| TN | HB0587 | Intro
25% | As introduced, lowers the threshold for enhancing the minimum sentence of a person convicted of driving under the influence of an intoxicant, from a blood alcohol concentration of 0.20 percent or more to a blood alcohol concentration of 0.15 percent ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To House Calendar and Rules Committee |
| TN | HB1016 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, changes the date, from February 1 to January 15, by which the commissioner must annually report to the governor and the general assembly on the implementation of and compliance with the Schools Against Violence in Education Act. - Amen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | HB1643 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, requires the state to pay the cost of a court-ordered mental health evaluation and treatment for criminal defendants who have been charged with a misdemeanor and are believed to be incompetent to stand trial or for whom there is a ques...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | HB1640 | Pass | As introduced, expands the definition of "adjudication as a mental defective" to include a person who has been found incompetent to stand trial in a criminal proceeding and requires the clerk of court in such a proceeding to collect and report any su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB1695 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, specifies that reports of county medical examiners and autopsy reports of victims of violent crime who are minors are not public documents; allows a parent or legal guardian of a minor victim of a violent crime to consent to the releas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | HB1682 | Pass | As introduced, adds a certificate of need for care and treatment that was completed by a licensed physician and a qualified advanced practice provider as a suitable certification for filing with a court for the purpose of a probable cause hearing on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB1614 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Protect Tennessee Minors Act"; requires an individual or commercial entity that publishes or distributes in this state a website that contains a substantial portion of material harmful to minors perform reasonable age-verif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To House Calendar and Rules Committee |
| TN | HB1817 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, increases the penalty from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class D felony for the offense of child endangerment by a parent or custodian of a child eight years of age or less if the parent or guardian knowingly exposes the child to, or know...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Transmitted to Governor for his action. |
| TN | HB1890 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes a program to allow the department of agriculture to acquire and administer real estate interests in the state, including the administration of grants for the purpose of preserving farm and forestry land; creates the Farmlan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Sponsor(s) withdrawn. |
| TN | HB1881 | Engross
50% | As introduced, increases the penalty for assault against a law enforcement officer from a Class A misdemeanor with a mandatory minimum 30-day sentence and $5,000 fine to a Class E felony with a mandatory minimum 60-day sentence and $10,000 fine. - Am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration |
| TN | HB1891 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, creates the "Protecting Children from Social Media Act." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | HB1895 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates the criminal offense of abortion trafficking of a minor; provides for a civil action against a person committing the offense of abortion trafficking of a minor for the wrongful death of an unborn child that was aborted. - Amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | HB2163 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, specifies that for the purposes of sexual exploitation of children offenses, the term "material" includes computer-generated images created, adapted, or modified by artificial intelligence; defines "artificial intelligence." - Amends T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | HB1727 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies that a parent or guardian who knowingly leaves their child under the care or supervision of a person who is required to register as a sexual offender commits a Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 4 an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | HB2641 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, authorizes counties and municipalities, by resolution or ordinance of their governing bodies, to levy a tax on the retail sale of food and food ingredients for human consumption within the county or municipality at a rate less than the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | HB2642 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, adds a fire engine converted to a for-hire passenger vehicle as a type of entertainment transportation that may be regulated by a governmental entity. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 57; Title 65; Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Transmitted to Governor for his action. |
| TN | HB2031 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the penalty for intentionally obstructing a highway, street, or other place used for the passage of vehicles or conveyances from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class D felony; allows a person who suffers loss or injury as a resul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | HB2002 | Engross
50% | As introduced, creates one additional circuit court in the 4th judicial district. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration |
| TN | HB2000 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, empowers the attorney general to fix the attorney general's and their assistant's compensation; limits the attorney general's salary to an associate justice on the supreme court or a Class 1 official; permits the attorney general to pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | HB1625 | Pass | As introduced, requires a qualified mental health professional or behavior analyst to warn or protect an identified victim or group of people when the professional or analyst determines that a service recipient has communicated an intent for actual t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB1872 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes the enhancement of criminal penalties up to life in prison without parole upon conviction of violent crimes by illegal aliens; conviction of possession of a firearm or deadly weapon by an illegal alien; or conviction of a vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To House Calendar and Rules Committee |
| TN | HB2386 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, authorizes a law enforcement officer to execute a search warrant for medical records or a test to determine the alcohol or drug content, or both, of a person's blood anywhere in the state, rather than in the county in which the warrant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Transmitted to Governor for his action. |
| TN | HB2310 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates a civil cause of action against any person who knowingly removes a minor from this state without the consent of a parent of the minor for the purpose of assisting the minor in obtaining a healthcare procedure that is for the pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To House Calendar and Rules Committee |
| TN | HB2845 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits a beer permittee from selling at retail refrigerated or cold beer. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 55 and Title 57.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | HB2062 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates a street racing task force to study and determine best practices for curbing illegal street racing in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 55.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To House Calendar and Rules Committee |
| TN | HB1877 | Pass | As introduced, requires hospitals and physicians to accept electronic insurance cards as valid proof of an insurance policy, plan, or contract. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB2182 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, redefines "qualified data center" for purposes of sales and use taxes to include a data center that previously made a capital investment in excess of $100 million during an investment period not to exceed three years and creates at lea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Transmitted to Governor for his action. |
| TN | HB2054 | Engross
50% | As introduced, increases from 1,500 to 5,000 the number of acres of land that may be placed within one property tax jurisdiction for purposes of classification and assessment as agricultural, forest, or open space land; increases from 1,500 to 5,000 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Engrossed; ready for transmission to Sen. |
| TN | HB2301 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the sheriff's department's and municipal law enforcement department's annual audit report of the disposition of goods seized and forfeited and fines imposed in relation to offenses involving controlled substances to be posted ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | HB0526 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes requirement for receipt of certain grants and loans for water and wastewater treatment infrastructure projects that a municipality includes depreciation in its calculation of fees or rates. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To House Calendar and Rules Committee |
| TN | HB1641 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor of violating a condition of release on bail; authorizes a law enforcement officer to arrest a person without a warrant based on probable cause to believe that the person has violated a condition of release...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Comp. SB subst. |
| TN | HB1658 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates the Class E felony offense of assault against a participant in judicial proceedings, which occurs when a person, while on the premises of a building in which judicial proceedings occur, knowingly assaults a victim that the pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | HB1663 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes the death penalty as a punishment for rape of a child, aggravated rape of a child, or especially aggravated rape of a child. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Chapter 1062 of the Public Acts of 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | HB1692 | Pass | As introduced, establishes the official policy for the maintenance of records by the department of tourist development. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 22 and Title 10, Chapter 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB1920 | Pass | As introduced, extends the percentage of a misdemeanor sentence that a court may require a defendant to serve from 75 percent to 100 percent. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 41, Chapter 21, Part 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB1628 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates new criminal offenses of assault within a healthcare facility and aggravated assault within a healthcare facility. - Amends TCA Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | HB2188 | Intro
25% | As introduced, states that, for inmates serving a sentence of two years or more for an offense committed on or after July 1, 2024, sentence reduction credits shall not operate to alter the defendant's sentence expiration date, but may be used to redu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | HB2168 | Pass | As introduced, states that an order of protection issued by a general sessions court or other official remains in effect during the appeal to circuit or chancery court unless otherwise ordered by the general sessions judge or official. - Amends TCA T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB1613 | Pass | As enacted, designates “Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree” by Brenda Lee as the official state holiday song; requires the secretary of state to include the song in the Tennessee Blue Book. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Effective date(s) 04/16/2024 |
| TN | HB2692 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the court to order an offender to wear a global positioning monitoring system device under certain circumstances unless the court finds the offender no longer poses a threat to the alleged victim or public safety; specifies th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | HB2267 | Pass | As introduced, lowers, from 15 to seven, the number of days by which a general sessions judge may postpone a trial for forcible entry and detainer; makes other changes related to forcible entry and detainers. - Amends TCA Title 27; Title 29 and Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB2773 | Pass | As introduced, requires that a minor's parent or legal guardian have access to the minor's prescription records even when the minor is able to obtain treatment without parental consent. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 66 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB2113 | Pass | As introduced, requires causes of action for unpaid wages for hours worked, overtime, minimum wage, salary, bonuses, commissions, or other compensation owed to an employee or independent contractor, including ones for breach of contract, unjust enric...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB1731 | Intro
25% | As introduced, decreases from two inches to one and one-half inches the minimum height of the lettering required to be used on the mandatory signage posted on property for which an agreement exists with a person engaged in the business of installing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | HB0647 | Pass | As introduced, limits what can be included in calculating the permissible costs that may be charged for copying and mailing a patient's medical records. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Section 63-2-102.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB0869 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the commission to continue submitting to the governor, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives annual reports on or before December 31 assessing food security among student populations. - Ame...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | HB2930 | Intro
25% | As introduced, directs the administrative office of the courts (AOC) to define and develop a centralized system of case management, document management, electronic case filing, electronic payment methods, data reporting, and any other capability deem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Comp. SB subst. |
| TN | HB2972 | Engross
50% | As introduced, authorizes the state to issue and sell bonds of up to $87,700,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Passed Senate, Ayes 30, Nays 0 |
| TN | HB2971 | Engross
50% | As introduced, deletes the Tennessee job skills program and fund. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 11; Title 12; Title 13; Title 16; Title 17; Title 18; Title 29; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Passed Senate, Ayes 30, Nays 0 |
| TN | HB2973 | Engross
50% | As introduced, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2023, and July 1, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Passed Senate, Ayes 26, Nays 4 |
