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| Position | Bill | Status | Summary | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | HB2541 | Passed | As enacted, authorizes counties and municipalities to enter into energy siting agreements. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13, Chapter 3; Title 13, Chapter 4 and Title 13, Chapter 7. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 814 |
| #2 | SB2274 | Passed | As enacted, encourages a person authorized to dispense prescription drugs, after a request to fill or renew a prescription drug and prior to the point of sale, to make reasonable efforts to notify the person for whom the prescription drug is being fi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13 Effective date(s) 05/01/2024 |
| #3 | HB2922 | Introduced | As introduced, authorizes the department of education to make its standardized form for reporting student allergies available to all local education agencies on its website. - Amends TCA Title 49. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22 Sponsor(s) Added. |
| #4 | SB2557 | Enrolled | As introduced, changes from November 1 to October 15 the deadline for the comptroller to annually submit a report concerning the implementation of the Tennessee Literacy Success Act. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| #5 | SB2375 | Passed | As enacted, requires, in an action on consumer debt filed in a general sessions court, the plaintiff to include certain information with a civil warrant or any other leading process used to initiate the action; requires, prior to an award of a defaul... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 914 |
| #6 | HB1718 | Introduced | As introduced, requires any conditions of release imposed on a defendant to include a requirement that the defendant submit to pretrial monitoring to ensure compliance with the conditions; requires the court to order bail to be forfeited and an arres... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24 Comp. SB subst. |
| #7 | SB2931 | Passed | As enacted, conditions the expulsion of a student for committing the zero tolerance offense of threatening mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity to threats of mass violence determined to be valid based on the results of a t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13 Effective date(s) 05/01/2024 |
| #8 | SB1811 | Enrolled | As introduced, expands the application of certain indecent exposure offenses by including victims from 13 to 17 years of age; increases the penalty for indecent exposure if the victim is between 13 and 17 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 39... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| #9 | SB0316 | Enrolled | As introduced, restricts the types of costs of a project within a certified border region retail tourism development district or regional retail tourism development district that can be covered by an apportionment of state sales and use taxes to a mu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| #10 | HB1855 | Passed | As enacted, requires each public institution of higher education to establish a policy framework to promote the security of academic research conducted at the institution to mitigate against the risk of foreign influence. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapt... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 955 |
| #11 | HB2283 | Passed | As enacted, makes revisions to the "Schools Against Violence in Education Act." - Amends TCA Section 49-6-804. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 936 |
| #12 | SB2682 | Passed | As enacted, requires LEAs and public charter schools to advise an employee who is assaulted by a student of the employee's rights as a result of the assault; requires, instead of authorizes, the suspension of a student who commits an assault against ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 915 |
| #13 | HJR1466 | Passed | Eiman Jahangir, Blue Origin and MoonDAO Astronaut [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 Signed by Governor. |
| #14 | SB1740 | Passed | As enacted, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment Act of 2024," which requires each covered hospital licensed as of July 1, 2024 to pay an annual coverage assessment for FY 2024-2025 of a certain percentage of the covered hospital's annual coverage ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13 Effective date(s) 05/09/2024, 06/30/2024 |
| #15 | SB2696 | Passed | As enacted, expands the delinquent acts that constitute a violent juvenile sexual offense for purposes of the sexual offender registry to include an adjudication of delinquency for an act that, if committed by an adult, constitutes the criminal offen... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 888 |
| #16 | HB2973 | Passed | As enacted, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2023, and July 1, 2024. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-20 Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| #17 | SB0869 | Passed | As enacted, clarifies what constitutes the "practice of pharmacy;" makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 58; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 Effective date(s) 05/01/2024 |
| #18 | SB2095 | Passed | As enacted, requires each public institution of higher education to establish a policy framework to promote the security of academic research conducted at the institution to mitigate against the risk of foreign influence. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapt... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13 Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| #19 | SB2797 | Enrolled | As introduced, expands the definition of a law enforcement officer to include retired law enforcement officers who are carrying a firearm pursuant to certain state laws for purposes of when a law enforcement officer may carry a firearm. - Amends TCA ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| #20 | SB2406 | Passed | As enacted, adds local law enforcement officials to those who must be appointed to each district-wide school safety team; specifies that it is each district-wide school safety team and each building-level school safety team that is required to annual... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13 Effective date(s) 05/01/2024 |
| #21 | HB2326 | Enrolled | As introduced, changes, from 10 days to 10 business days, the maximum amount of time the commissioner of education can suspend schools in a year when the commissioner requires all teachers to attend county institutes or educational meetings. - Amends... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10 Transmitted to Governor for his action. |
| #22 | SB0191 | Enrolled | As introduced, deletes a provision authorizing the state board of education to, in its discretion, waive the requirement that a person employed as a supervisor for the supervision of teaching grades 1-12 have a license of qualification issued by the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| #23 | HB1723 | Passed | As enacted, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment Act of 2024," which requires each covered hospital licensed as of July 1, 2024 to pay an annual coverage assessment for FY 2024-2025 of a certain percentage of the covered hospital's annual coverage ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 953 |
| #24 | SB1720 | Passed | As enacted, enacts the "Healthcare Provider Advertising Law." - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 63 and Title 68. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 893 |
| #25 | SB1943 | Passed | As enacted, allows all LEA and public charter school employees, instead of only teachers, to receive their full salary, or average pay, and full benefits in the event they sustain a personal injury as the result of a physical assault or other violent... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| #26 | SB1972 | Enrolled | 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] | 2024-05-16 Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| #27 | SB2079 | Passed | As enacted, makes changes to the law relative to emergency involuntary admission to inpatient treatment and judicial commitment for nonemergency involuntary inpatient treatment. - Amends TCA Section 33-6-503 and Section 33-6-421. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 785 |
| #28 | HB2269 | Enrolled | As introduced, requires the health facilities commission, within 10 working days after concluding an inspection or investigation of a nursing home, to mail to the nursing home the executive director's order, which must not only inform the nursing hom... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10 Transmitted to Governor for his action. |
| #29 | SB2221 | Enrolled | 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] | 2024-05-16 Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| #30 | SB2229 | Passed | As enacted, requires a violation of the law regarding criminal offenses and penalties for drugs or a conspiracy to violate such law to be punished as second degree murder if the substance involved is fentanyl or carfentanyl, or any analogue or deriva... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13 Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| #31 | SB2304 | Enrolled | As introduced, requires a defendant for whom a bench warrant is issued due to failure to appear on a felony or a Class A or Class B misdemeanor that is violent or sexual in nature as determined by the court, or who is charged with a failure to appear... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| #32 | SB2536 | Enrolled | As introduced, allows a prisoner of a county workhouse or jail to be released from custody on work release or otherwise allowed to leave the grounds of the county workhouse or jail for employment or to perform work in the community, whether paid or u... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| #33 | SB2507 | Passed | As enacted, requires a child who has been admitted to a juvenile detention facility, prior to being adjudicated for an alleged delinquent act, to be allowed at least one telephone call and one 30-minute in-person visit with the child's parent, guardi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13 Effective date(s) 05/01/2024 |
| #34 | HB2842 | Passed | As enacted, clarifies that "rock harvesting," for purposes of regulation under the “Water Quality Control Act of 1977," does not include activity that is exempt from such Act. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 11; Title 13; Tit... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 939 |
| #35 | SB2774 | Passed | As enacted, requires the department of human services to notify the department of safety that a child support obligor whose commercial driver license was suspended or revoked for noncompliance with a child support order is in reasonable compliance wi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13 Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| #36 | SJR1305 | Passed | Amber Guthrie, Portland East Middle School Teacher of the Year [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24 Signed by Governor. |
| #37 | SJR1405 | Passed | Avigail Laing, Valedictorian, Bearden High School [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 Signed by Governor. |
| #38 | SJR1470 | Passed | Anna Lara, Salutatorian, Knox County Virtual School [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 Signed by Governor. |
| #39 | HJR1398 | Passed | Anderson Clayborne, Top Ten Senior, Santa Fe Unit School [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07 Signed by Governor. |
| #40 | HJR1396 | Passed | Kailyn Sexton, Top Ten Senior, Santa Fe Unit School [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07 Signed by Governor. |
| #41 | SR0316 | Passed | Malachi Robinson, Valedictorian, Power Center Academy High School [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30 Signed by Senate Speaker |
| #42 | SJR1619 | Passed | Nyles Taylor, Top Ten Senior, Forrest High School [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13 Signed by Governor. |
| #43 | SB2763 | Enrolled | As introduced, preempts the entire field of legislation regarding extreme risk protection orders to the exclusion of all county, city, town, municipality, or metropolitan government law, ordinances, resolutions, enactments, or regulation; declares a ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| #44 | HB1893 | Passed | As enacted, authorizes the commissioner of revenue to issue refunds under certain conditions to taxpayers who properly file a claim for refund for franchise taxes paid; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 1 and Title 67, Chapter 4. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 950 |
| #45 | HB2031 | Passed | As enacted, authorizes a person who suffers loss or injury as a result of a defendant intentionally obstructing a highway, street, or other place used for the passage of vehicles or conveyances to bring a cause of action against such person to recove... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 958 |
| #46 | SB2571 | Passed | As enacted, enacts the "Parental Accountability Act." - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 4. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13 Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| #47 | HB2590 | Passed | As enacted, makes bullying and cyber-bullying offenses subject to the same penalties as harassment; requires an officer to make a report of bullying and notify a parent or guardian when victim is a minor. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 38; Title 39 and... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01 Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| #48 | HB2487 | Passed | As enacted, conditions the expulsion of a student for committing the zero tolerance offense of threatening mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity to threats of mass violence determined to be valid based on the results of a t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 882 |
| #49 | SB2136 | Enrolled | As introduced, makes various changes to the authorized scope of practice of physician assistants and advanced practice nurses who meet certain qualifications. - Amends TCA Title 55; Title 63 and Title 68. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| #50 | HJR0005 | Passed | Makes application to Congress for the purpose of calling an Article V convention to propose an amendment to the United States Constitution to set a limit on the number of terms to which a person may be elected as a member of the Congress of the Unite... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22 Signed by Governor. |
