| SB1144 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires each voter to declare a political party affiliation or that the voter is unaffiliated with a political party on voter registration; authorizes political parties to allow unaffiliated voters to vote in that political party's pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1483 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires candidates for elective office who are unaffiliated with a statewide political party to disclose their unaffiliated status on sample or informational ballots used for campaigning purposes. - Amends TCA Title 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1014 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes the name of the Tennessee public charter school commission to the Tennessee charter school commission; changes references of public charter schools to charter schools. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3; Section 2-3-107; Title 4, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1359 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces from 45 to 30 days the period following the conclusion of the biannual reporting periods by which an employer of a lobbyist must file with the Tennessee ethics commission the employer's disclosure report of compensation paid to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0879 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes provisions establishing a three-year pilot program concerning parent-teacher engagement in any grade from kindergarten through grade two that began with the 2018-2019 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1133 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the state coordinator of elections to notify, in writing, the speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives of any vacancy that occurs on the state election commission when the general assembly is not i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1456 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the time frame, from 90 to 95 days, when it is considered to be an unfair or deceptive act for a business to advertise that the business is going out of business. - Amends TCA Title 20; Title 29 and Title 47.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB1388 | Intro
25% | As introduced, lowers from five years to four years, the amount of time that must pass from the death of a nominee before such nominee can be inducted into the Tennessee agricultural hall of fame. - Amends TCA Title 43 and Title 44.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB1385 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands the maximum number of persons who may serve on a county solid waste authority's board of directors, from 15 to 17 members. - Amends TCA Title 55; Title 67 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB1026 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Transparency in Charter School Finance Act." - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7 and Title 49, Chapter 13.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1376 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds emergency call takers and public safety dispatchers to the definition of first responder for purposes of death benefits. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 29 and Title 63.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1136 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires each board to notify the commissioner of finance and administration when the estimate of board fees for a fiscal year is more than the certified amount of board fees required by the board for that fiscal year. - Amends TCA Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0761 | Intro
25% | As introduced, deletes obsolete provision requiring the commissioner, in consultation with the perinatal advisory committee, to deliver a report to the health committee of the house of representatives and the health and welfare committee of the senat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SB1331 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a governing body to provide members of the public the opportunity to comment at a meeting of the governing body if the meeting is open to the public pursuant to the Open Meetings Law and if members of the public give proper no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0961 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of education to make available to LEAs on its website the guidelines developed by the state board of education, with the assistance of the department, for appropriate kindergarten through grade 12 instruction on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1277 | Intro
25% | As introduced, redefines "industrial and commercial property" for assessment and classification purposes to include real property that is used, or held for use, for dwelling purposes in which 50 or more single family, residential properties are owned...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1509 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes certain nonprofit property owners associations to employ and commission police officers. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 38.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0843 | Intro
25% | As introduced, deletes antiquated language that required the office of research and education accountability in the office of the comptroller to submit a report by November 1, 2019, to the education committees of the senate and house of representativ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB0997 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the annual report of the department of mental health and substance abuse services regarding its use of funds to provide treatment services to individuals with gambling disorders in this state to be filed and published on Janua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SB0896 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires each county to submit its annual plan of expenditures of state grant-in-aid funds from the department of health by January 1 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SB1259 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Rep. Barbara Ward Cooper Act"; requires LEAs to include in the course of instruction for students in kindergarten through grade 12 curricula designed to educate students in conflict resolution. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB0804 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes the board of examiners in psychology to designate as a health service provider in this state a person who has held a license to practice psychology in another state under certain conditions. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 63...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SB1101 | Intro
25% | As introduced, deletes provisions authorizing early voting; deletes provision authorizing a person other than the voter to fill out a request for an absentee ballot for the voter. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1267 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends eligibility for a Tennessee middle college scholarship to students enrolled in any eligible postsecondary institution located in this state, instead of only eligible public two-year postsecondary institutions, that is partnerin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB0800 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes the department of transportation to submit its report concerning tolling as an alternative means of funding or financing bridges or highways within the state pursuant to the Tennessee Tollway Act in an electronic format. - A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0742 | Intro
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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
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 relating to initial assessments or 20 children monitored and supervised ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0788 | Intro
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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 |
