| HB1297 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, authorizes municipalities to create a fund that provides grants for the study of juveniles involved in prostitution and homicides committed by juveniles; requires such study to be conducted at the direction of the chief executive of a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-05
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration |
| SB0136 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, enacts the "CROWN Act: Create a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair" to define race and protective hairstyle for purposes of the Tennessee Human Rights Act. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21; Title 8; Title 49 and Title 50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-05
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| HB0513 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, increases the penalty for obstructing a highway from a Class B or C misdemeanor to a Class E felony and makes other related changes; creates the offense of throwing an object at another while participating in a riot; creates the offens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-05
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration |
| SJR0588 | Engross
Recessed | Expresses support for the Nation of Israel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-05
Engrossed; ready for transmission to House |
| SJR0049 | Engross
Recessed | Urges Congress to propose to the states for ratification an amendment stating that the United States Supreme Court shall be composed of nine justices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-04
To House Civil Justice Subcommittee |
| HB0869 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, authorizes the general assembly to end a state of emergency that was declared because of a public health emergency by the passage of a joint resolution; requires the governor to provide certain information to the general assembly relat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-04
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration |
| HB1593 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, requires the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) to perform a study regarding disparities in the issuance of state contracts to businesses owned and operated by African Americans, and to report its find...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-04
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration |
| HJR0085 | Engross
Recessed | Urges DEA to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule II drug.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-03
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| HB0370 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, creates a committee to determine when and how quarantine and disease communication tracking procedures should be implemented; removes quarantine authority from health commissioner and county health officer; requires county health depar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-03
Engrossed; ready for transmission to Sen. |
| SJR0609 | Engross
Recessed | T.J. Osborne
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-03
Re-ref. Naming & Designating |
| HJR0490 | Engross
Recessed | Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Day, May 6, 2021
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-03
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| HB0920 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, adds cerumen management by a person who has completed a cerumen management course approved by the International Hearing Society within the definition of the practice of dispensing and fitting hearing instruments. - Amends TCA Title 63,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-29
Engrossed; ready for transmission to Sen. |
| HB1347 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, requires the general assembly to review an executive agency created by executive order of the governor under the governor's emergency management powers; authorizes the general assembly to either continue or discontinue the executive ag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-29
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration |
| HJR0417 | Engross
Recessed | National Drug Endangered Children Awareness Day
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1077 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, extends the health services and development agency to June 30, 2022. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 68, Chapter 11.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-28
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB0439 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, allows the vulnerable adult protective investigative team annual report to the chairs of the judiciary committee of the senate and the judiciary committee of the house of representatives to be submitted electronically. - Amends TCA Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-28
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| HB0873 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, provides that whenever Coffee County acquires property at a tax sale, any non-governmental entity holding a vested and duly recorded contractual right to the payment of fees or assessments secured by such property retains such right; f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-27
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration |
| SJR0646 | Engross
Recessed | Calls joint convention for purpose of filling vacancy on state election commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-26
Engrossed; ready for transmission to House |
| SB0561 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, reduces the portion of a person's sentence for first degree murder that must be served prior to becoming eligible for parole to 60 percent of 60 years if sentenced to imprisonment for life for an offense committed during certain dates ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-26
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB0827 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, prohibits the use of solitary confinement for pregnant inmates and inmates who have given birth within the past eight weeks; prohibits transfer of a pregnant inmate from a jail to a state penitentiary or branch of a prison for safekeep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-22
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB0234 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, enacts the Solemn Covenant of the States to Award Prizes for Curing Diseases compact. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-22
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB0132 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, requires the commissioner to submit a report annually to the general assembly detailing the department's access and use of federal temporary assistance to needy families (TANF) funds. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 1, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-22
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| HB1195 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, requires a health insurance entity, a health services provider, or a health facility to notify a patient of communication among the entity, a health services provider, and a health facility concerning the patient's medical claim. - Ame...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-22
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration |
| SJR0201 | Engross
Recessed | Designates April 2021, as "County Government Month" in Tennessee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-21
To House Delayed Bills Committee |
| SB0863 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, revises eligibility requirements for the general assembly merit scholarship for students who complete high school in a Tennessee home school program or who graduate from an ineligible Tennessee high school. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-21
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| HJR0139 | Engross
Recessed | Supports recommendations of Agricultural Education and Youth Participation Task Force.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-21
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB0361 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, permits officers of governmental animal control agencies to enter abandoned property and dwellings to rescue any non-livestock animal contained therein. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14 and Title 44.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-19
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration |
| SJR0472 | Engross
Recessed | Jacen "Jace" Wilder
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-19
Held on desk. |
| HJR0408 | Engross
Recessed | Tennessee State Natural Areas Day, May 4, 2021
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-19
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1436 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, requires the establishment of a three-judge panel to adjudicate cases challenging state legislative or congressional districts. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3; Title 2; Title 3; Title 16; Title 17; Title 20; Title 27 and Title 29.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-19
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration |
| SB1435 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, requires that an audiovisual recording be made of any interrogation of a child who has been taken into custody on suspicion that the child committed a delinquent act or unruly conduct; states that the requirement may not be waived. - A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-15
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB1027 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, permits the board for professional counselors, marital and family therapists, and clinical pastoral therapists to conduct meetings by electronic means, as long as the electronic means used allow for all board members to transmit and re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-15
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| HB0978 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, creates a Class C misdemeanor offense, punishable by a $50 fine and community service work, for solicitation or camping along a controlled-access highway or entrance or exit ramp; expands Equal Access to Public Property Act of 2012 to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-15
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration |
| HB0145 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, lowers from three to two business days the amount of time a pharmacy benefits manager or covered entity has to adjust the maximum allowable cost of a drug or medical product or device to which the maximum allowable cost applies for all...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-15
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration |
| HB0613 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, requires the commissioner to conduct a study of programs to reduce recidivism for persons formerly incarcerated. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 41 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-15
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration |
| HB0456 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, authorizes a political subdivision, or an instrumentality of a political subdivision with at least 1,000 employees, to implement, adopt, or administer an automatic deferred or tax-sheltered compensation plan for employees. - Amends TCA...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-15
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration |
| HB1074 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, increases the penalty for assault of a first responder from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-15
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration |
| HB0930 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, designates the ladder as the official state tool. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-14
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration |
| HB1137 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, prohibits the state, a political subdivision, or a public official from prohibiting or imposing additional restrictions on the lawful operations of a church or religious organization during a state of emergency, major disaster, or natu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-14
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration |
| SB1312 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, requires state funding board to conduct a study on the impact and effects of the rapid devaluation of the United States dollar on the state's economy; requires the board to prepare a report of its findings and recommendations resulting...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-14
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| HB1362 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, enacts the "Small Estate Affidavit Limited Letter of Authority Act"; clarifies that to file an affidavit for a small estate the decedent must not have left a will; removes the requirement of listing unpaid debts left by the decedent in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-14
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration |
| HB0549 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, authorizes the estate of a deputy jailer of a local government who is killed in the line of duty to receive an annuity in the amount of $250,000, paid over five years in $50,000 installments. - Amends TCA Section 7-51-210.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-14
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration |
| HB0369 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, authorizes owners of real property to construct certain residential buildings on that property without obtaining a contractor license; requires notice of construction to be made to the board for licensing contractors and the register o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12
Failed to pass Senate, Ayes 11, Nays 11 |
| HJR0008 | Engross
Recessed | Makes application to Congress for the purpose of calling an Article V convention to propose an amendment to the United States Constitution to set a limit on the number of terms to which a person may be elected as a member of the Congress of the Unite...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SJR0055 | Engross
Recessed | Proposes amendment to remove Article IX, Section 1 of the Constitution of Tennessee, which provides that no minister of the gospel, or priest of any denomination whatsoever, shall be eligible to a seat in either house of the legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12
Assigned to s/c Public Service Subcommittee |
| HB1196 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, sets venue for actions challenging the constitutionality of a state statute, executive order, or administrative rule or regulation in the county where the plaintiff resides or, if the plaintiff is not a resident of Tennessee, in Sumner...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration |
| SB1201 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, deletes requirements for cities and counties to develop comprehensive growth plans. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 10; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13 and Title 65, Chapter 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-08
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SJR0343 | Engross
Recessed | Honor the Fallen Month, May 2021
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-08
To House Delayed Bills Committee |
| SB0173 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, clarifies that the Tennessee Self-Service Storage Facility Act applies to transportable storage structures or containers. - Amends TCA Title 47 and Title 66.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-08
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB1179 | Engross
Recessed | As introduced, removes the prohibition on operating a needle and hypodermic syringe exchange program within 1,000 feet of a public park in certain counties and municipalities. - Amends TCA Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-08
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
