 754 |
| SB2362 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department to create a continuing education program for the purpose of providing healthcare professionals with information and training relative to public and office safety. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 749 |
| SB2017 | Pass | As enacted, requires causes of action for unpaid wages for hours worked, overtime, minimum wage, salary, bonuses, commissions, or other compensation owed to an employee or independent contractor, including ones for breach of contract, unjust enrichme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 747 |
| SB2312 | Pass | As enacted, requires a local board of education that provides electronic textbooks and instructional materials to provide a student reasonable access to a printed version of an electronic textbook or instructional material if the student or the stude...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 752 |
| SB2306 | Pass | As enacted, designates November as "Christian Heritage Month." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 750 |
| SB2400 | Pass | As enacted, establishes October 9 of each year as "PANDAS Awareness Day" to promote awareness of Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections and Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome. - Amends TC...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/23/2024 |
| SB2264 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a real estate broker licensee who is in good standing with the Tennessee real estate commission at the time the person's license is temporarily retired, and who, as a retiree, has not paid the license renewal fee, causing the l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| SB2928 | Pass | As enacted, generally prohibits, in Montgomery, Williamson, Rutherford, Hamilton, Knox, Davidson, and Shelby counties, a member of a county governing body from simultaneously serving as a member of the governing body of a municipality within the coun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 763 |
| SB2186 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that in a county with more than one general sessions judge in which the judicial commissioners are supervised by the general sessions judges, the management and supervision of any judicial commissioners appointed pursuant to thi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 786 |
| SB1646 | Pass | As enacted, adds former public officials to the list of officials who may contest liens on real property believed to lack any legal basis. - Amends TCA Section 47-9-513 and Title 66, Chapter 21, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 744 |
| SR0315 | Pass | Vanessa Tello, Salutatorian, Power Center Academy High School
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| SR0311 | Pass | Amaya Hewitt, Salutatorian, Whitehaven High School
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| SR0326 | Pass | Dr. Joseph Wasmond
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| SR0307 | Pass | McCoy Pugh, Salutatorian, Millington Central Middle High School
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| SR0313 | Pass | Ja'Mya Norwood, Salutatorian, Fairley High School
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| SR0325 | Pass | Patti Watts
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| SR0306 | Pass | Rilee Ervin, Valedictorian, Millington Central Middle High School
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| SR0310 | Pass | Kristian Livingston, Valedictorian, Whitehaven High School
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| SR0308 | Pass | Gabrielle Causey, Valedictorian, Middle College High School
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
Signed by Senate Speaker |
