| TN | SB2539 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reconstitutes the state energy policy council by adding a representative of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a representative of the nuclear energy industry. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 59; Title 60; Title 65 and Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| 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 | SB2062 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the penalty for assault against a law enforcement officer from a Class A misdemeanor with a mandatory minimum 30-day sentence and $5,000 fine to a Class E felony with a mandatory minimum 60-day sentence and $10,000 fine. - Am...
[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 | SB2146 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes a report due by March 1, 2006, from the commissioner to legislative committees concerning the effectiveness of a demonstration project wherein a nursing home allowed a disabled volunteer to assume certain functions in the nursi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB0544 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to employ a guardian ad litem within each region of the state to advocate for each child who is in the custody of the department due to allegations of dependency and neglect and located within the region that th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1822 | Pass | As enacted, designates as official state books: "Farewell Address to the American People" by George Washington; "The Papers of Andrew Jackson"; "Democracy in America" by Alexis de Tocqueville; "All the King's Men" by Robert Penn Warren; "A Death in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 720 |
| TN | SB0529 | Intro
25% | As introduced, eliminates the sales and use tax on infant diapers, wipes, and formula. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0530 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "First Lady's Children's Trust Fund Act," which creates a trust fund to support persons and entities seeking assistance in the care of children in this state. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 33; Title 37; Title 50; Title 63; Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0531 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to maintain staffing to allow case managers to have no more than 20 open cases, rather than an average of 20 active cases; states that a "person residing in the child's home" includes a person living in a reside...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0459 | Intro
25% | As introduced, directs the bureau to establish, by January 1, 2024, a statewide program of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE) to provide comprehensive, integrated acute and long-term care services for qualifying frail, elderly individuals who ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0780 | Intro
25% | As introduced, exempts the first $15,000 of the purchase price of an automobile from the sales tax if the purchaser is a member of the Tennessee air or army national guard. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0750 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0837 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Pregnancy Resource Tax Credit Act," which authorizes business, excise, and franchise tax credits for businesses that make monetary contributions to eligible nonprofit organizations that provide certain pregnancy-related ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1367 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the maximum full market value, from $175,000 to $210,000, of a disabled veteran's residence that is to be used in calculating a reimbursement for property tax paid by the disabled veteran. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-704.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1725 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands eligibility for property tax relief to a veteran who acquired a service-connected disability that is determined by the United States department of veterans affairs to be permanent and total due to individual unemployability. - ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1944 | Intro
25% | As introduced, repeals the professional privilege tax for tax years that begin on and after June 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1783 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2419 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts "Emma's Bill," which requires that when making a determination of medical necessity, the bureau shall take into consideration the patient's overall condition and use such overall condition as a factor to determine the level of f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2394 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases, from one to two, the number of free plates for the Purple Heart and disabled veteran license plates issued to veterans with disabilities. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-256 and Section 55-4-257.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1672 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces, from 23 to 21, the minimum age required for a student to be eligible for the Tennessee reconnect grant. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SJR1235 | Pass | Michael Maren
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR1192 | Pass | Senator Art Swann
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR1388 | Pass | Representative. Judd Matheny
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SR0314 | Pass | Alan Whittington, 50th birthday
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| 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 | SB2422 | Pass | As enacted, requires notices relating to annexation or municipal zoning to be published, posted, or mailed 21 days, rather than 15 days, prior to the public hearing on the annexation or zoning; requires the annexing municipality to provide notice of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1726 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department, using existing resources, to develop a conflict resolution program that may be adopted and implemented by LEAs and public charter schools to assist students in any of the grades K-12 in developing the skills neces...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024 |
| 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 | SB0078 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department of transportation to erect and maintain directional signs for Milligan University at the I-81 / I-26 interchange, Exit 57A, in the City of Kingsport in Sullivan County. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024 |
| TN | SB2691 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits the intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances, or apparatus within the borders of this state into the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting temperature, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2399 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the board for professional counselors, marital and family therapists, and clinical pastoral therapists to enter into a reciprocal agreement with any other state that licenses marital and family therapists. - Amends TCA Title 8;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| 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 | SB0163 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to the present law regarding adult protection relevant to confidentiality of information, reports, and proceedings. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB0137 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the coordinator of elections to compare the statewide voter registration database with those of other relevant state agencies and county records when compiling information to distribute to the county elections commissions for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2300 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds the legislative librarian as a party to which the commissioner must submit an annual report on the work done by the commissioner in supervising dentists and dental equipment in the various state institutions, as well as in distrib...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB2263 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the penalty for the offense of threatening to commit an act of mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2099 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes a program to allow the department of agriculture to acquire and administer real estate interests in the state, including the administration of grants for the purpose of preserving farm and forestry land; creates the Farmlan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SJR0918 | Pass | Urges creation of state certified peer recovery program for veterans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0870 | Pass | Expresses support for State of Israel and condemns recent attacks on Israel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR1174 | Pass | Field Training Officer Taylor Heath, Fairview Police Department
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0904 | Engross
50% | Proposes an amendment to Article I, Section 26 of the Constitution of Tennessee to remove the provision that authorizes the legislature to regulate the wearing of arms with a view to prevent crime and to state that citizens have a right to keep, bear...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Engrossed; ready for transmission to House |
| TN | SR0280 | Pass | Cheri Doane, Ms. Tennessee Senior America 2023
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| 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 | SB2175 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Smart Heart Act"; establishes various requirements for automatic external defibrillators in schools and response protocols for cardiac-related medical emergencies. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 625 |
| TN | SB2937 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the medical examiner's office or regional forensic center to ascertain and document current psychotropic drug use, and prescription drug use from the past 10 years, by a deceased individual who died under suspicious, unusual, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Health and Welfare 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 | SB1669 | Pass | As enacted, establishes a five-day period after the effective date of this act during which a nonprofit organization may apply to operate a charitable gaming event during the annual period beginning July 1, 2023, until June 30, 2024, and beginning Ju...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 587 |
| TN | SR0256 | Pass | National Medal of Honor Day
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | SJR1111 | Pass | Jaimason Sturdivant, Boys & Girls Club of Elizabethton/Carter County Youth of the Year
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
Signed by Governor. |
