| TN | SB0993 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages on certain commercial passenger buses. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/06/2024 |
| TN | SB1834 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2374 | Pass | As enacted, 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 and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/06/2024 |
| TN | SB2328 | Pass | As enacted, establishes procedures for recoupment of overpayments made to a healthcare provider by certain health insurance entities. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2103 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the commissioner of revenue to issue refunds under certain conditions to taxpayers who properly file a claim for refund for franchise taxes paid; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 1 and Title 67, Chapter 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/10/2024 |
| TN | SB1936 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to law relative to international medical school graduates applying for and utilizing special licenses. - Amends TCA Title 63.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/06/2024, 01/01/2025 |
| TN | SB2565 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits a magistrate from considering a defendant's ability to pay when determining the amount of bail necessary to reasonably assure the appearance of the defendant while at the same time protecting the safety of the public. - Amends T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2571 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Parental Accountability Act." - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2570 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a person who suffers loss or injury as a result of a defendant intentionally obstructing a highway, street, or other place used for the passage of vehicles or conveyances to bring a cause of action against such person to recove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2296 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the department to contract with a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that maintains a principal office in this state and that is affiliated with a nonprofit membership organization composed of family physicians, family medicine r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2976 | Pass | Subject to local approval, repeals requirement that the city create and maintain a roster of current employees and previous applicants qualified for the classified service; repeals ambiguous language relating to probationary period for employee disci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 55 |
| TN | SB2299 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies what constitutes a "home care organization" relative to law regulating health facilities and resources. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 14; Title 29; Title 33; Title 37; Title 39; Title 53; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2915 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Ethan Wade Walls Act," which 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/09/2024 |
| TN | SB2307 | Pass | As enacted, 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] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 01/01/2025 |
| TN | SB2583 | Pass | As enacted, redefines a "qualified data center," for purposes of sales and use taxes, to include a data center that previously made the required capital investment in excess of $100 million and previously created at least 15 net new full-time employe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 886 |
| TN | SB2578 | Pass | As enacted, revises provisions related to the special account in the general fund known as the "pre-need funeral account"; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Section 62-5-414.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/09/2024, 01/01/2025 |
| TN | SB2253 | Pass | As enacted, provides that in health care liability actions, the common law collateral source rule is abrogated and the damages awarded may include, in addition to others, certain actual economic losses suffered by the claimant. - Amends TCA Title 29,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1740 | Pass | As enacted, 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 coverage ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/09/2024, 06/30/2024 |
| TN | SB0137 | Pass | As enacted, requires the coordinator of elections to compare the statewide voter registration database with the department of safety database to ensure non-United States citizens are not registered to vote in this state. - Amends TCA Section 2-2-106 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 900 |
| TN | SB2901 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes, until June 30, 2026, a retired member of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system, or of a local retirement fund, to be reemployed in a position covered by the retirement system without the loss or suspension of the member...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 918 |
| TN | SB2801 | Pass | As enacted, requires 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 dependence...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2375 | Pass | As enacted, requires, in an action on consumer debt filed in a general sessions court, the plaintiff to include certain information with a civil warrant or any other leading process used to initiate the action; requires, prior to an award of a defaul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 914 |
| TN | SB2690 | Pass | As enacted, extends the deadline by which a distressed rural county must apply to be eligible to retain the sales and use tax generated from a commercial development district from December 31, 2024, to December 31, 2030. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 920 |
| TN | SB2902 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to law relative to hazardous duty supplemental benefits; makes related benefits revisions. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 24; Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35; Title 8, Chapter 36 and Title 8, Chapter 37.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 919 |
| TN | SB2561 | Pass | As enacted, requires, if a written request is made jointly by the speakers of the senate and the house of representatives, a nonprofit organization that has entered into a contract or memorandum of understanding with the district attorney general rel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1802 | Pass | As enacted, enacts "The District Attorney General Second Opinion Act," which authorizes, in any investigation involving a human trafficking offense, an organized crime offense, or an offense classified as a Class A or B felony, in which a district at...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Effective date(s) 04/29/2024 |
| TN | SB2861 | Pass | As enacted, generally prohibits the department from using state funds to administer hormone replacement therapy to state inmates incarcerated in a state penitentiary or a county jail or workhouse, or for sex reassignment surgery for state inmates inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Effective date(s) 04/29/2024 |
| 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] | 2024-05-06
Pr. Ch. 62 |
| 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, revises 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, makes 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 | SB2324 | Pass | As enacted, requires that a grant awarded to a marina from the portion of gasoline tax revenues apportioned to the wildlife resources fund for public and environmental infrastructure at marinas be based on the amount of gasoline sold at the marina re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2325 | Pass | Subject to local approval, sets the salary of the county attorney at $65,000 annually, subject to cost-of-living increases. - Amends Chapter 289 of the Private Acts of 1976; as amended.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Pr. Ch. 44 |
| TN | SB2331 | Pass | As enacted, removes the requirement that length of service awards for volunteer firefighters are awarded on a first come, first served basis; requires a portion of the appropriated funds in each fiscal year to be used to pay expenses incurred for the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024 |
| TN | SB2098 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Disability and Aging Act of 2024." - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 8; Title 12; Title 13; Title 33; Title 34; Title 37; Title 40; Title 41; Title 45; Title 49; Title 52; Title 55; Title 56; Title 63; Title 67; T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2939 | Pass | Subject to local approval, increases the hotel-motel tax rate from 2.5 percent to 4 percent. - Amends Chapter 25 of the Private Acts of 2009.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Pr. Ch. 43 |
| TN | SB2118 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Print Disability Absentee Voting Act," which prescribes a process by which a person with a print disability may apply for and receive an absentee ballot and vote by mailing in the absentee ballot. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 08/02/2024 |
| TN | SB1681 | Pass | As enacted, requires, in cases where a person is ordered into emergency or nonemergency admission to involuntary commitment and is to be released, the chief officer of the releasing facility to notify, by electronic means, local law enforcement prior...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 10/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2577 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes sellers of pre-need funeral contracts to keep the interest that accrues on the contract after payment is made for the merchandise and services set forth in the contracts. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2082 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Resilient Tennessee Revolving Loan Fund Act." - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| 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 | SB2356 | Pass | As enacted, requires an applicant who has satisfactorily completed a driver education and training course offered for Class D vehicles by nonpublic schools in categories 1, 2, or 3 as recognized by the state board of education, a public school, a pub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2330 | Pass | As enacted, extends the ground ambulance service annual assessment to June 30, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 7; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 633 |
