| TN | SB2785 | Intro
25% | As introduced, clarifies when a person, who has been sentenced to the punishment of death and the jury has determined that the sentence must be expedited, has concluded any appeal and exhausted all available methods of post-conviction relief; require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2011 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the division of TennCare to ensure that a non-opioid drug approved by the United States food and drug administration for the treatment or management of pain is not disadvantaged or discouraged with respect to coverage relative...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB2049 | Fail | As introduced, requires the clerk of every court having jurisdiction of criminal offenses to include a $12.50 charge in every cost bill, to be remitted to the county government to provide support services for the purpose of promoting public safety at...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1903 | Intro
25% | As enacted, defines food that contains a vaccine or vaccine material as a drug for purposes of the Tennessee Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 53.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB1868 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies that it is not a criminal offense for an adult person to carry or possess pepper spray, a taser, or another similar device for purposes of self-defense when on property owned, operated, or in use by any college or university ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2306 | Intro
25% | As enacted, designates November as "Christian Heritage Month." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2781 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands the offense of observation without consent to include a person or entity that adopts rules or enforces a policy or other work-related guidance for employees or contractors to promote or assist in the commission of observation w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
Deferred to Summer Study |
| TN | SB2786 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires county election commissions to include on the ballot for the November 2024 election a non-binding question related to the legalization of the sale, possession, and use of medical marijuana; requires the secretary of state to c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2776 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires, subject to judicially recognized exceptions, all POST-certified officers to obtain a search warrant before entering private property that identifies the person or property that is the subject of the search. - Amends TCA Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1595 | Pass | As 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Effective date(s) 03/15/2024 |
| TN | SB1983 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies that a condemner bears the burden of proving by a preponderance of evidence certain facts regarding the condemnation; creates a right for property owners whose property is being condemned to have a court determine whether the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| 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 | SB1947 | Pass | As enacted, requires the board, in collaboration with the department of education and the Tennessee higher education commission, to identify math courses that may be substituted for Algebra II for purposes of satisfying high school graduation require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 583 |
| TN | SB2668 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies that for the purposes of sexual exploitation of children offenses, the term "material" includes computer-generated images created, adapted, or modified by artificial intelligence; defines "artificial intelligence." - Amends T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| 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 | SJR1100 | Pass | George W. "Bill" Corley, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR1101 | Pass | VIAM Manufacturing, Inc., 25th anniversary
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR1164 | Pass | Robert Jonathan Doyle Springer
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB2543 | Intro
25% | As introduced, exempts livestock and poultry producers who do not vaccinate their animals from orders of the commissioner of agriculture or state veterinarian that require vaccines for animals. - Amends TCA Title 43; Title 44 and Title 53.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
Withdrawn. |
| TN | SB1110 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Marital Contract at Common Law Recording Act"; authorizes county clerks to accept and record a record of common law marriage between one man and one woman; limits the jurisdiction of circuit courts and chancery courts in ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| 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 | SB2777 | Fail | As introduced, excludes a positive prenatal or newborn drug screening test result of cannabinoids from the definition of abuse of a child; excludes the exposure to cannabinoids that occurred in utero from the definition of severe child abuse. - Amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2772 | Pass | Subject to local approval, authorizes the road supervisor rather than the county mayor to sign checks drawn on the county trustee for expenses associated with road work within the county. - Amends Chapter 511 of the Private Acts of 1945, as amended.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 36 |
| TN | SB0181 | Pass | As enacted, adds aggravated prostitution convictions as eligible for expunction if certain requirements are met; removes such offense as "a sexual offense" or "violent sexual offense" for which a person is required to register on sexual offender regi...
[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 | SB2980 | Intro
25% | Subject to local approval, clarifies that the election for the Board of Education aligns with the November general election; extends board members' terms from August, until a successor is elected and qualified; establishes a four-year term for board ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
Passed on Second Consideration, held on desk. Local Bill |
| TN | SB1716 | Engross
50% | As introduced, requires that veterans and active military personnel be issued no-cost hunting permits and licenses that are required to participate in the waterfowl seasons during which only veterans and active military personnel may hunt. - Amends T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| 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 | SB0862 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Healthcare Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act." - Amends TCA Title 48 and Title 56.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 526 |
| TN | SB1760 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of agriculture to publish on its website a list of all vaccines that are approved for use in livestock or poultry in this state, to be divided into separate lists for genetically engineered vaccines and vaccines...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Withdrawn. |
| TN | SB2035 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a manufacturer of agricultural equipment or agricultural equipment parts to provide an owner or independent repair shop access to tools, software, and documentation to allow the provision of services for the equipment. - Amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB2775 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Restoring State Sovereignty Through Nullification Act," which establishes processes by which the general assembly may nullify an unconstitutional federal statute, regulation, agency order, or executive order. - Amends TCA T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Deferred to Summer Study |
| TN | SB2575 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits a merchant from taking adverse employment action against an employee based solely on the employee reporting theft of merchandise or organized retail crime to law enforcement; defines "adverse employment action" as dismissing,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| 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 | SJR1080 | Engross
50% | Jillian Ludwig
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Ref. Calendar & Rules Commmittee |
| TN | SB1060 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes, from September 15 to October 1, the date by which each public institution of higher education operating a hearing center must provide a written report to the Tennessee higher education commission, the education committee of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2784 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires payment of restitution to landowners by persons who commit hunting-related offenses on property where they do not have a legal right to be present; bases restitution amount on the type of animals involved in the offense; requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SJR0989 | Pass | Deputy Greg McCowan
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB2107 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the removal of sexually explicit material from the libraries of public schools; creates a process for evaluating library materials for sexually explicit material in public schools. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Deferred to Summer Study |
| TN | SB2723 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to compile and publish data on the department's website data regarding the geographic location, duration, and severity of floods and landslides in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 5; Title 58; T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB2379 | Intro
25% | As introduced, directs the department to submit to the United States department of health and human services a waiver request to exempt this state from the immunization requirements of the National Model Foster Family Home Licensing Standards for Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SB2603 | Intro
25% | As introduced, clarifies that a cell-cultured protein offered for sale, sold, or distributed in this state and labeled or advertised as meat, a meat food product, poultry, or a poultry food product is misbranded under the Tennessee Food, Drug and Cos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB2837 | Intro
25% | As introduced, permits sergeants-at-arms to carry a handgun while in the course and scope of their duties within the legislative complex provided that they have a valid handgun carry permit; imposes a duty on the department of safety to implement a t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0620 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Families' Rights and Responsibilities Act," which declares that the ability of a parent to direct the upbringing, education, health care, and mental health of that parent’s child is a fundamental right. - Amends TCA Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1105 | Intro
25% | As introduced, repeals the Soil Scientist Licensure Act of 2009. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 18, Part 2 and Section 62-36-114.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB1122 | Intro
25% | As introduced, eliminates the professional privilege tax for attorneys. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate F,W&M Revenue Subcommittee |
