| TN | SB2878 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds first degree murder, second degree murder, and voluntary manslaughter to the offenses for which a defendant, who has been convicted of a violation that resulted in the death of a parent of a minor child, must pay restitution in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
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| TN | SB2354 | Intro
25% | As introduced, clarifies that on or before January 31 of each year the department shall report information regarding child support to the general assembly and the governor. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 33; Title 34; Title 36; Title 37; Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
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| TN | SB1855 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the first publication for a sale of land to foreclose a deed of trust, mortgage, or other lien securing the payment of money or other thing of value or under judicial orders or process to be at least 30 days, instead of at lea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
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| TN | SB2699 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a person with a court-ordered fiduciary responsibility toward a person who lacks capacity and a person holding a valid power of attorney for a person who lacks capacity to bring an action within the statute of limitations; cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
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| TN | SB2788 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows law enforcement officers, whether on-duty or off-duty, retired law enforcement officers, active duty and retired members of the armed forces of the United States, whether in discharge of official duties or not, and enhanced hand...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
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| TN | SB2288 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the owner of a firearm to report the loss or theft of the firearm to law enforcement within 48 hours of discovery of the loss or theft unless the owner is physically incapable of making a report, and to notify the law enforcem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
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| TN | SB1110 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Marital Contract at Common Law Recording Act"; authorizes county clerks to accept and record a record of common law marriage between one man and one woman; limits the jurisdiction of circuit courts and chancery courts in ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
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| TN | SB0500 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases from $4,000 to $25,000 the total amount of medical, hospital, and doctor bills that may be itemized with copies and attached as an exhibit to a complaint or civil warrant as prima facie evidence that the bills paid or incurre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
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| TN | SB1932 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows certain felony offenders to petition to have the offender's criminal history records sealed after completion of all requirements of sentencing and at least five years without being convicted of a new offense. - Amends TCA Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
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| TN | SB1933 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows expunction of a misdemeanor or felony offense if the petitioner has not been convicted of certain offenses, is 65 years of age or more, 10 years have elapsed since the completion of the sentence, and the petitioner has not had a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
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| TN | SB2234 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes the electronic submission of the report the attorney general and reporter is required to submit quarterly regarding the compromise and settlement, in the amount of $25,000 or less, of civil litigation to which the state may ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
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| TN | SB0803 | Intro
25% | As introduced, upon receiving a citizen complaint that a person has violated the Litter Control Law, requires the special unit of the Tennessee highway patrol charged with enforcing such law to notify the alleged offender of the Litter Control Law an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
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| TN | SB2848 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows for the filing of a petition for post-conviction relief alleging actual innocence based on new evidence when a petition has not been previously filed and determined based on the same evidence; requires a court to vacate and set ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
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| TN | SB1731 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates the Class D felony employing a firearm during the commission of, attempt to commit, or flight or escape from an offense other than a dangerous felony; requires a person convicted of the offense to be sentenced to a mandatory mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
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| TN | SB1863 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits the department of children's services from using penalties in determining the amounts payable in contracts or grants to providers for services related to the prevention, treatment, or care of delinquent juveniles. - Amends TC...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
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| TN | SB1973 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases from 10 to 20, the number of calendar days after the 90 days from the date a child was surrendered that the department of children's services shall file a petition on behalf of an abandoned infant seeking termination of paren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
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| TN | SB1797 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits the department from accepting anonymous reports of child abuse or neglect; requires the investigator of allegations of child abuse or neglect to provide the parent or person having control over a child who is the subject of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
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| TN | 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
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| TN | 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
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| TN | SB2541 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the amount of damages for which the state may be liable for damages in causes of action arising in tort from $300,000 per claimant and $1,000,000 per occurrence to $1,250,000 per claimant. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 8 and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
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| TN | SB2789 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds bipods to the list of items that are considered to be a firearms accessory for purposes of the Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 54 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
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| TN | SB2790 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes, from February 1, 2025, to January 1, 2025, the date by which the department of safety must report to the chair of the judiciary committee of the senate and the chair of the criminal justice committee of the house of representa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
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| TN | SB2535 | Intro
25% | As introduced, defines "life" for statutory construction purposes to mean the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
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| TN | SB1840 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes a pilot program for five years to allow private entities to provide foster care services to qualifying children; requires the department of children's services to create a process for selecting children for the program; dir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
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| TN | SB1590 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Fundamental Right to Reproductive Health Care Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 20; Title 37; Title 39; Title 49; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
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| TN | SB1747 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows a child found to be dependent or neglected to be committed or confined to an institution or other facility designed or operated for the benefit of delinquent children if the court finds by a preponderance of the evidence that th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
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| TN | SB1965 | Intro
25% | As introduced, clarifies that a petition of certiorari that appeals a final order or judgment of a board or commission must name the board or commission as defendants; further clarifies that other parties of record have the right to intervene if they...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
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| TN | SB1873 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Parents' Bill of Rights." - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
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| TN | SB2481 | 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] | 2024-03-11
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| TN | SB2290 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits sales and purchases of certain high-capacity, semi-automatic firearms. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 54; Section 36-3-625; Section 38-3-119; Title 39 and Section 40-14-109.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
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| TN | SB1812 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes the ability of a person who is a handgun carry permit holder or otherwise authorized to lawfully carry a handgun with the intent to go armed to transport and store a firearm or firearm ammunition in the person's motor vehicle w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
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| TN | SB1403 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes, from January 15 to February 1 of each year, the date by which the department must evaluate the success of model programs for adolescents at risk of placement in the custody of the department and report findings and recommendat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
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| TN | SB0700 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a law enforcement agency to provide victims of crime with the contact information for crisis intervention services and emergency and medical services, in addition to the availability of any such services. - Amends TCA Title 38...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
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| TN | SB1394 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of mental health and substance abuse services to make available on its public website an electronic copy of the written minutes of each meeting of the Tennessee opioid abatement council. - Amends TCA Title 33; T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
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| TN | SB2824 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits certain entities from assigning a merchant category code to, or a separate classification for, a merchant that is a seller of firearms, ammunition, or firearm accessories separately from general merchandise retailers or sport...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
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| TN | SB0699 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of health to publish on its website information on the possibility of reversing the effects of a chemical abortion in any language that is the primary language spoken by 1 percent or more of this state's populat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
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| TN | SB2358 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to promulgate rules to require that if an individual or member of the individual's household objects to an immunization on the basis of religious or moral convictions, then the department shall not require the i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
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| TN | SB1703 | Intro
25% | As introduced, permits the transfer of a juvenile to criminal court for the offense of theft of a firearm from a motor vehicle if the child was 14 years of age or older but younger than 17 years of age; increases from a Class E felony to a Class D fe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
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| TN | SB1058 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes a presumption, rebuttable by a preponderance of the evidence, that joint legal custody and equally shared parenting time is in the best interest of the child; removes the presumption under certain circumstances. - Amends TC...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
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| TN | SB1719 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts "Brittany's Law," which creates the Class B misdemeanor of knowingly failing to seek medical assistance for an individual who the person knows or reasonably should know is experiencing a drug-related overdose; authorizes the sen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
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| TN | SB2343 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the attorney general to obtain judicial approval from a chancery court judge in Davidson County, or a chancery court judge in the county in which the state's civil investigative demand is to be served, before issuing a civil i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
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| TN | SB0620 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Families' Rights and Responsibilities Act," which declares that the ability of a parent to direct the upbringing, education, health care, and mental health of that parent’s child is a fundamental right. - Amends TCA Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
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| TN | SB1988 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates three additional trial courts in the 30th judicial district. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
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| TN | SB1690 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes a presumption, rebuttable by a preponderance of the evidence, that joint legal custody and equally shared parenting time is in the best interest of the child; removes the presumption under certain circumstances. - Amends TC...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
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| TN | SB2437 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the court to include in any parenting plan involving shared custody of a child, the establishment of at least one designated location for the exchange of the child; provides that, unless otherwise agreed by both parents in wri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
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| TN | SB2442 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the administrative office of the courts to create standards of practice for guardians and conservators; declares that it is the policy of this state that guardians and conservators must abide by the highest ethical standards o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
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| TN | SB2259 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearms Act," which creates a process for a person to file a voluntary waiver of firearm rights for the purpose of prohibiting the person from purchasing or possessing a firearm; provides fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| TN | SB2195 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of health to publish on its website information on the possibility of reversing the effects of a chemical abortion in any language that is the primary language spoken by 1 percent or more of this state's populat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
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| TN | SB2721 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows the warden or chief administrative officer's report to the district attorney general of certain offenses that occur within a penal institution to be submitted electronically. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37; Title 39 and Title 4...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2531 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the penalty for use or possession of drug paraphernalia from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony if the drug paraphernalia used or possessed is a pill press device or pieces of a pill press device. - Amends TCA Title 39...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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