| TN | SB0674 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, permits the services authorized in a collaborative pharmacy practice agreement to include weight management services; requires the bureau of TennCare to make available, or cause to be made available, anti-obesity medication to a recipi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0231 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes the amount of a minority teaching fellowship award for a recipient who is enrolled in a degree program leading to licensure as a teacher in an institution of higher education with an approved educator preparation program from $...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0229 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, extends eligibility for medical assistance under the TennCare program to a woman for a period up to 12 months after the date on which the woman’s pregnancy ends in live birth if the child meets the eligibility requirements for the Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0413 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes local governments to create a program to provide grants to eligible nonprofit organizations that own residential property and rent the property for at least 25 percent below market rate. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1053 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Workers Need Child Care Act"; establishes the child care infrastructure fund from which the department of economic and community development disperses grants to nonprofit entities for establishing new licensed child care ag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1162 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases, from one to two, the number of free plates for the Purple Heart and disabled veteran license plates issued to veterans with disabilities. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-256 and Section 55-4-257.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0529 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, eliminates the sales and use tax on infant diapers, wipes, and formula. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0531 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department to maintain staffing to allow case managers to have no more than 20 open cases, rather than an average of 20 active cases; states that a "person residing in the child's home" includes a person living in a reside...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0291 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Overdose Fatality Review Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 33; Title 53; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0177 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires TennCare to create and implement a three-year pilot program to provide remote maternal health services to eligible TennCare recipients; authorizes the TennCare director to seek a federal waiver as necessary to implement the pi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1799 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, expands the sales tax exemption on motor vehicles sold to a member of the Tennessee national guard or military reserve who has been called into active military service to include those who are deployed under orders to a duty station in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1912 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, expands the offense of unlawful exposure to include the distribution, with the intent to cause emotional distress, of an image of the intimate parts of another identifiable person or an image of an identifiable person engaged in sexual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2405 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, deletes the offense of aggravated prostitution; requires the public records of a person charged with a misdemeanor or a felony offense that has been repealed to be removed and destroyed without cost upon petition by the person. - Amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1783 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, reallocates 5 percent of the privilege tax collected from licensees that offer sports wagering in this state from the lottery for education account to a new Tennessee Promise completion grant special account created to assist the commi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2341 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, adds the MidSouth development district to the list of development districts to which this state intends to assist financially; specifies an overall state funding level for the nine development districts; changes the calculation for how...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0750 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department to create and implement a promising futures program to provide scholarships to children who are not school age to assist them in developing early language and literacy skills in a high-quality early care and lea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1027 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a brief summary of any question, regardless of length, submitted to the people for a vote. - Amends TCA Title 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2238 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes a county to create a program by which an owner of real property in the county may apply for a classification of the property as zoning-exempt property, which values the property based on the zoning classification that existe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
To Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SB1505 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department to actively seek and apply for federal grants and other available federal funds, and utilize available federal funds, for the purpose of alleviating childhood hunger. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
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| TN | SB1029 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates the offense of storing a firearm or firearm ammunition in a motor vehicle or boat while the person is not in the motor vehicle or boat unless the firearm or firearm ammunition is kept from ordinary observation and locked within...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1869 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires clerks of court to collect and report a finding that a person is incompetent to stand trial in a criminal proceeding to the federal bureau of investigation and department of safety; prohibits the purchase or possession of a fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2166 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, permits a person who was convicted of an infamous crime after July 1, 1986, but before July 1, 1996, to petition a circuit court for restoration of the person's full rights of citizenship in the same manner established for persons conv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SB0230 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes the requirement that the governor receive authorization by the general assembly prior to making any decision or obligating the state with regard to the expansion of optional enrollment in the medical assistance program. - Amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1800 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes certain legislative bodies, by a two-thirds majority vote, to expand the hours for the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption on premises and beer on Sundays consistent with the hours for sale on weekdays. - Amends TCA ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SB2237 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, entitles each county and municipality that adopts certain zoning reform strategies that support housing development to receive from the department of revenue up to 20 percent of the revenue collected from the recordation tax based on t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2239 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes any local government in this state to create a land bank; authorizes a local government to post on its website, if available, a link to a state website or publication identifying surplus real property for sale or conveyance....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2345 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes the requirement that a registered voter be a bona fide member of, affiliated with, or declare allegiance to a political party in order to vote in a political party's primary election; removes the requirement that the officer of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2347 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes the deadline for a person to register to vote from 30 days before an election to 15 days before an election. - Amends TCA Title 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2354 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies that on or before January 31 of each year the department shall report information regarding child support to the general assembly and the governor. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 33; Title 34; Title 36; Title 37; Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1033 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the commissioner to submit a report by January 1, 2024, on the implementation of, and results from, the Child Nutrition and Wellness Act of 2006, to the chair of the senate health and welfare committee, the chair of the health...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1973 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases from 10 to 20, the number of calendar days after the 90 days from the date a child was surrendered that the department of children's services shall file a petition on behalf of an abandoned infant seeking termination of paren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2241 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, adds K-12 school bus drivers and cafeteria workers to the list of retired members of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system who may work more than 120 days each year while continuing to draw their retirement allowance. - Amends T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2198 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department of revenue to submit, by January 1, 2026, a one-time report to the finance, ways and means committees of the house of representatives and the senate concerning the revenue effects of certain amendments made to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2268 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department of education to annually collect and report certain information for each provider and nonpublic school that receives public funds through a scholarship, voucher, education savings account, individualized educati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2541 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases the amount of damages for which the state may be liable for damages in causes of action arising in tort from $300,000 per claimant and $1,000,000 per occurrence to $1,250,000 per claimant. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 8 and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2719 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires persons to meet certain qualifications in order to be eligible for appointment as chief executive officer of an administrative department of state government; creates a mechanism for the removal of such officers for cause by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1965 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies that a petition of certiorari that appeals a final order or judgment of a board or commission must name the board or commission as defendants; further clarifies that other parties of record have the right to intervene if they...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2242 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, exempts minors from fees for hardship licenses; exempts persons over 18 from fees for issuance and renewal of noncommercial licenses upon submission of documentation showing the person's income falls below the federal poverty level. - ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB2343 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the attorney general to obtain judicial approval from a chancery court judge in Davidson County, or a chancery court judge in the county in which the state's civil investigative demand is to be served, before issuing a civil i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2510 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department to publish in a publicly accessible location on its website a list of farmers market food unit permits that it issues, and to update the list not less than once per month. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 57; Title 6...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2718 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes the requirement that the governor receive authorization by the general assembly prior to making any decision or obligating the state with regard to the expansion of optional enrollment in the medical assistance program. - Amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2717 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes the chief procurement officer's designee to execute a contract for goods or services entered into by an executive branch state agency. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2165 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires LEAs and public charter schools to notify parents and guardians of students who do not test proficient in mathematics on the student's most recent Tennessee comprehensive assessment program test of academic supports in mathema...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2163 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases from 10 working days to 15 business days the amount of time the fire marshal has to issue a decision on a dispute between a city and county regarding a building or fire code. - Amends TCA Title 13 and Title 68, Chapter 120.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB2161 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits certain kinds of provisions in contracts and agreements between publishers and libraries related to the licensing of electronic literary materials. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2240 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, directs the bureau to establish a temporary TennCare benefits program to provide medical assistance on a temporary basis to certain individuals who do not qualify for enrollment in TennCare, CoverKids, or a successor program; requires ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2271 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases from three to five business days, the amount of time within which the department must notify the state board of education that a license has been issued to a facility that intends to provide care to children who are transport...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2346 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, reduces from 20 days to 15 days, the amount of notice that a person rendered infamous or deprived of the rights of citizenship by the judgment of a state court must provide to the district attorney general in whose county the petitione...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2272 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases, from 10 days to 10 business days, the amount of time prior to a meeting that written notice of the meeting must be given by the president of the public defenders conference to members of the conference. - Amends TCA Title 8;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2344 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies that including noncontiguous land islands of a county as part of a senate district that the rest of the county is located in does not violate the legislative intent of keeping districts contiguous. - Amends TCA Section 3-1-10...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
