| TN | SB2432 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a county, municipality, metropolitan government, utility district, local education agency, or other local governmental entity to purchase gasoline or diesel fuel in the open market without public advertisement or competitive bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/09/2024 |
| TN | SB2741 | Pass | As enacted, requires a state governing body or a local government legislative body to make available to the public, at no charge, the agenda for the upcoming regular meeting in a place accessible to the public at least 48 hours prior to a regular mee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024 |
| TN | SB2744 | Pass | As enacted, expands a parent's right to unimpeded telephone conversations with the parent's child at least twice a week when the child is in the custody of the other parent to include video conference conversations, if available. - Amends TCA Title 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024 |
| TN | SB1681 | Pass | As enacted, requires, in cases where a person is ordered into emergency or nonemergency admission to involuntary commitment and is to be released, the chief officer of the releasing facility to notify, by electronic means, local law enforcement prior...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 10/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2359 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits the department from requiring an immunization as a condition of adopting or overseeing a child in foster care if an individual or member of an individual's household objects to immunization on the basis of religious or moral con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024 |
| TN | SB2691 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits the intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances, or apparatus within the borders of this state into the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting temperature, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1738 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Foster and Adoptive Parent Protection Act," which generally prohibits the department of children's services from requiring a current or prospective adoptive or foster parent to affirm, accept, or support any governme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2576 | Pass | As enacted, requires, rather than authorizes, law enforcement agencies to communicate with the appropriate federal official regarding the immigration status of any individual, including reporting knowledge that a particular alien is not lawfully pres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 716 |
| TN | SB1585 | Pass | As enacted, deletes the statutory provision that repeals the Tennessee Zero to Three Court Initiative on January 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 04/04/2024 |
| TN | SB1939 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that an "occurrence," for purposes of the Mutual Aid and Emergency and Disaster Assistance Agreement Act of 2004, includes events that result in bodily injury or property damage; specifies the government officials through which ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 04/04/2024 |
| TN | SB1941 | Pass | As enacted, permits employees of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of state government to complete Tennessee foster parent training and in-service training during the course of their employment without having to use paid sick, annual,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 04/04/2024 |
| TN | SB2660 | Pass | As enacted, require the department to file a petition of termination of adoptive parent's parental rights with a juvenile court, within 90 days of the juvenile courts finding that there has been substantial noncompliance by a parent or guardian with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2060 | Pass | As enacted, enacts "Danielle's Law," which extends the statute of limitations for injuries to a person, who is 18 or older, relating to sexual assault to three years or five years depending on if law enforcement was notified of the assault. - Amends ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 04/04/2024 |
| TN | SB1838 | Pass | As enacted, creates one additional trial court in the 18th judicial district. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Effective date(s) 03/27/2024 |
| TN | SB0613 | Pass | As enacted, requires the permanency plan for any child in foster care for six months or longer as a result of abuse or neglect, that includes as a permanency goal the return of the child to the parent, to also include a requirement that the parent co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2025 |
| TN | SB2276 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that the executive directors of the board of pharmacy and the board of nursing are employees of the department of health, under the supervision and control of the division of health related boards. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Effective date(s) 03/27/2024 |
| TN | SB2572 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits a local governmental entity or official from adopting or enacting a resolution, ordinance, or policy that prohibits or limits the ability of a law enforcement agency to conduct traffic stops based on observation of or reasonable...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 631 |
| TN | SB2175 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Smart Heart Act"; establishes various requirements for automatic external defibrillators in schools and response protocols for cardiac-related medical emergencies. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 625 |
| TN | SB2070 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that a juvenile court proceeding may be commenced by the taking of a child into custody or the removal of custody from a parent or legal guardian; requires the juvenile court in a dependency and neglect proceeding to determine w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 613 |
| TN | SB1677 | Pass | As enacted, adds The Kroger Co. to the list of companies that are released by the attorney general and reporter for pending or future claims regarding opioids. - Amends TCA Title 20 and Title 33.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Effective date(s) 03/15/2024 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
