| TN | SB0472 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the penalty for driving upon a highway without a valid driver license for the vehicle being driven from a Class C misdemeanor to a Class B misdemeanor for a first offense and a Class A misdemeanor for a second or subsequent o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0623 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds the criminal offenses of aggravated assault resulting in serious bodily injury to another or the death of another and aggravated assault involving the actual discharge of a firearm to those offenses that are not eligible for proba...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0837 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB0503 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB2041 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB2564 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor offense of violation of a condition of release; allows arrest without a warrant of a person committing the offense of violation of a condition of release; requires the violation of a condition of release t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0908 | Intro
25% | As introduced, clarifies that a threat to use deadly force by a private citizen making an arrest is not in itself considered a use of deadly force; prohibits a private citizen from threatening to use deadly force during the course of a citizen's arre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Withdrawn. |
| TN | SB2574 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases from Class E and Class D to a Class C felony the classification of theft of a firearm valued at less than $60,000 and related offenses; specifies that it is a Class C felony to receive, possess, store, barter, sell, transfer,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2567 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits the release of a person charged with a Class A or B felony on their own recognizance; requires a magistrate to set bail for a person charged with a Class A felony at $20,000 or more and for a person charged with a Class B fel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1909 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates a process by which a grave space will be considered abandoned and revert to the cemetery company that owns or controls the cemetery land or property on which the grave space is located if certain conditions are met. - Amends TC...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2573 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies that punishment for organized retail theft or shoplifting should not be less than a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2479 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires each district attorney general to file a quarterly report with the administrative office of the courts that includes information regarding criminal proceedings within the judicial district; requires the administrative office o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2798 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates more specific notice requirements for governmental bodies holding public meetings to be used in addition to and not in lieu of other notices required by law. - Amends TCA Section 8-44-103.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1940 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates the state foster care and adoption review board. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 36.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Withdrawn. |
| TN | SB2480 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits an ambulance service that has exclusive rights to provide emergency services within a county, municipality, or geographic area from charging rates that are unreasonable, excessive, or based on rates charged by entities that c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Withdrawn. |
| TN | SB2568 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of safety to redesign temporary driver licenses and permits and temporary photo identification licenses issued to qualified noncitizens so that the licenses may be easily distinguished from driver and photo iden...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Deferred to Summer Study |
| TN | SB1908 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a cemetery company offering to sell a grave space in a pre-need contract to offer the option to pre-pay for the interment right and interment services applicable to the space; requires the offer of an option to pre-pay for the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB2575 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits a merchant from taking adverse employment action against an employee based solely on the employee reporting theft of merchandise or organized retail crime to law enforcement; defines "adverse employment action" as dismissing,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB1081 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires each higher education institution to distribute or make available, prior to the beginning of each school year instead of at the beginning of each school year, a written policy prohibiting hazing by any student or organization ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2481 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes the ages for the voluntary extension of foster care program from a young adult who is at least 18 years of age but less than 21 years of age to a young adult who is at least 18 years of age but less than 23 years of age. - Amen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1751 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the penalty from a Class C misdemeanor to a Class B misdemeanor for removing a wild animal, wild fowl, or fish while trespassing on land; increases various fines under $500 to not more than $500. - Amends TCA Title 70.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB0567 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds William R. Moore College of Technology as an eligible institution for receipt of the Wilder-Naifeh reconnect grant and Wilder-Naifeh technical skills grant. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1818 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates a Class D felony offense for a person to unlawfully possess a firearm, or firearm ammunition, while under indictment for a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term of one year or more. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
Withdrawn. |
| TN | SB1819 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class C felony the offenses of unlawful purchase by or unlawful sale to a person who is prohibited by state or federal law from owning, possessing, or purchasing a firearm; prohibits the purcha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
Withdrawn. |
| TN | SB2527 | Intro
25% | As introduced, directs the University of Tennessee Health Science Center to study and take other steps as necessary to establish a state academic health authority. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49, Chapter 9.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2606 | Intro
25% | As introduced, replaces references to "poisonous snakes" with "venomous snakes." - Amends TCA Section 39-17-101 and Title 70.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2799 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the commissioner of labor and workforce development to furnish a minor and the minor's parent or guardian with a written statement of the reasons for the commissioner's refusal to grant a special exemption to the Child Labor A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB2800 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a state bank to report to the commissioner of financial institutions within 48 hours, rather than 24 hours, any changes in chief executive officers of the state bank. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 45 and Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB2836 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class C felony the offenses of unlawful purchase by or unlawful sale to a person who is prohibited by state or federal law from owning, possessing, or purchasing a firearm; prohibits the purcha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2310 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes the electronic submission of the report the attorney general and reporter is required to submit quarterly regarding the compromise and settlement, in the amount of $25,000 or less, of civil litigation to which the state may ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2308 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the commissioner of health to maintain any record or report on disposition of an aborted fetus or aborted fetal tissue for at least 15 years. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 16; Title 20; Title 29; Title 37; Title 39; Title 62; Ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2305 | Intro
25% | As introduced, subject to exceptions for confiscated firearms, makes it a Class E felony offense for a person to knowingly receive, possess, conceal, store, barter, sell, transfer, or dispose of a firearm that has had the importer’s or manufacturer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2309 | Intro
25% | As introduced, permits the licensed medical laboratory to report the results of the HIV test to the victim of assault electronically. - Amends TCA Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2038 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the penalties for threatening to commit an act of mass violence on school property and failing to report a threat to commit an act of mass violence on school property; requires, rather than permits, a court to order a defenda...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1970 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes the Tennessee wildlife resources agency to enter into license agreements for the operation of facilities on lands under the control or supervision of the agency for the improved utilization of state lands and facilities; suc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB1809 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands the offenses of assault against a first responder or nurse and aggravated assault against a first responder or nurse to apply to assaults committed against licensed physicians and osteopathic physicians, and to hospital employe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1821 | Intro
25% | As introduced, updates the title of the person who stands in the place of the director of TWRA in the director's absence or if there's a vacancy in the office of director, from assistant director to deputy director. - Amends TCA Title 70.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB0206 | Intro
25% | As introduced, deletes an obsolete provision that temporarily prohibited a municipality from annexing territory by ordinance and required a review and evaluation of annexation laws. - Amends TCA Title 6 and Title 64.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
Sponsor change. |
| TN | SB1089 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires 10 percent of tax revenue over-collections from the prior fiscal year to be deposited into the infrastructure and building fund reserve account in the general fund; authorizes appropriations from the infrastructure and buildin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
Withdrawn. |
| TN | SB1737 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires financial institutions to make determinations about the provision or denial of services based on an analysis of risk factors unique to each current or prospective customer; prohibits financial institutions from denying or canc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB7060 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of education to establish a school safety alert grant program to provide grants to LEAs to offset expenses incurred by schools for the installation of school safety alert systems. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 49 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-23
Lay on the Table |
| TN | SB7058 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands the eligibility for filing a petition to obtain a lifetime order of protection to include victims of aggravated stalking and especially aggravated stalking. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-22
Lay on the Table |
| TN | SB7077 | Intro
25% | As introduced, raises from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony knowingly violating an order of protection or a restraining order issued due to domestic abuse when based on stalking; raises the classification range for stalking from a Class A mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-22
Lay on the Table |
| TN | SB7059 | Intro
25% | As introduced, makes appropriations to provide funding for any legislation enacted during the first extraordinary session of the 113th General Assembly that creates a grant program to assist LEAs and public charter schools with costs for school safet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-22
Withdrawn. |
| TN | SB7062 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands the offenses for which a juvenile court may transfer a child to be tried as an adult in criminal court, if the child was 16 years of age or more at the time of the offense, to include burglary involving the theft of a firearm o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-22
Lay on the Table |
| TN | SB7061 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands the offenses for which a juvenile court may transfer a child to be tried as an adult in criminal court, if the child was 16 or older at the time of the offense, to include theft of a firearm or attempt to commit theft of a fire...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-22
Lay on the Table |
| TN | SB1280 | Intro
25% | As introduced, entitles criminal investigators to be compensated at a rate equal to 35 percent of the annual compensation of the district attorney general, with compensation rate increases for 20 years until the compensation rate equals 55 percent of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0462 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces, from 29.0141 percent to 28.5262 percent, the share of state sales and use tax revenue deposited to the state general fund; increases, from 4.6030 percent to 5.0909 percent, the share appropriated to municipalities. - Amends TC...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-13
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0918 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the United States flag and the official state flag to be displayed continuously on property owned, operated, or controlled by this state or a political subdivision of this state, including educational institutions and public s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-12
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB0473 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes requirement to file pre-primary and pre-general election statements for candidates for state public office and political campaign committees for state elections. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
