| TN | SB2183 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes, from 10 days to 10 business days, the maximum amount of time the commissioner of education can suspend schools in a year when the commissioner requires all teachers to attend county institutes or educational meetings. - Amends...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Conf. comm. report adopted, Ayes 82, Nays 3 PNV 0 |
| TN | SB0756 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of human services to advertise prominently on the home page of the department's website the division of adult protective services' toll-free telephone service that enables citizens within the state to call the d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB0085 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Employee Ownership, Empowerment, and Expansion Act," to support the growth and expansion of employee-owned businesses. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 12, Chapter 3; Title 45; Title 50; Title 56, Chapter 1 and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Finance, Ways & Means |
| TN | SB2159 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the amount of personal needs allowance from $50 to $70 for long-term nursing home residents. - Amends TCA Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB2791 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "TennCare for Working Individuals with Disabilities Act." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB1659 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2332 | Intro
25% | As introduced, raises the base salary from $156,024 to $205,328 for district attorneys general and district public defenders. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 16.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2146 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2117 | Intro
25% | As introduced, defines a home for the aged that houses three or fewer nonrelated persons as a tier 1 home for the aged that is subject to licensure and regulation by the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities; defines a home for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2156 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-04-23
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2538 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes from three to four the number of members the governor is authorized to appoint to an enrolling board in each county to act in lieu of the county assessor for purposes of enrolling county residents in the state militia. - Amends...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2883 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Prostate-Specific Antigen Screening for High-risk Insured Men Act," which requires health insurance coverage for the early detection of prostate cancer for men who meet certain risk criteria or age thresholds. - Amends TCA ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB0177 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires TennCare to create and implement a three-year pilot program to provide remote maternal health services to eligible TennCare recipients; authorizes the TennCare director to seek a federal waiver as necessary to implement the pi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0359 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the salaries paid to teachers and other professional personnel in a state special school on or after July 1, 2023, to equal or exceed the salaries paid to teachers and other professional personnel with comparable training and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0364 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0529 | Intro
25% | As introduced, eliminates the sales and use tax on infant diapers, wipes, and formula. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0750 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to create and implement a promising futures program to provide scholarships to children who are not school age to assist them in developing early language and literacy skills in a high-quality early care and lea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0763 | Intro
25% | As introduced, exempts official Tennessee state flags and flags of the United States from the sales and use tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1282 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds the government operations committees of both houses to the list of legislative committees to receive annual reports from the commission on aging and disability concerning funding sources used to support the health, safety, and wel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1316 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the penalty for the offense of possession of a used, detached catalytic converter by an unauthorized person from a Class A misdemeanor punishable only by fine to a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 55 and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0536 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0530 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "First Lady's Children's Trust Fund Act," which creates a trust fund to support persons and entities seeking assistance in the care of children in this state. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 33; Title 37; Title 50; Title 63; Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0531 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1647 | Intro
25% | As introduced, provides a 25 percent discount on the tuition charged by a state institution of higher education to the child of an active or retired member of the Tennessee army national guard or the Tennessee air national guard. - Amends TCA Title 4...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1671 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires that a newborn safety device be installed in each county in this state. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1672 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces, from 23 to 21, the minimum age required for a student to be eligible for the Tennessee reconnect grant. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1977 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes the hunger-free campus grant program; provides grants to higher education institutions to address student hunger. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1783 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reallocates 5 percent of the privilege tax collected from licensees that offer sports wagering in this state from the lottery for education account to a new Tennessee Promise completion grant special account created to assist the commi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2277 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates a registry of persons convicted of the criminal offense of domestic assault; requires the bureau to maintain the registry. - Amends TCA Title 18; Section 38-6-103; Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0503 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends from October to November, the time within which a public institution of higher education that receives funds from the distribution of credit cards to students or any percentage from the use of cards bearing the college or unive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/23/2024 |
| TN | SB1752 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends eligibility for a Tennessee Promise scholarship to students who are enrolled full-time in a private, for-profit trade school that has been approved by the Tennessee state board of cosmetology and barber examiners to operate in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2629 | Intro
25% | As introduced, on or after January 1, 2025, requires a health carrier that issues or renews a health insurance policy, health benefit plan, or contract of accident or health insurance providing benefits for medical or hospital expenses to provide cov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB2119 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes up to two members of an LLC that owns property in a city to vote in the city's elections if the city's charter provides nonresident property owners voting rights. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2120 | Intro
25% | As introduced, updates citations to federal law that affect state regulations of quality improvement committees of healthcare organizations. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2187 | Intro
25% | As introduced, deletes a redundant definition of the term "commission," as that term is already defined title-wide in § 57-3-101. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2392 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the report regarding the strategic statewide plan to increase pedestrian safety that is to be submitted by the department on or before February 15, 2024, to be submitted every four years thereafter to the chairs of the transpo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB1935 | Intro
25% | As introduced, on or after January 1, 2025, requires a health carrier that issues or renews a health insurance policy, health benefit plan, or contract of accident or health insurance providing benefits for medical or hospital expenses to provide cov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
Withdrawn. |
| TN | SB2050 | Intro
25% | As introduced, by January 1, 2025, requires the department of health to report to legislative committees the number of persons in this state who have died from accidental fentanyl poisoning over the last 10 years, the methods used by the department t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB1794 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes reference to an outdated address for the National Society of Genetic Counselors, at which a copy of the code of ethics may be obtained and, instead, refers to the address listed on the website. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1753 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits the denial of accident and sickness insurance policy benefits when there is a loss due to accidental fentanyl poisoning. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB1592 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds the office of legislative budget analysis as a recipient of the joint annual report provided by the commissioners of transportation and revenue that summarizes the amount and source of all moneys received and deposited in the tran...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB7097 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires TennCare to ensure certain reimbursement rates, expand access to providers, and prohibit quantitative benefit limits for behavioral health services. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-23
Lay on the Table |
| TN | SB7078 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a qualified mental health professional or behavior analyst to take certain steps to warn or protect an identified victim or group of people when the professional determines that a service recipient has made an actual threat of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-23
Lay on the Table |
| TN | SB7096 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires TennCare to ensure certain reimbursement rates, expand access to providers, and prohibit quantitative benefit limits for mental health services. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-23
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB7079 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes a loan forgiveness program for psychiatrists, psychologists, and counselors. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-23
Lay on the Table |
| TN | SB0462 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces, from 29.0141 percent to 28.5262 percent, the share of state sales and use tax revenue deposited to the state general fund; increases, from 4.6030 percent to 5.0909 percent, the share appropriated to municipalities. - Amends TC...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-13
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0540 | Intro
25% | As introduced, makes various changes to the laws on adoption and termination of parental rights, including clarifying that the putative father registry must be consulted in certain circumstances within 10 working days of filing a petition to terminat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0176 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes up to two members of an LLC that owns property in a city to vote in the city's elections if the city's charter provides nonresident property owners voting rights. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0541 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases from five to seven the minimum number of children a facility must have under its care for three or more hours per day in order to fall within the definition of a child care agency for licensing purposes. - Amends TCA Title 71...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1374 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to allocate to each local education agency (LEA) sufficient funds for the LEA to employ one full-time public school nurse for every 750 students enrolled in the LEA, or one full-time public school nurse for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Education Committee |
