| TN | SB2432 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a county, municipality, metropolitan government, utility district, local education agency, or other local governmental entity to purchase gasoline or diesel fuel in the open market without public advertisement or competitive bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/09/2024 |
| TN | SB2741 | Pass | As enacted, requires a state governing body or a local government legislative body to make available to the public, at no charge, the agenda for the upcoming regular meeting in a place accessible to the public at least 48 hours prior to a regular mee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024 |
| TN | SB2744 | Pass | As enacted, expands a parent's right to unimpeded telephone conversations with the parent's child at least twice a week when the child is in the custody of the other parent to include video conference conversations, if available. - Amends TCA Title 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024 |
| TN | SB1681 | Pass | As enacted, requires, in cases where a person is ordered into emergency or nonemergency admission to involuntary commitment and is to be released, the chief officer of the releasing facility to notify, by electronic means, local law enforcement prior...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 10/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2359 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits the department from requiring an immunization as a condition of adopting or overseeing a child in foster care if an individual or member of an individual's household objects to immunization on the basis of religious or moral con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024 |
| TN | SB2691 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits the intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances, or apparatus within the borders of this state into the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting temperature, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1738 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Foster and Adoptive Parent Protection Act," which generally prohibits the department of children's services from requiring a current or prospective adoptive or foster parent to affirm, accept, or support any governme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| 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 | SJR0870 | Pass | Expresses support for State of Israel and condemns recent attacks on Israel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR1174 | Pass | Field Training Officer Taylor Heath, Fairview Police Department
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SR0280 | Pass | Cheri Doane, Ms. Tennessee Senior America 2023
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| TN | SB1585 | Pass | As enacted, deletes the statutory provision that repeals the Tennessee Zero to Three Court Initiative on January 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 04/04/2024 |
| TN | SB1939 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that an "occurrence," for purposes of the Mutual Aid and Emergency and Disaster Assistance Agreement Act of 2004, includes events that result in bodily injury or property damage; specifies the government officials through which ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 04/04/2024 |
| TN | SB1941 | Pass | As enacted, permits employees of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of state government to complete Tennessee foster parent training and in-service training during the course of their employment without having to use paid sick, annual,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 04/04/2024 |
| TN | SB2660 | Pass | As enacted, require the department to file a petition of termination of adoptive parent's parental rights with a juvenile court, within 90 days of the juvenile courts finding that there has been substantial noncompliance by a parent or guardian with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2060 | Pass | As enacted, enacts "Danielle's Law," which extends the statute of limitations for injuries to a person, who is 18 or older, relating to sexual assault to three years or five years depending on if law enforcement was notified of the assault. - Amends ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 04/04/2024 |
| TN | SB1838 | Pass | As enacted, creates one additional trial court in the 18th judicial district. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Effective date(s) 03/27/2024 |
| TN | SB0613 | Pass | As enacted, requires the permanency plan for any child in foster care for six months or longer as a result of abuse or neglect, that includes as a permanency goal the return of the child to the parent, to also include a requirement that the parent co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2025 |
| TN | SB2276 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that the executive directors of the board of pharmacy and the board of nursing are employees of the department of health, under the supervision and control of the division of health related boards. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Effective date(s) 03/27/2024 |
| TN | SB2572 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits a local governmental entity or official from adopting or enacting a resolution, ordinance, or policy that prohibits or limits the ability of a law enforcement agency to conduct traffic stops based on observation of or reasonable...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 631 |
| TN | SB2175 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Smart Heart Act"; establishes various requirements for automatic external defibrillators in schools and response protocols for cardiac-related medical emergencies. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 625 |
| TN | SB2070 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that a juvenile court proceeding may be commenced by the taking of a child into custody or the removal of custody from a parent or legal guardian; requires the juvenile court in a dependency and neglect proceeding to determine w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 613 |
| TN | SB1677 | Pass | As enacted, adds The Kroger Co. to the list of companies that are released by the attorney general and reporter for pending or future claims regarding opioids. - Amends TCA Title 20 and Title 33.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Effective date(s) 03/15/2024 |
| TN | SB1957 | Pass | As enacted, establishes a process for a licensed veterinarian to report suspected animal cruelty in violation of certain criminal laws and testify in a judicial or administrative proceeding concerning the care of the animal without being subject to c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 584 |
| TN | SB2666 | Pass | As enacted, requires a Tennessee college of applied technology (TCAT) to reserve an enrollment slot for each dual enrollment student in the term immediately following the last term in which the student was enrolled in the TCAT as a dual enrollment st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 581 |
| TN | SB1701 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that pleas of guilt and nolo contendere to certain criminal offenses subject an educator to automatic revocation of an educator license by the state board; specifies that criminal offenses committed in another jurisdiction that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 577 |
| TN | SB2096 | Pass | As enacted, defines and adds "voice" as a protected personal right; adds commercial availability of a sound recording or audiovisual work in which the individual's name, voice, likeness, or image is readily identifiable to considerations for determin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 588 |
| TN | SR0256 | Pass | National Medal of Honor Day
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | SJR1164 | Pass | Robert Jonathan Doyle Springer
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR1045 | Pass | Veterans buried in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB1177 | Pass | As enacted, requires, beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, each LEA and public charter school to have fifth grade students complete one semester of Tennessee history in the first semester of the students' fifth grade year. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Effective date(s) 03/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1586 | Pass | As enacted, allows the district attorneys general conference, the administrative office of the courts, the Tennessee chapter of children's advocacy centers, the department of children's services, and law enforcement agencies to enter into data sharin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Effective date(s) 03/12/2024 |
| TN | SB1678 | Pass | As enacted, permits an owner or lessee of a motorcycle to receive a disabled decal to affix to a new specialty earmarked, cultural, or other special purpose plate that is authorized for motorcycles. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 21 and Title 55, Cha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 520 |
| TN | SB1680 | Pass | As enacted, requires each LEA to post a conspicuous notice on all school buses in operation in the LEA notifying others that no person shall enter onto school buses except those authorized by law; requires the training standards for school bus driver...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1679 | Pass | As enacted, requires each LEA, public charter school, private school, and church-related school to develop a procedure to determine the cause of a fire alarm activation, including the potential of an active shooter event; requires each LEA to coordin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 563 |
| TN | SB0287 | Pass | As enacted, adds offenses of continuous sexual abuse of a child committed on or after July 1, 2024, to the list of qualifying criminal misconduct that is sentenced to community supervision for life in addition to any other statutorily imposed punishm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 525 |
| TN | SB0596 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that a person is not required to solemnize a marriage. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29 and Title 36.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 511 |
| TN | SJR0987 | Pass | Tanya McPherson, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0988 | Pass | Rosemary Gregory, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0990 | Pass | Deputy Shelby Eggers
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0991 | Pass | Chris Smith
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0903 | Pass | Josephine Groves Holloway Day, March 10, 2024
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0989 | Pass | Deputy Greg McCowan
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SR0188 | Pass | Urges Governor Lee to deploy Tennessee National Guard to support Texas in its efforts to secure border.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| TN | SJR0901 | Pass | Todd Helton, National Baseball Hall of Fame
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0917 | Pass | Northside Neighborhood House of Chattanooga
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0869 | Pass | Brenda Louise Smith Allred
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0859 | Pass | Coach Bobby Luna, Gallatin High School boys' basketball
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0862 | Pass | Dr. Orinthia T. Montague
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0806 | Pass | Willetta Grady, Exceptional Service Award
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
Signed by Governor. |
