| TN | SB0688 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, expands the state board's power to subpoena the appearance of persons or the production of items the chair of the state board, or the chair's designee, considers material or relevant to an accountability hearing for a local education a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-23
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB0685 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the penalties for certain violations of the offense of unlawful photography; requires the court, rather than allowing the court discretion, to order a person convicted of certain unlawful photography offenses to register as a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-23
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB1018 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, clarifies that a public charter school authorized in its charter agreement to locate in a county local education agency (LEA) is not allowed to charge a student who resides in the county any registration fees, enrollment fees, or tuiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-23
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB0450 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires an increase in funding for positions or office expenses for the department of children's services in child protective services to be accompanied by an increase in funding of 75 percent of the increase in funding to the contrac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-23
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB0944 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the punishment for the offense of cruelty to animals to include at least 40 hours of community service work to be determined by the court, in addition to any other punishment authorized by law. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 39 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-23
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB0678 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, increases the penalty for aggravated sexual battery from a Class B felony to a Class A felony if the victim was less than 18 years of age or was mentally defective, mentally incapacitated, or physically helpless. - Amends TCA Title 39,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Signed by H. Speaker |
| TN | SB0682 | Intro
25% | As introduced, makes various changes to the Tennessee Future Teacher Scholarship Act of 2023. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB1019 | Engross
50% | As introduced, requires the department to allocate the state share of the Tennessee investment in student achievement formula funds generated by student members of a public charter school in the prior school year directly to the public charter school...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Concurred, Ayes 25, Nays 0 (Amendment 2 - HA0296) |
| TN | SB0392 | Engross
50% | As introduced, creates the offense of human smuggling; creates the offense of harboring or hiding, or assisting another in harboring or hiding, within this state an individual who the person knows or should have known has illegally entered or remaine...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Passed H., Ayes 73, Nays 22, PNV 0 |
| TN | SB1272 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, makes various changes to reporting requirements, school and district accountability, the accumulation of excess instructional time, remote instruction, the immunization status of students in state custody, the individualized education ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Signed by H. Speaker |
| TN | SB1311 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, makes various changes to certain teacher licensure requirements. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB0535 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation Act." - Amends TCA Title 24; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 47.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Signed by H. Speaker |
| TN | SB0134 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, requires the department to submit its early grades reading report to the education committees of the senate and house of representatives no later than October 15 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SJR0473 | Engross
50% | Eleni McKinley Halkias, birth
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SJR0001 | Engross
50% | Proposes additional language in Article II, Section 28 to prohibit the general assembly from levying, authorizing, or otherwise permitting a state tax on property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
Concurred, Ayes 89, Nays 6, PNV 0 |
| TN | SB1020 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows public charter schools to operate outside the geographic boundaries of the local education agency in which the public charter school is authorized to locate in its charter agreement in certain circumstances and under certain con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB0955 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, enacts the "Medical Ethics Defense Act." - Amends TCA Title 63.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB0288 | Engross
50% | As introduced, adds prostate cancer, breast cancer, and pancreatic cancer to the list of cancers for which a presumption is created that certain conditions or impairments of full-time firefighters caused by prostate cancer, breast cancer, pancreatic ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
Passed H., Ayes 94, Nays 0, PNV 0 |
| TN | SB0741 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, creates a criminal offense of possessing, distributing, or producing technology, software, or digital tools designed for the purpose of creating material that includes a minor engaged in sexual activity or simulated sexual activity tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB0147 | Engross
50% | As introduced, requires the department of transportation to install signs or markers displaying an appropriate symbol indicating to motorists that a rest area or welcome center has a family restroom; requires the department to post on its website res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
Passed H., Ayes 93, Nays 0, PNV 0 |
| TN | SB0602 | Engross
50% | As introduced, extends, from five business days to 10 business days, the period of time within which the department must include any rules, regulations, or policies of the state board of education waived by the commissioner of education upon the offi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
Concurred, Ayes 33, Nays 0 (Amendment 2 - HA0432) |
| TN | SB1346 | Engross
50% | As introduced, creates a civil and criminal action for individuals who are the subject of an intimate digital depiction that is disclosed without the individual's consent under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 28 and Title 39, Chapter 17.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
Passed H., Ayes 94, Nays 0, PNV 0 |
| TN | SB0875 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of economic and community development to revise and certify the population of each county and municipality, and the aggregate population of the state, prior to July 1 each year during the interim between the reg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SJR0427 | Engross
50% | Tennessee Department of Transportation, 2024 Southeast Roadeo champion
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
Concurred, Ayes 88, Nays 0, PNV 4 |
| TN | SB0681 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the amount of the reimbursement that is paid under the provisions for property tax relief for disabled veteran homeowners from the first $175,000 of the full market value of the home to the first $250,000 of the full market v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-17
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2025 |
| TN | SB0677 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to provide at least one professional development course that provides asynchronous instruction on the use of artificial intelligence in the classroom and that is made available, at no cost, to teachers in grades...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-17
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2025 |
| TN | SB0686 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates the Tennessee Promise completion grant special account in the state treasury for purposes of awarding completion grants to certain Tennessee Promise scholarship students; makes the four-year pilot program established by the com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-17
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2025 |
| TN | SB0679 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds pre-kindergarten students with special education needs and their peer models to the categories of students who generate education funding through the TISA. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-17
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2025 |
| TN | SB1022 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands "law enforcement officer" to include a correctional officer employed by a county jail, the department of correction, or a private prison contractor and a probation or parole officer employed by the department of correction or a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-17
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2025 |
| TN | SJR0002 | Engross
50% | Expresses support for the Nation of Israel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-17
Assigned to s/c Public Service Subcommittee |
| TN | SB0689 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, changes, from February 1 to January 31, the date each year that the commissioner of education and commissioner of safety must jointly report to the governor and general assembly regarding implementation and compliance with the Schools ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-16
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SJR0119 | Engross
50% | Annie Dockery, Standards Recommendation Committee for English Language Arts
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-16
Concurred, Ayes 96, Nays 0, PNV 0 |
| TN | SJR0113 | Engross
50% | Rick Spell, University of Tennessee Health Science Center Advisory Board
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-16
Concurred, Ayes 96, Nays 0, PNV 0 |
| TN | SJR0095 | Engross
50% | Todd Womack, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Advisory Board
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-16
Concurred, Ayes 96, Nays 0, PNV 0 |
| TN | SB0836 | Engross
50% | As introduced, authorizes LEAs and public charter schools to refuse to enroll students who are unlawfully present in the United States. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-14
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB0680 | Pass | As introduced, requires an LEA and public charter school that provides parents or guardians of K-12 students with information on immunizations, infectious diseases, medications, or other school health issues to include information about Type 1 and Ty...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-11
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB0690 | Pass | As introduced, requires a public school under the jurisdiction of an LEA that offers students the opportunity to participate in interscholastic athletic competitions to allow the LEA's virtual school students to participate in interscholastic athleti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-11
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB0304 | Pass | As introduced, permits the introduction into evidence of a video recording of a child victim being interviewed by a forensic interviewer regarding sexual or physically violent contact with the child if the forensic interviewer confirms the accuracy o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-11
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB0992 | Pass | As introduced, requires the administrative office of the courts to maintain a criminal justice information services compliant centralized statewide juvenile case management system; requires all juvenile court clerks to adopt and convert to the new ju...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-11
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0017 | Pass | President Jimmy Carter
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SR0122 | Pass | 100th anniversary of the Education Act of Tennessee
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| TN | SB1017 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes issuance of a free distinguishing placard for eligible disabled veterans to be used in lieu of a distinguishing license plate for parking purposes; authorizes issuance of a distinguishing placard upon payment of the applicable ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
Effective date(s) 07/01/2026 |
| TN | SB0335 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Voyeurism Victims Act." - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 29; Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 39 and Title 40, Chapter 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
Effective date(s) 03/25/2025, 07/01/2025 |
| TN | SB1086 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates the Class B misdemeanor offense of operating a motor vehicle in this state with an invalid driver license; designates out-of-state driver licenses issued exclusively to illegal aliens as invalid driver licenses in this state. -...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB0683 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a local education agency to implement the law enforcement against drugs and violence (L.E.A.D.) program in schools operated by the LEA; authorizes an LEA's implementation of the L.E.A.D. program to be in lieu of the DARE progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-04
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 95 |
| TN | SR0072 | Pass | Omar Watkins
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-04
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | SB0027 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, prohibits orders, proclamations, or rules issued by the governor under the governor's emergency management powers from contravening, suspending, or conflicting with a provision of the Tennessee Constitution; restricts governor's abilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Returned by Governor without signature. |
| TN | SB0777 | Fail | As introduced, specifies that the reasonable period for candidates to remove signs, posters, or placards advocating their candidacy is two weeks after the election instead of three weeks. - Amends TCA Title 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB1026 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes from September 1 to October 1 the date by which the commission must make budget recommendations for the following fiscal year to the governor, finance committees of the house and senate, legislative budget offices, and affected...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1073 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires LEAs to notify parents or guardians of a student at least 10 days before the student's individualized education program (IEP) meeting; requires LEAs to provide a copy of all evaluations and assessments of a student conducted f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-27
Sponsor(s) Added. |
