| TN | SB1957 | Pass | As enacted, establishes a process for a licensed veterinarian to report suspected animal cruelty in violation of certain criminal laws and testify in a judicial or administrative proceeding concerning the care of the animal without being subject to c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 584 |
| TN | SB2666 | Pass | As enacted, requires a Tennessee college of applied technology (TCAT) to reserve an enrollment slot for each dual enrollment student in the term immediately following the last term in which the student was enrolled in the TCAT as a dual enrollment st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 581 |
| TN | SB1701 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that pleas of guilt and nolo contendere to certain criminal offenses subject an educator to automatic revocation of an educator license by the state board; specifies that criminal offenses committed in another jurisdiction that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 577 |
| TN | SB2096 | Pass | As enacted, defines and adds "voice" as a protected personal right; adds commercial availability of a sound recording or audiovisual work in which the individual's name, voice, likeness, or image is readily identifiable to considerations for determin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 588 |
| TN | SR0256 | Pass | National Medal of Honor Day
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | SJR1164 | Pass | Robert Jonathan Doyle Springer
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR1045 | Pass | Veterans buried in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB1177 | Pass | As enacted, requires, beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, each LEA and public charter school to have fifth grade students complete one semester of Tennessee history in the first semester of the students' fifth grade year. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Effective date(s) 03/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1586 | Pass | As enacted, allows the district attorneys general conference, the administrative office of the courts, the Tennessee chapter of children's advocacy centers, the department of children's services, and law enforcement agencies to enter into data sharin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Effective date(s) 03/12/2024 |
| TN | SB1678 | Pass | As enacted, permits an owner or lessee of a motorcycle to receive a disabled decal to affix to a new specialty earmarked, cultural, or other special purpose plate that is authorized for motorcycles. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 21 and Title 55, Cha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 520 |
| TN | SB1680 | Pass | As enacted, requires each LEA to post a conspicuous notice on all school buses in operation in the LEA notifying others that no person shall enter onto school buses except those authorized by law; requires the training standards for school bus driver...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1679 | Pass | As enacted, requires each LEA, public charter school, private school, and church-related school to develop a procedure to determine the cause of a fire alarm activation, including the potential of an active shooter event; requires each LEA to coordin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 563 |
| TN | SB0287 | Pass | As enacted, adds offenses of continuous sexual abuse of a child committed on or after July 1, 2024, to the list of qualifying criminal misconduct that is sentenced to community supervision for life in addition to any other statutorily imposed punishm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 525 |
| TN | SB0596 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that a person is not required to solemnize a marriage. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29 and Title 36.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 511 |
| TN | SJR0987 | Pass | Tanya McPherson, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0988 | Pass | Rosemary Gregory, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0990 | Pass | Deputy Shelby Eggers
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0991 | Pass | Chris Smith
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0903 | Pass | Josephine Groves Holloway Day, March 10, 2024
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0989 | Pass | Deputy Greg McCowan
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SR0188 | Pass | Urges Governor Lee to deploy Tennessee National Guard to support Texas in its efforts to secure border.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| TN | SJR0901 | Pass | Todd Helton, National Baseball Hall of Fame
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0917 | Pass | Northside Neighborhood House of Chattanooga
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0869 | Pass | Brenda Louise Smith Allred
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0859 | Pass | Coach Bobby Luna, Gallatin High School boys' basketball
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0862 | Pass | Dr. Orinthia T. Montague
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0806 | Pass | Willetta Grady, Exceptional Service Award
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0807 | Pass | James Fenton
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0811 | Pass | Beth Chiles
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0817 | Pass | Joe D. Duncan, 100th birthday
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB7088 | Pass | As enacted, requires the bureau to submit a report on child and human trafficking crimes and trends in this state, based upon data available to the bureau, as well as current programs and activities of the bureau's human trafficking unit, to the gove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-27
Effective date(s) 09/08/2023 |
| TN | SJR0287 | Pass | Betsy Ross York Lowrey, 90th birthday
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-19
Signed by H. Speaker |
| TN | SJR0295 | Pass | Tommy George Haun
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-19
Signed by H. Speaker |
| TN | SR7014 | Pass | Benjamin Matthew Kredich
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-30
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| TN | SB0637 | Pass | As enacted, adds additional companies to the statewide opioid settlement agreement for which the attorney general and reporter has the authority to release pending or future claims. - Amends TCA Title 20 and Title 33.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023 |
| 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 | SB0753 | Pass | As enacted, makes various changes to the board of pharmacy. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 63, Chapter 1 and Title 63, Chapter 10, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0856 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "James 'Dustin' Samples Act." - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 9; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 102.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/17/2023, 01/01/2024 |
| TN | SB0466 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that a teacher or other employee of a public school or LEA is not required to refer to a student using the student's preferred pronoun if the pronoun is not consistent with the student's biological sex; insulates a teacher or ot...
[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 | SB0813 | Pass | As enacted, increases the pay schedule for certain assistant district attorneys general, assistant district public defenders, district investigators, and criminal investigators. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14 and Title 8, Chapter 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 06/30/2023 |
| TN | SB0894 | Pass | As enacted, exempts a person under 18 years of age who is in custody of the department of children's services or receiving foster care services from payment of fees for issuance, renewal, or reinstatement of a driver license, instruction permit, inte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 01/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1551 | Pass | Subject to local approval, prohibits public entities in Sumner County from using eminent domain to acquire privately owned real property for parks, trails, paths, or greenways for walking, running, hiking, bicycling, or equestrian use, unless the pri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 29 |
| 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 | 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 | SB0360 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the department of safety to create a voucher program for the purpose of offsetting the cost of persons taking a handgun safety course for the first time; requires the department to report the number of courses taken using vouch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 01/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1001 | Pass | As enacted, requires the bureau to develop a request for certification form to be completed by the court and submitted to the bureau prior to entering an order of expunction, with a few exceptions; requires the bureau to determine and certify whether...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 392 |
| TN | SB0275 | Pass | As enacted, makes various revisions to present tax law. - Amends TCA Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 377 |
| TN | SB0074 | Pass | As enacted, allows a student who earns the student's first baccalaureate degree in less than the projected completion time to continue to receive the Tennessee HOPE scholarship in pursuit of an advanced degree. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 368 |
| 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 |
