| TN | SB0003 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates an offense for a person who engages in an adult cabaret performance on public property or in a location where the adult cabaret performance could be viewed by a person who is not an adult. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0001 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits a healthcare provider from performing on a minor or administering to a minor a medical procedure if the performance or administration of the procedure is for the purpose of enabling a minor to identify with, or live as, a pur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
[Hearing: Feb 1 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0371 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes an LEA or public charter school to use TANF program funds to cover costs associated with programs that provide covered services to eligible students; requires the department to consult with the department of human services t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB0420 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requests the governor to submit a new design of the great seal of the state of Tennessee by July 1, 2025, that incorporates the language "In God We Trust." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0289 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment Act of 2023," which imposes on each covered hospital licensed as of July 1, 2023, an annual coverage assessment for fiscal year 2023-2024 of four and eighty-seven hundredths percent of a covered h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0434 | Intro
25% | As introduced, clarifies that excessive or unusual noise or annoying smoke can be used to determine whether a muffler is in good working order and in constant operation as required by law. - Amends TCA Section 55-9-202.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB0535 | Intro
25% | As introduced, 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 les...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration |
| TN | SB0528 | Intro
25% | As introduced, makes various changes to adoption law, including reducing the waiting period before finalization of adoption in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Title 68, Chapter 3, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration |
| TN | SB0529 | Intro
25% | As introduced, eliminates the sales and use tax on infant diapers, wipes, and formula. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration |
| TN | SB0534 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to designate an authorized nonprofit licensed child-placing agency to assume physical care, custody, and control of an infant voluntarily left at certain facilities or in a newborn safety device; specifies that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration |
| TN | SB0533 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes the grant of sick leave from a sick leave bank to a state employee to care for a sick child of the employee. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 8; Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 9 and Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 8.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration |
| TN | SB0530 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "First Lady's Children's Trust Fund Act," which creates a trust fund to support persons and entities seeking assistance in the care of children in this state. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 33; Title 37; Title 50; Title 63; Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration |
| TN | SB0531 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to maintain staffing to allow case managers to have no more than 20 open cases, rather than an average of 20 active cases; states that a "person residing in the child's home" includes a person living in a reside...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration |
| TN | SB0401 | Intro
25% | As enacted, permanently reenacts the "Proton Therapy Access Act," which was repealed on January 1, 2023. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 23.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB0544 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to employ a guardian ad litem within each region of the state to advocate for each child who is in the custody of the department due to allegations of dependency and neglect and located within the region that th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB0538 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes a program under which a state employee may receive up to six weeks of paid leave as a first time foster parent or after the first adoption of a minor child. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 8; Title 16 and Title 50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB0541 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases from five to seven the minimum number of children a facility must have under its care for three or more hours per day in order to fall within the definition of a child care agency for licensing purposes. - Amends TCA Title 71...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration |
| TN | SB0542 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates the tort of wrongful adoption; creates the Class A misdemeanor of engaging or attempting to engage in placing children for adoption in violation of state law. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 36; Title 37; Title 47 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration |
| TN | SB0540 | Intro
25% | As introduced, makes various changes to the laws on adoption and termination of parental rights, including clarifying that the putative father registry must be consulted in certain circumstances within 10 working days of filing a petition to terminat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB0539 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a foster care review board to submit its report to the judge on each child in foster care who is reviewed by the board within seven calendar days, instead of 10 calendar days, following its review. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB0543 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates the child care improvement fund, to be administered by the department of human services; requires the department to allocate grants from the fund to nonprofit organizations to be used for establishing new child care agencies or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB0698 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes a healthcare facility to provide a method for an insured, or the insured's personal representative, to acknowledge and sign, by electronic means, a written notice whereby the insured agrees to receive medical services by an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Filed for introduction |
| TN | SB0699 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of health to publish on its website information on the possibility of reversing the effects of a chemical abortion in any language that is the primary language spoken by 1 percent or more of this state's populat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Filed for introduction |
| TN | SB0701 | Intro
25% | As introduced, clarifies the emergency medical backup requirement for speech language pathologists using endoscopes so that the procedure may be performed when a physician is on the premises or is remotely available regardless of whether the procedur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Filed for introduction |
| TN | SB0700 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a law enforcement agency to provide victims of crime with the contact information for crisis intervention services and emergency and medical services, in addition to the availability of any such services. - Amends TCA Title 38...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Filed for introduction |
| TN | SJR0043 | Engross
50% | Dr. Jarrett Bryant Millsaps, Sr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Engrossed; ready for transmission to House |
| TN | SB0702 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits temporary healthcare staffing agencies from charging healthcare facilities a price for temporary healthcare staffing that is grossly in excess of the price generally charged for the same or similar services in the usual cours...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Filed for introduction |
| TN | SJR0021 | Enroll
75% | University of Tennessee College of Health Professions, 50th anniversary
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SJR0017 | Enroll
75% | Jim Hoobler
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SJR0001 | Enroll
75% | Loretta Lynn
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SJR0004 | Engross
50% | Nation of Israel, 75th anniversary
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
Assigned to s/c Public Service Subcommittee |
| TN | SJR0018 | Enroll
75% | Dan E. Pomeroy
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SJR0064 | Intro
25% | Joe F. Franklin
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
To Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SJR0065 | Intro
25% | Dr. Brian Noland, Honorary Alumnus of East Tennessee State University
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
To Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SJR0063 | Intro
25% | William B. Greene, Jr., George L. Carter Award, East Tennessee State University
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
To Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SR0002 | Pass | Lisa Marie Presley
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | SJR0002 | Engross
50% | Detective Matthew Walker Blansett
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-24
Signed by H. Speaker |
| TN | SB0223 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the commissioner to study the challenges facing child care centers in hiring and maintaining adequate staff; the effects of inflationary pressures on child care staff wages and benefits and the impact of those effects on staff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-21
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0222 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the annual report by each nurse home visitor program to be submitted to the department of health, in addition to the health care and services facility administering the program and the community in which the program is adminis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-21
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB0219 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes a code provision that created a taskforce to study methods on how best to prevent cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and diabetes in this state, which ceased to exist on December 15, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-21
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB0221 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes a provision that required the department, no later than December 15, 2022, to conduct a review of remote use of the special supplemental food program for women, infants, and children and deliver a report to the chairs of the he...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-21
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB0220 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes a code provision that created a task force to review the regulations of the residential and day provider agencies contracted by the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities, which ceased to exist as of June 30,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-21
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB0224 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the commissioner to study the factors that influence the availability of affordable child care options for working families, the impacts of recent inflationary pressures and cost of living increases on the cost of child care f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-21
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0105 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of safety to waive the knowledge test, and accept alternative requirements, for active duty and honorably discharged service members applying for temporary commercial learner's permits; identifies certain altern...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB0076 | Intro
25% | As enacted, reenacts the "Proton Therapy Access Act," which was repealed on January 1, 2023. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 23.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-18
Withdrawn. |
