| TN | SB2747 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the ''Medical Ethics Defense Act.'' - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2830 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires public charter schools to provide licensed employees of the public charter school six paid workweeks after a birth or stillbirth of the employee's child or the employee's adoption of a newly placed minor child. - Amends TCA Ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2433 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases from $1,000 to $1,500 the compensation claim amount that may be reimbursed to a healthcare provider for performing a forensic medical examination on a victim of a sexual assault case. - Amends TCA Title 29.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1991 | Intro
25% | As introduced, clarifies that a person licensed to practice medicine in this state may complete the person's continuing education requirements solely through courses, approved by the board of medical examiners, that are offered online; requires the b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1857 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces, from $25 to $20, the minimum amount of a partial payment of property taxes that the Trustee for the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County may accept. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB7088 | Pass | As enacted, requires the bureau to submit a report on child and human trafficking crimes and trends in this state, based upon data available to the bureau, as well as current programs and activities of the bureau's human trafficking unit, to the gove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-27
Effective date(s) 09/08/2023 |
| TN | SB7001 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires each LEA, public charter school, private school, and church-related school to develop a policy to direct how students, teachers, substitute teachers, and staff are to respond when a fire alarm is activated on school premises o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-23
Lay on the Table |
| TN | SB7008 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands the statutory duty that qualified mental health professionals and licensed behavior analysts have to notify potential victims and law enforcement of an actual threat of bodily harm against a clearly identified victim made by a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-23
Lay on the Table |
| TN | SB7017 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires each local education agency to post a notice in a conspicuous place on each school bus in operation by the LEA to notify others that no person shall enter onto school buses except for those authorized; requires new bus drivers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-23
Lay on the Table |
| TN | SB7082 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes prerequisites for emergency detention and admission to a treatment facility from "immediate" substantial likelihood of serious harm to "imminent" substantial likelihood of serious harm. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 33; Title 41...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-23
Lay on the Table |
| TN | SB7002 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates the criminal offense of recklessly, by any means of communication, threatening to commit an act of mass violence; requires the court to determine whether a defendant charged with threatening to commit an act of mass violence is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-22
Lay on the Table |
| TN | SB7083 | Intro
25% | As introduced, exempts a person from civil liability for damages, injuries, or death resulting from or arising out of the theft of the person's firearm that is properly stored in the person's motor vehicle unless the person commits an offense involvi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-22
Lay on the Table |
| TN | SB7003 | Intro
25% | As introduced, exempts a person from civil liability for damages, injuries, or death resulting from or arising out of the theft of the person's firearm or firearm ammunition properly stored in the person's motor vehicle unless the person commits an o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-21
Withdrawn. |
| TN | SB0637 | Pass | As enacted, adds additional companies to the statewide opioid settlement agreement for which the attorney general and reporter has the authority to release pending or future claims. - Amends TCA Title 20 and Title 33.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023 |
| TN | SB0543 | Pass | As enacted, creates the child care improvement fund, to be administered by the department of human services; creates a child care improvement pilot program to provide grants to nonprofit organizations to be used for establishing a new child care agen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/17/2023 |
| TN | SB0753 | Pass | As enacted, makes various changes to the board of pharmacy. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 63, Chapter 1 and Title 63, Chapter 10, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0856 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "James 'Dustin' Samples Act." - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 9; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 102.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/17/2023, 01/01/2024 |
| TN | SB0466 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that a teacher or other employee of a public school or LEA is not required to refer to a student using the student's preferred pronoun if the pronoun is not consistent with the student's biological sex; insulates a teacher or ot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/17/2023 |
| TN | SB0105 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department of safety to waive the knowledge test, and accept alternative requirements, for active duty and honorably discharged service members and members of the national guard or the armed forces reserves applying for tempo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 01/01/2024 |
| TN | SB0813 | Pass | As enacted, increases the pay schedule for certain assistant district attorneys general, assistant district public defenders, district investigators, and criminal investigators. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14 and Title 8, Chapter 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 06/30/2023 |
| TN | SB0894 | Pass | As enacted, exempts a person under 18 years of age who is in custody of the department of children's services or receiving foster care services from payment of fees for issuance, renewal, or reinstatement of a driver license, instruction permit, inte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 01/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1551 | Pass | Subject to local approval, prohibits public entities in Sumner County from using eminent domain to acquire privately owned real property for parks, trails, paths, or greenways for walking, running, hiking, bicycling, or equestrian use, unless the pri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 29 |
| TN | SB0213 | Pass | As enacted, requires a person convicted of domestic assault involving strangulation to serve a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 days incarceration; enhances offenses involving strangulation or attempted strangulation based on certain circumstances. -...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB1119 | Pass | As enacted, designates the National Guard Armory to be constructed in Warren County as the "Major General Terry Max Haston National Guard Armory".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/17/2023 |
| TN | SB0360 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the department of safety to create a voucher program for the purpose of offsetting the cost of persons taking a handgun safety course for the first time; requires the department to report the number of courses taken using vouch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 01/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1001 | Pass | As enacted, requires the bureau to develop a request for certification form to be completed by the court and submitted to the bureau prior to entering an order of expunction, with a few exceptions; requires the bureau to determine and certify whether...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 392 |
| TN | SB0275 | Pass | As enacted, makes various revisions to present tax law. - Amends TCA Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 377 |
| TN | SB0074 | Pass | As enacted, allows a student who earns the student's first baccalaureate degree in less than the projected completion time to continue to receive the Tennessee HOPE scholarship in pursuit of an advanced degree. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 368 |
| TN | SB0535 | Pass | As enacted, revises the definition of abandonment for purposes of termination of parental rights to include circumstances where the parent or guardian fails to visit or support the child for a period of three consecutive months if the child is less t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 373 |
| TN | SB0542 | Pass | As enacted, makes various revisions to present law relative to adoption. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 36; Title 37; Title 47 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 361 |
| TN | SB1218 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that a county continues to have the authority to levy a local litigation tax on an adoption proceeding in chancery, circuit, or juvenile court, and that the exemption does not limit or repeal such authority. - Amends TCA Title 3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 370 |
| TN | SB0037 | Pass | As enacted, extends the department of children's services to June 30, 2024; requires the department to submit quarterly reports to the chairs of the government operations committees to provide updates on the department's progress in addressing perfor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Effective date(s) 05/05/2023 |
| TN | SB0004 | Pass | As enacted, establishes a deaf mentor and parent advisor program to assist families in implementing bilingual and bicultural home-based programming for young children who are deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind at the Tennessee Schools for the Deaf ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0011 | Pass | As enacted, makes permanent various provisions regarding COVID-19. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 14; Title 29, Chapter 20 and Section 49-7-159 and Chapter 896 of the Public Acts of 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Effective date(s) 03/21/2023 |
| TN | SB0355 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department to conduct a statewide needs analysis of preschool education in this state; requires the department to establish the Tennessee preschool task force to assist in developing a strategic plan for preschool education i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Effective date(s) 05/05/2023 |
| TN | SB0300 | Pass | As enacted, revises various provisions of present law pertaining to the promotion of students from third grade. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Effective date(s) 05/05/2023 |
| TN | SB1391 | Pass | As enacted, adds certain exceptions to the prohibition that members of the general assembly may not bid on, sell, or offer for sale any service to a state entity or have a financial interest in the bid, sale, or offer for sale of any service to a sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0148 | Pass | As enacted, removes the authority of the state board of equalization to create an assessment appeals commission to hear and act upon complaints and appeals regarding the assessment, classification, and value of property for purposes of taxation. - Am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0027 | Pass | As enacted, requires a legislative body for a municipal, metropolitan, or county government to make available to the public, at no charge and at least 48 hours prior to a meeting, the agenda for the upcoming meeting in a place accessible to the publi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/25/2023 |
| TN | SB0329 | Pass | As enacted, revises law requiring the governor to appoint three members to the medical cannabis commission, such that at least one member must be a patient who has been diagnosed with a qualifying medical disease or condition and who can establish th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023, 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0400 | Pass | As enacted, rewrites the provisions for requests for review of a juvenile court case heard by a magistrate by changing the right from a de novo hearing by the juvenile court judge to a review by the juvenile court judge with a presumption of correctn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 241 |
| TN | SB0292 | Pass | As enacted, applies on a statewide basis, rather than only in Nashville, Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Memphis, the distance parameter for the prohibition on needle and hypodermic syringe exchange programs being operated within 1,000 feet of a school o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0537 | Pass | As enacted, adds to the grounds upon which initiation of termination of parental or guardianship rights may be based that the parent has been confined in a correctional or detention facility of any type, by order of the court as a result of one or mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0528 | Pass | As enacted, makes various changes to adoption law. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Title 68, Chapter 3, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | SB0532 | Pass | As enacted, states that the goal of the department must be to act in the best interest of the child at all times and that goal must be reflected in any mission statement or motto established by the department. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 305 |
| TN | SB0838 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes an LEA to award a high school student credit for a course offered by the LEA's high school if the student attains a qualifying score on the course's final examination without requiring the student to enroll in the course. - Ame...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | SB0264 | Pass | As enacted, makes various changes in regard to maintaining and securing documents in certain parental rights proceedings and the grounds for termination of parental rights. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0270 | Pass | As enacted, revises present law provisions governing adoption and foster care. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 37, Chapter 2, Part 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0854 | Pass | As enacted, allows a candidate to demand and receive a list of all voters who changed their residential address at the polling place; requires a recount to include the verification of any address of residence changed at the polling place. - Amends TC...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/24/2023 |
| TN | SB0776 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits a state agency, local agency, or law enforcement agency from purchasing or acquiring a drone or other covered telecommunications equipment or service produced by a manufacturer banned under the federal National Defense Authoriza...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 01/01/2023 |
