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TNHB2062PassAs enacted, enacts the "Jacob (Jake) T. Barnhardt Act," which creates a street racing task force to study and determine best practices for curbing illegal street racing in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 55.
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2024-06-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1058
TNHB2959PassAs enacted, creates a committee to study the establishment of incarcerated parenting plans to facilitate the ongoing relationships between incarcerated parents and their children within this state; requires the committee to report its findings and re...
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2024-06-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1068
TNHB2743PassAs enacted, requires each institution of higher education in this state to classify a student who is the spouse or dependent child of a service member as an in-state student for tuition purposes if certain criteria are met. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2024-06-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1057
TNHB2984PassSubject to local approval, creates the East Bank Development Authority for the metropolitan government of Nashville and Davidson County.
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2024-06-03
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 68
TNHB1614PassAs enacted, 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-verifica...
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2024-05-31
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1021
TNHB2405PassAs enacted, enacts the "Social Work Licensure Compact." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.
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2024-05-31
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1041
TNHB2318PassAs enacted, makes revisions to the law relative to physician assistants and nurses. - Amends TCA Title 55; Title 63 and Title 68.
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2024-05-31
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1042
TNHB1731PassAs enacted, enacts the "Modernization of Towing, Immobilization, and Oversight Normalization (MOTION) Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 39; Title 47; Title 48; Title 55; Title 56; Title 62; Title 66 and Title 67.
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2024-05-31
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1017
TNHB1946PassAs enacted, makes revisions to the law relative to the Ocoee River; adds "Class IV Olympic river areas" to the types of river areas included in the state scenic rivers system; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11; Title 65, Chapter 1...
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2024-05-31
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1044
TNHB2302PassAs enacted, enacts the "Ben Kredich Act," which, for the purpose of proving a person violated state law relative to driving under the influence of an intoxicant, establishes that evidence that the person was suspected to be impaired secondary to the ...
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2024-05-31
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1039
TNHB2940PassAs enacted, enacts the "TennCare for Working Individuals with Disabilities Act." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.
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2024-05-29
Effective date(s) 05/21/2024
TNHB2321PassAs enacted, increases the amount of personal needs allowance from $50 to $70 for long-term nursing home residents. - Amends TCA Title 71.
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2024-05-29
Effective date(s) 05/21/2024
TNHB2954PassAs enacted, enacts the "Prostate-Specific Antigen Screening for High-risk Insured Men Act" or the "PSA Screening for HIM Act." - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.
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2024-05-29
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNHB2677PassAs enacted, increases the annual continuing education requirement for county commissioners from seven to eight hours; encourages counties to offer a $600 stipend to county commissioners for completion of annual training requirements. - Amends TCA Tit...
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2024-05-29
Effective date(s) 05/21/2024
TNHB1259PassAs enacted, enacts anti-squatter laws. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 66.
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2024-05-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1009
TNHB2326PassAs enacted, requires a student's LEA or public charter school to convene a conference attended by the student's guardian, ELA teacher, and school principal if the student is promoted to fourth grade and does not show adequate growth in order to deter...
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2024-05-29
Effective date(s) 05/21/2024
TNHB2323PassAs enacted, enacts the "Chris Wright Act," which increases the penalty for a third or subsequent domestic assault conviction from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony; upgrades the offense classification for certain qualifying misdemeanor offens...
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2024-05-29
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNHB2808PassAs enacted, generally 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 departmen...
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2024-05-29
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNHB0430PassAs enacted, makes revisions to the law relevant to juvenile courts and proceedings. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.
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2024-05-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1007
TNHB0689PassAs enacted, requires an officer to provide an alleged victim of certain criminal offenses with a document notifying the victim of the global positioning monitoring system used as a condition of bail. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55, Chap...
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2024-05-28
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNHB2261PassAs enacted, 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 the a...
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2024-05-28
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNHB1600PassAs enacted, prohibits the purchase or possession of a firearm by a person under 25 if the person was previously adjudicated delinquent for an act that, if committed by an adult, would have constituted certain offenses; allows the TBI access to juveni...
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2024-05-28
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNHB1881PassAs enacted, enacts the "Back the Blue Act," which 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-...
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2024-05-28
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNHB1016PassAs enacted, makes various changes to the present law relative to the offense of communicating a threat concerning a school employee. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 49.
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2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNHB1805PassAs 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 ...
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2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 963
TNHB2145PassAs enacted, creates an offense for possessing or distributing a license plate flipper. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.
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2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 870
TNHB2641PassAs enacted, authorizes counties and municipalities, by resolution or ordinance of their governing bodies, to levy a tax on the retail sale of food and food ingredients for human consumption within the county or municipality at a rate less than the lo...
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2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/03/2024
TNHB2031PassAs 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...
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2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 958
TNHB2088PassAs enacted, authorizes the military department to administer a critical skills retention bonus program to be used to award retention bonuses of up to $10,000 to enlisted service members in the Tennessee national guard; entitles certain state employee...
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2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 847
TNHB1891PassAs enacted, creates the "Protecting Children from Social Media Act." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.
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2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 01/01/2025
TNHB1719PassAs 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...
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2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 869
TNHB2232PassAs enacted, requires the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations to conduct a study on child care. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 71.
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2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 934
TNHB2301PassAs enacted, requires a violation of the law regarding criminal offenses and penalties for drugs or a conspiracy to violate such law to be punished as second degree murder if the substance involved is fentanyl or carfentanyl, or any analogue or deriva...
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2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 957
TNHB2845PassAs enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Prevention of Drunk Driving Act." - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 55 and Title 57.
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2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 961
TNHB1928PassAs enacted, clarifies, for purposes of obtaining a school bus endorsement on a driver license and for other purposes, that a school bus is a vehicle designed to transport 16 or more passengers, including the driver; makes other related revisions. - A...
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2024-05-09
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 836
TNHB1625PassAs enacted, requires a qualified mental health professional or behavior analyst to warn or protect an identified victim or group of people when the professional or analyst determines that a service recipient has communicated an intent for actual thre...
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2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/23/2024
TNHB1969PassAs enacted, requires each child care agency in this state to have installed in each room of the child care agency where care is provided to children a carbon monoxide alarm that is listed according to the International Building Code and International...
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2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 733
TNHB1640PassAs enacted, enacts "Jillian's Law," which makes various changes relative to being adjudicated as a mental defective or judicially committed to a mental institution, including requiring a person judicially committed to remain committed until the compe...
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2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNHB0465PassAs enacted, enacts the "Representative Darren Jernigan Act," which requires, beginning on January 1, 2025, and each year thereafter, the department of revenue to verify that the owner of each disabled parking placard has not died; requires the depart...
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2024-04-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 726
TNHB2068Intro
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As introduced, raises from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony certain animal cruelty offenses involving a cock; requires a fine of not less than $1,000 nor more than $2,500 for the offense of being a spectator at a cock fight. - Amends TCA Tit...
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2024-04-25
Held on desk.
TNHB2902Intro
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As introduced, removes from code an outdated requirement that the polysomnography professional standards committee hold at least one public meeting each year during the years 2007 through 2010 to allow public discussion of new developments in the pra...
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2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB0743Intro
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As introduced, authorizes the issuance of a retail package store license to an operator within the general services district of a metropolitan government that has approved the retail sale of liquor for off-premises consumption by local option electio...
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2024-04-24
Comp. SB subst.
TNHB1319Engross
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As introduced, requires the United States flag and the official state flag to be displayed continuously on property owned, operated, or controlled by this state or a political subdivision of this state, including educational institutions and public s...
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2024-04-23
Re-refer to S. Cal Comm
TNHB1613PassAs 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
Effective date(s) 04/16/2024
TNHB0186Intro
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As introduced, requires the commissioner to make available to healthcare providers on the department's website the prescribed claims forms for reporting by healthcare providers. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.
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2024-04-17
Returned to the Clerk's Desk.
TNHB1187Intro
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As introduced, reduces, from 29.0141 percent to 28.5262 percent, the share of state sales and use tax revenue deposited to the state general fund; increases, from 4.6030 percent to 5.0909 percent, the share appropriated to municipalities. - Amends TC...
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2024-04-17
Returned to the Clerk's Desk.
TNHB2297Intro
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As introduced, requires Part B of the Katie Beckett program to serve a minimum of 5,000 program participants. - Amends TCA Section 71-5-164.
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2024-04-17
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
TNHB2296PassAs 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;...
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2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 700
TNHB2184Intro
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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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2024-04-17
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
TNHB2827Intro
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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.
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2024-04-17
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
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