| SB0742 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Pay Equality Act" to revise present law concerning sex-based discrimination in compensation for employment. - Amends TCA Title 50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB1075 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes, from 30 days to 35 days, the time within which a check must be presented for payment or given to a depositary bank for collection before the liability of the endorser is discharged under the Uniform Commercial Code. - Amends T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB1474 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires policy for lease payments for space occupied by state agencies to be established by the commissioner of finance and administration, instead of the commissioner of general services, and approved by the state building commission...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1354 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department to make the information on its web page accessible for free to any resident in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 54 and Title 55.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| SB0754 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) to study the fees assessed by registers pursuant to present law, including, at a minimum, the amount in fees collected, the amount in fees not collected,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1519 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes the Tennessee public charter school commission as an appellate charter school authorizer; transfers the commission's authority to authorize charter schools on appeal and to serve as the local education agency for each charter s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1093 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes the requirement to obtain a certificate of need to establish or relocate certain healthcare facilities or initiate certain healthcare services, except for the initiation of services for a burn unit or organ transplantation. - A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SB1506 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, renames Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples' Day. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 15 and Title 47.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1041 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 relating to initial assessments or 20 children monitored and supervised ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0788 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, reduces from two to one the number of credible witnesses who must be present when a law enforcement officer destroys an illegal distillery, a still, fermenting equipment, or related property. - Amends TCA Title 57.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1291 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases, from three to five days, the number of days a consumer reporting agency has to place a security freeze on a consumer report after receiving the written or electronic request from the Tennessee consumer. - Amends TCA Title 4;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB0965 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the state procurement commission to ensure that at least 5 percent of state contracts are awarded to veteran-owned businesses. - Amends TCA Title 12.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0770 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the state board for licensing contractors to post, within 15 days, instead of 30 days, of the board's action with regard to the board disciplining a contractor, home improvement services provider, or home improvement contracto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB1209 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, specifies the early grades reading report should be submitted to the education administration committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB0939 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes, under certain circumstances, a member of the general assembly or sponsor of a bill, amendment, or resolution to request by email that the fiscal review committee include a Tennessee racial impact statement in the fiscal not...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1022 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires an employer to permit an employee who is a local elected official to leave work in order to perform the duties of the elected office; requires the employer to permit the employee to use the employee’s available paid time off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB0752 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes the department to notify the railroad and governmental body affected by an applicant's proposed plan to construct a railroad grade crossing or convert a private crossing to a public crossing, by mail or electronically. - Ame...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| SB1344 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes Columbus Day as a legal holiday; designates the first Monday after the Super Bowl as a legal holiday. - Amends TCA Section 15-1-101.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1497 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a law enforcement officer to use only an appropriately marked law enforcement vehicle to make traffic stops in non-emergency situations; defines an appropriately marked law enforcement vehicle as one that bears insignias, stri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1016 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes the statutory provision that currently prohibits the governor from making a decision or obligating the state with regard to the expansion of optional enrollment in the medicaid program pursuant to the federal Patient Protection...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB1149 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, makes certain changes concerning establishment of a veterinarian-client-patient relationship; authorizes continuation of such relationship for up to 24 months, rather than 12 months, in case of livestock. - Amends TCA Title 44; Title 6...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB1120 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, allows counties and municipalities to reestablish the office of elected school superintendent. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB0830 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the commissioner to notify each LEA when the office of research and education accountability publishes a report germane to kindergarten through grade 12 education. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB0798 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, reduces from 15 to 10 days after the end of a calendar month the period by which an insurer domiciled in this state must report all material transactions to the commissioner that occurred in such calendar month. - Amends TCA Title 56.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB1314 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits a healthcare prescriber from issuing a prescription for a dual-purpose prescription medication for diabetes to a person in this state if the person does not have a diagnosis of diabetes; defines a dual-purpose prescription me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB1518 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes the director of schools to submit, in an electronic format, to the commissioner of education the director's annual report of the salary rating of each person employed as teacher, principal-teacher, and other school personnel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1424 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a municipal utility system or metropolitan electric plant that established a program before January 1, 2021, for purposes of accepting and distributing excess receipts for bona fide charitable purposes, and that operates the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1035 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes a child care program operated for state employees of a state agency to be located in an office building leased by the state. - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 8.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1436 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a state, county, or municipal law enforcement agency, correctional agency, or court to include the location of a law enforcement-related death when submitting the required report of the death to the director of the Tennessee b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0732 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the Tennessee real estate commission to provide on its website at no cost to users any directory of all brokers and affiliate brokers licensed by the commission if the commission publishes such a directory. - Amends TCA Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB0735 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Graduate Physicians Act." - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SB1128 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, before enacting a zoning ordinance or any amendment thereto, the chief legislative body of a municipality shall publish notice of the public hearing to consider the ordinance or amendment on its website, if available, at least 15 days ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1169 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes a utility district board member's insurance compensation option from payment to reimbursement of payment for premiums paid for equivalent or similar medical insurance coverage and life insurance coverage by the member; allows a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1494 | Intro
Sine Die | Subject to local approval, extends the deadline by which a tourism construction project must be initiated, from December 31, 2023, to December 31, 2024, as a condition to receiving funding for such project from the proceeds of the county hotel-motel ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
Passed on Second Consideration, held on desk. Local Bill |
| SB0929 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires that an interview or interrogation of a child taken into custody for a delinquent act must be recorded or conducted in the presence of an attorney who represents the child. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1 and Title 38, Chapte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1051 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, permits the department to electronically deliver the data related to complications of induced abortions, which is included in the department's annual report of selected induced termination of pregnancy data. - Amends TCA Title 37; Titl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1115 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, includes fentanyl, carfentanil, remifentanil, alfentanil, thiafentanil, or certain fentanyl derivatives or analogues as a chemical warfare agent when intended for use in a war or other attack to cause disease or death in humans, animal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1298 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Rescue Squad Recognition Act," which establishes a process by which the state fire marshal may issue a three-year certificate of recognition to a newly established rescue squad. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB0739 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes from March 31 to February 1, the date by which the Tennessee bureau of investigation (TBI) must annually provide to the commissioner of health and to the general assembly a report on all law enforcement-related deaths that occu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0882 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases the amount, from $200 to $600, each LEA is required to pay each teacher in kindergarten through grade 12 for the purchase of instructional supplies for the 2023-2024 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB0805 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies that the office of early learning is required, by February 1, to provide an annual report to the governor and the general assembly on the status of pre-kindergarten programs, which must include, at a minimum, the number, loca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB0758 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, provides a procedure for the enforcement of a victim's constitutional and statutory rights in a court exercising jurisdiction over the criminal offense committed against the victim by the district attorney general prosecuting the crimi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1180 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes, from December 31 to December 15, the date by which the bureau of workers' compensation must produce a report listing the name of each covered employer that failed, during the preceding fiscal year, to provide workers' compensa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB1126 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the form for use by a lay person petitioning the court for expunction to be made available to the public on the website of the district attorney general for each judicial district. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1496 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits a law enforcement agency from engaging in law enforcement activities which interfere with any person's First Amendment rights, engaging in First Amendment-related intelligence, or maintaining personal information about any pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1103 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department to file a petition to terminate the parental rights of a parent if the parent has not substantially complied with the statement of responsibilities in the child's permanency plan and the period of time originall...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1234 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, adds the education instruction committee of the house of representatives to the list of committees of the general assembly to which the department is required to submit a report regarding the number of endorsement exemptions and tempor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1083 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases from two years to three years, the time within which a family child care home, group child care home, or child care center must retain a signed acknowledgment from the child's parents or legal guardians of the fact that the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0948 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the office of vital records to establish a procedure whereby the filing and registration of a birth certificate, and the attestation of the accuracy of the personal data provided for such filing, can be accomplished through el...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1429 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, expands, from only local boards of education in distressed rural counties to all local boards of education, the governing bodies for LEAs that are authorized to adopt a policy allowing their director of schools to authorize and select ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Education Committee |
