| SB2410 | Pass | As enacted, establishes an offense for a person, on behalf of a debt collector or inbound telemarketer service, to knowingly cause a caller identification service to transmit misleading or inaccurate caller identification information to a subscriber ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 758 |
| SB2363 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 789 |
| SB2147 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to the law protecting elderly persons and disabled adults. - Amends TCA Title 30; Title 31; Title 32; Title 34; Title 35; Title 36; Title 39 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/23/2024 |
| SB1490 | Pass | As enacted, requires the wildlife resources agency, if contracting with a farmer to farm lands owned or under the control of this state, to offer, not less than 60 days before the expiration of the contract, the farmer the opportunity to renegotiate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| SB2627 | Pass | As enacted, adds to the factors considered by a court when making child custody determinations evidence of physical or emotional abuse to the child or to any other person; requires judges involved in child custody proceedings to complete training tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 799 |
| SB1993 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 756 |
| SB2066 | Pass | As enacted, requires each child care agency in this state to have installed in each room of the child care agency where care is provided to children a carbon monoxide alarm that is listed according to the International Building Code and International...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/19/2024, 07/01/2024 |
| SB2250 | Pass | As enacted, states that the court, rather than the sheriff or administrative officer of a local jail, may authorize the use of alternative facilities for the incarceration of an offender convicted of a first time offense of driving under the influenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/23/2024 |
| SB2524 | Pass | As enacted, changes the date by which a county election commission may begin voting at nursing homes from 29 days before the election to 27 days before the election. - Amends TCA Title 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 757 |
| SB1837 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department to, on or before June 30, 2026, procure an electronic lien and title system to be used throughout the state; clarifies that "electronic lien and title system" means a program that allows the exchange of lien and ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 745 |
| SB1779 | Pass | As enacted, provides that, if an incapacitated or deceased patient has no authorized representative, the patient's next of kin will be treated as an authorized representative for the patient for the purposes of obtaining the patient's hospital record...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 739 |
| SB1823 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the department to enter into, or amend an existing, grant contract or other contract as necessary to ensure successful implementation and completion of the Tennessee opportunity pilot program, except that the department must no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/23/2024 |
| SB1708 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that a private school serving students in any of the grades pre-K through 12 is authorized to adopt a handgun carry policy for the private school's property. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13; Title 49, Chapter 1 and Ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 738 |
| SB1142 | Pass | As enacted, vacates and reconstitutes the commission; makes other changes relative to the commission. - Amends TCA Title 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 06/30/2024 |
| SB2093 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 740 |
| SB1801 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 790 |
| SB1723 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Uniform Faithful Presidential Electors Act." - Amends TCA Title 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 787 |
| SB2652 | 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
Effective date(s) 04/19/2024 |
| SB1887 | Pass | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 797 |
| SB1915 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 788 |
| SB2391 | Pass | As enacted, revises provisions governing trade practices and consumer protection. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6, Part 4 and Title 47.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/23/2024 |
| SB1313 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to the law regarding costs of reproduction, copying, or mailing of certain medical records. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Section 63-2-102.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 737 |
| SB2525 | 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
Effective date(s) 04/23/2024 |
| SB2503 | Pass | As enacted, requires the attorney general to conduct a review of the responsibilities and functions of the human rights commission and make a recommendation to the general assembly as to how the attorney general could assume the responsibilities and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/23/2024 |
| SB1657 | 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
Effective date(s) 04/23/2024 |
| SB1919 | Pass | As enacted, requires a health benefit plan that amends, renews, or delivers a policy of coverage on or after July 1, 2024, and that provides coverage for prescription contraceptives, to provide coverage for a 12-month refill of contraceptives obtaine...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 01/01/2025 |
| SB1983 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 748 |
| SB1060 | Pass | As enacted, revises various provisions of present law pertaining to the "Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022" and the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 782 |
| SB2923 | Pass | As enacted, requires, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, each local education agency and public charter school to provide students with age-appropriate and grade-appropriate instruction on firearm safety. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 800 |
| SB1874 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies, for the purposes of regulation of health and related facilities, what constitutes "home health services." - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 741 |
| SB1985 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 755 |
| SB1868 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Laken Riley Act of 2024," which generally prohibits a public institution of higher education from prohibiting adults lawfully present on the institution's property from carrying a non-lethal weapon for purposes of self-defense...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 791 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| SB2549 | Pass | As enacted, requires former and current district attorneys general, in order to solemnize the rite of matrimony, to opt in by filing notice of intention to solemnize the rite of matrimony with the office of vital records. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 759 |
| SB1859 | Pass | As enacted, extends the percentage of a misdemeanor sentence that a court may require a defendant to serve from 75 percent to 100 percent. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 41, Chapter 21, Part 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 743 |
| SB0468 | Pass | As enacted, removes certain limitations placed on a person trying to meet the educational requirement for licensure as a polysomnographic technologist by presenting proof of successful completion of an accredited sleep technologist educational progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 736 |
| SB1903 | Pass | As enacted, defines food that contains a vaccine or vaccine material as a drug for purposes of the Tennessee Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 53.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 742 |
| SB2482 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 761 |
| SB2030 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 754 |
| SB2362 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department to create a continuing education program for the purpose of providing healthcare professionals with information and training relative to public and office safety. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 749 |
