| TN | SB0812 | Intro | As introduced, prohibits an employer from relying on, seeking, or requiring the wage or salary history of an applicant or current employee when making certain decisions related to hiring. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 12 and Title 50. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-14 Placed on Senate Commerce and Labor Committee calendar for 4/21/2021 |
| TN | SB0136 | Intro | As introduced, enacts the "CROWN Act: Create a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair" to define race and protective hairstyle for purposes of the Tennessee Human Rights Act. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21; Title 8; Title 49 and Title 50. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-14 Placed on Senate Commerce and Labor Committee calendar for 4/21/2021 |
| TN | SB1297 | Intro | As introduced, enacts the "Stop Guilt by Accusation Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 24; Title 29; Title 39 and Title 40. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-14 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1236 | Intro | As introduced, allows a defendant who has been sentenced to the death penalty and whose conviction is final to petition the trial court for a determination of whether the defendant is ineligible for the death penalty due to intellectual disability. -... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-14 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0106 | Intro | As introduced, authorizes a county election commission to place absentee voting ballot boxes at locations within its jurisdiction other than at the commission's office. - Amends TCA Title 2. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-13 To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0133 | Pass | As introduced, requires the department, in collaboration with other public and private healthcare agencies, to incorporate information about Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias into its existing public health programs and services. - Amends TCA... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-13 Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB1413 | Intro | As introduced, deletes a provision making it a Class A misdemeanor for a person who is not an employee of an election commission to give an unsolicited request for an application for an absentee ballot to any person; deletes a provision making it a C... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-13 To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0336 | Intro | As introduced, redesignates the Legislative Plaza as the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Plaza. - Amends TCA Section 3-1-111 and Section 4-3-2006. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-13 To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1101 | Intro | As introduced, requires each LEA and public charter school to provide age-appropriate instruction to public school students on black history in the fifth and eighth grades; directs the department of education to provide LEAs and public charter school... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-13 Placed on Senate Regular Calendar for 4/15/2021 |
| TN | SB0381 | Intro | As introduced, clarifies that the requirement for the department to assess the fiscal impact upon licensees of a change by the department of certain rules, regulations, policies, or guidelines also applies if affected licensees render services pursua... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-13 To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1029 | Intro | As introduced, prohibits a licensee that offers interactive sports wagering from allowing a person to place a bet or wager at the same location as where the person entered into a flex loan plan, a title pledge agreement, a deferred presentment servic... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-13 To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0927 | Intro | As introduced, requires a county election commission purchasing or entering into a contract to obtain a voting system to ensure that the system produces a voter-verifiable paper audit trail. - Amends TCA Title 2. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-13 To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SJR0367 | Pass | Tim Sigler [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-13 Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0381 | Pass | Vietnam War veterans of the University of Tennessee at Martin chapter of Alpha Gamma Rho [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-13 Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0366 | Pass | Senator Jerry Cooper [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-13 Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB0419 | Intro | As introduced, prohibits a county election commissioner from voting on issues that directly affect the commissioner's immediate family member who is a candidate for office; requires a county election commissioner to be recused of official duties 30 d... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-13 Placed on Senate Regular Calendar for 4/15/2021 |
| TN | SB1033 | Intro | As introduced, requires a landlord subject to the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act to provide electronic notifications required by the act to the email address provided by a tenant for the purpose of electronic notifications, instead of th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-13 To Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SB0268 | Engross | As introduced, adds the NAVPERS-660 honorable discharge certificate to the list of documents that may be submitted by an honorably discharged veteran who requests to have the "veteran" designation on a driver license. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 5... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12 Passed H., Ayes 91, Nays 2, PNV 0 |
| TN | SB1442 | Intro | As introduced, requires law enforcement officers to satisfactorily complete a diversity training program created by the peace officer standards and training commission by July 1, 2022, or within six months of the officer's date of employment. - Amend... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1453 | Intro | As introduced, reduces the period of time, from five years to one year from the date of issuance, in which a process, warrant, precept, or summons for a misdemeanor offense must be served, returned, or quashed before it is automatically terminated an... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0270 | Enroll | As introduced, requires the department of children's services to require a person receiving financial assistance for adoption from the department to submit medical records from the adopted child's annual physical examination or other verification of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12 Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB0485 | Enroll | As introduced, requires each state agency to submit, on or before February 1 of each year, a report to members of the finance, ways and means committees summarizing amounts of federal block grants and purposes for which funds were expended, including... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12 Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB0749 | Engross | As introduced, designates certain licensing periods as provisional licensing periods; requires the department to establish and implement a quality assessment and rating system to evaluate child care agencies; makes various other changes relative to l... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12 Passed H., Ayes 91, Nays 2, PNV 0 |
| TN | SB0101 | Enroll | As introduced, creates the professional art therapist advisory committee of the board of examiners in psychology to regulate the practice of art therapy. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 63. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12 Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB0574 | Enroll | As introduced, requires certain state agencies to seek funding for the development of substance use disorder recovery programs for pregnant women and women with children; requires those agencies to annually report to the general assembly certain info... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12 Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SJR0156 | Pass | Pete Delay, Board of Trustees, Middle Tennessee State University [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12 Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0167 | Pass | Decosta Jenkins, University of Tennessee Board of Trustees [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12 Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB0020 | Enroll | As introduced, requires the department of health to post on its website information from the centers for disease control and prevention concerning the health effects and dangers of persons using vapor products and requires the department of health, i... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12 Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB0201 | Pass | As introduced, designates June 19 of each year as "Juneteenth," a day of special observance. - Amends TCA Title 15. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 89 |
| TN | SB0714 | Pass | As introduced, designates the month of June as "African-American Music Appreciation Month." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 95 |
| TN | SB0414 | Enroll | As introduced, enacts the "SEM Advancement Act," which requires a local board of education or charter school governing body to develop and adopt a policy that establishes criteria for the enrollment of students in grades seven through 12 into availab... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12 Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB0334 | Enroll | As introduced, requires that female inmates who are 50 through 74 years of age must be offered a mammogram every two years; requires that female inmates who are 40 through 49 years of age must be offered a physician consultation to inquire when a mam... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12 Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SJR0384 | Engross | Kane (Mayor Glenn Jacobs), induction into WWE Hall of Fame [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12 Concurred, Ayes 91, Nays 2, PNV 0 |
| TN | SJR0418 | Engross | Senator Curtis Person, Jr. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12 Concurred, Ayes 91, Nays 2, PNV 0 |
| TN | SB0410 | Engross | As introduced, specifically authorizes a licensed medical professional who draws blood at a nonprofit blood bank or blood center, a dentist, or a nurse to administer a vaccination against COVID-19 as long as the professional, dentist, or nurse has re... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-08 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB0755 | Intro | As introduced, extends eligibility for tuition reimbursement provided to members of the Tennessee national guard under the STRONG Act of 2017 to include technical certificates and diplomas and certain graduate programs; extends, from June 30, 2021, t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-08 Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB1359 | Intro | As introduced, prevents employers from taking adverse action against certain job applicants and employees with regard to drug tests indicating the use of marijuana. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 38; Title 49; Title 5... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB0914 | Fail | As introduced, requires an LEA to provide voter registration information by hand delivery, mail, or email to the LEA's students who are 18 years of age on or before a date of election. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 12. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07 Failed in Senate Education Committee / no second |
| TN | SB0382 | Intro | As introduced, allows members of the United States armed forces and honorably discharged veterans who receive certified occupational training as a member of the United States armed forces to receive equivalent credit toward an occupational license re... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07 Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB0105 | Intro | As introduced, requires county election commissions that purchase or lease voting machines on and after July 1, 2021, to purchase or lease precinct-based optical scanners. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 20, Part 1. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-06 To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1419 | Pass | As introduced, designates the month of April as "Barber, Beauty, and Health Month." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-06 Pub. Ch. 68 |
| TN | SB0736 | Pass | As enacted, creates a sales and use tax exemption and a credit for qualified payroll expenses against an applicant's combined franchise and excise tax liability for qualified film or television productions if the commissioners of revenue and economic... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-06 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 70 |
| TN | SJR0339 | Pass | Fisk Jubilee Singers [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-06 Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0327 | Pass | Tennessee Wildlife Federation, 75th anniversary [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-06 Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0338 | Pass | The Links, Incorporated, Virtual Day on Capitol Hill [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-06 Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0150 | Engross | Keri McInnis, Board of Trustees, Austin Peay State University [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-05 Engrossed; ready for transmission to House |
| TN | SB1388 | Intro | As introduced, prohibits a court from solely considering a parent's disability to determine custody unless it impacts the parent's ability to meet the needs of the child; specifies that a court cannot consider a parent or guardian's disability alone ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-05 Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB1430 | Intro | As introduced, requires the bureau to conduct an annual review of all medications and forms of treatment for sickle cell disease, and services for enrollees with a diagnosis of sickle cell disease that are eligible for coverage under the medical assi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-01 Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SJR0209 | Engross | "Child Abuse Prevention Month," April 2021 [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-01 To House Delayed Bills Committee |
| TN | SB0104 | Intro | As introduced, requires the monthly allotment of temporary cash assistance awarded to each recipient in the Families First program to be increased from the 2021 level to $380 by January 1, 2022, subject to appropriation of the general assembly. - Ame... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31 To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |