| TN | SR0327 | Intro
Sine Die | Supports legislation to withhold federal funds from colleges and universities that permit pro-Hamas student groups on campus.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Filed for introduction |
| TN | SB1581 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, allocates all revenue generated from the sales tax on retail sales of new or used motor vehicles and new or used tires to the state highway fund; earmarks a share of sales tax revenue allocated to the general fund to the department of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1861 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits the governor from dividing counties into separate declarations of emergency to avoid the requirement that the general assembly approve an extension of an executive order, proclamation, or TEMP beyond the 45-day maximum for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0837 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1431 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the office of open records counsel, in coordination with the department of safety and department of revenue, to develop and maintain a system to track bulk purchases of public records containing personal information from state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0503 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | SB2502 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the TBI to submit a report on the amount of money collected for background checks associated with firearm sales in excess of the costs associated with conducting the background checks to the criminal justice committee of the h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2041 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, specifies that a person or entity that produces, sells, sends, or distributes obscene matter in violation of state law may be held civilly liable for damages to an injured party. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 9.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SJR1243 | Intro
Sine Die | Indigenous Embassy Jerusalem
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2329 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits a state or local government entity, school, or local education agency from implementing a mask mandate related to COVID-19. - Amends TCA Title 14.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SJR1168 | Intro
Sine Die | Indigenous Embassy Jerusalem
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Withdrawn. |
| TN | SB2596 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes from November 1 to November 15 of each year, the deadline for LEAs to provide feedback and recommendations regarding TISA to the department of education and the comptroller. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Deferred to Summer Study |
| TN | SB2788 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, allows law enforcement officers, whether on-duty or off-duty, retired law enforcement officers, active duty and retired members of the armed forces of the United States, whether in discharge of official duties or not, and enhanced hand...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1999 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, provides that the violation of an executive order, proclamation, or rule issued by the governor cannot be enforced as a Class A misdemeanor unless such order, proclamation, or rule specifies that such violation is a Class A misdemeanor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2521 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, allows a retired member of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system or of a local retirement fund to be reemployed as a full-time school resource officer at a public school in this state serving students in any of the grades kinder...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2790 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes, from February 1, 2025, to January 1, 2025, the date by which the department of safety must report to the chair of the judiciary committee of the senate and the chair of the criminal justice committee of the house of representa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2789 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, adds bipods to the list of items that are considered to be a firearms accessory for purposes of the Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 54 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1651 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires TACIR to conduct a study on approaches to the regulation of artificial intelligence and submit a report of such study, including recommended legislative approaches, to the speakers of each house and the legislative librarian n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB2522 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases, from 30 to 35, the number of days after a change of control in ownership, management, or a change of address or trade name, that a home improvement contractor licensee has to notify the state board for licensing contractors....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SB2535 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, defines "life" for statutory construction purposes to mean the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SR0199 | Intro
Sine Die | Opposes the United States' participation in the World Health Organization Pandemic Prevention Preparedness and Response Accord
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Withdrawn. |
| TN | SB1974 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits the manufacture, sale, or delivery, holding, or offering for sale of any livestock carcass, part of any livestock carcass, or meat food product that was derived or prepared from livestock that received an mRNA vaccine or vacc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB2107 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the removal of sexually explicit material from the libraries of public schools; creates a process for evaluating library materials for sexually explicit material in public schools. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Deferred to Summer Study |
| TN | SB0620 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Families' Rights and Responsibilities Act," which declares that the ability of a parent to direct the upbringing, education, health care, and mental health of that parent’s child is a fundamental right. - Amends TCA Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2736 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, grants a defendant who has been charged with a criminal offense based on the use of force or threatened use of force and who asserts that the force was justified by law the right to a justifiable use of force hearing prior to trial, at...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2164 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, adds the Classical Learning Test (CLT) to the assessments on which a student must attain a certain minimum score in order to be eligible for certain financial aid opportunities; adds the CLT as an acceptable assessment of student readi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2314 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the office of legal services to draft and produce each legislative measure utilizing a system of different fonts, colors, or styles of text, or a combination thereof, to differentiate between existing law, proposed new languag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1589 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department to award school safety grants to LEAs, public charter schools, private schools, and church-related schools for the purchase of a wearable emergency alert system for teachers and substitute teachers. - Amends TCA...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SJR0805 | Intro
Sine Die | Expresses support for the Nation of Israel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1643 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires commercial entities that publish or distribute material on an internet website, more than one-third of which is sexual material harmful to minors, to verify that an individual attempting to access the material is 18 years of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB1642 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits the governor from renewing or extending a state of emergency impacting 48 or more counties except by joint resolution of the general assembly; prohibits the governor from declaring a new state of emergency for the same disast...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0598 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, allows a person who is excluded as a candidate from a primary ballot based on a determination that the person is not a bona fide member of the political party to qualify as an independent candidate if the nominating petition is filed w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-04
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0590 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes the renewal or extension of the executive order or proclamation issued by the governor declaring a state of emergency only by passage of a joint resolution by the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 58.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-29
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0595 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires election commissions to purge registration records at least 50 days, instead of at least 90 days, before an election; requires the coordinator of elections to take certain actions regarding paper ballots; authorizes, beginning...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0597 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a full medical record to be provided within 24 hours of a written request submitted by a person with power of attorney for health care to make health care decisions for a patient; grants 24-hour patient visitation rights to a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0977 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes from confidential to a public record the identity of an entity that compounds, distributes, or manufactures the drugs obtained and used by the department of correction to carry out an execution by lethal injection; declares the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-14
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1157 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, adds information to be provided by the department of safety in a report detailing seizures for the previous calendar year and provided to the speakers of the senate and the house of representatives and the chairs of the appropriate com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0585 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Patient Rights Act." - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 29; Title 33; Title 34; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB0594 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires charitable organizations that solicit and receive contributions for charitable purposes related to a declared disaster in this state to expend or distribute the funds for that purpose within 24 months of the date the disaster ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB0593 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, allows TCRS members to establish retirement credit for military service in active federal duty in the armed forces of the United States under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 8.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0581 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, reduces from three years to two years, the period a seller must keep on file a signed acknowledgement from a buyer that discloses that the seller is neither a licensed practitioner of the healing arts nor meets the criteria that would ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0586 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, eliminates the mandatory compensation increase for county officers; updates county officer minimum salaries to the 2022-2023 fiscal year amounts. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 24.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0587 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes a water system or wastewater facility to submit to the water and wastewater financing board by the first day of the system or facility's fiscal year an annual report in an electronic format. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0580 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, establishes a referendum process by which the electorate of a local government in this state may vote to establish 16-year term limits for the public officials of the local government. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0582 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, provides that a civil cause of action exists for an intentional assault upon educational personnel by any person on school grounds or in vehicles owned, leased, or under contract by the LEA and used for transporting students or faculty...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB0592 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies that references in Tennessee code annotated to "life," in the context of when life begins, means the moment that an egg is fertilized in the womb and there exists the presence of human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG). - Amends T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
