| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| 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 | 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 | 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. |
| TN | SB2312 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a local board of education that provides electronic textbooks and instructional materials to provide a student reasonable access to a printed version of an electronic textbook or instructional material if the student or the st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB1868 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies that it is not a criminal offense for an adult person to carry or possess pepper spray, a taser, or another similar device for purposes of self-defense when on property owned, operated, or in use by any college or university ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2306 | Intro
25% | As introduced, designates November as "Christian Heritage Month." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB1903 | Intro
25% | As introduced, defines food that contains a vaccine or vaccine material as a drug for purposes of the Tennessee Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 53.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2937 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the medical examiner's office or regional forensic center to ascertain and document current psychotropic drug use, and prescription drug use from the past 10 years, by a deceased individual who died under suspicious, unusual, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1822 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-03-26
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2148 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires financial institutions and insurers to make determinations about the provision or denial of services based on an analysis of risk factors unique to each current or prospective customer; prohibits financial institutions and ins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2301 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates a mental health professional loan repayment program to be administered by the department for mental health professionals who agree to provide mental healthcare services for at least three years in a mental health shortage area ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2302 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds legislative librarian to the list the department of mental health and substance abuse services must submit its quarterly report to on the implementation and impact of available suitable accommodations, including the number and len...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2751 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes the Tennessee emergency medical services board to authorize five additional EMT/AEMT training centers operated by ambulance services licensed in this state if the board makes a specific finding that additional training cente...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2111 | Intro
25% | As introduced, revises the formula for calculating tax relief on real property owned by eligible disabled veterans so that in determining the amount of relief to such a taxpayer, the assessed value on the first $175,000 of full market value is to be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2825 | Intro
25% | As introduced, exempts the retail sale of firearms that have a barrel less than an internal diameter of .50 caliber and shotguns of 10 gauge or greater from the sales and use tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate FW&M Revenue Subcommittee |
| TN | SB2294 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates an advanced practice registered nurse student loan repayment grant program to incentivize advanced practice registered nurses to provide health services in health resource shortage areas. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2295 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes a physician assistant student loan repayment grant program to incentivize physician assistants to provide health services in health resource shortage areas. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 63.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2291 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands, beyond just student performance in English language arts (ELA) on the most recent Tennessee comprehensive assessment program (TCAP) test, the measures of student growth in ELA that an LEA or public charter school may use in de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| 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] | 2024-03-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| 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] | 2024-03-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1403 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes, from January 15 to February 1 of each year, the date by which the department must evaluate the success of model programs for adolescents at risk of placement in the custody of the department and report findings and recommendat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2824 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits certain entities from assigning a merchant category code to, or a separate classification for, a merchant that is a seller of firearms, ammunition, or firearm accessories separately from general merchandise retailers or sport...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1060 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes, from September 15 to October 1, the date by which each public institution of higher education operating a hearing center must provide a written report to the Tennessee higher education commission, the education committee of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2821 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of environment and conservation to make the annual progress reports submitted by counties available on the department's website in a publicly accessible location. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 67 and Title 68, Cha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB2350 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes various prohibitions and requirements for public institutions of higher education regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2303 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands the facilities that can qualify for third-party reimbursement from TennCare, a managed care plan, or third-party payor for certain services; expands the persons who can render such reimbursable services to an employed psycholog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1883 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expresses the intent that the department of finance and administration, in coordination with the departments of health and mental health and substance abuse services, give priority to efforts that facilitate the expansion of a health c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2738 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes an outdated requirement that the apprentice plan developed by the boards and commissions of the various medical professions, in consultation with the division of health related boards, be submitted to the speakers, the governme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB2750 | 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] | 2024-02-05
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2823 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces from 60 to 45 days the period by which a governmental entity or employee may answer or respond to a claim, action, or suit brought under the Tennessee Governmental Tort Liability Act; reduces from 60 to 45 days the period by wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
