Bills Pending Tennessee Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee

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TNSB1350Intro
25%
As introduced, requires as a qualification for office that a constable be certified by a qualified healthcare provider as being free from any mental impairment that would affect the constable's ability to perform an essential function of the job with...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB1448Intro
25%
As introduced, extends for an additional year, until June 30, 2024, the sales tax holiday for the retail sale of gun safes and gun safety devices. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.
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2024-04-19
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TNSB2540Intro
25%
As introduced, directs the department of economic and community development to develop a program for the installation and operation of combustion turbine power plants to increase the state's electric generation capacity. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB1305Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Special Educator Scholarship Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2024-04-19
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TNSB0536Intro
25%
As introduced, adds, for purposes of juvenile court proceedings and termination of parental rights proceedings, certain offenses to those that constitute severe child abuse if the act was committed toward the child or there was a knowing failure to p...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2669Intro
25%
As introduced, increases the penalties for certain violations of the offense of unlawful photography; requires the court, rather than allowing the court discretion, to order a person convicted of certain unlawful photography offenses to register as a...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB0413Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes local governments to create a program to provide grants to eligible nonprofit organizations that own residential property and rent the property for at least 25 percent below market rate. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title ...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB1671Intro
25%
As introduced, requires that a newborn safety device be installed in each county in this state. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 68.
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2024-04-19
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TNSB2462Intro
25%
As introduced, directs the department to promulgate rules to establish a grant program for first-time home buyers. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 10; Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 47 and Title 66.
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2024-04-19
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TNSB0364Intro
25%
As introduced, changes the date within which a student must be enrolled in a full-time eligible postsecondary program to be eligible for a Tennessee Promise scholarship from the fall term after the student's graduation of high school or similar achie...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB1813Intro
25%
As introduced, provides a working families' tax refund for state and local sales and use tax paid on or after January 1, 2024, by low-income taxpayers who are eligible for the federal earned income tax credit. - Amends TCA Title 67.
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB0981Intro
25%
As introduced, exempts from franchise and excise taxes, a community development entity or sub-community development entity that is certified by the United States department of the treasury's community development financial institutions fund, and that...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2282Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department of health to reimburse an applicant's first attempt fee for taking the NREMT examination, a condition for an initial EMT or paramedic license to be issued, so long as the applicant has current or pending employm...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2394Intro
25%
As introduced, increases, from one to two, the number of free plates for the Purple Heart and disabled veteran license plates issued to veterans with disabilities. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-256 and Section 55-4-257.
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2509Intro
25%
As introduced, extends the school turnaround pilot program beyond the 2024-2025 school year; increases, from five to 15, the number of schools in need of intervention that may participate in the school turnaround pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 49,...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB0291Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Overdose Fatality Review Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 33; Title 53; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2323Intro
25%
As introduced, exempts from the state sales and use tax the retail sale of food and food ingredients that are voucher-eligible under the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB0837Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Pregnancy Resource Tax Credit Act," which authorizes business, excise, and franchise tax credits for businesses that make monetary contributions to eligible nonprofit organizations that provide certain pregnancy-related ser...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB0472Intro
25%
As introduced, increases the penalty for driving upon a highway without a valid driver license for the vehicle being driven from a Class C misdemeanor to a Class B misdemeanor for a first offense and a Class A misdemeanor for a second or subsequent o...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB0655Intro
25%
As introduced, adds, as a condition to a court permitting a dependent or neglected child under three years of age to remain with the child's parent, guardian, or other custodian, a requirement that the parent, guardian, or other custodian submit to t...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB0531Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department to maintain staffing to allow case managers to have no more than 20 open cases, rather than an average of 20 active cases; states that a "person residing in the child's home" includes a person living in a reside...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB1499Intro
25%
As introduced, removes the requirement for a person to post a bond when filing a claim to seized property. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33.
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1875Intro
25%
As introduced, increases from 48 hours to seven days the time in which a victim of a crime or a member of the victim's family has to report the crime to law enforcement to be eligible to receive a claim for compensation unless good cause is shown. - ...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB2364Intro
25%
As introduced, adds training in the use of anti-choking devices to the training that coaches of school youth athletic activities at an LEA or public charter school are required to receive. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB0092Intro
25%
As introduced, adds as an enhancement factor to be used in determining the sentence for a criminal offense that the defendant is an adult and committed the offense with a minor, regardless of whether the minor was convicted of the offense. - Amends T...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB1772Intro
25%
As introduced, changes the reimbursement amount for property tax relief for disabled veteran homeowners; increases the reimbursement amount from payment on the first $175,000 of the full market value of the home to payment on the first $300,000 of th...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB0071Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the bureau to perform forensic analysis of sexual assault evidence collection kits within 30 days of the bureau's receipt of the sexual assault evidence collection kit from a law enforcement agency; requires the bureau to subm...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB0461Intro
25%
As introduced, establishes the future of work commission to govern the activities of the Tennessee education and workforce data center established in the department of finance and administration's office of evidence and impact to collect, conduct res...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB1453Intro
25%
As introduced, removes the requirement for a defendant to pay a fee of $100 to the Tennessee bureau of investigation upon the defendant's request for diversion. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6, Part 1 and Title 40.
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2024-04-19
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TNSB0385Intro
25%
As introduced, increases the time period, from six months to one year, in which a local government is prohibited from holding a referendum to levy the local option sales tax after a referendum was held on the question and was rejected. - Amends TCA T...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1741Intro
25%
As introduced, allocates 2.83 percent of the sales and use tax collected in the 11 fastest-growing counties to such counties; requires such counties to earmark such revenue for educational facility maintenance and construction and infrastructure. - A...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2624Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes a state or local law enforcement agency, at the direction of the executive officer with authority over such agency or the commissioner of safety, to provide aid and assistance to another state or a law enforcement agency of ...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB0207Intro
25%
As introduced, increases, from $27,000 to $50,000, the maximum market value on which property tax relief is calculated for elderly, low-income homeowners. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB0521Intro
25%
As introduced, waives lifetime enhanced handgun carry permit fees for state residents who are retired veterans of the United States armed forces. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB0120Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes a credit against premium taxes in the amount of the charges, expenses, and fees paid by insurance companies for certain examinations performed by the commissioner of commerce and insurance. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 4, ...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1710Intro
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As introduced, requires half of the unencumbered revenue from the recordation tax to be distributed to counties for school debt and school capital projects. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-409.
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2705Intro
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As introduced, requires the department to publish on its website the department's annual report to the governor and general assembly on the state's solid waste management system. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 11; Tit...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2564Intro
25%
As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor offense of violation of a condition of release; allows arrest without a warrant of a person committing the offense of violation of a condition of release; requires the violation of a condition of release t...
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2024-04-09
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2054Intro
25%
As introduced, establishes that the district attorney general shall only prosecute cases in municipal court where the municipality provides sufficient additional prosecutorial personnel for the district attorney general; empowers the district attorne...
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2024-04-09
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1805Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department to utilize cost estimation models to determine the cost of day care when setting the annual day care reimbursement rate. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 68 and Title 71.
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2024-04-09
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2843Intro
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As introduced, restricts certain real property transactions by certain foreign aliens and entities. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 20 and Title 66, Chapter 2.
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2024-04-02
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSJR1243Intro
25%
Indigenous Embassy Jerusalem
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2024-04-01
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2574Intro
25%
As introduced, increases from Class E and Class D to a Class C felony the classification of theft of a firearm valued at less than $60,000 and related offenses; specifies that it is a Class C felony to receive, possess, store, barter, sell, transfer,...
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2024-04-01
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2787Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department of education to study the school choice programs available in other states and to submit a report of the department's findings at the conclusion of the study to the governor, the speaker of the house of represen...
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2024-03-20
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2894Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes direct and continuing appropriations by airport authorities for the issuance of debt that is not a liability of the state and the payment of debt service thereon. - Amends TCA Title 9.
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2024-03-20
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2085Intro
25%
As introduced, extends, from February 1, 2030, to February 1, 2031, the last year for which the department of revenue is required to annually report to the speakers of both houses and to the chairs of the finance, ways and means committees regarding ...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB0842Intro
25%
As introduced, expands eligibility for a dual enrollment grant to include students who are sophomores in high school and admitted to an eligible postsecondary institution as a dual enrollment student. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.
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2024-03-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2198Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department of revenue to submit, by January 1, 2026, a one-time report to the finance, ways and means committees of the house of representatives and the senate concerning the revenue effects of certain amendments made to t...
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2024-03-19
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TNSB0024Intro
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As introduced, increases, from $200 to $500, the amount each LEA and public charter school is required to pay each teacher in kindergarten through grade 12 for the purchase of instructional supplies for the 2023-2024 school year. - Amends TCA Title 4...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1256Intro
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As introduced, requires residential landlords in Shelby County to register with the county or with the respective jurisdiction in Shelby County in which the dwelling units are located. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 28.
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2024-03-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
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