| TN | SB2669 | Intro | As introduced, eliminates the professional privilege tax; establishes requirements for payment of annual professional registration fee for nonresidents engaged in certain professions. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 6, Part 3; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-19
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| TN | SB2097 | Intro | As introduced, enacts the "Financial Aid Simplification for Tennesseans (FAST) Act." - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 3; Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-19
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| TN | SB2174 | Intro | As introduced, revises the provisions governing the department's mandatory child care agency report card system and its separate and voluntary child care agency rated licensing system and implements a quality assessment and rating system for the purp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-19
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| TN | SB2120 | Intro | As introduced, authorizes the county trustee to proceed against delinquent taxpayers by retaining an agent to collect delinquent personal property taxes, interest, costs, and attorneys' fees. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-18
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| TN | SB2880 | Intro | As introduced, authorizes the state treasurer to enter into agreements with any federal reserve bank, instead of a federal reserve member bank or trust company located in Tennessee, for the purpose of transferring public funds and funds of the Tennes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-18
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 8:30 am]
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| TN | SJR0839 | Intro | 25th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as national day of service
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-18
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 8:30 am]
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| TN | SB1762 | Intro | As introduced, transfers administration of construction service provider registration from the secretary of state to the bureau of workers' compensation. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6, Part 4 and Title 50, Chapter 6, Part 9.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-18
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 8:30 am]
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| TN | SB2158 | Intro | As introduced, authorizes tax credits for privilege and excise taxes equal to 75 percent of the purchase price of brownfield property purchased in a tier 3 or tier 4 enhancement county for the purpose of a qualified development project; makes other r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-18
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 8:30 am]
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| TN | SB1724 | Intro | As introduced, exempts feminine hygiene products from sales tax on the annual sales tax holiday. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-18
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| TN | SB1612 | Intro | As introduced, requires the department to create the office for accessible transportation within the department to provide resources and expertise for expanding and improving accessible transportation in the state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-18
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 8:30 am]
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| TN | SB2059 | Intro | As introduced, specifies that rolled hemp is not a cigarette and hemp is not a substitute for tobacco for purposes of clarifying that such products are not subject to the tobacco tax. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 27 and Title 67, Chapter 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-18
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| TN | SB1717 | Intro | As introduced, establishes a sales and use tax rebate of up to $2,500 for certain homeowners who make eligible purchases of appliances, fixtures, and materials to improve disability accessibility in the homeowner's principal residence. - Amends TCA T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
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| TN | SB1924 | Intro | As introduced, extends the current sales tax exemption on motor vehicles purchased by members of the armed forces to Tennessee national guard military technicians and members of the Tennessee national guard who are on part-time duty. - Amends TCA Sec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
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| TN | SB1783 | Intro | As introduced, enacts the "Spencer Bristol Act," which increases the penalty for evading arrest that results in the serious bodily injury of a law enforcement officer to a Class C felony and evading arrest that results in the death of a law enforceme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
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| TN | SB2000 | Intro | As introduced, adds administration of a controlled substance or narcotic drug to a victim without the victim's consent or knowledge for the purpose of incapacitating the victim to the circumstances under which a rape becomes an aggravated rape. - Ame...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
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| TN | SB1799 | Intro | As introduced, exempts military veterans with 100 percent service-connected permanent and total disability from the sales tax on food and food ingredients. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
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| TN | SB2163 | Intro | As introduced, deletes requirement that on June 30, 2013, the commissioner of finance and administration transfer from the special trust fund to the general fund, a certain amount for funding transition costs related to the closure of Lakeshore Menta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
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| TN | SB2466 | Intro | As introduced, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2019, and July 1, 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
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| TN | SB2468 | Intro | As introduced, authorizes the index of appropriations from state tax revenues for 2019-2020 fiscal year to exceed the index of estimated growth in the state's economy by $629 million or 3.6 percent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
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| TN | SB2164 | Intro | As introduced, changes the target amount to be maintained in the reserve for revenue fluctuations from 8 percent to 10 percent of the estimated state tax revenues to be allocated to the general fund and the education trust fund for each fiscal year. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
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| TN | SB2682 | Intro | As introduced, makes appropriations for the purpose of defraying the expenses of certain legislative enactments passed during the 2020 session of the 111th General Assembly; earmarks sufficient state funds for the purpose of funding any bill naming a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
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| TN | SB2634 | Intro | As introduced, changes the estimated rate of growth formula used for purposes of the Copeland Cap to reflect changes in personal income over a five-year span, instead of just the projected change in personal income. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4, P...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
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| TN | SB2469 | Intro | As introduced, authorizes the state of Tennessee, acting by resolution of its funding board, to issue and sell general obligations bonds of the state in amounts not to exceed $124 million.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
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| TN | SB2505 | Intro | As introduced, changes the date, from March 1 to March 15, by which the fiscal review committee staff must provide the general assembly's finance, ways and means committees information regarding state programs that have suffered reductions of federal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
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| TN | SB2713 | Intro | As introduced, appropriates 10 percent of excess state tax revenues over collected in fiscal year 2020-2021 to the Tennessee rural economic development fund to be used for economic development in rural counties throughout the state; declares intent f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
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| TN | SB2111 | Intro | As introduced, changes from January 31 to March 1, the date by which the commissioner of economic and community development must report to the general assembly on the administration of the program allocating the state's bond authority among governmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
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| TN | SB2055 | Intro | As introduced, requires approval of the general assembly, by joint resolution, prior to a state agency entering into, or renewing, a contract or other agreement for the receipt of federal block grant funds. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 9.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
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| TN | SB2074 | Intro | As introduced, allows certain entities to use up to 10 percent of the entities' reserve fund if the entity has a deficit for the fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 9.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
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| TN | SB1981 | Intro | As introduced, makes appropriations for educator preparation programs for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2019, and July 1, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-03
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| TN | SB1951 | Intro | As introduced, allows TCRS members who served in the armed forces during certain periods of armed conflict to establish retirement credit for the military service under certain conditions. - Amends TCA Section 8-34-605.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-03
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| TN | SB1579 | Intro | As introduced, increases from $1,000 to $1,250, the amount awarded each semester to a full-time student receiving the middle college scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
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| TN | SB0491 | Intro | As introduced, phases out the professional privilege tax over a five-year period for tax years that begin on and after June 1, 2019. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
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| TN | SB0864 | Intro | As introduced, exempts from sales and use tax car detailing services. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
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| TN | SB0492 | Intro | As introduced, eliminates the professional privilege tax for the tax year ending on May 31, 2020, and subsequent tax years. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
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| TN | SB0992 | Intro | As introduced, exempts judges and chancellors from the professional privilege tax assessed to persons licensed as attorneys. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
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| TN | SB1220 | Intro | As introduced, allows a county legislative body to send the annual report of the evaluation of the use of judicial commissioners to the legislative committees in electronic format. - Amends TCA Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
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| TN | SB0035 | Intro | As introduced, creates the Class C felony offense of reckless endangerment by discharging a firearm into a parade, religious service, concert, athletic event, political event, educational event, or into any other group of 25 or more people who are la...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
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| TN | SB0852 | Intro | As introduced, increases the number of free plates from one to two 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] | 2019-05-01
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| TN | SB0060 | Intro | As introduced, eliminates the sales tax on feminine hygiene products. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
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| TN | SB1506 | Intro | As introduced, increases offense from vehicular homicide to aggravated vehicular homicide when a person is convicted of driving with any amount of a Schedule I or Schedule II controlled substance in the person's blood, and the person has previously b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
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| TN | SB0681 | Intro | As introduced, increases the penalty for theft of property that includes a firearm valued at less than $2,500 from a Class A misdemeanor or Class E felony, as applicable based on the value, to a Class D felony. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
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| TN | SB0424 | Intro | As introduced, authorizes parents of landowners and tenants of farmlands to hunt and fish on such lands without a license to same extent as spouses and children of such persons under present law. - Amends TCA Title 70.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
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| TN | SB0627 | Intro | As introduced, deletes requirements that budget document includes personal income statement for calendar year 1977 and actual state appropriations for fiscal year 1977-1978. - Amends TCA Section 9-4-5203.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
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| TN | SB0346 | Intro | As introduced, reduces the number of days from 15 to 10 that the comptroller has to determine whether certain financing agreements to fund a medical school under the Medical School Authorities Act is in compliance with the guidelines, rules, and regu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
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| TN | SB0748 | Intro | As introduced, raises the penalty for criminal impersonation of a law enforcement officer from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class D felony; imposes a minimum fine of $2,500 if the offense occurred while operating a motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 39,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
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| TN | SB1413 | Intro | As introduced, redefines "prisoner day" within the County Correctional Incentives Act to mean each day each state prisoner convicted by the trial court was held by a county after the first five days of incarceration following conviction, rather than ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
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| TN | SB0533 | Intro | As introduced, exempts sales of gun safes from sales and use tax. - Amends TCA Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
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| TN | SB0534 | Intro | As introduced, broadens the offense of financial exploitation of an elderly or vulnerable person to include the use of a telephone or other electronic or communication device to fraudulently or deceptively obtain or attempt to obtain money, property,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
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| TN | SB1358 | Intro | As introduced, requires the executive director of the wildlife resources agency to issue an annual report concerning acquisition priorities for wetland and bottomland hardwood forest acquisition. - Amends TCA Section 11-14-401.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
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| TN | SB1112 | Intro | As introduced, authorizes electronic submission of the report from the commissioner of revenue to the finance, ways and means committees of the senate and the house of representatives regarding tax credits claimed for the gross premiums tax and job t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
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