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TNSB1367Intro
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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.
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2694Intro
25%
As introduced, retroactively allows employers to take a deduction from net earnings for state excise tax filing purposes, in the amount of expenses, including wages and compensation, associated with their employee retention credit allowable on their ...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2705Intro
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As introduced, requires the department to publish on its website the department's annual report to the governor and general assembly on the state's solid waste management system. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 11; Tit...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2703Intro
25%
As introduced, reduces, from 3,000 to 750, the number of students for which one public school nurse is considered sufficient to adequately provide services for purposes of the Tennessee public school nurse program. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.
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2024-04-18
Companion House Bill substituted
TNSB2983Intro
25%
Subject to local approval, rewrites the city charter. - Amends Chapter 103 of the Acts of 1903; as amended.
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2024-04-18
Placed on Senate Local Calendar for 4/22/2024
TNSB2901Intro
25%
As introduced, reduces from 60 to 30 days the waiting period before a law enforcement officer who is a member of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system may be reemployed after the officer's effective date of retirement. - Amends TCA Title 8, Ch...
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2024-04-18
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB2691PassAs enacted, prohibits the intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances, or apparatus within the borders of this state into the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting temperature, ...
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2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNSB2902Intro
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As introduced, requires the board of trustees for the retirement system to include a certification of the amount of normal contributions, accumulated liability contribution, and cost of living contribution required from an employer for state judges a...
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2024-04-17
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB2223Enroll
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As introduced, enacts the "Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act," which prohibits a financial institution from requiring the usage of a merchant code that distinguishes a firearms retailer from a general merchandise retailer or a sporting goods ret...
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2024-04-12
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSB2696Intro
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As introduced, expands the delinquent acts that constitute a violent juvenile sexual offense for purposes of the sexual offender registry to include an adjudication of delinquency for an act that, if committed by an adult, constitutes the criminal of...
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2024-04-11
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TNSB2697Intro
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As introduced, authorizes a special occasion license to be issued in a jurisdiction wherein the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises has not been approved with written approval to hold an event by and in such jurisdiction that ...
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2024-04-11
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB2698Intro
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As introduced, requires an applicant for an insurance producer license for title insurance to complete a pre-licensing course of study that consists of a minimum of 30 hours of course work. - Amends TCA Title 56.
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2024-04-09
Companion House Bill substituted
TNSB2808PassAs enacted, replaces references to "poisonous snakes" with "venomous snakes"; defines "venomous." - Amends TCA Section 39-17-101 and Title 70.
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2024-04-08
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 636
TNSB1381PassAs enacted, clarifies authority of the fish and wildlife commission to set fees for nonresident licenses; makes other clarifications and changes to present law concerning regulation of hunting and fishing. - Amends TCA Title 70.
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2024-04-04
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
TNSB1379Intro
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As introduced, prohibits a financial institution from releasing or providing the account balance or transaction activity of an account to a person without first obtaining the account holder's express permission or without a warrant issued by a judici...
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2024-04-04
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
TNSB1380Intro
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As introduced, increases, from three to four consecutive weeks, the amount of time that notice of a public hearing to determine whether a central business improvement district will be established must be published in a newspaper of general circulatio...
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2024-04-04
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
TNSB2708Intro
25%
As introduced, specifies that for purposes of air quality control, all equipment used in the process of producing nonmetallic materials contained within an aggregate processing facility or asphalt plant, including crushers, screens, conveyors, and fe...
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2024-04-03
To Senate Calendar Committee
TNSB2089PassAs enacted, expands the permitted uses for money received by a county for each tire sold in the county to include removal of illegally disposed waste tires from public or private property; authorizes the department of environment and conservation to ...
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2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 614
TNSB2695Intro
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As introduced, reduces the offenses for which a defendant must be placed on a state or federal list as a fugitive for failure to appear in court from all felonies and Class A or Class B misdemeanors that are violent or sexual in nature to only feloni...
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2024-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2306Intro
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As introduced, designates November as "Christian Heritage Month." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1.
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2024-03-28
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB1822Intro
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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...
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2024-03-26
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB2699Intro
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As introduced, requires a person with a court-ordered fiduciary responsibility toward a person who lacks capacity and a person holding a valid power of attorney for a person who lacks capacity to bring an action within the statute of limitations; cla...
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2024-03-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB1177PassAs 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
Effective date(s) 03/01/2024
TNSB2709Intro
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As introduced, authorizes sponsors of private investigator apprentices to submit apprentice training reports to the commissioner of commerce and insurance electronically. - Amends TCA Title 62 and Title 68, Chapter 21.
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2024-03-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB2693Intro
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As introduced, redefines "cable services" and "video services" for purposes of the Competitive Cable and Video Services Act to include video programming accessed via a service that enables end users to access content, information, electronic mail, or...
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2024-03-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB2707Intro
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As introduced, changes the definition of a "home loan" to a closed-end loan with a term of at least 241 months; removes existing variable limits on the maximum effective rate of annual interest on home loans of no higher than two points greater than ...
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2024-03-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB2706Intro
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As introduced, changes from December 1 to December 15 the date by which the commissioner and the underground storage tanks and solid waste disposal control board must submit their annual report to the speakers of both houses of the general assembly e...
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2024-03-06
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee
TNSB2692Intro
25%
As introduced, requires a description of real property by metes and bounds contained within any deed of conveyance of real property of any property not previously described in a recorded instrument to be prepared by a registered land surveyor. - Amen...
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2024-03-05
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB2701Intro
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As introduced, requires an LEA or public charter school to install, maintain, and use, subject to parental request and approval, a video camera surveillance system in each special education classroom operated by the LEA or public charter school to co...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2700Intro
25%
As introduced, creates the offense of instigation; requires an affiant to file an affidavit for abeyance when requesting an arrest warrant; permits a citizen's arrest following two verbal notices for the offense of trespassing. - Amends TCA Title 39;...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2702Intro
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As introduced, increases from $2,000 to $3,000, the amount per violation assessed by the secretary of state as a civil penalty against a sanctioned nonresident alien, sanctioned foreign business, sanctioned foreign government, or agent, trustee, or o...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB2704Intro
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As introduced, clarifies that a political subdivision that imposes requirements or expectations related to the type of clean or renewable energy used by a public utility in an ordinance, resolution, or other regulation must include certain sources of...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee
TNSB2807Intro
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As introduced, requires a board of directors of a watershed district to provide notice to each director of the board five business days, instead of five days, prior to the date of the meeting. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11; Title 43; Title 44; Title...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee
TNSB1468Intro
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As introduced, directs the Tennessee advisory committee on intergovernmental relations to perform a study of the overall severity and effect of litter on the maintenance and natural resources of state parks, and to report the committee's findings to ...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee
TNSB0856PassAs 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.
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2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/17/2023, 01/01/2024
TNSB1119PassAs enacted, designates the National Guard Armory to be constructed in Warren County as the "Major General Terry Max Haston National Guard Armory".
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2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/17/2023
TNSB0813PassAs enacted, increases the pay schedule for certain assistant district attorneys general, assistant district public defenders, district investigators, and criminal investigators. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14 and Title 8, Chapter 7.
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2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 06/30/2023
TNSB0808PassAs enacted, makes changes to the Primacy and Reclamation Act of Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 59; Title 67; Title 68; Title 69 and Chapter 548 of the Public Acts of 2021.
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2023-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 401
TNSB1377PassAs enacted, makes changes to present law concerning residential and energy codes. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 13, Chapter 19 and Title 68, Chapter 120.
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2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 312
TNSB1389PassAs enacted, requires a political subdivision that imposes requirements or expectations related to the type of clean or renewable energy used by a public utility in an ordinance, resolution, or other regulation to include certain sources of energy as ...
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2023-04-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 154
TNSB0315PassAs enacted, authorizes a private school and a local government to execute a contract or memorandum of understanding to allow the law enforcement agency of the local government to provide school resource officers to the private school. - Amends TCA Ti...
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2023-04-18
Effective date(s) 03/31/2023
TNSB1541PassSubject to local approval, rewrites the town charter. - Amends Chapter 563 of the Acts of 1903; as amended.
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2023-04-18
Pr. Ch. 3
TNSB0462Intro
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As introduced, reduces, from 29.0141 percent to 28.5262 percent, the share of state sales and use tax revenue deposited to the state general fund; increases, from 4.6030 percent to 5.0909 percent, the share appropriated to municipalities. - Amends TC...
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2023-04-13
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1370Intro
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As introduced, authorizes Class I and II off-highway vehicles to be operated on state highways with a posted speed limit of 55 mph or less. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 3; Title 55, Chapter 4 and Title 55, Chapter 8.
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2023-03-30
Re-refer to S. Cal Comm
TNSB1362PassSubject to local approval, adjusts the compensation of the road commissioners to be $200 or greater, instead of equal to $200 a month; adjusts the compensation of the chairman to be $350 or greater, instead of equal to $350 a month; requires the legi...
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2023-03-29
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 1
TNSB1369PassAs enacted, removes the requirement that an individual applying for an insurance producer license take a prelicensing course of study for a line of authority; removes other references to the prelicensing education requirement for applicants for an in...
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2023-03-28
Effective date(s) 03/21/2023
TNSB0262PassAs enacted, allows the department to disclose motor vehicle accident reports to authorized persons relating to a guest's use of state parks. - Amends TCA Section 11-1-102.
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2023-03-23
Effective date(s) 03/10/2023
TNSB0367PassAs enacted, prohibits political subdivisions from prohibiting, based on the type or source of energy to be delivered to an individual customer, the sale or installation of an appliance utilized for cooking, space heating, water heating, or another en...
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2023-03-23
Effective date(s) 03/14/2023
TNSB1383Intro
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As introduced, requires a bank designated by the county trustee to act as a collection agent for the trustee and accept the deposit of county and municipal property taxes, to provide to the county trustee such evidence of the taxes deposited into the...
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2023-03-21
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
TNSB1373Intro
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As introduced, requires the commissioner of finance and administration to report the total amount of state funds paid to acquire property through eminent domain in the 2021-2022 year to the chairs of the finance, ways and means committees and the off...
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2023-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee
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