| TN | SB1861 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits the governor from dividing counties into separate declarations of emergency to avoid the requirement that the general assembly approve an extension of an executive order, proclamation, or TEMP beyond the 45-day maximum for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0112 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, expands the definition of "eligible postsecondary institution" to include certain private postsecondary institutions for purposes of a Tennessee HOPE scholarship, Tennessee HOPE access grant, Tennessee HOPE teacher's scholarship, or Wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1124 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, appropriates $20 million to the legislature for the purchase or construction of a building or other facility accessible to the Cordell Hull Building. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 12.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0111 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, designates social media platforms as common carriers and requires the entities to obtain certificates of public convenience and necessity from the Tennessee public utilities commission; prescribes fines against social media platforms t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2765 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Protecting Tennessee Schools and Events Act"; subject to appropriations, requires the department of education to contract for the provision of walk-through metal detectors to LEAs. - Amends TCA Title 12 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2773 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires an annual training pay bonus supplement for eligible campus police officers and public safety officers in the amount of $800. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38 and Section 49-7-118.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2669 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases the penalties for certain violations of the offense of unlawful photography; requires the court, rather than allowing the court discretion, to order a person convicted of certain unlawful photography offenses to register as a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1944 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, repeals the professional privilege tax for tax years that begin on and after June 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2540 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, directs the department of economic and community development to develop a program for the installation and operation of combustion turbine power plants to increase the state's electric generation capacity. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0502 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, extends, from January 15 to February 1 of each calendar year, the due date of the annual report required to be submitted by the bureau of TennCare to certain legislative committees on the use and cost of opioids and other controlled su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB2041 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, specifies that a person or entity that produces, sells, sends, or distributes obscene matter in violation of state law may be held civilly liable for damages to an injured party. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 9.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB0908 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies that a threat to use deadly force by a private citizen making an arrest is not in itself considered a use of deadly force; prohibits a private citizen from threatening to use deadly force during the course of a citizen's arre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Withdrawn. |
| TN | SB2783 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, limits the situations in which a wildlife officer may enter private property without the owner's consent to those in which the officer has a warrant, there are exigent circumstances, the officer observed a crime taking place, or anothe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2785 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies when a person, who has been sentenced to the punishment of death and the jury has determined that the sentence must be expedited, has concluded any appeal and exhausted all available methods of post-conviction relief; require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2781 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, expands the offense of observation without consent to include a person or entity that adopts rules or enforces a policy or other work-related guidance for employees or contractors to promote or assist in the commission of observation w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
Deferred to Summer Study |
| TN | SB2786 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires county election commissions to include on the ballot for the November 2024 election a non-binding question related to the legalization of the sale, possession, and use of medical marijuana; requires the secretary of state to c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2776 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires, subject to judicially recognized exceptions, all POST-certified officers to obtain a search warrant before entering private property that identifies the person or property that is the subject of the search. - Amends TCA Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2543 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, exempts livestock and poultry producers who do not vaccinate their animals from orders of the commissioner of agriculture or state veterinarian that require vaccines for animals. - Amends TCA Title 43; Title 44 and Title 53.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
Withdrawn. |
| TN | SB1110 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Marital Contract at Common Law Recording Act"; authorizes county clerks to accept and record a record of common law marriage between one man and one woman; limits the jurisdiction of circuit courts and chancery courts in ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2980 | Intro
Sine Die | Subject to local approval, clarifies that the election for the Board of Education aligns with the November general election; extends board members' terms from August, until a successor is elected and qualified; establishes a four-year term for board ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
Passed on Second Consideration, held on desk. Local Bill |
| TN | SB1760 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department of agriculture to publish on its website a list of all vaccines that are approved for use in livestock or poultry in this state, to be divided into separate lists for genetically engineered vaccines and vaccines...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Withdrawn. |
| 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 | SB2775 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Restoring State Sovereignty Through Nullification Act," which establishes processes by which the general assembly may nullify an unconstitutional federal statute, regulation, agency order, or executive order. - Amends TCA T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Deferred to Summer Study |
| TN | SB2575 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits a merchant from taking adverse employment action against an employee based solely on the employee reporting theft of merchandise or organized retail crime to law enforcement; defines "adverse employment action" as dismissing,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB2784 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires payment of restitution to landowners by persons who commit hunting-related offenses on property where they do not have a legal right to be present; bases restitution amount on the type of animals involved in the offense; requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB2107 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the removal of sexually explicit material from the libraries of public schools; creates a process for evaluating library materials for sexually explicit material in public schools. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Deferred to Summer Study |
| TN | SB2723 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department to compile and publish data on the department's website data regarding the geographic location, duration, and severity of floods and landslides in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 5; Title 58; T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB2379 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, directs the department to submit to the United States department of health and human services a waiver request to exempt this state from the immunization requirements of the National Model Foster Family Home Licensing Standards for Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SB2603 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies that a cell-cultured protein offered for sale, sold, or distributed in this state and labeled or advertised as meat, a meat food product, poultry, or a poultry food product is misbranded under the Tennessee Food, Drug and Cos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB2837 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, permits sergeants-at-arms to carry a handgun while in the course and scope of their duties within the legislative complex provided that they have a valid handgun carry permit; imposes a duty on the department of safety to implement a t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0620 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Families' Rights and Responsibilities Act," which declares that the ability of a parent to direct the upbringing, education, health care, and mental health of that parent’s child is a fundamental right. - Amends TCA Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1105 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, repeals the Soil Scientist Licensure Act of 2009. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 18, Part 2 and Section 62-36-114.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB1122 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, eliminates the professional privilege tax for attorneys. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate F,W&M Revenue Subcommittee |
| TN | SB2780 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department to create a separate marriage license application form and marriage license form that may be used by applicants if the bride is a female and the groom is a male; prohibits a county clerk from certifying and reco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2768 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, reduces the percentage of sentence that a person convicted of first degree murder on or after July 1, 1995, and sentenced to life imprisonment is required to serve before becoming eligible for release from 100 percent of 60 years less ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SJR0805 | Intro
Sine Die | Expresses support for the Nation of Israel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SJR7101 | Intro
Sine Die | Adjourns sine die First Extraordinary Session of 113th General Assembly on August 22, 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-28
Held on desk. |
| TN | SB1117 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires an LEA to obtain a student's parent's or legal guardian's consent to allow the student to participate in instruction, an activity, evaluation, assessment, survey, or analysis offered by the student's LEA. - Amends TCA Title 49...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-17
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB0462 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, reduces, from 29.0141 percent to 28.5262 percent, the share of state sales and use tax revenue deposited to the state general fund; increases, from 4.6030 percent to 5.0909 percent, the share appropriated to municipalities. - Amends TC...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-13
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1098 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires certain artifacts from the Civil War pertaining to the Confederate States of America be transferred to the Sons of Confederate Veterans for preservation, at their cost. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11 and Title 12.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0136 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires reports of deaths in relation to maintaining voter registration lists to include the date of the death; requires the coordinator of elections to prepare a report for the general assembly regarding deaths of registered voters. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0307 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the individual that signs the death certificate of a decedent, or an agent of the individual, to ask whether the family or other appropriate person wants to make an anatomical gift of the decedent's body or part; prohibits a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0100 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits a candidate or political campaign committee from accepting contributions that exceed 30 percent of the total contributions received by a candidate or political campaign committee from persons who are not residents of this sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0090 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, under certain conditions, authorizes utility task vehicles and Class I and II off-highway vehicles to be operated on state highways with a posted speed limit of 45 mph or less. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 3; Title 55, Chapter 4 and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SB1096 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes the definition of "visible" in the Outdoor Advertising Control Act of 2020 to "capable of being seen and comprehended without visual aid by a person traveling the posted speed limit on the main traveled way of the highway"; aut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB1125 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases the maximum speed limit on controlled-access state and interstate highways with four or more lanes to 75 miles per hour, from 70 miles per hour. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB1090 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits the state or a political subdivision of the state from requiring an immunization unless exemptions are provided for persons who file signed, written statements affirming that the immunization conflicts with their religious te...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB0369 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, specifies that meat may be labeled as being free of mRNA vaccine if the animals from which the meat was derived were not administered an mRNA vaccine; removes authorization for the commissioner of agriculture and the state veterinarian...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1116 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits a motor vehicle dealer or manufacturer from selling, or offering for sale, a subscription service to access certain motor vehicle features; makes a violation an unfair or deceptive act or practice under the Tennessee Consumer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-14
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB1106 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, deletes the Alarm Contractors Licensing Act of 1991; authorizes counties and municipalities to offer alarm system monitoring under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 32.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-14
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
