| TN | SB2238 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes a county to create a program by which an owner of real property in the county may apply for a classification of the property as zoning-exempt property, which values the property based on the zoning classification that existe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
To Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SB1694 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-04-15
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB2263 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-04-11
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB1505 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to actively seek and apply for federal grants and other available federal funds, and utilize available federal funds, for the purpose of alleviating childhood hunger. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| 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 | SB2036 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits certain individuals from being considered ineligible to receive payment for providing TennCare medicaid-reimbursed home- and community-based long-term care services to an individual eligible to receive such services on the basis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 621 |
| TN | SB1029 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates the offense of storing a firearm or firearm ammunition in a motor vehicle or boat while the person is not in the motor vehicle or boat unless the firearm or firearm ammunition is kept from ordinary observation and locked within...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1869 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires clerks of court to collect and report a finding that a person is incompetent to stand trial in a criminal proceeding to the federal bureau of investigation and department of safety; prohibits the purchase or possession of a fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2166 | Intro
25% | As introduced, permits a person who was convicted of an infamous crime after July 1, 1986, but before July 1, 1996, to petition a circuit court for restoration of the person's full rights of citizenship in the same manner established for persons conv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SB2160 | Fail | As introduced, enacts the "Anti-Road Rage Act of 2024"; creates a Class E felony for the reckless discharge of a firearm while operating, or as a passenger in, a motor vehicle; creates a Class A misdemeanor for the reckless brandishing or display of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1782 | Engross
50% | As introduced, raises from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony certain animal cruelty offenses involving a cock; requires a fine of not less than $1,000 nor more than $2,500 for the offense of being a spectator at a cock fight. - Amends TCA Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB0230 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes the requirement that the governor receive authorization by the general assembly prior to making any decision or obligating the state with regard to the expansion of optional enrollment in the medical assistance program. - Amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1800 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes certain legislative bodies, by a two-thirds majority vote, to expand the hours for the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption on premises and beer on Sundays consistent with the hours for sale on weekdays. - Amends TCA ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SB2237 | Intro
25% | As introduced, entitles each county and municipality that adopts certain zoning reform strategies that support housing development to receive from the department of revenue up to 20 percent of the revenue collected from the recordation tax based on t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2239 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes any local government in this state to create a land bank; authorizes a local government to post on its website, if available, a link to a state website or publication identifying surplus real property for sale or conveyance....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2345 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes the requirement that a registered voter be a bona fide member of, affiliated with, or declare allegiance to a political party in order to vote in a political party's primary election; removes the requirement that the officer of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2347 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes the deadline for a person to register to vote from 30 days before an election to 15 days before an election. - Amends TCA Title 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1695 | Fail | As introduced, authorizes local governments to regulate the storage of a firearm in a motor vehicle when the motor vehicle is unoccupied; applies in counties having a population greater than 98,800, according to the 2020 or a subsequent federal censu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2354 | Intro
25% | As introduced, clarifies that on or before January 31 of each year the department shall report information regarding child support to the general assembly and the governor. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 33; Title 34; Title 36; Title 37; Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1577 | Pass | As enacted, requires a video or audio recording to be made of any interrogation of a child who has been taken into custody on suspicion that the child committed a delinquent act or unruly conduct unless a technical issue with the equipment or exigent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1768 | Pass | As enacted, disqualifies an administrator of elections from serving as administrator if the administrator qualifies as a candidate for public office; requires the administrator to be recused from official duties at least 30 days prior to an election ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 579 |
| 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 | 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 | SB1033 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the commissioner to submit a report by January 1, 2024, on the implementation of, and results from, the Child Nutrition and Wellness Act of 2006, to the chair of the senate health and welfare committee, the chair of the health...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| 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 | SB1973 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases from 10 to 20, the number of calendar days after the 90 days from the date a child was surrendered that the department of children's services shall file a petition on behalf of an abandoned infant seeking termination of paren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2241 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds K-12 school bus drivers and cafeteria workers to the list of retired members of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system who may work more than 120 days each year while continuing to draw their retirement allowance. - Amends T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2198 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of revenue to submit, by January 1, 2026, a one-time report to the finance, ways and means committees of the house of representatives and the senate concerning the revenue effects of certain amendments made to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| 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 | SB1048 | Engross
50% | As introduced, sets new caseload requirements for case managers in the department to take effect January 1, 2025; requires the department to employ special response team personnel, who do not maintain regular caseloads but are available to assume cas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB0658 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that a seller of residential property is required to disclose the presence of a known sinkhole on the property prior to entering into a contract with a buyer regardless of whether the sinkhole is indicated through the contour li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 510 |
| TN | SB1242 | Pass | As enacted, requires the Tennessee peace officer standards and training (POST) commission to adopt guidelines and materials instructing law enforcement officers on the best practices for recognizing and responding to a medical crisis involving a pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 527 |
| TN | SB2268 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of education to annually collect and report certain information for each provider and nonpublic school that receives public funds through a scholarship, voucher, education savings account, individualized educati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2541 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the amount of damages for which the state may be liable for damages in causes of action arising in tort from $300,000 per claimant and $1,000,000 per occurrence to $1,250,000 per claimant. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 8 and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1804 | Fail | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Contraceptive Freedom Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Failed in Senate Commerce and Labor Committee / no second |
| TN | SB2719 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires persons to meet certain qualifications in order to be eligible for appointment as chief executive officer of an administrative department of state government; creates a mechanism for the removal of such officers for cause by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1965 | Intro
25% | As introduced, clarifies that a petition of certiorari that appeals a final order or judgment of a board or commission must name the board or commission as defendants; further clarifies that other parties of record have the right to intervene if they...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2242 | Intro
25% | As introduced, exempts minors from fees for hardship licenses; exempts persons over 18 from fees for issuance and renewal of noncommercial licenses upon submission of documentation showing the person's income falls below the federal poverty level. - ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB2267 | Fail | As introduced, requires a school to comply with the obligation to report suspected child abuse or neglect in order for the school to qualify as a school in which a student may be enrolled to satisfy school attendance requirements; specifies that cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Failed in Senate Education Committee / no second |
| TN | SB2115 | Fail | As introduced, increases from 12 to 16 the minimum age for operating a personal watercraft without direct adult supervision; requires persons operating personal watercraft to maintain financial responsibility in same amounts applicable to motor vehic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB1077 | Fail | As introduced, creates the children's program outcome recovery team, to be organized by the Tennessee commission on children and youth, to review cases of children and families being served by the department of children's services; requires the child...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2353 | Fail | As introduced, directs the department to establish by January 1, 2025, a publicly accessible website that contains information about the performance of child care agencies, including violations by the agency, injuries or deaths occurring at the agenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2343 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the attorney general to obtain judicial approval from a chancery court judge in Davidson County, or a chancery court judge in the county in which the state's civil investigative demand is to be served, before issuing a civil i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0276 | Pass | As enacted, makes various changes to present law pertaining to leave for state employees. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27 and Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 8.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2510 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to publish in a publicly accessible location on its website a list of farmers market food unit permits that it issues, and to update the list not less than once per month. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 57; Title 6...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2718 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes the requirement that the governor receive authorization by the general assembly prior to making any decision or obligating the state with regard to the expansion of optional enrollment in the medical assistance program. - Amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2717 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes the chief procurement officer's designee to execute a contract for goods or services entered into by an executive branch state agency. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0234 | Engross
50% | As introduced, limits the number of times that a real estate developer, business entity, or individual working on behalf of the developer or business entity is permitted to contact a property owner to make an unsolicited offer to buy the property own...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2165 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires LEAs and public charter schools to notify parents and guardians of students who do not test proficient in mathematics on the student's most recent Tennessee comprehensive assessment program test of academic supports in mathema...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2163 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases from 10 working days to 15 business days the amount of time the fire marshal has to issue a decision on a dispute between a city and county regarding a building or fire code. - Amends TCA Title 13 and Title 68, Chapter 120.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
