| SB2674 | Pass | As introduced, authorizes the issuance of temporary teaching permits for courses for which an end-of-course examination is required. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2928 | Pass | As enacted, generally prohibits, in Montgomery, Williamson, Rutherford, Hamilton, Knox, Davidson, and Shelby counties, a member of a county governing body from simultaneously serving as a member of the governing body of a municipality within the coun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 763 |
| HB2937 | Pass | As enacted, generally prohibits, in Montgomery, Williamson, Rutherford, Hamilton, Knox, Davidson, and Shelby counties, a member of a county governing body from simultaneously serving as a member of the governing body of a municipality within the coun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/22/2024 |
| HB2280 | Pass | As introduced, authorizes a special occasion license to be issued in a jurisdiction wherein the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises has not been approved with written approval to hold an event by and in such jurisdiction that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Signed by Governor. |
| SB1605 | Pass | As enacted, extends the commission on children and youth to June 30, 2028. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 37, Chapter 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Signed by Governor. |
| HB1909 | 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
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| HB2391 | 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
Effective date(s) 04/22/2024 |
| HB2644 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, makes various changes to present law on adoption and foster parents; specifies that an adult has an affirmative obligation to inquire whether their sexual activity has resulted in a pregnancy; requires a court to receive written consen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Signed by H. Speaker |
| SB2186 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that in a county with more than one general sessions judge in which the judicial commissioners are supervised by the general sessions judges, the management and supervision of any judicial commissioners appointed pursuant to thi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 786 |
| HB2113 | Pass | As enacted, requires causes of action for unpaid wages for hours worked, overtime, minimum wage, salary, bonuses, commissions, or other compensation owed to an employee or independent contractor, including ones for breach of contract, unjust enrichme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| SB1646 | Pass | As enacted, adds former public officials to the list of officials who may contest liens on real property believed to lack any legal basis. - Amends TCA Section 47-9-513 and Title 66, Chapter 21, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 744 |
| HB1997 | Pass | As enacted, requires the trust principal of the K-12 mental health endowment account to be reduced by $75,000,000 in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, and reallocated to the trust's K-12 mental health special reserve account. - Amends TCA Title 4...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
Senate substituted House Bill for companion Senate Bill. |
| SB2827 | Pass | As enacted, provides that an owner of land who enters into a cooperative agreement with a public utility owned by the federal government for the use of the public utility's land in conjunction with the owner's land of at least 100 acres that is made ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Signed by Governor. |
| SB0757 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, extends from 90 days to 100 days, the amount of time in which captured plate data collected or retained by a governmental entity through the use of an automated license plate recognition system may be stored unless the data is retained...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB2007 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, authorizes public hospitals, upon approval of the hospital's governing body, to establish a state employee and retiree healthcare incentive program that will allow for the waiver of applicable out-of-pocket expenses associated with med...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB2015 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, extends the nursing home annual assessment fee to June 30, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 10.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| HB1922 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to the procedure for surrendering custody of an unwanted infant without criminal liability. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 728 |
| SB1806 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, requires the department to submit written summaries of policies and guidelines adopted by it to the chairs of the government operations committees of each house, with the policies and guidelines to be posted on the subsequent joint rul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB1802 | Pass | As enacted, enacts "The District Attorney General Second Opinion Act," which authorizes, in any investigation involving a human trafficking offense, an organized crime offense, or an offense classified as a Class A or B felony, in which a district at...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Signed by Governor. |
| SB1715 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a law enforcement agency to assign a law enforcement officer to serve as a school resource officer at a school within a local board of education's control that has not entered into a memorandum of understanding with a law enfor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| SB0479 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that a "deposit account," for purposes of provisions regarding secured transactions in the Uniform Commercial Code, does not include a United States central bank digital currency. - Amends TCA Title 47.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2367 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a health facility to establish policies pursuant to which a suitable number of persons may be employed, commissioned, or contracted through a private third party, as police officers, public safety officers, and security officer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Signed by Governor. |
| SB1284 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, removes references to repealed provisions of law that provided an additional definition of contractor, and additional penalties, in relation to unlawful representation as a licensed contractor. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB2782 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, creates a civil cause of action against any person who knowingly removes a minor from this state without the consent of a parent of the minor for the purpose of assisting the minor in obtaining a healthcare procedure that is for the pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB2664 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, requires each institution of higher education in this state to classify a student who is the spouse or dependent child of a service member as an in-state student for tuition purposes if certain criteria are met. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB1137 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, requires a county having a metropolitan form of government that creates a special escrow account earmarked for the sole purpose of generating revenue to provide low income persons with safe and affordable housing to notify the Tennesse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB1952 | Pass | As enacted, makes to the present law relevant to an attorney ad litem. - Amends TCA Title 34.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Signed by Governor. |
| SB0191 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB0517 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Representative Darren Jernigan Act," which requires, beginning on January 1, 2025, and each year thereafter, the department of revenue to verify that the owner of each disabled parking placard has not died; requires the depart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Effective date(s) 4/19/2024 |
| SB0795 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, removes ambiguous language and clarifies that a transfer of a possibility of reverter or right of entry by a holder other than the original grantor is invalid unless the validity of the future interest was determined by a final judgmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB2269 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, directs the department to identify federal and state regulations that inhibit the efficient processing of applications and delivery of benefits for the food assistance program; requires the department to submit any necessary waiver app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB2019 | Pass | As introduced, increases from 50 to 100 the number of patients to whom a licensed nurse practitioner or physician assistant who is authorized to prescribe Schedule II or III drugs may prescribe buprenorphine products; increases from four to 10 the ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2230 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, defines "hospital-based laboratory" and "hospital-based laboratory supervisor" for purposes of the Tennessee Medical Laboratory Act; provides hospital-based laboratory supervisors the authority to supervise up to four hospital-based la...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB2770 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, authorizes the enhancement of criminal penalties up to life in prison without parole upon conviction of violent crimes by illegal aliens; conviction of possession of a firearm or deadly weapon by an illegal alien; or conviction of a vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB1971 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, creates the criminal offense of abortion trafficking of a minor; provides for a civil action against a person committing the offense of abortion trafficking of a minor for the wrongful death of an unborn child that was aborted. - Amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB1140 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, allows dealers, when reporting and remitting sales taxes to the department of revenue, to retain a certain portion of such taxes in order to compensate for costs incurred in accounting for and remitting such taxes; establishes certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB1792 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, enacts the "Protect Tennessee Minors Act"; requires an individual or commercial entity that publishes or distributes in this state a website that contains a substantial portion of material harmful to minors perform reasonable age-verif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB2337 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, increases the penalty for indecent exposure from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony if the person was confined in a penal institution at the time of the commission of the offense and the offense was committed with the intent to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB2559 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, authorizes the import and export of human remains by state, local, and municipal law enforcement agencies for the purpose of human remains detection training; requires the Tennessee bureau of investigation, in consultation with the dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB1587 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, specifies that a parent or guardian who knowingly leaves their child under the care or supervision of a person who is required to register as a sexual offender commits a Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 4 an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| SB2243 | Pass | As enacted, expands the definition of "victim" for the purposes of restitution to include a reciprocal, as defined by current law, when the reciprocal has compensated a subscriber for loss incurred as a result of the offense to the extent that the re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Signed by Governor. |
| SB1798 | Pass | As enacted, requires an applicant for a server permit to have successfully completed a program of alcohol awareness training, for persons involved in the direct service of alcohol, wine, or beer by an entity certified by the commission to have an ade...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Effective date(s) 01/01/2025 |
| SB2566 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB2151 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, requires the commissioner of health to submit an electronic copy of the annual report on immunization rates of children, by county, to the governor and the speakers of the senate and the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 14;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB2536 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB1972 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB2665 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, creates a street racing task force to study and determine best practices for curbing illegal street racing in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 55.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| HB2081 | Pass | As enacted, allows unlicensed persons who have completed a competency-based training program, and who are employed by certain personal support service agencies licensed under law relative to mental health, substance abuse, and intellectual and develo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 730 |
| SB1740 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, 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 covera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| SB2095 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, 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, Ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
