| TN | HB2062 | Pass | As 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1058 |
| TN | HB2959 | Pass | As 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1068 |
| TN | HB2743 | Pass | As 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1057 |
| TN | HB2984 | Pass | Subject to local approval, creates the East Bank Development Authority for the metropolitan government of Nashville and Davidson County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-03
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 68 |
| TN | HB1614 | Pass | As 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1021 |
| TN | HB2405 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Social Work Licensure Compact." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1041 |
| TN | HB2318 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to the law relative to physician assistants and nurses. - Amends TCA Title 55; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1042 |
| TN | HB1731 | Pass | As 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1017 |
| TN | HB1946 | Pass | As 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1044 |
| TN | HB2302 | Pass | As 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1039 |
| TN | HB2940 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "TennCare for Working Individuals with Disabilities Act." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Effective date(s) 05/21/2024 |
| TN | HB2321 | Pass | As enacted, increases the amount of personal needs allowance from $50 to $70 for long-term nursing home residents. - Amends TCA Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Effective date(s) 05/21/2024 |
| TN | HB2954 | Pass | As 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2677 | Pass | As 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Effective date(s) 05/21/2024 |
| TN | HB1259 | Pass | As enacted, enacts anti-squatter laws. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 66.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1009 |
| TN | HB2326 | Pass | As 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Effective date(s) 05/21/2024 |
| TN | HB2323 | Pass | As 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2808 | Pass | As 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB0430 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to the law relevant to juvenile courts and proceedings. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1007 |
| TN | HB0689 | Pass | As 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2261 | Pass | As 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB1600 | Pass | As 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB1881 | Pass | As 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-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB1016 | Pass | As 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB1805 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 963 |
| TN | HB2145 | Pass | As enacted, creates an offense for possessing or distributing a license plate flipper. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 870 |
| TN | HB2641 | Pass | As 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/03/2024 |
| TN | HB2031 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 958 |
| TN | HB2088 | Pass | As 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 847 |
| TN | HB1891 | Pass | As enacted, creates the "Protecting Children from Social Media Act." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 01/01/2025 |
| TN | HB1719 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 869 |
| TN | HB2232 | Pass | As enacted, requires the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations to conduct a study on child care. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 934 |
| TN | HB2301 | Pass | As 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 957 |
| TN | HB2845 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Prevention of Drunk Driving Act." - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 55 and Title 57.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 961 |
| TN | HB1928 | Pass | As 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 836 |
| TN | HB1625 | Pass | As 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/23/2024 |
| TN | HB1969 | Pass | As 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 733 |
| TN | HB1640 | Pass | As 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB0465 | Pass | As 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 726 |
| TN | HB1613 | Pass | As 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Effective date(s) 04/16/2024 |
| TN | HB2296 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 700 |
| TN | HB2089 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 688 |
| TN | HB2070 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department, on or before January 1, 2025, and on or before January 1 of each subsequent year, to submit a report on the department's progress on passenger and freight rail and public transportation efforts at the state and fe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 679 |
| TN | HB2216 | Pass | As enacted, enacts "Danielle's Law," which extends the statute of limitations for injuries to a person, who is 18 or older, relating to sexual assault to three years or five years depending on if law enforcement was notified of the assault. - Amends ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 644 |
| TN | HB1645 | Pass | As enacted, expands the eligibility for filing a petition to obtain a lifetime order of protection to include victims of aggravated stalking, especially aggravated stalking, and felony harassment. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 04/02/2024 |
| TN | HB1642 | Pass | As enacted, revises various provisions regarding pretrial release of a defendant charged with a criminal offense to require the magistrate to give first consideration to ensuring the safety of the community when determining whether to impose conditio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB1950 | Pass | As enacted, designates June 6 as a day of special observance for D-Day. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 601 |
| TN | HB1931 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits a local governmental entity or official from adopting or enacting a resolution, ordinance, or policy that prohibits or limits the ability of a law enforcement agency to conduct traffic stops based on observation of or reasonable...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Effective date(s) 03/28/2024 |
| TN | HB1651 | 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
Effective date(s) 03/21/2024 |
| TN | HB1602 | Pass | As enacted, requires a video or audio recording to be made of any interrogation of a child who has been taken into custody on suspicion that the child committed a delinquent act or unruly conduct unless a technical issue with the equipment or exigent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 565 |
