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TNSJR1617Intro
25%
Madison Stalnecker, Top Ten Senior, Forrest High School
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2024-04-24
To Senate Calendar Committee
TNSJR1612Intro
25%
Nirzara Chaudhari, Top Ten Senior, Forrest High School
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2024-04-24
To Senate Calendar Committee
TNSJR1619Intro
25%
Nyles Taylor, Top Ten Senior, Forrest High School
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2024-04-24
To Senate Calendar Committee
TNSJR1610Intro
25%
Isabella Lindsey, Valedictorian, Forrest High School
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2024-04-24
To Senate Calendar Committee
TNSJR1614Intro
25%
Joseph Johns, Top Ten Senior, Forrest High School
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2024-04-24
To Senate Calendar Committee
TNSJR1618Intro
25%
Christa Warren, Top Ten Senior, Forrest High School
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2024-04-24
To Senate Calendar Committee
TNSJR1616Intro
25%
Austin Dillon, Top Ten Senior, Forrest High School
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2024-04-24
To Senate Calendar Committee
TNSJR1615Intro
25%
David Gunner Moffo, Top Ten Senior, Forrest High School
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2024-04-24
To Senate Calendar Committee
TNSJR1611Intro
25%
Maggie Daughrity, Salutatorian, Forrest High School
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2024-04-24
To Senate Calendar Committee
TNSJR1613Intro
25%
Maggie Browning,Top Ten Senior, Forrest High School
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2024-04-24
To Senate Calendar Committee
TNSB1142PassAs 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...
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2024-04-23
Signed by Governor.
TNSB1722Intro
25%
As introduced, prohibits LEAs and public charter schools from displaying in public schools flags other than the official United States flag and the official Tennessee state flag. - Amends TCA Section 5-5-114; Section 6-54-144 and Title 49.
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2024-04-23
Companion House Bill substituted
TNSB1867Engross
50%
As introduced, enacts the "Beyond Ordinary Learning Opportunities (BOLO) Act," which requires the department to establish a one-year pilot program to place a therapy dog in five public schools in the 2024-2025 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2024-04-23
Passed H., Ayes 95, Nays 1, PNV 1
TNSB1902Enroll
75%
As introduced, clarifies, for purposes of obtaining a school bus endorsement on a driver license and for other purposes, that a school bus is a vehicle designed to transport 16 or more passengers, including the driver; makes other related revisions. ...
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2024-04-23
Signed by H. Speaker
TNSB1641PassAs 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...
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2024-04-23
Signed by Governor.
TNSB2223PassAs 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...
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2024-04-23
Signed by Governor.
TNSB2749Engross
50%
As introduced, enacts the “Families’ Rights and Responsibilities Act." - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68.
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2024-04-23
Placed on Senate Message Calendar for 4/24/2024
TNSB2766PassAs 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...
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2024-04-23
Signed by Governor.
TNSB1325Engross
50%
As introduced, authorizes a faculty or staff member of a school to carry a concealed handgun on school grounds subject to certain conditions, including obtaining an enhanced handgun carry permit and completing annual training. - Amends TCA Title 39, ...
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2024-04-23
Passed H., Ayes 68, Nays 28, PNV 2
TNSB2902Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the board of trustees for the retirement system to include a certification of the amount of normal contributions, accumulated liability contribution, and cost of living contribution required from an employer for state judges a...
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2024-04-23
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSJR1525Engross
50%
Rhedona Rose
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2024-04-23
Concurred, Ayes 96, Nays 0, PNV 0
TNSB0768Intro
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As introduced, requires reimbursement payments from insurers to chiropractors for services rendered to be based on the same methodology for the calculation of payments to medical doctors for the provision of services. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7...
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2024-04-23
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB2538Intro
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...
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2024-04-23
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB2570Engross
50%
As introduced, increases the penalty for intentionally obstructing a highway, street, or other place used for the passage of vehicles or conveyances from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class D felony; allows a person who suffers loss or injury as a resul...
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2024-04-23
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB1709Engross
50%
As introduced, creates new criminal offenses of assault within a healthcare facility and aggravated assault within a healthcare facility. - Amends TCA Title 39.
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2024-04-22
Passed H., Ayes 89, Nays 5, PNV 0
TNSB2390PassAs enacted, designates "Tennessee, In My Dreams" by Makky Kaylor as an official state song. - Amends TCA Section 4-1-302.
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2024-04-22
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 724
TNSB2151Engross
50%
As introduced, requires the commissioner of health to submit an electronic copy of the annual report on immunization rates of children, by county, to the governor and the speakers of the senate and the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 14;...
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2024-04-22
H. Placed on Message Calendar for 4/23/2024
TNSJR1436Enroll
75%
Jeffrey "J.R." Russell
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2024-04-22
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSB2797Engross
50%
As introduced, expands the definition of a law enforcement officer to include retired law enforcement officers who are carrying a firearm pursuant to certain state laws for purposes of when a law enforcement officer may carry a firearm. - Amends TCA ...
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2024-04-22
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.
TNSJR1485Engross
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Dr. Keith Norman, 25th pastoral anniversary
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2024-04-22
Concurred, Ayes 95, Nays 0, PNV 2
TNSB2883Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Prostate-Specific Antigen Screening for High-risk Insured Men Act," which requires health insurance coverage for the early detection of prostate cancer for men who meet certain risk criteria or age thresholds. - Amends TCA ...
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2024-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB0837Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Pregnancy Resource Tax Credit Act," which authorizes business, excise, and franchise tax credits for businesses that make monetary contributions to eligible nonprofit organizations that provide certain pregnancy-related ser...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1352Intro
25%
As introduced, exempts the retail sale of food and food ingredients from the sales tax if sold to a person who is 70 years of age or older during the period beginning July 1, 2023, and ending September 30, 2023. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-228 and Titl...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1704Intro
25%
As introduced, increases from a Class E felony to a Class D felony the offense of burglary of a conveyance. - Amends TCA Title 39.
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1715PassAs 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...
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2024-04-19
Signed by Governor.
TNSB1710Intro
25%
As introduced, requires half of the unencumbered revenue from the recordation tax to be distributed to counties for school debt and school capital projects. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-409.
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1706Enroll
75%
As introduced, requires each person, corporation, organization, partnership, or political party that seeks to provide training or conferences related to the administration of elections to county election commissions to be approved by the secretary of...
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2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSB1766Enroll
75%
As introduced, requires a healthcare provider to provide to a patient or the patient’s authorized representative a full copy of the patient’s medical records within 10 working days of receipt of a written request by the patient or representative,...
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2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSB1901Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes LEAs and public charter schools to reimburse teachers for child care expenses paid by the teacher each month for the teacher's dependent child to receive child care services through certain child care programs certified by t...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1904Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes business, excise, and franchise tax credits equal to unreimbursed TennCare costs for eligible healthcare providers that provide healthcare services to TennCare recipients; allows a refund to be issued in lieu of a tax credit...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2032Enroll
75%
As introduced, authorizes the issuance of temporary teaching permits to teach physical education classes in elementary schools. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSB2171Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Mental Health Preceptor Tax Incentive Program." - Amends TCA Title 67.
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1783Intro
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...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2342Intro
25%
As introduced, creates the criminal offense of recklessly, by any means of communication, threatening to commit an act of mass violence and the threat causes a reasonable expectation or reasonable fear of the commission of an act of mass violence. - ...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1741Intro
25%
As introduced, allocates 2.83 percent of the sales and use tax collected in the 11 fastest-growing counties to such counties; requires such counties to earmark such revenue for educational facility maintenance and construction and infrastructure. - A...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1998Enroll
75%
As introduced, requires organizers of public school athletic events to accept cash as a form of payment for admission to the event or the purchase of concessions or other items for sale at the event; prohibits organizers of public school athletic eve...
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2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSB1810Enroll
75%
As introduced, requires a request made by a student to an employee of the student's LEA or public charter school for an accommodation to affirm the student's gender identity to be reported to a school administrator and to the student's parent; prohib...
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2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSB2274Enroll
75%
As introduced, requires a pharmacy or other authorized dispensing person or entity to make all reasonable efforts to contact and notify a person of the lowest available cost of a prescription drug prior to the point of sale. - Amends TCA Title 47, Ch...
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2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSJR1379Enroll
75%
Tommy Harber, 2024 Supplier of the Year
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2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSJR1388PassRepresentative. Judd Matheny
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2024-04-19
Signed by Governor.
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