| TN | SB0895 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows persons convicted of a criminal offense and sentenced to a term of imprisonment in a penitentiary to serve as executor, administrator or guardian, fiduciary, or conservator; removes the requirement that a petition for appointmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| TN | SB1514 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates a civil right of action by an injured party against a law enforcement officer who subjects the injured party to the deprivation of an individual right secured by the Tennessee Constitution; declares that qualified immunity, gov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| TN | SB1061 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes the educational justification of a person possessing obscene material if the person is at a school building, bus, school campus, grounds, recreational area, athletic field, or other property owned, used, or operated by a local ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| TN | SB1262 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits the department from collecting or expending moneys that are received as survivor benefits, disability benefits, or otherwise from the social security administration on behalf of a child in the custody of the department; requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| TN | SB1270 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies that the premarital preparation course, the completion of which exempts an individual from having to pay $60 of the fee charged on the issuance of a marriage license, may include instruction regarding the adverse childhood ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| TN | SB0602 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds the offense of illegal registration or voting to those Class D felony offenses that are eligible for expunction. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| TN | SB0597 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a full medical record to be provided within 24 hours of a written request submitted by a person with power of attorney for health care to make health care decisions for a patient; grants 24-hour patient visitation rights to a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| TN | SB1346 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases, from 30 to 35, the number of days in advance that a trustee seeking to resign is required to provide notice to the qualified beneficiaries, the settlor, if living, and all cotrustees. - Amends TCA Title 30; Title 31; Title 3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| TN | SB0983 | Intro
25% | As introduced, limits the offense of criminal abortion to only apply to elective abortions; defines elective abortion as any abortion that is not medically necessary to prevent the death of the pregnant woman or to prevent serious risk of substantial...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| TN | SB0608 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes, from 18 years to 17 years, the age at which a juvenile committed to the department for an offense punishable by confinement in the penitentiary may be found to be incorrigible and, subject to an agreement between the commissio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| TN | SB1373 | 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 2021-2022 year to the chairs of the finance, ways and means committees and the off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
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| TN | SB1187 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes, from February 1 to February 15 of each year, the date by which a community oversight board must submit a report to the chairs of the civil justice and criminal justice committees of the house of representatives and the judicia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
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| TN | SB0659 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes, as exclusions from the Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act, a firearm that cannot be carried and used by one person, a firearm that discharges two or more projectiles with one activation of the trigger or other firing device, a fir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
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| TN | SB1057 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes from two days to two business days the time frame during which an adversary hearing on a petition to enjoin or restrain removal from the jurisdiction of material the district attorney general believes violates certain laws rega...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
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| TN | SB0956 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes from February 1 to February 15 the date by which a community oversight board must submit a report to the chair of the senate judiciary committee and the chair of the criminal justice committee of the house of representatives th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
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| TN | SB1317 | Intro
25% | As introduced, includes as an eligible petitioner for purposes of judicial diversion of criminal offenses, a person seeking deferral of proceedings for aggravated neglect of an elderly or vulnerable adult or aggravated abuse of an elderly or vulnerab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
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| TN | SB0960 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows a court to temporarily halt a child support obligor's support payments if the support obligor has made an overpayment of child support and to apply the overpayment toward current and future child support obligations until the ov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
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| TN | SB1082 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires that a deed for the conveyance of real property be prepared and filed by a licensed attorney, title insurance agent, or the owner of the property; requires the county register to verify that an affidavit on a deed of conveyanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
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| TN | SB0740 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the Tennessee peace officer standards and training commission to submit the curriculum requirements concerning the use of citations in lieu of arrest, domestic violence training, and proper procedures to respond to persons wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
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| TN | SB0553 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes references for mental defect, mental defective, and mentally defective to mental health condition throughout the code. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 33; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 41; Title 57; Title 62 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
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| TN | SB0539 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a foster care review board to submit its report to the judge on each child in foster care who is reviewed by the board within seven calendar days, instead of 10 calendar days, following its review. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
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| TN | SB0490 | Intro
25% | As introduced, provides a method for a property owner to seek just compensation for a diminution in value of the property caused by the enactment or enforcement of land use regulations on the property. - Amends TCA Title 29.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
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| TN | SB0710 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Domestic Relations Arbitration Act." - Amends TCA Title 36.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
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| TN | SB1150 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes exemptions from prosecution of the offense of transporting illegal aliens for common carriers and those transporting individuals for religious purposes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 9; Title 37; Title 39; Title 49; Titl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-14
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| TN | SB0835 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates the Class C misdemeanor of restraining a dog with a chain, cord, tether, cable, or similar device while a disaster is imminent or occurring; states that a person is not subject to prosecution for a violation unless the person h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-14
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| TN | SJR0129 | Intro
25% | Urges the governor, department of human services, department of children's services, department of finance and administration, department of safety, courts, and nonprofit institutions within the State to take action to expand access to adoption in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-14
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| TN | SB1239 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires law enforcement, district attorneys, and the attorney general to obtain a warrant for disclosure of stored wire or electronic communications and related transactional records; removes a subpoena or other lawful process except ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-14
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| TN | SB0194 | Intro
25% | As introduced, raises from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony certain animal cruelty offenses involving a cock; requires a fine of not less than $1,000 nor more than $2,500 for the offense of being a spectator at a cock fight. - Amends TCA Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-14
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| TN | SB1087 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a person convicted of drag racing to serve a minimum of 48 consecutive hours in confinement; increases the period of time that the department of safety is required to revoke the driver license of a person convicted of drag rac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-14
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| TN | SB1037 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes the authorization for an individual, corporation, business entity, or local, state, or federal government entity to prohibit the possession of weapons by a person who is at a meeting conducted by or on property owned, operated,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-13
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| TN | HJR0080 | Engross
50% | Urges the Attorney General and Reporter to evaluate any newly passed federal statute, regulation, or executive order that may affect the rights of Tennesseans to bear arms, and, if such statute, regulation, or executive order infringes on that right,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-09
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| TN | SB0601 | Intro
25% | As introduced, justifies, under certain circumstances, the use of deadly force against another to prevent or terminate the other from committing or attempting to commit certain property offenses; specifies that the display or brandishing of a weapon ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
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| TN | SB0829 | Intro
25% | As introduced, 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 for a revocation of the voluntary waiver of firearm rights; creates...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
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| TN | SB1066 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends the time in which a handgun carry permit holder is required to inform the department of safety of any change in the permit holder's principal place of residence from 60 days to 90 days. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
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| TN | SB0823 | Intro
25% | As introduced, limits the prohibition on a person intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly carrying a weapon on or about the person while inside any building in which judicial proceedings are in progress, by restricting the prohibition to just the roo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
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| TN | SB0615 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes from January 15 to February 15 of each year the date by which the department must evaluate the success of programs for at risk adolescents and report findings and recommendations to the judiciary committee of the senate and the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
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| TN | SB1498 | Intro
25% | As introduced, lowers the age requirement to obtain an enhanced or concealed handgun carry permit or lawfully carry a handgun in public from 21 to 18 years of age; states that the statutory authorization to transport or store a firearm or firearm amm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
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| TN | SB0406 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands the exception to the offense of unlawful carrying of a firearm with the intent to go armed from handguns to firearms if a person meets the age requirements, lawfully possesses the firearm, and is in a place where the person is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
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| TN | SB0727 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a magistrate to order a defendant to carry or wear a global positioning monitoring system device as a condition of bail if the defendant was arrested for certain criminal offenses or a violation of an order of protection and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-01
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| TN | SB0857 | Intro
25% | As introduced, exempts from the offense of criminal abortion an abortion that is performed on a patient whose pregnancy is the result of rape or incest if the abortion is performed prior to a certain gestational age; requires the physician performing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-28
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| TN | SB1461 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Medical Cannabis Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 67 and Title 68, Chapter 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-21
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| TN | SB0958 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies that classes that qualify as training for issuance of an enhanced handgun carry permit or concealed handgun carry permit must include training on the use of gun locks. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14 and Title 39, Chapter 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
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| TN | SB1343 | Intro
25% | As introduced, redefines "minor" to mean a person less than 21 years of age for the purpose of determining the legal age to purchase or own a firearm, unless the person is a military service member or honorably discharged or retired veteran at which ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
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| TN | SB0957 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes the requirement that a delinquent or unruly child committed to the custody of the department for an indefinite time remain in custody for no longer than six months in absence of certain circumstances; requires a delinquent or u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
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| TN | SB0178 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows civil actions for an injury or illness based on child sexual abuse occurring on or after a certain date to be brought at any time. - Amends TCA Section 28-3-116.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
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| TN | SB1441 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the board of parole to publish the board's policy governing attendance at board hearings and submission and use of victim impact statements and other impact statements on the board's website. - Amends TCA Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1418 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds an additional trial court in the 23rd judicial district composed of Cheatham, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, and Stewart counties effective September 1, 2023, with the additional judge or chancellor to be appointed by the governor. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1384 | Intro
25% | As introduced, deletes requirement that the commissioner of revenue share information pertaining to the enforcement of the Tennessee Tobacco Manufacturers' Escrow Fund Act of 1999 with the attorney general and reporter. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB0991 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates a civil penalty of $500 for a second offense related to smokable hemp products; creates a civil penalty of $750 for a second offense related to vapor products. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 15 and Title 67, Chapter 4,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1402 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates a Class C misdemeanor for a person who has not attained 21 years of age to consume or possess vapor products on public school property that serves any of the grades kindergarten through 12. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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