| TN | HB1658 | Pass | As enacted, establishes a Class E felony for a person who commits assault against a participant in judicial proceedings who, while on the premises of a building in which judicial proceedings occur; makes revisions to law regarding wiretapping and ele...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1045 |
| TN | HB2035 | Pass | As enacted, preempts the entire field of legislation regarding extreme risk protection orders to the exclusion of all county, city, town, municipality, or metropolitan government law, ordinances, resolutions, enactments, or regulation. - Amends TCA T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1062 |
| TN | HB2310 | Pass | As enacted, creates a civil cause of action against any person who intentionally recruits, harbors, or transports an unemancipated minor within this state for the purpose of receiving a prohibited medical procedure, regardless of where the medical pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1064 |
| TN | HB1614 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Protect Tennessee Minors Act"; requires an individual or commercial entity that publishes or distributes in this state a website that contains a substantial portion of material harmful to minors to perform reasonable age-verif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1021 |
| TN | HB1826 | Pass | As enacted, requires TennCare coverage of rapid whole genome sequencing when certain clinical criteria are met. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1020 |
| TN | HB2998 | Pass | Subject to local approval, rewrites the city charter. - Amends Chapter 553 of the Acts of 1903; as amended.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Pr. Ch. 63 |
| TN | HB2644 | Pass | As enacted, makes various changes to present law on adoption and foster parents. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB1259 | Pass | As enacted, enacts anti-squatter laws. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 66.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1009 |
| TN | HB2814 | Pass | As enacted, raises the penalty for the offense of drag racing from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2774 | Pass | As enacted, requires the review of executive branch agency policies and spending as it relates to illegal immigration; requires a report to be compiled and delivered to the governor and the speakers of the senate and house of representatives regardin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Effective date(s) 05/21/2024 |
| TN | HB2323 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Chris Wright Act," which increases the penalty for a third or subsequent domestic assault conviction from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony; upgrades the offense classification for certain qualifying misdemeanor offens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2940 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "TennCare for Working Individuals with Disabilities Act." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Effective date(s) 05/21/2024 |
| TN | HB0996 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that instruction in topics related to sexual activity are generally not age-appropriate for students in grades K-5 and must generally not be taught to students in grades K-5 as part of a family life curriculum; clarifies that su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Effective date(s) 05/21/2024 |
| TN | HB2054 | Pass | As enacted, increases from 1,500 to 3,000, for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, the amount of acreage of land permitted to be placed within any one taxing jurisdiction under the Agricultural, Forest and Open Space Land Act. - Amends T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Effective date(s) 05/21/2024 |
| TN | HB1881 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Back the Blue Act," which increases the penalty for assault against a law enforcement officer from a Class A misdemeanor with a mandatory minimum 30-day sentence and $5,000 fine to a Class E felony with a mandatory minimum 60-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB1663 | Pass | As introduced, authorizes the death penalty as a punishment for rape of a child, aggravated rape of a child, or especially aggravated rape of a child. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Chapter 1062 of the Public Acts of 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 951 |
| TN | HB1817 | Pass | As enacted, increases the penalty from a Class D felony to a Class B felony for a person who negligently, by act or omission, engages in conduct that places a child eight years of age or less in imminent danger of death, bodily injury, or physical or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB1936 | Pass | As enacted, requires, beyond the 2023-2024 school year, each LEA and public charter school to provide each high school senior the opportunity to take nationally recognized assessments if the assessments meet certain criteria. - Amends TCA Title 49, C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/03/2024 |
| TN | HB2320 | Pass | As enacted, requires, in an action on consumer debt filed in a general sessions court, the plaintiff to include certain information with a civil warrant or any other leading process used to initiate the action; requires, prior to an award of a defaul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB1719 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits a magistrate from considering a defendant's ability to pay when determining the amount of bail necessary to reasonably assure the appearance of the defendant while at the same time protecting the safety of the public. - Amends T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 869 |
| TN | HB2031 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a person who suffers loss or injury as a result of a defendant intentionally obstructing a highway, street, or other place used for the passage of vehicles or conveyances to bring a cause of action against such person to recove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 958 |
| TN | HB2704 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department of children's services, county medical examiners, chief medical examiners, and facilities that perform autopsies to establish policies and procedures for the prioritization of the completion of final autopsy report...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 881 |
| TN | HB2790 | Pass | As enacted, establishes Class B misdemeanors for the tampering or otherwise making ineffective certain monitoring devices required as a condition of probation or parole; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 874 |
| TN | HB2088 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the military department to administer a critical skills retention bonus program to be used to award retention bonuses of up to $10,000 to enlisted service members in the Tennessee national guard; entitles certain state employee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 847 |
| TN | HB2845 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Prevention of Drunk Driving Act." - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 55 and Title 57.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 961 |
| TN | HB2165 | Pass | As enacted, requires a request made by a student to an employee of the student's LEA or public charter school for an accommodation to affirm the student's gender identity to be reported to a school administrator and to the student's parent; prohibits...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 832 |
| TN | HB0640 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that a "deposit account," for purposes of provisions regarding secured transactions in the Uniform Commercial Code, does not include a United States central bank digital currency. - Amends TCA Title 47.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 802 |
| TN | HB1640 | Pass | As enacted, enacts "Jillian's Law," which makes various changes relative to being adjudicated as a mental defective or judicially committed to a mental institution, including requiring a person judicially committed to remain committed until the compe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2075 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department to, on or before June 30, 2026, procure an electronic lien and title system to be used throughout the state; clarifies that "electronic lien and title system" means a program that allows the exchange of lien and ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/22/2024 |
| TN | HB2762 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act." - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6; Title 29; Title 38; Title 39; Title 45 and Title 47.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 773 |
| TN | HB2882 | Pass | As enacted, requires, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, each local education agency and public charter school to provide students with age-appropriate and grade-appropriate instruction on firearm safety. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/23/2024 |
| TN | HB2113 | Pass | As enacted, requires causes of action for unpaid wages for hours worked, overtime, minimum wage, salary, bonuses, commissions, or other compensation owed to an employee or independent contractor, including ones for breach of contract, unjust enrichme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB0465 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Representative Darren Jernigan Act," which requires, beginning on January 1, 2025, and each year thereafter, the department of revenue to verify that the owner of each disabled parking placard has not died; requires the depart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 726 |
| TN | HB1535 | Pass | As enacted, makes applicable to Coffee County, present law that provides that whenever Hardeman County or Cumberland County acquires property at a tax sale, a nongovernmental entity holding a vested and duly recorded contractual right to the payment ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Effective date(s) 04/16/2024 |
| TN | HB1828 | Pass | As enacted, designates as official state books: "Farewell Address to the American People" by George Washington; "The Papers of Andrew Jackson"; "Democracy in America" by Alexis de Tocqueville; "All the King's Men" by Robert Penn Warren; "A Death in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2388 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes LEAs to extend career and technical education (CTE) class sizes and averages for CTE classes in grades 6-8; prohibits the CTE classes in grades 6-8 from exceeding the maximum class size and average set for general education cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 712 |
| TN | HB2934 | Pass | As enacted, requires a state governing body or a local government legislative body to make available to the public, at no charge, the agenda for the upcoming regular meeting in a place accessible to the public at least 48 hours prior to a regular mee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 710 |
| TN | HB2089 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Disability and Aging Act of 2024." - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 8; Title 12; Title 13; Title 33; Title 34; Title 37; Title 40; Title 41; Title 45; Title 49; Title 52; Title 55; Title 56; Title 63; Title 67; T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 688 |
| TN | HB2124 | Pass | As enacted, requires, rather than authorizes, law enforcement agencies to communicate with the appropriate federal official regarding the immigration status of any individual, including reporting knowledge that a particular alien is not lawfully pres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2169 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Foster and Adoptive Parent Protection Act," which generally prohibits the department of children's services from requiring a current or prospective adoptive or foster parent to affirm, accept, or support any governme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 677 |
| TN | HB2126 | Pass | As enacted, allows a juvenile court to transfer a child, who is 15 or older, to be tried as an adult in criminal court for the offense of organized retail crime, theft of a firearm, or an attempt to commit such offense; revises law with regard to con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| 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 | HB1708 | Pass | As enacted, revises certain fees payable to the secretary of state by certain charitable organizations; increases from $500,000 to $1,000,000 the amount of gross revenue received during a fiscal year to trigger certain reporting requirements; assesse...
[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 | 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 | 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 | HB2087 | Pass | As enacted, changes how the department calculates annual assessments for trust companies, including differentiating between public and private trust companies; changes the threshold at which a bank may obtain an evaluation in lieu of an appraisal for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 556 |
| 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 |
