| TN | HB1645 | Pass | As enacted, expands the eligibility for filing a petition to obtain a lifetime order of protection to include victims of aggravated stalking, especially aggravated stalking, and felony harassment. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 04/02/2024 |
| TN | HB2216 | Pass | As enacted, enacts "Danielle's Law," which extends the statute of limitations for injuries to a person, who is 18 or older, relating to sexual assault to three years or five years depending on if law enforcement was notified of the assault. - Amends ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 644 |
| TN | HB0023 | Pass | As enacted, requires a legislative body for a municipal, metropolitan, or county government to make available to the public, at no charge and at least 48 hours prior to a meeting, the agenda for the upcoming meeting in a place accessible to the publi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | HB0994 | Intro
25% | As introduced, clarifies that a threat to use deadly force by a private citizen making an arrest is not in itself considered a use of deadly force; prohibits a private citizen from threatening to use deadly force during the course of a citizen's arre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Def. to Summer Study in Criminal Justice Subcommittee |
| TN | HB2459 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces the offenses for which a defendant must be placed on a state or federal list as a fugitive for failure to appear in court from all felonies and Class A or Class B misdemeanors that are violent or sexual in nature to only feloni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee |
| TN | HB1642 | Pass | As enacted, revises various provisions regarding pretrial release of a defendant charged with a criminal offense to require the magistrate to give first consideration to ensuring the safety of the community when determining whether to impose conditio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2251 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Smart Heart Act"; establishes various requirements for automatic external defibrillators in schools and response protocols for cardiac-related medical emergencies. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Effective date(s) 03/27/2024, 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB1950 | Pass | As enacted, designates June 6 as a day of special observance for D-Day. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 601 |
| TN | HB2690 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department to issue grants, subject to appropriations, to support the installation of powered, height-adjustable, adult-sized changing tables in single occupancy family restrooms in privately and municipally owned buildings o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 607 |
| TN | HB2687 | Pass | As enacted, revises the instruction required as part of a family life curriculum; requires the Tennessee joint task force on children's justice and child sexual abuse, in consultation with the children's services advisory council, to annually recomme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 571 |
| TN | HB1602 | Pass | As enacted, requires a video or audio recording to be made of any interrogation of a child who has been taken into custody on suspicion that the child committed a delinquent act or unruly conduct unless a technical issue with the equipment or exigent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 565 |
| TN | HB2091 | Pass | As enacted, defines and adds "voice" as a protected personal right; adds commercial availability of a sound recording or audiovisual work in which the individual's name, voice, likeness, or image is readily identifiable to considerations for determin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB1644 | Pass | As enacted, requires each LEA, public charter school, private school, and church-related school to develop a procedure to determine the cause of a fire alarm activation, including the potential of an active shooter event; requires each LEA to coordin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Effective date(s) 03/12/2024 |
| TN | HB1384 | Pass | As enacted, adds aggravated prostitution convictions as eligible for expunction if certain requirements are met; removes such offense as "a sexual offense" or "violent sexual offense" for which a person is required to register on sexual offender regi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 545 |
| TN | HB2549 | Intro
25% | As introduced, on or after January 1, 2025, requires a health carrier that issues or renews a health insurance policy, health benefit plan, or contract of accident or health insurance providing benefits for medical or hospital expenses to provide cov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Insurance Subcommittee of Insurance Committee |
| TN | HB1992 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a health benefit plan to provide coverage and reimbursement for prosthetic and custom orthotic devices in a manner that equals or exceeds the levels of coverage and reimbursement for such devices under the federal medicare pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Insurance Subcommittee of Insurance Committee |
| TN | HB2795 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Restoring State Sovereignty Through Nullification Act," which establishes processes by which the general assembly may nullify an unconstitutional federal statute, regulation, agency order, or executive order. - Amends TCA T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | HB2136 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the first publication for a sale of land to foreclose a deed of trust, mortgage, or other lien securing the payment of money or other thing of value or under judicial orders or process to be at least 30 days, instead of at lea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee of Civil Justice Committee |
| TN | HB1609 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits the Tennessee national guard, or a member of the national guard, from being released from state duty into federal active duty combat unless the United States congress has passed an official declaration of war or has taken an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | HB0578 | Intro
25% | As introduced, eliminates the application and processing fee for an enhanced handgun carry permit. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Withdrawn. |
| TN | HB2748 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands when a defendant can be placed on a state or federal list as a fugitive for failure to appear for a bench warrant in court to include those having committed a Class A, Class B, or Class C felony that is violent or sexual in nat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee |
| TN | HB2749 | Intro
25% | As introduced, defines products made with hemp-derived cannabinoids that exceed 0.3 percent THC as marijuana; adds a mandatory $10,000 fine for offenses involving such products; adds testing, recordkeeping, and labeling requirements for licensees pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee |
| TN | HB1044 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of safety to issue permits with the designation "Enhanced Handgun Carry Permit" on the front of the permit; requires the department to issue replacement permits for any permit that contains the designation "Hand...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | HB2135 | Intro
25% | As introduced, redefines "cable services" and "video services" for purposes of the Competitive Cable and Video Services Act to include video programming accessed via a service that enables end users to access content, information, electronic mail, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
Assigned to s/c Business & Utilities Subcommittee |
| TN | HB2134 | Intro
25% | As introduced, retroactively allows employers to take a deduction from net earnings for state excise tax filing purposes, in the amount of expenses, including wages and compensation, associated with their employee retention credit allowable on their ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
Assigned to s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee |
| TN | HB2056 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes an LEA to adopt a policy for retired law enforcement officers to serve as armed school security officers on school premises. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Assigned to s/c K-12 Subcommittee |
| TN | HB0977 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows law enforcement officers to carry a firearm when under the influence of alcohol or controlled substances and certain other circumstances; deletes the prohibition on carrying firearms and other weapons on higher education campuse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
Withdrawn. |
| TN | HB7063 | Engross
50% | As introduced, authorizes LEAs and public charter schools to employ retired law enforcement officers who are retired from a federal, state, or local law enforcement agency and honorably discharged veterans of the United States armed forces to serve a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-29
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration |
| TN | HB7007 | Engross
50% | As introduced, specifies that reports of county medical examiners and autopsy reports of victims of violent crime who are minors are not public documents; allows a parent or legal guardian of a minor victim of a violent crime to consent to the releas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-28
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration |
| TN | HB7015 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands, from certain violent offenses to any felony offense, the offenses for which a person who has been arrested is required to have a biological specimen taken for the purpose of DNA analysis to determine identification characteris...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-24
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| 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 | HB1043 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department of mental health and substance abuse services to use funds distributed from revenue received from sports gaming to provide treatment services for juvenile addiction and mental health disorders secondary to providin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 482 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB1077 | Pass | As enacted, creates a farmers market food unit permit for food service establishments that meet requirements. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 43; Title 53; Title 67 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 475 |
| 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 | HB0634 | Pass | As 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 452 |
| 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 | HB0607 | Pass | As 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 447 |
| TN | HB0817 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits members of local governing bodies to be elected through an election procedure that requires candidates to be nominated from a district and elected at large. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 01/01/2024 |
| 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 | HB0706 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to the present law relative to reemployment after retirement from public employment. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 36, Part 8.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0938 | Pass | As enacted, allows owners of real property used primarily for agricultural purposes who reside in a territory previously annexed by ordinance upon the initiative of the municipality to petition the municipality to deannex such property, if certain co...
[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 | 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 | 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 | HB0092 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Jabari Bailey Highway Safety Act," which requires drivers to change lanes or reduce speed upon approaching a stationary vehicle that has flashing hazard lights activated; increases fines for failing to change lanes or reduce s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
