| TN | SB2118 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Print Disability Absentee Voting Act," which prescribes a process by which a person with a print disability may apply for and receive an absentee ballot and vote by mailing in the absentee ballot. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 08/02/2024 |
| TN | SB2587 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, authorizes a county election commission to elect by majority vote to enter into the contract, lease, and option agreement with the coordinator of elections for the financing of the purchase of voting machines; clarifies that the county...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB2586 | Engross
50% | As introduced, requires a third-party voter registration organization to register and provide certain information to the coordinator of elections before engaging in a voter registration event or program; prohibits persons and organizations collecting...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Concurred, Ayes 27, Nays 4 (Amendment 2 - HA0949) |
| TN | SB0145 | Engross
50% | As introduced, increases the time allowed for an employee to take time off to vote on election day from three to four hours. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 8.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| 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 | SB1027 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a brief summary of any question, regardless of length, submitted to the people for a vote. - Amends TCA Title 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1706 | Engross
50% | As introduced, requires each person, corporation, organization, partnership, or political party that seeks to provide training or conferences related to the administration of elections to county election commissions to be approved by the secretary of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Passed H., Ayes 78, Nays 18, PNV 0 |
| TN | SB1723 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Uniform Faithful Presidential Electors Act." - Amends TCA Title 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB2524 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes the date by which a county election commission may begin voting at nursing homes from 29 days before the election to 27 days before the election. - Amends TCA Title 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB1705 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes the county election commission to notify individuals filing a petition for recall, referendum, or initiative of a defect in the petition that must be cured prior to certification for final approval. - Amends TCA Title 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2345 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes the requirement that a registered voter be a bona fide member of, affiliated with, or declare allegiance to a political party in order to vote in a political party's primary election; removes the requirement that the officer of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2347 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes the deadline for a person to register to vote from 30 days before an election to 15 days before an election. - Amends TCA Title 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2631 | Fail | As introduced, prescribes a process by which a person must declare a statewide political party or recognized minor party affiliation before voting in a primary election; designates persons who choose not to affiliate with a political party as "Unaffi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
Failed in Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2726 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires county election commissions to include three non-binding questions related to the legalization of marijuana on the November 2024 ballot; requires the secretary of state to compile the results of the non-binding, advisory refer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2786 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires county election commissions to include on the ballot for the November 2024 election a non-binding question related to the legalization of the sale, possession, and use of medical marijuana; requires the secretary of state to c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2867 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes automatic restoration of voting rights for people who complete their sentence; adds seditious conspiracy to list of offenses that make a person ineligible to register and vote. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 40 and Title 41.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1768 | Pass | As enacted, disqualifies an administrator of elections from serving as administrator if the administrator qualifies as a candidate for public office; requires the administrator to be recused from official duties at least 30 days prior to an election ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 579 |
| TN | SB1836 | Pass | As enacted, requires LEAs and public charter schools of a county to be closed for instruction on presidential primary election days if the county election commission uses such schools as a polling place. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 3, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 573 |
| TN | SB2868 | Fail | As introduced, creates a process for the majority and minority party caucuses of the general assembly to nominate candidates for United States senator; provides that such process becomes operable for each respective senatorial seat when the respectiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Failed in Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1888 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds political party affiliation to the voter registration form. - Amends TCA Title 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1967 | Pass | As enacted, requires a qualified voter to request an absentee ballot not later than 10 days before an election rather than not later than seven days before an election; requires a voter seeking to be placed on the permanent absentee voting register t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Effective date(s) 11/06/2024 |
| TN | SB2903 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates a process for the majority and minority party caucuses of the general assembly to nominate candidates for United States senator. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 13.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2055 | Engross
50% | As introduced, authorizes the county election commission to designate restroom facilities in each building in which the election is held that are for the use of workers or volunteers working for a campaign with certain limitations on access. - Amends...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB2336 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the county election commission to provide a sufficient supply of pens or markers at polling places. - Amends TCA Title 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2335 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies that the notification to a registered voter who a county election commission has appointed to fill a vacant election official position must be in writing. - Amends TCA Title 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2838 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Ballot Access Act." - Amends TCA Title 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
Withdrawn. |
| TN | SB2119 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes up to two members of an LLC that owns property in a city to vote in the city's elections if the city's charter provides nonresident property owners voting rights. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2795 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits a candidate from attempting to qualify for and be nominated or elected to more than one federal or state public office, if the primary or general elections for such offices are held during the same year. - Amends TCA Title 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2152 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the officers of a party to file with the secretary of state and with the coordinator of elections a copy of the rules under which the party and its subdivisions operate within 15 days, instead of 30 days, following adoption in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2212 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes the county election commission of Montgomery County to research and test methods, systems, and technologies that would allow members and employees of the United States armed forces and their dependents who are registered to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2386 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires political communications to contain a disclaimer if the communication was generated in whole or in part by synthetic media using artificial intelligence algorithms. - Amends TCA Title 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2057 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires political advertisements that are created in whole or in part by artificial intelligence to include certain disclaimers; requires materially deceptive media disseminated for purposes of a political campaign to include certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1648 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes a qualified voter to request an absentee ballot not later than 10 days before an election rather than not later than seven days before an election, as permitted under existing law. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1732 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes the deadline for filing nominating petitions for candidates for election as delegates to the national convention of a political party from the second Thursday in December to the first Thursday in April. - Amends TCA Title 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
Withdrawn. |
| TN | SB1707 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes the deadline by which a voter must request an absentee ballot from seven days before the election to 14 days before the election. - Amends TCA Section 2-6-202.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1682 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes, from 30 to 45, the number of days the coordinator of elections has to determine the sufficiency of a minor party's petition to be recognized as a minor party for purposes of an election. - Amends TCA Title 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0346 | Pass | As enacted, requires each high school to inform each high school senior that upon reaching the age of 18 the student may be eligible to vote and provide information from the secretary of state about voter eligibility and how to register to vote. - Am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/17/2023 |
| TN | SB0978 | Pass | As enacted, requires the officer of elections at each polling place to post a sign on election day informing voters that it is against the law to vote in a political party's primary without being a bona fide member of or affiliated with that politica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/17/2023 |
| TN | SB0526 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits members of local governing bodies to be elected through an election procedure that requires candidates to be nominated from a district and elected at large. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 391 |
| TN | SB0839 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes Washington County to establish a convenient voting center pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 3, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 397 |
| TN | SB1182 | Pass | As enacted, provides that a candidate's name may only be printed on the ballot if it is the name of a person whom the chair of a statewide political party has certified to be placed on the ballot for the office of president to the secretary of state;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 389 |
| TN | SB1007 | Pass | As enacted, revises present law relative to procedures for voting at a polling place. - Amends TCA Title 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Effective date(s) 05/05/2023 |
| TN | SB0477 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to law relative to convenient voting centers, including authorizing Henry County to establish a convenient voting center pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 3, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 4/28/2023 |
| TN | SB0854 | Pass | As enacted, allows a candidate to demand and receive a list of all voters who changed their residential address at the polling place; requires a recount to include the verification of any address of residence changed at the polling place. - Amends TC...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/24/2023 |
| TN | SB0598 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows a person who is excluded as a candidate from a primary ballot based on a determination that the person is not a bona fide member of the political party to qualify as an independent candidate if the nominating petition is filed w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-04
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1052 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes a person incarcerated in a penal institution to vote by absentee ballot if the person has not been convicted of a felony. - Amends TCA Section 2-6-201.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-04
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1073 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prescribes duties for certain persons for purposes of assisting an individual with registering to vote following restoration of suffrage rights. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-04
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1241 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes the permanent deprivation of the right of suffrage upon conviction of certain infamous crimes; changes the revocation of a person's voting rights pursuant to a conviction for an infamous crime to a temporary suspension of votin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-29
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0136 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires reports of deaths in relation to maintaining voter registration lists to include the date of the death; requires the coordinator of elections to prepare a report for the general assembly regarding deaths of registered voters. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0285 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes the use of an identification card issued by an accredited institution of higher education in this state for purposes of voter identification at a polling place; requires the secretary of state to conduct studies on such use ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
