Tennessee Senator Raumesh Akbari [D]

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TNSJR1080Engross
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Jillian Ludwig
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2024-03-11
Ref. Calendar & Rules Commmittee
TNSB0573Intro
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As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Waste Reduction and Recycling Act"; requires sellers, distributors, and importers of certain packaging materials to take certain actions to reduce the amount of packaging material that becomes litter. - Amends TCA...
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2024-03-06
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee
TNSJR0989PassDeputy Greg McCowan
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2024-03-06
Signed by Governor.
TNSB2451Intro
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As introduced, requires a law enforcement agency to assign a law enforcement officer to begin an investigation of a suspected homicide within the agency’s jurisdiction and, in determining which law enforcement officer will lead the investigation, r...
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2024-03-05
Reset on Final calendar of Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2438Intro
25%
As introduced, requires retailers and sellers of firearm ammunition to maintain ammunition in an area inaccessible to a customer in a retail establishment; classifies a violation as a Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.
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2024-03-05
Reset on Final calendar of Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2449Intro
25%
As introduced, deletes an exception to the offense of carrying a firearm with the intent to go armed for persons carrying, whether openly or concealed, a handgun if the person lawfully possesses the handgun, is in a place where the person is lawfully...
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2024-03-05
Reset on Final calendar of Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2456Intro
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As introduced, prohibits the manufacture, distribution, sale, or transfer of an 80 percent frame or 80 percent receiver on or after July 1, 2024, without a manufacturer's serial number prominently stamped on the item or on a piece of metal securely a...
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2024-03-05
Reset on Final calendar of Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2453Intro
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As introduced, prohibits the possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of a switch or auto sear device designed, made, or adapted for the purpose of converting a weapon to shoot automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by...
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2024-03-05
Reset on Final calendar of Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSR0179PassJada Cooke, Miss Black Tennessee USA
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2024-02-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures
TNSJR0177Intro
25%
Urges the publication and affirmation of the Equal Rights Amendment as the Twenty-Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
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2024-02-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB0276PassAs enacted, makes various changes to present law pertaining to leave for state employees. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27 and Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 8.
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2024-02-22
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSR0189PassThe Wing Guru and owner Billy Richmond, Jr.
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2024-02-22
Enrolled and ready for signatures
TNSB1921Intro
25%
As introduced, creates the office of conservatorship management and registry. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 34 and Title 71, Chapter 2.
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2024-02-21
To Senate Government Operations Committee
TNSB2437Intro
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As introduced, requires the court to include in any parenting plan involving shared custody of a child, the establishment of at least one designated location for the exchange of the child; provides that, unless otherwise agreed by both parents in wri...
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2024-02-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2442Intro
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As introduced, requires the administrative office of the courts to create standards of practice for guardians and conservators; declares that it is the policy of this state that guardians and conservators must abide by the highest ethical standards o...
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2024-02-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2951Intro
25%
As introduced, allows a law enforcement officer to petition for an extreme risk protection order; requires the court to issue an extreme risk protection order if, after notice and a hearing on the petition, the court finds by clear and convincing evi...
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2024-02-15
To Senate Delayed Bills Committee
TNSB2952Intro
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As introduced, prohibits the manufacture of semi-automatic rifles in this state; specifies that a violation of this prohibition is a Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 47 and Title 68.
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2024-02-15
To Senate Delayed Bills Committee
TNSB2954Intro
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As introduced, prohibits the manufacture, transfer, or purchase in this state of a detachable firearm ammunition magazine that is capable of storing and feeding more than 10 rounds of ammunition; a violation is subject to a civil penalty of up to $5,...
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2024-02-15
To Senate Delayed Bills Committee
TNSB2959Intro
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As introduced, allows a court to issue an extreme risk protection order upon a finding by clear and convincing evidence that a person poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to the person or others if allowed to possess or purchase a fi...
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2024-02-15
To Senate Delayed Bills Committee
TNSB2955Intro
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As introduced, allocates sales tax proceeds collected on firearms, ammunition, and firearm accessories to a mental health care in Tennessee schools' account for local education agencies to obtain school counselors, school therapists, and after school...
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2024-02-15
To Senate Delayed Bills Committee
TNSB2953Intro
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As introduced, prohibits the storage of a firearm or firearm ammunition in a motor vehicle unless the firearm or ammunition is not plainly observable and either the owner is present in the vehicle or the firearm or ammunition is inside a locked compa...
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2024-02-15
To Senate Delayed Bills Committee
TNSB2957Intro
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As introduced, requires the owner of a firearm to report loss or theft of the firearm to law enforcement within 24 hours of discovery of the loss or theft; a violation is punishable only by a civil penalty of up to $500. - Amends TCA Title 39.
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2024-02-15
To Senate Delayed Bills Committee
TNSB2960Intro
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As introduced, creates a committee to study the impacts of gun violence in communities in this state, prioritizing those that are of lower socioeconomic status and who have been disproportionately impacted by gun violence. - Amends TCA Title 38; Titl...
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2024-02-15
To Senate Delayed Bills Committee
TNSB2950Intro
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As introduced, directs the department to develop and implement, in consultation with the department of health, a public awareness campaign on mental health and gun safety; requires the department to make campaign materials available to the public for...
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2024-02-15
To Senate Delayed Bills Committee
TNSB2961Intro
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As introduced, prohibits a gun dealer from delivering a firearm to a purchaser until 15 business days after the completion of certain requirements. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6 and Section 39-17-1316.
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2024-02-15
To Senate Delayed Bills Committee
TNSB2956Intro
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As introduced, creates an offense to store or keep a firearm in any place unless the firearm is secured in a locked container, unloaded, and separate from ammunition so as to render the firearm inoperable by any person other than the owner or another...
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2024-02-15
To Senate Delayed Bills Committee
TNSB2948Intro
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As introduced, requires an individual who resides in this state and owns a firearm to maintain liability insurance in an amount of no less than $300,000 to insure the individual against losses or damages resulting from the accidental use of the indiv...
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2024-02-15
To Senate Delayed Bills Committee
TNSB2958Intro
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As introduced, requires, subject to certain exemptions, that a sale or transfer of a firearm be done through a federally licensed gun dealer; creates a Class B misdemeanor offense for sales or transfers that are not conducted through a gun dealer; ch...
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2024-02-15
To Senate Delayed Bills Committee
TNSB2949Intro
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As introduced, requires the administrative office of the courts to ensure that all circuit, criminal, chancery, general sessions, and county courts accurately, completely, and timely submit relevant information to the TBI to be included in databases ...
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2024-02-15
To Senate Delayed Bills Committee
TNSJR0874PassZya Sails, Jesse Haynes, Angel Daniel, and Treasure Burchett, National Ambassadors of the Do the Write Thing Challenge
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2024-02-14
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR0873PassFormer First Lady Rosalynn Carter
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2024-02-14
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR0829PassDr. Michael Ugwueke, University of Tennessee Health Science Center Advisory Board
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2024-02-14
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR0901PassTodd Helton, National Baseball Hall of Fame
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2024-02-14
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR0826PassDarrell Cobbins, State Board of Education
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2024-02-14
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR0917PassNorthside Neighborhood House of Chattanooga
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2024-02-14
Signed by Governor.
TNSB1567Intro
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As introduced, requires, subject to certain exemptions, that a sale or transfer of a firearm be done through a federally licensed gun dealer; creates a Class B misdemeanor offense for sales or transfers that are not conducted through a gun dealer. - ...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2725Intro
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As introduced, removes the killing of another committed in the perpetration of or attempt to perpetrate certain crimes from the elements of first degree murder; deletes the offense of criminal responsibility for conduct of another; deletes the offens...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2758Intro
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As introduced, extends, from October 1 to October 15, the date by which the department of education is required to provide a report regarding the physical education programs and activity for each local education agency to the education committee of t...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2756Intro
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As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Reconciliation Sentencing Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 16; Title 17; Title 40 and Title 41.
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2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2760Intro
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As introduced, decreases from 10 to nine days, the amount of time before trial a person shall notify the district attorney general in writing of their intention to rely upon an affirmative defense. - Amends TCA Title 39.
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2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2762Intro
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As introduced, requires the annual report submitted by the department of transportation on the status of projects funded by the transportation modernization fund be supplemental to, and not in place of, other reports required to be submitted by the d...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee
TNSB2727Intro
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As introduced, increases, from 60 to 70, the percentage of students enrolled in a school in the achievement school district (ASD) whose parents must have signed a petition demonstrating their support for their child's school remaining in the ASD in o...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2759Intro
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As introduced, changes the time frame within which each delinquent child ordered to probation supervision or committed to the custody of the department must undergo a validated risk and needs assessment to inform supervision levels, referrals to prog...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2731Intro
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As introduced, changes, from January 1 to December 1, the date by which the department of correction is required to transmit its annual report detailing the higher education opportunities available to eligible incarcerated individuals in this state t...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2761Intro
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As introduced, adds the date on which construction is anticipated to be completed to the list of information that must be included on the annual report submitted by the department on the status of projects funded by the IMPROVE Act. - Amends TCA Titl...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee
TNSB2872Intro
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As introduced, increases, from 14 to 15, the number of calendar days within which a person must accept or reject, in writing, an offer of employment as a teacher made between April 1 and June 1, including offers made on April 1, but excluding offers ...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee
TNSJR0869PassBrenda Louise Smith Allred
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2024-02-05
Signed by Governor.
TNSB1271Intro
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As introduced, clarifies that the department is to report the findings and recommendations, and not just an executive summary, of the special committee to study improvement of transportation services to the transportation and safety committee of the ...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee
TNSB0234Engross
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As introduced, limits the number of times that a real estate developer, business entity, or individual working on behalf of the developer or business entity is permitted to contact a property owner to make an unsolicited offer to buy the property own...
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2024-02-02
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB2463Intro
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As introduced, requires the department to create and maintain an informational tool on the department's website that provides data related to the presence of facilities that are required to submit toxic release inventory data to the environmental pro...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee
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