| TN | SB2979 | Intro
25% | Subject to local approval, rewrites the city charter. - Amends Chapter 553 of the Acts of 1903; as amended.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB1861 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits the governor from dividing counties into separate declarations of emergency to avoid the requirement that the general assembly approve an extension of an executive order, proclamation, or TEMP beyond the 45-day maximum for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0112 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands the definition of "eligible postsecondary institution" to include certain private postsecondary institutions for purposes of a Tennessee HOPE scholarship, Tennessee HOPE access grant, Tennessee HOPE teacher's scholarship, or Wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1124 | Intro
25% | As introduced, appropriates $20 million to the legislature for the purchase or construction of a building or other facility accessible to the Cordell Hull Building. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 12.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0111 | Intro
25% | As introduced, designates social media platforms as common carriers and requires the entities to obtain certificates of public convenience and necessity from the Tennessee public utilities commission; prescribes fines against social media platforms t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2765 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Protecting Tennessee Schools and Events Act"; subject to appropriations, requires the department of education to contract for the provision of walk-through metal detectors to LEAs. - Amends TCA Title 12 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2773 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires an annual training pay bonus supplement for eligible campus police officers and public safety officers in the amount of $800. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38 and Section 49-7-118.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2669 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the penalties for certain violations of the offense of unlawful photography; requires the court, rather than allowing the court discretion, to order a person convicted of certain unlawful photography offenses to register as a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1944 | Intro
25% | As introduced, repeals the professional privilege tax for tax years that begin on and after June 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2540 | Intro
25% | As introduced, directs the department of economic and community development to develop a program for the installation and operation of combustion turbine power plants to increase the state's electric generation capacity. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0502 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends, from January 15 to February 1 of each calendar year, the due date of the annual report required to be submitted by the bureau of TennCare to certain legislative committees on the use and cost of opioids and other controlled su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB2041 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies that a person or entity that produces, sells, sends, or distributes obscene matter in violation of state law may be held civilly liable for damages to an injured party. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 9.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2696 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-04-11
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2697 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes a special occasion license to be issued in a jurisdiction wherein the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises has not been approved with written approval to hold an event by and in such jurisdiction that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB1720 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires certain information to be included in a healthcare practitioner advertisement; adds certain activities to and exempts certain activities from the definition of the practice of medicine. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 63 and Titl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2767 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the commissioner of education to annually transmit, no later than October 1 of each year, filings submitted to the commissioner by a local board of education regarding any action or inaction taken by the board in response to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB0908 | Intro
25% | As introduced, clarifies that a threat to use deadly force by a private citizen making an arrest is not in itself considered a use of deadly force; prohibits a private citizen from threatening to use deadly force during the course of a citizen's arre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Withdrawn. |
| TN | SB2981 | Intro
25% | Subject to local approval, reduces the number of aldermen from five to two; deletes an obsolete provision regarding work houses. - Amends Chapter 320 of the Acts of 1901; as amended.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB2923 | Intro
25% | As introduced, 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] | 2024-04-04
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2783 | Intro
25% | As introduced, limits the situations in which a wildlife officer may enter private property without the owner's consent to those in which the officer has a warrant, there are exigent circumstances, the officer observed a crime taking place, or anothe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2928 | Intro
25% | As introduced, upon approval by majority vote of the governing body of a county or municipality, prohibits the respective member of the approving governing body from serving on both the county and municipal governing body simultaneously; applies only...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| TN | SB2780 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to create a separate marriage license application form and marriage license form that may be used by applicants if the bride is a female and the groom is a male; prohibits a county clerk from certifying and reco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2768 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces the percentage of sentence that a person convicted of first degree murder on or after July 1, 1995, and sentenced to life imprisonment is required to serve before becoming eligible for release from 100 percent of 60 years less ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
