| 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 | 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 | 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 | HB0114 | Pass | As enacted, allows a court to sentence a defendant convicted of two or more criminal offenses to consecutive sentences if the defendant is sentenced for criminal offenses involving more than one victim and the court finds that a separate consecutive ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 481 |
| 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 | HB1189 | Pass | As enacted, limits the circumstances under which a qualified civil liability action may be brought against certain manufacturers, dealers, and sellers of firearms and related products. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6; Title 29; Title 39 and Title 47.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB1555 | Pass | Subject to local approval, establishes that general sessions court has concurrent jurisdiction with chancery and circuit courts relating to cases of adoption, pursuant to general law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Pr. Ch. 15 |
| TN | HB0794 | Pass | As enacted, revises present law provisions relative to the electronic monitoring indigency fund. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 39; Title 40; Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4 and Title 69.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 464 |
| TN | HB0806 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act of 1989, including expanding the definition of racketeering activity. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 12, Part 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 487 |
| 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 | HB0170 | Pass | As enacted, states that property owners should expect that a permit application will be judged on the law in effect at the time of application; declares that the general assembly rejects the pending ordinance doctrine, as described by the Tennessee s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 453 |
| 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 | HB0239 | Pass | As enacted, adds "sex" as a defined term for statutory construction purposes. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 8.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 486 |
| TN | HB0088 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department of safety to waive the knowledge test, and accept alternative requirements, for active duty and honorably discharged service members and members of the national guard or the armed forces reserves applying for tempo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 422 |
| TN | HB1380 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Mature Minor Doctrine Clarification Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 14; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 477 |
| 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 | HB1366 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department to provide an inmate who is discharged from imprisonment for a felony offense and who intends to reside in this state with certain documentation to assist the inmate in obtaining post-release employment and to coor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 461 |
| 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 | HB1346 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits this state and its political subdivisions from adopting or implementing policy recommendations that deliberately or inadvertently infringe or restrict private property rights without due process, as may be required by policy rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 479 |
| 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 | HB1269 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that a teacher or other employee of a public school or LEA is not required to refer to a student using the student's preferred pronoun if the pronoun is not consistent with the student's biological sex; insulates a teacher or ot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 448 |
| TN | HB1286 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department of treasury investment division staff to invest, reinvest, manage, and select investment options for program assets for financial reasons, excluding environmental, social, and governance interests that may not be m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 471 |
| 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 | HB0879 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a housing authority-related entity participating in a mixed-finance project to form a self-insurance pooling arrangement, if the housing authority with which the entity is related has formed partnerships, limited liability comp...
[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 | HB1031 | Pass | As enacted, creates the inmate disciplinary oversight board for the purpose of granting or denying sentence credits for good institutional behavior and determining whether sentence credits previously awarded should be removed for commission of certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 01/01/2024 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB0040 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits certain foreign ownership of real property in this state by nonresident aliens and foreign entities if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 43; Title 44; Title 47; Title 48 and Title 66.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB1008 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that a course of conduct for purposes of stalking includes one instance of placing an electronic tracking device on a person or in or on a person's property, unless the electronic tracking device is placed by or at the direction...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 349 |
| TN | HB1482 | 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
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 01/01/2025 |
| 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 | HB1444 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to present law relative to criminal offenses involving motor vehicles. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 55.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HJR0641 | Pass | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-09
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB1126 | Pass | As enacted, requires judge to order payment of restitution by owner who is convicted of allowing their dog to run loose and the dog causes bodily injury or death to another person, or damages another person's property. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 39...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 226 |
| 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 | 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 | HJR0578 | Pass | Zoey Zakyia Carruth, Salutatorian, Cordova High School
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR0580 | Pass | Petra Rayo Jimenez, Valedictorian, Kingsbury High School
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
