Tennessee Senator Steve Southerland [R] | Introduced

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TNSJR1497Intro
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Naomi Israel
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2024-04-18
To Senate Calendar Committee
TNSB2983Intro
25%
Subject to local approval, rewrites the city charter. - Amends Chapter 103 of the Acts of 1903; as amended.
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2024-04-17
Placed on Senate Local Calendar for 4/15/2024
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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2024-04-17
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB2902Intro
25%
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.
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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2024-04-16
To Senate Calendar Committee
TNSB1367Intro
25%
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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2024-04-11
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2696Intro
25%
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
Sponsor(s) Added.
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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2024-04-11
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2705Intro
25%
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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2024-04-11
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2697Intro
25%
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
25%
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
TNSB1379Intro
25%
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
25%
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
TNSB2695Intro
25%
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
25%
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
25%
As introduced, designates as official state books of Tennessee "Farewell Address to the American People" by George Washington; "Democracy in America" by Alexis de Tocqueville; "Aitken Bible"; "The Papers of Andrew Jackson"; "Roots" by Alex Haley ; "A...
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2024-03-26
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB2699Intro
25%
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
TNSB2709Intro
25%
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
25%
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
25%
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
25%
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
25%
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
25%
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
25%
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
TNSB0462Intro
25%
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
25%
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
TNSB1383Intro
25%
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
25%
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
TNSB1358Intro
25%
As introduced, requires franchise holders, and certificated providers, that provide broadband service to file on or before July 1, 2023, and by July 1 of the two subsequent years thereafter, a map or other information with the appropriate regulatory ...
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2023-03-20
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB1368Intro
25%
As introduced, changes, from the department of education to the student's LEA, the entity responsible for determining whether a third or fourth grade student who previously tested not proficient in English language arts has shown adequate growth on a...
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2023-03-15
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB1374Intro
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As introduced, requires the department to allocate to each local education agency (LEA) sufficient funds for the LEA to employ one full-time public school nurse for every 750 students enrolled in the LEA, or one full-time public school nurse for the ...
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2023-03-15
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB1361Intro
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As introduced, requires the bureau to reimburse in-network dental services providers for a dental service provided to a TennCare recipient at a rate that is no less than the amount identified as the national median fee for that dental service accordi...
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2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee
TNSB1382Intro
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As introduced, expands the rulemaking authority of the commissioner of transportation for purposes of addressing litter prevention and control. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39 and Title 54.
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2023-03-15
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee
TNSB1363Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the bureau to ensure that providers of adult day care services are reimbursed based upon the amount of services that are authorized on behalf of the eligible adult, and without regard for the eligible adult's attendance or abs...
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2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee
TNSB1364Intro
25%
As introduced, designates the segment of State Route 66 from its intersection with State Route 160 in Hamblen County to its intersection with Interstate 81 at Exit 4 in Jefferson County as a scenic highway. - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 17.
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2023-03-15
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee
TNSJR0183Intro
25%
John Bruce Saltsman, Jr., Tennessee Fish and Wildlife Commission
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2023-03-13
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSJR0270Intro
25%
R. Larry Smith, Fish and Wildlife Commission
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2023-03-02
Withdrawn.
TNSB1467Intro
25%
As introduced, changes, from five business days to 10 days, the time in which a final order related to water quality control by the board of water quality, oil and gas, or an administrative judge, must be published on the department of environment an...
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2023-03-01
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee
TNSB1372Intro
25%
As introduced, prohibits the wildlife resource agency from prohibiting the importation into this state of a carcass if importation of the carcass is otherwise permitted under state and federal law. - Amends TCA Title 44; Title 53 and Title 70.
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2023-02-06
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee
TNSB1359Intro
25%
As introduced, reduces from 45 to 30 days the period following the conclusion of the biannual reporting periods by which an employer of a lobbyist must file with the Tennessee ethics commission the employer's disclosure report of compensation paid to...
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2023-02-06
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
TNSB1366Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Pigeon River Economic Recovery District Act," which allows a county that borders or is crossed by the Pigeon River to elect to be a "Pigeon River economic recovery district" for alternative sales and use tax revenue distrib...
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2023-02-06
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB1360Intro
25%
As introduced, entitles criminal investigators hired on or after July 1, 1994, to be compensated at a rate equal to 35 percent of the annual compensation of the district attorney general, with compensation rate increases for 20 years until the compen...
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2023-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB1386Intro
25%
As introduced, reduces, from 60 days to 45 days, the time within which, after the end of the calendar year, the commissioner of financial institutions must submit the department's annual report to the governor. - Amends TCA Title 45.
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2023-02-06
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB1376Intro
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As introduced, adds emergency call takers and public safety dispatchers to the definition of first responder for purposes of death benefits. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 29 and Title 63.
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2023-02-06
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
TNSB1388Intro
25%
As introduced, lowers from five years to four years, the amount of time that must pass from the death of a nominee before such nominee can be inducted into the Tennessee agricultural hall of fame. - Amends TCA Title 43 and Title 44.
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2023-02-06
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee
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