| TN | SB1307 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, extends the authority for local governments to levy a surcharge on local privilege taxes to fund a transportation improvement program to all cities instead of only Chattanooga, Clarksville, Knoxville, Nashville, and Memphis, and to all...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB0641 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, authorizes a dealer applicant without an established place of business to be issued a motor vehicle dealer license if the applicant is a nonprofit religious organization that is organized or incorporated in this state, has its certific...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB1144 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, requires the driver of a vehicle approaching a slow-moving or stationary farm tractor or implement of husbandry that displays an indicator that it is a slow-moving vehicle to reduce speed and move over, if possible to do so safely. - A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB0200 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, authorizes the department of safety to publish biannually, instead of annually, statistical information regarding the number, cause, and location of highway accidents based on its analysis of accident reports that it receives. - Amends...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB0653 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, exempts new specialty earmarked license plates for which the funds are allocated to, and used by, a nonprofit organization to support state historic sites from meeting the minimum initial issuance requirement of 1,000 plates and the mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB1335 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, requires evidence of compliance with the financial responsibility law prior to registering vehicles; increases from $25 to $50 the coverage failure fee imposed by the department of revenue for the first failure to comply with the James...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB1408 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, removes the prohibition on a person physically holding or supporting, with any part of the person's body, a wireless telecommunications device or stand-alone electronic device while operating a motor vehicle on a road or highway other ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB0483 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, prohibits public airports that provide commercial services from entering into an agreement that authorizes a private third-party vendor that provides expedited security screening to use the standard security lane or the transportation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB1373 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, requires all written driver license examinations to be administered in English only; prohibits the use of a translation dictionary, electronic device, or interpreter to assist a person taking the examination. - Amends TCA Title 55, Cha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB0265 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, establishes a process for renaming an international airport governed by a metropolitan airport authority to Trump International Airport. - Amends TCA Title 42, Chapter 3; Title 42, Chapter 4 and Title 55.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB1192 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, requires the department of transportation to study the development of a new bridge crossing the Mississippi River and connecting to Arkansas. - Amends TCA Title 54.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB0031 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, changes from January 15 to January 1, the beginning date of each year at which time the department of transportation may reduce the maximum weight of vehicle loads if necessary to protect the streets, roads, highways, or other public t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB1167 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, changes from March 31 to March 1, the date by which the department of transportation must transmit to the governor and speakers of both houses its annual report listing the litter prevention programs receiving funds from the 0.4 percen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB0310 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, excludes automated driving system (ADS)-operated vehicles used to transport property for hire in interstate commerce or to transport passengers for hire from the exemption allowing ADS-operated vehicles to be operated without a human d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB1136 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, requires the department to provide a person with a free photo identification license at each location where the department issues a driver license or photo identification license if the person signs an affidavit stating that the person...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB1294 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, deletes requirement for the department of revenue to report on the status of the computerized titling and registration system to the transportation and safety committee of the senate and transportation committee of the house of represe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB1036 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, requires that all driver licenses and photo identification licenses be manufactured and printed in this state; requires the department of safety to review and determine the cost-effectiveness of having such licenses manufactured and pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB0987 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, exempts certain motor vehicles from parking fees at airports in this state if the vehicle displays a disabled veteran or military award license plate. - Amends TCA Section 12-10-109 and Title 42.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB1343 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, adds the legislative librarian to the list of persons required to receive from the metropolitan airport authority quarterly reports or briefings of the activities, plans, and conditions of the authority, and any proposals for capital e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB0395 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, creates a Class B misdemeanor for failure to properly adjust headlights by a person or entity that installs tires on a passenger motor vehicle or truck that are larger in total diameter than the original equipment manufacturer's tires ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB0446 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, requires TACIR to study overall road safety and submit its recommendations to the chair of the committee in the house of representatives with jurisdiction over transportation matters, the chair of the transportation and safety committe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB1111 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, requires the Tennessee Aeronautics Commission to study the laws and regulations of other states regarding restrictions on the operation of drones over private property. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38; Title 39; Title 42; Title 56 and T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB1321 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, removes obsolete provision requiring the department, in consultation with the department of safety, local law enforcement agencies, and highway safety offices, to submit a report on or before February 15, 2024, of its findings and reco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB1341 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, increases, from 30 days to 30 business days, the amount of time before the start of a fiscal year that a joint board composed of public agencies overseeing a county or municipal airport has to submit its total expenditures to be made t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB0549 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, requires TACIR to study transportation user fee alternatives and submit its recommendations to the chair of the committee in the house of representatives with jurisdiction over transportation issues, the chair of the transportation and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB0781 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, increases, to the extent permissible under federal law, the maximum gross vehicle weight of a vehicle with an axle group of three axles that can be operated on the public highways of this state to 85,000 pounds. - Amends TCA Title 55.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB0201 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, changes from January 1 to January 15 the date by which the department of transportation must submit its annual report on the status of projects funded by the transportation modernization fund. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 54; Title 55; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB0199 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, authorizes the commissioner of revenue to take reasonable measures to publicize the availability of the option to designate in the Vehicle Title and Registration System (VTRS) database a driver's need for assistance with expressive lan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB0173 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, requires the department of transportation to submit a brief written summary to the committee of the house of representatives with jurisdiction over transportation matters and the transportation and safety committee of the senate no lat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB0005 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, requires the department of safety to redesign driver licenses, instruction permits, intermediate driver licenses, and photo identification cards issued to lawful permanent residents of the United States, and temporary driver licenses a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB0024 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, allocates all revenue generated from the state sales tax on retail sales of new or used motor vehicles and new or used tires in excess of base tax revenues to the state highway fund. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 54; Title 55 and Title 6...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
