| TN | SB1716 | Engross
50% | As introduced, requires that veterans and active military personnel be issued no-cost hunting permits and licenses that are required to participate in the waterfowl seasons during which only veterans and active military personnel may hunt. - Amends T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB0596 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that a person is not required to solemnize a marriage. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29 and Title 36.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 511 |
| TN | SB0862 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Healthcare Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act." - Amends TCA Title 48 and Title 56.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 526 |
| TN | SB1717 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires all written driver license examinations to be administered in English only; prohibits use of a translation dictionary, electronic device, or interpreter to assist with the examination. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB2265 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows Tennessee comprehensive assessment program (TCAP) tests to be administered to students enrolled in a virtual school or virtual education program through the internet in a virtual or remote setting if certain requirements are met...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2177 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires public schools in this state that serve any combination of grades nine through 12 to maintain an opioid antagonist in at least one location in the school. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 49; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2181 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes motorcycles to be operated on certain limited access highway and interstate shoulders to proceed to nearest exit when speed of traffic is 25 miles per hour or less. - Amends TCA Title 54; Title 55, Chapter 1 and Title 55, Ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB2033 | Intro
25% | As introduced, clarifies that the preemption on local governments enacting new or additional development taxes after June 20, 2006, under the County Powers Relief Act applies only to residential development. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 29.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2266 | Intro
25% | As introduced, clarifies that the preemption on local governments enacting new or additional development taxes after June 20, 2006, under the County Powers Relief Act applies only to residential development. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 29.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2232 | Fail | As introduced, requires a utility to obtain written consent from the owner of residential or commercial property for which the utility provides services before the utility installs a smart meter for the property; requires a utility to obtain written ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Failed in Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2775 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Restoring State Sovereignty Through Nullification Act," which establishes processes by which the general assembly may nullify an unconstitutional federal statute, regulation, agency order, or executive order. - Amends TCA T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Deferred to Summer Study |
| TN | SB2396 | Fail | As introduced, requires gender clinics accepting funds from this state to perform gender transition procedures to also perform detransition procedures; requires insurance entities providing coverage of gender transition procedures to also cover detra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Failed in Senate Commerce and Labor Committee / no motion |
| TN | SB1873 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Parents' Bill of Rights." - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SJR0990 | Pass | Deputy Shelby Eggers
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0991 | Pass | Chris Smith
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0903 | Pass | Josephine Groves Holloway Day, March 10, 2024
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR1080 | Engross
50% | Jillian Ludwig
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Ref. Calendar & Rules Commmittee |
| TN | SB1060 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes, from September 15 to October 1, the date by which each public institution of higher education operating a hearing center must provide a written report to the Tennessee higher education commission, the education committee of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB1714 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Smart Heart Act"; establishes various requirements for automatic external defibrillators in schools and response protocols for medical emergencies at high school athletic events. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1942 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes a person to hunt on or over privately owned land where bait is present; specifies that written consent and compliance with other requirements to catch or kill a wild animal on the land of another still apply. - Amends TCA Ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB2173 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Restricted Access by Minors to Obscene Library Materials Act." - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 1 and Title 10, Chapter 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Deferred to Summer Study |
| TN | SJR0989 | Pass | Deputy Greg McCowan
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB0631 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits the department of environment and conservation from applying criteria that will result in the classification of real property as a wetland, or otherwise regulating real property as a wetland, unless the property is classified...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB1703 | Intro
25% | As introduced, permits the transfer of a juvenile to criminal court for the offense of theft of a firearm from a motor vehicle if the child was 14 years of age or older but younger than 17 years of age; increases from a Class E felony to a Class D fe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2350 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes various prohibitions and requirements for public institutions of higher education regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SR0188 | Pass | Urges Governor Lee to deploy Tennessee National Guard to support Texas in its efforts to secure border.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| TN | SB1058 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes a presumption, rebuttable by a preponderance of the evidence, that joint legal custody and equally shared parenting time is in the best interest of the child; removes the presumption under certain circumstances. - Amends TC...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1719 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts "Brittany's Law," which creates the Class B misdemeanor of knowingly failing to seek medical assistance for an individual who the person knows or reasonably should know is experiencing a drug-related overdose; authorizes the sen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1238 | Intro
25% | As introduced, makes appropriations for the purpose of defraying the expenses of certain legislative enactments passed during the 2023 session of the 113th General Assembly; earmarks sufficient state funds for the purpose of funding any bill naming a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SJR0916 | Pass | Jacob Massey, 2023 World Livestock Auctioneer Champion
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0883 | Pass | Williamson County Sheriff Dusty Rhoades
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0901 | Pass | Todd Helton, National Baseball Hall of Fame
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0917 | Pass | Northside Neighborhood House of Chattanooga
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0906 | Engross
50% | Supports Texas in efforts to secure its border and affirms each state's constitutional right of self-defense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
Assigned to s/c Public Service Subcommittee |
| TN | SB2195 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of health to publish on its website information on the possibility of reversing the effects of a chemical abortion in any language that is the primary language spoken by 1 percent or more of this state's populat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2642 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a veteran's service officer to maintain a record of each oath administered to and acknowledgment taken from an honorably discharged veteran of the United States armed forces for a period of not less than one year. - Amends TCA...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SJR0869 | Pass | Brenda Louise Smith Allred
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB2179 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates a process by which an individual or terminal patient can refuse to make an anatomical gift that cannot be amended by another person; requires a procurement organization to follow certain procedures for contacting a decedent's f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2382 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces from 90 to 75 the number of days within which the commissioner of environment and conservation must issue a decision on a request for a variance from rules for a subsurface sewage disposal system permit. - Amends TCA Title 55, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB2351 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits certain institutions of higher education from defining discriminatory practices in their antidiscrimination policies in a manner inconsistent with the definition of discriminatory practices in state law; prohibits certain ins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SJR0811 | Pass | Beth Chiles
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0817 | Pass | Joe D. Duncan, 100th birthday
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB1796 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows Tennessee comprehensive assessment program (TCAP) tests to be administered to students enrolled in a virtual school in an online setting; requires the department of education to ensure that TCAP tests administered to virtual sch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1795 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes from August 15 to May 15 the date by which a child must be five years of age in order to enroll in kindergarten; removes authorization for directors of schools to allow early enrollment in kindergarten for emotionally mature st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1856 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires differentiated pay plans to apply to, and be implemented in, schools with a significant population of historically disadvantaged students, schools with significant populations of students who achieved a performance level ratin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1865 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the court or chief officer of a mental health facility that orders the release of a person from a mental health facility to notify the law enforcement agency that transported the person to the mental health facility of the per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1707 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes the deadline by which a voter must request an absentee ballot from seven days before the election to 14 days before the election. - Amends TCA Section 2-6-202.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1713 | Intro
25% | 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. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB1718 | Intro
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 a child care program certified by the depa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1702 | Intro
25% | As introduced, makes it an unfair or deceptive practice under the Consumer Protection Act of 1977 for a financial institution to require a firearms retailer to use firearms-specific transaction codes. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 54; Title 39, Chapt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
