| TN | SB1463 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 360 |
| TN | SB0932 | Pass | As enacted, revises present law relative to admission to bail. - Amends TCA Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 362 |
| TN | SB0457 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 372 |
| TN | SB1218 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that a county continues to have the authority to levy a local litigation tax on an adoption proceeding in chancery, circuit, or juvenile court, and that the exemption does not limit or repeal such authority. - Amends TCA Title 3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 370 |
| TN | SB0074 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 368 |
| TN | SB0650 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 415 |
| TN | SB1443 | 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
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0906 | Pass | As enacted, requires an LEA to pay a teacher their full salary, in addition to their full benefits, if the teacher is absent from assigned duties as the result of a personal injury caused by a physical assault or other violent criminal act committed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB1153 | Pass | As enacted, allows the Tennessee Association of Professional Bail Agents to provide or contract for one or more virtual classes for agents; increases the maximum amount the association may charge for eight hours of continuing education; prohibits a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 417 |
| TN | SB1219 | 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
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB1059 | 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
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SJR0620 | Pass | Gibson Electric Membership Cooperation
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0622 | Pass | Forked Deer Electric Cooperative
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0614 | Pass | Union City Energy Authority
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0619 | Pass | Paris Board of Public Utilities
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0621 | Pass | Service Electric Company
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0616 | Pass | Ripley Power and Light
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0617 | Pass | Brownsville Energy Authority
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0618 | Pass | Benton County Electric System
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0613 | Pass | First Responders of Tipton County
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0615 | Pass | Dyersburg Electric System
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB1221 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the commissioner of education to grant an individual pursuing clinical experience in an educator preparation program (EPP) who meets certain requirements a temporary permit to teach in a teaching position in which an LEA or pub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Effective date(s) 4/28/2023, 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0435 | Pass | As enacted, increases the classification for voluntary manslaughter from a Class C felony to a Class B felony. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 308 |
| TN | SB0467 | Pass | As enacted, revises the punishment for critical infrastructure vandalism. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 40 and Title 65, Chapter 35.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 302 |
| TN | SB0923 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits local governments from dismissing, disciplining, fining, or penalizing a jailer or corrections officer employed by a local government, or denying employment to a person applying to be a jailer or corrections officer, based on wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 240 |
| TN | SB0924 | Pass | As enacted, adds as a factor the court may consider for the purpose of enhancing a defendant's sentence upon conviction of a criminal offense, consideration of whether the defendant committed the offense of aggravated assault or attempted first degre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 306 |
| TN | SB0442 | Pass | As enacted, enacts "Dillard's Law," which allows the surviving parent or guardian of a child whose parent was a victim of vehicular homicide to convert a restitution order for child maintenance payments to a civil judgment at any time rather than fol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0776 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits a state agency, local agency, or law enforcement agency from purchasing or acquiring a drone or other covered telecommunications equipment or service produced by a manufacturer banned under the federal National Defense Authoriza...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 01/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0497 | Pass | As enacted, revises the definitions of "wine" and "beer" with regard to law relative to traffic in intoxicating liquors and regulating the sale of wine in retail stores. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3 and Title 57, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 236 |
| TN | SB0935 | Pass | As enacted, extends provisions related to the allocation of revenue from the surcharge or tax on the lease or rental of passenger motor vehicles as it pertains to costs related to an arena facility for a National Basketball Association (NBA) member p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | SB0532 | Pass | As enacted, states that the goal of the department must be to act in the best interest of the child at all times and that goal must be reflected in any mission statement or motto established by the department. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 305 |
| TN | SB0657 | Pass | As enacted, creates a criminal offense of a foster parent from a kinship placement knowingly allowing a child in the foster parent's care to visit with the child's parent if the foster parent has knowledge of a current court order prohibiting the par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 238 |
| TN | SB0817 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Higher Education Freedom of Expression and Transparency Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7 and Title 49, Chapter 8.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0570 | Pass | As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor offense for the possession of a device, tool, machine, implement, or other item capable of programming a smart key or key fob with the intent to use it or allow it to be used to commit theft. - Amends TCA Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 304 |
| TN | SB0537 | Pass | As enacted, adds to the grounds upon which initiation of termination of parental or guardianship rights may be based that the parent has been confined in a correctional or detention facility of any type, by order of the court as a result of one or mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0681 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Protecting Tennessee Businesses and Workers Act." - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 309 |
| TN | SB0142 | Pass | As enacted, reorganizes provisions regarding new specialty earmarked license plates; removes outdated provisions, including the obsolete street rod specialty plate; adds new specialty earmarked license plates. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0397 | Pass | As enacted, makes various changes to law relative to emergency response, including requiring certain information be provided to the assessor of property. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 2 and Title 67, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | SB1176 | Pass | As enacted, deletes the requirement that proceeds from the sale of lifetime sportsman licenses be deposited into the lifetime sportsman endowment fund. - Amends TCA Title 70, Chapter 1, Part 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 303 |
| TN | SB1377 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to present law concerning residential and energy codes. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 13, Chapter 19 and Title 68, Chapter 120.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 312 |
| TN | SB1500 | Pass | As enacted, grants the attorney general and reporter, in cases where a defendant has been sentenced to death and is seeking collateral or direct review of a conviction or sentence, exclusive control over the state's defense of the request for review ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 182 |
| TN | SB0722 | Pass | As enacted, enacts "Abrial’s Law, the Keeping Children Safe from Family Violence Act," which makes various changes to child custody law. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 01/01/2024 |
| TN | SB0724 | Pass | As enacted, creates a new pathway for honorably discharged veterans to receive an occupational teaching license. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 311 |
| TN | SB0979 | Pass | As enacted, revises present law definitions relative to abuse. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | SB1208 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department, in administering the individualized education account program, to develop and implement a process for notifying all parents of their children's potential eligibility for an individualized education account, instea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 321 |
| TN | SB0562 | Pass | As enacted, requires a prisoner of a county workhouse or jail who is released from custody on work release or otherwise allowed to leave the grounds of the county workhouse or jail for employment or to perform work in the community, whether paid or u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 301 |
| TN | SJR0697 | Pass | Jaja Nebo, Bartlett High School Teacher of the Year
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0771 | Pass | Everett Vongphrachanh Harrison, Salutatorian, Bartlett High School
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0777 | Pass | Katie Jones, Top Three Student, Halls High School
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0779 | Pass | Isaiah Braswell, Salutatorian, Tipton Christian Academy
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Signed by Governor. |
