Tennessee Senator Joseph Hensley [R]

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TNSJR1436Enroll
75%
Jeffrey "J.R." Russell
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2024-04-22
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSB2883Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Prostate-Specific Antigen Screening for High-risk Insured Men Act," which requires health insurance coverage for the early detection of prostate cancer for men who meet certain risk criteria or age thresholds. - Amends TCA ...
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2024-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB0837Intro
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...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1352Intro
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...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1704Intro
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.
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1710Intro
25%
As introduced, requires half of the unencumbered revenue from the recordation tax to be distributed to counties for school debt and school capital projects. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-409.
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1706Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSB1766Enroll
75%
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,...
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2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSB1901Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes LEAs and public charter schools to reimburse teachers for child care expenses paid by the teacher each month for the teacher's dependent child to receive child care services through certain child care programs certified by t...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1904Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes business, excise, and franchise tax credits equal to unreimbursed TennCare costs for eligible healthcare providers that provide healthcare services to TennCare recipients; allows a refund to be issued in lieu of a tax credit...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2032Enroll
75%
As introduced, authorizes the issuance of temporary teaching permits to teach physical education classes in elementary schools. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSB2171Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Mental Health Preceptor Tax Incentive Program." - Amends TCA Title 67.
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
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
TNSB2342Intro
25%
As introduced, creates the criminal offense of recklessly, by any means of communication, threatening to commit an act of mass violence and the threat causes a reasonable expectation or reasonable fear of the commission of an act of mass violence. - ...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1741Intro
25%
As introduced, allocates 2.83 percent of the sales and use tax collected in the 11 fastest-growing counties to such counties; requires such counties to earmark such revenue for educational facility maintenance and construction and infrastructure. - A...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1998Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSB1810Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSB2274Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSJR1388PassRepresentative. Judd Matheny
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2024-04-19
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR1235PassMichael Maren
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2024-04-19
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR1192PassSenator Art Swann
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2024-04-19
Signed by Governor.
TNSB2610Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSR0314PassAlan Whittington, 50th birthday
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2024-04-19
Signed by Senate Speaker
TNSB0173Engross
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.
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2024-04-18
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.
TNSB2901Intro
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...
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2024-04-18
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB1062PassAs 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...
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2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024
TNSB1721PassAs 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...
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2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024
TNSB2478PassAs 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...
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2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNSB2969PassSubject 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...
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2024-04-17
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 51
TNSB2261Intro
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...
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2024-04-17
Companion House Bill substituted
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
TNSB1843PassAs enacted, requires the department to investigate reports of the amount of diagnoses of cancer and Parkinson's disease based on data currently available to the department in Maury County and Lawrence County; requires the department to submit a repor...
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2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024
TNSB2576PassAs 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...
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2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 716
TNSB0137Intro
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 ...
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2024-04-16
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB1850Intro
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.
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2024-04-16
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/16/2024
TNSB1849Intro
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...
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2024-04-16
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/16/2024
TNSB1851Intro
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.
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2024-04-16
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/16/2024
TNSB1848Intro
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 ...
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2024-04-16
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/16/2024
TNSB2502Intro
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...
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2024-04-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2176Intro
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...
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2024-04-15
Withdrawn.
TNSB1720Intro
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...
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2024-04-11
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSJR1135Engross
50%
Opposes the United States' participation in the World Health Organization Pandemic Prevention Preparedness and Response Accord.
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2024-04-11
To House Delayed Bills Committee
TNSJR0870PassExpresses support for State of Israel and condemns recent attacks on Israel.
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2024-04-09
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR0904Engross
50%
Proposes an amendment to Article I, Section 26 of the Constitution of Tennessee to remove the provision that authorizes the legislature to regulate the wearing of arms with a view to prevent crime and to state that citizens have a right to keep, bear...
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2024-04-09
Engrossed; ready for transmission to House
TNSJR1174PassField Training Officer Taylor Heath, Fairview Police Department
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2024-04-09
Signed by Governor.
TNSR0280PassCheri Doane, Ms. Tennessee Senior America 2023
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2024-04-09
Enrolled and ready for signatures
TNSB2172Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes municipal tax collectors and taxing entities to also accept partial payments of delinquent property taxes in the same manner as county trustees; requires such officials to include in their plan for accepting partial payments...
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2024-04-08
Companion House Bill substituted
TNSB2660PassAs enacted, require the department to file a petition of termination of adoptive parent's parental rights with a juvenile court, within 90 days of the juvenile courts finding that there has been substantial noncompliance by a parent or guardian with ...
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2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNSB1699PassAs enacted, expands the eligibility for filing a petition to obtain a lifetime order of protection to include victims of aggravated stalking, especially aggravated stalking, and felony harassment. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39.
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2024-04-08
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 632
TNSB2097Intro
25%
As introduced, creates the "Protecting Children from Social Media Act." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.
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2024-04-08
Sponsor(s) Added.
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