| TN | SB0992 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the administrative office of the courts to maintain a criminal justice information services compliant centralized statewide juvenile case management system; requires all juvenile court clerks to adopt and convert to the new ju...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 3:00 pm]
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| TN | SJR0001 | Intro
25% | Proposes additional language in Article II, Section 28 to prohibit the general assembly from levying, authorizing, or otherwise permitting a state tax on property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 3:00 pm]
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| TN | SB1364 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires, rather than permits, each law enforcement agency to execute an agreement with the United States department of homeland security to participate in the 287(g) program and the warrant service officer program for purposes of enfo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 3:00 pm]
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| TN | SB0450 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires an increase in funding for positions or office expenses for the department of children's services in child protective services to be accompanied by an increase in funding of 75 percent of the increase in funding to the contrac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
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| TN | SB0392 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates the offense of human smuggling; creates the offense of harboring or hiding, or assisting another in harboring or hiding, within this state an individual who the person knows or should have known has illegally entered or remaine...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
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| TN | SB0304 | Intro
25% | As introduced, permits the introduction into evidence of a video recording of a child victim being interviewed by a forensic interviewer regarding sexual or physically violent contact with the child if the forensic interviewer confirms the accuracy o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 3:00 pm]
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| TN | SB0672 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the penalty for obstruction of a highway, street, sidewalk, railway, waterway, elevator, aisle, hallway, or other place used for the passage of persons or vehicles from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony; establishes a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 3:00 pm]
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| TN | SB0243 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates a Class E felony for altering or defacing a permanent distinguishing number on a firearm and selling, purchasing, or possessing such a firearm with a mandatory minimum sentence of 180 days incarceration. - Amends TCA Title 39, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 3:00 pm]
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| TN | SB0480 | Intro
25% | As introduced, deletes the definition of "blighted area" and defines "blighted property" for purposes of condemnation by housing authorities; clarifies that housing authorities may acquire real property without using eminent domain; authorizes housin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 3:00 pm]
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| TN | SB0540 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the court to consider any failure to pay child support, rather than failure for a period of three years or more, when making a child custody determination; clarifies that the court may preclude or limit any provisions of a par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 3:00 pm]
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| TN | SB0489 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Medical Cannabis Act," which establishes a medical cannabis program to be administered by the Tennessee medical cannabis program commission. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38, Chapter 3; Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 4...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 3:00 pm]
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| TN | SJR0025 | Intro
25% | Proposes an amendment to Article I, Section 15 of the Constitution of Tennessee to remove the right to bail for the following offenses when the proof is evident or the presumption great: act of terrorism; second degree murder; aggravated rape of a ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 3:00 pm]
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| TN | SB0456 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds the offense of robbery to the definition of crime of violence. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 3:00 pm]
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| TN | SB0335 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Voyeurism Victims Act," which expands the offense of unlawful photography to include an unauthorized photograph that the defendant knew would include the unclothed intimate area of the victim or the victim engaged in sexual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 3:00 pm]
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| TN | SB0591 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates the Class E felony of recklessly, by any means of communication, threatening to commit an act of mass violence on the property of a child care agency, preschool, or religious institution; creates the Class B misdemeanor of fail...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 3:00 pm]
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| TN | SB0541 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the personal representative to notify beneficiaries or intestate heirs of their right to file exceptions to claims of creditors filed against an estate; makes various other changes regarding wills and claims of creditors again...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 3:00 pm]
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| TN | SB0916 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands the definition of "racketeering activity" to include committing, conspiring to commit, aiding, attempting to aid, soliciting, coercing, facilitating, or intimidating another person to commit the criminal offense of animal fight...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 3:00 pm]
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| TN | SB0421 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes certain prescribing physician assistants and nurse practitioners to prescribe buprenorphine products for the treatment of opioid use disorder when the physician assistant or nurse practitioner is employed by or contracts wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 3:00 pm]
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| TN | SB1022 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands "law enforcement officer" to include a correctional officer employed by a county jail, the department of correction, or a private prison contractor and a probation or parole officer employed by the department of correction or a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 3:00 pm]
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| TN | SB0433 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits the abandonment of an animal in a person's custody and provides that it is not a defense to prosecution that the person abandoned the animal at or near an animal shelter, veterinary clinic, or other place of shelter if the pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
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| TN | SB0407 | Intro
25% | As introduced, revises the procedure for restoration of rights of citizenship. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 22; Title 36; Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
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| TN | SB0300 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a person convicted of a Class A or Class B misdemeanor in general sessions court to pay for and complete a cognitive behavioral training course; requires the offender to provide proof of course completion to the court or the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0571 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases from $4,000 to $10,000 the amount of medical, hospital, or doctor bills that may be attached as an exhibit in a civil complaint or civil warrant as prima facie evidence that the bills so paid or incurred were necessary or rea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0642 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearms Act," which permits a person to voluntarily waive their firearm rights through filing a waiver with the clerk of the circuit court in the county of the person's residence; specifies ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1296 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates the criminal offense of threatening to commit an act of mass violence; creates the criminal offense of posting on a publicly accessible website the telephone number or home address of an individual with the intent to cause harm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0531 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the bureau to classify offenders and determine whether the offender's offense qualifies as a sexual offense, violent sexual offense, or a violent juvenile sexual offense, and whether the offender is an offender against childre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0800 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the amount of medical, hospital, or doctor bills that are presumed in a civil action to have been necessary and reasonable if the bills are itemized in the complaint or civil warrant with an attached copy of the bills attache...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0349 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies that a commissioned reserve deputy sheriff or commissioned reserve or auxiliary police officer receiving compensation for services as a guard, patrol, or watchperson under a contract with a private business that is properly l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1116 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases from 45 to 60 days the period within which the state registrar must issue a new certificate of birth to a requesting party following receipt of the required paperwork and any applicable fee. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 68...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0600 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies that the administrative office of the courts may distribute to the courts electronically the discharge from conditions of release form that is required to be sent to law enforcement agencies by the court when a defendant upon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0837 | Intro
25% | As introduced, defines "human being," "life," and "natural person" for statutory construction purposes; excludes from the definition of "person," "life," and "natural person" artificial intelligence, a computer algorithm, a software program, computer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0586 | Intro
25% | As introduced, clarifies that a person commits the offense of unlawful exposure by distributing a private, intimate image of another identifiable person with intent to cause emotional distress, regardless of whether the person who distributes the ima...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0735 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires just compensation to be paid for the acquisition or removal of an outdoor advertising device lawfully erected; prohibits the use of amortization to provide such just compensation. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 16 and Section ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1046 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies that an unauthorized alien does not have standing to commence or appear as a plaintiff in any civil action in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 16; Title 20; Title 28 and Title 29.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0900 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes from April 1 to April 15, the date by which a county legislative body must submit to the judges of the general sessions criminal court of the county and the chairs of the legislative committees having jurisdiction over criminal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1348 | Intro
25% | As introduced, deletes the exception to the criminal offense of unlawfully carrying a firearm with intent to go armed for persons who lawfully possess a handgun, are in a place where the person is lawfully present, and are at least 21 years old or 18...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1004 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the state capitol commission on or before January 1 of each year until the monument to unborn children is complete to submit a report to the speaker of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives on any gifts, grant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1174 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a law enforcement agency that uses body cameras to adopt a written policy for the use of the cameras by its law enforcement officers; establishes certain requirements for the policies. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0761 | Intro
25% | As introduced, shortens the length of time that a petitioner must wait before having an eligible Class D felony expunged from 10 years after the completion of the sentence imposed for the offense the petitioner is seeking to have expunged, to eight y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1104 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a gun dealer to ensure that three days have passed since the transaction was initiated by the purchaser before transferring a firearm to a purchaser if the purchaser is older than 17 but younger than 21. - Amends TCA Title 39,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1075 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends, from 10 to 15 days, the amount of written notice of the hearing date and time the department must provide to a person requesting a hearing on the department's suspension or revocation of the person's handgun carry permit. - Am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1203 | Intro
25% | As introduced, exempts an applicant seeking to restore the applicant's rights of citizenship from having to pay for the cost of the application if a court orders otherwise. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 8; Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1244 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires, if the respondent on an order of protection dispossesses firearms by transferring possession to a third party who is not prohibited from possessing firearms, the respondent to specify the third party and the physical address ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1325 | Intro
25% | As introduced, makes it an offense for farmers to keep breeding pigs and veal calves in certain small enclosures, subject to certain exceptions, effective July 1, 2030. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 40, Chapter 39; Title 43; Title 44 and T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0756 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes a retired campus police officer to be reemployed in a position covered by TCRS as a law enforcement officer without the loss or suspension of the retired officer's TCRS benefits; extends the repeal date for the provision aut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0940 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands the immunity from prosecution when seeking medical assistance for a person experiencing, or believed to be experiencing, an overdose to include alcohol-related offenses; clarifies that overdose includes both drugs and alcohol. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0978 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes all TCA references from "adult day care" to "adult day services". - Amends TCA Section 4-3-1205; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 18; Title 52, Chapter 8; Section 68-1-904; Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0535 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation Act." - Amends TCA Title 24; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 47.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0906 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Sexual Violence Justice Act," making various changes to the requirements for investigating sexual offenses. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0467 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies that a commercial entity that knowingly possesses, promotes, purchases, produces, sells, sends, transports, or distributes obscene matter in violation of state law may be held civilly liable to an individual for nominal damag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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