| TN | HB1975 | Pass | As enacted, adds offenses to the list of offenses for which, upon conviction, the state board of education automatically revokes a teacher's or administrator's license. - Amends TCA Section 49-5-417.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-06
Pub. Ch. 629 |
| TN | HB2818 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the state board of education to promulgate emergency rules as necessary to address any issues created by school closures due to the outbreak of COVID-10 during the 2019-2020 school year; requires the commissioner of education t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-06
Pub. Ch. 652 |
| TN | HB1175 | Pass | As introduced, clarifies that the bureau of TennCare and the health care finance and administration of the department of finance and administration may submit by electronic means the quarterly reports on the use of technical assistance groups of heal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-03
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB1671 | Pass | As enacted, revises provisions governing the assigning of a student to an alternative school or alternative program. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 603 |
| TN | HB2223 | Pass | As enacted, corrects a cross-reference in regard to the standards that apply to certain donations of food; changes the level of carelessness that gives rise to liability for damage caused by certain food donors from negligence to gross negligence; ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 592 |
| TN | HB2308 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Holly Bobo Act," which expands the bureau's endangered child and young adult alert program to include endangered persons under 21 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 595 |
| TN | HB0038 | Intro | As introduced, changes, from 10 days to 10 business days, the period for which public notice must be given in advance of an LEA's acceptance of bids for contracts for the construction of a school building, or an addition to an existing school buildin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-20
Reset on Regular Cal. for 6-1-20 |
| TN | HB2778 | Intro | As introduced, designates the Holy Bible as the official state book. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-20
Reset on Regular Cal. for 6-1-20 |
| TN | HB2568 | Intro | As introduced, requires any facility in which more than 50 abortions were performed during the previous calendar year to post a sign informing patients that a chemical abortion may be reversed following the first dose of a two-dose treatment; require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-20
Reset on Regular Cal. for 6-1-20 |
| TN | HB1699 | Engross | As introduced, makes various changes to the law concerning the electronic delivery of health care and its coverage under insurance policies. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Section 63-1-155.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-19
Passed Senate as amended, Ayes 29, Nays 0 |
| TN | HJR0974 | Pass | Victor Thompson
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-19
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HR0270 | Pass | Sophie Linder, state golf champion
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-19
Signed by H. Speaker |
| TN | HJR1042 | Engross | Sophie Linder, state golf champion
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-19
Engrossed; ready for transmission to Sen. |
| TN | HB1172 | Intro | As introduced, creates a new division of state government, the Tennessee Office of Cooperative Disability Investigation, to operate for two years. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 10; Title 38 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Meeting Canceled |
| TN | HJR0133 | Engross | Urges federal government to address internet safety.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Action deferred in Senate Commerce & Labor Committee |
| TN | HB0614 | Intro | As introduced, requires a landlord to provide local governmental agencies responsible for enforcing building codes the landlord's email address in addition to the landlord's name, telephone number, and physical address. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 62...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Meeting Canceled |
| TN | HJR0741 | Engross | Affirms the constitutional duty and exclusive authority and power of the General Assembly to appropriate public moneys and balance the state budget.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Action deferred in Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | HB1929 | Intro | As introduced, prohibits the governor from making a decision or obligating the state of Tennessee in any way with regard to resettlement of refugees unless authorized by joint resolution of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Meeting Canceled |
| TN | HB2883 | Intro | As introduced, allows Smith County, upon the adoption of a resolution by a two-thirds majority vote of the county legislative body, to assess a privilege tax on litigation in court cases in an amount not to exceed $50 per case to be used exclusively ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Meeting Canceled |
| TN | HB2877 | Intro | As introduced, increases fine that may be assessed against persons who fail to give notice of blasting operations prior to conducting such operations; reduces maximum allowable peak particle velocity limits for blasting site distances; revises other ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Meeting Canceled |
| TN | HB2878 | Intro | As introduced, adds I-40 Exit 258 in Smith County to the list of projects to be developed with revenues derived from the increased taxes and fees imposed by the IMPROVE Act. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4, Part 1; Title 55, Chapter 6; Title 67, Cha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Meeting Canceled |
| TN | HB2879 | Intro | As introduced, requires the department of state to maintain a printable Tennessee residential property condition disclosure form on the department's website for use by the public. - Amends TCA Title 12; Title 13; Title 29; Title 49; Title 66 and Titl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Meeting Canceled |
| TN | HJR0828 | Intro | Recognizes the importance of the honeybee and pollinators to the agricultural industry of Tennessee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Meeting Canceled |
| TN | HB2884 | Intro | As introduced, extends civil immunity to a charitable organization or an employee, volunteer, or independent contractor of a charitable organization that discloses to an individual's subsequent or prospective employer allegations of sexual abuse or m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Meeting Canceled |
| TN | HB2881 | Intro | As introduced, creates a new practitioner license for persons seeking to become licensed teachers; requires the department of education, when issuing an educator license to an out-of-state educator, to issue a license that is equivalent to the licens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Meeting Canceled |
| TN | HB1553 | Intro | As introduced, creates exceptions to the offense of open or concealed carrying of a firearm with the intent to go armed for any person legally in possession and not prohibited from possessing a firearm; converts existing defenses to be exceptions. - ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Meeting Canceled |
| TN | HJR0818 | Engross | Harriet Tubman Day
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Action deferred in Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| TN | HB2263 | Intro | As introduced, extends the time, from 30 to 60 days, within which a physician accused of performing a partial-birth abortion may delay trial in order to allow the state medical board to determine whether the physician's conduct was necessary to save ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Meeting Canceled |
| TN | HB0497 | Intro | As introduced, expands the definition of "eligible independent postsecondary institution" to include certain private postsecondary institutions for purposes of scholarships and grants funded from net proceeds of the state lottery. - Amends TCA Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Meeting Canceled |
| TN | HB2576 | Intro | As introduced, prohibits the provision of sexual identity change therapy to prepubescent minors; prohibits the provision of sexual identity change therapy to minors who have entered puberty unless a parent or guardian has written recommendations for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Meeting Canceled |
| TN | HB2195 | Intro | As introduced, enacts the "Major Trevor Joseph Act," which requires the department to provide burial services for any person who died while on active duty with the armed forces and is being interred in a state veterans cemetery on any date requested ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Meeting Canceled |
| TN | HR0214 | Intro | Urges the department of education to enroll students in the Tennessee Education Savings Account Pilot program no earlier than the 2021-2022 school year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Meeting Canceled |
| TN | HB0600 | Intro | As introduced, requires LEAs and state institutions of higher education to use certain definitions and examples of anti-Semitism when reviewing, investigating, or determining whether there has been a violation of certain education policies prohibitin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Meeting Canceled |
| TN | HB2886 | Intro | As introduced, creates the Women's Suffrage Centennial new specialty earmarked license plate. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Meeting Canceled |
| TN | HB1550 | Intro | As introduced, deletes the Tennessee Education Savings Account Pilot Program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Meeting Canceled |
| TN | HB1930 | Intro | As introduced, deletes an antiquated reporting requirement relating to an expired pilot project of the alcoholic beverage commission related to the sale of alcoholic beverages and beer on the premises. - Amends TCA Title 57.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Meeting Canceled |
| TN | HB1620 | Pass | As enacted, adds documentation a veteran may submit to the department of safety to have military service indicated on a driver license to allow an honorably discharged veteran to submit a certified copy of the veteran's AGO Form 53-55 or NAVPERS 553 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 519 |
| TN | HB1557 | Engross | As introduced, increases from a Class C misdemeanor to a Class B misdemeanor the penalty for committing mitigated criminal littering if the litter is or includes human waste in a container. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration |
| TN | HB1554 | Engross | As introduced, allows an LEA to choose to administer TCAP tests to its students in a paper format beginning with the 2020-2021 school year if the commissioner authorizes TCAP tests to be administered in a computerized format; requires the department ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration |
| TN | HB2586 | Intro | As introduced, designates "Women's Suffrage Day" as a day of special observance. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
Reset on cal. for 3/23/2020 |
| TN | HB0384 | Intro | As introduced, extends compensation for death of emergency responders to emergency medical technicians and paramedics; authorizes local governments to continue to provide health insurance to the surviving spouse and children of an emergency medical t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
Placed behind the budget |
| TN | HB0716 | Intro | As introduced, creates per se DUI offense of driving while the person's blood includes any amount of Schedule I controlled substance or Schedule II, III, IV, or V controlled substance that cannot be dispensed without a prescription when the person do...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To House Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee |
| TN | HB1691 | Intro | As introduced, changes, from August 15 to June 1, the date on which a child must be five years of age to enroll in kindergarten; changes, from September 30 to July 31, the date on which a child determined by the director of schools to be sufficiently...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB1688 | Intro | As introduced, deletes requirement for LEAs to provide a physical education class taught by a licensed teacher with an endorsement in physical education or by a specialist in physical education; deletes reporting requirements; requires each LEA to in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB1687 | Intro | As introduced, requires the board to abolish all academic standards for science and social studies for students in kindergarten through grade two; allows the subjects of science and social studies to be incorporated into the curriculum aligned with t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB1689 | Intro | As introduced, prohibits a student from participating in a single-sex interscholastic sport or athletic event provided by the student's public school unless the student verifies with the public school that the student is of the respective sex. - Amen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB2880 | Intro | As introduced, establishes $500 as the minimum fine for a person's unlawful trespass onto a school bus or other school premises; makes it an unlawful trespass for certain persons to enter onto a school bus without first obtaining authorization to do ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB2134 | Intro | As introduced, enacts the "Teacher's Discipline Act"; establishes a disciplinary process for students who have been removed from the classroom by the teacher. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB0273 | Intro | As introduced, enacts the "Save Tennessee Call Center Jobs Act of 2019." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 12; Title 50 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To House Consumer and Human Resources Committee |
| TN | HB2882 | Intro | As introduced, extends, from 30 calendar days to 30 business days, the period within which the executive committee may disapprove, modify, or otherwise change any action taken by the board of trustees related to the retirement system, before such act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To House Public Service & Employees Subcommittee |
