| TN | HB1072 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department to establish an honor guard grant program to provide grants to veteran service organizations to offset expenses incurred by the organization and members of the organization's honor guard in providing military funer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 01/01/2024 |
| TN | HB0562 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that compensation for members of the national guard must accrue upon them being ordered to active state service and the payment of compensation to members must use this state's established weekly pay cycle as needed to effectuat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0289 | Pass | As enacted, requires a sentence of death to be carried out within 30 business days of the conclusion of any appeals or post-conviction relief, if the jury unanimously determines that certain circumstances are met. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0027 | Pass | As enacted, allows a student who earns the student's first baccalaureate degree in less than the projected completion time to continue to receive the Tennessee HOPE scholarship in pursuit of an advanced degree. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0040 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits certain foreign ownership of real property in this state by nonresident aliens and foreign entities if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 43; Title 44; Title 47; Title 48 and Title 66.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0002 | Pass | As enacted, makes permanent various provisions regarding COVID-19. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 14; Title 29, Chapter 20 and Section 49-7-159 and Chapter 896 of the Public Acts of 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 48 |
| 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 | HB1008 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that a course of conduct for purposes of stalking includes one instance of placing an electronic tracking device on a person or in or on a person's property, unless the electronic tracking device is placed by or at the direction...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 349 |
| TN | HB0727 | Pass | As enacted, requires a student's parent or legal guardian, or the student if the student has reached the age of majority, to provide certain consent before the student may engage in certain activities at school. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Titl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 353 |
| TN | HB0523 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to the Water Quality Control Act. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 3, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 342 |
| TN | HB0398 | Pass | As enacted, requires mental health evaluation and treatment for juveniles who commit aggravated animal cruelty under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 334 |
| TN | HB1321 | Pass | As enacted, allows school bus drivers to use a portable electronic device for navigation of the school bus and for accurately accounting for students at bus pick-up and drop-off locations through use of the device's global positioning system if no ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 210 |
| TN | HB0306 | Pass | As enacted, limits the ability of a student enrolled in a private school to participate in an interscholastic athletic activity or event, to such activity or event where membership in the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association is required, i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 285 |
| TN | HB0841 | Pass | As enacted, makes it a Class E felony for a book publisher, distributor, or seller to knowingly sell or distribute obscene matter to a public school serving any of the grades K-12; adds additional fines for a violation. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 278 |
| TN | HB0424 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the commissioner of education to grant an individual pursuing clinical experience in an educator preparation program (EPP) who meets certain requirements a temporary permit to teach in a teaching position in which an LEA or pub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 284 |
| TN | HB1400 | Pass | As enacted, requires certain persons convicted of rape, when the victim is 13-17, or incest, when the victim is a minor, to be punished as a Range II offender; allows the sentence imposed, if appropriate, to be within Range III but in no case lower t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 283 |
| TN | HB0563 | Pass | As enacted, creates a class C misdemeanor for certain local public officers who charge a fee or demand compensation for solemnizing a marriage. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 185 |
| TN | HB1162 | Pass | As enacted, makes various revisions to the "Uniform Arbitration Act." - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 5; Section 47-18-5519(f)(2); Section 56-7-1206(h)(1); Section 60-1-607(c)(2) and Section 66-34-104(f).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB1306 | Pass | As enacted, requires that if an entity requires on-site payment from a consumer for the parking of a motor vehicle on the entity's property, and the entity only accepts payment by use of a quick response (QR) code or a credit or debit card machine, t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 01/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0395 | Pass | As enacted, allows persons who are not otherwise prohibited by law from possessing a handgun to carry a handgun while hunting under certain circumstances, rather than only persons with a handgun carry permit. - Amends TCA Title 44, Chapter 17 and Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 218 |
| 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 | HB0903 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a municipality to add the cost of remedying a condition on real property that endangers the health, safety, and welfare of other citizens to the property tax notice of the owner of the real property, if the owner fails or refus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | HB0752 | Pass | As enacted, creates a criminal offense of a foster parent from a kinship placement knowingly allowing a child in the foster parent's care to visit with the child's parent if the foster parent has knowledge of a current court order prohibiting the par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB1086 | Pass | As enacted, revises various provisions relative to charter schools. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 206 |
| TN | HB0774 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Protecting Tennessee Businesses and Workers Act." - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | HB0584 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a hospital, or an affiliated entity of the hospital, to employ an emergency physician to treat patients at a satellite emergency department, or a physician to treat patients at a primary care clinic or urgent care clinic, which...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 196 |
| TN | HB0529 | Pass | As enacted, revises various provisions regarding the automatic revocation of educator licenses. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 267 |
| TN | HB1376 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Higher Education Freedom of Expression and Transparency Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7 and Title 49, Chapter 8.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 268 |
| TN | HB0940 | Pass | As enacted, enacts "Abrial’s Law, the Keeping Children Safe from Family Violence Act," which makes various changes to child custody law. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 266 |
| TN | HB1022 | Pass | As enacted, requires the court to place a defendant for whom a bench warrant is issued due to failure to appear on a felony or a Class A or Class B misdemeanor that is violent or sexual in nature as determined by the court, or who is charged with a f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 260 |
| TN | HB0771 | Pass | As enacted, requests the governor to submit a new design of the great seal of the state of Tennessee by July 1, 2025, that incorporates the language "In God We Trust." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 261 |
| TN | HB1416 | Pass | As enacted, extends the benefits and opportunities provided to children of active duty members of the uniformed services in the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children to school-aged children in the household of a member o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 257 |
| TN | HB0252 | Pass | As enacted, removes the requirement that a parent-teacher of a home school student provide proof of the student's immunizations and receipt of health services or examinations required by law generally for children in this state to the local education...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-02
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | HB0249 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that in general sessions court cases involving an order granting possession of real property, a writ of possession must issue by operation of law if no appeal is taken within the 10-day appellate period. - Amends TCA Title 27, C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-02
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0159 | Pass | As enacted, exempts from the offense of possessing or carrying a weapon on school property the possession or carrying of a pocket knife by a nonstudent adult on election day if the knife remains concealed at all times while the adult is on school pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-27
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 142 |
| TN | HB0559 | Pass | As enacted, expands student eligibility for an education savings account (ESA) to include students who were not enrolled, and who did not attend, a Tennessee public school for the one full school year immediately preceding the school year for which t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 171 |
| TN | HB0695 | Pass | As enacted, establishes the amount of an occupational educator scholarship awarded by the department to prospective educators seeking a Tennessee occupational teaching license as the cost of tuition and mandatory fees at the postsecondary institution...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 181 |
| TN | HB1182 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Real Property Records Integrity Act." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 66.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 160 |
| TN | HB0090 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits local governments from expending funds for the purposes of assisting a person in obtaining a criminal abortion. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 8.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 168 |
| TN | HB0557 | Pass | As enacted, expands the admissibility of a forensic interview to include statements made by a child under 18 years of age rather than under 13 years of age; expands admissible forensic interviews from statements made by a child describing sexual cont...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Effective date(s) 04/06/2023 |
| TN | HB0038 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that when, in the judgment of the speaker of the house of representatives and the speaker of the senate, the interest of the state requires additional counsel to the attorney general and reporter, the speakers shall retain addit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0946 | Pass | As enacted, requires a political subdivision that imposes requirements or expectations related to the type of clean or renewable energy used by a public utility in an ordinance, resolution, or other regulation to include certain sources of energy as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0319 | Pass | As enacted, establishes a "brownfield redevelopment area fund" to be used by the department to administer a brownfield redevelopment area grant program; creates a franchise and excise tax credit equal to the remediation costs for a brownfield propert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 86 |
| TN | HB0205 | Pass | As enacted, extends the department of environment and conservation to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 73 |
| TN | HB0167 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits the sale or distribution of tattoo and body piercing paraphernalia to minors. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 62, Chapter 38, Part 2 and Title 62, Chapter 38, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 90 |
| TN | HB0215 | Pass | As enacted, extends the Megasite Authority of West Tennessee to June 30, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 64, Chapter 9.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 77 |
| TN | HB0805 | Pass | As enacted, extends the prohibitions, requirements, and penalties that apply to telephone solicitations to text message solicitations. - Amends TCA Title 65, Chapter 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 126 |
| TN | HB0144 | Pass | As enacted, changes from 25 to 17 the number of days of incarceration a person convicted of a second offense of driving under the influence of an intoxicant must serve before the person can participate in a substance abuse treatment program; requires...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 116 |
| TN | HB0495 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Topical Medical Waste Reduction Act of 2023," which establishes certain regulations of facility-provided medications. - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 150 |
| TN | HB0758 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that it is an unfair or deceptive act to issue or deliver a home service contract to a consumer in this state that does not specify the merchandise and services to be provided, and any applicable limitations, exceptions, or excl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 133 |
