Tennessee Senator Raumesh Akbari [D]

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TNSB1929Enroll
75%
As introduced, creates an Amber+ Alert system for the purpose of issuing alerts with respect to certain youth who are reported missing under unexplained or suspicious circumstances, reported missing and at risk of harm, or reported missing and develo...
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2024-04-23
Signed by H. Speaker
TNSB1930Enroll
75%
As introduced, adds testing for variants of the Apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) gene associated with increased risk of developing chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease to the conditions for which the department of health must develop screening...
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2024-04-23
Signed by H. Speaker
TNSB2471Intro
25%
As introduced, expands the purposes for which the apportionment and distribution of state tax revenues to a sports authority owned by the city of Memphis can be used to include payment of, or the reimbursement of, expenses associated with securing re...
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2024-04-23
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2659Intro
25%
As introduced, expands student eligibility for a Tennessee future teacher scholarship to include students enrolled in an approved educator preparation program at Western Governors University. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 7.
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2024-04-23
To Senate Calendar Committee
TNSR0309Intro
25%
Teanna Johnson, Salutatorian, Middle College High School
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2024-04-23
To Senate Calendar Committee
TNSR0312Intro
25%
Jakyria Brenee Bailey, Valedictorian, Fairley High School
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2024-04-23
To Senate Calendar Committee
TNSR0311Intro
25%
Amaya Hewitt, Salutatorian, Whitehaven High School
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2024-04-23
To Senate Calendar Committee
TNSR0307Intro
25%
McCoy Pugh, Salutatorian, Millington Central Middle High School
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2024-04-23
To Senate Calendar Committee
TNSR0313Intro
25%
Ja'Mya Norwood, Salutatorian, Fairley High School
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2024-04-23
To Senate Calendar Committee
TNSJR1539Intro
25%
Medtronic, 75th anniversary
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2024-04-23
To Senate Calendar Committee
TNSR0306Intro
25%
Rilee Ervin, Valedictorian, Millington Central Middle High School
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2024-04-23
To Senate Calendar Committee
TNSR0310Intro
25%
Kristian Livingston, Valedictorian, Whitehaven High School
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2024-04-23
To Senate Calendar Committee
TNSR0308Intro
25%
Gabrielle Causey, Valedictorian, Middle College High School
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2024-04-23
To Senate Calendar Committee
TNSR0323Intro
25%
Daja Armstrong, Valedictorian, City University School of Liberal Arts
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2024-04-23
Filed for introduction
TNSR0322Intro
25%
Amani Ford, Salutatorian, City University School of Liberal Arts
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2024-04-23
Filed for introduction
TNSJR1622Engross
50%
Curtis "Blue" Langdon Towns
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2024-04-23
Engrossed; ready for transmission to House
TNSB1260Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes the establishment of industrial development corporations solely to assist and benefit minority-owned businesses, locally owned businesses, small businesses, and women-owned businesses. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53.
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2024-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB2448Engross
50%
As introduced, enacts the Real Estate Fraud Reduction Act, which requires county registers of deeds and notaries public to verify the identity of a person recording or notarizing a document relating to certain real estate transactions, as applicable,...
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2024-04-22
Passed H., Ayes 91, Nays 2, PNV 0
TNSB2730Engross
50%
As introduced, requires a supplemental adjustment to state funding for public defender offices in the twentieth and thirtieth judicial districts for pay parity purposes. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14.
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2024-04-22
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.
TNSB1987PassAs enacted, designates “Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree” by Brenda Lee as the official state holiday song; requires the secretary of state to include the song in the Tennessee Blue Book. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.
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2024-04-22
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 719
TNSB0734Engross
50%
As introduced, removes the start date of January 1, 2012, for the requirement that a healthcare practitioner communicate the practitioner's full name and type of license in writing to a patient at the patient's initial office visit. - Amends TCA Titl...
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2024-04-22
Concurred, Ayes 29, Nays 0 (Amendment 1 - HA0772)
TNSB1137Intro
25%
As introduced, requires a county having a metropolitan form of government that creates a special escrow account earmarked for the sole purpose of generating revenue to provide low income persons with safe and affordable housing to notify the Tennesse...
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2024-04-22
Placed on Senate Regular Calendar for 4/23/2024
TNSB2635Engross
50%
As introduced, authorizes a local government to amend adopted building codes to include three-family dwellings and four-family dwellings within the scope of the residential code. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 120.
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2024-04-22
Passed H., Ayes 61, Nays 23, PNV 12
TNSJR1481Enroll
75%
Charles M. Traughber, Chairman of the Tennessee Ethics Commission
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2024-04-22
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSJR1480Enroll
75%
Edwin Aguilera
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2024-04-22
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSB2689Engross
50%
As introduced, directs the administrative office of the courts (AOC) to define and develop a centralized system of case management, document management, electronic case filing, electronic payment methods, data reporting, and any other capability deem...
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2024-04-22
Passed H., Ayes 90, Nays 7, PNV 1
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.
TNSJR1485Engross
50%
Dr. Keith Norman, 25th pastoral anniversary
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2024-04-22
Concurred, Ayes 95, Nays 0, PNV 2
TNSB2987Intro
25%
Subject to local approval, changes the allocation of the revenue from the privilege tax on occupancy in a hotel. - Amends Chapter 131 of the Private Acts of 1969; as amended.
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2024-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSJR1525Engross
50%
Rhedona Rose
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2024-04-22
Engrossed; ready for transmission to House
TNSB2711Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes a municipality to change the allocation of revenue, but not its designated use, of a privilege tax upon the privilege of occupancy in a hotel if the tax preexisted July 1, 2021. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 14.
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2024-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB2877Engross
50%
As introduced, directs the Tennessee advisory committee on intergovernmental relations (TACIR), with the assistance of the Tennessee bureau of investigation, the district attorneys general conference, and the department of safety, to study the feasib...
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2024-04-22
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.
TNSB0616Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department to provide juveniles who are in the department's custody and housed in a juvenile detention facility approved, certified, or licensed by the department, including youth development centers, with 24-hour access, ...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB0750Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department to create and implement a promising futures program to provide scholarships to children who are not school age to assist them in developing early language and literacy skills in a high-quality early care and lea...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB0231Intro
25%
As introduced, changes the amount of a minority teaching fellowship award for a recipient who is enrolled in a degree program leading to licensure as a teacher in an institution of higher education with an approved educator preparation program from $...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB0472Intro
25%
As introduced, increases the penalty for driving upon a highway without a valid driver license for the vehicle being driven from a Class C misdemeanor to a Class B misdemeanor for a first offense and a Class A misdemeanor for a second or subsequent o...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1919PassAs introduced, requires a health benefit plan that amends, renews, or delivers a policy of coverage on or after July 1, 2024, and that provides coverage for prescription contraceptives, to provide coverage for a 12-month refill of contraceptives obta...
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2024-04-19
Signed by Governor.
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
TNSB2462Intro
25%
As introduced, directs the department to promulgate rules to establish a grant program for first-time home buyers. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 10; Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 47 and Title 66.
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2612Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "African American Cultural and Historical Grant Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 13.
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2728Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Menstrual Hygiene Products Accessibility Act." - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 49 and Title 67.
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2655Enroll
75%
As introduced, requires public charter schools to provide educators six work weeks of paid leave after the birth or stillbirth of the educator's child or after the educator's adoption of a newly placed minor child. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49.
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2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSB1977Intro
25%
As introduced, establishes the hunger-free campus grant program; provides grants to higher education institutions to address student hunger. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB2509Intro
25%
As introduced, extends the school turnaround pilot program beyond the 2024-2025 school year; increases, from five to 15, the number of schools in need of intervention that may participate in the school turnaround pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 49,...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1832Enroll
75%
As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Maternal Health Equity Advisory Committee Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.
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2024-04-19
Enrolled and ready for signatures
TNSB1894Enroll
75%
As introduced, requires a business that makes an automatic renewal offer or continuous service offer to a consumer to obtain affirmative consent to the agreement containing the automatic renewal offer terms or continuous service offer terms no less t...
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2024-04-19
Transmitted to Governor for action.
TNSJR1269PassMadison Berry
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2024-04-19
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR1238Pass75th anniversary of Oak Ridge gate opening
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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.
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