| TN | SB2317 | Pass | As enacted, requires, when legal notices must be published in a newspaper of general circulation, that the notice also be published on a news and information website that has a URL, if such a website exists, that meets certain requirements. - Amends ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 793 |
| TN | SB2322 | Pass | As enacted, requires the judge of the general sessions court in Scott County to devote full time to the duties of such office and prohibits the judge from the practice of law or any other employment which conflicts with the performance of their dutie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1641 | Pass | As enacted, establishes that generally an attorney or an agent designated to make healthcare decisions under a durable power of attorney for health care has a right to in-person visitation with the principal at a hospital where the principal is locat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2186 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that in a county with more than one general sessions judge in which the judicial commissioners are supervised by the general sessions judges, the management and supervision of any judicial commissioners appointed pursuant to thi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 786 |
| TN | SB1801 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to the law relative to statutes of limitations for bringing actions for injury or illness based on certain child sexual abuse offenses, including trafficking offenses. - Amends TCA Title 28 and Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 790 |
| TN | SB1060 | Pass | As enacted, revise various provisions of present law pertaining to the "Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022" and the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 782 |
| TN | SB2147 | Pass | As enacted, make changes to the law protecting elderly persons and disabled adults. - Amends TCA Title 30; Title 31; Title 32; Title 34; Title 35; Title 36; Title 39 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/23/2024 |
| TN | SB2223 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act." - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6; Title 29; Title 38; Title 39; Title 45 and Title 47.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1915 | Pass | As enacted, generally prohibits certain licensing boards for professions, including medical professions, from using a vague term in their consideration and their notice or decision for denying a license due to a prior criminal prosecution unless an e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 788 |
| TN | SB2306 | Pass | As enacted, designates November as "Christian Heritage Month." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 750 |
| TN | SB1834 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, authorizes the death penalty as a punishment for rape of a child, aggravated rape of a child, or especially aggravated rape of a child. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Chapter 1062 of the Public Acts of 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB2337 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, increases the penalty for indecent exposure from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony if the person was confined in a penal institution at the time of the commission of the offense and the offense was committed with the intent to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| TN | SB2103 | Enroll
75% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| TN | SB2566 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, requires any conditions of release imposed on a defendant to include a requirement that the defendant submit to pretrial monitoring to ensure compliance with the conditions; requires the court to order bail to be forfeited and an arres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| TN | SB2570 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, increases the penalty for intentionally obstructing a highway, street, or other place used for the passage of vehicles or conveyances from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class D felony; allows a person who suffers loss or injury as a resul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB2561 | Pass | As introduced, requires a nonprofit organization that has entered into a contract or memorandum of understanding with the district attorney general to disclose the list of persons or entities that have donated to the nonprofit in the previous calenda...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB1802 | Pass | As introduced, authorizes the attorney general and reporter to investigate human trafficking offenses, organized crime offenses, and related criminal activity; authorizes the attorney general and reporter to prosecute such offenses either with consen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB2134 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, enacts the Social Work Licensure Compact. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| TN | SB2204 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, authorizes available funds in the Ocoee River recreation and economic development fund to be paid to the Tennessee Valley Authority for additional releases of water on the Ocoee River. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11; Title 65, Chapter ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| TN | SB2984 | Pass | Subject to local approval, grants the town with the same powers and authorities granted to municipalities chartered under the general law mayor-aldermanic charter. - Amends Chapter 211 of the Private Acts of 1917; as amended.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB2915 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, authorizes proration of the registration fee for freight motor vehicles operated for commercial purposes upon the death of an eligible operator of the freight motor vehicle; requires submission of certain documentation prior to issuanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB1881 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, removes from the definition of "provider-based telemedicine" the requirement that the healthcare service provider or the provider's practice group or healthcare system have an established provider-patient relationship that is documente...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| TN | SB2151 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| TN | SB0129 | Enroll
75% | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| TN | SB2368 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, requires the commissioner of finance and administration, or the commissioner's designee, to make available to the public on the department's website any proposed budget document or other financial publication that lists complex rehabil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| TN | SB1792 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, enacts the "Protect Tennessee Minors Act"; requires an individual or commercial entity that publishes or distributes in this state a website that contains a substantial portion of material harmful to minors perform reasonable age-verif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| TN | SB0757 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, extends from 90 days to 100 days, the amount of time in which captured plate data collected or retained by a governmental entity through the use of an automated license plate recognition system may be stored unless the data is retained...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| TN | SB2861 | Pass | As introduced, permits the department to file its annual report regarding the effectiveness of diversion of offenders from state correctional institutions electronically. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB2578 | Engross
50% | As introduced, revises provisions related to the special account in the general fund known as the "pre-need funeral account"; deletes the indigent burial fund. - Amends TCA Section 62-5-414.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB1740 | Enroll
75% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB1882 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, authorizes a charitable nonprofit corporation located in Knox County or within a municipality located within Knox County that acquires replacement property which is operated as a licensed residential home for the aged, to claim and fil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| TN | SB2116 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, increases from 15 days to 15 business days the time period a court may send notification of a defendant's conviction of aggravated cruelty to animals to the appropriate protective agencies if the defendant resides in a household with m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| TN | SB0993 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, authorizes sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages on certain commercial passenger buses. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB2321 | Engross
50% | As introduced, requires methadone clinics to be located in incorporated areas or in areas subject to zoning regulations, located within a five-mile radius of a police department and emergency medical services station, and located at least 2,000 feet ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Re-ref. Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2374 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, requires TACIR to complete a study and issue a report on laws, regulations, and rules affecting the start-up, operation, and expansion of child care businesses in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 36; Title 37; Title 49 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB1936 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, changes the application requirements for international medical school graduates applying for special licenses. - Amends TCA Title 63.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB2571 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, enacts the "Parental Accountability Act," requiring the juvenile court to assess a fine of $1,000 against a child who is found to be delinquent for a second or subsequent delinquent act, to be paid by the child’s parent, legal custod...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB2801 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, requires all TennCare health benefit plans to provide coverage and reimbursement for mental health services and treatment to the same extent that the plans provide coverage and reimbursement for the treatment of alcoholism and drug dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB1000 | Intro
25% | As introduced, decreases, from nine to eight, the number of affirmative votes required by members of the agency's board of directors in order for the agency to approve the operation of its financial assistance programs, which support the financing of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB2332 | Intro
25% | As introduced, raises the base salary from $156,024 to $205,328 for district attorneys general and district public defenders. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 16.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB1660 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates a Natural Disaster Relief Program to be administered by TEMA. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 2, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Finance, Ways & Means |
| TN | SB2158 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2307 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, adds hydrogen gas to the definition of alternative fuel for the purposes of fuel tax law; subjects hydrogen gas to the compressed natural gas tax; exempts hydrogen gas from the sales and use tax. - Amends TCA Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| 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] | 2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2159 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the amount of personal needs allowance from $50 to $70 for long-term nursing home residents. - Amends TCA Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB2791 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "TennCare for Working Individuals with Disabilities Act." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2639 | Intro
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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB0756 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of human services to advertise prominently on the home page of the department's website the division of adult protective services' toll-free telephone service that enables citizens within the state to call the d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2117 | Intro
25% | As introduced, defines a home for the aged that houses three or fewer nonrelated persons as a tier 1 home for the aged that is subject to licensure and regulation by the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities; defines a home for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2538 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes from three to four the number of members the governor is authorized to appoint to an enrolling board in each county to act in lieu of the county assessor for purposes of enrolling county residents in the state militia. - Amends...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Sponsor(s) Added. |
