| TN | SJR0177 | Intro
25% | Urges the publication and affirmation of the Equal Rights Amendment as the Twenty-Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
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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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| TN | SB1565 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates an offense for a person to possess or manufacture an ammunition feeding device that has capacity to accept more than 10 rounds, except for certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2533 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes the district public defender of the third judicial district three additional assistant public defender positions and one additional district investigator position, effective July 1, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14, Pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2740 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates a Class E felony offense for a person who witnesses a sexual offense to coerce or influence the victim to not report the offense to law enforcement, provide false information to law enforcement, or withhold any truthful informa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2862 | Intro
25% | As introduced, makes it an offense to manufacture, distribute, or possess, with the intent to distribute, remote vehicle disabling technology on passenger motor vehicles. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 55.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2736 | Intro
25% | As introduced, grants a defendant who has been charged with a criminal offense based on the use of force or threatened use of force and who asserts that the force was justified by law the right to a justifiable use of force hearing prior to trial, at...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2817 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a court that makes mental health adjudications regarding children to enter a standing and continuing order instructing the juvenile court clerk to collect and report certain information regarding children who have been adjudic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2720 | 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 | SB2686 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires all county legislative bodies within a judicial district to be notified, in addition to judges, district attorneys general, district public defenders, and court clerks, of any court within the judicial district that is not pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2725 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes the killing of another committed in the perpetration of or attempt to perpetrate certain crimes from the elements of first degree murder; deletes the offense of criminal responsibility for conduct of another; deletes the offens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2616 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces minimum age requirement for membership on the medical cannabis commission from 30 years of age to 25 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 43; Title 63 and Title 68, Chapter 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2780 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to create a separate marriage license application form and marriage license form that may be used by applicants if the bride is a female and the groom is a male; prohibits a county clerk from certifying and reco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2715 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a law enforcement officer investigating a motor vehicle accident resulting in death to investigate whether an operator was served alcoholic beverages or beer at an establishment licensed to sell alcoholic beverages or beer for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2542 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the commissioner of finance and administration to report the total amount of state funds paid to acquire property through eminent domain in the 2023-2024 fiscal year to the chairs of the finance, ways and means committees and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB1568 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes the authority to issue and receive concealed handgun carry permits; authorizes a person who holds a concealed handgun carry permit on June 30, 2023, to apply to convert the permit to an enhanced handgun carry permit. - Amends T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2756 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Reconciliation Sentencing Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 16; Title 17; Title 40 and Title 41.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2768 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces the percentage of sentence that a person convicted of first degree murder on or after July 1, 1995, and sentenced to life imprisonment is required to serve before becoming eligible for release from 100 percent of 60 years less ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2760 | Intro
25% | As introduced, decreases from 10 to nine days, the amount of time before trial a person shall notify the district attorney general in writing of their intention to rely upon an affirmative defense. - Amends TCA Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2836 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class C felony the offenses of unlawful purchase by or unlawful sale to a person who is prohibited by state or federal law from owning, possessing, or purchasing a firearm; prohibits the purcha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2842 | Intro
25% | As introduced, defines "materially negative financial impact" and "service provider" for purposes of the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act; makes other revisions to the act. - Amends TCA Title 35, Chapter 10.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB1570 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates an offense for a person to possess or manufacture an ammunition feeding device that has capacity to accept more than 10 rounds, except for certain circumstances; requires, subject to certain exemptions, that a sale or transfer ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB1567 | 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] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB1566 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates the Class E felony offense of purchasing, selling, possessing, or using a part, component, device, or attachment designed to accelerate the fire of a semi-automatic rifle and makes any semi-automatic rifle that includes an acce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2606 | Intro
25% | As introduced, replaces references to "poisonous snakes" with "venomous snakes." - Amends TCA Section 39-17-101 and Title 70.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2823 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces from 60 to 45 days the period by which a governmental entity or employee may answer or respond to a claim, action, or suit brought under the Tennessee Governmental Tort Liability Act; reduces from 60 to 45 days the period by wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2814 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes a law enforcement officer who administers epinephrine in an emergency situation to file a record of the event with the appropriate local emergency medical services agency in an electronic format. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2841 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the commission to report to the governor and the general assembly concerning the commission's activities relative to Title VI no later than January 15 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2679 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits a clerk of court from accepting a cash bail deposit presented by a charitable bail organization on behalf of a defendant; excludes a person soliciting donations with respect to a defendant who is related to the person by bloo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2647 | Intro
25% | As introduced, permits a court clerk to publish the court fees on the court clerk's website. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 16.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2558 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases from $10,000 to $15,000 the amount a parent or guardian is financially responsible for their child who maliciously or willfully caused personal injury to a person or destroyed property, real, personal, or mixed, belonging to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2722 | Intro
25% | As introduced, deletes obsolete requirements for a joint report on juvenile justice data collection required to be submitted to the governor and the speakers of each house of the general assembly on or before January 1, 2019. - Amends TCA Title 37.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2865 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends from 60 days to 120 days, the time within which a handgun carry permit holder must notify the department of safety in writing of a change in the permit holder's principal place of residence. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 36; Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB1569 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits the sale or purchase of an assault weapon as a Class A misdemeanor; defines assault weapon. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 54; Section 36-3-625; Section 38-3-119; Title 39 and Section 40-14-109.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2621 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to maintain staffing levels of case managers not to exceed 20 active cases or 20 children monitored in active cases for six months following the effective date of this act, then reduced to 14 active cases or 14 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2849 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates one additional chancery court in the 19th judicial district. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2657 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates the offense of aggravated patronizing prostitution; requires testing of a person initially arrested for aggravated patronizing prostitution for HIV. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2552 | 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 0.5 percent or more of this state's popul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2613 | Intro
25% | As introduced, exempts from the offense of criminal abortion an abortion that is performed or attempted by a licensed physician in a licensed hospital or ambulatory surgical treatment center on a patient who is under 13 years of age; requires the phy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2759 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes the time frame within which each delinquent child ordered to probation supervision or committed to the custody of the department must undergo a validated risk and needs assessment to inform supervision levels, referrals to prog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2874 | Intro
25% | As introduced, decreases from 30 to 15, the number of days a law enforcement agency, after taking possession of a sexual assault evidence collection kit with the victim's name affixed to it, shall submit the kit to the Tennessee bureau of investigati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB1564 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows a court to issue a risk protection order upon a finding by clear and convincing evidence that a person poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to the person or others if allowed to possess or purchase a firearm; au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2700 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates the offense of instigation; requires an affiant to file an affidavit for abeyance when requesting an arrest warrant; permits a citizen's arrest following two verbal notices for the offense of trespassing. - Amends TCA Title 39;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2201 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends from 30 days to 45 days the time within which the issuing judge is required to report to the attorney general following the expiration, extension, or denial of an order authorizing a wire, oral, or electronic interception. - Am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
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