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TNHB0485Intro
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As introduced, authorizes local education agencies and public charter schools to provide up to four days of the required 180 days of classroom instruction via hybrid learning in the event of dangerous or extreme weather conditions, or an emergency, a...
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2025-02-25
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee
TNHB1383Intro
25%
As introduced, requires elections for county boards of education to be held at the same time and on the same election cycle as elections for members of the local legislative body for the county; requires members of county boards of education to have ...
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2025-02-25
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee
TNHJR0212Engross
50%
Sportfish Restoration Program, 75th anniversary
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2025-02-24
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB0600Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Waste to Jobs Act," which requires producers of goods to participate in a responsibility organization for recycling, reuse, and composting of certain packaging material. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 an...
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2025-02-24
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHJR0228Engross
50%
Victor Wooten
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2025-02-24
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHJR0243Intro
25%
Johnny Peterson
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2025-02-24
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHJR0097PassYolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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2025-02-21
Signed by Governor.
TNHJR0096PassBob Kesling
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2025-02-21
Signed by Governor.
TNHJR0119PassAdrian Maclin
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2025-02-21
Signed by Governor.
TNHJR0075PassEllie Claire Young
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2025-02-21
Signed by Governor.
TNHJR0099PassRepresentative Curtis Halford
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2025-02-21
Signed by Governor.
TNHJR0121PassSarah Lee Best
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2025-02-21
Signed by Governor.
TNHJR0184Enroll
75%
Knoxville Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., Founder's Day
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2025-02-21
Transmitted to Governor for his action.
TNHB0955Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Affordable Housing and Tenant Protection Act"; allows local governments to adopt ordinances and resolutions to control rent for private residential rental units; creates the increased housing program and increased housing f...
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2025-02-20
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB0788Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department to provide a person with a free photo identification license at each location where the department issues a driver license or photo identification license if the person signs an affidavit stating that the person...
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2025-02-20
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB1381Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes municipalities to create, implement, and enforce a rental property registry for all residential rental dwelling units within the municipality's jurisdiction; requires owners of residential rental dwelling units to register; ...
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2025-02-20
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB0741Intro
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As introduced, requires a law enforcement agency that uses body cameras to adopt a written policy for the use of the cameras by its law enforcement officers; establishes certain requirements for the policies. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 1.
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2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 10:30 am]
To House Public Service Subcommittee
TNHB0823Intro
25%
As introduced, lowers the county population threshold, from in excess of 500,000 to in excess of 350,000, for a sports authority facility to be eligible to obtain a liquor-by-the-drink license. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102.
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2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:30 pm]
To House State & Local Government Committee
TNHJR0111Intro
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Urges support of DEI programs in the private sector.
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2025-02-13
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB1275Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department of education, by July 31 each year, to list on its website each LEA designated as a high performing school district for the upcoming school year and how long the LEA will be designated a high performing school d...
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2025-02-12
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TNHB1260Intro
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As introduced, requires the department of finance and administration, in collaboration with the department of health and the bureau of TennCare, to apply for federal approval to import prescription drugs from Canada. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 33; T...
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2025-02-12
Assigned to s/c Health Subcommittee
TNHB1234Intro
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As introduced, excludes materials obtained by an individual teacher that are made available in the teacher's classroom to students assigned to the teacher's class from having to be identified in a list of library collection materials posted on the sc...
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2025-02-12
Assigned to s/c K-12 Subcommittee
TNHB1233Intro
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As introduced, permits a professional bondsman to issue and retain the required receipt for money or other consideration received in a digital format. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 11.
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2025-02-12
Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee
TNHB1235Intro
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As introduced, requires the department to conserve any federal funds a child in the department's care is eligible for or may receive for the child's reasonable, foreseeable future needs or use for special needs services not currently being provided b...
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2025-02-12
Assigned to s/c Children and Family Affairs Subcommittee
TNHB0058Intro
25%
As introduced, requires an employing law enforcement agency to contact any prior law enforcement agency that employed the agency's officer or special deputy as part of the thorough investigation into the person's good moral character. - Amends TCA Ti...
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2025-02-12
Withdrawn.
TNHB0088Intro
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As introduced, increases, from $200 to $500, the amount each LEA and public charter school is required to pay each teacher in kindergarten through grade 12 for the purchase of instructional supplies. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3.
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2025-02-12
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB1053Intro
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As introduced, allows certain persons deprived of the right of suffrage to apply for a voter registration card and have the right of suffrage provisionally restored if the person enters into a payment plan to become current on all child support oblig...
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2025-02-11
Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee
TNHB1051Intro
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As introduced, enacts the "Freedom to Read Act"; repeals the "Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
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2025-02-11
Assigned to s/c K-12 Subcommittee
TNHB1052Intro
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As introduced, requires the office of research and education accountability in the office of the comptroller of the treasury to annually report information about the students participating in the education freedom scholarship program to the general a...
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2025-02-11
Assigned to s/c K-12 Subcommittee
TNHB1054Intro
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As introduced, authorizes a local government having a population of 100,000 or more and having centralized purchasing with a full-time purchasing agent to use any project delivery method that the local government determines most effectively meets the...
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2025-02-11
Assigned to s/c Cities & Counties Subcommittee
TNHB0778Intro
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As introduced, requires the office of research and education accountability (OREA), in the office of the comptroller of the treasury, to study and make recommendations for the implementation of an incentive program for educators who have 15 or more y...
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2025-02-10
Assigned to s/c K-12 Subcommittee
TNHJR0127Engross
50%
Music Therapy Week
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2025-02-10
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
TNHB0742Intro
25%
As introduced, requires local governments to obtain, when possible, three written quotations for purchases costing less than the threshold established pursuant to law but more than 40 percent of such threshold, or some lower amount as may be establis...
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2025-02-06
Assigned to s/c Cities & Counties Subcommittee
TNHB1055Intro
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As introduced, raises, from 70 mph to 75 mph, the maximum statutory speed limit on a highway of the interstate and defense highway system or a four-lane controlled-access highway which are federal or state highways; raises, from 55 mph to 60 mph, the...
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2025-02-06
Withdrawn.
TNHB0089Intro
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As introduced, expands the notification and uniform requirements for peace officers who provide security or other duties outside of their primary jurisdiction to apply statewide rather than only in certain counties. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 35.
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2025-02-06
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB0179Intro
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As introduced, specifies that the offense of criminal abortion does not include an abortion that was necessary due to a medical emergency affecting the physical or mental health of the pregnant person or performed on a patient whose pregnancy was the...
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2025-02-06
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHJR0094Intro
25%
Proposes amendments to Article II of the Constitution of Tennessee to establish an independent redistricting commission for state senate districts, state house of representative districts, and congressional districts.
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2025-02-05
Assigned to s/c Public Service Subcommittee
TNHJR0039PassDonald Majors, Jr.
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2025-02-04
Signed by Governor.
TNHJR0038PassBill Freeman
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2025-02-04
Signed by Governor.
TNHJR0040PassInez Gibbs Crutchfield
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2025-02-04
Signed by Governor.
TNHJR0041PassRandy Rayburn
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2025-02-04
Signed by Governor.
TNHJR0009PassMargie Lois Shuler Caughron
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2025-02-04
Signed by Governor.
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