| SB2521 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, allows a retired member of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system or of a local retirement fund to be reemployed as a full-time school resource officer at a public school in this state serving students in any of the grades kinder...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB2295 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, establishes a physician assistant student loan repayment grant program to incentivize physician assistants to provide health services in health resource shortage areas. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 63.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2402 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires TennCare coverage of treatment of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS) and pediatric acute onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS). - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB1287 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes a reference to a repealed provision of law that established an exception to the prohibition of managed health insurance issuers contacting or employing an agent to directly contact a patient of a physician's practice in an effo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB1790 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires each local school board to establish a school lunch program and a school breakfast program that provide a free breakfast and lunch to each student enrolled in a school under the board's jurisdiction; requires the state to reim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2870 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits the importation, sale, and distribution of cell-cultured food products in this state. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 44; Title 47 and Title 53.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Calendar Committee |
| SB1378 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases, from $1.00 to $5.00, the threshold before which a borrower is entitled to a refund or refund credit of the precomputed interest charge for a loan that is precomputed that the borrower prepays in full. - Amends TCA Title 45, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB2370 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Blockchain Basics Act." - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB2917 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases from 10 calendar days to 10 business days, the number of days before a public hearing on an ordinance or resolution creating a regional airport authority by which notice of the public hearing must be given. - Amends TCA Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| SB2851 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes a cooperative that services Stewart, Cheatham, Robertson, Sumner, and Montgomery counties to provide broadband service within the jurisdictional limits of Springfield. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB1464 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the University of Memphis to evaluate the university's educational programs to determine if changes are needed in any of the educational programs and to make the needed changes. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 9;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1288 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, extends from December 31 to January 1, the date by which the bureau of workers' compensation must produce its annual report listing the name of each covered employer that failed, during the preceding state fiscal year, to provide worke...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB2265 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, allows Tennessee comprehensive assessment program (TCAP) tests to be administered to students enrolled in a virtual school or virtual education program through the internet in a virtual or remote setting if certain requirements are met...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1656 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department of education to allocate to each local education agency sufficient funds for the LEA to employ one full-time licensed professional school counselor position for every 250 student members of the LEA or one full-t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2177 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires public schools in this state that serve any combination of grades nine through 12 to maintain an opioid antagonist in at least one location in the school. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 49; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2789 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, adds bipods to the list of items that are considered to be a firearms accessory for purposes of the Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 54 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2910 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits certain financial entities from assigning a merchant code to or otherwise classifying a merchant that is a seller of firearms or ammunition separately from a general merchandise retailer or sporting goods retailer; authorizes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB1290 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the commissioner to ensure that a listing is made available to the public on the department of labor and workforce development's public website of apprenticeship programs that are mandated by state or federal law due to the pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB2623 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires, on or before January 1, 2025, the commissioner of economic and community development, in consultation with the commissioner of revenue, to report to the finance, ways and means committees of the house of representatives and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB2857 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits the use of physical broadband infrastructure and equipment from certain entities and countries in the construction or use of existing critical telecommunications infrastructure; establishes related requirements and penalties....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB1724 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, for the purpose of receiving the commissioner of safety's approval for a conventional or Class D school bus in its eighteenth year of service to be operated for additional years, requires the bus to have less than 300,000 miles, instea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2640 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases, from 10 to 11 days, the time a merchant has to provide a written notice of objection to a writing or record that confirms a contract between the recipient and another merchant before the writing or record is considered suffi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Calendar Committee |
| SB2181 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes motorcycles to be operated on certain limited access highway and interstate shoulders to proceed to nearest exit when speed of traffic is 25 miles per hour or less. - Amends TCA Title 54; Title 55, Chapter 1 and Title 55, Ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| SB1283 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires that a broadband ready community’s ordinance or policy for reviewing applications must contain a provision that all applications related to the project be either approved or denied within 30 calendar days, rather than 30 bus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB2216 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes, from 15 days to 15 business days, the amount of notice required before a school board extends the contract of a director of schools at a scheduled meeting. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2505 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires that contracts entered into between a personal seat license (PSL) holder of 10 or more years and a professional sports franchise for the purchase of a subsequent PSL with an upgraded or improved seating classification include ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB1752 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, extends eligibility for a Tennessee Promise scholarship to students who are enrolled full-time in a private, for-profit trade school that has been approved by the Tennessee state board of cosmetology and barber examiners to operate in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2906 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes references to repealed provisions of law that provided an additional definition of contractor, and additional penalties, in relation to unlawful representation as a licensed contractor. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB2916 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes from 60 days to 75 days prior to the beginning of the fiscal year the time in which the president of the metropolitan airport authority must submit the annual operating budget to the board for approval. - Amends TCA Title 42, C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| SB1872 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, revises the weighted allocations generated by a student for purposes of the TISA based on the number of students who are members of the LEA in which the student resides. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1717 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires all written driver license examinations to be administered in English only; prohibits use of a translation dictionary, electronic device, or interpreter to assist with the examination. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| SB2876 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires certain insurance policies or contracts that cover pregnancy and maternity benefits to cover benefits of perinatal educational courses, at no cost, for mothers, fathers, and one other person designated by the mother; requires ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB2431 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a person to include a disclosure on certain content generated by artificial intelligence that the content was generated using artificial intelligence; makes it an unfair or deceptive act or practice under the Tennessee Consume...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB2790 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes, from February 1, 2025, to January 1, 2025, the date by which the department of safety must report to the chair of the judiciary committee of the senate and the chair of the criminal justice committee of the house of representa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2568 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department of safety to redesign temporary driver licenses and permits and temporary photo identification licenses issued to qualified noncitizens so that the licenses may be easily distinguished from driver and photo iden...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Deferred to Summer Study |
| SB2553 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes the governor to expand medicaid pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; authorizes the governor to negotiate with the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services to determine the terms of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB2294 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates an advanced practice registered nurse student loan repayment grant program to incentivize advanced practice registered nurses to provide health services in health resource shortage areas. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2035 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a manufacturer of agricultural equipment or agricultural equipment parts to provide an owner or independent repair shop access to tools, software, and documentation to allow the provision of services for the equipment. - Amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB2291 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, expands, beyond just student performance in English language arts (ELA) on the most recent Tennessee comprehensive assessment program (TCAP) test, the measures of student growth in ELA that an LEA or public charter school may use in de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB0208 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires each local school board to establish a school lunch program and a school breakfast program that provides a free breakfast and lunch to each student enrolled in a school under the board's jurisdiction; requires the state to rei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2678 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council Act." - Amends TCA Title 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB2653 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes an LEA to adopt a policy for retired law enforcement officers to serve as armed school security officers on school premises. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1940 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates the state foster care and adoption review board. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 36.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Withdrawn. |
| SB2460 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates a violation under the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977 for a person or entity that alters the appearance, action, or speech of an individual through the use of synthetic media in a communication that is knowingly distr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB2435 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits a person engaged in the business of installing vehicle immobilization devices on motor vehicles from installing a device on a motor vehicle after sunset or before sunrise. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB2675 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the state board of education to publish on its website the reports on night schools that it receives from school boards. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2709 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes sponsors of private investigator apprentices to submit apprentice training reports to the commissioner of commerce and insurance electronically. - Amends TCA Title 62 and Title 68, Chapter 21.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB2401 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, mandates private insurance coverage for treatment of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS) and pediatric acute onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS). - Amends TCA Title 8; Ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB2545 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the comptroller of the treasury to report to the finance, ways and means committee of the senate and the finance, ways and means committee of the house of representatives on the utilization of funds for the Tennessee job skill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB1750 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires local governments issuing debt under the Local Government Public Obligations Act of 1986 or the Public Building Authorities Act of 1971 to seek approval from the comptroller or the comptroller’s designee prior to issuance of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
