| TN | SB0191 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, deletes a provision authorizing the state board of education to, in its discretion, waive the requirement that a person employed as a supervisor for the supervision of teaching grades 1-12 have a license of qualification issued by the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | SB1140 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, allows dealers, when reporting and remitting sales taxes to the department of revenue, to retain a certain portion of such taxes in order to compensate for costs incurred in accounting for and remitting such taxes; establishes certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | SB2044 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, states that, for inmates serving a sentence of two years or more for an offense committed on or after July 1, 2024, sentence reduction credits shall not operate to alter the defendant's sentence expiration date, but may be used to redu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | SB2182 | Pass | As introduced, specifies that the required notice of a public meeting by an industrial development corporation related to the approval of a payment in lieu of taxes for a lessee of the corporation must be published on the website of the corporation. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB0795 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, removes ambiguous language and clarifies that a transfer of a possibility of reverter or right of entry by a holder other than the original grantor is invalid unless the validity of the future interest was determined by a final judgmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | SB1971 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, creates the criminal offense of abortion trafficking of a minor; provides for a civil action against a person committing the offense of abortion trafficking of a minor for the wrongful death of an unborn child that was aborted. - Amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | SB0833 | Pass | As introduced, requires the commission to continue submitting to the governor, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives annual reports on or before December 31 assessing food security among student populations. - Ame...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-06
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB1769 | Pass | As enacted, enacts "Jillian's Law," which makes various changes relative to being adjudicated as a mental defective or judicially committed to a mental institution, including requiring a person judicially committed to remain committed until the compe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 784 |
| TN | SB1938 | Pass | As enacted, names the law prohibiting an LEA from deducting dues from the wages of the LEA's employees for a professional employees' organization the "Michael Maren Paycheck Protection Act." - Amends TCA Section 49-2-123.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/23/2024 |
| TN | SB2109 | Pass | As enacted, creates a mechanism for the management and governance functions of certain boards to be transferred and assumed by the commission in the event a board ceases to exist under the Tennessee Governmental Entity Review Law. - Amends TCA Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB2627 | Pass | As enacted, adds to the factors considered by a court when making child custody determinations evidence of physical or emotional abuse to the child or to any other person; requires judges involved in child custody proceedings to complete training tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 799 |
| TN | SB1771 | Intro
25% | As introduced, makes the state liable and responsible for paying the expenses for HIV medication for inmates committed to a county jail or workhouse who previously received prescription medication to treat HIV or AIDS through a state department, agen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB1660 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates a Natural Disaster Relief Program to be administered by TEMA. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 2, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Finance, Ways & Means |
| TN | SB2158 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the review of executive branch agency policies and spending as it relates to illegal immigration; requires a report to be compiled and delivered to the governor and the speakers of the senate and house of representatives regar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2639 | Intro
25% | As introduced, restricts certain foreign investments in land located within this state through the creation of two separate prohibitions, one that restricts a prohibited foreign-party-controlled business from acquiring real property and another that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2791 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "TennCare for Working Individuals with Disabilities Act." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2538 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes from three to four the number of members the governor is authorized to appoint to an enrolling board in each county to act in lieu of the county assessor for purposes of enrolling county residents in the state militia. - Amends...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2245 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the county administrator of elections to email assessment letters to candidates and political campaign committees for local public office when the administrator discovers that a campaign finance report has not been filed by the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 723 |
| TN | SB0305 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the speakers of the senate and house of representatives to appoint the members of the advisory task force to review the composition of judicial districts by January 1, 2025, rather than July 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 8; Titl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1193 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the administrative office of the courts to report the number of appeals filed appealing the finding that a criminal defendant is a repeat violent offender by no later than February 1 of each year to the senate judiciary commit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1348 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the mandatory period of confinement for the felony offense of evading arrest from 30 days to 90 days; increases the mandatory period of confinement for the felony offense of evading arrest from 60 days to 120 days if the offe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1772 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes the reimbursement amount for property tax relief for disabled veteran homeowners; increases the reimbursement amount from payment on the first $175,000 of the full market value of the home to payment on the first $300,000 of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1783 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB0503 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends from October to November, the time within which a public institution of higher education that receives funds from the distribution of credit cards to students or any percentage from the use of cards bearing the college or unive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/23/2024 |
| 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 | SB1773 | Intro
25% | As enacted, requires, beyond the 2023-2024 school year, each LEA and public charter school to provide each high school senior the opportunity to take nationally recognized assessments if the assessments meet certain criteria. - Amends TCA Title 49, C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB2263 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-04-11
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2551 | Intro
25% | As enacted, requires, if a person is convicted of parentage fraud, the judge or jury to ascertain the value of any child support paid by the victim in reliance upon the parentage fraud, and to order the defendant to pay restitution of that value of c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB2514 | Pass | As enacted, adds the short title "The Gabby Act" to Chapter 237 of the Public Acts of 2023, which requires district attorneys general to designate one assistant district attorney general as the lead prosecutor in cases involving crimes committed agai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 04/04/2024 |
| 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 | SB1782 | Engross
50% | As introduced, raises from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony certain animal cruelty offenses involving a cock; requires a fine of not less than $1,000 nor more than $2,500 for the offense of being a spectator at a cock fight. - Amends TCA Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB1784 | Engross
50% | As introduced, requires the board of directors of an emergency communications district to ensure that all calls coming from a blue-light emergency telephone are recorded. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 86.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB2383 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies that a cause of action for wrongful death must be commenced within three years after the cause of action accrued. - Amends TCA Title 28 and Title 29.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB1767 | Engross
50% | As introduced, expands the definition of "racketeering activity" to include committing, conspiring to commit, aiding, attempting to aid, soliciting, coercing, facilitating, or intimidating another person to commit the criminal offense of animal fight...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB2713 | Intro
25% | As introduced, abolishes the governing board of directors for the Tennessee student assistance corporation and designates the corporation as a division of the commission; revises certain duties and powers of the commission; vacates and reconstitutes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Companion House Bill substituted |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | SB2809 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires LEAs and public charter schools to prohibit students from displaying, using, or accessing an electronic device during instructional time unless the electronic device is authorized, or provided to the student, by the LEA or pub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2787 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of education to study the school choice programs available in other states and to submit a report of the department's findings at the conclusion of the study to the governor, the speaker of the house of represen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1853 | Pass | As enacted, increases from three to six the maximum number of credits a student may earn in a work-based learning program in one school year; reduces from 10 to 5 hours per week, the amount of time of supervised work experience required for each addi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 543 |
| TN | SB2111 | Intro
25% | As introduced, revises the formula for calculating tax relief on real property owned by eligible disabled veterans so that in determining the amount of relief to such a taxpayer, the assessed value on the first $175,000 of full market value is to be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2076 | Pass | As enacted, expands the Tennessee Adult Protection Act's definition of abuse or neglect to include certain situations when an adult is unable to maintain the adult's own health or welfare. - Amends TCA Section 71-6-102.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 512 |
| TN | SB2623 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires, on or before January 1, 2025, the commissioner of economic and community development, in consultation with the commissioner of revenue, to report to the finance, ways and means committees of the house of representatives and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB2640 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases, from 10 to 11 days, the time a merchant has to provide a written notice of objection to a writing or record that confirms a contract between the recipient and another merchant before the writing or record is considered suffi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SB2513 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes a process for the department to issue licenses to commercial breeders of cats and dogs. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 43 and Title 44.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB2114 | Engross
50% | As introduced, changes, from the governor to the president of the university, the appointing authority for members of an advisory board; removes the requirement that advisory board members be confirmed by the general assembly prior to beginning a ter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB0302 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the commissioner of revenue to report, on or before February 1, 2024, to the finance, ways and means committees of the senate and the house of representatives the total annual amount of industrial machinery franchise and excis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1854 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the board, in collaboration with the department of education, to identify math courses that may be substituted for Algebra II for purposes of satisfying high school graduation requirements and to submit a report to the educati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
Withdrawn. |
| TN | SB2534 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the superintendent of a workhouse to keep a record of the height and weight of each inmate in addition to the inmate's age, sex, complexion, color of hair and eyes, and nationality. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 41.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
