| TN | SB1224 | Pass | As enacted, allows a court to sentence a defendant convicted of two or more criminal offenses to consecutive sentences if the defendant is sentenced for criminal offenses involving more than one victim and the court finds that a separate consecutive ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB1231 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a local board of education to contract with a private college or university accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to maintain a training school for grades pre-kindergarten through...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023 |
| TN | SB1230 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department of mental health and substance abuse services to use funds distributed from revenue received from sports gaming to provide treatment services for juvenile addiction and mental health disorders secondary to providin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/17/2023 |
| TN | SB1475 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act of 1989, including expanding the definition of racketeering activity. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 12, Part 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0955 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department of treasury investment division staff to invest, reinvest, manage, and select investment options for program assets for financial reasons, excluding environmental, social, and governance interests that may not be m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/17/2023 |
| TN | SB0105 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department of safety to waive the knowledge test, and accept alternative requirements, for active duty and honorably discharged service members and members of the national guard or the armed forces reserves applying for tempo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 01/01/2024 |
| TN | SB0213 | Pass | As enacted, requires a person convicted of domestic assault involving strangulation to serve a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 days incarceration; enhances offenses involving strangulation or attempted strangulation based on certain circumstances. -...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB1049 | Pass | As enacted, creates a farmers market food unit permit for food service establishments that meet requirements. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 43; Title 53; Title 67 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/17/2023, 01/01/2024 |
| 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 | SB1556 | Pass | Subject to local approval, authorizes the creation of a solid waste authority; authorizes the authority to issue bonds. - Amends Chapter 429 of the Private Acts of 1931.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 24 |
| TN | SB0543 | Pass | As enacted, creates the child care improvement fund, to be administered by the department of human services; creates a child care improvement pilot program to provide grants to nonprofit organizations to be used for establishing a new child care agen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/17/2023 |
| TN | SB1220 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Future Teacher Scholarship Act of 2023." - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 381 |
| TN | SB1458 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 399 |
| TN | SB0193 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "One Pill Will Kill Act," which adds fentanyl, carfentanil, remifentanil, alfentanil, and thiafentanil to what constitutes a qualifying controlled substance for purposes of certain felony offenses. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 386 |
| TN | SB0919 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to present law relative to termination of certain parental rights. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 393 |
| TN | SB0280 | Pass | As enacted, renames the "Tennessee Local Development Authority Act" to be the "Tennessee Local Development Authority Public Safety Protection Act of 2023" and makes various changes to its existing provisions. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 9.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 378 |
| TN | SB1211 | Pass | As enacted, revises present law relative to the criminal injuries compensation fund for victims of human trafficking offenses. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 8 and Title 29, Chapter 13.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 359 |
| TN | SB1215 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that municipal court has jurisdiction over the expunction of a person's conviction for a violation of a municipal ordinance from the public records; specifies conditions for such expunction. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 18, Pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 356 |
| TN | SB1218 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that a county continues to have the authority to levy a local litigation tax on an adoption proceeding in chancery, circuit, or juvenile court, and that the exemption does not limit or repeal such authority. - Amends TCA Title 3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 370 |
| TN | SB0535 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 373 |
| TN | SB0542 | Pass | As enacted, makes various revisions to present law relative to adoption. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 36; Title 37; Title 47 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 361 |
| TN | SB0274 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 367 |
| TN | SB0201 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Jabari Bailey Highway Safety Act," which requires drivers to change lanes or reduce speed upon approaching a stationary vehicle that has flashing hazard lights activated; increases fines for failing to change lanes or reduce s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 354 |
| TN | SB1463 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 360 |
| TN | SB1223 | 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
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| 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 | SB0011 | 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
Effective date(s) 03/21/2023 |
| TN | SB0650 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 415 |
| TN | SB1345 | 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
Effective date(s) 05/05/2023, 07/01/2023, 01/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1443 | 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
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB1219 | 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
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB1221 | 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
Effective date(s) 4/28/2023, 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB1059 | 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
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SJR0690 | Pass | Scott Hrouda, Cascade High School Teacher of the Year
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB0838 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes an LEA to award a high school student credit for a course offered by the LEA's high school if the student attains a qualifying score on the course's final examination without requiring the student to enroll in the course. - Ame...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | SB0744 | 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
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | SB0743 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that public charter schools and the state board of education are prohibited from employing individuals found by the department of children's services to have committed an act of child abuse in the same manner as other educationa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/25/2023 |
| TN | SB1208 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department, in administering the individualized education account program, to develop and implement a process for notifying all parents of their children's potential eligibility for an individualized education account, instea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 321 |
| TN | SB0854 | Pass | As enacted, allows a candidate to demand and receive a list of all voters who changed their residential address at the polling place; requires a recount to include the verification of any address of residence changed at the polling place. - Amends TC...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/24/2023 |
| TN | SB0776 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits a state agency, local agency, or law enforcement agency from purchasing or acquiring a drone or other covered telecommunications equipment or service produced by a manufacturer banned under the federal National Defense Authoriza...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 01/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0672 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes certain licensed advanced practice nurses and physician assistants to execute a certificate of need if a person is admitted and detained by a hospital or treatment resource for emergency diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment; ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0270 | Pass | As enacted, revises present law provisions governing adoption and foster care. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 37, Chapter 2, Part 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0528 | Pass | As enacted, makes various changes to adoption law. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Title 68, Chapter 3, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | SB0497 | Pass | As enacted, revises the definitions of "wine" and "beer" with regard to law relative to traffic in intoxicating liquors and regulating the sale of wine in retail stores. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3 and Title 57, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 236 |
| TN | SB0657 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 238 |
| TN | SJR0781 | Pass | Theron Ira Louis Lacy
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB0534 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 293 |
| TN | SJR0581 | Pass | Central Magnet School, School Award of Excellence
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-02
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0557 | Pass | David Hicks Lillard, Sr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-02
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB1214 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies which jurisdictions are eligible to hold a referendum to authorize the sale of wine in retail food stores. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3, Part 8.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
Effective date(s) 04/17/2023 |
