| TN | SB2670 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows a Tennessee HOPE scholarship student or a nontraditional Tennessee HOPE scholarship student who earned the student's first baccalaureate degree between July 1, 2022, and July 1, 2023, in less than five years from the date of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2586 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, requires a third-party voter registration organization to register and provide certain information to the coordinator of elections before engaging in a voter registration event or program; prohibits persons and organizations collecting...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB2929 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, permits the second look commission to electronically submit the report detailing the commission's findings and recommendations from a review of an appropriate sampling of cases involving a second or subsequent incident of severe child ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB2221 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-04-19
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2610 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, prohibits an entity supported in whole or in part by public funds from knowingly providing meeting spaces or other forums, including, but not limited to, electronic and print platforms, to a designated entity by which the designated en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB0795 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-04-19
Placed on Senate Message Calendar for 4/22/2024 |
| TN | SB2062 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the penalty for assault against a law enforcement officer from a Class A misdemeanor with a mandatory minimum 30-day sentence and $5,000 fine to a Class E felony with a mandatory minimum 60-day sentence and $10,000 fine. - Am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2674 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-18
Signed by H. Speaker |
| TN | SB2655 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, requires public charter schools to provide educators six work weeks of paid leave after the birth or stillbirth of the educator's child or after the educator's adoption of a newly placed minor child. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Signed by H. Speaker |
| TN | SB2654 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, creates a Class B misdemeanor that is committed when a person knowingly tampers with, removes, or vandalizes a monitoring device that the person is required to use as a condition of bond, probation, or parole; requires an entity monito...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Signed by H. Speaker |
| TN | SB0135 | Engross
50% | As introduced, increases from 16 to 20 point font the minimum font size that a postsecondary educational institution must use for the required transferability of credits disclosure given to a student prior to the student signing an enrollment contrac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Passed H., as am., Ayes 63, Nays 26, PNV 3 |
| TN | SB2048 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, increases the limit on the amount of products containing ephedrine or pseudoephedrine base, or their salts, isomers, or salts of isomers that a pharmacy may sell or a person may purchase in a 30-day period from 5.76 grams to 7.2 grams;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Signed by H. Speaker |
| TN | SJR1489 | Enroll
75% | Officer Joseph McKinney, Memphis Police Department
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Signed by H. Speaker |
| TN | SB1709 | Engross
50% | As introduced, creates new criminal offenses of assault within a healthcare facility and aggravated assault within a healthcare facility. - Amends TCA Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB2901 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces from 60 to 30 days the waiting period before a law enforcement officer who is a member of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system may be reemployed after the officer's effective date of retirement. - Amends TCA Title 8, Ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2116 | Engross
50% | As introduced, increases from 15 days to 15 business days the time period a court may send notification of a defendant's conviction of aggravated cruelty to animals to the appropriate protective agencies if the defendant resides in a household with m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB2566 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-04-18
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB2563 | Engross
50% | As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor of violating a condition of release on bail; authorizes a law enforcement officer to arrest a person without a warrant based on probable cause to believe that the person has violated a condition of release...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| 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] | 2024-04-18
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SR0314 | Intro
25% | Alan Whittington, 50th birthday
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| 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] | 2024-04-17
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2530 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates the artificial intelligence advisory council to recommend an action plan to guide awareness, education, and usage of artificial intelligence in state government that aligns with the state’s policies and goals and that support...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate Reset on final calendar |
| TN | SB2261 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces from 30 to 21 days, the period by which a local government building official must, after a building permit is issued, mail to the county tax collection official the form upon which the permit applicant acknowledges the privileg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB2576 | Pass | As enacted, requires, rather than authorizes, law enforcement agencies to communicate with the appropriate federal official regarding the immigration status of any individual, including reporting knowledge that a particular alien is not lawfully pres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 716 |
| TN | SB1802 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, authorizes the attorney general and reporter to investigate human trafficking offenses, organized crime offenses, and related criminal activity; authorizes the attorney general and reporter to prosecute such offenses either with consen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SJR1436 | Engross
50% | Jeffrey "J.R." Russell
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Concurred, Ayes 88, Nays 1, PNV 2 |
| TN | SB1416 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases from 30 to 60 days, after the order of a court to release money held in trust to the custodian of a minor who was a victim of a crime, the period by which the custodian must provide an accounting to the court as to how the mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2689 | Engross
50% | As introduced, directs the administrative office of the courts (AOC) to define and develop a centralized system of case management, document management, electronic case filing, electronic payment methods, data reporting, and any other capability deem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SJR1382 | Enroll
75% | Cheri Doane, Ms. Tennessee Senior America 2023
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SJR1362 | Enroll
75% | Hannah-Kate McFadden
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB2763 | Engross
50% | As introduced, preempts the entire field of legislation regarding extreme risk protection orders to the exclusion of all county, city, town, municipality, or metropolitan government law, ordinances, resolutions, enactments, or regulation; declares a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB1769 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands the definition of "adjudication as a mental defective" to include a person who has been found incompetent to stand trial in a criminal proceeding and requires the clerk of court in such a proceeding to collect and report any su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SJR1235 | Enroll
75% | Michael Maren
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SJR1192 | Enroll
75% | Senator Art Swann
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SJR1388 | Enroll
75% | Representative. Judd Matheny
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB0544 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to employ a guardian ad litem within each region of the state to advocate for each child who is in the custody of the department due to allegations of dependency and neglect and located within the region that th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1305 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Special Educator Scholarship Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
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] | 2024-04-11
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] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2677 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the commissioner of mental health and substance abuse services to report on or before February 1 of each year to the judiciary committee of the senate and the civil justice committee of the house of representatives on the stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2688 | Intro
25% | As introduced, directs the department to conduct a study, utilizing existing resources, on the effectiveness of state programs incentivizing students to pursue careers in mental health care; requires the study to include an analysis of similar progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2659 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands student eligibility for a Tennessee future teacher scholarship to include students enrolled in an approved educator preparation program at Western Governors University. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2669 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1792 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-04-11
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SJR1135 | Engross
50% | Opposes the United States' participation in the World Health Organization Pandemic Prevention Preparedness and Response Accord.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Delayed Bills Committee |
| TN | SB1664 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, 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 authoriz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB2662 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the penalty from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class D felony for the offense of child endangerment by a parent or custodian of a child eight years of age or less if the parent or guardian knowingly exposes the child to, or know...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2652 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, 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; m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SJR0870 | Pass | Expresses support for State of Israel and condemns recent attacks on Israel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB2066 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, requires installation of carbon monoxide alarms in each room of a child care agency where care is provided to a child; requires the alarms to meet certain national certification standards and be installed in accordance with national fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
