| TN | SB1062 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to the law relative to the South Central Tennessee Railroad Authority, including establishing that three or more of the counties of Dickson, Hickman, Lewis, Perry, and Wayne and the cities of Dickson, Centerville, and Hohenw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024 |
| TN | SB1721 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department of safety to create de-escalation training for teachers, administrators, and other school personnel; requires LEAs and public charter schools to ensure that the LEA's or public charter school's teachers, administra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024 |
| TN | SB1722 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits LEAs and public charter schools from displaying in public schools flags other than the official United States flag and the official Tennessee state flag. - Amends TCA Section 5-5-114; Section 6-54-144 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Placed on Senate Regular Calendar for 4/18/2024 |
| TN | SB2478 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits the department of agriculture or any other state or local department or agency from entering private property without probable cause to believe that a criminal offense has occurred or is occurring, the consent of the property ow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2501 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, establishes deadlines for public institutions of higher education to initiate and complete an investigation into a report filed by a student or employee alleging they have been penalized, discriminated against, or received adverse trea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB2969 | Pass | Subject to local approval, repeals obsolete language regarding the establishment of a civil service system for sheriff's department employees, which has been replaced by a new civil service system for such employees. - Amends Chapter 475 of the Priva...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 51 |
| TN | SB2261 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces from 30 to 21 days, the period by which a local government building official must, after a building permit is issued, mail to the county tax collection official the form upon which the permit applicant acknowledges the privileg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB2359 | Pass | As 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024 |
| TN | SB1843 | Pass | As introduced, requires the department of health, in conjunction with the department of environment and conservation, to investigate the frequency of diagnoses of cancer, Parkinson's disease, and other significant health-related issues in Maury Count...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024 |
| TN | SB1810 | Engross
50% | As introduced, requires a request made by a student to an employee of the student's LEA or public charter school for an accommodation to affirm the student's gender identity to be reported to a school administrator and to the student's parent; prohib...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Concurred, Ayes 26, Nays 2 (Amendment 1 - HA0944) |
| TN | SB2151 | Engross
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;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
H. Placed on Message Calendar for 4/18/2024 |
| TN | SB2576 | Pass | As enacted, requires, rather than authorizes, law enforcement agencies to communicate with the appropriate federal official regarding the immigration status of any individual, including reporting knowledge that a particular alien is not lawfully pres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 716 |
| TN | SB2901 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces from 60 to 30 days the waiting period before a law enforcement officer who is a member of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system may be reemployed after the officer's effective date of retirement. - Amends TCA Title 8, Ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2183 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes, from 10 days to 10 business days, the maximum amount of time the commissioner of education can suspend schools in a year when the commissioner requires all teachers to attend county institutes or educational meetings. - Amends...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2902 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the board of trustees for the retirement system to include a certification of the amount of normal contributions, accumulated liability contribution, and cost of living contribution required from an employer for state judges a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB0137 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the coordinator of elections to compare the statewide voter registration database with those of other relevant state agencies and county records when compiling information to distribute to the county elections commissions for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB0429 | Engross
50% | As introduced, expresses legislative intent that the persons appointed to a charter commission for the consolidation of the functions of the county and creation of a metropolitan government be representative of both incorporated and unincorporated ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Reset on cal. for 4/17/2024 |
| TN | SB1709 | Engross
50% | As introduced, creates new criminal offenses of assault within a healthcare facility and aggravated assault within a healthcare facility. - Amends TCA Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB1706 | Engross
50% | As introduced, requires each person, corporation, organization, partnership, or political party that seeks to provide training or conferences related to the administration of elections to county election commissions to be approved by the secretary of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Passed H., Ayes 78, Nays 18, PNV 0 |
| TN | SB1766 | Engross
50% | As introduced, requires a healthcare provider to provide to a patient or the patient’s authorized representative a full copy of the patient’s medical records within 10 working days of receipt of a written request by the patient or representative,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | SB1850 | Intro
25% | As introduced, deletes requirements that budget document includes personal income statement for calendar year 1977 and actual state appropriations for fiscal year 1977-1978. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 52.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/16/2024 |
| TN | SB1849 | Intro
25% | As introduced, makes appropriations for the purpose of defraying the expenses of certain legislative enactments passed during the 2024 session of the 113th General Assembly; earmarks sufficient state funds for the purpose of funding any bill naming a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/16/2024 |
| TN | SB1851 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes the state, acting by resolution of its funding board, to issue and sell its bonds and bond anticipation notes for certain purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/16/2024 |
| TN | SB1848 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes grant payments under the grant assistance program for nursing home care to be made either monthly or quarterly. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 11; Title 12; Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/16/2024 |
| TN | SB2032 | Engross
50% | As introduced, authorizes the issuance of temporary teaching permits to teach physical education classes in elementary schools. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | SB2502 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the TBI to submit a report on the amount of money collected for background checks associated with firearm sales in excess of the costs associated with conducting the background checks to the criminal justice committee of the h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1998 | Engross
50% | As introduced, requires organizers of public school athletic events to accept cash as a form of payment for admission to the event or the purchase of concessions or other items for sale at the event; prohibits organizers of public school athletic eve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Passed H., Ayes 96, Nays 0, PNV 0 |
| TN | SB2274 | Engross
50% | As introduced, requires a pharmacy or other authorized dispensing person or entity to make all reasonable efforts to contact and notify a person of the lowest available cost of a prescription drug prior to the point of sale. - Amends TCA Title 47, Ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | SB2610 | Engross
50% | As introduced, prohibits an entity supported in whole or in part by public funds from knowingly providing meeting spaces or other forums, including, but not limited to, electronic and print platforms, to a designated entity by which the designated en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Passed H., Ayes 69, Nays 22, PNV 0 |
| TN | SJR1436 | Engross
50% | Jeffrey "J.R." Russell
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Concurred, Ayes 88, Nays 1, PNV 2 |
| TN | SJR1489 | Engross
50% | Officer Joseph McKinney, Memphis Police Department
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB0173 | Engross
50% | As introduced, exempts services furnished by persons engaged in the appraisal of real estate or real property from business tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
Engrossed; ready for transmission to House |
| TN | SB1867 | Engross
50% | As introduced, enacts the "Beyond Ordinary Learning Opportunities (BOLO) Act," which requires the department to establish a one-year pilot program to place a therapy dog in five public schools in the 2024-2025 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
Engrossed; ready for transmission to House |
| TN | SB2176 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes from code an outdated requirement that the polysomnography professional standards committee hold at least one public meeting each year during the years 2007 through 2010 to allow public discussion of new developments in the pra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
Withdrawn. |
| TN | SJR1379 | Engross
50% | Tommy Harber, 2024 Supplier of the Year
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
Concurred, Ayes 98, Nays 0, PNV 1 |
| TN | SJR1382 | Enroll
75% | Cheri Doane, Ms. Tennessee Senior America 2023
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SJR1362 | Enroll
75% | Hannah-Kate McFadden
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB2763 | Engross
50% | As introduced, preempts the entire field of legislation regarding extreme risk protection orders to the exclusion of all county, city, town, municipality, or metropolitan government law, ordinances, resolutions, enactments, or regulation; declares a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB2782 | Engross
50% | As introduced, creates a civil cause of action against any person who knowingly removes a minor from this state without the consent of a parent of the minor for the purpose of assisting the minor in obtaining a healthcare procedure that is for the pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB1142 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, vacates the commission and reconstitutes the commission; changes the size and appointing authorities for the commission from 24 gubernatorial appointees to 20 total members with five each being appointed by the governor, the speaker of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB1641 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, creates the right of an attorney in fact designated to make healthcare decisions under a durable power of attorney for health care to conduct at least one in-person visitation with the principal for each day the principal is in a hospi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB2223 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, enacts the "Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act," which prohibits a financial institution from requiring the usage of a merchant code that distinguishes a firearms retailer from a general merchandise retailer or a sporting goods ret...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB2766 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, revises language prohibiting educators from discriminating against students on certain, specified bases to generally prohibiting educators from discriminating against students who are members of a protected class under federal or state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SJR1388 | Enroll
75% | Representative. Judd Matheny
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SJR1235 | Enroll
75% | Michael Maren
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SJR1192 | Enroll
75% | Senator Art Swann
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB0837 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Pregnancy Resource Tax Credit Act," which authorizes business, excise, and franchise tax credits for businesses that make monetary contributions to eligible nonprofit organizations that provide certain pregnancy-related ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1352 | Intro
25% | As introduced, exempts the retail sale of food and food ingredients from the sales tax if sold to a person who is 70 years of age or older during the period beginning July 1, 2023, and ending September 30, 2023. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-228 and Titl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1704 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases from a Class E felony to a Class D felony the offense of burglary of a conveyance. - Amends TCA Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| 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. |
