| TN | SB1762 | Engross
50% | As introduced, requires TennCare coverage of rapid whole genome sequencing when certain clinical criteria are met. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB2146 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes a report due by March 1, 2006, from the commissioner to legislative committees concerning the effectiveness of a demonstration project wherein a nursing home allowed a disabled volunteer to assume certain functions in the nursi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0674 | Intro
25% | As introduced, permits the services authorized in a collaborative pharmacy practice agreement to include weight management services; requires the bureau of TennCare to make available, or cause to be made available, anti-obesity medication to a recipi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2415 | Intro
25% | As introduced, permits a juvenile court to transfer a child to criminal court to be tried as an adult at any age if the child is charged with a second or subsequent criminal gang offense. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/15/2024 |
| TN | SB1662 | Pass | As enacted, revises certain fees payable to the secretary of state by certain charitable organizations; increases from $500,000 to $1,000,000 the amount of gross revenue received during a fiscal year to trigger certain reporting requirements; assesse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 615 |
| TN | SB1775 | Pass | As enacted, expands the ways in which applicants may apply for the home address confidentiality program to include moving to a new address unknown to the offender and not previously identified in a public record. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 38, Pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 620 |
| TN | SB2246 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires health-related boards that license practitioners authorized to prescribe buprenorphine-containing products to post nonresidential buprenorphine guidelines and standards on the licensing board's website no more than 10 days aft...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
To Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SB0677 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits a dental benefit plan from containing restrictions on methods of payment from the dental benefit plan or its vendors to the dentist in which the only acceptable payment method is a credit card payment; makes other changes to den...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2178 | Fail | As introduced, requires the Tennessee bureau of investigation to establish a program in which a person may enroll to voluntarily waive the right to purchase firearms. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1985 | Intro
25% | As introduced, lowers, from 15 to seven, the number of days by which a general sessions judge may postpone a trial for forcible entry and detainer; makes other changes related to forcible entry and detainers. - Amends TCA Title 27; Title 29 and Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB2548 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates a process for members of a county legislative body and members of the public to challenge a vote of a member of the county legislative body if that member, or the member's spouse, is an employee of the county and voted on a mat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB1779 | Intro
25% | As introduced, provides that, if an incapacitated or deceased patient has no authorized representative, the patient's next of kin will be treated as an authorized representative for the patient for the purposes of obtaining the patient's hospital rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB2549 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes district attorneys general and former district attorneys general to solemnize marriages, if the district attorney general or former district attorney general has filed notice with the office of vital records indicating their...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB1767 | Engross
50% | As introduced, expands the definition of "racketeering activity" to include committing, conspiring to commit, aiding, attempting to aid, soliciting, coercing, facilitating, or intimidating another person to commit the criminal offense of animal fight...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB1743 | Pass | As enacted, changes, from three years to five years, the time period for which a person awarded a state contract, change order, or contract modification must retain all books and records of cost or pricing data submitted to the state with regard to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 576 |
| TN | SB1776 | Pass | As enacted, requires all requests for amendments to county budgets by county departments and other entities to be approved by the department or entity seeking the amendment prior to being submitted to the county legislative body for consideration; ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 572 |
| TN | SB2418 | Fail | As introduced, opens eligibility for being employed as a police officer to persons discharged from the armed forces of the United States to those with an entry-level separation, medical discharge, or a separation for the convenience of the government...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1177 | Pass | As enacted, requires, beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, each LEA and public charter school to have fifth grade students complete one semester of Tennessee history in the first semester of the students' fifth grade year. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Effective date(s) 03/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1661 | Pass | As enacted, revises various provisions regarding the regulation of charitable solicitations in this state. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 101, Part 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 533 |
| TN | SB2550 | Intro
25% | As introduced, grants first priority to property tax liens relative to receiver's liens and other liens established under the Neighborhood Preservation Act and the Tennessee Local Land Bank Program; clarifies that various provisions governing judicia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SB1948 | Engross
50% | As introduced, requires the department of environment and conservation to refund one half of the appropriate permit fee to a local government that applies for and receives a general or individual permit to replace or otherwise maintain a culvert if t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB1987 | Intro
25% | As introduced, designates “Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree” by Brenda Lee as the official state holiday song. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB2134 | Engross
50% | As introduced, enacts the Social Work Licensure Compact. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB2414 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires statewide political party candidates to be nominated for elective public office by primary election rather than under the rules of the party or by primary election, with limited exceptions for certain offices. - Amends TCA Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1697 | Fail | As introduced, defines "firearm hold agreement" as a private transaction between a licensed federal firearms dealer and a firearm owner under which the dealer takes possession of the owner’s firearm at the owner's request, holds the firearm for an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2010 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a health benefit plan to provide coverage and reimbursement for prosthetic and custom orthotic devices in a manner that equals or exceeds the levels of coverage and reimbursement for such devices under the federal medicare pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB2115 | Fail | As introduced, increases from 12 to 16 the minimum age for operating a personal watercraft without direct adult supervision; requires persons operating personal watercraft to maintain financial responsibility in same amounts applicable to motor vehic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2247 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates exception to the state regulation of biosolids by authorizing the legislative body of Polk County to regulate such activities. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 68, Chapter 211; Title 68, Chapter 221 and Title 69.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB0573 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Waste Reduction and Recycling Act"; requires sellers, distributors, and importers of certain packaging materials to take certain actions to reduce the amount of packaging material that becomes litter. - Amends TCA...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB1777 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adjusts the minimum size requirements for one of two noncontiguous tracts of property to qualify as agricultural land under the greenbelt law, from a size of at least 10 acres to less than 15 acres. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| 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
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2745 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of health to submit a report to the chair of the health committee of the house of representatives and the chair of the health and welfare committee of the senate, including, at minimum, data concerning how many ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2746 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands the category of primary elections in which candidates nominated for school boards are to appear on the regular August election ballot for which the date of such election may be reset by an election commission to coincide with t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| 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
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2416 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires certain personal information of current or former commissioned law enforcement officers in this state to be maintained confidentially by a state or local department or agency in possession of such information upon written requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2417 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires, in counties with a population of 60,000 or less, payment in lieu of tax agreements to be approved by a majority vote of the city or county legislative body of each affected taxing jurisdiction before an industrial development...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1950 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits certain foreign-party-controlled businesses from acquiring an interest in public or private land in this state; prohibits certain foreign parties from acquiring agricultural land in this state; requires land acquired in viola...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB1949 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces the time within which a handgun carry permit holder must notify the department of safety of a change of residence from 60 days to 30 days. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1986 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to investigate and report on the shortage of ambulances in this state, with the investigation to include a detailed analysis of the cause of such shortages and the effect on the health and safety of citizens in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1780 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of revenue to post on its website the rate information it receives from local governments regarding local tax collected on the occupancy of short-term rental units. - Amends TCA Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1781 | Intro
25% | As introduced, defines "law enforcement activity" for the offense of criminal impersonation to include operating a motor vehicle that displays logos or decals that give the appearance of being operated by a law enforcement officer or the use of blue ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1778 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces, from 15 acres to 12 acres, the minimum size requirements for property to qualify as agricultural land under the greenbelt law. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 10.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB7065 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires an LEA to provide its students with a certain minimum amount of social interaction time each month depending on the amount of instruction being provided to students each month. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-23
Lay on the Table |
| TN | SB0856 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "James 'Dustin' Samples Act." - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 9; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 102.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/17/2023, 01/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1548 | Pass | Subject to local approval, alters the conditions under which the county is authorized to own and operate a nonprofit hospital. - Amends Chapter 187 of the Private Acts of 1945.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 28 |
| TN | SB1119 | Pass | As enacted, designates the National Guard Armory to be constructed in Warren County as the "Major General Terry Max Haston National Guard Armory".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/17/2023 |
| TN | SB1182 | Pass | As enacted, provides that a candidate's name may only be printed on the ballot if it is the name of a person whom the chair of a statewide political party has certified to be placed on the ballot for the office of president to the secretary of state;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 389 |
| TN | SB0004 | Pass | As enacted, establishes a deaf mentor and parent advisor program to assist families in implementing bilingual and bicultural home-based programming for young children who are deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind at the Tennessee Schools for the Deaf ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB1176 | Pass | As enacted, deletes the requirement that proceeds from the sale of lifetime sportsman licenses be deposited into the lifetime sportsman endowment fund. - Amends TCA Title 70, Chapter 1, Part 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 303 |
| TN | SB1175 | Pass | As enacted, increases the compensation for members of the board of directors of the Tellico Reservoir Development Agency to $300 per meeting and $225 for meetings of committees of the board; increases the threshold at which sealed bids are required f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-02
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 233 |
