| TN | SB0544 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department to employ a guardian ad litem within each region of the state to advocate for each child who is in the custody of the department due to allegations of dependency and neglect and located within the region that th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1305 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Special Educator Scholarship Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0536 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, adds, for purposes of juvenile court proceedings and termination of parental rights proceedings, certain offenses to those that constitute severe child abuse if the act was committed toward the child or there was a knowing failure to p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0531 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department to maintain staffing to allow case managers to have no more than 20 open cases, rather than an average of 20 active cases; states that a "person residing in the child's home" includes a person living in a reside...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2688 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, directs the department to conduct a study, utilizing existing resources, on the effectiveness of state programs incentivizing students to pursue careers in mental health care; requires the study to include an analysis of similar progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2669 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2670 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, allows a Tennessee HOPE scholarship student or a nontraditional Tennessee HOPE scholarship student who earned the student's first baccalaureate degree between July 1, 2022, and July 1, 2023, in less than five years from the date of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0503 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, extends from October to November, the time within which a public institution of higher education that receives funds from the distribution of credit cards to students or any percentage from the use of cards bearing the college or unive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/23/2024 |
| TN | SB2680 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a general sessions court judge to return all marriage licenses under which the judge has solemnized the rites of matrimony to the office of the county clerk within 60 days, rather than 30 days. - Amends TCA Title 16.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SB2658 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the TACIR to conduct a study of the County Powers Relief Act and report its findings to the state and local government committee of the senate and the local government committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2676 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits a TennCare enrollee from staying in an emergency department or emergency room facility for more than 72 hours without medical necessity; imposes penalties on TennCare and managed care organizations for causing an enrollee’s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB2982 | Intro
Sine Die | Subject to local approval, increases the durational residency requirement to be eligible to be elected to city council from one year to three years. - Amends Chapter 41 of the Private Acts of 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
Passed on Second Consideration, held on desk. Local Bill |
| TN | SB2653 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes an LEA to adopt a policy for retired law enforcement officers to serve as armed school security officers on school premises. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2675 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the state board of education to publish on its website the reports on night schools that it receives from school boards. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2678 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council Act." - Amends TCA Title 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| TN | SB2687 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, specifies that an individual who has been a licensed insurance producer since January 1, 2004, rather than January 1, 1994, is not required to complete continuing education requirements for renewal of the insurance producer license. - ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SJR1033 | Intro
Sine Die | Child Abuse Awareness Month, April 2024
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2661 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department of safety to establish and implement a secure digital license system for the issuance of digital driver licenses and photo identification licenses upon request. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB1232 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, deletes the one-time sales tax holiday on the retail sale of food and drink by restaurants and limited service restaurants that occurred between August 7-9 of 2020. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate F,W&M Revenue Subcommittee |
| TN | SB1122 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, eliminates the professional privilege tax for attorneys. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate F,W&M Revenue Subcommittee |
| TN | SB2681 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, extends the time period prior to the start of an academic term, from 30 calendar days to 45 calendar days, that the state or a department, division, or agency of the state establishing a scholarship program must select the scholarship ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2683 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases, from 30 to 60, the number of days that a tenured state university or community college faculty member has to file a petition for review in chancery court if the faculty member is dismissed or suspended for cause. - Amends TC...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2686 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires all county legislative bodies within a judicial district to be notified, in addition to judges, district attorneys general, district public defenders, and court clerks, of any court within the judicial district that is not pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2684 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases, from 5 to 10, the number of business days that the department of education has to include on its website any rules, regulations, or policies of the state board that are waived by the local board of education, following appro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2667 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes, from at least 14 calendar days to at least 10 business days, the number of days before the beginning of an open enrollment period that an LEA must post on its website the number of spaces available for enrollment in each schoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2685 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases from 45 to 60, the number of days, following service of a petition for judicial review from a tenured faculty member seeking review for dismissal or suspension, that the board of regents or state university board has to trans...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2671 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, reduces from 30 business days to 30 calendar days, the number of days the department of safety has, following a confirmed death being reported on a crash report, to provide, upon request, a copy of the crash report to the general assem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB2679 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits a clerk of court from accepting a cash bail deposit presented by a charitable bail organization on behalf of a defendant; excludes a person soliciting donations with respect to a defendant who is related to the person by bloo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2657 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates the offense of aggravated patronizing prostitution; requires testing of a person initially arrested for aggravated patronizing prostitution for HIV. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2672 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases, from 45 to 60, the number of days a child care person or entity may receive an extension on a temporary certificate from the state board of education to operate a child care program prior to the issuance of an initial annual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1665 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires local boards of education to include school safety training in the training requirements for substitute teachers. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB7007 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, 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 deem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-22
Lay on the Table |
| TN | SB1213 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the rules promulgated by the board to establish an appeal process for certain students identified for retention in the third grade to allow, in addition to the student's parent or guardian, the parent's or guardian's student's...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1216 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, allows a local education agency (LEA) that experiences growth in its average daily membership (ADM), excluding the ADM of the LEA's virtual schools, exceeding 2 percent for each year of a two-consecutive-year period to be eligible for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1234 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, adds the education instruction committee of the house of representatives to the list of committees of the general assembly to which the department is required to submit a report regarding the number of endorsement exemptions and tempor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1228 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires each school to make available to the department, instead of upon request by the department, the results of the school safety team's annual armed intruder drill, conducted in coordination with the local law enforcement agency. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1226 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the commission to post a notice on the commission's website within 30 days of designating a degree-granting institution of higher learning as a university. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1227 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the commissioner of education to submit the annual report on the implementation of, and compliance with, the Schools Against Violence in Education Act, in addition to the governor, to the chair of the senate education committe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1217 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, allows a third grade student to be promoted, even if the student does not test proficient on the English language arts (ELA) portion of the student's most recent Tennessee comprehensive assessment program (TCAP) test, if the student te...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1209 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, specifies the early grades reading report should be submitted to the education administration committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1233 | Intro
Sine Die | As enacted, expands the criminal offenses of assault and aggravated assault against a first responder or nurse who is discharging or attempting to discharge official duties to include healthcare providers and increases the penalty for assault against...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1229 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes, from December 1 to December 15, the date by which the Tennessee higher education commission is required to submit the revised higher education funding formula and any projected tuition increases for the next academic year to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Education Committee |
