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| Position | Bill | Status | Summary | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | SB2766 | Passed | As introduced, revises language prohibiting educators from discriminating against students on certain, specified bases to generally prohibiting educators from discriminating against students who are members of a protected class under federal or state... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23 Signed by Governor. |
| #2 | HB2702 | Introduced | As introduced, requires the juvenile court to transfer a child to the sheriff of the county to be held according to law and dealt with as an adult in the criminal court if the child is charged with an offense involving theft of a firearm or a felony ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10 |
| #3 | HB2705 | Introduced | As introduced, provides a 25 percent tuition discount to children under 24 years of age whose parent is a full-time employee of a public school or public charter school in a position other than as a teacher, and has been employed by public school or ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 Taken off notice for cal in s/c Higher Education Subcommittee of Education Administration |
| #4 | SB1745 | Passed | As enacted, prohibits a public institution of higher learning that holds personal information of students from sharing the personal information with a third party, unless the third party agrees in writing that the personal information will only be us... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 619 |
| #5 | HB1634 | Introduced | As introduced, revises language prohibiting educators from discriminating against students on certain, specified bases to generally prohibiting educators from discriminating against students who are members of a protected class under federal or state... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Comp. SB subst. |
| #6 | SB2332 | Introduced | As introduced, raises the base salary from $156,024 to $205,328 for district attorneys general and district public defenders. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 16. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24 Sponsor(s) Added. |
| #7 | HB2323 | Engrossed | As introduced, 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 offenses to a Class E felony upon a defe... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24 Passed Senate, Ayes 28, Nays 2 |
| #8 | HB2868 | Enrolled | 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. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24 Enrolled; ready for sig. of H. Speaker. |
| #9 | HB2318 | Introduced | As introduced, makes various changes to the authorized scope of practice of physician assistants and advanced practice nurses who meet certain qualifications. - Amends TCA Title 55; Title 63 and Title 68. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22 Sponsor(s) Added. |
| #10 | SJR1626 | Engrossed | Sherry Thurman [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24 Concurred, Ayes 96, Nays 1, PNV 1 |
| #11 | SB2781 | Introduced | As introduced, expands the offense of observation without consent to include a person or entity that adopts rules or enforces a policy or other work-related guidance for employees or contractors to promote or assist in the commission of observation w... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 Deferred to Summer Study |
| #12 | HB2120 | Introduced | As introduced, excludes recreational facilities, recreational purposes, and parks from the definition of "public use" as it applies to eminent domain. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 17, Part 1. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24 Sponsor(s) Added. |
| #13 | HB2312 | Enrolled | As introduced, authorizes municipal tax collectors and taxing entities to also accept partial payments of delinquent property taxes in the same manner as county trustees; requires such officials to include in their plan for accepting partial payments... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24 Transmitted to Governor for his action. |
| #14 | SB1735 | Engrossed | As introduced, requires the state fire marshal or another state entity that receives an inspection request for new construction or the renovation of an existing building to conduct the inspection within 72 hours of receipt of the request. - Amends TC... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24 Passed H., Ayes 92, Nays 1, PNV 4 |
| #15 | HB2132 | Introduced | 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] | 2024-03-27 Taken off notice for cal in s/c Higher Education Subcommittee of Education Administration |
| #16 | SB2561 | Enrolled | As introduced, requires a nonprofit organization that has entered into a contract or memorandum of understanding with the district attorney general to disclose the list of persons or entities that have donated to the nonprofit in the previous calenda... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| #17 | SB0359 | Introduced | As introduced, requires the salaries paid to teachers and other professional personnel in a state special school on or after July 1, 2023, to equal or exceed the salaries paid to teachers and other professional personnel with comparable training and ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19 |
| #18 | SB0713 | Introduced | As introduced, requires the department to collect and publish data concerning landslides and floods; requires the department to establish a network of weather stations across the state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 5; Title 58; Title 64, Cha... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19 |
| #19 | SB2688 | Introduced | As introduced, directs the department to conduct a study, utilizing existing resources, on the effectiveness of state programs incentivizing students to pursue careers in mental health care; requires the study to include an analysis of similar progra... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19 |
| #20 | HJR0859 | Introduced | Proposes an amendment to Article I, Section 15 of the Constitution of Tennessee to remove the right to bail for the following offenses when the proof is evident or the presumption great: act of terrorism; second degree murder; aggravated rape of a ch... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22 Sponsor(s) Added. |
| #21 | SB2368 | Engrossed | As introduced, requires the commissioner of finance and administration, or the commissioner's designee, to make available to the public on the department's website any proposed budget document or other financial publication that lists complex rehabil... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24 Passed H., Ayes 96, Nays 0, PNV 0 |
| #22 | HB2466 | Enrolled | As introduced, authorizes the bureau to provide a defendant with a certified copy of an order expunging the public records of a criminal offense following the dismissal of charges entered on behalf of the defendant; allows the bureau to charge a reas... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24 Enrolled; ready for sig. of H. Speaker. |
| #23 | SB1536 | Passed | As enacted, makes applicable to Coffee County, present law that provides that whenever Hardeman County or Cumberland County acquires property at a tax sale, a nongovernmental entity holding a vested and duly recorded contractual right to the payment ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 717 |
| #24 | HB2212 | Introduced | As introduced, allows the comptroller of the treasury to investigate the operations of rural hospitals and facilitate the transfer of the ownership and operations of government-owned rural hospitals that have failed or are abandoned. - Amends TCA Tit... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee |
| #25 | SJR1161 | Passed | John Roberts, Sr., TIME Dealer of the Year for Tennessee [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Signed by Governor. |
| #26 | HB1723 | Introduced | As introduced, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment Act of 2024," which requires each covered hospital licensed as of July 1, 2024 to pay an annual coverage assessment for FY 2024-2025 of a certain percentage of the covered hospital's annual covera... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22 Comp. SB subst. |
| #27 | HB1892 | Introduced | As introduced, authorizes the use of certain third-party examiners, inspectors, engineers, and professionals in lieu of a local or state examiner, inspector, engineer, or professional for certain permitted processes and requirements; establishes proc... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Sponsor(s) Added. |
| #28 | SJR1475 | Enrolled | Gabriela Sanchez Benitez, Valedictorian, Fulton High School [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22 Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| #29 | SB1663 | Passed | As enacted, removes the requirement that LEAs administer a pretest to students participating in an after-school learning mini-camp, learning loss bridge camp, or summer learning camp; deletes various reporting, funding, and accountability provisions ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Effective date(s) 04/04/2024 |
| #30 | HB1853 | Passed | As introduced, for the purposes of regulation of health and related facilities, exempts from the definition of "home health service" services provided by a person or entity that solely provides services of occupational and physical therapy or communi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22 Signed by Governor. |
| #31 | SB1670 | Passed | As introduced, adds certain assisted-care living facilities, nursing homes, and emergency communications centers as locations where a newborn safety device may be located. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19 Signed by Governor. |
| #32 | HB2378 | Enrolled | 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] | 2024-04-23 Transmitted to Governor for his action. |
| #33 | HB1643 | Enrolled | As introduced, requires the state to pay the cost of a court-ordered mental health evaluation and treatment for criminal defendants who have been charged with a misdemeanor and are believed to be incompetent to stand trial or for whom there is a ques... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24 Transmitted to Governor for his action. |
| #34 | SB1431 | Introduced | As introduced, requires the office of open records counsel, in coordination with the department of safety and department of revenue, to develop and maintain a system to track bulk purchases of public records containing personal information from state... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19 |
| #35 | HB1689 | Passed | As enacted, expands the permitted uses for money received by a county for each tire sold in the county to include removal of illegally disposed waste tires from public or private property; authorizes the department of environment and conservation to ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03 Effective date(s) 03/27/2024, 07/01/2025 |
| #36 | HB1960 | Introduced | As introduced, authorizes public hospitals, upon approval of the hospital's governing body, to establish a state employee and retiree healthcare incentive program that will allow for the waiver of applicable out-of-pocket expenses associated with med... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24 Comp. SB subst. |
| #37 | HB2046 | Introduced | As introduced, requires the department to submit written summaries of policies and guidelines adopted by it to the chairs of the government operations committees of each house, with the policies and guidelines to be posted on the subsequent joint rul... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24 |
| #38 | SB2012 | Enrolled | As introduced, broadens the electronic health care records modernization act to include subjecting healthcare entities to injunctive relief and civil penalties for interfering with their patients accessing electronic health information and prohibitin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24 Signed by H. Speaker |
| #39 | HB2305 | Passed | As enacted, requires official vintage license plates that are issued and registered by the state in lieu of the standard antique motor vehicle registration plate to be displayed on antique motor vehicles when they are being operated on public roads a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 569 |
| #40 | SB2549 | Introduced | As introduced, authorizes district attorneys general and former district attorneys general to solemnize marriages, if the district attorney general or former district attorney general has filed notice with the office of vital records indicating their... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Companion House Bill substituted |
| #41 | SB2771 | Enrolled | As introduced, authorizes a county or municipality to hire employees or appoint volunteers to divert vehicular traffic or temporarily close a lane to certain vehicular traffic within a marked school zone during the period of time that it is necessary... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24 Signed by H. Speaker |
| #42 | HB1245 | Introduced | As introduced, allows for a sentence of death to be carried out by electrocution as an alternative to lethal injection if the commissioner of correction certifies to the governor that the department is unable to adhere to the lethal injection protoco... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Returned to the Clerk's Desk. |
| #43 | HB2496 | Passed | As enacted, requires the grantee under a solar power facility agreement to file a copy of the agreement with the office of energy programs in the department of environment and conservation; directs the office of energy programs to expand and maintain... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 705 |
| #44 | SB1901 | Introduced | As introduced, authorizes LEAs and public charter schools to reimburse teachers for child care expenses paid by the teacher each month for the teacher's dependent child to receive child care services through certain child care programs certified by t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19 |
| #45 | HJR1386 | Engrossed | Gary Farley [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22 Sponsor(s) Added. |
| #46 | HB2419 | Introduced | As introduced, clarifies that only a person who has requested to personally inspect a state, county, or municipal record and whose request has been denied has standing to file an action for judicial review of the denial and that intervention by a non... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11 Reset on cal. for 4/18/2024 |
| #47 | HB2303 | Passed | As enacted, requires only marriage license applicants under the age of 18 to provide the name and address of the applicant's parents, guardian, or next of kin. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 608 |
| #48 | HB0430 | Introduced | As introduced, allows a juvenile court to impose a blended sentence on a child 16 years of age or older for a juvenile offense that would be a Class A, B, or C felony if committed by an adult; defines blended sentencing as a combination of any dispos... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23 Sponsor(s) Added. |
| #49 | SB2557 | Engrossed | As introduced, changes from November 1 to October 15 the deadline for the comptroller to annually submit a report concerning the implementation of the Tennessee Literacy Success Act. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24 Sponsor(s) Added. |
| #50 | SB2227 | Passed | As enacted, allows the clerk of court to waive an in-person oath by a fiduciary if the fiduciary files with the clerk a written fiduciary oath that contains certain language and is sworn or affirmed by the fiduciary in the presence of a notary public... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 582 |
