| TN | SB2897 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the annual continuing education requirement for county commissioners from seven to eight hours; requires that the training be obtained by CTAS meetings; extends a $600 stipend to county commissioners for completion of annual ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Placed on Senate Regular Calendar for 4/22/2024 |
| 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] | 2024-04-18
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2112 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-04-18
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB0503 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends from October to November, the time within which a public institution of higher education that receives funds from the distribution of credit cards to students or any percentage from the use of cards bearing the college or unive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB1327 | Pass | As enacted, revises present law relative to the revocation or suspension of permits or licenses for intoxicating liquors. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 57 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024 |
| TN | SB1286 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, removes a reference to a repealed provision of law that required state banks and certain securities broker-dealers to adhere to certain disclosure requirements of the federal deposit insurance corporation. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB1293 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes banks chartered by the state, and certain savings institutions charted by the state, with the approval of the commissioner of financial institutions, to generally sell or transfer all, or substantially all, of their assets and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024 |
| TN | SB2918 | Pass | As enacted, requires a campground owner to post in a high traffic area on the campground, or distribute to registered guests or visitors, a written policy on campground curfew, alcohol use, tobacco use, and pets; authorizes an owner to eject a person...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 665 |
| TN | SB2909 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Self-Insurers' Guaranty Association Act" to provide a mechanism for the payment of selfinsured workers' compensation claims to avoid excessive delay in payment and to avoid financial loss to claimants because of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 666 |
| 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 | 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] | 2024-04-16
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| 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 | 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 | SB0120 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes a credit against premium taxes in the amount of the charges, expenses, and fees paid by insurance companies for certain examinations performed by the commissioner of commerce and insurance. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 4, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1325 | Engross
50% | As introduced, authorizes a faculty or staff member of a school to carry a concealed handgun on school grounds subject to certain conditions, including obtaining an enhanced handgun carry permit and completing annual training. - Amends TCA Title 39, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB1316 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the penalty for the offense of possession of a used, detached catalytic converter by an unauthorized person from a Class A misdemeanor punishable only by fine to a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 55 and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1305 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Special Educator Scholarship Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2921 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the bureau to reimburse a public or private air ambulance service that bills for transports and has a base of operations in this state that provides a covered emergency or nonemergency service to a TennCare recipient at a rate...
[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 | SB2066 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, requires installation of carbon monoxide alarms in each room of a child care agency where care is provided to a child; requires the alarms to meet certain national certification standards and be installed in accordance with national fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB2913 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes a court to waive the costs to a petitioner who files a petition for restoration of the full rights of citizenship. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 19 and Title 40, Chapter 29.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Senate Reset on Final Calendar |
| TN | SB2898 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds a fire engine converted to a for-hire passenger vehicle as a type of entertainment transportation that may be regulated by a governmental entity. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 57; Title 65; Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB1698 | Pass | As enacted, expands the conditions under which certain contracts between a taxpayer and tax preparation service company are not considered contracts of insurance to include circumstances when the tax preparation service company obtains a contractual ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2926 | Engross
50% | As introduced, deletes a redundant definition in law relative to intoxicating liquors that defines the commission. - Amends TCA Title 57 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB2097 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates the "Protecting Children from Social Media Act." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2907 | Engross
50% | As introduced, requires the department to include information on which unserved locations have received or are in the process of receiving broadband service since the last update to the broadband accessibility map. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB2923 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, each local education agency and public charter school to provide students with age-appropriate and grade-appropriate instruction on firearm safety. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB1378 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases, from $1.00 to $5.00, the threshold before which a borrower is entitled to a refund or refund credit of the precomputed interest charge for a loan that is precomputed that the borrower prepays in full. - Amends TCA Title 45, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration |
| TN | SB1571 | Pass | Subject to local approval, authorizes purchasing limits for which competitive bids are not required be set by ordinance pursuant to state law requirements. - to amend.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 37 |
| TN | SB2920 | Pass | As enacted, adds services to the list of purchases that may be made for use in a business enterprise program for the blind without taking bids for the purchases, advertising bids for such purchases, or complying with other state law on purchasing on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Effective date(s) 03/27/2024 |
| TN | SB2938 | Pass | Subject to local approval, repeals the private purchasing act for Van Buren County that requires the County to solicit sealed bids for purchases and contracts in excess of $2,500, thereby bringing the County under the general law purchasing authority...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 38 |
| TN | SB2027 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that under this state's law relative to wage regulations, the term "work" has the same meaning as interpreted by the United States supreme court for purposes of the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 623 |
| TN | SB1322 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of safety to issue permits with the designation "Enhanced Handgun Carry Permit" on the front of the permit; requires the department to issue replacement permits for any permit that contains the designation "Hand...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2516 | Fail | As introduced, creates a civil action against any person or government entity that infringes upon a person's right to bear arms under the Tennessee or United States Constitutions; requires the person or entity to be liable for actual or statutory dam...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2911 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits the purchase or possession of a firearm by a person under 25 years of age if the person was previously adjudicated delinquent for an act that, if committed by an adult, would have constituted one or more certain offenses; all...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SB2912 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes the offense of possessing a weapon in a building that prohibits or restricts weapons; allows a person with an enhanced handgun carry permit to carry a handgun into a business that prohibits or restricts weapons; removes penalti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1313 | Intro
25% | As introduced, limits what can be included in calculating the permissible costs that may be charged for copying and mailing a patient's medical records. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Section 63-2-102.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB2971 | Intro
25% | Subject to local approval, authorizes the city to lease real, mixed, and personal property inside or outside of the city. - Amends Chapter 78 of the Private Acts of 2014.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB1868 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies that it is not a criminal offense for an adult person to carry or possess pepper spray, a taser, or another similar device for purposes of self-defense when on property owned, operated, or in use by any college or university ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2306 | Intro
25% | As introduced, designates November as "Christian Heritage Month." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB1909 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates a process by which a grave space will be considered abandoned and revert to the cemetery company that owns or controls the cemetery land or property on which the grave space is located if certain conditions are met. - Amends TC...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2908 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes a funeral director or funeral establishment providing funeral services for a deceased person insured or believed to be insured under a contract of life insurance to request certain information about the life insurance contra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB2927 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits certain Chinese entities from directly or indirectly owning, having a controlling interest in, acquiring by purchase, grant, devise, or descent an interest, or holding by lease, contract, or usufruct an interest in, except a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB2904 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces, from three months to two months, the time for a records custodian to file a written report with the office of open records counsel regarding the filing of a petition to enjoin a person from making records requests if the perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2900 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces the number of members of the board of directors of the agency required to approve the operation of the financial assistance programs under the Tennessee Housing Development Agency Act from nine to eight. - Amends TCA Title 7, C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2096 | Pass | As enacted, defines and adds "voice" as a protected personal right; adds commercial availability of a sound recording or audiovisual work in which the individual's name, voice, likeness, or image is readily identifiable to considerations for determin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 588 |
| TN | SB1822 | Intro
25% | As introduced, designates as official state books of Tennessee "Farewell Address to the American People" by George Washington; "Democracy in America" by Alexis de Tocqueville; "Aitken Bible"; "The Papers of Andrew Jackson"; "Roots" by Alex Haley ; "A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2915 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-03-25
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB2924 | Intro
25% | As introduced, aligns local school board elections with the August primary and November general elections. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 49, Chapter 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SB2894 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes direct and continuing appropriations by airport authorities for the issuance of debt that is not a liability of the state and the payment of debt service thereon. - Amends TCA Title 9.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
