Tennessee Senator Ferrell Haile [R] | Senate | Bills | Introduced

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State	Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
TN	SB0536	Intro 25%	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	SB0750	Intro 25%	As introduced, requires the department to create and implement a promising futures program to provide scholarships to children who are not school age to assist them in developing early language and literacy skills in a high-quality early care and lea... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-19 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TN	SB2108	Intro 25%	As introduced, reduces the sales tax holiday price threshold for clothing from $100 to $80; increases the sales tax holiday price threshold for shoes from $100 to $150. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-19 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TN	SB2342	Intro 25%	As introduced, creates the criminal offense of recklessly, by any means of communication, threatening to commit an act of mass violence and the threat causes a reasonable expectation or reasonable fear of the commission of an act of mass violence. - ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-19 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TN	SB2633	Intro 25%	As introduced, makes various changes to present law on adoption and foster parents; specifies that an adult has an affirmative obligation to inquire whether their sexual activity has resulted in a pregnancy; requires a court to receive written consen... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-19 To Senate Calendar Committee
TN	SB2690	Intro 25%	As introduced, extends the deadline by which a distressed rural county must apply to be eligible to retain the sales and use tax generated from a commercial development district from December 31, 2024, to December 31, 2030. - Amends TCA Title 67, Cha... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-18 Companion House Bill substituted
TN	SB2901	Intro 25%	As introduced, reduces from 60 to 30 days the waiting period before a law enforcement officer who is a member of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system may be reemployed after the officer's effective date of retirement. - Amends TCA Title 8, Ch... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-18 Sponsor(s) Added.
TN	SB0503	Intro 25%	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]	2024-04-18 Sponsor(s) Added.
TN	SB2159	Intro 25%	As introduced, increases the amount of personal needs allowance from $50 to $70 for long-term nursing home residents. - Amends TCA Title 71. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TN	SB2520	Intro 25%	As introduced, authorizes counties and municipalities, by resolution or ordinance of their governing bodies, to levy a tax on the retail sale of food and food ingredients for human consumption within the county or municipality at a rate less than the... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Sponsor(s) Added.
TN	SB2902	Intro 25%	As introduced, requires the board of trustees for the retirement system to include a certification of the amount of normal contributions, accumulated liability contribution, and cost of living contribution required from an employer for state judges a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Sponsor(s) Added.
TN	SB2158	Intro 25%	As introduced, requires the review of executive branch agency policies and spending as it relates to illegal immigration; requires a report to be compiled and delivered to the governor and the speakers of the senate and house of representatives regar... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-16 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TN	SB0529	Intro 25%	As introduced, eliminates the sales and use tax on infant diapers, wipes, and formula. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-11 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TN	SB0531	Intro 25%	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]	2024-04-11 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TN	SB0530	Intro 25%	As introduced, enacts the "First Lady's Children's Trust Fund Act," which creates a trust fund to support persons and entities seeking assistance in the care of children in this state. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 33; Title 37; Title 50; Title 63; Tit... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-11 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TN	SB0544	Intro 25%	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]	2024-04-11 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TN	SB1741	Intro 25%	As introduced, allocates 2.83 percent of the sales and use tax collected in the 11 fastest-growing counties to such counties; requires such counties to earmark such revenue for educational facility maintenance and construction and infrastructure. - A... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-11 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TN	SB1937	Intro 25%	As introduced, creates a high-value workforce readiness board that is administratively attached to the department to identify high-demand fields in this state and qualified institutions that offer workforce training programs in high-demand fields; cr... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-11 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TN	SB2157	Intro 25%	As introduced, adds an additional assistant district attorney general position and criminal investigator position in each judicial district that includes a state correctional facility. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 16 and Title 41. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-11 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TN	SB2509	Intro 25%	As introduced, extends the school turnaround pilot program beyond the 2024-2025 school year; increases, from five to 15, the number of schools in need of intervention that may participate in the school turnaround pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 49,... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-11 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TN	SB1783	Intro 25%	As introduced, reallocates 5 percent of the privilege tax collected from licensees that offer sports wagering in this state from the lottery for education account to a new Tennessee Promise completion grant special account created to assist the commi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-11 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TN	SB1901	Intro 25%	As introduced, authorizes LEAs and public charter schools to reimburse teachers for child care expenses paid by the teacher each month for the teacher's dependent child to receive child care services through certain child care programs certified by t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-11 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TN	SB2627	Intro 25%	As introduced, increases, from two to three, the number of hours of training or continuing education courses on domestic violence or child abuse all judges in child custody proceedings are required to complete per year; increases, from 10 to 15, the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Sponsor(s) Added.
TN	SB1801	Intro 25%	As introduced, allows a minor victim 30 years after the victim turns 18 years of age to sue the alleged perpetrator for any injury or illness stemming from the offense of trafficking for a commercial sex act. - Amends TCA Title 28 and Title 39. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-02 Sponsor(s) Added.
TN	SB2383	Intro 25%	As introduced, specifies that a cause of action for wrongful death must be commenced within three years after the cause of action accrued. - Amends TCA Title 28 and Title 29. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-01 Sponsor(s) Added.
TN	SB2634	Intro 25%	As introduced, prohibits a local legislative body from electing a member, who was expelled for disorderly behavior, to fill a vacancy in the general assembly that was created because of the member's expulsion. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 3; Title 4 a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-27 Deferred to Summer Study
TN	SB1983	Intro 25%	As introduced, specifies that a condemner bears the burden of proving by a preponderance of evidence certain facts regarding the condemnation; creates a right for property owners whose property is being condemned to have a court determine whether the... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-26 Sponsor(s) Added.
TN	SB2148	Intro 25%	As introduced, requires financial institutions and insurers to make determinations about the provision or denial of services based on an analysis of risk factors unique to each current or prospective customer; prohibits financial institutions and ins... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-26 Sponsor(s) Added.
TN	SB1588	Intro 25%	As introduced, increases from 500 to 650 the minimum number of curriculum hours that an applicant for licensure in massage must have completed at a board-approved institution for massage, bodywork, or somatic therapy in order to be eligible for licen... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-25 Companion House Bill substituted
TN	SB2622	Intro 25%	As introduced, authorizes public school students in grades nine through 12 to be excused from school attendance for one school day per school year to allow students to participate in a civic engagement activity. - Amends TCA Title 49. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-20 To Senate Education Committee
TN	SB0024	Intro 25%	As introduced, increases, from $200 to $500, the amount each LEA and public charter school is required to pay each teacher in kindergarten through grade 12 for the purchase of instructional supplies for the 2023-2024 school year. - Amends TCA Title 4... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-19 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TN	SB2275	Intro 25%	As introduced, prohibits physicians from prescribing, administering, or dispensing medication for, or otherwise treating, themselves, immediate family, and other specified individuals except for specified or emergency situations; prohibits a physicia... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-19 To Senate Calendar Committee
TN	SB1940	Intro 25%	As introduced, creates the state foster care and adoption review board. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 36. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-13 Withdrawn.
TN	SB1840	Intro 25%	As introduced, establishes a pilot program for five years to allow private entities to provide foster care services to qualifying children; requires the department of children's services to create a process for selecting children for the program; dir... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee
TN	SB2575	Intro 25%	As introduced, prohibits a merchant from taking adverse employment action against an employee based solely on the employee reporting theft of merchandise or organized retail crime to law enforcement; defines "adverse employment action" as dismissing,... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-12 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TN	SB1151	Intro 25%	As introduced, prohibits an illegal alien from being housed on real property owned by this state or a political subdivision of this state; excepts incarceration and other housing required as a result of a criminal conviction. - Amends TCA Title 4; Ti... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-08 Sponsor change.
TN	SB1748	Intro 25%	As introduced, requires the department of education to recommend, and the state board of education to adopt, academic standards for a year-long course in civics education for students in eighth grade; requires LEAs and public charter schools to imple... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-06 To Senate Education Committee
TN	SB2796	Intro 25%	As introduced, increases from five to 10 years the period of time the department of agriculture shall maintain records that are created by or submitted to the department for the regulation of hemp. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 43; Title 53;... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-06 To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee
TN	SB2747	Intro 25%	As introduced, enacts the ''Medical Ethics Defense Act.'' - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-05 To Senate Health and Welfare Committee
TN	SB2830	Intro 25%	As introduced, requires public charter schools to provide licensed employees of the public charter school six paid workweeks after a birth or stillbirth of the employee's child or the employee's adoption of a newly placed minor child. - Amends TCA Ti... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-05 To Senate Education Committee
TN	SB2433	Intro 25%	As introduced, increases from $1,000 to $1,500 the compensation claim amount that may be reimbursed to a healthcare provider for performing a forensic medical examination on a victim of a sexual assault case. - Amends TCA Title 29. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-01 To Senate Judiciary Committee
TN	SB1991	Intro 25%	As introduced, clarifies that a person licensed to practice medicine in this state may complete the person's continuing education requirements solely through courses, approved by the board of medical examiners, that are offered online; requires the b... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-31 To Senate Health and Welfare Committee
TN	SB1857	Intro 25%	As introduced, reduces, from $25 to $20, the minimum amount of a partial payment of property taxes that the Trustee for the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County may accept. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8;... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-25 To Senate State and Local Government Committee
TN	SB7001	Intro 25%	As introduced, requires each LEA, public charter school, private school, and church-related school to develop a policy to direct how students, teachers, substitute teachers, and staff are to respond when a fire alarm is activated on school premises o... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-08-23 Lay on the Table
TN	SB7008	Intro 25%	As introduced, expands the statutory duty that qualified mental health professionals and licensed behavior analysts have to notify potential victims and law enforcement of an actual threat of bodily harm against a clearly identified victim made by a ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-08-23 Lay on the Table
TN	SB7017	Intro 25%	As introduced, requires each local education agency to post a notice in a conspicuous place on each school bus in operation by the LEA to notify others that no person shall enter onto school buses except for those authorized; requires new bus drivers... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-08-23 Lay on the Table
TN	SB7082	Intro 25%	As introduced, changes prerequisites for emergency detention and admission to a treatment facility from "immediate" substantial likelihood of serious harm to "imminent" substantial likelihood of serious harm. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 33; Title 41... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-08-23 Lay on the Table
TN	SB7002	Intro 25%	As introduced, creates the criminal offense of recklessly, by any means of communication, threatening to commit an act of mass violence; requires the court to determine whether a defendant charged with threatening to commit an act of mass violence is... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-08-22 Lay on the Table
TN	SB7083	Intro 25%	As introduced, exempts a person from civil liability for damages, injuries, or death resulting from or arising out of the theft of the person's firearm that is properly stored in the person's motor vehicle unless the person commits an offense involvi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-08-22 Lay on the Table
TN	SB7003	Intro 25%	As introduced, exempts a person from civil liability for damages, injuries, or death resulting from or arising out of the theft of the person's firearm or firearm ammunition properly stored in the person's motor vehicle unless the person commits an o... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-08-21 Withdrawn.