| TN | SB1242 | Pass | As enacted, requires the Tennessee peace officer standards and training (POST) commission to adopt guidelines and materials instructing law enforcement officers on the best practices for recognizing and responding to a medical crisis involving a pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 527 |
| TN | SB2055 | Engross
50% | As introduced, authorizes the county election commission to designate restroom facilities in each building in which the election is held that are for the use of workers or volunteers working for a campaign with certain limitations on access. - Amends...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB1790 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires each local school board to establish a school lunch program and a school breakfast program that provide a free breakfast and lunch to each student enrolled in a school under the board's jurisdiction; requires the state to reim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2035 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a manufacturer of agricultural equipment or agricultural equipment parts to provide an owner or independent repair shop access to tools, software, and documentation to allow the provision of services for the equipment. - Amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB2125 | Fail | As introduced, requires that on and after July 1, 2025, a minor child who is enrolled in TennCare or the CoverKids program remains eligible for TennCare or the CoverKids program until the minor child reaches six years of age; prohibits the bureau fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Failed in Senate Health and Welfare Committee / no second |
| TN | SB2505 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires that contracts entered into between a personal seat license (PSL) holder of 10 or more years and a professional sports franchise for the purchase of a subsequent PSL with an upgraded or improved seating classification include ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB2876 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires certain insurance policies or contracts that cover pregnancy and maternity benefits to cover benefits of perinatal educational courses, at no cost, for mothers, fathers, and one other person designated by the mother; requires ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB1081 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires each higher education institution to distribute or make available, prior to the beginning of each school year instead of at the beginning of each school year, a written policy prohibiting hazing by any student or organization ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1804 | Fail | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Contraceptive Freedom Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Failed in Senate Commerce and Labor Committee / no second |
| TN | SB2646 | Fail | As introduced, increases the hourly minimum wage to $20.00, or the federal minimum wage established pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, whichever rate is greater. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 23; Title 12, Chapter 4, Part 4 and Title 5...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Failed in Senate Commerce and Labor Committee / no second |
| TN | SB1812 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes the ability of a person who is a handgun carry permit holder or otherwise authorized to lawfully carry a handgun with the intent to go armed to transport and store a firearm or firearm ammunition in the person's motor vehicle w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2290 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits sales and purchases of certain high-capacity, semi-automatic firearms. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 54; Section 36-3-625; Section 38-3-119; Title 39 and Section 40-14-109.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1978 | Engross
50% | As introduced, designates the bog turtle as an official state reptile. - Amends TCA Section 4-1-321.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB0573 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Waste Reduction and Recycling Act"; requires sellers, distributors, and importers of certain packaging materials to take certain actions to reduce the amount of packaging material that becomes litter. - Amends TCA...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB0567 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds William R. Moore College of Technology as an eligible institution for receipt of the Wilder-Naifeh reconnect grant and Wilder-Naifeh technical skills grant. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1565 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates an offense for a person to possess or manufacture an ammunition feeding device that has capacity to accept more than 10 rounds, except for certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2647 | Intro
25% | As introduced, permits a court clerk to publish the court fees on the court clerk's website. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 16.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2874 | Intro
25% | As introduced, decreases from 30 to 15, the number of days a law enforcement agency, after taking possession of a sexual assault evidence collection kit with the victim's name affixed to it, shall submit the kit to the Tennessee bureau of investigati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2126 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases, from $7.25 to $15, the minimum hourly wage for employees within the state. - Amends TCA Section 8-23-203; Title 12 and Title 50, Chapter 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
Withdrawn. |
| TN | SB2224 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces, from 65 to 62, the minimum age of a person who is eligible to enroll in courses for credit at state-supported colleges and universities without payment of tuition and certain fees; adds law schools and veterinary schools to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2289 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a county register to remit 20 percent of collected transfer and mortgage taxes to the agency for purposes of making low-interest and zero-interest construction loans to low-income persons who live in areas with a critical need...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2386 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires political communications to contain a disclaimer if the communication was generated in whole or in part by synthetic media using artificial intelligence algorithms. - Amends TCA Title 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1789 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates the behavioral health crisis intervention services board to provide oversight and input on the development of an integrated behavioral health crisis care system in this state; imposes a behavioral health crisis intervention ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| TN | SB1817 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the bureau of workers compensation to publish the annual report of its review on the impact of the Workers' Compensation Reform Act of 2013 on its website. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB1816 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands eligibility for the Smart Steps child care payment assistance program for parents or guardians whose income is less than 100 percent of the state median income; requires the payments to be funded by state funds. - Amends TCA Ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1815 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the annual report of the board of trustees showing the fiscal transactions of the retirement system for the preceding year, the amount of the accumulated cash and securities of the retirement system, and the latest balance she...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB7052 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes a mental healthcare professionals student loan repayment grant program to incentivize certain mental healthcare providers to provide services in this state. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-23
Lay on the Table |
| TN | SB7064 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates the Class C felony of knowingly inducing or coercing a minor under 18 to commit theft of a firearm or a robbery or burglary offense involving theft of a firearm from a residence or motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-22
Lay on the Table |
| TN | SB7063 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of safety to distribute firearm locks to each county's sheriff for distribution to members of the public; requires each sheriff to distribute firearm locks to any person who makes a request; authorizes the sheri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-22
Lay on the Table |
| TN | SB0856 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "James 'Dustin' Samples Act." - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 9; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 102.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/17/2023, 01/01/2024 |
| TN | SB0543 | Pass | As enacted, creates the child care improvement fund, to be administered by the department of human services; creates a child care improvement pilot program to provide grants to nonprofit organizations to be used for establishing a new child care agen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/17/2023 |
| TN | SB1119 | Pass | As enacted, designates the National Guard Armory to be constructed in Warren County as the "Major General Terry Max Haston National Guard Armory".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/17/2023 |
| TN | SB0891 | Pass | As enacted, extends provisions related to the apportionment and distribution of state tax revenue as they pertain to National Basketball Association franchises until June 30, 2059. - Amends TCA Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 405 |
| TN | SB0193 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "One Pill Will Kill Act," which adds fentanyl, carfentanil, remifentanil, alfentanil, and thiafentanil to what constitutes a qualifying controlled substance for purposes of certain felony offenses. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 386 |
| TN | SB0717 | Pass | As enacted, requires a landlord to provide 60 days' notice of termination of tenancy for the purpose of eviction of a residential tenant of certain facilities for older persons if the tenant has paid the tenant's rent due and is not in arrears on ren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 400 |
| TN | SB0542 | Pass | As enacted, makes various revisions to present law relative to adoption. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 36; Title 37; Title 47 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 361 |
| TN | SB0201 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Jabari Bailey Highway Safety Act," which requires drivers to change lanes or reduce speed upon approaching a stationary vehicle that has flashing hazard lights activated; increases fines for failing to change lanes or reduce s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 354 |
| TN | SB0269 | Pass | As enacted, changes the designation of June 19, known as "Juneteenth," from a day of special observance to a legal holiday. - Amends TCA Title 15.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Effective date(s) 05/05/2023 |
| TN | SB0004 | Pass | As enacted, establishes a deaf mentor and parent advisor program to assist families in implementing bilingual and bicultural home-based programming for young children who are deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind at the Tennessee Schools for the Deaf ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0397 | Pass | As enacted, makes various changes to law relative to emergency response, including requiring certain information be provided to the assessor of property. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 2 and Title 67, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | SB0935 | Pass | As enacted, extends provisions related to the allocation of revenue from the surcharge or tax on the lease or rental of passenger motor vehicles as it pertains to costs related to an arena facility for a National Basketball Association (NBA) member p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | SB0511 | Pass | As enacted, designates "The Tennessee in Me" by Debbie Mathis Watts as an official state song. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
Effective date(s) 04/17/2023 |
| TN | SB1457 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that, in regard to a charitable organization's limitation of tort liability, providing shelter from adverse weather includes, but is not limited to, allowing persons to enter the premises for purposes of temporary shelter from s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 140 |
| TN | SB0533 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the grant of sick leave from a sick leave bank to a state employee to care for a sick minor child of the employee. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 8; Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 9 and Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 8.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0396 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the bureau to develop and implement an alert system, in coordination with the department of safety, department of transportation, and local law enforcement agencies, to be activated on report of an active shooter. - Amends TCA...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1481 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a law enforcement officer to undergo annual de-escalation training and an annual mental health evaluation in order to be certified by the peace officer standards and training commission; requires each law enforcement agency to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1199 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires each law enforcement agency to develop a policy by July 1, 2023, on the use of force that emphasizes the use of force only as a reasonable and proportional response when viewed in light of the crime a suspect is alleged to hav...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0030 | Pass | As enacted, extends the board of appeals for the department of human resources to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 8, Chapter 30.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
Effective date(s) 03/06/2023 |
| TN | SB0553 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes references for mental defect, mental defective, and mentally defective to mental health condition throughout the code. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 33; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 41; Title 57; Title 62 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0740 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the Tennessee peace officer standards and training commission to submit the curriculum requirements concerning the use of citations in lieu of arrest, domestic violence training, and proper procedures to respond to persons wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
