| TN | HB0329 | Pass | As enacted, generally increases the base salaries in the state salary schedule for teachers formulated by the commissioner of education; prohibits an LEA from deducting dues from the wages of the LEA's employees for a professional employees' organiza...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 437 |
| TN | HB0933 | Pass | As enacted, requires each high school to inform each high school senior that upon reaching the age of 18 the student may be eligible to vote and provide information from the secretary of state about voter eligibility and how to register to vote. - Am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 444 |
| TN | HB0975 | Pass | As enacted, restores the requirement that a retired member's new employer pay to TCRS during each period of reemployment the greater of a payment equal to the amount the employer would have contributed to the retirement system had the retired member ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 425 |
| TN | HB0239 | Pass | As enacted, adds "sex" as a defined term for statutory construction purposes. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 8.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 486 |
| TN | HB0607 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes relative to the coverage of complex rehabilitation technology (CRT) by health insurance entities and managed care organizations. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 447 |
| TN | HB0432 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Future Teacher Scholarship Act of 2023." - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0854 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to present law relative to termination of certain parental rights. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023 |
| TN | HB1072 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department to establish an honor guard grant program to provide grants to veteran service organizations to offset expenses incurred by the organization and members of the organization's honor guard in providing military funer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 01/01/2024 |
| TN | HB0328 | Pass | As enacted, renames the "Tennessee Local Development Authority Act" to be the "Tennessee Local Development Authority Public Safety Protection Act of 2023" and makes various changes to its existing provisions. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 9.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023 |
| TN | HB0983 | Pass | As enacted, requires local education agencies (LEAs) to provide licensed employees of the LEA 6 paid workweeks after a birth or stillbirth of the employee's child or employee's adoption of a newly placed minor child. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023 |
| TN | HB0163 | Pass | As enacted, revises the definition of abandonment for purposes of termination of parental rights to include circumstances where the parent or guardian fails to visit or support the child for a period of three consecutive months if the child is less t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0562 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that compensation for members of the national guard must accrue upon them being ordered to active state service and the payment of compensation to members must use this state's established weekly pay cycle as needed to effectuat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0289 | Pass | As enacted, requires a sentence of death to be carried out within 30 business days of the conclusion of any appeals or post-conviction relief, if the jury unanimously determines that certain circumstances are met. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0027 | Pass | As enacted, allows a student who earns the student's first baccalaureate degree in less than the projected completion time to continue to receive the Tennessee HOPE scholarship in pursuit of an advanced degree. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0855 | Pass | As enacted, changes the time period during which the Tennessee putative father registry must have been consulted prior to the filing of a petition to terminate parental rights from 10 days to 10 working days; requires the appointment of a guardian ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 05/05/2023 |
| TN | HB0155 | Pass | As enacted, requires an annual training pay bonus supplement for eligible emergency medical services personnel in the amount of $800. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 140, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 01/01/2024 |
| TN | HB0322 | Pass | As enacted, revises various provisions of present law relative to safety in elementary and secondary education and the Schools Against Violence in Education Act. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504; Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 62, Chapter 35.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 05/10/2023, 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0092 | 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
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0433 | Pass | As enacted, expands the eligibility criteria for an education savings account to include students zoned to attend an LEA with at least three schools identified as priority schools in 2015, and at least three schools identified as being in the bottom ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 328 |
| TN | HB0437 | Pass | As enacted, revises various provisions of present law pertaining to the promotion of students from third grade. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 338 |
| TN | HJR0667 | Pass | William Tyler Lannom, Valedictorian, Trousdale County High School
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-09
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR0666 | Pass | Elizabeth Rylee Harris, Salutatorian, Trousdale County High School
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-09
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB0957 | Pass | As enacted, allows an eligible independent postsecondary institution and certain private, nonprofit technical schools to charge dual enrollment students tuition or fees in an amount that exceeds the amount of the student's dual enrollment grant. - Am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 227 |
| TN | HJR0027 | Pass | Expresses strong support for completion of the southern border wall and urges Congress to immediately take action to fund the construction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB0424 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the commissioner of education to grant an individual pursuing clinical experience in an educator preparation program (EPP) who meets certain requirements a temporary permit to teach in a teaching position in which an LEA or pub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 284 |
| TN | HJR0522 | Pass | Sexual Assault Awareness Month
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR0578 | Pass | Zoey Zakyia Carruth, Salutatorian, Cordova High School
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR0580 | Pass | Petra Rayo Jimenez, Valedictorian, Kingsbury High School
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR0576 | Pass | Karla Yanely Pacheco, Salutatorian, Raleigh Egypt High School
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR0581 | Pass | Kierra Thrill, Salutatorian, Kingsbury High School
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR0579 | Pass | Ashton Rose Ramirez, Valedictorian, Cordova High School
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR0577 | Pass | Maria Fernanda Arredondo, Valedictorian, Raleigh-Egypt High School
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB0459 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that public charter schools and the state board of education are prohibited from employing individuals found by the department of children's services to have committed an act of child abuse in the same manner as other educationa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 222 |
| TN | HB0529 | Pass | As enacted, revises various provisions regarding the automatic revocation of educator licenses. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 267 |
| TN | HB0461 | Pass | As enacted, adds to the grounds upon which initiation of termination of parental or guardianship rights may be based that the parent has been confined in a correctional or detention facility of any type, by order of the court as a result of one or mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 219 |
| TN | HB0962 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes an LEA to award a high school student credit for a course offered by the LEA's high school if the student attains a qualifying score on the course's final examination without requiring the student to enroll in the course. - Ame...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 269 |
| TN | HB0551 | Pass | As enacted, makes various changes to adoption law. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Title 68, Chapter 3, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 263 |
| TN | HB0552 | Pass | As enacted, states that the goal of the department must be to act in the best interest of the child at all times and that goal must be reflected in any mission statement or motto established by the department. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | HB1376 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Higher Education Freedom of Expression and Transparency Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7 and Title 49, Chapter 8.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 268 |
| TN | HB1198 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Silas Gable Flatt Law," which creates an offense of knowingly providing a motor vehicle to another person who the provider of the vehicle knows or should know is under the influence of an intoxicant or whose driver license has...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0448 | Pass | As enacted, requires governmental entities to provide a period of public comment for public meetings; authorizes the governmental entities to place reasonable restrictions on the period for public comment. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 44, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0782 | Pass | As enacted, requires, upon the request of the commission, each public elementary and middle school, or each LEA on behalf of the schools, to provide information to the commission or department of education about the financial literacy education provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | HB0774 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Protecting Tennessee Businesses and Workers Act." - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | HB1051 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes certain licensed advanced practice nurses and physician assistants to execute a certificate of need if a person is admitted and detained by a hospital or treatment resource for emergency diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment; ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 199 |
| TN | HB0445 | Pass | As enacted, removes the condition that the department of transportation first authorize the installation of surveillance cameras on interstates and state highways before such cameras may be operated by law enforcement agencies; authorizes the operati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 193 |
| TN | HB1261 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department, in administering the individualized education account program, to develop and implement a process for notifying all parents of their children's potential eligibility for an individualized education account, instea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | HJR0548 | Pass | Tyler Monroe Silkwood, Eagle Scout
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB0995 | Pass | As enacted, requires, prior to the administration of corporal punishment against a student, the student's teacher or school principal to make certain documentation in the student's educational record; prohibits corporal punishment against a student f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 275 |
| TN | HB0771 | Pass | As enacted, requests the governor to submit a new design of the great seal of the state of Tennessee by July 1, 2025, that incorporates the language "In God We Trust." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 261 |
| TN | HB0366 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to property tax relief under the Property Tax Freeze Act. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 271 |
