| SB2148 | Pass | As enacted, requires financial institutions and insurers to make determinations about the provision or denial of services based on certain analysis; prohibits financial institutions and insurers from denying or canceling services to a person, or othe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 746 |
| SB2591 | Pass | As enacted, makes certain revisions to the "Neighborhood Preservation Act." - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 796 |
| SB1945 | Pass | As introduced, redefines "food service establishment" to exclude an establishment whose primary business is other than food service, that incidentally makes casual, occasional food sales for two days or less while an organized temporary event is bein...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2769 | Pass | As enacted, requires an assessor of property to notify the register of deeds as to which records are "permanent records"; revises the definition of a "movable structure" for purposes of classification and assessment of property taxes; authorizes the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/23/2024 |
| SB2222 | Pass | As enacted, establishes that it is unlawful for a person to intentionally initiate or circulate a report of a past, present, or impending active shooter and hostage situation, knowing that the report is false or baseless if certain information is kno...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 794 |
| SB2257 | Pass | As enacted, requires a court to place a constable on administrative leave pending a preliminary hearing, instead of until the conclusion of the criminal prosecution, if the constable is indicted or formally charged with a misdemeanor involving gambli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 753 |
| HB2773 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Cassie Wright Act," which makes changes to law relative to a parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian having access to certain medical information of their unemancipated minor. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 66 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/22/2024 |
| HB2497 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, removes a report due by March 1, 2006, from the commissioner to legislative committees concerning the effectiveness of a demonstration project wherein a nursing home allowed a disabled volunteer to assume certain functions in the nursi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Signed by H. Speaker |
| SB2931 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-01
Signed by Governor. |
| SB0145 | Pass | As introduced, increases the time allowed for an employee to take time off to vote on election day from three to four hours. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 8.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Signed by Governor. |
| HB2180 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, expands student eligibility for a Tennessee future teacher scholarship to include students enrolled in an approved educator preparation program at Western Governors University. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Signed by H. Speaker |
| HB2289 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a medication aid to administer oral or topical medications prescribed with a nursing designation authorizing or requiring administration on an as-needed basis, regardless of whether a nursing assessment of the patient has been ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/22/2024 |
| SB1641 | Pass | As enacted, establishes that generally an attorney or an agent designated to make healthcare decisions under a durable power of attorney for health care has a right to in-person visitation with the principal at a hospital where the principal is locat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| HB2155 | Pass | As enacted, names the law prohibiting an LEA from deducting dues from the wages of the LEA's employees for a professional employees' organization the "Michael Maren Paycheck Protection Act." - Amends TCA Section 49-2-123.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 770 |
| HB2168 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that an order of protection for domestic abuse remains in effect during an appeal from a final ruling on the order of protection by a general sessions court or by an official authorized to issue such an order unless the order ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/22/2024 |
| SB2774 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-01
Signed by Governor. |
| HB2054 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, increases from 1,500 to 5,000 the number of acres of land that may be placed within one property tax jurisdiction for purposes of classification and assessment as agricultural, forest, or open space land; increases from 1,500 to 5,000 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Signed by H. Speaker |
| SB2565 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits a magistrate from considering a defendant's ability to pay when determining the amount of bail necessary to reasonably assure the appearance of the defendant while at the same time protecting the safety of the public. - Amends T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Signed by Governor. |
| HB1846 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department to submit an annual report to the governor stating the total number of firearm injuries and deaths caused by firearms in this state per 100,000 people that have occurred in the previous calendar year. - Amends TCA ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 767 |
| HB1692 | Pass | As enacted, establishes the official policy for the maintenance of records by the department of tourist development. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 22 and Title 10, Chapter 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/22/2024 |
| HB2266 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that documents provided through a website with the primary function of providing certificates, registrations, licenses, or similar documents for assistance animals in exchange for payment of a fee are not reliable documentation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| SB2205 | Pass | As enacted, removes jurisdictional exceptions to prohibition on discrimination against first responders based upon residency with respect to employment; prohibits all local governments in this state from discriminating against first responders with r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Signed by Governor. |
| HB1906 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to the law relative to statutes of limitations for bringing actions for injury or illness based on certain child sexual abuse offenses, including trafficking offenses. - Amends TCA Title 28 and Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| HB2118 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, reconstitutes the state energy policy council by adding a representative of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a representative of the nuclear energy industry. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 59; Title 60; Title 65 and Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Signed by H. Speaker |
| SB2046 | Pass | As introduced, requires rules of the fish and wildlife commission governing the numbering, safety equipment, and operation of vessels to be published in the newspaper at least 20 days, instead of 15 days, before the rules become effective. - Amends T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Signed by Governor. |
| SB1929 | Pass | As enacted, requires, for purposes of any endangered child and young adult alert program implemented by the TBI that is distinct from the America's Missing Broadcast Emergency Response (AMBER) Alert system and that is used to notify local media about...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Signed by Governor. |
| HB2464 | Pass | As enacted, requires local boards of education to include school safety training in the training requirements for substitute teachers; clarifies that LEAs are prohibited from hiring a substitute teacher whose license in another state is revoked; make...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 735 |
| SB2548 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits a member of a county legislative body, who is also an employee of the county or whose spouse is such an employee, from voting on matters in which such member has a conflict of interest; requires each vote taken by a county legis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 798 |
| SB2743 | Pass | As introduced, requires a political subdivision to provide a written attestation with the political subdivision's annual audit to the comptroller of the treasury certifying that the political subdivision has not sought or received a grant in intentio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Signed by Governor. |
| HB2002 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, creates one additional circuit court in the 4th judicial district. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Signed by H. Speaker |
| SB2317 | Pass | As enacted, requires, when legal notices must be published in a newspaper of general circulation, that the notice also be published on a news and information website that has a URL, if such a website exists, that meets certain requirements. - Amends ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 793 |
| HB2177 | Pass | As enacted, requires a local board of education that provides electronic textbooks and instructional materials to provide a student reasonable access to a printed version of an electronic textbook or instructional material if the student or the stude...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| SB2307 | Pass | As enacted, adds hydrogen gas to the definition of alternative fuel for the purposes of fuel tax law; subjects hydrogen gas to the compressed natural gas tax; exempts hydrogen gas from the sales and use tax. - Amends TCA Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Signed by Governor. |
| HB1046 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, decreases, from nine to eight, the number of affirmative votes required by members of the agency's board of directors in order for the agency to approve the operation of its financial assistance programs, which support the financing of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Signed by H. Speaker |
| HB2392 | Pass | As enacted, adds state university boards of trustees to the list of governing boards authorized to promulgate rules to effectuate the requirement that persons required to register for the federal draft must be registered for the draft in order to be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 779 |
| SB2011 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes TennCare to adopt or amend a state preferred drug list (PDL) without rulemaking; requires TennCare to ensure that reimbursement is provided to a healthcare provider who provides a non-opioid treatment to a recipient under the m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 762 |
| HB1859 | Pass | As enacted, generally prohibits certain licensing boards for professions, including medical professions, from using a vague term in their consideration and their notice or decision for denying a license due to a prior criminal prosecution unless an e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| HB1640 | Pass | As enacted, enacts "Jillian's Law," which makes various changes relative to being adjudicated as a mental defective or judicially committed to a mental institution, including requiring a person judicially committed to remain committed until the compe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| HB1634 | Pass | As enacted, revises language prohibiting educators from discriminating against students on certain, specified bases to generally prohibiting educators from discriminating against students on any basis. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 780 |
| HB1877 | Pass | As enacted, requires hospitals and physicians to accept electronic insurance cards as valid proof of an insurance policy, plan, or contract. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 01/01/2026 |
| HB2528 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, changes from February 1 to January 15, the deadline for the commissioners of safety and education to present their annual report to the governor and the general assembly concerning implementation of the Schools Against Violence in Educ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Signed by H. Speaker |
| HB2973 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2023, and July 1, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Signed by H. Speaker |
| SB2006 | Pass | As enacted, designates the calendar week that includes October 28 as the "Reverend Kelly Miller Smith, Sr. Week of Service." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2933 | Pass | As enacted, revises certain enrollment, attendance, individualized education program, and resident requirements for certain education funding to follow a student who is admitted to a state-licensed or out-of-state mental health facility from the stud...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Signed by Governor. |
| SB1938 | Pass | As enacted, names the law prohibiting an LEA from deducting dues from the wages of the LEA's employees for a professional employees' organization the "Michael Maren Paycheck Protection Act." - Amends TCA Section 49-2-123.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/23/2024 |
| HB2267 | Pass | As enacted, lowers, from 15 to seven, the number of days by which a general sessions judge may postpone a trial for forcible entry and detainer; makes other changes related to forcible entry and detainers. - Amends TCA Title 27; Title 29 and Title 66...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| HB2440 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a real estate broker licensee who is in good standing with the Tennessee real estate commission at the time the person's license is temporarily retired, and who, as a retiree, has not paid the license renewal fee, causing the l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 734 |
| HB2119 | Pass | As enacted, establishes generally that a condemner bears the burden of proving by a preponderance of the evidence certain facts relative to public use; grants the property owner a right to have a court of competent jurisdiction determine if the takin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/22/2024 |
| HB2435 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Baby Olivia Act," which requires a family life curriculum that directly or indirectly addresses human growth, human development, or human sexuality to include the presentation of a high-quality, computer-generated animation or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/23/2024 |
| SB1791 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department, when screening for a condition is not implemented within 36 months of being added to the Recommended Uniform Screening Panel, to provide a report on the status and the reason for delay to the health and welfare co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
