| TN | SB0191 | Intro 25% | As introduced, deletes a provision authorizing the state board of education to, in its discretion, waive the requirement that a person employed as a supervisor for the supervision of teaching grades 1-12 have a license of qualification issued by the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 To Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SB0833 | Engross 50% | As introduced, requires the commission to continue submitting to the governor, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives annual reports on or before December 31 assessing food security among student populations. - Ame... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB1767 | Engross 50% | As introduced, expands the definition of "racketeering activity" to include committing, conspiring to commit, aiding, attempting to aid, soliciting, coercing, facilitating, or intimidating another person to commit the criminal offense of animal fight... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| 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] | 2024-03-28 Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB1784 | Engross 50% | As introduced, requires the board of directors of an emergency communications district to ensure that all calls coming from a blue-light emergency telephone are recorded. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 86. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB1938 | Engross 50% | As introduced, names the law prohibiting an LEA from deducting dues from the wages of the LEA's employees for a professional employees' organization the "Michael Maren Paycheck Protection Act." - Amends TCA Section 49-2-123. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB1596 | Pass | As introduced, extends the termination date for the Tennessee State University, board of trustees to June 30, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49, Chapter 8. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB2713 | Intro 25% | As introduced, abolishes the governing board of directors for the Tennessee student assistance corporation and designates the corporation as a division of the commission; revises certain duties and powers of the commission; vacates and reconstitutes ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SJR0870 | Engross 50% | Expresses support for State of Israel and condemns recent attacks on Israel. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 To House Calendar and Rules Committee |
| TN | SB1807 | Enroll 75% | As introduced, establishes the office of rail and public transportation within the department; requires, among other duties and responsibilities, the office to determine the costs and requirements, including engineering, needed to implement passenger... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Signed by H. Speaker |
| TN | SR0253 | Intro 25% | Alexander W. Whitaker IV [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Adopted, Ayes 32, Nays 0 |
| TN | SJR1174 | Engross 50% | Field Training Officer Taylor Heath, Fairview Police Department [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB0305 | Intro 25% | As introduced, requires the speakers of the senate and house of representatives to appoint the members of the advisory task force to review the composition of judicial districts by January 1, 2025, rather than July 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 8; Titl... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 [Hearing: Apr 1 @ 12:30 pm] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2044 | Intro 25% | As introduced, states that, for inmates serving a sentence of two years or more for an offense committed on or after July 1, 2024, sentence reduction credits shall not operate to alter the defendant's sentence expiration date, but may be used to redu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 [Hearing: Apr 1 @ 12:30 pm] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| 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] | 2024-03-27 [Hearing: Apr 1 @ 12:30 pm] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2551 | Intro 25% | As introduced, permits parents to request electronically a copy of the child's report card, notice of school attendance, names of teachers, class schedules, standardized test scores, and any other records customarily available to parents. - Amends TC... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 [Hearing: Apr 1 @ 12:30 pm] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SJR1235 | Intro 25% | Michael Maren [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 Introduced, Passed on First Consideration |
| TN | SJR1236 | Intro 25% | Brian Sekita [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 Introduced, Passed on First Consideration |
| TN | SB1768 | Pass | As introduced, 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 electi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 579 |
| TN | SB1947 | Pass | As introduced, requires the board, in collaboration with the department of education, to identify math courses that may be substituted for Algebra II for purposes of satisfying high school graduation requirements and to submit a report to the educati... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 583 |
| TN | SB2182 | Intro 25% | As introduced, specifies that the required notice of a public meeting by an industrial development corporation related to the approval of a payment in lieu of taxes for a lessee of the corporation must be published on the website of the corporation. ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26 [Hearing: Apr 2 @ 8:30 am] To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2514 | Enroll 75% | As introduced, adds the short title "The Gabby Act" to Chapter 237 of the Public Acts of 2023, which requires district attorneys general to designate one assistant district attorney general as the lead prosecutor in cases involving crimes committed a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26 Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB0503 | Intro 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26 [Hearing: Apr 2 @ 8:30 am] To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| 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 | SR0256 | Pass | National Medal of Honor Day [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26 Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | SB2245 | Intro 25% | As introduced, authorizes the county administrator of elections to email assessment letters to candidates and political campaign committees for local public office when the administrator discovers that a campaign finance report has not been filed by ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25 Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB1769 | Intro 25% | As introduced, expands the definition of "adjudication as a mental defective" to include a person who has been found incompetent to stand trial in a criminal proceeding and requires the clerk of court in such a proceeding to collect and report any su... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2627 | Intro 25% | As introduced, increases, from two to three, the number of hours of training or continuing education courses on domestic violence or child abuse all judges in child custody proceedings are required to complete per year; increases, from 10 to 15, the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 To Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SJR1164 | Pass | Robert Jonathan Doyle Springer [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB2809 | Intro 25% | As introduced, requires LEAs and public charter schools to prohibit students from displaying, using, or accessing an electronic device during instructional time unless the electronic device is authorized, or provided to the student, by the LEA or pub... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20 To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2787 | Intro 25% | As introduced, requires the department of education to study the school choice programs available in other states and to submit a report of the department's findings at the conclusion of the study to the governor, the speaker of the house of represen... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SJR1045 | Pass | Veterans buried in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20 Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB1771 | Intro 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1853 | Pass | As enacted, increases from three to six the maximum number of credits a student may earn in a work-based learning program in one school year; reduces from 10 to 5 hours per week, the amount of time of supervised work experience required for each addi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 543 |
| TN | SB2111 | Intro 25% | As introduced, revises the formula for calculating tax relief on real property owned by eligible disabled veterans so that in determining the amount of relief to such a taxpayer, the assessed value on the first $175,000 of full market value is to be ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2076 | Pass | As enacted, expands the Tennessee Adult Protection Act's definition of abuse or neglect to include certain situations when an adult is unable to maintain the adult's own health or welfare. - Amends TCA Section 71-6-102. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 512 |
| TN | SB2623 | Intro 25% | As introduced, requires, on or before January 1, 2025, the commissioner of economic and community development, in consultation with the commissioner of revenue, to report to the finance, ways and means committees of the house of representatives and t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SJR0968 | Pass | Tennesseans for Student Success, 10th anniversary [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB2640 | Intro 25% | As introduced, increases, from 10 to 11 days, the time a merchant has to provide a written notice of objection to a writing or record that confirms a contract between the recipient and another merchant before the writing or record is considered suffi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SB2513 | Intro 25% | As introduced, establishes a process for the department to issue licenses to commercial breeders of cats and dogs. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 43 and Title 44. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SJR0967 | Pass | Claudia Byrd, Bristolian of the Year [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11 Signed by Governor. |
| 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 | SJR0989 | Pass | Deputy Greg McCowan [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06 Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0696 | Pass | Gracie Yoder, Boys & Girls Club of Elizabethton/Carter County Youth of the Year [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB1140 | Engross 50% | As introduced, allows dealers, when reporting and remitting sales taxes to the department of revenue, to retain a certain portion of such taxes in order to compensate for costs incurred in accounting for and remitting such taxes; establishes certain ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SJR0879 | Engross 50% | Dr. Tonya Reynoldson, UT Martin Advisory Board [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27 Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2114 | Engross 50% | As introduced, changes, from the governor to the president of the university, the appointing authority for members of an advisory board; removes the requirement that advisory board members be confirmed by the general assembly prior to beginning a ter... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |