| TN | HB2922 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes certain opportunity public charter schools serving any of the grades six through 12 for which at least 75 percent of the students enrolled in the school, at the time of enrollment, are at-risk students. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1066 |
| TN | HB1614 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Protect Tennessee Minors Act"; requires an individual or commercial entity that publishes or distributes in this state a website that contains a substantial portion of material harmful to minors perform reasonable age-verifica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1021 |
| TN | HB1259 | Pass | As enacted, enacts anti-squatter laws. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 66.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1009 |
| TN | HB1881 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Back the Blue Act," which increases the penalty for assault against a law enforcement officer from a Class A misdemeanor with a mandatory minimum 30-day sentence and $5,000 fine to a Class E felony with a mandatory minimum 60-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2261 | Pass | As enacted, defines a home for the aged that houses three or fewer nonrelated persons as a tier 1 home for the aged that is subject to licensure and regulation by the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities; defines a home for the a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB1663 | Pass | As introduced, authorizes the death penalty as a punishment for rape of a child, aggravated rape of a child, or especially aggravated rape of a child. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Chapter 1062 of the Public Acts of 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 951 |
| TN | HB2931 | Pass | As enacted, requires a judge who enters into a deferred discipline agreement regarding a matter before the board of judicial conduct to sign an affidavit stating that the judge consents to the recommendation of the investigative panel, the consent is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2921 | Pass | As enacted, requires TennCare health benefit plans to provide coverage and reimbursement for mental health services and treatment to the same extent that the plans provide coverage and reimbursement for the treatment of alcoholism and drug dependence...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 949 |
| TN | HB2930 | Pass | As enacted, directs the administrative office of the courts (AOC) to define and develop a centralized system of case management, document management, electronic case filing, electronic payment methods, data reporting, and any other capability deemed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 947 |
| TN | HB2031 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a person who suffers loss or injury as a result of a defendant intentionally obstructing a highway, street, or other place used for the passage of vehicles or conveyances to bring a cause of action against such person to recove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 958 |
| TN | HB2198 | Pass | As enacted, increases the penalty for the offense of threatening to commit an act of mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2845 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Prevention of Drunk Driving Act." - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 55 and Title 57.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 961 |
| TN | HB2873 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the governor to remove a member of the autonomous inmate oversight board, whom the governor appointed, for cause; authorizes the speaker of the senate or the speaker of the house of representatives to remove a member of the boa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2088 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the military department to administer a critical skills retention bonus program to be used to award retention bonuses of up to $10,000 to enlisted service members in the Tennessee national guard; entitles certain state employee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 847 |
| TN | HB2925 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to the law relative to building codes and utilities. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 65 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 820 |
| TN | HB0465 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Representative Darren Jernigan Act," which requires, beginning on January 1, 2025, and each year thereafter, the department of revenue to verify that the owner of each disabled parking placard has not died; requires the depart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 726 |
| TN | HB2142 | Pass | As enacted, increases from a Class C misdemeanor to a Class B misdemeanor the penalty for a student's parent, guardian, or legal custodian failing to report an adjudication that the student committed certain delinquent acts to the school principal; s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2901 | Pass | As enacted, changes prerequisites for emergency detention and admission to a treatment facility from "immediate" substantial likelihood of serious harm to "imminent" substantial likelihood of serious harm. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 33; Title 41 an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Effective date(s) 04/16/2024 |
| TN | HB2929 | Pass | As enacted, removes the requirement that the state building commission set a ratio for water closets at publicly and privately owned facilities where the public congregates, including certain football stadiums in Davidson County. - Amends TCA Title 6...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 696 |
| TN | HB2089 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Disability and Aging Act of 2024." - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 8; Title 12; Title 13; Title 33; Title 34; Title 37; Title 40; Title 41; Title 45; Title 49; Title 52; Title 55; Title 56; Title 63; Title 67; T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 688 |
| TN | HB2124 | Pass | As enacted, requires, rather than authorizes, law enforcement agencies to communicate with the appropriate federal official regarding the immigration status of any individual, including reporting knowledge that a particular alien is not lawfully pres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2216 | Pass | As enacted, enacts "Danielle's Law," which extends the statute of limitations for injuries to a person, who is 18 or older, relating to sexual assault to three years or five years depending on if law enforcement was notified of the assault. - Amends ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 644 |
| TN | HB1581 | Pass | Subject to local approval, authorizes purchasing limits for which competitive bids are not required be set by ordinance pursuant to state law requirements. - to amend.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Pr. Ch. 37 |
| TN | HB1642 | Pass | As enacted, revises various provisions regarding pretrial release of a defendant charged with a criminal offense to require the magistrate to give first consideration to ensuring the safety of the community when determining whether to impose conditio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB1931 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits a local governmental entity or official from adopting or enacting a resolution, ordinance, or policy that prohibits or limits the ability of a law enforcement agency to conduct traffic stops based on observation of or reasonable...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Effective date(s) 03/28/2024 |
| TN | HB1950 | Pass | As enacted, designates June 6 as a day of special observance for D-Day. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 601 |
| TN | HB1217 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes and additions to present law concerning the state building commission and capital projects. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0885 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Prior Authorization Fairness Act." - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 56 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 01/01/2025 |
| TN | HB0905 | Pass | As enacted, adds one additional criminal court judge in the thirteenth judicial district, one additional circuit court judge in the nineteenth judicial district, and one additional circuit court judge in the twenty-second judicial district. - Amends ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023 |
| TN | HB1031 | Pass | As enacted, creates the inmate disciplinary oversight board for the purpose of granting or denying sentence credits for good institutional behavior and determining whether sentence credits previously awarded should be removed for commission of certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 01/01/2024 |
| TN | HB0983 | Pass | As enacted, requires local education agencies (LEAs) to provide licensed employees of the LEA 6 paid workweeks after a birth or stillbirth of the employee's child or employee's adoption of a newly placed minor child. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023 |
| TN | HB0163 | Pass | As enacted, revises the definition of abandonment for purposes of termination of parental rights to include circumstances where the parent or guardian fails to visit or support the child for a period of three consecutive months if the child is less t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0322 | Pass | As enacted, revises various provisions of present law relative to safety in elementary and secondary education and the Schools Against Violence in Education Act. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504; Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 62, Chapter 35.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 05/10/2023, 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB1026 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes expenditures from the 1986 wetland acquisition fund to acquire forest tracts within Cumberland County adjacent to Catoosa Wildlife Management Area known as the "Oakley Tract(s)," including lands adjacent thereto. - Amends TCA T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 351 |
| TN | HB1342 | Pass | As enacted, places certain restrictions on employers seeking to receive economic development incentives. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB1503 | Pass | As enacted, requires the commissioner of commerce and insurance to conduct a study on the implementation of the federal No Surprises Act and its implications for physicians and healthcare facilities in this state; revises present law concerning netwo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 352 |
| TN | HB1211 | Pass | As enacted, makes various changes relative to the Broadband Accessibility Grant Program. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 7; Title 65 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | HB1213 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to the Tennessee Right to Shop Act. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB1216 | Pass | As enacted, provides that whenever Cumberland County acquires property at a tax sale, a non-governmental entity holding a vested and duly recorded contractual right to the payment of fees or assessments secured by such property retains such right; pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/25/2023 |
| TN | HB1388 | Pass | As enacted, terminates the radiologic imaging and radiation therapy board of examiners; authorizes the board of medical examiners, to establish and issue limited and full X-ray certifications. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | HB0164 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a court to waive certain waiting periods and expedite certain proceedings relative to the adoption of children abandoned or voluntarily left at a facility or in a newborn safety device if certain conditions are met. - Amends TC...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-02
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB1277 | Pass | As enacted, removes authorization for the chief executive of a city or county, with the approval of the local legislative body, to fill a vacancy or remove an appointed member on a historic zoning commission. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 7, Part 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 175 |
| TN | HB0005 | Pass | As enacted, requires that a person convicted of especially aggravated kidnapping, aggravated rape, or rape be sentenced from within at least Range II for the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0522 | Pass | As enacted, if the Tennessee highway patrol is assigned a protective detail, authorizes a Tennessee highway patrolman and an officer of a local law enforcement agency to utilize their respective agency's vehicle or emergency equipment for purposes of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Effective date(s) 04/06/2023 |
| TN | HB1212 | Pass | As enacted, removes the prohibition that a person 16 or 17 years of age may not be employed in any place where the average monthly gross receipts from the sale of intoxicating beverages exceeds 25 percent of the total gross receipts of the place of e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
Effective date(s) 03/23/2023 |
| TN | HB0048 | Pass | As enacted, caps at 20 the number of members that may be elected to the governing body of a metropolitan or municipal government. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 5; Title 6 and Title 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Effective date(s) 03/09/2023 |
| TN | HB0017 | Pass | As enacted, designates the month of May as "Silver Alert Awareness Month." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 36 |
| TN | HB0001 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits a healthcare provider from performing on a minor or administering to a minor a medical procedure if the performance or administration of the procedure is for the purpose of enabling a minor to identify with, or live as, a purpor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1 |
