| TN | SB0136 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "CROWN Act: Create a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair," which prohibits an employer from adopting a policy that does not permit an employee to wear the employee's hair in braids, locs, twists, or another manner that i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2022 |
| TN | HB0204 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "CROWN Act: Create a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair," which prohibits an employer from adopting a policy that does not permit an employee to wear the employee's hair in braids, locs, twists, or another manner that i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1078 |
| TN | SB1780 | Pass | As enacted, lowers the threshold for private employers having to verify work authorization status of new hires through E-Verify from those with 50 or more employees to those with 35 or more employees; requires the office of employment verification as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-10
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 832 |
| TN | HB1853 | Pass | As enacted, lowers the threshold for private employers having to verify work authorization status of new hires through E-Verify from those with 50 or more employees to those with 35 or more employees; requires the office of employment verification as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-10
Effective date(s) 05/09/2022 |
| TN | HB0456 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a political subdivision, or an instrumentality of a political subdivision with at least 1,000 employees, to implement, adopt, or administer an automatic deferred or tax-sheltered compensation plan for employees. - Amends TCA Ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-30
Effective date(s) 03/28/2022 |
| TN | SB1473 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a political subdivision, or an instrumentality of a political subdivision with at least 1,000 employees, to implement, adopt, or administer an automatic deferred or tax-sheltered compensation plan for employees. - Amends TCA Ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-30
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 676 |
| TN | HB1295 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Family Insurance Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21; Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5 and Title 50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-16
Returned to the Clerk's Desk. |
| TN | SB0672 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Family Insurance Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21; Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5 and Title 50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-15
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | HB1867 | Pass | As enacted, requires certain employers with a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy to grant exemptions based on medical reason or religious reason; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 14.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 644 |
| TN | SB1823 | Pass | As enacted, requires certain employers with a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy to grant exemptions based on medical reason or religious reason; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 14.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-15
Effective date(s) 03/11/2022 |
| TN | SB2633 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, holds a private employer that requires an employee to receive a vaccination against COVID-19 as a condition to continued employment liable for damages resulting to the employee from an adverse reaction to the vaccination. - Amends TCA ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-15
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | HB2734 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires an employer to permit an employee who is a local elected official to leave work in order to perform the duties of the elected office; requires the employer to permit the employee to use the employee’s available paid time off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
Taken off notice for cal. in State Government Committee |
| TN | SB2611 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires an employer that employs 50 or more employees within the state to include a salary or hourly wage range in an advertisement for a job, promotion, or transfer opportunity advertised within the state. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | HB2398 | Fail | As introduced, requires an employer that employs 50 or more employees within the state to include a salary or hourly wage range in an advertisement for a job, promotion, or transfer opportunity advertised within the state. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-02
Failed in s/c Banking & Consumer Affairs Subcommittee of Commerce Committee |
| TN | HB2117 | Fail | As introduced, requires an employer with a policy requiring employees to receive a medical procedure to provide an exemption and reasonable accommodations to each employee who refuses to receive the medical procedure based on the employee's religious...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-01
Failed in s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee of Civil Justice Committee |
| TN | SB2156 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires an employer with a policy requiring employees to receive a medical procedure to provide an exemption and reasonable accommodations to each employee who refuses to receive the medical procedure based on the employee's religious...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-01
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB2297 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires certain employers to utilize an e-verification program in hiring; removes immunity for an employer's reliance on other forms of verification; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-25
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | HB1636 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires certain employers to utilize an e-verification program in hiring; removes immunity for an employer's reliance on other forms of verification; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-23
Def. to Summer Study in Banking & Consumer Affairs Subcommittee |
| TN | HB1835 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes a volunteer rescue squad worker to respond to an emergency during the worker's regularly scheduled working hours without loss of pay, vacation time, sick leave, or earned overtime accumulation; authorizes such worker to take...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-23
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Banking & Consumer Affairs Subcommittee of Commerce Committee |
| TN | HB2713 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, holds a private employer that requires an employee to receive a vaccination against COVID-19 as a condition to continued employment liable for damages resulting to the employee from an adverse reaction to the vaccination. - Amends TCA ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
Sponsor change. |
| TN | SB2674 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires an employer to permit an employee who is a local elected official to leave work in order to perform the duties of the elected office; requires the employer to permit the employee to use the employee’s available paid time off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-07
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | HB0935 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, makes it a discriminatory practice for a person who is paying a non-employee for labor or services to engage in harassment of the non-employee because of the non-employee's sex; holds such persons liable for the actions of their employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-02
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Banking & Consumer Affairs Subcommittee of Commerce Committee |
| TN | SB1809 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes a volunteer rescue squad worker to respond to an emergency during the worker's regularly scheduled working hours without loss of pay, vacation time, sick leave, or earned overtime accumulation; authorizes such worker to take...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-24
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | HB1643 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits a private employer from requiring an individual to be subjected to a COVID-19 vaccination if the individual has contracted and recovered from it; holds a private employer liable for certain costs if the employer requires an i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-11
Withdrawn. |
| TN | HB9003 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits public employers from mandating COVID-19 vaccines as a condition of employment; requires private employers to document certain information regarding COVID-19 vaccine mandates for employees; imputes strict liability against pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-28
Taken off notice for cal. in Covid-19 Committee of Extraordinary Session III |
| TN | SB9002 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits public employers from mandating COVID-19 vaccines as a condition of employment; requires private employers to document certain information regarding COVID-19 vaccine mandates for employees; imputes strict liability against pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-28
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | HB9016 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes private employers to adopt dress codes for employment and service that require employees and persons on the employer's business premises to wear a mask to protect against COVID-19; provides immunity to private employers who ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-28
No Action Taken |
| TN | SB9001 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits a private employer from requiring an individual to be subjected to a COVID-19 vaccination if the individual has contracted and recovered from it; holds a private employer liable for certain costs if the employer requires an i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-28
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | HB9067 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits an employer from discharging or terminating an employee solely for refusing to receive a vaccination against COVID-19; creates a cause of action against the employer, and, if the employee prevails, entitles the employee to da...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-28
To House Covid-19 Committee |
| TN | HB9069 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits an employer from taking an adverse action against an employee based solely upon the employee's vaccination status. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 29; Title 33; Title 37; Titl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-28
To House Covid-19 Committee |
| TN | HB9048 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, establishes circumstances under which an employer is liable for injuries sustained by an employee as a result of the employer's vaccination or immunization mandate as a condition of employment. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 50, Chapter ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-28
Taken off notice for cal. in Covid-19 Committee of Extraordinary Session III |
| TN | HB9063 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits a private employer from requiring an individual to be subjected to a COVID-19 vaccination if the individual has contracted and recovered from it; holds a private employer liable for certain costs if the employer requires an i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-28
Taken off notice for cal. in Covid-19 Committee of Extraordinary Session III |
| TN | HB9042 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits mandating mask, vaccine, or prophylactic measures on essential workers. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 49; Title 50, Chapter 1; Title 58, Chapter 2 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-28
To House Covid-19 Committee |
| TN | HB9033 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates a private right of action for an employee who suffers injury as a result of receiving a COVID-19 vaccination if the employee receives the vaccination because of an employment requirement established by the employer; allows the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-28
Taken off notice for cal. in Covid-19 Committee of Extraordinary Session III |
| TN | HB9060 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes employees of public and private employers to refuse a requirement by the employer that the employee receive a vaccine for COVID-19 as a condition of employment based on the employee's strongly held religious beliefs or right...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-28
To House Covid-19 Committee |
| TN | HB9051 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies that the term "discharge" includes placing an employee on involuntary unpaid leave or unpaid leave of absence without expectation of return; specifies that placing an employee on involuntary unpaid leave or an unpaid leave of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-28
Taken off notice for cal. in Covid-19 Committee of Extraordinary Session III |
| TN | HB9050 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, specifies that an employee can satisfy an employer's COVID-19 vaccination mandate by providing documentation of a complete immunization to COVID-19 or alternative documentation showing the presence of antibodies or proof of a past COVI...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-28
Taken off notice for cal. in Covid-19 Committee of Extraordinary Session III |
| TN | SB9040 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, establishes circumstances under which an employer is liable for injuries sustained by an employee as a result of the employer's vaccination or immunization mandate as a condition of employment. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 50, Chapter ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-28
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB9017 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits mandating mask, vaccine, or prophylactic measures on essential workers. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 49; Title 50, Chapter 1; Title 58, Chapter 2 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-28
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB9029 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies that the term "discharge" includes placing an employee on involuntary unpaid leave or unpaid leave of absence without expectation of return; specifies that placing an employee on involuntary unpaid leave or an unpaid leave of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-28
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB9079 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits an employer from discharging or terminating an employee solely for refusing to receive a vaccination against COVID-19; creates a cause of action against the employer, and, if the employee prevails, entitles the employee to da...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-28
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB9062 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits an employer from taking an adverse action against an employee based solely upon the employee's vaccination status. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 29; Title 33; Title 37; Titl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-28
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB9069 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes employees of public and private employers to refuse a requirement by the employer that the employee receive a vaccine, immunization, or other medication as a condition of employment based on the employee's strongly held reli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-28
Passed on Second Consideration, held on desk. |
| TN | SB9051 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates a private right of action for an employee who suffers injury as a result of receiving a COVID-19 vaccination if the employee receives the vaccination because of an employment requirement established by the employer; allows the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-28
Passed on Second Consideration, held on desk. |
| TN | SB9060 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits a private employer from requiring an individual to be subjected to a COVID-19 vaccination if the individual has contracted and recovered from it; holds a private employer liable for certain costs if the employer requires an i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-28
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB9066 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes employees of public and private employers to refuse a requirement by the employer that the employee receive a vaccine for COVID-19 as a condition of employment based on the employee's strongly held religious beliefs or right...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-28
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB9081 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, specifies that an employee can satisfy an employer's COVID-19 vaccination mandate by providing documentation of a complete immunization to COVID-19 or alternative documentation showing the presence of antibodies or proof of a past COVI...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-28
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB9046 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes private employers to adopt dress codes for employment and service that require employees and persons on the employer's business premises to wear a mask to protect against COVID-19; provides immunity to private employers who ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-28
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | HB0943 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that non-compliance with state and federal anti-discrimination laws is not included in the definition of "illegal activities" as it relates to provisions prohibiting retaliatory termination of an employee. - Amends TCA Title 20;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-02
Effective date(s) 05/26/2021 |
| TN | SB1567 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that non-compliance with state and federal anti-discrimination laws is not included in the definition of "illegal activities" as it relates to provisions prohibiting retaliatory termination of an employee. - Amends TCA Title 20;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-02
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 556 |
