| TN | SB0007 | Intro | As introduced, removes provisions in current law that override the ability of various persons to object to vaccinations, immunizations, or other medical procedures on the basis of religious tenets and practices. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0854 | Intro | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Medical Cannabis Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 67 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| TN | SB0724 | Intro | As introduced, changes the annual application for a certificate of authority by an automobile club or association to a one-time application prior to commencement of operations; provides licenses issued must be renewed annually and include updated doc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SJR0065 | Engross | Bill Hilleary
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
SJR placed on H. consent cal. for 2/25/2021 |
| TN | SJR0070 | Engross | State of Tennessee, 225th anniversary
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
SJR placed on H. consent cal. for 2/25/2021 |
| TN | SJR0002 | Intro | Proposes adding a provision establishing the right to work regardless of status of affiliation with any labor union or employee organization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-23
Recommended for adoption by Senate Commerce and Labor Committee, refer Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SB0184 | Intro | As introduced, eliminates the professional privilege tax for tax years that begin on and after June 1, 2022. - Amends TCA Section 49-7-2109 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-23
Refer to Senate Finance, Ways & Means Revenue Subcommittee |
| TN | SB0856 | Intro | As introduced, requires the department and the governing board of each public institution of higher education to promulgate rules to ensure compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972; all...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB0858 | Intro | As introduced, repeals private acts enacting county boards of health or departments of health; requires commissioner of health to report information regarding certain quarantines to the joint government operations committee, the health committee of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB0857 | Intro | As introduced, makes various changes to the Competitive Wireless Broadband Investment, Deployment, and Safety Act of 2018. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 13 and Title 65.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB0855 | Intro | As introduced, broadens the category of persons authorized to carry handguns within a public park to include handgun carry permit holders. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504; Section 33-6-413; Section 38-8-116; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 50; Sect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1013 | Intro | As introduced, creates a committee to review federal actions affecting Tennessee and report to the general assembly on the committee's findings. - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1010 | Intro | As introduced, allows county or city school districts to reestablish the office of elected school superintendent and outlines the qualifications of an elected superintendent. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1014 | Intro | As introduced, permits a person who has been accused of child abuse or neglect or child sexual abuse to petition the court with jurisdiction over the allegations to order the department of children's services to identify the reporter for good cause s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1008 | Intro | As introduced, requires an application for employment with this state or a political subdivision of this state to only require the submission of the applicant's name, address, and pertinent qualifications for the position. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1009 | Intro | As introduced, increases from 90 days to 120 days after the receipt of an offer the time within which an electric cooperative shall signify in writing its acknowledgement of an offer by an annexing municipality to purchase an electric cooperative's e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1012 | Intro | As introduced, deletes obsolete requirement that the commissioner conduct a study of impediments to insurance for the use of justifiable force and report the results of that study to the general assembly and governor no later than March 1, 2012. - Am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB1011 | Intro | As introduced, prohibits monies within the state pooled investment fund from being invested on or after August 1, 2021, in any entity that receives immunity under Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act; requires divestment of any monie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1196 | Intro | As introduced, dissolves the consolidated general sessions court for White and Van Buren counties and establishes an individual general sessions court for each county. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 16; Title 17; Title 36; Title 37; Title 40; Chapter 78...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1197 | Intro | As introduced, prohibits the state, a political subdivision, or a public official from prohibiting or imposing additional restrictions on the lawful operations of a church or religious organization during a state of emergency, major disaster, or natu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1392 | Intro | As introduced, limits certain children's access to contraceptives; requires the textbook and instructional materials quality commission approve contraceptive information available in schools; requires parental consent for a child referred to a physic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Education Committee |
| 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] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1391 | Intro | As introduced, deletes the criminal offense prohibiting a person from carrying a firearm or club with the intent to go armed and defenses and exceptions to that offense; makes various other changes with regard to possession of a firearm. - Amends TCA...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1211 | Intro | As introduced, clarifies that wireless communication includes text messages sent and received on smart devices for purposes of the Anti-Phishing Act. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 47, Chapter 18.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB1296 | Intro | As introduced, exempts from jury service, upon request and sufficient proof of age, persons 70 years of age and older; requires person seeking exemption based on age to submit an affidavit giving the person's name, date of birth, and other informatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1510 | Intro | As introduced, abolishes early voting; prohibits the use of voting machines; requires elections to be conducted with watermarked paper ballots that are hand-marked by the voter. - Amends TCA Title 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1512 | Intro | As introduced, authorizes municipalities operating an electric plant to provide telecommunication services, including fiber-to-the-premises, in geographical areas both within and outside of the electric plant's service area. - Amends TCA Title 4; Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB1513 | Intro | As introduced, changes from February 1 to March 1 the due date for the TBI's annual report to the general assembly on the amount of money collected for handgun carry permit fees in excess of the costs associated with conducting background checks. - A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1511 | Intro | As introduced, provides that preference must be given to veterans and certain spouses of veterans for invitations to interview as candidates for appointments within state service, rather than for invitations to interview as candidates for appointment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1066 | Intro | As introduced, requires grants of waivers by the Tennessee historical commission for the movement or alteration of a memorial to be approved by joint resolution of the general assembly; creates a Class C misdemeanor if a person causes damage to certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SJR0032 | Pass | Medical Personnel in Tennessee
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-12
Signed by H. Speaker |
| TN | SB0561 | Intro | As introduced, reduces the portion of a person's sentence for first degree murder that must be served prior to becoming eligible for parole to 60 percent of 60 years if sentenced to imprisonment for life for an offense committed during certain dates ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0564 | Intro | As introduced, creates a civil cause of action for discrimination based on COVID-19 vaccine status. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 47; Title 49; Title 50; Title 66 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0563 | Intro | As introduced, authorizes the county trustee to proceed against delinquent taxpayers by retaining an agent to collect delinquent personal property taxes, interest, costs, and attorneys' fees. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0562 | Intro | As introduced, deletes statutes on marriage licensing and ceremonies; limits the jurisdiction of circuit courts and chancery courts in cases involving the definition of common law marriage to the principles of common law marriage. - Amends TCA Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0566 | Intro | As introduced, removes the dollar limits to the aggregate value of homestead exemptions, instead creating an exemption for a principal place of residence that is located on a single parcel of land not to exceed five acres in area. - Amends TCA Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0567 | Intro | As introduced, requires the bureau to create a system by which victims of sexual assault offenses can obtain the location and status of the victim's sexual assault evidence collection kit using a tracking number; changes various timelines for collect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0565 | Intro | As introduced authorizes municipalities operating an electric plant to provide telecommunication services, including fiber-to-the-premises, in geographical areas both within and outside of the electric plant's service area. - Amends TCA Title 4; Titl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SJR0094 | Pass | American Heart Association/National Wear Red Day, February 5, 2021
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB0652 | Intro | As introduced, requires a person convicted of vehicular homicide that was the proximate result of the person's intoxication to serve 100 percent of the sentence imposed before becoming eligible for parole, with no more than 15 percent in sentence red...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0656 | Intro | As introduced, prohibits certain persons from having a direct or indirect interest in a contract with a county for the purchase of supplies, materials, equipment, or services. - Amends TCA Section 5-21-121.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0654 | Intro | As introduced, enacts the "Rule of Law Life Act." - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0657 | Intro | As introduced, prohibits the provision of sexual identity change therapy to prepubescent minors; prohibits the provision of sexual identity change therapy to minors who have entered puberty unless a parent or guardian has written recommendations for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0658 | Intro | As introduced, redesignates the South Jackson Civic Center in Tullahoma from a premier type tourist resort to a community theater for purposes of selling alcoholic beverages on the premises. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0659 | Intro | As introduced, prohibits teachers from using supplemental materials that are not approved by the state board. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB0653 | Intro | As introduced, creates a new practitioner license for persons seeking to become licensed teachers; requires the state board of education to approve alternative teacher endorsement and licensure pathways. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB0655 | Intro | As introduced, authorizes the treasurer to establish a length of service award program for eligible employers to participate in a deferred compensation plan for bona fide volunteers. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 25, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0710 | Intro | As introduced, authorizes off-highway vehicle operation on certain segments of State Route 56 and State Route 108 in Grundy County. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB0791 | Intro | As introduced, establishes Tennessee as a "bill of rights sanctuary state." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 29 and Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0828 | Intro | As introduced, requires disposition of aborted fetal remains to be by burial or cremation; requires the department of health to promulgate certain rules and forms; and makes certain other changes regarding the disposition of fetal remains. - Amends T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
