| TN | SB0595 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires election commissions to purge registration records at least 50 days, instead of at least 90 days, before an election; requires the coordinator of elections to take certain actions regarding paper ballots; authorizes, beginning...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0653 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies that restrictions on festival operators receiving certain services or items of value not authorized by the alcoholic beverage commission do not apply to an independent property owner, tenant, producer, or promoter of a festiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0513 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes a municipality or public authority in which a tourism development zone is located to file with the commissioner of finance and administration and the state building commission its annual report concerning the zone in an elec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
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| TN | SB1406 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department of transportation to submit to the office of legislative budget analysis, a copy of its annual report listing the programs receiving funds generated by the beer barrelage tax, the amount of funds received by eac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0155 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, adds the legislative librarian to list of persons to whom the comptroller must provide the annual report on state lending programs and state credit support programs. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 45.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0821 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the coordinator of elections to take certain actions regarding paper ballots; authorizes, beginning with the 2024 election cycle, county election commissions to use hand-marked paper ballots; authorizes certification of result...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
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| TN | SB1098 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires certain artifacts from the Civil War pertaining to the Confederate States of America be transferred to the Sons of Confederate Veterans for preservation, at their cost. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11 and Title 12.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0474 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes the county election commission to notify individuals filing a petition for recall, referendum, or initiative to notify the individuals of a defect in the petition that must be cured prior to certification for final approval....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
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| TN | SB0285 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes the use of an identification card issued by an accredited institution of higher education in this state for purposes of voter identification at a polling place; requires the secretary of state to conduct studies on such use ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
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| TN | SB0550 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes a governmental entity to publish notices of public meetings on a secure website of the governmental body; authorizes a person to request an electronic or hard copy of an e-newsletter or notice published by the governmental b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
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| TN | SB0405 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires state and local elections for public office to be partisan elections; requires judges who are required by this state's constitution to be reelected at retention elections to declare a bona fide membership with a political part...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
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| TN | SB0729 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, ensures that all full-time residents of nursing homes are entitled to vote by absentee ballot regardless of whether the county election commission conducts on site voting at the nursing home facility; reduces from 45 to 30 days the per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
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| TN | SB0136 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires reports of deaths in relation to maintaining voter registration lists to include the date of the death; requires the coordinator of elections to prepare a report for the general assembly regarding deaths of registered voters. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
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| TN | SB0646 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a county election commission to issue a notice requiring removal of campaign signs if the signs have not been removed from highway rights-of-way or other publicly owned property within three weeks after an election; authorizes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
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| TN | SB0518 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, allows the division of property assessment to send the annual report, with the appropriate summary of the work accomplished by the division and any appropriate recommendations, to the state board of equalization in electronic format. -...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
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| TN | SB1156 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the state fire marshal to create a state fire permit that mobile food units may obtain annually to demonstrate fire safety and electrical code compliance to local governments; requires a local government to recognize the state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1341 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes Shelby County to appropriate funds for affordable housing or workforce housing. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 13; Title 67 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1415 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, revises provisions governing "base tax revenues" under the Convention Center and Tourism Development Financing Act of 1998. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 88.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0664 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires emergency communications districts (ECDs) to utilize the direct dispatch method in response to emergency 911 calls and one of three methods in response to non-emergency calls; requires that all emergency 911 calls, with the ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
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| TN | SB1380 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases, from three to four consecutive weeks, the amount of time that notice of a public hearing to determine whether a central business improvement district will be established must be published in a newspaper of general circulatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
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| TN | SB1383 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a bank designated by the county trustee to act as a collection agent for the trustee and accept the deposit of county and municipal property taxes, to provide to the county trustee such evidence of the taxes deposited into the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
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| TN | SB0176 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes up to two members of an LLC that owns property in a city to vote in the city's elections if the city's charter provides nonresident property owners voting rights. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
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| TN | SB0326 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes the elements and classification of certain criminal offenses related to distribution of applications for absentee ballots. - Amends TCA Section 2-6-202.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0335 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires, by February 1 of each year, that the department submit its report regarding the effectiveness of diversion of offenders from state correctional institutions to the criminal justice committee of the house of representatives, j...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
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| TN | SB0725 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits a political party from requiring a person to pay a fee in order to run as that political party's candidate for public office. - Amends TCA Title 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1324 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, updates requirements regarding public notice for a foreclosure sale of real property, including a requirement that public notice be posted on the secretary of state's website. - Amends TCA Title 35.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
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| TN | SB1207 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, directs the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations to perform a study of the coverage area for which electric cooperatives provide services within this state, and to report its findings to each member of the gener...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
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| TN | SB1334 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes the Tennessee housing development agency to establish secure campsites to assist those with short-term housing needs for up to two years; revises provisions relating to outpatient mental health treatment programs. - Amends T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
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| TN | SB0100 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits a candidate or political campaign committee from accepting contributions that exceed 30 percent of the total contributions received by a candidate or political campaign committee from persons who are not residents of this sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
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| TN | SB1515 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits the commissioner of the department of correction and a local governmental entity from entering into, renewing, or extending a contract for correctional services with a private prison contractor; deletes the Private Prison Con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
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| TN | SB1192 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, extends the time eligible taxpayers may apply for a refund or present a credit voucher for credit on their taxes from within 35 days from the date taxes in the jurisdiction become delinquent for that year to within 40 days from that da...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1399 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, adds the directors of the office of legislative budget analysis to the list of persons to whom the comptroller must provide the estimates of the annual income limit for eligibility in the property tax relief program that are likely to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1340 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, decreases, from 10 to seven, the number of days before a county board of equalization adjourns before which a property assessor may provide taxpayers with an informal review of a property assessment or county reappraisal. - Amends TCA ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0959 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits a person in Montgomery, Williamson, Rutherford, Hamilton, Knox, Davidson, or Shelby County from holding office as a county commissioner and as a city council member of a municipality located in whole or in part within such re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1417 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a statewide executive committee to fill a vacancy on the committee at the next regularly scheduled meeting of the committee unless the next regular August election precedes such meeting. - Amends TCA Title 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
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| TN | SB1333 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes insurance from the definition of "goods" as it relates to public purchasing. - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1409 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department of economic and community development to post on its website at least quarterly the number of jobs actually created by a project funded by FastTrack funds within three years of the project receiving the funds. -...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0438 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, makes the authorization for licensed establishments to sell alcoholic beverages to go, which is set to expire July 1, 2023, permanent; requires each licensee who offers sales of alcoholic beverages to go to take additional training foc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
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| TN | SB1470 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes who has discretion to determine whether a hearing on a complaint before a county board of equalization will be held virtually from the board to the taxpayer or owner. - Amends TCA Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0783 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases the minimum compensation for certified administrators of elections from 90 percent of the compensation of the county assessor of property to 100 percent of the compensation of the county assessor of property. - Amends TCA Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
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| TN | SB0662 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires, rather than allows, county legislative bodies to release taxpayers from double taxes if they have been incurred and correct errors in the tax list. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0376 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Veterans' Bill of Rights." - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 49; Title 58, Chapter 3; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1330 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, exempts a school foundation or a school support organization that is a nonprofit organization and is seeking to operate an annual nonprofit gaming event for the benefit of the organization from submitting an annual event application ea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1433 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, transfers the duty to issue and renew business licenses from the county clerks and city officials to the department of revenue. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 21, Part 7; Section 50-6-904 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1063 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases from 4 percent to 5 percent, the percentage of general assembly candidates and their committees who will be selected for an audit by the registry. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-14
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1439 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes from December 1 to November 15, the time by which the county mayor must notify in writing the executive secretary to the state board of equalization of the possibility that the reappraisal program may not be completed timely an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-14
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| TN | SB0200 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires establishments that have gross sales of alcoholic beverages of more than $500,000 per calendar year, as a condition of receiving or renewing a liquor-by-the-drink license, to keep an opiate antagonist nasal spray in an easily ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-14
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0977 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes from confidential to a public record the identity of an entity that compounds, distributes, or manufactures the drugs obtained and used by the department of correction to carry out an execution by lethal injection; declares the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-14
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1527 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a county election commission to publish notice of the procedure for voting by absentee ballot in a runoff election in a municipality either on the commission's website or in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipali...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-14
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0294 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes a member of a local government's legislative body to participate in a scheduled meeting by electronic means if the member is dealing with a family or medical emergency, has been called into military service, or is unable to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-14
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
