| 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] | 2024-04-23
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1943 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, allows all LEA and public charter school employees, instead of only teachers, to receive their full salary, or average pay, and full benefits in the event they sustain a personal injury as the result of a physical assault or other viol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Signed by H. Speaker |
| TN | SB2826 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, makes various changes to the fees collected by the commission from Tennessee SARA institutions pursuant to the State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement Act. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Signed by H. Speaker |
| TN | SB2223 | Pass | As introduced, enacts the "Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act," which prohibits a financial institution from requiring the usage of a merchant code that distinguishes a firearms retailer from a general merchandise retailer or a sporting goods ret...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB2147 | Pass | As introduced, increases from 48 hours to 72 hours, the time period prior to a hearing on the merits of a complaint for an order authorizing the provision of protective services necessary to prevent imminent danger of irreparable physical or mental h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB2151 | Engross
50% | As introduced, requires the commissioner of health to submit an electronic copy of the annual report on immunization rates of children, by county, to the governor and the speakers of the senate and the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 14;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Conf. comm. report adopted, Ayes 69, Nays 24 PNV 1 |
| TN | SB2095 | Engross
50% | As introduced, requires each public institution of higher education to establish a policy framework to promote the security of academic research conducted at the institution to mitigate against the risk of foreign influence. - Amends TCA Title 49, Ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB0734 | Engross
50% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Concurred, Ayes 29, Nays 0 (Amendment 1 - HA0772) |
| TN | SB1822 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 720 |
| TN | SB1709 | Engross
50% | As introduced, creates new criminal offenses of assault within a healthcare facility and aggravated assault within a healthcare facility. - Amends TCA Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Passed H., Ayes 89, Nays 5, PNV 0 |
| TN | SB2797 | Engross
50% | As introduced, expands the definition of a law enforcement officer to include retired law enforcement officers who are carrying a firearm pursuant to certain state laws for purposes of when a law enforcement officer may carry a firearm. - Amends TCA ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| 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] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| 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] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| 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] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0459 | Intro
25% | As introduced, directs the bureau to establish, by January 1, 2024, a statewide program of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE) to provide comprehensive, integrated acute and long-term care services for qualifying frail, elderly individuals who ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0780 | Intro
25% | As introduced, exempts the first $15,000 of the purchase price of an automobile from the sales tax if the purchaser is a member of the Tennessee air or army national guard. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0750 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0837 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Pregnancy Resource Tax Credit Act," which authorizes business, excise, and franchise tax credits for businesses that make monetary contributions to eligible nonprofit organizations that provide certain pregnancy-related ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1367 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the maximum full market value, from $175,000 to $210,000, of a disabled veteran's residence that is to be used in calculating a reimbursement for property tax paid by the disabled veteran. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-704.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1725 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands eligibility for property tax relief to a veteran who acquired a service-connected disability that is determined by the United States department of veterans affairs to be permanent and total due to individual unemployability. - ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1944 | Intro
25% | As introduced, repeals the professional privilege tax for tax years that begin on and after June 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1945 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, redefines "food service establishment" to exclude an establishment whose primary business is other than food service, that incidentally makes casual, occasional food sales for two days or less while an organized temporary event is bein...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB1783 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2293 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, requires the commissioner to include in the annual block grant report information detailing the department's use of federal TANF funds in furtherance of the four purposes of the TANF program. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 1, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB2296 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, authorizes the department to contract with a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that maintains a principal office in this state and that is affiliated with a nonprofit membership organization composed of family physicians, family medicin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB2419 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts "Emma's Bill," which requires that when making a determination of medical necessity, the bureau shall take into consideration the patient's overall condition and use such overall condition as a factor to determine the level of f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2394 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases, from one to two, the number of free plates for the Purple Heart and disabled veteran license plates issued to veterans with disabilities. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-256 and Section 55-4-257.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1672 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces, from 23 to 21, the minimum age required for a student to be eligible for the Tennessee reconnect grant. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2508 | Enroll
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB2112 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expresses legislative intent that the persons appointed to a charter commission for the consolidation of the functions of the county and creation of a metropolitan government be representative of both incorporated and unincorporated ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB2422 | Pass | As enacted, requires notices relating to annexation or municipal zoning to be published, posted, or mailed 21 days, rather than 15 days, prior to the public hearing on the annexation or zoning; requires the annexing municipality to provide notice of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2827 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, authorizes the operation of a golf cart on gravel roads within the campgrounds of state parks in addition to paved roads if such gravel roads are marked suitable for a golf cart. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 11; Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB1726 | Pass | As 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024 |
| TN | SB1681 | Pass | As enacted, requires, in cases where a person is ordered into emergency or nonemergency admission to involuntary commitment and is to be released, the chief officer of the releasing facility to notify, by electronic means, local law enforcement prior...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 10/01/2024 |
| TN | SB0078 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department of transportation to erect and maintain directional signs for Milligan University at the I-81 / I-26 interchange, Exit 57A, in the City of Kingsport in Sullivan County. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024 |
| TN | SB2691 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits the intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances, or apparatus within the borders of this state into the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting temperature, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2183 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes, from 10 days to 10 business days, the maximum amount of time the commissioner of education can suspend schools in a year when the commissioner requires all teachers to attend county institutes or educational meetings. - Amends...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2399 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the board for professional counselors, marital and family therapists, and clinical pastoral therapists to enter into a reciprocal agreement with any other state that licenses marital and family therapists. - Amends TCA Title 8;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2098 | 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
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB0163 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to the present law regarding adult protection relevant to confidentiality of information, reports, and proceedings. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2501 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, establishes deadlines for public institutions of higher education to initiate and complete an investigation into a report filed by a student or employee alleging they have been penalized, discriminated against, or received adverse trea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB0137 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the coordinator of elections to compare the statewide voter registration database with those of other relevant state agencies and county records when compiling information to distribute to the county elections commissions for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2300 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds the legislative librarian as a party to which the commissioner must submit an annual report on the work done by the commissioner in supervising dentists and dental equipment in the various state institutions, as well as in distrib...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB2263 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the penalty for the offense of threatening to commit an act of mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2099 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes a program to allow the department of agriculture to acquire and administer real estate interests in the state, including the administration of grants for the purpose of preserving farm and forestry land; creates the Farmlan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB0757 | Engross
50% | As introduced, extends from 90 days to 100 days, the amount of time in which captured plate data collected or retained by a governmental entity through the use of an automated license plate recognition system may be stored unless the data is retained...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB2097 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates the "Protecting Children from Social Media Act." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2230 | Engross
50% | As introduced, defines "hospital-based laboratory" and "hospital-based laboratory supervisor" for purposes of the Tennessee Medical Laboratory Act; provides hospital-based laboratory supervisors the authority to supervise up to four hospital-based la...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB2175 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 625 |
| TN | SB2482 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires that a minor's parent or legal guardian have access to the minor's prescription records even when the minor is able to obtain treatment without parental consent. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 66 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Sponsor(s) Added. |
