| TN | SB2769 | Pass | As introduced, deletes a reference to a repealed statute from the present law governing the deadline by which an action by the county board of equalization during its regular session must be completed and notice of its decision and appeal procedure m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB2766 | Pass | As introduced, revises language prohibiting educators from discriminating against students on certain, specified bases to generally prohibiting educators from discriminating against students who are members of a protected class under federal or state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB2223 | Pass | As introduced, enacts the "Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act," which prohibits a financial institution from requiring the usage of a merchant code that distinguishes a firearms retailer from a general merchandise retailer or a sporting goods ret...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB1641 | Pass | As introduced, creates the right of an attorney in fact designated to make healthcare decisions under a durable power of attorney for health care to conduct at least one in-person visitation with the principal for each day the principal is in a hospi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB2503 | Pass | As introduced, terminates the human rights commission with no wind-down period; creates the human rights division in the office of attorney general; transfers the commission's functions to the new division. - Amends TCA Title 4; Section 8-50-103 and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB1142 | Pass | As introduced, vacates the commission and reconstitutes the commission; changes the size and appointing authorities for the commission from 24 gubernatorial appointees to 20 total members with five each being appointed by the governor, the speaker of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB1536 | Pass | As enacted, makes applicable to Coffee County, present law that provides that whenever Hardeman County or Cumberland County acquires property at a tax sale, a nongovernmental entity holding a vested and duly recorded contractual right to the payment ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 717 |
| TN | SB1822 | Pass | As enacted, designates as official state books: "Farewell Address to the American People" by George Washington; "The Papers of Andrew Jackson"; "Democracy in America" by Alexis de Tocqueville; "All the King's Men" by Robert Penn Warren; "A Death in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 720 |
| TN | SB1715 | Pass | As introduced, authorizes a law enforcement agency to assign a law enforcement officer to serve as a school resource officer at a school within a local board of education's control that has not entered into a memorandum of understanding with a law en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB2779 | Pass | As enacted, removes certain present law regarding prohibited activities for Tennessee Public Utility Commission commissioners. - Amends TCA Title 65.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024 |
| TN | SB2764 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes LEAs to extend career and technical education (CTE) class sizes and averages for CTE classes in grades 6-8; prohibits the CTE classes in grades 6-8 from exceeding the maximum class size and average set for general education cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2359 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits the department from requiring an immunization as a condition of adopting or overseeing a child in foster care if an individual or member of an individual's household objects to immunization on the basis of religious or moral con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024 |
| TN | SB2918 | Pass | As enacted, requires a campground owner to post in a high traffic area on the campground, or distribute to registered guests or visitors, a written policy on campground curfew, alcohol use, tobacco use, and pets; authorizes an owner to eject a person...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 665 |
| TN | SB2324 | Pass | As enacted, requires that a grant awarded to a marina from the portion of gasoline tax revenues apportioned to the wildlife resources fund for public and environmental infrastructure at marinas be based on the amount of gasoline sold at the marina re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1914 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act," which authorizes each local board of education and public charter school governing body to establish policies for its public schools to offer students whole milk options through bulk milk disp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024 |
| TN | SB2691 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits the intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances, or apparatus within the borders of this state into the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting temperature, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2428 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a county that has entered into a written mutual aid agreement with each municipality within the county relating to the provisions of fire services in the context of state military affairs, emergencies, and civil defense law, to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024 |
| TN | SB2498 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes graduates of unaccredited engineering technology curriculums to apply for and become registered as engineers, provided that such persons have prior engineering experience and meet certain examination requirements; repeals the b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024, 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2429 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the state board for licensing contractors, without cause, to require a financial statement of a licensure applicant that is reviewed or audited and attested to by a licensed public accountant or certified public accountant if t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 664 |
| TN | SB1738 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Foster and Adoptive Parent Protection Act," which generally prohibits the department of children's services from requiring a current or prospective adoptive or foster parent to affirm, accept, or support any governme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2219 | Pass | As enacted, defines "central bank digital currency," and revises the definitions of "money" and "deposit account," for purposes of the Uniform Commercial Code. - Amends TCA Title 47.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024 |
| TN | SB2576 | Pass | As enacted, requires, rather than authorizes, law enforcement agencies to communicate with the appropriate federal official regarding the immigration status of any individual, including reporting knowledge that a particular alien is not lawfully pres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 716 |
| TN | SB2778 | Pass | As enacted, deletes the July 1, 2024, repeal date for the statutory provision authorizing county trustees to proceed against taxpayers delinquent in the payment of tangible personal property taxes by retaining an agent to collect the delinquent tangi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 04/04/2024 |
| TN | SB2060 | Pass | As enacted, enacts "Danielle's Law," which extends the statute of limitations for injuries to a person, who is 18 or older, relating to sexual assault to three years or five years depending on if law enforcement was notified of the assault. - Amends ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 04/04/2024 |
| TN | SB1699 | Pass | As enacted, expands the eligibility for filing a petition to obtain a lifetime order of protection to include victims of aggravated stalking, especially aggravated stalking, and felony harassment. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 632 |
| TN | SB2569 | Pass | As enacted, allows a juvenile court to transfer a child, who is 15 or older, to be tried as an adult in criminal court for the offense of organized retail crime, theft of a firearm, or an attempt to commit such offense; revises law with regard to con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 635 |
| TN | SB2970 | Pass | Subject to local approval, adds duties and authorities of the chief of police and police officers of the town; restates that only a certified public accountant must be chosen by the board of mayor and aldermen to conduct an audit of the financial aff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 40 |
| TN | SB2562 | Pass | As enacted, revises various provisions regarding pretrial release of a defendant charged with a criminal offense to require the magistrate to give first consideration to ensuring the safety of the community when determining whether to impose conditio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 612 |
| TN | SB2040 | Pass | As enacted, adds using, altering, encrypting, ransoming, destroying, or otherwise rendering unavailable without authorization, electronic data, electronic devices, or network providers of critical infrastructure or of a farm to the offense of committ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 627 |
| TN | SB2089 | Pass | As enacted, expands the permitted uses for money received by a county for each tire sold in the county to include removal of illegally disposed waste tires from public or private property; authorizes the department of environment and conservation to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 614 |
| TN | SB1864 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a POST-certified law enforcement officer, rather than a full-time, salaried police officer, to detain a person based on a reasonable belief that the person's motor vehicle does not comply with state law regarding tinted motor v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Effective date(s) 03/27/2024 |
| TN | SB2027 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that under this state's law relative to wage regulations, the term "work" has the same meaning as interpreted by the United States supreme court for purposes of the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 623 |
| TN | SB1745 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits a public institution of higher learning that holds personal information of students from sharing the personal information with a third party, unless the third party agrees in writing that the personal information will only be us...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 619 |
| TN | SB1596 | Pass | As enacted, requires the state university board for Tennessee State University to be vacated and reconstituted; extends the termination date for the Tennessee State University, board of trustees to June 30, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Effective date(s) 03/28/2024 |
| TN | SB1595 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits emotional support animals that are not trained, or being trained, to perform tasks or work for a person with a disability from indoor areas of food service establishments. - Amends TCA Section 6-54-135; Title 39, Chapter 14, Par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Effective date(s) 03/15/2024 |
| TN | SB1701 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that pleas of guilt and nolo contendere to certain criminal offenses subject an educator to automatic revocation of an educator license by the state board; specifies that criminal offenses committed in another jurisdiction that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 577 |
| TN | SB1947 | Pass | As enacted, requires the board, in collaboration with the department of education and the Tennessee higher education commission, to identify math courses that may be substituted for Algebra II for purposes of satisfying high school graduation require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 583 |
| TN | SB2096 | Pass | As enacted, defines and adds "voice" as a protected personal right; adds commercial availability of a sound recording or audiovisual work in which the individual's name, voice, likeness, or image is readily identifiable to considerations for determin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 588 |
| TN | SB1177 | Pass | As enacted, requires, beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, each LEA and public charter school to have fifth grade students complete one semester of Tennessee history in the first semester of the students' fifth grade year. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Effective date(s) 03/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2772 | Pass | Subject to local approval, authorizes the road supervisor rather than the county mayor to sign checks drawn on the county trustee for expenses associated with road work within the county. - Amends Chapter 511 of the Private Acts of 1945, as amended.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 36 |
| TN | SB0181 | Pass | As enacted, adds aggravated prostitution convictions as eligible for expunction if certain requirements are met; removes such offense as "a sexual offense" or "violent sexual offense" for which a person is required to register on sexual offender regi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1679 | Pass | As enacted, requires each LEA, public charter school, private school, and church-related school to develop a procedure to determine the cause of a fire alarm activation, including the potential of an active shooter event; requires each LEA to coordin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 563 |
| TN | SB0596 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that a person is not required to solemnize a marriage. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29 and Title 36.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 511 |
| TN | SB0862 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Healthcare Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act." - Amends TCA Title 48 and Title 56.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 526 |
| TN | SB0731 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes two or more wineries to enter into an alternating proprietorship agreement to share certain premises of the wineries that are party to the agreement. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB0089 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a state university and the University of Tennessee system to coordinate with a two-year institution governed by the board of regents for the two-year institution to provide remedial or developmental courses or coursework, regar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-30
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| TN | SB0123 | Pass | As enacted, makes various changes to the Tennessee Meat and Poultry Inspection Act and establishes a state meat inspection program. - Amends TCA Title 10; Title 29; Title 39; Title 43; Title 44; Title 53 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-02
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 380 |
| TN | SB0856 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "James 'Dustin' Samples Act." - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 9; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 102.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/17/2023, 01/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1119 | Pass | As enacted, designates the National Guard Armory to be constructed in Warren County as the "Major General Terry Max Haston National Guard Armory".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/17/2023 |
| TN | SB1111 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Mature Minor Doctrine Clarification Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 14; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/17/2023 |
