| TN | SB2822 | Pass | As enacted, requires the office of the comptroller of the treasury to include in any audit conducted by the office of a governing board of a public institution of higher education an examination into whether each institution governed by the board is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2797 | Pass | As enacted, 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 Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-03
Effective date(s) 07/07/2024 |
| TN | SB2230 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to law relative to rural hospital-based laboratories. - Amends TCA Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Effective date(s) 05/28/2024 |
| TN | SB1727 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Physician Assistant (PA) Licensure Compact." - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Effective date(s) 05/28/2024, 01/01/2025 |
| TN | SB2151 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits a healthcare provider from coercing a person, including a person who has legal authority to make healthcare decisions for a child, to consent to a vaccination, misleading or misrepresenting that a vaccination is required by stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1284 | Pass | As enacted, creates the Tennessee-Ireland trade commission. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12; Title 13; Title 42; Title 43; Title 44; Title 45; Title 46; Title 47; Title 48; Title 50; Title 53; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Effective date(s) 05/28/2024 |
| TN | SB2183 | Pass | As enacted, requires a student's LEA or public charter school to convene a conference attended by the student's guardian, ELA teacher, and school principal if the student is promoted to fourth grade and does not show adequate growth in order to deter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 989 |
| TN | SB0757 | Pass | As enacted, generally requires, when a person is arrested, booked, or confined in the jail of a county or municipality, the arresting law enforcement agency and the keeper of a jail to collaborate to verify the citizenship status of the person and th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2639 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to law regarding restrictions on land purchases by sanctioned aliens or foreign entities. - Amends TCA Title 43; Title 44; Title 47; Title 48 and Title 66.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 995 |
| TN | SB2791 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "TennCare for Working Individuals with Disabilities Act." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1002 |
| TN | SB2146 | Pass | As enacted, requires a child who has been admitted to a juvenile detention facility, prior to being adjudicated for an alleged delinquent act, to be allowed at least one telephone call with the child's parent, guardian, or legal custodian and one 30-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 993 |
| TN | SB2539 | Pass | As enacted, vacates and reconstitutes the state energy policy council. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 59; Title 60; Title 65 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 981 |
| TN | SB2062 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 976 |
| TN | SB0756 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a financial service provider, or an officer or employee of the provider, that has reasonable cause to suspect that an elderly or vulnerable adult is the victim or target of financial exploitation, to convey the suspicion to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 972 |
| TN | SB2293 | Pass | As enacted, 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] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2300 | Pass | As enacted, requires, for practical nursing programs offered by a public institution of higher education, a minimum of 1,296 clock hours or an equivalent number of credit hours. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 14; Title 29; Title 33; Title 37; T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 891 |
| TN | SB2296 | Pass | As enacted, 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 medicine r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2112 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes relative to the "Local Tourism Development Zone Business Tax Act." - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 912 |
| TN | SB2826 | Pass | As enacted, 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] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB0734 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Wellness Law." - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 50; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/06/2024, 01/01/2025 |
| TN | SB2097 | Pass | As enacted, creates the "Protecting Children from Social Media Act." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 899 |
| TN | SB2508 | Pass | As enacted, requires the Tennessee film, entertainment and music commission, or a subcontracted nonprofit organization, to provide grants to eligible live music and performance venues, performers, and promoters to be used to support live music perfor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2263 | Pass | As enacted, 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] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 887 |
| TN | SB0137 | Pass | As enacted, requires the coordinator of elections to compare the statewide voter registration database with the department of safety database to ensure non-United States citizens are not registered to vote in this state. - Amends TCA Section 2-2-106 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 900 |
| TN | SB1709 | Pass | As enacted, enacts "Dr. Benjamin Mauck Act," which creates new criminal offenses of assault within a healthcare facility and aggravated assault within a healthcare facility. - Amends TCA Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2095 | Pass | As enacted, 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, Chapt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1945 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits a local government from adopting or enforcing a resolution, ordinance, policy, or regulation that regulates, prohibits, or restricts the sale of food by certain establishments, including the location and hours of operation of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Effective date(s) 05/01/2024, 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1943 | Pass | As enacted, 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 violent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2827 | Pass | As enacted, provides that an owner of land who enters into a cooperative agreement with a public utility owned by the federal government for the use of the public utility's land in conjunction with the owner's land of at least 100 acres that is made ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Effective date(s) 04/29/2024 |
| TN | SB2501 | Pass | As enacted, adds a process by which compliance with the law concerning divisive concepts in institutions of higher education can be reviewed by applicable legislative committees. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2223 | 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
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1060 | Pass | As enacted, revises various provisions of present law pertaining to the "Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022" and the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 782 |
| TN | SB2147 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to the law protecting elderly persons and disabled adults. - Amends TCA Title 30; Title 31; Title 32; Title 34; Title 35; Title 36; Title 39 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/23/2024 |
| TN | SB2148 | Pass | As enacted, requires financial institutions and insurers to make determinations about the provision or denial of services based on certain analysis; prohibits financial institutions and insurers from denying or canceling services to a person, or othe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 746 |
| TN | SB1868 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Laken Riley Act of 2024," which generally prohibits a public institution of higher education from prohibiting adults lawfully present on the institution's property from carrying a non-lethal weapon for purposes of self-defense...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 791 |
| TN | SB2306 | Pass | As enacted, designates November as "Christian Heritage Month." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 750 |
| TN | SB1903 | Pass | As enacted, 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] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 742 |
| TN | SB2482 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Cassie Wright Act," which makes changes to law relative to a parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian having access to certain medical information of their unemancipated minor. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 66 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 761 |
| TN | SB2312 | Pass | As enacted, 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 stude...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 752 |
| TN | SB0544 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | 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 | SB0529 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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 |
