| TN | SB2099 | 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] | 2024-04-10
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB2784 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires payment of restitution to landowners by persons who commit hunting-related offenses on property where they do not have a legal right to be present; bases restitution amount on the type of animals involved in the offense; requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB2247 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates exception to the state regulation of biosolids by authorizing the legislative body of Polk County to regulate such activities. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 68, Chapter 211; Title 68, Chapter 221 and Title 69.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB2723 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to compile and publish data on the department's website data regarding the geographic location, duration, and severity of floods and landslides in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 5; Title 58; T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB2068 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies that it is not an offense to take a wolf in this state and that state resources may not be used to enforce any prohibition against taking wolves in this state. - Amends TCA Title 70.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB2796 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases from five to 10 years the period of time the department of agriculture shall maintain records that are created by or submitted to the department for the regulation of hemp. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 43; Title 53;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB2357 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases from $25 to $40, the deposit amount that an agency cannot accept less than from a new owner adopting a cat or dog that has not been spayed or neutered, and to ensure that the spaying or neutering occurs, the agency permits th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB2821 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of environment and conservation to make the annual progress reports submitted by counties available on the department's website in a publicly accessible location. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 67 and Title 68, Cha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB1879 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to collect and publish on its website in map format data concerning landslides and floods. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 5; Title 58; Title 64, Chapter 3; Title 68 and Title 69.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB2706 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB1876 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates a Class B misdemeanor that is committed when a person knowingly hunts, kills, traps, ensnares, destroys, or attempts to destroy, or has in the person's possession a sandhill crane. - Amends TCA Title 70.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB1751 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the penalty from a Class C misdemeanor to a Class B misdemeanor for removing a wild animal, wild fowl, or fish while trespassing on land; increases various fines under $500 to not more than $500. - Amends TCA Title 70.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB1974 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits the manufacture, sale, or delivery, holding, or offering for sale of any livestock carcass, part of any livestock carcass, or meat food product that was derived or prepared from livestock that received an mRNA vaccine or vacc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB2376 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes requirement that installers of subsurface sewage disposal systems pay a renewal fee as a condition to renewing a septic system installer license. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 221.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB0573 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Waste Reduction and Recycling Act"; requires sellers, distributors, and importers of certain packaging materials to take certain actions to reduce the amount of packaging material that becomes litter. - Amends TCA...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB2651 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the time, from 30 to 35 days, that a person has to request a hearing on an order from the commissioner of environment and conservation alleging a violation related to withdrawing water without a valid registration before the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB1942 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes a person to hunt on or over privately owned land where bait is present; specifies that written consent and compliance with other requirements to catch or kill a wild animal on the land of another still apply. - Amends TCA Ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB0726 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes from March 31 to February 1, the date by which each region must submit its annual report to the commissioner of environment and conservation for the immediately preceding calendar year that includes data on collection, recyclin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB2319 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases, from .15 to .45 per ton, the maximum severance tax a county legislative body may impose. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 59 and Title 67, Chapter 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB2326 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes Clay County to increase the severance tax rate from 15 cents up to 45 cents; annually adjusts the maximum tax rate based on the percentage of change in the average consumer price index (all items-city average) as published b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB2069 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes the commissioner of agriculture and the state forester to promulgate rules for purposes of managing state forests; authorizes the commissioner and state forester to request assistance from law enforcement agencies for enforc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB1105 | Intro
25% | As introduced, repeals the Soil Scientist Licensure Act of 2009. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 18, Part 2 and Section 62-36-114.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB2890 | Intro
25% | As introduced, clarifies that rowboats and sculls are nonmotorized vessels whose commercial operations are subject to regulation by the fish and wildlife commission. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 11; Title 69, Chapter 9 and Title 70.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB2579 | Intro
25% | As introduced, clarifies that an ephemeral wet weather conveyance is not a stream under the Water Quality Control Act; defines "isolated wetlands" and clarifies that isolated wetlands are not waters under the act; prohibits requiring a permit or othe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB2704 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB2892 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds the legislative librarian to the list of individuals that the nonprofit partners with whom the commission has entered into a marketing partnership must annually submit a detailed report setting forth their operation and accomplish...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB2807 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB2463 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to create and maintain an informational tool on the department's website that provides data related to the presence of facilities that are required to submit toxic release inventory data to the environmental pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB1468 | Intro
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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB2485 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends from January 1 to February 1, the deadline for local governments that have adopted local legislation related to wind energy facility siting to submit an annual report. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 65 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB2384 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the age at which a rabbit that has been colored, stained, or otherwise had their natural color changed must not be sold as a pet, toy, premium, or novelty from under two months of age to under six months of age. - Amends TCA ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB2464 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Solar Workforce Development Act," which requires the department to establish and support a program that creates and maintains incentives for individuals to seek green energy jobs, and for entities to create, expand, and off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB2382 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces from 90 to 75 the number of days within which the commissioner of environment and conservation must issue a decision on a request for a variance from rules for a subsurface sewage disposal system permit. - Amends TCA Title 55, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB1970 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes the Tennessee wildlife resources agency to enter into license agreements for the operation of facilities on lands under the control or supervision of the agency for the improved utilization of state lands and facilities; suc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB1821 | Intro
25% | As introduced, updates the title of the person who stands in the place of the director of TWRA in the director's absence or if there's a vacancy in the office of director, from assistant director to deputy director. - Amends TCA Title 70.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | HJR0663 | Engross
50% | Native Plant Month
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB0917 | Intro
25% | As introduced, makes it a Class C misdemeanor offense for a person to travel at a speed greater than a no-wake speed within 1,000 feet of a marina. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 102, Part 6; Title 69 and Title 70.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-08
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB1396 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases from 15 to 17 the maximum number of members on a solid waste authority board of directors, which are chosen separately from the board for a municipal solid waste region. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-08
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB0970 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends the period within which a nonprofit that partners with TWRA for marketing opportunities must file an annual report of their operation and accomplishments from 90 days after the end of their fiscal year to 100 days after the end...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-08
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB0828 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires reciprocal fee increases for nonresident licenses to hunt, fish, trap, or provide guide services for persons who are residents of states that charge higher nonresident fees to Tennessee residents. - Amends TCA Title 11 and Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-08
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB0627 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes an obsolete requirement that the commissioner of environment and conservation prepare and deliver a written report on stream bank erosion in this state to each member of the general assembly by January 15, 2000. - Amends TCA Ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-08
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB0091 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits the department of environment and conservation from applying criteria that will result in the classification of real property as a wetland where the property is classified as prior converted cropland that is exempt from class...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-08
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB0683 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of environment and conservation to supervise the operation and maintenance of solid waste processing and disposal facilities in this state; authorizes a solid waste board to adopt and enforce rules governing the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-08
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB0408 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes obsolete language requiring the commissioner of environment and conservation to deliver a written report on stream bank erosion in this state to each member of the general assembly by January 15, 2000. - Amends TCA Title 69, Ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-08
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB0375 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates the office of outdoor recreation to augment services provided by the wildlife resources agency and the department of environment and conservation in leveraging tourism and economic development opportunities to promote outdoor r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-08
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB0630 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies that a discharge permit is not required under the Water Quality Control Act for excavations supporting agricultural activity or timber harvesting. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 221 and Title 69.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-08
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB1308 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes requirements and limitations for the use of a trotline to kill, catch, or take fish or other aquatic life. - Amends TCA Section 39-14-206 and Title 70.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-02
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB0313 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires that vessels used on Tennessee waterways and owned by nonresidents be registered with a certificate of identification number; requires that the proceeds from the registration fees be used for the enforcement of boating regulat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-01
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB0714 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes the "Juneteenth Celebration Fund," to be administered by the department of tourist development for the purpose of making grants to local tourism and convention bureaus and nonprofit entities to host Juneteenth celebration f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-01
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB1467 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-01
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
