| 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 | 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 | HB1043 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department of mental health and substance abuse services to use funds distributed from revenue received from sports gaming to provide treatment services for juvenile addiction and mental health disorders secondary to providin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 482 |
| TN | HB1431 | Pass | As enacted, increases the pay schedule for certain assistant district attorneys general, assistant district public defenders, district investigators, and criminal investigators. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14 and Title 8, Chapter 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 460 |
| TN | HB1557 | Pass | Subject to local approval, changes the duties of the city recorder; creates the office of city administrator and assigns duties to such office. - Amends Chapter 121 of the Private Acts of 2004; as rewritten.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Pr. Ch. 17 |
| TN | HB1564 | Pass | Subject to local approval, moves from the first Monday in April to the second Monday in December the date for the biennial organizational meeting of the incoming board of commissioners; moves the monthly meeting of the board to the second Monday of e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Pr. Ch. 21 |
| TN | HB0329 | Pass | As enacted, generally increases the base salaries in the state salary schedule for teachers formulated by the commissioner of education; prohibits an LEA from deducting dues from the wages of the LEA's employees for a professional employees' organiza...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 437 |
| 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 | HB1367 | Pass | As enacted, adds additional companies to the statewide opioid settlement agreement for which the attorney general and reporter has the authority to release pending or future claims. - Amends TCA Title 20 and Title 33.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 429 |
| TN | HB1025 | Pass | As enacted, creates the Tennessee monuments and memorials commission, which is required to study, hear, and resolve petitions for waiver under the Tennessee heritage protection act. - Amends TCA Section 4-1-412.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 434 |
| 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 | HB0634 | Pass | As enacted, creates the child care improvement fund, to be administered by the department of human services; creates a child care improvement pilot program to provide grants to nonprofit organizations to be used for establishing a new child care agen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 452 |
| 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 | HB0905 | Pass | As enacted, adds one additional criminal court judge in the thirteenth judicial district, one additional circuit court judge in the nineteenth judicial district, and one additional circuit court judge in the twenty-second judicial district. - Amends ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023 |
| TN | HB0854 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to present law relative to termination of certain parental rights. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1.
[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 | HB0766 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to law relative to traffic-control signals. - Amends TCA Title 54 and Title 55.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0323 | Pass | As enacted, makes various revisions to present tax law. - Amends TCA Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 05/05/2023, 04/01/2024, 01/01/2024, 07/01/2024, 01/01/2025 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | HB0830 | Pass | As enacted, revises present law relative to admission to bail. - Amends TCA Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 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 | HB0562 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that compensation for members of the national guard must accrue upon them being ordered to active state service and the payment of compensation to members must use this state's established weekly pay cycle as needed to effectuat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB1225 | Pass | As enacted, revises present law relative to child support. - Amends TCA Section 8-23-103 and Title 36.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 05/05/2023 |
| TN | HB0289 | Pass | As enacted, requires a sentence of death to be carried out within 30 business days of the conclusion of any appeals or post-conviction relief, if the jury unanimously determines that certain circumstances are met. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0855 | Pass | As enacted, changes the time period during which the Tennessee putative father registry must have been consulted prior to the filing of a petition to terminate parental rights from 10 days to 10 working days; requires the appointment of a guardian ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 05/05/2023 |
| 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 | HB0606 | Pass | As enacted, makes various revisions to present law relative to adoption. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 36; Title 37; Title 47 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 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 | 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 | HB0155 | Pass | As enacted, requires an annual training pay bonus supplement for eligible emergency medical services personnel in the amount of $800. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 140, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 01/01/2024 |
| TN | HB0398 | Pass | As enacted, requires mental health evaluation and treatment for juveniles who commit aggravated animal cruelty under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 334 |
| TN | HB0753 | Pass | As enacted, changes a utility district board member's insurance compensation option from payment to reimbursement of payment for premiums paid for equivalent or similar medical insurance coverage and life insurance coverage by the member; allows a ut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 348 |
| 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 | HB1342 | Pass | As enacted, places certain restrictions on employers seeking to receive economic development incentives. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0727 | Pass | As enacted, requires a student's parent or legal guardian, or the student if the student has reached the age of majority, to provide certain consent before the student may engage in certain activities at school. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Titl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 353 |
| TN | HB1503 | Pass | As enacted, requires the commissioner of commerce and insurance to conduct a study on the implementation of the federal No Surprises Act and its implications for physicians and healthcare facilities in this state; revises present law concerning netwo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 352 |
| TN | HB1400 | Pass | As enacted, requires certain persons convicted of rape, when the victim is 13-17, or incest, when the victim is a minor, to be punished as a Range II offender; allows the sentence imposed, if appropriate, to be within Range III but in no case lower t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 283 |
| TN | HJR0027 | Pass | Expresses strong support for completion of the southern border wall and urges Congress to immediately take action to fund the construction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB1321 | Pass | As enacted, allows school bus drivers to use a portable electronic device for navigation of the school bus and for accurately accounting for students at bus pick-up and drop-off locations through use of the device's global positioning system if no ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 210 |
| TN | HB1109 | Pass | As enacted, adds to the offense of custodial interference, a parent or other family member who harbors or hides a child within or outside this state, knowing that the child has been placed in the custody of the department of children's services pursu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 286 |
| TN | HB0306 | Pass | As enacted, limits the ability of a student enrolled in a private school to participate in an interscholastic athletic activity or event, to such activity or event where membership in the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association is required, i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 285 |
| TN | HJR0522 | Pass | Sexual Assault Awareness Month
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR0120 | Pass | Honors the memories of Zackery Grooms and Chance Black and requests TWRA to erect a marker in remembrance of the young men.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB0841 | Pass | As enacted, makes it a Class E felony for a book publisher, distributor, or seller to knowingly sell or distribute obscene matter to a public school serving any of the grades K-12; adds additional fines for a violation. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 278 |
| TN | HJR0571 | Pass | Youth efforts on behalf of mental health legislation
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR0575 | Pass | Shreya Gupta
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
