| 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. |
| SB2578 | Engross
50% | As introduced, revises provisions related to the special account in the general fund known as the "pre-need funeral account"; deletes the indigent burial fund. - Amends TCA Section 62-5-414.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| SB1676 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, requires a municipality levying the hotel-motel tax under general law to submit a report annually detailing how the revenue earned from the tax is used by the municipality; requires the comptroller of the treasury to audit the reports ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB2424 | Pass | 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] | 2024-04-29
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2926 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, deletes a redundant definition in law relative to intoxicating liquors that defines the commission. - Amends TCA Title 57 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB2378 | Pass | As enacted, requires the comptroller to conduct a study of all insurers, including insurance pools, that provide policies of workers' compensation coverage to local governmental entities, including a review of each insurer's solvency, a comparative r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2188 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits a governmental entity or local board of education from extending the immunity to governmental tort liability to persons providing school-related transportation services to a local board of education; requires agreements to compe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Signed by Governor. |
| SB1867 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, enacts the "Beyond Ordinary Learning Opportunities (BOLO) Act," which requires the department to establish a one-year pilot program to place a therapy dog in five public schools in the 2024-2025 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| SB1594 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, requires the commissioner of transportation to include any change orders in the commissioner's quarterly report submitted to the state building commission regarding the status of road projects. - Amends TCA Title 54.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB0316 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB2501 | Pass | As introduced, establishes deadlines for public institutions of higher education to initiate and complete an investigation into a report filed by a student or employee alleging they have been penalized, discriminated against, or received adverse trea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Signed by Governor. |
| SB0624 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, allows a juvenile court to impose a blended sentence on a child 16 years of age or older for a juvenile offense that would be a Class A, B, or C felony if committed by an adult; defines blended sentencing as a combination of any dispos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB2496 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, authorizes the chief legislative body of a municipality to create a voluntary attainable housing incentive program by ordinance for the purpose of authorizing certain incentives to be provided to property owners who seek to build attai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| HB1870 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 731 |
| SB1762 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, requires TennCare coverage of rapid whole genome sequencing when certain clinical criteria are met. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB2304 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB2605 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, authorizes the Tennessee wildlife resources agency to enter into license agreements for the operation of facilities on lands under the control or supervision of the agency for the improved utilization of state lands and facilities; suc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB0129 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, removes requirement for receipt of certain grants and loans for water and wastewater treatment infrastructure projects that a municipality includes depreciation in its calculation of fees or rates. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB1670 | 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
Effective date(s) 4/19/2024 |
| SB2044 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, states that, for inmates serving a sentence of two years or more for an offense committed on or after July 1, 2024, sentence reduction credits shall not operate to alter the defendant's sentence expiration date, but may be used to redu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB2133 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, declares that an intrastate commercial good that is produced in this state and that remains within the borders of this state is not subject to federal law or federal regulation under the authority of congress to regulate interstate com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB2221 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB2368 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, requires the commissioner of finance and administration, or the commissioner's designee, to make available to the public on the department's website any proposed budget document or other financial publication that lists complex rehabil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB2915 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, authorizes proration of the registration fee for freight motor vehicles operated for commercial purposes upon the death of an eligible operator of the freight motor vehicle; requires submission of certain documentation prior to issuanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| SB1844 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, deletes an obsolete pilot project that expired in 2014 related to the exchange of notifications of violations of alcohol laws between the alcoholic beverage commission and the county beer boards. - Amends TCA Title 57.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB2593 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, changes from 10 to 14 the number of days public high schools, including public charter high schools, are required to notify freshman and sophomore high school students enrolled at their schools of the opportunity to pursue an Industry ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| SB2561 | Pass | As introduced, requires a nonprofit organization that has entered into a contract or memorandum of understanding with the district attorney general to disclose the list of persons or entities that have donated to the nonprofit in the previous calenda...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Signed by Governor. |
| SB1286 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a credit union with a state charter to purchase a participation interest in a loan from a bank, another credit union, or another eligible organization, without requiring membership of the borrower of the loan. - Amends TCA Titl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Signed by Governor. |
| HB1698 | Pass | As enacted, requires the juvenile court to include in the disposition for a juvenile who has been found to have made a threat to commit mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity, in addition to any other disposition authorized ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 727 |
| SB2136 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB2820 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB1866 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, clarifies that in determining whether a person is an illegal alien for employment purposes, the person's status is considered with respect to the employment of the person at a particular time. - Amends TCA Title 50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| HB0465 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 726 |
| SB2879 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, creates a committee to study the establishment of incarcerated parenting plans to facilitate the ongoing relationships between incarcerated parents and their children within this state; requires the committee to report its findings and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB1931 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, requires the department to annually notify each local education agency (LEA) in writing of all state and federal grant programs available to assist the LEA in expanding mental health services and resources in schools. - Amends TCA Titl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB1055 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, lowers the threshold for enhancing the minimum sentence of a person convicted of driving under the influence of an intoxicant, from a blood alcohol concentration of 0.20 percent or more to a blood alcohol concentration of 0.15 percent ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB1593 | Pass | As enacted, adds new specialty earmarked license plates; revises existing specialty earmarked license plates; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2557 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB1811 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB2587 | Pass | As enacted, requires the county election commission to select the voting machines to be purchased for use in the county and ensure the destruction of the voting machines when the machines are deemed obsolete; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Signed by Governor. |
| SB1735 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, requires the state fire marshal or another state entity that receives an inspection request for new construction or the renovation of an existing building to conduct the inspection within 72 hours of receipt of the request. - Amends TC...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| HB1664 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 729 |
| SB1917 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits marriage between first cousins. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Signed by Governor. |
| SB1793 | 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
Effective date(s) 04/19/2024 |
| SB2103 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, deletes the provision requiring that the measure of the franchise tax must not be less than the actual value of the real or tangible property owned or used by a taxpayer in this state; authorizes the commissioner of revenue to issue re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB1664 | Pass | As enacted, requires the juvenile court to include in the disposition for a juvenile who has been found to have made a threat to commit mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity, in addition to any other disposition authorized ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| SB2834 | Pass | As introduced, deletes an obsolete provision requiring the public utility commission to report by 2011 to the speaker of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, the governor, the chair of the commerce and labor committee of the senat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Signed by Governor. |
| SB2797 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB1882 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, authorizes a charitable nonprofit corporation located in Knox County or within a municipality located within Knox County that acquires replacement property which is operated as a licensed residential home for the aged, to claim and fil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| SB1963 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, permits a court to award the reasonable court costs and attorney's fees to a petitioner successfully proving that a governing body knowingly and willfully violated the public meetings laws in this state. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 4...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
