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

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SB2685Intro

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As introduced, increases from 45 to 60, the number of days, following service of a petition for judicial review from a tenured faculty member seeking review for dismissal or suspension, that the board of regents or state university board has to trans...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee
SB2800Intro

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As introduced, requires a state bank to report to the commissioner of financial institutions within 48 hours, rather than 24 hours, any changes in chief executive officers of the state bank. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 45 and Title ...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB2795Intro

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As introduced, prohibits a candidate from attempting to qualify for and be nominated or elected to more than one federal or state public office, if the primary or general elections for such offices are held during the same year. - Amends TCA Title 2.
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2024-02-05
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB1566Intro

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As introduced, creates the Class E felony offense of purchasing, selling, possessing, or using a part, component, device, or attachment designed to accelerate the fire of a semi-automatic rifle and makes any semi-automatic rifle that includes an acce...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB2746Intro

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As introduced, expands the category of primary elections in which candidates nominated for school boards are to appear on the regular August election ballot for which the date of such election may be reset by an election commission to coincide with t...
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2024-02-05
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB2534Intro

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As introduced, requires the superintendent of a workhouse to keep a record of the height and weight of each inmate in addition to the inmate's age, sex, complexion, color of hair and eyes, and nationality. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 41.
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2024-02-05
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB2499Intro

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As introduced, allows a prisoner of a county workhouse or jail to be released from custody on work release or otherwise allowed to leave the grounds of the county workhouse or jail for employment or to perform work in the community without using an e...
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2024-02-05
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB2829Intro

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As introduced, subject to approval of the board of directors of the Doe Mountain recreational authority, clarifies that employees of the authority are eligible to participate in all benefit programs that this state provides to state employees. - Amen...
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2024-02-05
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB2560Intro

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As introduced, enacts the "Equality in Financial Services Act." - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47, Chapter 18.
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2024-02-05
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB2606Intro

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As introduced, replaces references to "poisonous snakes" with "venomous snakes." - Amends TCA Section 39-17-101 and Title 70.
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2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB2823Intro

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As introduced, reduces from 60 to 45 days the period by which a governmental entity or employee may answer or respond to a claim, action, or suit brought under the Tennessee Governmental Tort Liability Act; reduces from 60 to 45 days the period by wh...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB2609Intro

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As introduced, requires municipalities statewide to adopt an ordinance to align their municipal elections with the August or November general election beginning in 2026. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 6 and Title 7.
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2024-02-05
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB2601Intro

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As introduced, creates a bullion depository within the office of the state treasurer. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 5 and Title 45.
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2024-02-05
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB2671Intro

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As introduced, reduces from 30 business days to 30 calendar days, the number of days the department of safety has, following a confirmed death being reported on a crash report, to provide, upon request, a copy of the crash report to the general assem...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee
SB2814Intro

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As introduced, authorizes a law enforcement officer who administers epinephrine in an emergency situation to file a record of the event with the appropriate local emergency medical services agency in an electronic format. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title ...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB2841Intro

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As introduced, requires the commission to report to the governor and the general assembly concerning the commission's activities relative to Title VI no later than January 15 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 4.
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2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB2892Intro

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As introduced, adds the legislative librarian to the list of individuals that the nonprofit partners with whom the commission has entered into a marketing partnership must annually submit a detailed report setting forth their operation and accomplish...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee
SB2679Intro

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As introduced, prohibits a clerk of court from accepting a cash bail deposit presented by a charitable bail organization on behalf of a defendant; excludes a person soliciting donations with respect to a defendant who is related to the person by bloo...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB2747Intro

Sine Die
As introduced, enacts the ''Medical Ethics Defense Act.'' - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.
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2024-02-05
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee
SB2647Intro

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As introduced, permits a court clerk to publish the court fees on the court clerk's website. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 16.
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2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB2558Intro

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As introduced, increases from $10,000 to $15,000 the amount a parent or guardian is financially responsible for their child who maliciously or willfully caused personal injury to a person or destroyed property, real, personal, or mixed, belonging to ...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB2722Intro

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As introduced, deletes obsolete requirements for a joint report on juvenile justice data collection required to be submitted to the governor and the speakers of each house of the general assembly on or before January 1, 2019. - Amends TCA Title 37.
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2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB2865Intro

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As introduced, extends from 60 days to 120 days, the time within which a handgun carry permit holder must notify the department of safety in writing of a change in the permit holder's principal place of residence. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 36; Tit...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB1569Intro

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As introduced, prohibits the sale or purchase of an assault weapon as a Class A misdemeanor; defines assault weapon. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 54; Section 36-3-625; Section 38-3-119; Title 39 and Section 40-14-109.
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2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB2854Intro

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As introduced, clarifies that it is the commissioner of safety with whom a copy of each local education agency's district-wide comprehensive safety plan and each building-level school safety plan, including all amendments to each such plan, must be f...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee
SB2621Intro

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As introduced, requires the department to maintain staffing levels of case managers not to exceed 20 active cases or 20 children monitored in active cases for six months following the effective date of this act, then reduced to 14 active cases or 14 ...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB2727Intro

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As introduced, increases, from 60 to 70, the percentage of students enrolled in a school in the achievement school district (ASD) whose parents must have signed a petition demonstrating their support for their child's school remaining in the ASD in o...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee
SB2849Intro

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As introduced, creates one additional chancery court in the 19th judicial district. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.
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2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB2617Intro

Sine Die
As introduced, increases from 10 percent to 15 percent, the minimum number of qualified voters who voted in the last gubernatorial election that is required to file a petition calling for a referendum on the question of whether a privilege tax should...
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2024-02-05
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB2718Intro

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As introduced, removes the requirement that the governor receive authorization by the general assembly prior to making any decision or obligating the state with regard to the expansion of optional enrollment in the medical assistance program. - Amend...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee
SB2657Intro

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As introduced, creates the offense of aggravated patronizing prostitution; requires testing of a person initially arrested for aggravated patronizing prostitution for HIV. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
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2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB2552Intro

Sine Die
As introduced, requires the department of health to publish on its website information on the possibility of reversing the effects of a chemical abortion in any language that is the primary language spoken by 0.5 percent or more of this state's popul...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB2893Intro

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As introduced, removes the requirement that, no later than December 31, 2021, the commissioner, or the commissioner's designee, submit to the U.S. secretary of labor and the administrator of the national office of apprenticeship, an application to re...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB2613Intro

Sine Die
As introduced, exempts from the offense of criminal abortion an abortion that is performed or attempted by a licensed physician in a licensed hospital or ambulatory surgical treatment center on a patient who is under 13 years of age; requires the phy...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB2759Intro

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As introduced, changes the time frame within which each delinquent child ordered to probation supervision or committed to the custody of the department must undergo a validated risk and needs assessment to inform supervision levels, referrals to prog...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB2731Intro

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As introduced, changes, from January 1 to December 1, the date by which the department of correction is required to transmit its annual report detailing the higher education opportunities available to eligible incarcerated individuals in this state t...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee
SB2701Intro

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As introduced, requires an LEA or public charter school to install, maintain, and use, subject to parental request and approval, a video camera surveillance system in each special education classroom operated by the LEA or public charter school to co...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee
SB2672Intro

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As introduced, increases, from 45 to 60, the number of days a child care person or entity may receive an extension on a temporary certificate from the state board of education to operate a child care program prior to the issuance of an initial annual...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee
SB2594Intro

Sine Die
As introduced, changes from October 31 to October 15, the date by which the departments of health and education are required to submit their annual report of self-administered medications and healthcare procedures to students served in all public and...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee
SB2874Intro

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As introduced, decreases from 30 to 15, the number of days a law enforcement agency, after taking possession of a sexual assault evidence collection kit with the victim's name affixed to it, shall submit the kit to the Tennessee bureau of investigati...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB2600Intro

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As introduced, changes, from January 15 to March 1, the date by which the commissioner of health, in consultation with the department of finance and administration and any other state agency involved in the administration of the safety net program, i...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB2807Intro

Sine Die
As introduced, requires a board of directors of a watershed district to provide notice to each director of the board five business days, instead of five days, prior to the date of the meeting. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11; Title 43; Title 44; Title...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee
SB1564Intro

Sine Die
As introduced, allows a court to issue a risk protection order upon a finding by clear and convincing evidence that a person poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to the person or others if allowed to possess or purchase a firearm; au...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB2700Intro

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As introduced, creates the offense of instigation; requires an affiant to file an affidavit for abeyance when requesting an arrest warrant; permits a citizen's arrest following two verbal notices for the offense of trespassing. - Amends TCA Title 39;...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB2463Intro

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As introduced, requires the department to create and maintain an informational tool on the department's website that provides data related to the presence of facilities that are required to submit toxic release inventory data to the environmental pro...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee
SB1271Intro

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As introduced, clarifies that the department is to report the findings and recommendations, and not just an executive summary, of the special committee to study improvement of transportation services to the transportation and safety committee of the ...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee
SB2126Intro

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As introduced, increases, from $7.25 to $15, the minimum hourly wage for employees within the state. - Amends TCA Section 8-23-203; Title 12 and Title 50, Chapter 2.
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2024-02-02
Withdrawn.
SB0182Intro

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As introduced, prohibits the arrest, charge, or prosecution of a person for prostitution if the evidence for the arrest, charge, or prosecution results solely from the person's report of the criminal act; increases the penalty for patronizing prostit...
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2024-02-02
Withdrawn.
SB1468Intro

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As introduced, directs the Tennessee advisory committee on intergovernmental relations to perform a study of the overall severity and effect of litter on the maintenance and natural resources of state parks, and to report the committee's findings to ...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee
SB0337Intro

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As introduced, establishes a property fraud alert program to be administered by each county register of deeds if the local government appropriates funds for the program; increases the penalty for unlawfully drawing property transfer documents without...
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2024-02-02
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
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