| TN | SB0993 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends the time, from 30 days to 60 days, within which a person whose handgun carry permit has been suspended or revoked may petition the chancery court for judicial review of the department of safety's final determination. - Amends T...
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| TN | SB0896 | Intro
25% | As introduced, abolishes various estates and reversion interests in land. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0724 | Intro
25% | As introduced, provides a five-day grace period for assistant district attorneys general and criminal investigators to submit expense accounts. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0741 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates a criminal offense of possessing, distributing, or producing technology, software, or digital tools designed for the purpose of creating material that includes a minor engaged in sexual activity or simulated sexual activity tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1166 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the Tennessee bureau of investigation to provide a report to the speakers of the senate and the house of representatives on or before January 1 each year detailing the instances in the most recent year for which complete data ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0812 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows an assistant district attorney general to receive year-for-year service credit for prior law enforcement experience upon recommendation of the hiring district attorney general and subject to the approval of the executive directo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1232 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows a person to petition for expunction of an eligible criminal offense that occurred at least 10 years after a conviction for the offense of driving under the influence of an intoxicant. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0560 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies that the terms abandonment, abuse, severe abuse, and dependent and neglected child do not include the failure to meet the needs of a child solely due to financial hardship unless reasonable material resources such as cash ass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1299 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires an ignition interlock provider to permit a person to appear for calibration, monitoring, or inspection of the device at any time within a two-week period; authorizes a court to order reinstatement of a person’s driver licens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1107 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies that an attorney who, while acting in the capacity of counsel for a client or an identifiable prospective client, engages in conduct that constitutes the offense of perjury, aggravated perjury, subornation of perjury, tamperi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0485 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires certain procedures, currently found in the federal Indian Child Welfare Act, to be applied by courts in child custody proceedings involving an Indian child. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1253 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates the offense of carrying or possessing a firearm, including a firearm that was privately assembled and does not contain a serial number or other mark that conforms with federal law, if, at the time of carrying or possessing, the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0957 | 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] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0418 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the amount that a person may recover in an action brought against a local governmental entity under the Tennessee Governmental Tort Liability Act for claims brought on or after July 1, 2025, to $750,000 for the bodily injury ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0943 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases from two to three the number of hours of training or continuing education courses that each judge involved in child custody proceedings on domestic violence shall complete per year; increases from 10 to 15 the number of hours...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1097 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the state treasurer to deem a person ordered by a court to use a functioning ignition interlock device to be indigent and unable to pay the costs of the device if the person receives funds from the supplemental nutrition assis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0455 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes the limitations on the board of parole's authority to deny parole based solely on the seriousness of the offense for certain offenses to allow denial based on the seriousness of the offense for any offense. - Amends TCA Title 4...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0866 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies that a party filing a counterclaim, third-party complaint, or cross-claim related to the design, planning, supervision, or construction of an improvement of real property is not subject to the four-year statute of repose. - A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1035 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the administrative office of the courts to report by October 1, 2025, to the speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives the number of persons found guilty of the Class A misdemeanor of, as an employe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1076 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the office of legislative information systems to archive the webpage of the house select committee on redistricting for the 112th General Assembly and to strive to ensure that all videos, documents, maps, and other information...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0819 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates a civil action against any person or government entity that infringes upon a person's right to bear arms under the Tennessee or United States Constitutions; requires the person or entity to be liable for actual or statutory dam...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1183 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates a criminal offense of storing or keeping a firearm in any place if the firearm is not secured in a locked container or equipped with a tamper-resistant mechanical lock or other safety device that is properly engaged so as to re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0464 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires professional bondsmen and agents of insurance companies making appearance bonds in criminal cases to assess a premium fee of no less than 5 percent nor more than 10 percent of the amount of the face value of the bond. - Amends...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0745 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor for a person who is in the United States without legal authorization to operate a motor vehicle without possessing a valid driver license and evidence of financial responsibility; limits the fine for such ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1241 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands the definition of child abuse to include a person under the age of 18 witnessing the abuse of another child in the person's immediate family or household or domestic abuse of a member of the person's immediate family or househo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0903 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires, subject to certain exemptions, that a sale or transfer of a firearm be done through a federally licensed gun dealer; creates a Class B misdemeanor offense for sales or transfers that are not conducted through a gun dealer. - ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1005 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows petitioners to include all children in one adoption or termination of parental rights petition if the petitioners are seeking to adopt more than one child at the same time and the children are siblings who share at least one bio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0490 | Intro
25% | As introduced, permits the expunction of a Class E felony conviction for official misconduct. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40, Chapter 32.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1015 | Intro
25% | As introduced, deletes obsolete requirement that employees of the department of children's services who come in contact with foster parents must be trained on foster parents' statutory rights by February 1, 2010. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37; Titl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1181 | Intro
25% | As introduced, lowers from 20 days to 15 days the notice of a hearing on a petition for restoration of rights of citizenship that must be given to the district attorney general of the county in which the petitioner currently resides and the district ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0404 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands the offense of unlawful exposure to include the distribution, with the intent to cause emotional distress, of an image of the intimate parts of another identifiable person or an image of an identifiable person engaged in sexual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0595 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a sheriff to accept the surrender of a criminal defendant on pretrial release by a bail bondsman or surety for good cause, pending a hearing by a court with jurisdiction to admit to bail to determine whether there is good caus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1127 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes the cap on the amount of wages or other compensation owed a deceased employee at the time of the employee's death that an employer shall pay directly to the surviving spouse of the decedent or, if there is no surviving spouse, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1421 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates an affirmative defense that may be utilized by a covered entity that is the subject of a data breach, if the covered entity’s cybersecurity program meets certain criteria at the time the breach occurs. - Amends TCA Title 20; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1239 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department's report on foster care in this state to be prepared and issued by March 1 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1135 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces the notice period for initial hearings on nuisances from five to four days. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 16; Title 29; Title 39; Title 67 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0481 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes the requirement for a claimant to post a bond when filing a claim to seized property. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0769 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the penalty for the offense of possession of a used, detached catalytic converter by an unauthorized person from a Class A misdemeanor punishable only by fine to a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 55 and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0361 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a person who employs an unemancipated minor and who knows or has reasonable cause to suspect that the minor has been subjected to child sexual abuse or attempted child sexual abuse in the course of the minor’s employment or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0673 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Comprehensive Assault Crime Intervention Act." - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1259 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies that "neglect" does not include permitting a child, whose basic needs are met and who is of sufficient age and maturity to avoid harm or unreasonable risk of harm, to engage in independent activities, including traveling to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0959 | Intro
25% | As introduced, permits a person who is serving a sentence of incarceration of eight years or more for an offense committed prior to January 1, 2026, and who is a victim of domestic abuse subjected to substantial physical, sexual, or psychological abu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1407 | Intro
25% | As introduced, lowers the standard for the use of deadly force to protect property; specifies that deadly force does not include the display of a weapon, the brandishing of a weapon, or the use of force in circumstances that do not result in death or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0790 | Intro
25% | As introduced, states that the peace officer standards and training commission must issue a certificate of compliance to a person appointed as a special deputy if the person meets the qualifications for employment as a police officer and satisfactori...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1218 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Parole Relief and Opportunity Act"; expands the definition of hardship for purposes of determining the ability of a parolee to contribute to the cost of the person's supervision and release. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0451 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires sexual and violent sexual offenders to disclose the name, address, and phone number of any church, temple, or other religious group or organization in this state where the offender is a registered member; specifies that this i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0770 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes local governments to create local boards for the purpose of permitting retailers of hemp-derived cannabinoid products. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 43, Chapter 27.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0419 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the amount of compensation an injured plaintiff in a civil action may receive for noneconomic damages from $750,000 to $1.5 million; increases the amount of compensation an injured plaintiff in a civil action may receive for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1129 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates a Class E felony that is committed when a person exercises control over a motor vehicle knowing that the person does not have the permission of the owner of the motor vehicle; creates a Class A misdemeanor of possessing a firea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1360 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes the ability to bring a civil liability action for negligence per se against a seller of a qualified product; expands "qualified products" to include knives, body armor, pepper spray, silencers, and other certain products; requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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