| HB2340 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-03-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Banking & Consumer Affairs Subcommittee of Commerce Committee |
| SB1616 | Pass | As enacted, extends the medical advisory committee to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 50, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Effective date(s) 02/21/2024 |
| SB1573 | Pass | As enacted, designates hot slaw as an official state food. - Amends TCA Title 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Effective date(s) 03/11/2024 |
| SB1967 | Pass | As enacted, requires a qualified voter to request an absentee ballot not later than 10 days before an election rather than not later than seven days before an election; requires a voter seeking to be placed on the permanent absentee voting register t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Effective date(s) 11/06/2024 |
| SB2072 | Pass | As enacted, changes how the department calculates annual assessments for trust companies, including differentiating between public and private trust companies; changes the threshold at which a bank may obtain an evaluation in lieu of an appraisal for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| SB2458 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases, from three days to three months, the amount of paid leave provided to the officers and employees of the various agencies, boards, and departments of state government in the event of death of such officers' or employees' chil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0844 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds the offense of rape to the offenses for which a defendant is not eligible for probation under the Tennessee Criminal Sentencing Reform Act of 1989. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5 and Title 40, Chapter 35.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2333 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits the possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of a switch or auto sear device designed, made, or adapted for the purpose of converting a weapon to shoot automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Def. to Summer Study in Criminal Justice Subcommittee |
| HB2485 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes the ages for the voluntary extension of foster care program from a young adult who is at least 18 years of age but less than 21 years of age to a young adult who is at least 18 years of age but less than 23 years of age. - Amen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Children & Family Affairs Subcommittee of Civil Justice Committee |
| SB2777 | Fail | As introduced, excludes a positive prenatal or newborn drug screening test result of cannabinoids from the definition of abuse of a child; excludes the exposure to cannabinoids that occurred in utero from the definition of severe child abuse. - Amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2649 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits a candidate for office in the general assembly or a member of the general assembly from engaging in private business with a lobbyist or employer of a lobbyist. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 6 and Title 8, Chapter 50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB2387 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits a utility from terminating or otherwise interrupting utility service to its customers on a day for which the national weather service has issued a heat advisory or excessive heat warning for an area for which the utility prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB2086 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a nurse practitioner or physician assistant to perform the mandatory physical examination of a public safety dispatcher or emergency call taker if the physical examination is included in the written protocol developed by the su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 529 |
| SB2550 | Intro
25% | As introduced, grants first priority to property tax liens relative to receiver's liens and other liens established under the Neighborhood Preservation Act and the Tennessee Local Land Bank Program; clarifies that various provisions governing judicia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Calendar Committee |
| SB1301 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends the permitted occurrence date, from June 30, 2023, to June 30, 2025, for an injury underlying a workers' compensation case in which the court of workers' compensation claims is authorized to award reasonable attorneys' fees and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2646 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-03-18
Withdrawn. |
| SB1716 | Engross
50% | As introduced, requires that veterans and active military personnel be issued no-cost hunting permits and licenses that are required to participate in the waterfowl seasons during which only veterans and active military personnel may hunt. - Amends T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB1048 | Engross
50% | As introduced, sets new caseload requirements for case managers in the department to take effect January 1, 2025; requires the department to employ special response team personnel, who do not maintain regular caseloads but are available to assume cas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB2191 | Intro
25% | As introduced, imposes an additional 15-percent tax on the retail sale of firearms; requires revenue from the firearms tax to be deposited into the K-12 mental health counselor fund to be administered by the department of education and used exclusive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1987 | Intro
25% | As enacted, designates “Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree” by Brenda Lee as the official state holiday song; requires the secretary of state to include the song in the Tennessee Blue Book. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
Companion House Bill substituted |
| SB2377 | Engross
50% | As introduced, prohibits the department from regulating or otherwise overseeing farming activities involving topsoil, rock removal, or the building of a pond when such activities are conducted in an area that is less than five acres in size, and the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB1578 | Engross
50% | As introduced, extends the period of time during which a child who is alleged to be unruly may be detained prior to a detention hearing from no more than 24 hours excluding nonjudicial days or 72 hours total to no more than 72 hours excluding nonjudi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| HB2324 | Fail | As introduced, requires the office of early learning to submit its annual report on pre-kindergarten programs by November 1. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
Failed in s/c Higher Education Subcommittee of Education Administration |
| HB1071 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes a hospital or healthcare provider to charge, in response to a request for copies of records for an individual to appeal a denial of social security disability insurance or supplemental security income, a patient, patient rep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| SB2607 | Intro
25% | As introduced, deletes an obsolete reference for a person who possesses a Class I carnivore prior to July 1, 2015, and who continues to possess the animal on or after July 1, 2015, to have a compliant microchip implanted in the animal by July 1, 2018...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
Withdrawn. |
| SB2980 | Intro
25% | Subject to local approval, clarifies that the election for the Board of Education aligns with the November general election; extends board members' terms from August, until a successor is elected and qualified; establishes a four-year term for board ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
Passed on Second Consideration, held on desk. Local Bill |
| SJR1147 | Intro
25% | Proposes an amendment to Article VII, Section 1 of the Constitution of Tennessee to specify the duties of the sheriff, trustee, register, county clerk, and assessor of property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1948 | Engross
50% | As introduced, requires the department of environment and conservation to refund one half of the appropriate permit fee to a local government that applies for and receives a general or individual permit to replace or otherwise maintain a culvert if t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB1649 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates the Tennessee violence intervention program within the department's office of criminal justice programs to invest in evidence-based violence reduction initiatives. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2134 | Engross
50% | As introduced, enacts the Social Work Licensure Compact. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB1611 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends the department of general services to June 30, 2028. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
Companion House Bill substituted |
| HB2596 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-03-18
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Higher Education Subcommittee of Education Administration |
| SB2204 | Engross
50% | As introduced, authorizes available funds in the Ocoee River recreation and economic development fund to be paid to the Tennessee Valley Authority for additional releases of water on the Ocoee River. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11; Title 65, Chapter ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB0862 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Healthcare Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act." - Amends TCA Title 48 and Title 56.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 526 |
| SB0287 | Pass | As enacted, adds offenses of continuous sexual abuse of a child committed on or after July 1, 2024, to the list of qualifying criminal misconduct that is sentenced to community supervision for life in addition to any other statutorily imposed punishm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 525 |
| HB0701 | Pass | As enacted, adds offenses of continuous sexual abuse of a child committed on or after July 1, 2024, to the list of qualifying criminal misconduct that is sentenced to community supervision for life in addition to any other statutorily imposed punishm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| HB1741 | Pass | As enacted, extends the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact to June 30, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 17.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 489 |
| HB0623 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that a seller of residential property is required to disclose the presence of a known sinkhole on the property prior to entering into a contract with a buyer regardless of whether the sinkhole is indicated through the contour li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| SB0596 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that a person is not required to solemnize a marriage. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29 and Title 36.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 511 |
| SB0658 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that a seller of residential property is required to disclose the presence of a known sinkhole on the property prior to entering into a contract with a buyer regardless of whether the sinkhole is indicated through the contour li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 510 |
| SB1598 | Pass | As enacted, extends the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact to June 30, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 17.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Effective date(s) 02/21/2024 |
| SR0174 | Pass | Ratifies and approves the amendments and revisions to the Tennessee Rules of Civil Procedure, as promulgated by the Supreme Court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| HB0878 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that a person is not required to solemnize a marriage. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29 and Title 36.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Effective date(s) 02/21/2024 |
| HB1648 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes, upon request, the department of revenue to issue lien-free salvage certificates of title to a salvage pool operator under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 3, Part 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| SB1645 | Pass | As enacted, deletes the July 1, 2024, termination date for Chapter 462 of the Public Acts of 2021, allowing a law enforcement agency to continue to use a drone to search for and collect evidence or obtain information with the consent of a private pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Effective date(s) 03/01/2024 |
| HB0284 | Pass | As enacted, standardizes the thresholds for competitive sealed bids for counties, municipalities, utility districts, local education agencies, and other local governmental entities. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 14; Title 6, Chapter 56, Part 3; Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Effective date(s) 03/01/2024 |
| SB0379 | Pass | As enacted, standardizes the thresholds for competitive sealed bids for counties, municipalities, utility districts, local education agencies, and other local governmental entities. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 14; Title 6, Chapter 56, Part 3; Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 513 |
| HB1582 | Pass | Subject to local approval, repeals the prohibition on possessing, storing, using, manufacturing, or selling pyrotechnics. - Repeals Chapter 479 of the Private Acts of 1949.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 34 |
| HB1163 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Healthcare Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act." - Amends TCA Title 48 and Title 56.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Effective date(s) 03/07/2024 |
| HB1170 | Pass | As enacted, requires the Tennessee peace officer standards and training (POST) commission to adopt guidelines and materials instructing law enforcement officers on the best practices for recognizing and responding to a medical crisis involving a pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Effective date(s) 03/07/2024 |
