| SB0688 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes the comptroller to submit, in electronic format, the report of the findings from each study, conducted every four years, of the effectiveness of the Tennessee Promise scholarship program to the speakers of the senate and hou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Sponsor change. |
| SB1503 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, renames enhanced and concealed handgun carry permits as enhanced and concealed firearm carry permits and authorizes a permit holder to carry any firearms, rather than handguns, that the permit holder legally owns or possesses; expands ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2170 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, allows the comptroller of the treasury to investigate the operations of rural hospitals and facilitate the transfer of the ownership and operations of government-owned rural hospitals that have failed or are abandoned. - Amends TCA Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Finance, Ways & Means |
| SB2169 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, establishes TennCare minimum and maximum reimbursement rate levels for rural hospitals and requires that the reimbursement rate is based on the rural hospital's current federal fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Finance, Ways & Means |
| SB2168 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, establishes separate reimbursement rates for ground-based rural ambulance services and urban ambulance services provided to TennCare recipients; allows for certain rural ambulance service providers to receive emergency medical services...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Finance, Ways & Means |
| SB1841 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, suspends the professional privilege tax for any year in which the amount of state general fund tax revenue over-collections during the prior fiscal year exceeded $500,000,000. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Finance, Ways & Means |
| SB1660 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates a Natural Disaster Relief Program to be administered by TEMA. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 2, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Finance, Ways & Means |
| SB0164 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department of children's services to provide a foster parent who is providing care for a foster child that is 15 years of age or older with a supplement in an amount equal to the actual cost incurred by the parent for prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Finance, Ways & Means |
| SB0098 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, extends mandatory retirement provision imposed on certain public safety officers to commissioned special agents of the department of revenue and commissioned members of the department of environment and conservation; requires such pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Finance, Ways & Means |
| SB0085 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Employee Ownership, Empowerment, and Expansion Act," to support the growth and expansion of employee-owned businesses. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 12, Chapter 3; Title 45; Title 50; Title 56, Chapter 1 and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Finance, Ways & Means |
| SB2816 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, repeals the professional privilege tax for tax years that begin on and after June 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2626 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the juvenile court to transfer a child to the sheriff of the county to be held according to law and dealt with as an adult in the criminal court if the child is charged with an offense involving theft of a firearm or a felony ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2471 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, expands the purposes for which the apportionment and distribution of state tax revenues to a sports authority owned by the city of Memphis can be used to include payment of, or the reimbursement of, expenses associated with securing re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1861 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits the governor from dividing counties into separate declarations of emergency to avoid the requirement that the general assembly approve an extension of an executive order, proclamation, or TEMP beyond the 45-day maximum for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1722 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits LEAs and public charter schools from displaying in public schools flags other than the official United States flag and the official Tennessee state flag. - Amends TCA Section 5-5-114; Section 6-54-144 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Companion House Bill substituted |
| SB1581 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, allocates all revenue generated from the sales tax on retail sales of new or used motor vehicles and new or used tires to the state highway fund; earmarks a share of sales tax revenue allocated to the general fund to the department of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1400 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes language that incorrectly refers to the department of safety as the department of safety and homeland security in a provision that requires the department of safety, in collaboration with the department of education, to develop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0768 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires reimbursement payments from insurers to chiropractors for services rendered to be based on the same methodology for the calculation of payments to medical doctors for the provision of services. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB0689 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, phases out professional privilege tax over four-year period for tax years that begin on and after June 1, 2024; reduces tax by $100 per year over such period. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0694 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the commissioner to make available to healthcare providers on the department's website the prescribed claims forms for reporting by healthcare providers. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0674 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, permits the services authorized in a collaborative pharmacy practice agreement to include weight management services; requires the bureau of TennCare to make available, or cause to be made available, anti-obesity medication to a recipi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0609 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates the Tennessee juvenile justice review commission to review an appropriate sampling of juvenile justice cases and any critical incidents involving juveniles in order to provide the general assembly with findings and legislative ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0588 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes the department to submit its annual report to the governor and general assembly on the state's solid waste management system in electronic format. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0544 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department to employ a guardian ad litem within each region of the state to advocate for each child who is in the custody of the department due to allegations of dependency and neglect and located within the region that th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2921 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the bureau to reimburse a public or private air ambulance service that bills for transports and has a base of operations in this state that provides a covered emergency or nonemergency service to a TennCare recipient at a rate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2864 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires Part B of the Katie Beckett program to serve a minimum of 5,000 program participants. - Amends TCA Section 71-5-164.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2863 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes the registered agent of a foreign corporation to resign the agency appointment by filing information with the secretary of state in an electronic format deemed suitable by the secretary of state. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2670 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, allows a Tennessee HOPE scholarship student or a nontraditional Tennessee HOPE scholarship student who earned the student's first baccalaureate degree between July 1, 2022, and July 1, 2023, in less than five years from the date of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2705 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department to publish on its website the department's annual report to the governor and general assembly on the state's solid waste management system. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 11; Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2669 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases the penalties for certain violations of the offense of unlawful photography; requires the court, rather than allowing the court discretion, to order a person convicted of certain unlawful photography offenses to register as a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2773 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires an annual training pay bonus supplement for eligible campus police officers and public safety officers in the amount of $800. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38 and Section 49-7-118.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2645 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases, from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony, the penalty for a second or subsequent offense of aggravated reckless driving; requires a person who commits a second or subsequent offense of aggravated reckless driving to at...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2765 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Protecting Tennessee Schools and Events Act"; subject to appropriations, requires the department of education to contract for the provision of walk-through metal detectors to LEAs. - Amends TCA Title 12 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2728 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Menstrual Hygiene Products Accessibility Act." - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 49 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2737 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes the treasurer to, subject to appropriations, use funds from the reserve for revenue fluctuation account to purchase precious metals bullion and specie and place the bullion and specie in a restricted account; authorizes the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2688 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, directs the department to conduct a study, utilizing existing resources, on the effectiveness of state programs incentivizing students to pursue careers in mental health care; requires the study to include an analysis of similar progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2694 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, retroactively allows employers to take a deduction from net earnings for state excise tax filing purposes, in the amount of expenses, including wages and compensation, associated with their employee retention credit allowable on their ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2735 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, allows the state treasurer to enter into an agreement with an entity to carry out certain activities in order to serve as a facility to securely produce, store, process, and ship bullion products for the state's depository. - Amends TC...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2612 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "African American Cultural and Historical Grant Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 13.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2624 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes a state or local law enforcement agency, at the direction of the executive officer with authority over such agency or the commissioner of safety, to provide aid and assistance to another state or a law enforcement agency of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2509 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, extends the school turnaround pilot program beyond the 2024-2025 school year; increases, from five to 15, the number of schools in need of intervention that may participate in the school turnaround pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 49,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2540 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, directs the department of economic and community development to develop a program for the installation and operation of combustion turbine power plants to increase the state's electric generation capacity. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2405 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, deletes the offense of aggravated prostitution; requires the public records of a person charged with a misdemeanor or a felony offense that has been repealed to be removed and destroyed without cost upon petition by the person. - Amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2419 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts "Emma's Bill," which requires that when making a determination of medical necessity, the bureau shall take into consideration the patient's overall condition and use such overall condition as a factor to determine the level of f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2462 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, directs the department to promulgate rules to establish a grant program for first-time home buyers. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 10; Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 47 and Title 66.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2415 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, permits a juvenile court to transfer a child to criminal court to be tried as an adult at any age if the child is charged with a second or subsequent criminal gang offense. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/23/2024 |
| SB2394 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases, from one to two, the number of free plates for the Purple Heart and disabled veteran license plates issued to veterans with disabilities. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-256 and Section 55-4-257.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2277 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates a registry of persons convicted of the criminal offense of domestic assault; requires the bureau to maintain the registry. - Amends TCA Title 18; Section 38-6-103; Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2341 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, adds the MidSouth development district to the list of development districts to which this state intends to assist financially; specifies an overall state funding level for the nine development districts; changes the calculation for how...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2364 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, adds training in the use of anti-choking devices to the training that coaches of school youth athletic activities at an LEA or public charter school are required to receive. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
