Tennessee Senator John Stevens [R] | Senate

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TNSB0135Engross
50%
As introduced, increases from 16 to 20 point font the minimum font size that a postsecondary educational institution must use for the required transferability of credits disclosure given to a student prior to the student signing an enrollment contrac...
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2024-04-19
Placed on Senate Message Calendar for 4/22/2024
TNSB0705Intro
25%
As introduced, repeals the professional privilege tax for tax years that begin on and after June 1, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB0709Enroll
75%
As introduced, removes a provision that, in developing course equivalencies and awarding academic credits, required state institutions of higher education to submit such equivalencies to the Tennessee higher education commission (THEC) on or before D...
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2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSB0112Intro
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...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1845Intro
25%
As introduced, expands the areas served by the West Tennessee River Basin Authority to include Perry, Stewart, Houston, and Humphreys counties. - Amends TCA Title 64, Chapter 1, Part 11.
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2046Enroll
75%
As introduced, requires rules of the fish and wildlife commission governing the numbering, safety equipment, and operation of vessels to be published in the newspaper at least 20 days, instead of 15 days, before the rules become effective. - Amends T...
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2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSB2048Enroll
75%
As introduced, increases the limit on the amount of products containing ephedrine or pseudoephedrine base, or their salts, isomers, or salts of isomers that a pharmacy may sell or a person may purchase in a 30-day period from 5.76 grams to 7.2 grams;...
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2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSB2253Enroll
75%
As introduced, extends, from three business days to five business days, the time in which a provider must send a claimant's medical records to a requesting party after receipt of payment for the records. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 26.
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2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSB1783Intro
25%
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
TNSB2528Enroll
75%
As introduced, requires the Tennessee higher education commission and each governing board of a public institution of higher education in this state to revise certain rules and take certain actions with respect to institutional accreditation; specifi...
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2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSJR0879Enroll
75%
Dr. Tonya Reynoldson, UT Martin Advisory Board
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2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSB0869Enroll
75%
As introduced, authorizes as part of the practice of pharmacy the prescribing of dietary fluoride supplements, certain immunization agents, opioid antagonists, and certain other drugs and products; makes various other changes to pharmacy practice. - ...
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2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSB2855Enroll
75%
As introduced, creates one additional circuit court in the 23rd judicial district. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.
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2024-04-19
Enrolled and ready for signatures
TNSB2565Enroll
75%
As introduced, removes the defendant's financial condition as a consideration for the magistrate in determining the amount of bail necessary to reasonably assure the appearance of the defendant at trial and protect the safety of the public. - Amends ...
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2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSJR1351Enroll
75%
Trenady Freeman, Dr. Jennifer V. Brown Instructional Coaching Award
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2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSB2508Enroll
75%
As introduced, requires, on or before January 1, 2025, the department of revenue to report to the finance, ways and means committees of both houses the total amount of moneys received under law relative to property tax in fiscal years 2023 and 2024 f...
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2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSB1659Intro
25%
As introduced, increases from 1,500 to 5,000 the number of acres of land that may be placed within one property tax jurisdiction for purposes of classification and assessment as agricultural, forest, or open space land; increases from 1,500 to 5,000 ...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSJR1489Enroll
75%
Officer Joseph McKinney, Memphis Police Department
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2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSB1771Intro
25%
As introduced, makes the state liable and responsible for paying the expenses for HIV medication for inmates committed to a county jail or workhouse who previously received prescription medication to treat HIV or AIDS through a state department, agen...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2146Intro
25%
As introduced, removes a report due by March 1, 2006, from the commissioner to legislative committees concerning the effectiveness of a demonstration project wherein a nursing home allowed a disabled volunteer to assume certain functions in the nursi...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2639Intro
25%
As introduced, restricts certain foreign investments in land located within this state through the creation of two separate prohibitions, one that restricts a prohibited foreign-party-controlled business from acquiring real property and another that ...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2791Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "TennCare for Working Individuals with Disabilities Act." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2158Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the review of executive branch agency policies and spending as it relates to illegal immigration; requires a report to be compiled and delivered to the governor and the speakers of the senate and house of representatives regar...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2062Intro
25%
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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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2156Intro
25%
As introduced, changes from February 1 to January 15, the deadline for the commissioners of safety and education to present their annual report to the governor and the general assembly concerning implementation of the Schools Against Violence in Educ...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2155Intro
25%
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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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB0503Intro
25%
As introduced, extends from October to November, the time within which a public institution of higher education that receives funds from the distribution of credit cards to students or any percentage from the use of cards bearing the college or unive...
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2024-04-19
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/23/2024
TNSR0314PassAlan Whittington, 50th birthday
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2024-04-19
Signed by Senate Speaker
TNSB2942Intro
25%
As introduced, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2023, and July 1, 2024.
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2024-04-19
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB0795Engross
50%
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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2024-04-19
Placed on Senate Message Calendar for 4/22/2024
TNSB1972Engross
50%
As introduced, requires the court to order an offender to wear a global positioning monitoring system device under certain circumstances unless the court finds the offender no longer poses a threat to the alleged victim or public safety; specifies th...
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2024-04-19
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB2221Engross
50%
As introduced, creates the Class E felony offense of assault against a participant in judicial proceedings, which occurs when a person, while on the premises of a building in which judicial proceedings occur, knowingly assaults a victim that the pers...
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2024-04-19
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB2770Engross
50%
As introduced, authorizes the enhancement of criminal penalties up to life in prison without parole upon conviction of violent crimes by illegal aliens; conviction of possession of a firearm or deadly weapon by an illegal alien; or conviction of a vi...
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2024-04-19
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSJR1485Engross
50%
Dr. Keith Norman, 25th pastoral anniversary
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2024-04-19
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB2940Intro
25%
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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2024-04-19
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB2941Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes the state to issue and sell bonds of up to $87,700,000.
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2024-04-19
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB2103Engross
50%
As introduced, deletes the provision requiring that the measure of the franchise tax must not be less than the actual value of the real or tangible property owned or used by a taxpayer in this state; authorizes the commissioner of revenue to issue re...
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2024-04-18
Conf. comm. appointed. (Lamberth, WIlliams, Hazlewood, Hicks (Hawkins), Miller)
TNSB2151Engross
50%
As introduced, requires the commissioner of health to submit an electronic copy of the annual report on immunization rates of children, by county, to the governor and the speakers of the senate and the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 14;...
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2024-04-18
Conf. comm. appointed. (Carringer, Terry, Hawk, Davis, Shaw)
TNSJR1364Enroll
75%
Oakhill Farm, a Tennessee Century Farm
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2024-04-18
Signed by H. Speaker
TNSJR1389Enroll
75%
Mayfield Dairy, 100th anniversary
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2024-04-18
Signed by H. Speaker
TNSB0129Engross
50%
As introduced, removes requirement for receipt of certain grants and loans for water and wastewater treatment infrastructure projects that a municipality includes depreciation in its calculation of fees or rates. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title ...
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2024-04-18
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.
TNSB2136Engross
50%
As introduced, makes various changes to the authorized scope of practice of physician assistants and advanced practice nurses who meet certain qualifications. - Amends TCA Title 55; Title 63 and Title 68.
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2024-04-18
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.
TNSB1740Engross
50%
As introduced, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment Act of 2024," which requires each covered hospital licensed as of July 1, 2024 to pay an annual coverage assessment for FY 2024-2025 of a certain percentage of the covered hospital's annual covera...
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2024-04-18
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.
TNSB0479Enroll
75%
As introduced, incorporates into the Uniform Commercial Code the amendments adopted by the Uniform Law Commission in 2022. - Amends TCA Title 47.
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2024-04-17
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSB1952Enroll
75%
As introduced, allows a court to charge the cost of an attorney ad litem in a guardianship or conservatorship proceeding against the property of the respondent, the petitioner, or any other party or partially to any one or more of them as determined ...
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2024-04-17
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSB2256PassAs enacted, makes various changes to present law on trusts, estates, and partnerships. - Amends TCA Title 35; Title 45; Title 61 and Title 66.
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2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNSB2834Enroll
75%
As introduced, deletes an obsolete provision requiring the public utility commission to report by 2011 to the speaker of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, the governor, the chair of the commerce and labor committee of the senat...
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2024-04-17
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSB2965PassSubject to local approval, deletes the position of town marshal; requires candidates for the board of mayor and aldermen to be permanent residents of the city; changes reasons to declare a vacancy on the board of mayor and aldermen. - Amends Chapter ...
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2024-04-17
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 49
TNSB1681PassAs enacted, requires, in cases where a person is ordered into emergency or nonemergency admission to involuntary commitment and is to be released, the chief officer of the releasing facility to notify, by electronic means, local law enforcement prior...
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2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 10/01/2024
TNSB2359PassAs enacted, prohibits the department from requiring an immunization as a condition of adopting or overseeing a child in foster care if an individual or member of an individual's household objects to immunization on the basis of religious or moral con...
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2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024
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