| TN | HB1877 | Pass | As introduced, requires hospitals and physicians to accept electronic insurance cards as valid proof of an insurance policy, plan, or contract. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB2760 | Pass | As introduced, increases, from two to three, the number of hours of training or continuing education courses on domestic violence or child abuse all judges in child custody proceedings are required to complete per year; increases, from 10 to 15, the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB1640 | Pass | As introduced, expands the definition of "adjudication as a mental defective" to include a person who has been found incompetent to stand trial in a criminal proceeding and requires the clerk of court in such a proceeding to collect and report any su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB1636 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes persons who are 65 or older to file professional privilege tax documents and payment in paper form in lieu of any required electronic form; permits the commissioner of revenue to require that the paper filing or payment be acco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 672 |
| TN | HB2388 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes LEAs to extend career and technical education (CTE) class sizes and averages for CTE classes in grades 6-8; prohibits the CTE classes in grades 6-8 from exceeding the maximum class size and average set for general education cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 712 |
| TN | HB2089 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Disability and Aging Act of 2024." - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 8; Title 12; Title 13; Title 33; Title 34; Title 37; Title 40; Title 41; Title 45; Title 49; Title 52; Title 55; Title 56; Title 63; Title 67; T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 688 |
| TN | HB1228 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to the law relative to the South Central Tennessee Railroad Authority, including establishing that three or more of the counties of Dickson, Hickman, Lewis, Perry, and Wayne and the cities of Dickson, Centerville, and Hohenw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 668 |
| TN | HB2993 | Pass | Subject to local approval, increases the monthly salary of the mayor from $2.00 a month to $1,200 a month; changes the regular meeting date for the mayor and board from Friday to a monthly, regularly scheduled date, as determined by the board; remove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 45 |
| TN | HB2124 | Pass | As enacted, requires, rather than authorizes, law enforcement agencies to communicate with the appropriate federal official regarding the immigration status of any individual, including reporting knowledge that a particular alien is not lawfully pres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2142 | Pass | As enacted, increases from a Class C misdemeanor to a Class B misdemeanor the penalty for a student's parent, guardian, or legal custodian failing to report an adjudication that the student committed certain delinquent acts to the school principal; s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB1645 | Pass | As enacted, expands the eligibility for filing a petition to obtain a lifetime order of protection to include victims of aggravated stalking, especially aggravated stalking, and felony harassment. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 04/02/2024 |
| TN | HB2126 | Pass | As enacted, allows a juvenile court to transfer a child, who is 15 or older, to be tried as an adult in criminal court for the offense of organized retail crime, theft of a firearm, or an attempt to commit such offense; revises law with regard to con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2216 | Pass | As enacted, enacts "Danielle's Law," which extends the statute of limitations for injuries to a person, who is 18 or older, relating to sexual assault to three years or five years depending on if law enforcement was notified of the assault. - Amends ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 644 |
| TN | HB2006 | Pass | As enacted, designates "Tennessee, Tennessee" by Wayne Jerrolds as an official state song. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 603 |
| TN | HB2251 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Smart Heart Act"; establishes various requirements for automatic external defibrillators in schools and response protocols for cardiac-related medical emergencies. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Effective date(s) 03/27/2024, 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2263 | Pass | As enacted, requires that appointees to the fish and wildlife commission participate in activities regulated by the commission; requires the commission and wildlife resource agency to encourage hunting, angling, and trapping as preferred methods of w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB1950 | Pass | As enacted, designates June 6 as a day of special observance for D-Day. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 601 |
| TN | HB2690 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department to issue grants, subject to appropriations, to support the installation of powered, height-adjustable, adult-sized changing tables in single occupancy family restrooms in privately and municipally owned buildings o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 607 |
| TN | HB1635 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits emotional support animals that are not trained, or being trained, to perform tasks or work for a person with a disability from indoor areas of food service establishments. - Amends TCA Section 6-54-135; Title 39, Chapter 14, Par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 566 |
| TN | HB1789 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that pleas of guilt and nolo contendere to certain criminal offenses subject an educator to automatic revocation of an educator license by the state board; specifies that criminal offenses committed in another jurisdiction that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Effective date(s) 03/15/2024 |
| TN | HB1602 | Pass | As enacted, requires a video or audio recording to be made of any interrogation of a child who has been taken into custody on suspicion that the child committed a delinquent act or unruly conduct unless a technical issue with the equipment or exigent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 565 |
| TN | HB0701 | Pass | As enacted, adds offenses of continuous sexual abuse of a child committed on or after July 1, 2024, to the list of qualifying criminal misconduct that is sentenced to community supervision for life in addition to any other statutorily imposed punishm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB7012 | Pass | As enacted, directs the department of safety to provide free firearm locks to Tennessee residents upon request, subject to appropriations; requires department-approved handgun safety courses to contain instruction on the safe storage of firearms; exe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-27
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1 |
| TN | HB0355 | Pass | As enacted, requires that a health benefit plan that provides coverage for a screening mammogram must provide coverage for diagnostic imaging and supplemental breast screening without imposing a cost-sharing requirement on the patient. - Amends TCA T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-02
Effective date(s) 08/09/2023 |
| TN | HB0250 | Pass | As enacted, requires, beyond the 2022-2023 school year, each LEA and public charter school to provide each high school senior, instead of students generally, the opportunity to take nationally recognized assessments if the assessments meet certain cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 439 |
| TN | HB0976 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "James 'Dustin' Samples Act." - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 9; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 102.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 465 |
| TN | HB1181 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Information Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12; Title 43; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 50; Title 61; Title 66 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 07/01/2025 |
| TN | HB1459 | Pass | As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor for a warden or chief administrative officer employed by a penal institution, who knows that certain offenses have occurred within the institution, to fail to report such offenses to the district attorney gen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 347 |
| TN | HB0403 | Pass | As enacted, regulates the production and sale of hemp-derived cannabinoids, including products known as delta-8 and delta-10. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 38; Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 4; Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 43, Chapter 27; Title 53; Title 6...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 423 |
| TN | HB1231 | Pass | As enacted, requires a third-party ticket reseller, ticket broker, ticket issuer, and ticket resale website to meet certain requirements with regard to selling tickets. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 39; Title 47; Title 48 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 474 |
| TN | HB0975 | Pass | As enacted, restores the requirement that a retired member's new employer pay to TCRS during each period of reemployment the greater of a payment equal to the amount the employer would have contributed to the retirement system had the retired member ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 425 |
| TN | HB0114 | Pass | As enacted, allows a court to sentence a defendant convicted of two or more criminal offenses to consecutive sentences if the defendant is sentenced for criminal offenses involving more than one victim and the court finds that a separate consecutive ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 481 |
| TN | HB1280 | Pass | As enacted, expands the offense of aggravated stalking to include a person who commits stalking against a victim who is at least 65 or older. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 3 and Title 71, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB1242 | Pass | As enacted, makes it a Class A misdemeanor to knowingly possess xylazine; makes it a Class C felony to knowingly manufacture, deliver, or sell xylazine, or to knowingly possess xylazine with intent to manufacture, deliver, or sell xylazine; provides ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB1153 | Pass | As enacted, designates the National Guard Armory to be constructed in Warren County as the "Major General Terry Max Haston National Guard Armory".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 478 |
| TN | HB0248 | Pass | As enacted, requires a person convicted of domestic assault involving strangulation to serve a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 days incarceration; enhances offenses involving strangulation or attempted strangulation based on certain circumstances. -...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 440 |
| TN | HB0983 | Pass | As enacted, requires local education agencies (LEAs) to provide licensed employees of the LEA 6 paid workweeks after a birth or stillbirth of the employee's child or employee's adoption of a newly placed minor child. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023 |
| TN | HB1072 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department to establish an honor guard grant program to provide grants to veteran service organizations to offset expenses incurred by the organization and members of the organization's honor guard in providing military funer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 01/01/2024 |
| TN | HB0328 | Pass | As enacted, renames the "Tennessee Local Development Authority Act" to be the "Tennessee Local Development Authority Public Safety Protection Act of 2023" and makes various changes to its existing provisions. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 9.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023 |
| TN | HB0458 | Pass | As enacted, revises various provisions of present law concerning the offense of boating under the influence. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4 and Title 69, Chapter 9, Part 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023, 10/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0702 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "One Pill Will Kill Act," which adds fentanyl, carfentanil, remifentanil, alfentanil, and thiafentanil to what constitutes a qualifying controlled substance for purposes of certain felony offenses. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0027 | Pass | As enacted, allows a student who earns the student's first baccalaureate degree in less than the projected completion time to continue to receive the Tennessee HOPE scholarship in pursuit of an advanced degree. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0322 | Pass | As enacted, revises various provisions of present law relative to safety in elementary and secondary education and the Schools Against Violence in Education Act. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504; Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 62, Chapter 35.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 05/10/2023, 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0163 | Pass | As enacted, revises the definition of abandonment for purposes of termination of parental rights to include circumstances where the parent or guardian fails to visit or support the child for a period of three consecutive months if the child is less t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0092 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Jabari Bailey Highway Safety Act," which requires drivers to change lanes or reduce speed upon approaching a stationary vehicle that has flashing hazard lights activated; increases fines for failing to change lanes or reduce s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0555 | Pass | As enacted, revises present law relative to the criminal injuries compensation fund for victims of human trafficking offenses. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 8 and Title 29, Chapter 13.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 05/05/2023 |
| TN | HB0523 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to the Water Quality Control Act. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 3, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 342 |
| TN | HB0002 | Pass | As enacted, makes permanent various provisions regarding COVID-19. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 14; Title 29, Chapter 20 and Section 49-7-159 and Chapter 896 of the Public Acts of 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 48 |
| TN | HB0437 | Pass | As enacted, revises various provisions of present law pertaining to the promotion of students from third grade. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 338 |
| TN | HB0962 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes an LEA to award a high school student credit for a course offered by the LEA's high school if the student attains a qualifying score on the course's final examination without requiring the student to enroll in the course. - Ame...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 269 |
