| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | SB1946 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, revises the schedule of required property reappraisals by county property assessors from a three- to six-year cycle to a one- to four-year cycle; makes various other updates to property reappraisal requirements and procedures. - Amends...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| 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 |
