| TN | SB0510 | Pass | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Right to Shop Act." - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-23
Pub. Ch. 407 |
| TN | SB1237 | Pass | As enacted, makes police officers and firefighters who are members of the state retirement system eligible for service retirement upon completion of 25 years of creditable service. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35; Title 8, Chapt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
Pub. Ch. 362 |
| TN | SB1268 | Pass | As enacted, makes denial of a claim made by the estate of a law enforcement officer for the annuity payable to the estate of an emergency responder who is killed in the line of duty subject to review by the Tennessee peace officer standards and train...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
Pub. Ch. 395 |
| TN | SB1347 | Pass | As enacted, waives the fee for obtaining a lifetime handgun carry permit for former law enforcement officers who served at least 10 years and left the law enforcement agency while in good standing. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
Pub. Ch. 396 |
| TN | SB1407 | Pass | As enacted, establishes certain parameters regarding the authority of a community oversight board and certain requirements for those serving on such a board. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 320 |
| TN | SB1371 | Pass | As enacted, grants a retirement allowance to a surviving spouse who is a designated beneficiary if the deceased TCRS member is vested instead of requiring that the member have 10 years of creditable service. - Amends TCA Section 8-36-109.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
Pub. Ch. 399 |
| TN | SB1417 | Pass | As enacted, adds authorization for the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption for: Weir Park in Clay County; Center for the Arts in Murfreesboro; El Fogon restaurant in Hixson; Lebanon Theater; the Blake at Kingsport; Legacy Farms in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
Pub. Ch. 363 |
| TN | SB0625 | Pass | As enacted, revises the Volunteer Public Education Trust Fund Act of 1985; designates the commissioner of education and state treasurer as trustees of the fund. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
Pub. Ch. 379 |
| TN | SB1257 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Human Life Protection Act," which bans abortion in this state effective on the 30th day after the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade or an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to allow states to prohibit abortion; creates ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
Pub. Ch. 351 |
| TN | SB1535 | Pass | Pursuant to the request of the Tenth special school district of Wilson County, permits the district to issue bonds or notes in an amount of $28 million or less and to issue bond anticipation notes in an amount of $28 million or less. - Amends Chapter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 15 |
| TN | SB1119 | Pass | As enacted, extends a 50 percent discount on camping fees at state parks to veterans who have a 100-percent permanent total service-connected disability. - Amends TCA Title 11.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
Pub. Ch. 389 |
| TN | SB0800 | Pass | As enacted, establishes the Governor's Civics Seal to recognize public schools and local education agencies implementing high-quality civic education programs. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 330 |
| TN | SB1530 | Pass | As enacted, enacts "Michelle's Law," which extends a 25 percent discount on the tuition to any state institution of higher education to every child under 24 years of age whose parent died while employed as a full-time certified teacher in a public sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
Pub. Ch. 402 |
| TN | SB1286 | Pass | As enacted, requires the bureau to establish a program that identifies child TennCare enrollees who are likely to be eligible for federal supplemental security income due to disability upon reaching 18 years of age; requires the program to initiate c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Pub. Ch. 310 |
| TN | SB1297 | Pass | As enacted, redefines "public place" for purposes of the offense of indecent exposure; includes a restroom, locker room, dressing room, or shower, designated for multi-person, single-sex use. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-09
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 251 |
| TN | SB1166 | Pass | As enacted, rewrites the criminal offense of female genital mutilation; extends the statute of limitations for criminal prosecutions or civil actions for female genital mutilation. - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-09
Pub. Ch. 268 |
| TN | SB1514 | Pass | Subject to local approval, removes the mayor pro tem as the successor to the mayor when the mayor's office becomes vacant; authorizes the council to declare a vacancy in the office of mayor and appoint a person to fill the remainder of the term. - Am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-09
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 5 |
| TN | SB1515 | Pass | Subject to local approval, alters the allocation of the hotel/motel tax by distributing an amount not to exceed the amount collected in the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2018, to the chamber of commerce and the remainder to be appropriated by the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-09
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 6 |
| TN | SB1532 | Pass | Subject to local approval, exempts nonprofit campgrounds that include a portion of the hotel camp fee for housing from the county's hotel motel tax. - Amends Chapter 23 of the Private Acts of 2013.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-09
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 10 |
| TN | SJR0639 | Pass | Representative Barbara Cooper, 90th birthday
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-07
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SJR0178 | Engross | Proposes amendment to remove Article IX, Section 1 of the Constitution of Tennessee, which provides that no minister of the gospel, or priest of any denomination whatever, shall be eligible to a seat in either house of the legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-02
Engrossed; ready for transmission to House |
| TN | SB0195 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Proton Therapy Access Act." - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Pub. Ch. 193 |
| TN | SB0010 | Intro | As introduced, enacts the "JaJuan Latham Act," which increases the penalty for an aggravated assault or homicide that occurs by a person discharging a firearm from within a motor vehicle and the victim is a minor at the time of the offense. - Amends ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB0805 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the Governor's Investment in Vocational Education Act; specifies that financial assistance received for all dual enrollment courses attempted after the fourth dual enrollment course reduces any subsequent award of the Tennessee HOP...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Pub. Ch. 203 |
| TN | SB0797 | Pass | As enacted, removes $180 fee for an individual petitioning the court for an expunction of certain criminal offenses; removes $350 fee for a defendant applying for expunction of an offense following the completion of a diversion program. - Amends TCA ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Pub. Ch. 200 |
| TN | SB0713 | Pass | As enacted, extends the exemption from sales and use tax on trailers used to transport livestock when such trailer is sold to a qualified farmer or nurseryman to also exempt such sales of trailers used to transport farm products, nursery stock, or eq...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Pub. Ch. 178 |
| TN | SB0342 | Pass | As enacted, allows wildlife resource officers to authorize payroll deductions for the payment of membership dues for organizations that meet certain criteria. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 23 and Title 70.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Pub. Ch. 176 |
| TN | SB0754 | Pass | As enacted, increases from $10,000 to $30,000 the civil penalty amount per violation that the attorney general and reporter may recover in an action against a person who commits the offense of caller identification spoofing; encourages carriers offer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 217 |
| TN | SB0961 | Pass | As enacted, establishes a governor's office of faith-based and community initiatives. - Amends TCA Title 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 218 |
| TN | SB0780 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes automobile transporters meeting certain length limitations to operate on the national network of highways; revises related vehicle size, weight, and load provisions. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 216 |
| TN | SB0423 | Intro | As introduced, eliminates the special privilege tax on ammunition. - Amends TCA Section 8-8-201 and Title 70, Chapter 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB1458 | Intro | As introduced, requires the commissioner of revenue to make a thorough study and investigation of the tax laws of other states. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 65 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB0398 | Intro | As introduced, clarifies that the commissioner of revenue's annual report on tax laws of other states is to be transmitted to the chief clerks of the senate and house of representatives and to the legislative librarian; authorizes the report to be tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB1442 | Intro | As introduced, creates a presumption that certain conditions or impairments of full-time firefighters caused by certain cancers occurred in the course of employment unless the contrary is shown by competent medical evidence. - Amends TCA Title 7, Cha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB0650 | Intro | As introduced, makes various changes to law concerning pharmacy benefits managers; requires the comptroller of the treasury to perform an annual audit of all pharmacy benefits managers providing services funded by this state. - Amends TCA Title 56, C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-01
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB1290 | Intro | As introduced, exempts individuals from the professional privilege tax if they are exempt from paying the business tax on gross receipts derived from providing the services for which they are licensed or registered. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1304 | Intro | As introduced, prohibits a private licensed child-placing agency from being required to perform, assist, consent to, refer, or participate in any child placement for foster care or adoption that would violate the agency's written religious or moral c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Senate Reset on first calendar of 2020 |
| TN | SB1428 | Intro | As introduced, directs the governor, through the commissioner of finance and administration, to submit a waiver amendment to the centers for medicare and medicaid services to provide TennCare II funding by means of a block grant indexed for inflation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB0533 | Intro | As introduced, exempts sales of gun safes from sales and use tax. - Amends TCA Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0727 | Intro | As introduced, requires the coordinator of elections to continue to study convenience voting in other states and periodically update the general assembly by January 31 every odd-numbered year. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 3, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB1243 | Intro | As introduced, requires students to pass a civics test to receive a full diploma upon graduation from high school; requires LEAs to include all 100 questions from the United States civics test, instead of only 25 to 50 questions, on the civics test p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SJR0516 | Pass | Madison Cantrell, Valedictorian, DeKalb County High School
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0518 | Pass | Kaleigh Wills, Valedictorian, Heritage Christian Academy
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0520 | Pass | Erika Taylor, Valedictorian, Cannon County High School
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0515 | Pass | Megan Redmon, Salutatorian, DeKalb County High School
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0519 | Pass | Jacob Hough, Salutatorian, Heritage Christian Academy
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0521 | Pass | Lauren Underwood, Salutatorian, Cannon County High School
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB1539 | Intro | Subject to local approval, deletes reference to property interest for municipal employees. - Amends Chapter 644 of the Private Acts of 1911; as amended.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-29
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB1545 | Intro | Decreases the boundary of the district pursuant to the request of the Tenth Special School District of Wilson County. - Amends Chapter 330 of the Acts of 1901; as amended.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-29
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SJR0517 | Pass | The Donoho Hotel, 105th anniversary
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-29
Signed by Governor. |
