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TNHB1936PassAs introduced, requires, beyond the 2023-2024 school year, each LEA and public charter school to provide each high school senior the opportunity to take nationally recognized assessments if the assessments meet certain criteria. - Amends TCA Title 49...
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2024-05-03
Signed by Governor.
TNHB2682PassAs 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...
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2024-05-03
Signed by Governor.
TNHB1659Enroll
75%
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.
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2024-05-01
Signed by H. Speaker
TNHB2326Enroll
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...
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2024-05-01
Signed by H. Speaker
TNHB2972Enroll
75%
As introduced, authorizes the state to issue and sell bonds of up to $87,700,000.
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2024-05-01
Signed by H. Speaker
TNHB2971Enroll
75%
As introduced, deletes the Tennessee job skills program and fund. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 11; Title 12; Title 13; Title 16; Title 17; Title 18; Title 29; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37...
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2024-05-01
Signed by H. Speaker
TNHB2973Enroll
75%
As introduced, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2023, and July 1, 2024.
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2024-05-01
Signed by H. Speaker
TNHB1640PassAs 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...
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2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNHB1881Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-05-01
Signed by H. Speaker
TNHB2940Enroll
75%
As introduced, enacts the "TennCare for Working Individuals with Disabilities Act." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.
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2024-05-01
Signed by H. Speaker
TNHB2323Enroll
75%
As introduced, increases the penalty for a third or subsequent domestic assault conviction from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony; upgrades the offense classification for certain qualifying misdemeanor offenses to a Class E felony upon a defe...
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2024-05-01
Signed by H. Speaker
TNHB1997PassAs enacted, requires the trust principal of the K-12 mental health endowment account to be reduced by $75,000,000 in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, and reallocated to the trust's K-12 mental health special reserve account. - Amends TCA Title 4...
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2024-04-30
Senate substituted House Bill for companion Senate Bill.
TNHB0465PassAs enacted, enacts the "Representative Darren Jernigan Act," which requires, beginning on January 1, 2025, and each year thereafter, the department of revenue to verify that the owner of each disabled parking placard has not died; requires the depart...
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2024-04-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 726
TNHB1614Intro
25%
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...
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2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2310Intro
25%
As introduced, creates a civil cause of action against any person who knowingly removes a minor from this state without the consent of a parent of the minor for the purpose of assisting the minor in obtaining a healthcare procedure that is for the pu...
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2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2743Intro
25%
As introduced, requires each institution of higher education in this state to classify a student who is the spouse or dependent child of a service member as an in-state student for tuition purposes if certain criteria are met. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2444Intro
25%
As introduced, allows a prisoner of a county workhouse or jail to be released from custody on work release or otherwise allowed to leave the grounds of the county workhouse or jail for employment or to perform work in the community, whether paid or u...
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2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2845Intro
25%
As introduced, prohibits a beer permittee from selling at retail refrigerated or cold beer. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 55 and Title 57.
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2024-04-23
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2173Intro
25%
As introduced, revises provisions related to the special account in the general fund known as the "pre-need funeral account"; deletes the indigent burial fund. - Amends TCA Section 62-5-414.
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2024-04-23
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB1663Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes the death penalty as a punishment for rape of a child, aggravated rape of a child, or especially aggravated rape of a child. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Chapter 1062 of the Public Acts of 2022.
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2024-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2142PassAs enacted, increases from a Class C misdemeanor to a Class B misdemeanor the penalty for a student's parent, guardian, or legal custodian failing to report an adjudication that the student committed certain delinquent acts to the school principal; s...
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2024-04-22
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNHB2011Intro
25%
As introduced, broadens the electronic health care records modernization act to include subjecting healthcare entities to injunctive relief and civil penalties for interfering with their patients accessing electronic health information and prohibitin...
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2024-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2178Intro
25%
As introduced, creates a high-value workforce readiness board that is administratively attached to the department to identify high-demand fields in this state and qualified institutions that offer workforce training programs in high-demand fields; cr...
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2024-04-18
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB1998Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the bureau to reimburse certain public or private ground-based ambulance services that bill for transports at a rate not less than 67.5 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers for...
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2024-04-17
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
TNHB1999Intro
25%
As introduced, adds the MidSouth development district to the list of development districts to which this state intends to assist financially; specifies an overall state funding level for the nine development districts; changes the calculation for how...
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2024-04-17
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
TNHB2124PassAs 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...
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2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNHB2088Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes the military department to administer a critical skills retention bonus program to be used to award retention bonuses of up to $10,000 to enlisted service members in the Tennessee national guard; entitles certain state emplo...
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2024-04-16
All Ayes added as Sponsors
TNHB1259Intro
25%
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...
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2024-04-15
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2676Engross
50%
As introduced, abolishes the governing board of directors for the Tennessee student assistance corporation and designates the corporation as a division of the commission; revises certain duties and powers of the commission; vacates and reconstitutes ...
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2024-04-10
Re-refer to S. Cal Comm
TNHB2961Intro
25%
As introduced, directs the Tennessee advisory committee on intergovernmental relations (TACIR), with the assistance of the Tennessee bureau of investigation, the district attorneys general conference, and the department of safety, to study the feasib...
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2024-04-10
To House Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee
TNHB2090PassAs enacted, requires certain information to be made available to each respondent for solicitation of a contract upon request; revises provisions relating to informal solicitations and small purchases; revises provisions relating to protests by aggrie...
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2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 04/02/2024
TNHB1645PassAs enacted, expands the eligibility for filing a petition to obtain a lifetime order of protection to include victims of aggravated stalking, especially aggravated stalking, and felony harassment. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39.
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2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 04/02/2024
TNHB1950PassAs enacted, designates June 6 as a day of special observance for D-Day. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.
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2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 601
TNHB1635PassAs enacted, prohibits emotional support animals that are not trained, or being trained, to perform tasks or work for a person with a disability from indoor areas of food service establishments. - Amends TCA Section 6-54-135; Title 39, Chapter 14, Par...
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2024-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 566
TNHB2357Intro
25%
As introduced, revises certain requirements for film coverings on entry doors and removes requirements for film coverings on basement windows in public school buildings constructed or remodeled after July 1, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2024-03-20
Taken off notice for cal. in Education Administration
TNHB1644PassAs 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...
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2024-03-19
Effective date(s) 03/12/2024
TNHB2470Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department of education to contract with a vendor to provide internet security software for school-issued electronic devices in selected LEAs as part of a two-year pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2024-03-05
Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration
TNHB2700Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the superintendent of a workhouse to keep a record of the height and weight of each inmate in addition to the inmate's age, sex, complexion, color of hair and eyes, and nationality. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 41.
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2024-02-07
Assigned to s/c Corrections Subcommittee
TNHB2699Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes the district public defender of the third judicial district three additional assistant public defender positions and one additional district investigator position, effective July 1, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14, Pa...
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2024-02-07
Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee
TNHB2574Intro
25%
As introduced, creates a mental health professional loan repayment program to be administered by the department for mental health professionals who agree to provide mental healthcare services for at least three years in a mental health shortage area ...
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2024-02-06
Assigned to s/c Health Subcommittee
TNHB2573Intro
25%
As introduced, expands the facilities that can qualify for third-party reimbursement from TennCare, a managed care plan, or third-party payor for certain services; expands the persons who can render such reimbursable services to an employed psycholog...
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2024-02-06
Assigned to s/c Insurance Subcommittee
TNHB2072Intro
25%
As introduced, requires a description of real property by metes and bounds contained within any deed of conveyance of real property of any property not previously described in a recorded instrument to be prepared by a registered land surveyor. - Amen...
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2024-01-30
Assigned to s/c Business & Utilities Subcommittee
TNHB7070PassAs enacted, makes appropriations sufficient for the payment of any lawful expenses of the first extraordinary session of the 113th General Assembly; makes other appropriations related to such extraordinary session.
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2023-12-27
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 4
TNHB0976PassAs 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.
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2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 465
TNHB1431PassAs 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.
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2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 460
TNHB1426PassAs enacted, establishes a limitation to the amusement tax exemption under the Retailers' Sales Tax Act relative to certain sports leagues. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.
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2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 480
TNHB1307PassAs 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...
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2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 445
TNHB1452PassAs enacted, makes various changes to the present law relative to the board of boiler rules formulating definitions, rules, and regulations for the safe and proper construction, installation, repair, use, and operation of boilers within this state. - ...
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2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 441
TNHB0323PassAs enacted, makes various revisions to present tax law. - Amends TCA Title 67.
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2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 05/05/2023, 04/01/2024, 01/01/2024, 07/01/2024, 01/01/2025
TNHB0155PassAs enacted, requires an annual training pay bonus supplement for eligible emergency medical services personnel in the amount of $800. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 140, Part 3.
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2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 01/01/2024
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