| TN | SB2496 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the chief legislative body of a municipality to create a voluntary attainable housing incentive program by ordinance for the purpose of authorizing certain incentives to be provided to property owners who seek to build attainab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2665 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Jacob (Jake) T. Barnhardt Act," which creates a street racing task force to study and determine best practices for curbing illegal street racing in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 55.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-03
Effective date(s) 05/28/2024 |
| TN | SB2879 | Pass | As enacted, creates a committee to study the establishment of incarcerated parenting plans to facilitate the ongoing relationships between incarcerated parents and their children within this state; requires the committee to report its findings and re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-03
Effective date(s) 05/28/2024 |
| TN | SB0898 | Pass | As enacted, creates the professional music therapist advisory committee of the board of examiners in psychology to regulate the practice of music therapy. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 63, Chapter 11.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Effective date(s) 05/28/2024, 01/01/2025 |
| TN | SB2269 | Pass | As enacted, directs the department to identify federal and state regulations that inhibit the efficient processing of applications and delivery of benefits for the food assistance program; requires the department to submit any necessary waiver applic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Effective date(s) 05/28/2024 |
| TN | SB2134 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Social Work Licensure Compact." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1137 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a municipality to aid or otherwise provide assistance to an industrial development corporation for that portion of any project owned by the corporation; and consisting of multifamily housing facilities to be occupied by persons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Effective date(s) 05/28/2024 |
| TN | SB2007 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes certain public hospitals in Shelby and Davidson counties, upon approval of the respective hospital's governing body, to establish a state employee and retiree healthcare incentive program that will allow for the waiver of appli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1284 | Pass | As enacted, creates the Tennessee-Ireland trade commission. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12; Title 13; Title 42; Title 43; Title 44; Title 45; Title 46; Title 47; Title 48; Title 50; Title 53; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Effective date(s) 05/28/2024 |
| TN | SB2791 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "TennCare for Working Individuals with Disabilities Act." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1002 |
| TN | SB1694 | Pass | As enacted, requires a landlord, or a person authorized to enter into a rental agreement on the landlord's behalf, to disclose to the tenant in writing at or before the commencement of the tenancy certain contact information for the acceptance of ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 907 |
| TN | SB2270 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the chief procurement officer to develop regulations, policies, procedures, templates, or other guidance related to the acquisition of information systems and software, in coordination with the division of strategic technology ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2406 | Pass | As enacted, adds local law enforcement officials to those who must be appointed to each district-wide school safety team; specifies that it is each district-wide school safety team and each building-level school safety team that is required to annual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2374 | Pass | As enacted, requires TACIR to complete a study and issue a report on laws, regulations, and rules affecting the start-up, operation, and expansion of child care businesses in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 36; Title 37; Title 49 and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/06/2024 |
| TN | SB2508 | Pass | As enacted, requires the Tennessee film, entertainment and music commission, or a subcontracted nonprofit organization, to provide grants to eligible live music and performance venues, performers, and promoters to be used to support live music perfor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2063 | Pass | As enacted, requires the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations to conduct a study on child care. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/06/2024 |
| TN | SB2297 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes only a licensed physician to prescribe a buprenorphine product for an FDA-approved use in recovery or medication-assisted treatment; prohibits healthcare providers not licensed as physicians, and who are otherwise permitted to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2006 | Pass | As enacted, designates the calendar week that includes October 28 as the "Reverend Kelly Miller Smith, Sr. Week of Service." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2263 | Pass | As enacted, increases the penalty for the offense of threatening to commit an act of mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 887 |
| TN | SB1917 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits marriage between first cousins. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Effective date(s) 04/29/2024 |
| TN | SB1832 | Pass | As enacted, adds to the composition of the Tennessee maternal mortality review and prevention team four members appointed by the commissioner of health who are from community-based organizations. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2019 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to the law relative to prescribing buprenorphine products. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 53.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB0869 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies what constitutes the "practice of pharmacy"; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 58; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Effective date(s) 05/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1919 | Pass | As enacted, requires a health benefit plan that amends, renews, or delivers a policy of coverage on or after July 1, 2024, and that provides coverage for prescription contraceptives, to provide coverage for a 12-month refill of contraceptives obtaine...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 01/01/2025 |
| TN | SB1791 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department, when screening for a condition is not implemented within 36 months of being added to the Recommended Uniform Screening Panel, to provide a report on the status and the reason for delay to the health and welfare co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1905 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that an order of protection for domestic abuse remains in effect during an appeal from a final ruling on the order of protection by a general sessions court or by an official authorized to issue such an order unless the order ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 751 |
| TN | SB1673 | Pass | As enacted, requires a qualified mental health professional or behavior analyst to warn or protect an identified victim or group of people when the professional or analyst determines that a service recipient has communicated an intent for actual thre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 783 |
| TN | SB1798 | Pass | As enacted, requires an applicant for a server permit to have successfully completed a program of alcohol awareness training, for persons involved in the direct service of alcohol, wine, or beer by an entity certified by the commission to have an ade...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Effective date(s) 01/01/2025 |
| TN | SB1987 | Pass | As enacted, designates “Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree” by Brenda Lee as the official state holiday song; requires the secretary of state to include the song in the Tennessee Blue Book. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 719 |
| TN | SB2162 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the governing body of an incorporated city or town to approve a project or request of its board of waterworks and/or sewerage commissioners by passage of a proper ordinance or resolution. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 35.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024 |
| TN | SB1674 | Pass | As enacted, directs the bureau to amend existing or promulgate new rules by December 31, 2024, to allow for the reimbursement of qualifying remote ultrasound procedures and remote fetal nonstress tests utilizing established CPT codes for such procedu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024 |
| TN | SB2118 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Print Disability Absentee Voting Act," which prescribes a process by which a person with a print disability may apply for and receive an absentee ballot and vote by mailing in the absentee ballot. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 08/02/2024 |
| TN | SB2021 | Pass | As enacted, expands postsecondary academic programs in fermentation authorizing students to taste alcoholic beverages as part of the program. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/09/2024 |
| TN | SB1807 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department, on or before January 1, 2025, and on or before January 1 of each subsequent year, to submit a report on the department's progress on passenger and freight rail and public transportation efforts at the state and fe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024 |
| TN | SB1939 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that an "occurrence," for purposes of the Mutual Aid and Emergency and Disaster Assistance Agreement Act of 2004, includes events that result in bodily injury or property damage; specifies the government officials through which ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 04/04/2024 |
| TN | SB2036 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits certain individuals from being considered ineligible to receive payment for providing TennCare medicaid-reimbursed home- and community-based long-term care services to an individual eligible to receive such services on the basis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 621 |
| TN | SB1577 | Pass | As enacted, requires a video or audio recording to be made of any interrogation of a child who has been taken into custody on suspicion that the child committed a delinquent act or unruly conduct unless a technical issue with the equipment or exigent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1768 | Pass | As enacted, disqualifies an administrator of elections from serving as administrator if the administrator qualifies as a candidate for public office; requires the administrator to be recused from official duties at least 30 days prior to an election ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 579 |
| TN | SB1957 | Pass | As enacted, establishes a process for a licensed veterinarian to report suspected animal cruelty in violation of certain criminal laws and testify in a judicial or administrative proceeding concerning the care of the animal without being subject to c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 584 |
| 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 | 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 | SB0658 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that a seller of residential property is required to disclose the presence of a known sinkhole on the property prior to entering into a contract with a buyer regardless of whether the sinkhole is indicated through the contour li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 510 |
| TN | SB1242 | Pass | As enacted, requires the Tennessee peace officer standards and training (POST) commission to adopt guidelines and materials instructing law enforcement officers on the best practices for recognizing and responding to a medical crisis involving a pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 527 |
| TN | SB0276 | Pass | As enacted, makes various changes to present law pertaining to leave for state employees. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27 and Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 8.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB0365 | Pass | As enacted, requires that a health benefit plan that provides coverage for a screening mammogram must provide coverage for diagnostic imaging and supplemental breast screening without imposing a cost-sharing requirement on the patient. - Amends TCA T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-02
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 379 |
| TN | SB0414 | Pass | As enacted, restores the requirement that a retired member's new employer pay to TCRS during each period of reemployment the greater of a payment equal to the amount the employer would have contributed to the retirement system had the retired member ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023 |
| 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 | SB1049 | Pass | As enacted, creates a farmers market food unit permit for food service establishments that meet requirements. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 43; Title 53; Title 67 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/17/2023, 01/01/2024 |
| TN | SB0894 | Pass | As enacted, exempts a person under 18 years of age who is in custody of the department of children's services or receiving foster care services from payment of fees for issuance, renewal, or reinstatement of a driver license, instruction permit, inte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 01/01/2024 |
