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TNHR0155PassMaster Sergeant Robert D. Davis, Jr., United States Air Force
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2024-04-18
Signed by H. Speaker
TNHB2296PassAs 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;...
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2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 700
TNHB2089PassAs introduced, 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...
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2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 688
TNHB2070PassAs introduced, establishes the office of rail and public transportation within the department; requires, among other duties and responsibilities, the office to determine the costs and requirements, including engineering, needed to implement passenger...
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2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 679
TNHB1613PassAs introduced, designates “Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree” by Brenda Lee as the official state holiday song. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.
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2024-04-16
Signed by Governor.
TNHJR1171PassJohn L. Nau III, American Battlefield Trust's Lifetime Achievement Award
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2024-04-16
Signed by Governor.
TNHJR1170PassIndependence High School boys' basketball team, TSSAA Division I, Class 4A state champions
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2024-04-16
Signed by Governor.
TNHJR1142PassFirst anniversary of the Covenant School shooting
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2024-04-10
Signed by Governor.
TNHJR0844PassExpresses support for bid to host Special Olympics USA Games in Tennessee.
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2024-04-09
Signed by Governor.
TNHB2216PassAs enacted, enacts "Danielle's Law," which extends the statute of limitations for injuries to a person, who is 18 or older, relating to sexual assault to three years or five years depending on if law enforcement was notified of the assault. - Amends ...
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2024-04-08
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 644
TNHB1645PassAs enacted, expands the eligibility for filing a petition to obtain a lifetime order of protection to include victims of aggravated stalking, especially aggravated stalking, and felony harassment. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39.
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2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 04/02/2024
TNHJR0967PassDisability Advocacy Day
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2024-04-04
Signed by Governor.
TNHJR0968PassDown Syndrome Awareness Day
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2024-04-04
Signed by Governor.
TNHJR1050PassPickett County Lady Bobcats, Class A state champions
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2024-04-04
Signed by Governor.
TNHB1642PassAs enacted, revises various provisions regarding pretrial release of a defendant charged with a criminal offense to require the magistrate to give first consideration to ensuring the safety of the community when determining whether to impose conditio...
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2024-04-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNHB1950PassAs enacted, designates June 6 as a day of special observance for D-Day. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.
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2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 601
TNHB1931PassAs enacted, prohibits a local governmental entity or official from adopting or enacting a resolution, ordinance, or policy that prohibits or limits the ability of a law enforcement agency to conduct traffic stops based on observation of or reasonable...
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2024-04-03
Effective date(s) 03/28/2024
TNHB1651PassAs enacted, establishes a five-day period after the effective date of this act during which a nonprofit organization may apply to operate a charitable gaming event during the annual period beginning July 1, 2023, until June 30, 2024, and beginning Ju...
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2024-03-26
Effective date(s) 03/21/2024
TNHB1602PassAs enacted, requires a video or audio recording to be made of any interrogation of a child who has been taken into custody on suspicion that the child committed a delinquent act or unruly conduct unless a technical issue with the equipment or exigent...
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2024-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 565
TNHB1649PassAs enacted, requires LEAs and public charter schools of a county to be closed for instruction on presidential primary election days if the county election commission uses such schools as a polling place. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 3, Part 1.
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2024-03-26
Effective date(s) 03/15/2024
TNHJR1009PassA Soldier's Child Foundation
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2024-03-26
Signed by Governor.
TNHJR0096PassMusic Therapy Week
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2024-03-19
Signed by Governor.
TNHB0257PassAs enacted, clarifies that an owner or lessee of a motor vehicle who is the parent, legal guardian, or conservator of a person who has an intellectual or developmental disability or medical condition, who may be operating the owner's or lessee's vehi...
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2024-03-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 521
TNHB1990PassAs enacted, replaces references in the Disabled Drivers Law of 1975 to persons "who are permanently and totally confined to a wheelchair" with references to persons "who use a wheelchair because of a permanent incapacity for ambulation". - Amends TCA...
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2024-03-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 555
TNHB1944PassAs enacted, makes it a Class B misdemeanor offense for a person to operate a passenger motor vehicle on a street, road, or highway in this state if, by alteration of the suspension, frame, or chassis, the height of the vehicle's front fender is four ...
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2024-03-19
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNHB1644PassAs enacted, requires each LEA, public charter school, private school, and church-related school to develop a procedure to determine the cause of a fire alarm activation, including the potential of an active shooter event; requires each LEA to coordin...
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2024-03-19
Effective date(s) 03/12/2024
TNHB1707PassAs enacted, revises various provisions regarding the regulation of charitable solicitations in this state. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 101, Part 5.
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2024-03-19
Effective date(s) 03/07/2021, 07/01/2024
TNHB1806PassAs enacted, permits an owner or lessee of a motorcycle to receive a disabled decal to affix to a new specialty earmarked, cultural, or other special purpose plate that is authorized for motorcycles. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 21 and Title 55, Cha...
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2024-03-19
Effective date(s) 03/01/2024
TNHB1127PassAs enacted, removes the limitation that ATVs and off-highway vehicles may be operated on a certain segment of State Route 62 and State Route 330 within the Town of Oliver Springs in Anderson County only two weekends per year. - Amends TCA Section 55-...
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2024-03-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 522
TNHB1188PassAs enacted, requires, beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, each LEA and public charter school to have fifth grade students complete one semester of Tennessee history in the first semester of the students' fifth grade year. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2024-03-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 523
TNHB1680PassAs enacted, expands the Tennessee Adult Protection Act's definition of abuse or neglect to include certain situations when an adult is unable to maintain the adult's own health or welfare. - Amends TCA Section 71-6-102.
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2024-03-19
Effective date(s) 02/28/2024
TNHB0284PassAs enacted, standardizes the thresholds for competitive sealed bids for counties, municipalities, utility districts, local education agencies, and other local governmental entities. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 14; Title 6, Chapter 56, Part 3; Title...
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2024-03-15
Effective date(s) 03/01/2024
TNHB0701PassAs enacted, adds offenses of continuous sexual abuse of a child committed on or after July 1, 2024, to the list of qualifying criminal misconduct that is sentenced to community supervision for life in addition to any other statutorily imposed punishm...
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2024-03-15
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNHJR0938PassSPC Jeremy Daniel Evans, U.S. Army
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2024-03-13
Signed by Governor.
TNHJR0983PassMike Caylor
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2024-03-13
Signed by Governor.
TNHJR1006PassRep. Don Ridgeway
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2024-03-13
Signed by Governor.
TNHJR0963PassTennesseans for opposing and condemning neo-Nazism
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2024-03-11
Signed by Governor.
TNHJR0950PassGnash, Nashville Predators' mascot
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2024-03-11
Signed by Governor.
TNHR0105PassCamille Dowdy
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2024-03-05
Signed by H. Speaker
TNHJR0915PassToby Keith
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2024-03-01
Signed by Governor.
TNHJR0808PassRepresentative Frank Buck
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2024-02-21
Signed by Governor.
TNHJR0791PassJohn Patten Guerry
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2024-02-12
Signed by Governor.
TNHJR0780PassKenzie Rowlett, Eagle Scout
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2024-02-12
Signed by Governor.
TNHJR0784PassJames B. "Jim" Spears
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2024-02-12
Signed by Governor.
TNHJR0704PassWilliam Strickland Peach
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2024-01-30
Signed by Governor.
TNHJR0703PassPat Petty
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2024-01-30
Signed by Governor.
TNHJR0690PassChief Warrant Officer 3 Stephen R. Dwyer, Chief Warrant Officer 2 Shane M. Barnes, Staff Sergeant Tanner W. Grone, Sergeant Andrew P. Southard, and Sergeant Cade M. Wolfe
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2024-01-30
Signed by Governor.
TNHB7012PassAs enacted, directs the department of safety to provide free firearm locks to Tennessee residents upon request, subject to appropriations; requires department-approved handgun safety courses to contain instruction on the safe storage of firearms; exe...
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2023-12-27
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1
TNHB7013PassAs enacted, changes from 30 days to 72 hours the time frame within which a clerk of the circuit or general sessions court must notify the TBI of the final disposition of criminal proceedings against a person after final disposition of such proceeding...
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2023-12-27
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 2
TNHB7041PassAs enacted, requires the bureau to submit a report on child and human trafficking crimes and trends in this state, based upon data available to the bureau, as well as current programs and activities of the bureau's human trafficking unit, to the gove...
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2023-12-27
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 3
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