| TN | SB1069 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a director of schools, or a director's designee, to not assign a student in grades 7-12 who has been suspended for more than 10 days or expelled from the regular school program for an offense of violence or threatened violence,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | SB1070 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes, upon a request of a director of schools or the director of a public charter school, the commissioner of education to issue an endorsement exemption to a teacher, in accordance with state board rules, to teach a physical educat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | SB1237 | Pass | As enacted, limits the ability of a student enrolled in a private school to participate in an interscholastic athletic activity or event, to such activity or event where membership in the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association is required, i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | SB0464 | Pass | As enacted, designates a segment of the Duck River in Maury County as a Class II scenic river; requires permitting of certain water resource projects in Class II scenic river areas, subject to rules promulgated by the commissioner of environment and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0838 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes an LEA to award a high school student credit for a course offered by the LEA's high school if the student attains a qualifying score on the course's final examination without requiring the student to enroll in the course. - Ame...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | SB0724 | Pass | As enacted, creates a new pathway for honorably discharged veterans to receive an occupational teaching license. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 311 |
| TN | SB0817 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Higher Education Freedom of Expression and Transparency Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7 and Title 49, Chapter 8.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB1068 | Pass | As enacted, makes various changes relative to expunction. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 315 |
| TN | SB0497 | Pass | As enacted, revises the definitions of "wine" and "beer" with regard to law relative to traffic in intoxicating liquors and regulating the sale of wine in retail stores. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3 and Title 57, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 236 |
| TN | SB0221 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the division of health related boards to hire a medical consultant. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | SB0745 | Pass | As enacted, makes various changes relative to abortion. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 53; Title 56; Title 62; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 313 |
| TN | SB0681 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Protecting Tennessee Businesses and Workers Act." - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 309 |
| TN | SB0924 | Pass | As enacted, adds as a factor the court may consider for the purpose of enhancing a defendant's sentence upon conviction of a criminal offense, consideration of whether the defendant committed the offense of aggravated assault or attempted first degre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 306 |
| TN | SB1338 | Pass | As enacted, makes various changes relative to the Broadband Accessibility Grant Program. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 7; Title 65 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 320 |
| TN | SJR0781 | Pass | Theron Ira Louis Lacy
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB0644 | Pass | As enacted, removes the requirement that a parent-teacher of a home school student provide proof of the student's immunizations and receipt of health services or examinations required by law generally for children in this state to the local education...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-02
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 296 |
| TN | SJR0557 | Pass | David Hicks Lillard, Sr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-02
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB0172 | Pass | As enacted, exempts from the offense of possessing or carrying a weapon on school property the possession or carrying of a pocket knife by a nonstudent adult on election day if the knife remains concealed at all times while the adult is on school pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-27
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0600 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits local governments from expending funds for the purposes of assisting a person in obtaining a criminal abortion. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 8.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
Effective date(s) 04/17/2023 |
| TN | SJR0522 | Pass | Former Tennessee First Lady Honey Alexander
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0533 | Pass | Women Veterans Appreciation Day
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0534 | Pass | Great Smoky Mountains National Park Honoring Our Veterans Day
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SR0121 | Pass | Elizabeth McNish Holiway
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | SR0156 | Pass | Dr. Melissa Collins, Tennessee Teacher of the Year
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | SR0118 | Pass | Bradley Anderson
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-21
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| TN | SR0133 | Pass | Senator Mark Pody and Barbara Pody, 50th wedding anniversary
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-21
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | SB0523 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Topical Medical Waste Reduction Act of 2023," which establishes certain regulations of facility-provided medications. - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Effective date(s) 04/13/2023 |
| TN | SB0834 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits a public postsecondary institution that provides internet access to students, faculty, staff, or the general public from allowing an individual to access a social media platform using the institution's network if the platform is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Effective date(s) 04/13/2023 |
| TN | SB0249 | Pass | As enacted, requires LEAs to conduct summer learning camps and after-school learning mini-camps annually instead of only in the summers immediately following the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school years; revises the definition of "priority student" to al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Effective date(s) 04/13/2023 |
| TN | SB0487 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that when, in the judgment of the speaker of the house of representatives and the speaker of the senate, the interest of the state requires additional counsel to the attorney general and reporter, the speakers shall retain addit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 134 |
| TN | SJR0478 | Pass | Chancellor Flora Tydings
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-17
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB0462 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces, from 29.0141 percent to 28.5262 percent, the share of state sales and use tax revenue deposited to the state general fund; increases, from 4.6030 percent to 5.0909 percent, the share appropriated to municipalities. - Amends TC...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-13
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SJR0127 | Pass | Expresses support for the Allowing Military Exemptions, Recognizing Individual Concerns About New Shots (AMERICANS) Act of 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-13
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0532 | Pass | State Capitol Troopers and Sergeants at Arms
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-13
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0004 | Pass | Nation of Israel, 75th anniversary
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-12
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0342 | Pass | Sergeant Harold Lee Russell II, Tennessee Highway Patrol
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0347 | Pass | Vietnam Veterans Day and 50th anniversary of withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0344 | Pass | Mayor Dale R. Kelley
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0343 | Pass | Judge John Everett Williams
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0332 | Pass | Brooke Clayton, Lewis County Middle School Teacher of the Year
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-10
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0333 | Pass | Krista Hinson, Lewis County Elementary School Teacher of the Year
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-10
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0331 | Pass | Becky Stewart, Lewis County Intermediate School Teacher of the Year
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-10
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0330 | Pass | William Collier, Lewis County High School Teacher of the Year
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-10
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0482 | Pass | TDOT Deputy Commissioner and Chief Policy Advisor Paul D. Degges
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-05
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SR0075 | Pass | Designates April 2023 as "County Government Month" in Tennessee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-04
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| TN | SJR0159 | Pass | Tennessee Credit Unions, 100 years
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-30
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0322 | Pass | Tennessee Association of Human Resource Agencies, 50th anniversary
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-30
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB1064 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a school official or teacher who observes or otherwise has knowledge of an assault and battery or vandalism endangering life, health, or safety committed by a student on school property to report the action immediately to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1141 | Fail | As introduced, creates a process by which certain individuals may file a complaint with an LEA or public charter school for the LEA's or public charter school's including or promoting certain prohibited concepts as part of a course of instruction, in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-29
Failed in Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1240 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the office of the comptroller to annually conduct a review of the English language arts textbooks and instructional materials adopted for use by each LEA and public charter school to ensure they are aligned to Tennessee's acad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-29
To Senate Education Committee |
