| TN | SB0530 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "First Lady's Children's Trust Fund Act," which creates a trust fund to support persons and entities seeking assistance in the care of children in this state. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 33; Title 37; Title 50; Title 63; Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0655 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds, as a condition to a court permitting a dependent or neglected child under three years of age to remain with the child's parent, guardian, or other custodian, a requirement that the parent, guardian, or other custodian submit to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1670 | Pass | As introduced, adds certain assisted-care living facilities, nursing homes, and emergency communications centers as locations where a newborn safety device may be located. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB2349 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, revises the definition of a dependent and neglected child in juvenile court proceedings to provide that a child must be dependent and neglected at the time of the filing of the court petition and adds that dependency and neglect due to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB2445 | Pass | As enacted, adds three persons to the state child fatality review team who are each state residents with a child under 18; requires the state child fatality review team to distribute the team's annual report to each local education agency and to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024 |
| TN | SB2551 | Intro
25% | As introduced, permits parents to request electronically a copy of the child's report card, notice of school attendance, names of teachers, class schedules, standardized test scores, and any other records customarily available to parents. - Amends TC...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB2805 | Engross
50% | As introduced, changes from December 31 to December 1 the date by which the Tennessee commission on children and youth must annually publish a comprehensive report on the status of children and youth in this state and distribute the report to the gov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB1585 | Pass | As enacted, deletes the statutory provision that repeals the Tennessee Zero to Three Court Initiative on January 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 04/04/2024 |
| TN | SB2097 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates the "Protecting Children from Social Media Act." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2627 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases, from two to three, the number of hours of training or continuing education courses on domestic violence or child abuse all judges in child custody proceedings are required to complete per year; increases, from 10 to 15, the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2070 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that a juvenile court proceeding may be commenced by the taking of a child into custody or the removal of custody from a parent or legal guardian; requires the juvenile court in a dependency and neglect proceeding to determine w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 613 |
| TN | SB2752 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires monthly reports from a volunteer of the office of community contact within the department of education evaluating the progress of the juvenile assigned to the volunteer. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 37; Title 38; Title 40; Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2641 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes the declaration that it is the responsibility of each parent and legal guardian to ensure that their children are vaccinated according to Center for Disease Control or American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines, and replaces the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2749 | Engross
50% | As introduced, enacts the “Families’ Rights and Responsibilities Act." - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB1907 | Fail | As introduced, creates the "Municipalities' Access To Childcare" ("MATCH") fund that, for three years, provides local governmental entities a dollar-for-dollar state match on funding projects that will expand the number of early childhood care and ed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Failed in Senate Health & Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1973 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases from 10 to 20, the number of calendar days after the 90 days from the date a child was surrendered that the department of children's services shall file a petition on behalf of an abandoned infant seeking termination of paren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2372 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a social media company to obtain parental consent before allowing a minor to create an account or access an already existing account; prohibits a social media company from using practices, designs, or features on the social me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB1873 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Parents' Bill of Rights." - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0620 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Families' Rights and Responsibilities Act," which declares that the ability of a parent to direct the upbringing, education, health care, and mental health of that parent’s child is a fundamental right. - Amends TCA Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1890 | Fail | As introduced, bans the use of personal protection spray devices, such as mace, pepper spray, or tear gas, on any child under the supervision of the department of children's services or in a juvenile detention facility. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2722 | Intro
25% | As introduced, deletes obsolete requirements for a joint report on juvenile justice data collection required to be submitted to the governor and the speakers of each house of the general assembly on or before January 1, 2019. - Amends TCA Title 37.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2799 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the commissioner of labor and workforce development to furnish a minor and the minor's parent or guardian with a written statement of the reasons for the commissioner's refusal to grant a special exemption to the Child Labor A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB1870 | Intro
25% | As introduced, recreates the select committee on children and youth. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 37; Title 49 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| TN | SB1878 | Intro
25% | As introduced, clarifies that the notification given by the court to a petitioning parent that the duty of future child support by the parent who is the subject of a termination petition will be forever terminated by entry of an order terminating par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0543 | Pass | As enacted, creates the child care improvement fund, to be administered by the department of human services; creates a child care improvement pilot program to provide grants to nonprofit organizations to be used for establishing a new child care agen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/17/2023 |
| TN | SB0270 | Pass | As enacted, revises present law provisions governing adoption and foster care. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 37, Chapter 2, Part 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0657 | Pass | As enacted, creates a criminal offense of a foster parent from a kinship placement knowingly allowing a child in the foster parent's care to visit with the child's parent if the foster parent has knowledge of a current court order prohibiting the par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 238 |
| TN | SB0282 | Intro
25% | As introduced, deletes provisions related to a report regarding the status of the development of a plan for a statewide system of care for children's mental health due by February 1, 2009, and plans regarding implementation of the system of children'...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0540 | Intro
25% | As introduced, makes various changes to the laws on adoption and termination of parental rights, including clarifying that the putative father registry must be consulted in certain circumstances within 10 working days of filing a petition to terminat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0539 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a foster care review board to submit its report to the judge on each child in foster care who is reviewed by the board within seven calendar days, instead of 10 calendar days, following its review. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1079 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes an obsolete cross-reference to a statute that was repealed in 2010. - Amends TCA Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1083 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases from two years to three years, the time within which a family child care home, group child care home, or child care center must retain a signed acknowledgment from the child's parents or legal guardians of the fact that the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0357 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes an office of the guardian ad litem pilot project within the twenty-second judicial district to represent the best interest of children in dependency and neglect cases; requires the pilot project to be supervised by the secr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-02
Withdrawn. |
| TN | SB0612 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends from March 1 to April 1 of each year, the date by which the department of children's services must appear before the judiciary committee of the senate and the civil justice committee of the house of representatives for a review...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0204 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes an office of the guardian ad litem pilot project within the twenty-second judicial district to represent the best interest of children in dependency and neglect cases; requires the pilot project to be supervised by the secr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
Withdrawn. |
| TN | SB0245 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies that a copy of the order obtained by prospective adoptive parents terminating parental or guardianship rights must be filed as an exhibit to a petition for adoption and must be certified by the clerk of the court that entered...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
