| TN | SB1660 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates a Natural Disaster Relief Program to be administered by TEMA. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 2, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Finance, Ways & Means |
| TN | SB0167 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, exempts the retail sale of fruit and vegetables for human consumption from the food retail sales tax. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-228.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0177 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires TennCare to create and implement a three-year pilot program to provide remote maternal health services to eligible TennCare recipients; authorizes the TennCare director to seek a federal waiver as necessary to implement the pi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0349 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the board, in consultation with the Tennessee higher education commission, to develop a standardized entrepreneurial program that must be offered at each institution governed by the board to provide an affordable, cost effecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0351 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, allows certain retail and other businesses a deduction from business taxes for the installation of electric vehicle chargers. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0395 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, permanently exempts from sales and use tax, the retail sale of gun safes and gun safety devices; removes the temporary sales tax holiday. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0616 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department to provide juveniles who are in the department's custody and housed in a juvenile detention facility approved, certified, or licensed by the department, including youth development centers, with 24-hour access, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1009 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, deletes the provision granting broad discretion to the commissioner of revenue to administer the Business Tax Act from July 1, 2013, to December 31, 2014. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1010 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department of children's services to include in the permanency plan of a child who has been removed from the custody of the child's parent or guardian, due to drug abuse by the parent or guardian, the requirement that the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0531 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0713 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department to collect and publish data concerning landslides and floods; requires the department to establish a network of weather stations across the state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 5; Title 58; Title 64, Cha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0741 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, exempts feminine hygiene products from sales tax on the annual sales tax holiday. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0750 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | SB1875 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases from 48 hours to seven days the time in which a victim of a crime or a member of the victim's family has to report the crime to law enforcement to be eligible to receive a claim for compensation unless good cause is shown. - ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1934 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, eliminates the grocery tax; enacts the "Business Enterprise Tax Act"; and enacts the "Worldwide Combined Reporting Act." - Amends TCA Title 57 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1799 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, expands the sales tax exemption on motor vehicles sold to a member of the Tennessee national guard or military reserve who has been called into active military service to include those who are deployed under orders to a duty station in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1977 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, establishes the hunger-free campus grant program; provides grants to higher education institutions to address student hunger. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2405 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, deletes the offense of aggravated prostitution; requires the public records of a person charged with a misdemeanor or a felony offense that has been repealed to be removed and destroyed without cost upon petition by the person. - Amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2341 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, adds the MidSouth development district to the list of development districts to which this state intends to assist financially; specifies an overall state funding level for the nine development districts; changes the calculation for how...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1027 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a brief summary of any question, regardless of length, submitted to the people for a vote. - Amends TCA Title 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2860 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes an outdated provision that required the department to report to the chairs of the government operations committees of the senate and the house of representatives, and appear before the education, health, and general welfare joi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
Re-refer to S. Cal Comm |
| TN | SB1479 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates a Class E felony of a law enforcement officer operating a law enforcement body camera in any manner that would prevent the creation or recordation of evidence with the intent to obstruct justice. - Amends TCA Title 10; Title 38...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1746 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearms Act," which permits a person to voluntarily waive their firearm rights through filing a waiver with the clerk of the circuit court in the county of the person's residence or with the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2189 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits the possession of an assault weapon; makes it a Class E felony to illegally possess an assault weapon; directs those in possession of an assault weapon before July 1, 2024, to apply for a certificate of possession; requires t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1485 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, adds a requirement that a licensed medical laboratory reporting an offender's HIV test results to the victim of an assault also provide the victim with a written copy of the test results. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2239 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes any local government in this state to create a land bank; authorizes a local government to post on its website, if available, a link to a state website or publication identifying surplus real property for sale or conveyance....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2726 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires county election commissions to include three non-binding questions related to the legalization of marijuana on the November 2024 ballot; requires the secretary of state to compile the results of the non-binding, advisory refer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2354 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies that on or before January 31 of each year the department shall report information regarding child support to the general assembly and the governor. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 33; Title 34; Title 36; Title 37; Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2121 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, makes various changes to the Voluntary Pre-K for Tennessee Act of 2005; requires, instead of authorizes, an LEA to provide a pre-kindergarten program that is open to any child who is four years of age on or before August 15 and who res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2122 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, allows an LEA or public charter school to elect not to receive a letter grade for one or more of its schools by notifying the commissioner of education, in writing, of its decision to opt out of such requirements; allows, instead of re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2190 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, reduces from 65 to 60 the age at which a person is eligible to enroll in courses for credit at state-supported colleges and universities without payment of tuition, maintenance fees, student activity fees, or registration fees. - Amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2273 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a nonpublic school that accepts publicly funded vouchers for student tuition to comply with the same requirements for student testing applicable to public schools, subject to certain exemptions; requires a nonpublic school tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2234 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes the electronic submission of the report the attorney general and reporter is required to submit quarterly regarding the compromise and settlement, in the amount of $25,000 or less, of civil litigation to which the state may ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2622 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | SB2620 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits a hospital from negotiating or entering into anti-competitive agreements or engaging in activity that purports to look like anti-competitive conduct with other hospitals in this state; prohibits state funds or employees from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2065 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Universal Pre-K Funding Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 51; Title 49 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB0398 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department of human services to develop, implement, and manage a program to provide monthly stipends for certain state employees for the cost of child care services. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 8, Chapter 50 and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1961 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, beginning on January 1, 2025, and on January 1 of each subsequent year, requires the base payment for TANF eligible families to be increased to reflect the effect of inflation based upon the percentage of change between the two precedi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2111 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, revises the formula for calculating tax relief on real property owned by eligible disabled veterans so that in determining the amount of relief to such a taxpayer, the assessed value on the first $175,000 of full market value is to be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2241 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, adds K-12 school bus drivers and cafeteria workers to the list of retired members of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system who may work more than 120 days each year while continuing to draw their retirement allowance. - Amends T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2387 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits a utility from terminating or otherwise interrupting utility service to its customers on a day for which the national weather service has issued a heat advisory or excessive heat warning for an area for which the utility prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0803 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, upon receiving a citizen complaint that a person has violated the Litter Control Law, requires the special unit of the Tennessee highway patrol charged with enforcing such law to notify the alleged offender of the Litter Control Law an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2381 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires each entity that maintains an official website to publish the policy for the prevention of sexual harassment established pursuant to chapter 307 of the Public Acts of 1993 on its website. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4 and Titl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1649 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates the Tennessee violence intervention program within the department's office of criminal justice programs to invest in evidence-based violence reduction initiatives. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2191 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, imposes an additional 15-percent tax on the retail sale of firearms; requires revenue from the firearms tax to be deposited into the K-12 mental health counselor fund to be administered by the department of education and used exclusive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0208 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires each local school board to establish a school lunch program and a school breakfast program that provides a free breakfast and lunch to each student enrolled in a school under the board's jurisdiction; requires the state to rei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1656 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department of education to allocate to each local education agency sufficient funds for the LEA to employ one full-time licensed professional school counselor position for every 250 student members of the LEA or one full-t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2035 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a manufacturer of agricultural equipment or agricultural equipment parts to provide an owner or independent repair shop access to tools, software, and documentation to allow the provision of services for the equipment. - Amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB1790 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires each local school board to establish a school lunch program and a school breakfast program that provide a free breakfast and lunch to each student enrolled in a school under the board's jurisdiction; requires the state to reim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1651 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires TACIR to conduct a study on approaches to the regulation of artificial intelligence and submit a report of such study, including recommended legislative approaches, to the speakers of each house and the legislative librarian n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
