Tennessee Senator Jeff Yarbro [D] | Introduced

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TNSB0674Intro
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As introduced, permits the services authorized in a collaborative pharmacy practice agreement to include weight management services; requires the bureau of TennCare to make available, or cause to be made available, anti-obesity medication to a recipi...
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2024-04-23
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1137Intro
25%
As introduced, requires a county having a metropolitan form of government that creates a special escrow account earmarked for the sole purpose of generating revenue to provide low income persons with safe and affordable housing to notify the Tennesse...
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2024-04-23
Placed on Senate Regular Calendar for 4/24/2024
TNSB0231Intro
25%
As introduced, changes the amount of a minority teaching fellowship award for a recipient who is enrolled in a degree program leading to licensure as a teacher in an institution of higher education with an approved educator preparation program from $...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB0229Intro
25%
As introduced, extends eligibility for medical assistance under the TennCare program to a woman for a period up to 12 months after the date on which the woman’s pregnancy ends in live birth if the child meets the eligibility requirements for the Co...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB0413Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes local governments to create a program to provide grants to eligible nonprofit organizations that own residential property and rent the property for at least 25 percent below market rate. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title ...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1053Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Workers Need Child Care Act"; establishes the child care infrastructure fund from which the department of economic and community development disperses grants to nonprofit entities for establishing new licensed child care ag...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1162Intro
25%
As introduced, increases, from one to two, the number of free plates for the Purple Heart and disabled veteran license plates issued to veterans with disabilities. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-256 and Section 55-4-257.
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB0529Intro
25%
As introduced, eliminates the sales and use tax on infant diapers, wipes, and formula. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB0531Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department to maintain staffing to allow case managers to have no more than 20 open cases, rather than an average of 20 active cases; states that a "person residing in the child's home" includes a person living in a reside...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB0291Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Overdose Fatality Review Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 33; Title 53; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB0177Intro
25%
As introduced, requires TennCare to create and implement a three-year pilot program to provide remote maternal health services to eligible TennCare recipients; authorizes the TennCare director to seek a federal waiver as necessary to implement the pi...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1799Intro
25%
As introduced, expands the sales tax exemption on motor vehicles sold to a member of the Tennessee national guard or military reserve who has been called into active military service to include those who are deployed under orders to a duty station in...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1912Intro
25%
As introduced, expands the offense of unlawful exposure to include the distribution, with the intent to cause emotional distress, of an image of the intimate parts of another identifiable person or an image of an identifiable person engaged in sexual...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2405Intro
25%
As introduced, deletes the offense of aggravated prostitution; requires the public records of a person charged with a misdemeanor or a felony offense that has been repealed to be removed and destroyed without cost upon petition by the person. - Amend...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2341Intro
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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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1783Intro
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As introduced, reallocates 5 percent of the privilege tax collected from licensees that offer sports wagering in this state from the lottery for education account to a new Tennessee Promise completion grant special account created to assist the commi...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB0750Intro
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As introduced, requires the department to create and implement a promising futures program to provide scholarships to children who are not school age to assist them in developing early language and literacy skills in a high-quality early care and lea...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1027Intro
25%
As introduced, requires a brief summary of any question, regardless of length, submitted to the people for a vote. - Amends TCA Title 2.
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2024-04-16
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
TNSB2238Intro
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...
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2024-04-16
To Senate Calendar Committee
TNSB1694Intro
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...
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2024-04-15
Companion House Bill substituted
TNSB2263Intro
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.
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2024-04-11
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB1505Intro
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.
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2024-04-09
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB1029Intro
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...
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2024-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB1869Intro
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...
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2024-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2166Intro
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...
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2024-04-02
To Senate Calendar Committee
TNSB1905Intro
25%
As introduced, states that an order of protection issued by a general sessions court or other official remains in effect during the appeal to circuit or chancery court unless otherwise ordered by the general sessions judge or official. - Amends TCA T...
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2024-03-28
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB1673Intro
25%
As introduced, 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 t...
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2024-03-28
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB0230Intro
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...
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2024-03-27
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee
TNSB1800Intro
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 ...
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2024-03-27
To Senate Calendar Committee
TNSB2237Intro
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...
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2024-03-27
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
TNSB2239Intro
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....
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2024-03-27
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
TNSB2345Intro
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...
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2024-03-27
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
TNSB2347Intro
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.
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2024-03-27
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
TNSB2354Intro
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 ...
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2024-03-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB1033Intro
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...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee
TNSB1973Intro
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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...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2241Intro
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...
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2024-03-19
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
TNSB2198Intro
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...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2268Intro
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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...
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2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2541Intro
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 ...
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2024-03-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2719Intro
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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...
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2024-03-12
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
TNSB1965Intro
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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...
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2024-03-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2242Intro
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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. - ...
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2024-03-06
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee
TNSB2343Intro
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...
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2024-02-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2510Intro
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...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee
TNSB2718Intro
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...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee
TNSB2717Intro
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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.
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2024-02-05
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
TNSB2165Intro
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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...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2163Intro
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.
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2024-02-01
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB2161Intro
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As introduced, prohibits certain kinds of provisions in contracts and agreements between publishers and libraries related to the licensing of electronic literary materials. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.
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2024-02-01
To Senate Education Committee
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