| TN | HB1643 | Pass | As introduced, requires the state to pay the cost of a court-ordered mental health evaluation and treatment for criminal defendants who have been charged with a misdemeanor and are believed to be incompetent to stand trial or for whom there is a ques...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB2641 | Pass | As introduced, authorizes counties and municipalities, by resolution or ordinance of their governing bodies, to levy a tax on the retail sale of food and food ingredients for human consumption within the county or municipality at a rate less than the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB2312 | Pass | As introduced, authorizes municipal tax collectors and taxing entities to also accept partial payments of delinquent property taxes in the same manner as county trustees; requires such officials to include in their plan for accepting partial payments...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB1015 | Pass | As introduced, prohibits persons engaged in the business of towing motor vehicles by wrecker or otherwise, or storing such motor vehicles, for remuneration from charging the owner or lienholder a storage fee for a period exceeding 21 days without the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB1814 | Pass | As introduced, requires a landlord, or another person authorized to enter into a rental agreement on the landlord's behalf, to disclose to a residential tenant certain contact information for the agent authorized to manage the premises and an owner o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB2320 | Pass | As introduced, specifies certain documents that must be attached to an initial pleading in an action on a consumer debt; exempts funds to the aggregate value of $2,500 in a judgment debtor's deposit account with a bank or other financial institution ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB2472 | Pass | As introduced, requires LEAs and public charter schools to advise an employee who is assaulted by a student of the employee's rights as a result of the assault; requires, instead of authorizes, the suspension of a student who commits an assault again...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB2158 | Pass | As introduced, reduces, from 3,000 to 750, the number of students for which one public school nurse is considered sufficient to adequately provide services for purposes of the Tennessee public school nurse program. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB1891 | Pass | As introduced, creates the "Protecting Children from Social Media Act." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB0351 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, authorizes the establishment of industrial development corporations solely to assist and benefit minority-owned businesses, locally owned businesses, small businesses, and women-owned businesses. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Signed by H. Speaker |
| TN | HB0689 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, requires an officer to provide an alleged victim of certain criminal offenses with a document notifying the victim of the global positioning monitoring system used as a condition of bail. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55, C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Signed by H. Speaker |
| TN | HB2954 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-05-01
Signed by H. Speaker |
| TN | HB1640 | Pass | As enacted, enacts "Jillian's Law," which makes various changes relative to being adjudicated as a mental defective or judicially committed to a mental institution, including requiring a person judicially committed to remain committed until the compe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB1639 | Pass | As enacted, provides that, if an incapacitated or deceased patient has no authorized representative, the patient's next of kin will be treated as an authorized representative for the patient for the purposes of obtaining the patient's hospital record...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB1625 | Pass | As enacted, requires a qualified mental health professional or behavior analyst to warn or protect an identified victim or group of people when the professional or analyst determines that a service recipient has communicated an intent for actual thre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/23/2024 |
| TN | HB2685 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits a member of a county legislative body, who is also an employee of the county or whose spouse is such an employee, from voting on matters in which such member has a conflict of interest; requires each vote taken by a county legis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2882 | Pass | As enacted, requires, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, each local education agency and public charter school to provide students with age-appropriate and grade-appropriate instruction on firearm safety. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/23/2024 |
| TN | HB1906 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to the law relative to statutes of limitations for bringing actions for injury or illness based on certain child sexual abuse offenses, including trafficking offenses. - Amends TCA Title 28 and Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2119 | Pass | As enacted, establishes generally that a condemner bears the burden of proving by a preponderance of the evidence certain facts relative to public use; grants the property owner a right to have a court of competent jurisdiction determine if the takin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/22/2024 |
| TN | HB1877 | Pass | As enacted, requires hospitals and physicians to accept electronic insurance cards as valid proof of an insurance policy, plan, or contract. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 01/01/2026 |
| TN | HB2279 | Pass | As introduced, expands the delinquent acts that constitute a violent juvenile sexual offense for purposes of the sexual offender registry to include an adjudication of delinquency for an act that, if committed by an adult, constitutes the criminal of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB2940 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, enacts the "TennCare for Working Individuals with Disabilities Act." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Signed by H. Speaker |
| TN | HB2168 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that an order of protection for domestic abuse remains in effect during an appeal from a final ruling on the order of protection by a general sessions court or by an official authorized to issue such an order unless the order ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/22/2024 |
| TN | HB2466 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, authorizes the bureau to provide a defendant with a certified copy of an order expunging the public records of a criminal offense following the dismissal of charges entered on behalf of the defendant; allows the bureau to charge a reas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Signed by H. Speaker |
| TN | HB2814 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, raises the penalty for the offense of drag racing from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Signed by H. Speaker |
| TN | HB1817 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-01
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB2429 | Pass | As enacted, states that the court, rather than the sheriff or administrative officer of a local jail, may authorize the use of alternative facilities for the incarceration of an offender convicted of a first time offense of driving under the influenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 774 |
| TN | HB2198 | Pass | As introduced, increases the penalty for the offense of threatening to commit an act of mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB2177 | Pass | As enacted, requires a local board of education that provides electronic textbooks and instructional materials to provide a student reasonable access to a printed version of an electronic textbook or instructional material if the student or the stude...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2760 | Pass | As enacted, adds to the factors considered by a court when making child custody determinations evidence of physical or emotional abuse to the child or to any other person; requires judges involved in child custody proceedings to complete training tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/23/2024 |
| TN | HB2047 | Pass | As enacted, adds former public officials to the list of officials who may contest liens on real property believed to lack any legal basis. - Amends TCA Section 47-9-513 and Title 66, Chapter 21, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/22/2024 |
| TN | HB2504 | Pass | As enacted, establishes an offense for a person, on behalf of a debt collector or inbound telemarketer service, to knowingly cause a caller identification service to transmit misleading or inaccurate caller identification information to a subscriber ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2395 | Pass | As enacted, establishes that it is unlawful for a person to intentionally initiate or circulate a report of a past, present, or impending active shooter and hostage situation, knowing that the report is false or baseless if certain information is kno...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2567 | Pass | As enacted, makes certain revisions to the "Neighborhood Preservation Act." - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/23/2024 |
| TN | HB1892 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the use of certain third-party examiners, inspectors, engineers, and professionals in lieu of a local or state examiner, inspector, engineer, or professional for certain permitted processes and requirements; establishes procedu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 771 |
| TN | HB2118 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, reconstitutes the state energy policy council by adding a representative of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a representative of the nuclear energy industry. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 59; Title 60; Title 65 and Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Signed by H. Speaker |
| TN | HB1883 | Pass | As enacted, establishes that generally an attorney or an agent designated to make healthcare decisions under a durable power of attorney for health care has a right to in-person visitation with the principal at a hospital where the principal is locat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 766 |
| TN | HB1969 | Pass | As enacted, requires each child care agency in this state to have installed in each room of the child care agency where care is provided to children a carbon monoxide alarm that is listed according to the International Building Code and International...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 733 |
| TN | HB1859 | Pass | As enacted, generally prohibits certain licensing boards for professions, including medical professions, from using a vague term in their consideration and their notice or decision for denying a license due to a prior criminal prosecution unless an e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB1846 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department to submit an annual report to the governor stating the total number of firearm injuries and deaths caused by firearms in this state per 100,000 people that have occurred in the previous calendar year. - Amends TCA ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 767 |
| TN | HB2464 | Pass | As enacted, 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; make...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 735 |
| TN | HB2635 | Pass | As enacted, requires a health benefit plan that amends, renews, or delivers a policy of coverage on or after July 1, 2024, and that provides coverage for prescription contraceptives, to provide coverage for a 12-month refill of contraceptives obtaine...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 732 |
| TN | HB2440 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a real estate broker licensee who is in good standing with the Tennessee real estate commission at the time the person's license is temporarily retired, and who, as a retiree, has not paid the license renewal fee, causing the l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 734 |
| TN | HB2326 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-05-01
Signed by H. Speaker |
| TN | HB2868 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, authorizes a municipality to change the allocation of revenue, but not its designated use, of a privilege tax upon the privilege of occupancy in a hotel if the tax preexisted July 1, 2021. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 14.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Signed by H. Speaker |
| TN | HB2269 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, requires the health facilities commission, within 10 working days after concluding an inspection or investigation of a nursing home, to mail to the nursing home the executive director's order, which must not only inform the nursing hom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Signed by H. Speaker |
| TN | HB2074 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, allows a request for an extension of time to file a business tax return and pay the tax to be signed by the taxpayer or the taxpayer's representative. - Amends TCA Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Signed by H. Speaker |
| TN | HB1600 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, prohibits the purchase or possession of a firearm by a person under 25 years of age if the person was previously adjudicated delinquent for an act that, if committed by an adult, would have constituted one or more certain offenses; all...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Signed by H. Speaker |
| TN | HB1046 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, decreases, from nine to eight, the number of affirmative votes required by members of the agency's board of directors in order for the agency to approve the operation of its financial assistance programs, which support the financing of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Signed by H. Speaker |
| TN | HB2497 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-05-01
Signed by H. Speaker |
