| SB0155 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds the legislative librarian to list of persons to whom the comptroller must provide the annual report on state lending programs and state credit support programs. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 45.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1481 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a law enforcement officer to undergo annual de-escalation training and an annual mental health evaluation in order to be certified by the peace officer standards and training commission; requires each law enforcement agency to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0272 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that machinery, equipment, and associated parts used by the department of general services or a contracted entity for the Megasite Authority of West Tennessee is included in the definition of "industrial machinery" for purposes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| SB0246 | Pass | As enacted, increases, from three to four years, the duration of Tennessee opportunity pilot programs for which temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) program funds must be dedicated; extends, from 12 to 18 months, the length of time followin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
Effective date(s) 03/21/2023 |
| SB0969 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases from 120 to 180 days the period within which a public building must come into full compliance if the public building was constructed, enlarged, or substantially altered or repaired after July 1, 2012, and is discovered to hav...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
Deferred to Summer Study |
| SB1170 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the length of notice the executive director of the board must give a person holding a current licensure registration to practice as a professional or registered nurse that the renewal fee is due, from 60 days to 65 days prior...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SB0257 | Pass | As enacted, eliminates the disabled license plate fee for a parent or guardian of an individual who is permanently and totally confined to a wheelchair and who does not own or operate a vehicle; discontinues the honorary consular cultural plate. - Am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
Effective date(s) 01/01/2024 |
| SB1199 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires each law enforcement agency to develop a policy by July 1, 2023, on the use of force that emphasizes the use of force only as a reasonable and proportional response when viewed in light of the crime a suspect is alleged to hav...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0821 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the coordinator of elections to take certain actions regarding paper ballots; authorizes, beginning with the 2024 election cycle, county election commissions to use hand-marked paper ballots; authorizes certification of result...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0486 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that recoverable costs on appeal include the cost of preparing and transmitting the record, the cost of a transcript of the evidence or proceedings, the cost of producing necessary copies of briefs and the record, premiums paid ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 62 |
| SB0008 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the penalty for aggravated assault involving strangulation or attempted strangulation from a Class C felony to a Class B felony if the victim was pregnant at the time of the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0101 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a magistrate to order a defendant charged with the offense of aggravated assault or assault of a first responder that involves strangulation of the victim to post bail to reasonably ensure the appearance of the defendant as re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1098 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires certain artifacts from the Civil War pertaining to the Confederate States of America be transferred to the Sons of Confederate Veterans for preservation, at their cost. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11 and Title 12.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1179 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds a requirement that notice of the prohibition or restriction on the possession of weapons by an individual or entity must be posted no more than three feet from each entrance; requires the notice sign to measure at least 22 inches ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0474 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes the county election commission to notify individuals filing a petition for recall, referendum, or initiative to notify the individuals of a defect in the petition that must be cured prior to certification for final approval....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0285 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes the use of an identification card issued by an accredited institution of higher education in this state for purposes of voter identification at a polling place; requires the secretary of state to conduct studies on such use ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0550 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes a governmental entity to publish notices of public meetings on a secure website of the governmental body; authorizes a person to request an electronic or hard copy of an e-newsletter or notice published by the governmental b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1173 | Fail | As introduced, requires the commissioner of safety, in consultation with the commissioner of human resources, to ensure that a minimum of six Tennessee highway patrol officers are allocated to a county designated as a tier 3 or tier 4 enhancement cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1492 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of agriculture to make its annual report on its enforcement of the Prevention of Youth Access to Tobacco, Smoking Hemp, and Vapor Products Act available on its website. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 47, Chapter 2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0680 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that the Medical Assistance Act of 1968 does not require a vendor, healthcare provider, or telehealth provider group that provides healthcare services exclusively via telehealth to have a physical address or site in this state i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
Effective date(s) 03/21/2023 |
| SB0311 | Intro
25% | As introduced, makes gold and silver coinage legal tender; authorizes payment of taxes with gold and silver coinage; makes other changes concerning precious metals. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 38; Title 45 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
Deferred to Summer Study |
| SB0889 | Intro
25% | As introduced, exempts persons being adjudicated in juvenile court from various fees associated with court proceedings. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 21; Title 16, Chapter 20; Title 37, Chapter 11; Title 37, Chapter 5; Title 37, Chapter 1; Title 40, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1011 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to maintain staffing levels of case managers so that each region has enough case managers to allow caseloads not to exceed 20 active cases by January 1, 2024, and 12 active cases by July 1, 2024. - Amends TCA Ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1250 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires agencies to provide reports of fires at food processing facilities and investigations of incidents of critical infrastructure vandalism to state fire marshal and TBI, respectively; requires state fire marshal and TBI to compil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0405 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires state and local elections for public office to be partisan elections; requires judges who are required by this state's constitution to be reelected at retention elections to declare a bona fide membership with a political part...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1258 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a municipality or county to follow the statutory procedure for taking certain disciplinary actions against a police officer if the officer is under investigation for matters that are likely to lead to an indication of untrustw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0336 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes the administrative office of the courts to submit its annual report in an electronic format to the chair of the senate judiciary committee, the chair of the civil justice committee of the house of representatives, and the at...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0729 | Intro
25% | As introduced, ensures that all full-time residents of nursing homes are entitled to vote by absentee ballot regardless of whether the county election commission conducts on site voting at the nursing home facility; reduces from 45 to 30 days the per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0738 | Intro
25% | As introduced, lowers from one hour and 45 minutes to one hour and 30 minutes, the amount of time that the sheriff or transportation agent is required to remain at a hospital or treatment resource, which provides treatment for persons with mental ill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1202 | Pass | As enacted, states that for the purpose of regulating child care agencies, a nontraditional child care agency does not include a person or entity that places children in family boarding homes or foster homes. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 5, Part 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 66 |
| SB0617 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department to make chaplain services available on a regular basis to juveniles who are housed in a youth development center; prohibits the department from requiring a juvenile to attend or use chaplain services; requires the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 67 |
| SB0509 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits interrogation or interview of a child who has been taken into custody due to suspicion that the child committed a delinquent act or unruly conduct except in the presence of the child's legal counsel, parent, guardian, or cust...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1381 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies authority of the fish and wildlife commission to set fees for nonresident licenses; makes other clarifications and changes to present law concerning regulation of hunting and fishing. - Amends TCA Title 70.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 61 |
| SB0372 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires department to determine whether any child who is placed in a youth development center has an intellectual disability. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0716 | Fail | As introduced, requires each county election commission to post on the commission's website a listing of all purged registration records within five days after a county election commission purges the voting registration records. - Amends TCA Title 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
Failed in Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1449 | Pass | As enacted, exempts an affiliate of a business licensed under state insurance laws and a person or entity providing certain service contracts, or an affiliate of the person or entity, from requirements governing businesses that make automatic renewal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 58 |
| SB0136 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires reports of deaths in relation to maintaining voter registration lists to include the date of the death; requires the coordinator of elections to prepare a report for the general assembly regarding deaths of registered voters. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SR0097 | Intro
25% | Megan Barry
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
Withdrawn. |
| SB0519 | Pass | As enacted, allows the state treasurer to purchase and sell physical gold and precious metal. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 8.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 69 |
| SB0094 | Pass | As enacted, codifies the Acts of the 2022 regular session.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
Effective date(s) 03/21/2023 |
| SB0865 | Pass | As enacted, requires political campaign committees to report contributions and expenditures for a local election to the registry of election finance rather than to the local county election commission; requires complaints on statements of local polit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 59 |
| SB0922 | Intro
25% | As introduced, clarifies that a sheriff and sheriff's deputy are law enforcement officers for purposes of the criminal code; clarifies that a deputy jailer is a law enforcement officer only for the purposes of enhancement of a crime under the crimina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1254 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the comptroller of the treasury to report to the senate judiciary committee and the state government committee of the house of representatives which counties, if any, redrew precinct lines to ensure no split precincts in legis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0016 | Fail | As introduced, creates a program for paid family medical leave for state employees. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 8; Title 16 and Title 50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
Failed in Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1369 | Pass | As enacted, removes the requirement that an individual applying for an insurance producer license take a prelicensing course of study for a line of authority; removes other references to the prelicensing education requirement for applicants for an in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
Effective date(s) 03/21/2023 |
| SB0947 | Fail | As introduced, requires the attorney general and reporter to post online a listing of all current litigation that could impact the interpretation of this state's constitution in which this state is a party; requires the attorney general and reporter ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0456 | Pass | As enacted, excludes streaming video content from the definition of "cable service," and streaming content and direct-to-home satellite services from the definition of "video service," for purposes of the Competitive Cable and Video Services Act. - A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 60 |
| SB1410 | Pass | As enacted, removes the prohibition that a person 16 or 17 years of age may not be employed in any place where the average monthly gross receipts from the sale of intoxicating beverages exceeds 25 percent of the total gross receipts of the place of e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 68 |
| SB0942 | Fail | As introduced, reduces, from 30 days to 15 days prior to an election, the time period during which a person cannot register to vote or alter the person's voter registration. - Amends TCA Title 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
Failed in Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0103 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that employees of state governmental entities who are compensated through funding sources other than this state are subject to the Tennessee State Employees Uniform Nepotism Policy Act of 1980; creates criminal and civil penalti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
