| 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 | 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 | HJR0578 | Pass | Zoey Zakyia Carruth, Salutatorian, Cordova High School
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR0580 | Pass | Petra Rayo Jimenez, Valedictorian, Kingsbury High School
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR0576 | Pass | Karla Yanely Pacheco, Salutatorian, Raleigh Egypt High School
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR0581 | Pass | Kierra Thrill, Salutatorian, Kingsbury High School
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR0579 | Pass | Ashton Rose Ramirez, Valedictorian, Cordova High School
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR0577 | Pass | Maria Fernanda Arredondo, Valedictorian, Raleigh-Egypt High School
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB0962 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 269 |
| TN | HB1261 | 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
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | HB0482 | Pass | As enacted, revises the punishment for critical infrastructure vandalism. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 40 and Title 65, Chapter 35.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| 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 | HB1193 | Pass | As enacted, broadens the offense of desecration of a venerable object by changing the culpable mental state from intentionally to recklessly or knowingly desecrating a place of worship or burial or a state or national flag. - Amends TCA Title 39, Cha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| 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 | HB0883 | Pass | As enacted, makes various changes relative to abortion. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 53; Title 56; Title 62; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | HB1309 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits a life insurance provider from canceling a life insurance policy based on genetic information, from requesting or requiring genetic testing as a condition of insurability, and from accessing the genetic data of an individual wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/25/2023, 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0799 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to present law concerning residential and energy codes. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 13, Chapter 19 and Title 68, Chapter 120.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB1453 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes persons residing on property that adjoins the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to take, attempt to take, or harm a bear that enters on the person's property if certain criteria is met. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 70.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/25/2023 |
| 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 | HB1002 | Pass | As enacted, grants the attorney general and reporter, in cases where a defendant has been sentenced to death and is seeking collateral or direct review of a conviction or sentence, exclusive control over the state's defense of the request for review ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | HB0882 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 204 |
| TN | HB0896 | Pass | As enacted, extends, from six years to eight years, the minimum period of time from the last adoption within which the board is required to ensure that the standards review and development committees and advisory teams review the standards for Englis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 192 |
| 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 | HB1051 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 199 |
| TN | HB1310 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Genetic Information Privacy Act." - Amends TCA Title 47.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0551 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 263 |
| TN | HB0318 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 187 |
| TN | HB1070 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 223 |
| 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 | HB1194 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to law relative to the Alzheimer's and dementia respite care program. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 221 |
| TN | HB0459 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 222 |
| TN | HB0786 | Pass | As enacted, creates a new pathway for honorably discharged veterans to receive an occupational teaching license. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0315 | Pass | As enacted, revises law relative to the total number of beds in private for-profit and private not-for-profit intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities (ICF/1ID). - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 254 |
| 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 | HB0995 | Pass | As enacted, requires, prior to the administration of corporal punishment against a student, the student's teacher or school principal to make certain documentation in the student's educational record; prohibits corporal punishment against a student f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 275 |
| TN | HB0033 | Pass | As enacted, makes various changes to law relative to emergency response, including requiring certain information be provided to the assessor of property. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 2 and Title 67, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 259 |
| 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 | 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 | HB0340 | Pass | As enacted, requires a student to be considered in violation of a zero tolerance offense and be expelled for not less than one calendar year, except that a director of schools may modify such expulsion on a case-by-case basis, for threatening mass vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-02
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| 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 | 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 | HJR0523 | Pass | Evelyn Marie Dieckhaus
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-26
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR0525 | Pass | William Kinney
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-26
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR0528 | Pass | Michael "Mike" Hill
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-26
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR0526 | Pass | Dr. Katherine Koonce
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-26
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR0524 | Pass | Hallie Scruggs
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-26
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR0527 | Pass | Cynthia Broyles Peak
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-26
Signed by Governor. |
| 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 | HB0115 | Pass | As enacted, requires the Secretary of State to establish and implement a program designated as the Tennessee Businesses Against Trafficking program to engage participating corporations and other private entities in voluntary efforts to identify, prev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 177 |
| 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 |
