Tennessee Senator Raumesh Akbari [D]

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TNSB7072Intro
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As introduced, creates the Class D felony of knowingly inducing or coercing a minor under 18 to commit theft of a firearm or a robbery or burglary offense involving theft of a firearm. - Amends TCA Title 39.
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2023-08-22
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TNSB7068Intro
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As introduced, specifies that classes that qualify as training for issuance of an enhanced handgun carry permit or concealed handgun carry permit must include training on the use of gun locks. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 39, Chapter 17 a...
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2023-08-22
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TNSB7066Intro
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As introduced, requires a federally licensed firearm dealer to install a firearm safety device on a firearm before delivering the firearm to a purchaser if the purchaser is not a federally licensed firearm dealer; defines a firearm safety device as a...
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2023-08-22
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TNSB7101Intro
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As introduced, encourages that a firearm be 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 lawfully authorized user except when the firearm is...
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2023-08-22
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TNSB7073Intro
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As introduced, creates a Class D felony offense for an adult criminal gang member who induces or coerces a minor to steal a firearm; makes the adult criminal gang member criminally responsible for offenses the minor commits with stolen firearm. - Ame...
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2023-08-22
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TNSB7100Intro
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As introduced, encourages the owner of a firearm, or a person authorized to use the firearm, to report theft or loss of the firearm to law enforcement within 24 hours of discovering the theft or loss. - Amends TCA Title 39.
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2023-08-22
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TNSJR7099Engross
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Senator Roy Herron
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2023-08-21
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB0856PassAs 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.
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2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/17/2023, 01/01/2024
TNSB0894PassAs enacted, exempts a person under 18 years of age who is in custody of the department of children's services or receiving foster care services from payment of fees for issuance, renewal, or reinstatement of a driver license, instruction permit, inte...
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2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 01/01/2024
TNSB0346PassAs enacted, requires each high school to inform each high school senior that upon reaching the age of 18 the student may be eligible to vote and provide information from the secretary of state about voter eligibility and how to register to vote. - Am...
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2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/17/2023
TNSB0394PassAs enacted, creates the doula services advisory committee, attached to the department for administrative purposes, to advise the department by establishing core competencies and standards for the provision of doula services in this state, and recomme...
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2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
TNSB1231PassAs enacted, authorizes a local board of education to contract with a private college or university accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to maintain a training school for grades pre-kindergarten through...
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2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023
TNSB0460PassAs enacted, makes changes relative to the coverage of complex rehabilitation technology (CRT) by health insurance entities and managed care organizations. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 71.
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2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
TNSB1119PassAs enacted, designates the National Guard Armory to be constructed in Warren County as the "Major General Terry Max Haston National Guard Armory".
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2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/17/2023
TNSB0360PassAs enacted, authorizes the department of safety to create a voucher program for the purpose of offsetting the cost of persons taking a handgun safety course for the first time; requires the department to report the number of courses taken using vouch...
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2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 01/01/2024
TNSB0543PassAs 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...
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2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/17/2023
TNSB0813PassAs 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.
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2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 06/30/2023
TNSB0891PassAs enacted, extends provisions related to the apportionment and distribution of state tax revenue as they pertain to National Basketball Association franchises until June 30, 2059. - Amends TCA Title 67.
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2023-05-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 405
TNSB1458PassAs enacted, requires local education agencies (LEAs) to provide licensed employees of the LEA 6 paid workweeks after a birth or stillbirth of the employee's child or employee's adoption of a newly placed minor child. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and...
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2023-05-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 399
TNSB0773PassAs enacted, makes changes concerning youth sports safety. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 62, Chapter 50 and Title 68.
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2023-05-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 382
TNSB1220PassAs enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Future Teacher Scholarship Act of 2023." - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2023-05-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 381
TNSB0728PassAs enacted, requires the department to identify locations of state and local government roads in this state where injuries to bicyclists and pedestrians are elevated in comparison to the statewide average. - Amends TCA Title 54 and Title 55.
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2023-05-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 385
TNSB1046PassAs 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...
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2023-05-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 404
TNSB0880PassAs enacted, revises present law relative to child support. - Amends TCA Section 8-23-103 and Title 36.
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2023-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 366
TNSB1215PassAs enacted, specifies that municipal court has jurisdiction over the expunction of a person's conviction for a violation of a municipal ordinance from the public records; specifies conditions for such expunction. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 18, Pa...
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2023-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 356
TNSB1211PassAs 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.
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2023-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 359
TNSB0781PassAs enacted, establishes a family medicine student loan repayment grant program to incentivize physicians in residency training to provide medical health services in health resource shortage areas following completion of their training. - Amends TCA T...
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2023-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 414
TNSB0269PassAs enacted, changes the designation of June 19, known as "Juneteenth," from a day of special observance to a legal holiday. - Amends TCA Title 15.
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2023-05-17
Effective date(s) 05/05/2023
TNSB1268PassAs enacted, revises present law concerning participation in school board meetings by electronic participation. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2023-05-17
Effective date(s) 05/05/2023
TNSB0183PassAs enacted, requires mental health evaluation and treatment for juveniles who commit aggravated animal cruelty under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39.
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2023-05-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
TNSB0013PassAs enacted, prohibits a court clerk, upon request by an individual on a payment or installment plan, from requiring the individual to pay outstanding court-assessed fines, fees, taxes, or costs arising from a criminal proceeding during the 180-day pe...
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2023-05-17
Effective date(s) 05/05/2023
TNSB0004PassAs enacted, establishes a deaf mentor and parent advisor program to assist families in implementing bilingual and bicultural home-based programming for young children who are deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind at the Tennessee Schools for the Deaf ...
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2023-05-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
TNSB0355PassAs enacted, requires the department to conduct a statewide needs analysis of preschool education in this state; requires the department to establish the Tennessee preschool task force to assist in developing a strategic plan for preschool education i...
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2023-05-17
Effective date(s) 05/05/2023
TNSB1247PassAs enacted, makes revisions to the law relative to reinstating certificates of registration for professional master barbers, barber instructors, and technicians, and licenses of cosmetologists, manicurists, aestheticians, and natural hair stylists. -...
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2023-05-04
Effective date(s) 04/24/2023, 07/01/2023
TNSJR0652PassFatou Diallo, 2023 Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Memphis Youth of the Year
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2023-05-04
Signed by Governor.
TNSB0838PassAs enacted, authorizes an LEA to award a high school student credit for a course offered by the LEA's high school if the student attains a qualifying score on the course's final examination without requiring the student to enroll in the course. - Ame...
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2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023
TNSB0871PassAs enacted, makes changes to property tax relief under the Property Tax Freeze Act. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.
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2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
TNSB0884PassAs enacted, requires the department to conduct a study of best practices in other states for the use of ninth grade "on-track" indicators in state accountability systems to prevent students from dropping out of high school, to submit a report of the ...
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2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 322
TNSB0722PassAs 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.
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2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 01/01/2024
TNSB0971PassAs enacted, requires, upon the request of the commission, each public elementary and middle school, or each LEA on behalf of the schools, to provide information to the commission or department of education about the financial literacy education provi...
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2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 310
TNSB0935PassAs 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...
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2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023
TNSB0532PassAs 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.
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2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 305
TNSB0014PassAs enacted, requires the bureau to provide quarterly updates to legislative committees on its efforts to hire and train employees within the forensic services division and the average amount of time taken to perform forensic analysis on evidence in c...
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2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023
TNSB0093PassAs enacted, creates an eyelash specialist license; authorizes the establishment of eyelash services shops in accordance with requirements for other licensed shops; authorizes schools to offer courses of instruction that consist of 50 percent of the h...
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2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/25/2023, 07/01/2023
TNSB1318PassAs enacted, enacts the "Silas Gable Flatt Law," which creates an offense of knowingly providing a motor vehicle to another person who the provider of the vehicle knows or should know is under the influence of an intoxicant or whose driver license has...
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2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 243
TNSB0022PassAs enacted, enacts the "Sexual Assault Response Team Act."
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2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/25/2023
TNSB0972PassAs enacted, requires, prior to the administration of corporal punishment against a student, the student's teacher or school principal to make certain documentation in the student's educational record; prohibits corporal punishment against a student f...
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2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023
TNSB0963PassAs enacted, adds to the current list of advisory factors that a court must consider, but is not bound by, in determining whether to enhance a defendant's sentence whether the defendant committed an assaultive offense, criminal homicide, kidnapping, f...
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2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 318
TNSJR0781PassTheron Ira Louis Lacy
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2023-05-03
Signed by Governor.
TNSB0881PassAs enacted, revises the requirement for automatic revocation of a public charter school agreement to apply only if certain conditions exist; prohibits the 2022 and 2023 priority school list from being considered as one of the priority school cycles r...
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2023-05-02
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 290
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