| TN | SB0649 | Pass | As enacted, makes various changes to zero to three courts, including adding five additional safe baby courts and extending such courts to January 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 36; Title 37 and Chapter 366 of the Public Acts of 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
Pub. Ch. 383 |
| TN | SB0659 | Pass | As enacted, creates offenses related to the possession, sale, distribution, and transport of child-like sex dolls. - Amends TCA Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
Pub. Ch. 360 |
| TN | SB1359 | Pass | As enacted, creates the Class A misdemeanor and Class E felony offenses of withdrawing, transferring, or altering a child's school enrollment with intent to hinder an active child abuse or child neglect investigation. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
Pub. Ch. 398 |
| TN | SB1257 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Human Life Protection Act," which bans abortion in this state effective on the 30th day after the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade or an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to allow states to prohibit abortion; creates ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
Pub. Ch. 351 |
| TN | SB0028 | Pass | As enacted, creates the state Alzheimer's disease and related dementia advisory council. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 14 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
Pub. Ch. 364 |
| TN | SB1324 | Pass | As enacted, defines "guardian" or "legal guardian" as "a person having the legal authority to provide for the care, supervision, and control of a minor child as established by law or court order" for purposes of criminal injuries compensation. - Amen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Pub. Ch. 311 |
| TN | SB1326 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that a child must have been "adjudicated delinquent" of specified offenses in order for the requirements that a child's school receive notification and that parents, guardians, and legal custodians notify a school principal, or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Pub. Ch. 313 |
| TN | SB1325 | Pass | As enacted, revises the provisions for judicial diversion for juvenile offenders under certain circumstances; clarifies offenses for which a juvenile offender may be committed to the department of children's services; authorizes probation for juvenil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Pub. Ch. 312 |
| TN | SB0566 | Pass | As enacted, requires, under the Tennessee Prescription Safety Act, the controlled substance committee or the commissioner of health to release confidential information from the controlled substance database to the attorney general and reporter upon r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-09
Pub. Ch. 264 |
| TN | SB1166 | Pass | As enacted, rewrites the criminal offense of female genital mutilation; extends the statute of limitations for criminal prosecutions or civil actions for female genital mutilation. - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-09
Pub. Ch. 268 |
| TN | SB0053 | Pass | As enacted, creates exemptions to licensure and certification requirements, as applicable, for certain medical professionals licensed in other states who are participating in federal Innovative Readiness Training programs. - Amends TCA Title 58 and T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-09
Pub. Ch. 255 |
| TN | SB1468 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the department to seek a federal grant from the federal department of health and human services' health resources and services administration, or any other applicable entity, to develop a training program for certified nurse pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-09
Pub. Ch. 275 |
| TN | SB1061 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department of correction, in partnership with the Tennessee higher education commission and the board of regents, to develop and submit to the general assembly an annual report detailing the higher education opportunities ava...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-09
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 238 |
| TN | SJR0639 | Pass | Representative Barbara Cooper, 90th birthday
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-07
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SJR0615 | Pass | Matthew Cook
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-02
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB0195 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Proton Therapy Access Act." - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Pub. Ch. 193 |
| TN | SB0491 | Intro | As introduced, phases out the professional privilege tax over a five-year period for tax years that begin on and after June 1, 2019. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0492 | Intro | As introduced, eliminates the professional privilege tax for the tax year ending on May 31, 2020, and subsequent tax years. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0567 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes Coffee County to levy a privilege tax of up to 2.5 percent upon the privilege of occupancy by a two-thirds vote of its governing body. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-1425.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Pub. Ch. 198 |
| TN | SB0864 | Intro | As introduced, exempts from sales and use tax car detailing services. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0210 | Pass | As enacted, removes certain restrictions on concurrent operation with microwave systems; revises provsisions governing the providing of telecommunications services. - Amends TCA Title 65, Chapter 25.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Pub. Ch. 174 |
| TN | SB1458 | Intro | As introduced, requires the commissioner of revenue to make a thorough study and investigation of the tax laws of other states. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 65 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB0517 | Intro | As introduced, authorizes the commissioner of safety to issue farm-related service industry employee restricted commercial driver licenses to persons who meet certain qualifications. - Amends TCA Title 43 and Title 55.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB1039 | Intro | As introduced, enacts the "Elderly and Vulnerable Adult Protection Act of 2019." - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB0384 | Pass | As enacted, revises provisions governing expedited issuance of certain professional licenses for certain armed forces members and their spouses to instead exempt such persons from licensure in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, P...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Pub. Ch. 195 |
| TN | SB0808 | Pass | As enacted, transfers, from the state board of education to the department of education, the authority to accept and administer federal funds for the purpose of promoting public education; designates the department of education as the state board for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Pub. Ch. 204 |
| TN | SB0577 | Pass | As enacted, permits an eligible petitioner to have multiple, nonviolent convictions for offenses that resulted from the petitioner's status as a victim of human trafficking expunged if the expunction is in the best interest of justice and public safe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Pub. Ch. 199 |
| TN | SB0799 | Pass | As enacted, reinstates service credits and salary increases that were suspended during 2009-2010 for assistant public defenders and assistant district attorneys. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14, Part 1 and Title 8, Chapter 7, Part 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Pub. Ch. 202 |
| TN | SB0805 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the Governor's Investment in Vocational Education Act; specifies that financial assistance received for all dual enrollment courses attempted after the fourth dual enrollment course reduces any subsequent award of the Tennessee HOP...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Pub. Ch. 203 |
| TN | SB0713 | Pass | As enacted, extends the exemption from sales and use tax on trailers used to transport livestock when such trailer is sold to a qualified farmer or nurseryman to also exempt such sales of trailers used to transport farm products, nursery stock, or eq...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Pub. Ch. 178 |
| TN | SB0290 | Pass | As enacted, increases the punishment for a conviction of aggravated rape of a child from "15 to 60 years in prison and a fine of up to $50,000" to "life in prison without the possibility of parole." - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13 and Title 40, Cha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 211 |
| TN | SB1546 | Intro | Subject to local approval, rewrites city charter. - Amends Chapter 23 of the Private Acts of 2011.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB0423 | Intro | As introduced, eliminates the special privilege tax on ammunition. - Amends TCA Section 8-8-201 and Title 70, Chapter 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB0476 | Intro | As introduced, reduces the time period from 30 days to 15 days for an enrollee or applicant for medical assistance to mail documentation of a material change affecting the enrollee or applicant's TennCare application. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB0764 | Intro | As introduced, increases from one to two the number of additional dual enrollment courses a student may take under a dual enrollment grant under certain circumstances; allows an eligible student to receive a dual enrollment grant for no more than 10 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB1395 | Intro | As introduced, creates a program managed by the commissioner of commerce and insurance to annually award grants to volunteer fire departments for the purchase of firefighting equipment or to meet local match requirements for federal grants for the pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB0215 | Intro | As introduced, prevents an inmate convicted of a Class A, B, or C felony from using sentence reduction credits until the minimum release eligibility date applicable to the inmate is reached; establishes presumption that inmate convicted of Class E or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB0398 | Intro | As introduced, clarifies that the commissioner of revenue's annual report on tax laws of other states is to be transmitted to the chief clerks of the senate and house of representatives and to the legislative librarian; authorizes the report to be tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB1442 | Intro | As introduced, creates a presumption that certain conditions or impairments of full-time firefighters caused by certain cancers occurred in the course of employment unless the contrary is shown by competent medical evidence. - Amends TCA Title 7, Cha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB0650 | Intro | As introduced, makes various changes to law concerning pharmacy benefits managers; requires the comptroller of the treasury to perform an annual audit of all pharmacy benefits managers providing services funded by this state. - Amends TCA Title 56, C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB0487 | Intro | As introduced, changes the age that triggers the requirement that a physician report suspected sexual abuse of a minor who is seeking an abortion from under 13 years of age to under 18 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB0571 | Intro | As introduced, allows certain persons who receive certified occupational training as a prisoner or a student in a high school technical training class to receive equivalent credit toward an occupational license relating to the training received. - Am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB0565 | Intro | As introduced, allows a teacher who demonstrates an overall performance effectiveness level of "above expectations" or "significantly above expectations" for three consecutive years to receive an overall evaluation score of "above expectations" in ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB0569 | Intro | As introduced, revises causes of action and damages under the Public Employee Political Freedom Act of 1980; requires court to sanction an employee for a frivolous suit under the Act. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21 and Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB0684 | Intro | As introduced, creates the Class C felony of aggravated unlawful photographing when the defendant knowingly photographs a minor when the minor has a reasonable expectation of privacy, the photograph depicts the minor in a state of nudity, and the pho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB1428 | Intro | As introduced, directs the governor, through the commissioner of finance and administration, to submit a waiver amendment to the centers for medicare and medicaid services to provide TennCare II funding by means of a block grant indexed for inflation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB0533 | Intro | As introduced, exempts sales of gun safes from sales and use tax. - Amends TCA Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1460 | Intro | As introduced, exempts water furnished by a utility district and used exclusively in a farming operation from sales and use tax. - Amends TCA Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB1243 | Intro | As introduced, requires students to pass a civics test to receive a full diploma upon graduation from high school; requires LEAs to include all 100 questions from the United States civics test, instead of only 25 to 50 questions, on the civics test p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB0793 | Pass | As enacted, increases pay supplement from $600 to $800 for police officers and firefighters who complete 40 hours of in-service training. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 24, Part 2 and Title 38, Chapter 8, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-24
Pub. Ch. 152 |
