Tennessee Senator Raumesh Akbari [D] | Bills

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TNSB1266Engross
50%
As introduced, changes from February 1 to February 15, the date by which the commissioner is required to annually report to the governor and the general assembly on the implementation and compliance with the Schools Against Violence in Education Act....
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2024-04-25
Am. withdrawn. (Amendment 3 - HA1106)
TNSB0898Engross
50%
As introduced, creates the professional music therapist advisory committee of the board of examiners in psychology to regulate the practice of music therapy. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 63, Chapter 11.
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2024-04-24
Concurred, Ayes 27, Nays 0 (Amendment 3 - HA1078)
TNSB1260Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes the establishment of industrial development corporations solely to assist and benefit minority-owned businesses, locally owned businesses, small businesses, and women-owned businesses. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53.
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2024-04-24
Companion House Bill substituted
TNSB1929Enroll
75%
As introduced, creates an Amber+ Alert system for the purpose of issuing alerts with respect to certain youth who are reported missing under unexplained or suspicious circumstances, reported missing and at risk of harm, or reported missing and develo...
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2024-04-24
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSB1930Enroll
75%
As introduced, adds testing for variants of the Apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) gene associated with increased risk of developing chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease to the conditions for which the department of health must develop screening...
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2024-04-24
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSB1931Engross
50%
As introduced, requires the department to annually notify each local education agency (LEA) in writing of all state and federal grant programs available to assist the LEA in expanding mental health services and resources in schools. - Amends TCA Titl...
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2024-04-24
Passed H., Ayes 81, Nays 10, PNV 2
TNSB2448Enroll
75%
As introduced, enacts the Real Estate Fraud Reduction Act, which requires county registers of deeds and notaries public to verify the identity of a person recording or notarizing a document relating to certain real estate transactions, as applicable,...
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2024-04-24
Signed by H. Speaker
TNSB2732Engross
50%
As introduced, requires a holder of a certificate of registration to notify the state board of cosmetology and barber examiners within 35 days, instead of 30 days, of a change to the certificate holder's mailing address. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 4...
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2024-04-24
Passed H., Ayes 85, Nays 8, PNV 1
TNSB2730Engross
50%
As introduced, requires a supplemental adjustment to state funding for public defender offices in the twentieth and thirtieth judicial districts for pay parity purposes. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14.
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2024-04-24
Passed H., Ayes 97, Nays 0, PNV 0
TNSB2659Intro
25%
As introduced, expands student eligibility for a Tennessee future teacher scholarship to include students enrolled in an approved educator preparation program at Western Governors University. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 7.
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2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB0734Enroll
75%
As introduced, removes the start date of January 1, 2012, for the requirement that a healthcare practitioner communicate the practitioner's full name and type of license in writing to a patient at the patient's initial office visit. - Amends TCA Titl...
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2024-04-24
Signed by H. Speaker
TNSB2368Engross
50%
As introduced, requires the commissioner of finance and administration, or the commissioner's designee, to make available to the public on the department's website any proposed budget document or other financial publication that lists complex rehabil...
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2024-04-24
Passed H., Ayes 96, Nays 0, PNV 0
TNSB1832Enroll
75%
As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Maternal Health Equity Advisory Committee Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.
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2024-04-24
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSB1137Engross
50%
As introduced, requires a county having a metropolitan form of government that creates a special escrow account earmarked for the sole purpose of generating revenue to provide low income persons with safe and affordable housing to notify the Tennesse...
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2024-04-24
Engrossed; ready for transmission to House
TNSB2269Engross
50%
As introduced, directs the department to identify federal and state regulations that inhibit the efficient processing of applications and delivery of benefits for the food assistance program; requires the department to submit any necessary waiver app...
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2024-04-24
Passed H., Ayes 57, Nays 27, PNV 5
TNSB2635Enroll
75%
As introduced, authorizes a local government to amend adopted building codes to include three-family dwellings and four-family dwellings within the scope of the residential code. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 120.
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2024-04-24
Signed by H. Speaker
TNSB2689Enroll
75%
As introduced, directs the administrative office of the courts (AOC) to define and develop a centralized system of case management, document management, electronic case filing, electronic payment methods, data reporting, and any other capability deem...
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2024-04-24
Signed by H. Speaker
TNSB1480Intro
25%
As introduced, requires an officer to provide an alleged victim of certain criminal offenses with a document notifying the victim of the global positioning monitoring system used as a condition of bail. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55, C...
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2024-04-24
Companion House Bill substituted
TNSB2530Intro
25%
As introduced, creates the artificial intelligence advisory council to recommend an action plan to guide awareness, education, and usage of artificial intelligence in state government that aligns with the state’s policies and goals and that support...
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2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB2791Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "TennCare for Working Individuals with Disabilities Act." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.
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2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB0756Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department of human services to advertise prominently on the home page of the department's website the division of adult protective services' toll-free telephone service that enables citizens within the state to call the d...
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2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB2146Intro
25%
As introduced, removes a report due by March 1, 2006, from the commissioner to legislative committees concerning the effectiveness of a demonstration project wherein a nursing home allowed a disabled volunteer to assume certain functions in the nursi...
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2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB2665Engross
50%
As introduced, creates a street racing task force to study and determine best practices for curbing illegal street racing in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 55.
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2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB2471Intro
25%
As introduced, expands the purposes for which the apportionment and distribution of state tax revenues to a sports authority owned by the city of Memphis can be used to include payment of, or the reimbursement of, expenses associated with securing re...
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2024-04-23
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1657PassAs introduced, requires the department to make an annual report to the governor on the total number of firearm injuries and deaths in this state per 100,000 people; requires the attorney general and reporter to assist the department, upon request, in...
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2024-04-23
Signed by Governor.
TNSB2134Engross
50%
As introduced, enacts the Social Work Licensure Compact. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.
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2024-04-23
Am. withdrawn. (Amendment 1 - HA0709)
TNSB2400PassAs introduced, establishes October 9 of each year as "PANDAS Awareness Day" to promote awareness of Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections and Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome. - Amends...
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2024-04-23
Signed by Governor.
TNSB2636Engross
50%
As introduced, prohibits a beer permittee from selling at retail refrigerated or cold beer. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 55 and Title 57.
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2024-04-23
Passed H., Ayes 94, Nays 1, PNV 1
TNSB2117Intro
25%
As introduced, defines a home for the aged that houses three or fewer nonrelated persons as a tier 1 home for the aged that is subject to licensure and regulation by the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities; defines a home for th...
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2024-04-23
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB1987PassAs enacted, designates “Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree” by Brenda Lee as the official state holiday song; requires the secretary of state to include the song in the Tennessee Blue Book. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.
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2024-04-22
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 719
TNSB2883Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Prostate-Specific Antigen Screening for High-risk Insured Men Act," which requires health insurance coverage for the early detection of prostate cancer for men who meet certain risk criteria or age thresholds. - Amends TCA ...
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2024-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB2877Engross
50%
As introduced, directs the Tennessee advisory committee on intergovernmental relations (TACIR), with the assistance of the Tennessee bureau of investigation, the district attorneys general conference, and the department of safety, to study the feasib...
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2024-04-22
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.
TNSB2987Intro
25%
Subject to local approval, changes the allocation of the revenue from the privilege tax on occupancy in a hotel. - Amends Chapter 131 of the Private Acts of 1969; as amended.
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2024-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB2711Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes a municipality to change the allocation of revenue, but not its designated use, of a privilege tax upon the privilege of occupancy in a hotel if the tax preexisted July 1, 2021. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 14.
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2024-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB0616Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department to provide juveniles who are in the department's custody and housed in a juvenile detention facility approved, certified, or licensed by the department, including youth development centers, with 24-hour access, ...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB0750Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department to create and implement a promising futures program to provide scholarships to children who are not school age to assist them in developing early language and literacy skills in a high-quality early care and lea...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB0231Intro
25%
As introduced, changes the amount of a minority teaching fellowship award for a recipient who is enrolled in a degree program leading to licensure as a teacher in an institution of higher education with an approved educator preparation program from $...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB0472Intro
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...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1919PassAs introduced, requires a health benefit plan that amends, renews, or delivers a policy of coverage on or after July 1, 2024, and that provides coverage for prescription contraceptives, to provide coverage for a 12-month refill of contraceptives obta...
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2024-04-19
Signed by Governor.
TNSB1783Intro
25%
As introduced, reallocates 5 percent of the privilege tax collected from licensees that offer sports wagering in this state from the lottery for education account to a new Tennessee Promise completion grant special account created to assist the commi...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2462Intro
25%
As introduced, directs the department to promulgate rules to establish a grant program for first-time home buyers. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 10; Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 47 and Title 66.
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2612Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "African American Cultural and Historical Grant Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 13.
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2728Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Menstrual Hygiene Products Accessibility Act." - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 49 and Title 67.
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2655Enroll
75%
As introduced, requires public charter schools to provide educators six work weeks of paid leave after the birth or stillbirth of the educator's child or after the educator's adoption of a newly placed minor child. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49.
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2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSB1977Intro
25%
As introduced, establishes the hunger-free campus grant program; provides grants to higher education institutions to address student hunger. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2509Intro
25%
As introduced, extends the school turnaround pilot program beyond the 2024-2025 school year; increases, from five to 15, the number of schools in need of intervention that may participate in the school turnaround pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 49,...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1894Enroll
75%
As introduced, requires a business that makes an automatic renewal offer or continuous service offer to a consumer to obtain affirmative consent to the agreement containing the automatic renewal offer terms or continuous service offer terms no less t...
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2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSB2508Enroll
75%
As introduced, requires, on or before January 1, 2025, the department of revenue to report to the finance, ways and means committees of both houses the total amount of moneys received under law relative to property tax in fiscal years 2023 and 2024 f...
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2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSB2445PassAs enacted, adds three persons to the state child fatality review team who are each state residents with a child under 18; requires the state child fatality review team to distribute the team's annual report to each local education agency and to the ...
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2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024
TNSB1726PassAs enacted, requires the department, using existing resources, to develop a conflict resolution program that may be adopted and implemented by LEAs and public charter schools to assist students in any of the grades K-12 in developing the skills neces...
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2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024
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