| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| TN | SB0474 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes the county election commission to notify individuals filing a petition for recall, referendum, or initiative to notify the individuals of a defect in the petition that must be cured prior to certification for final approval....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0595 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires election commissions to purge registration records at least 50 days, instead of at least 90 days, before an election; requires the coordinator of elections to take certain actions regarding paper ballots; authorizes, beginning...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0646 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a county election commission to issue a notice requiring removal of campaign signs if the signs have not been removed from highway rights-of-way or other publicly owned property within three weeks after an election; authorizes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0821 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the coordinator of elections to take certain actions regarding paper ballots; authorizes, beginning with the 2024 election cycle, county election commissions to use hand-marked paper ballots; authorizes certification of result...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0729 | Intro
25% | As introduced, ensures that all full-time residents of nursing homes are entitled to vote by absentee ballot regardless of whether the county election commission conducts on site voting at the nursing home facility; reduces from 45 to 30 days the per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0176 | 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] | 2023-03-21
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0326 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes the elements and classification of certain criminal offenses related to distribution of applications for absentee ballots. - Amends TCA Section 2-6-202.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1527 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a county election commission to publish notice of the procedure for voting by absentee ballot in a runoff election in a municipality either on the commission's website or in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipali...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-14
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0946 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the last four digits of a voter's social security number to be included on the voter registration form and application for an absentee ballot, instead of the entire social security number. - Amends TCA Title 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-28
Deferred to Summer Study |
| TN | SB1017 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the secretary of state and each county election commission to publish certain information with each election-related communication disseminated to one or more residents in this state regarding the availability of a state-issue...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1133 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the state coordinator of elections to notify, in writing, the speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives of any vacancy that occurs on the state election commission when the general assembly is not i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1144 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires each voter to declare a political party affiliation or that the voter is unaffiliated with a political party on voter registration; authorizes political parties to allow unaffiliated voters to vote in that political party's pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1101 | Intro
25% | As introduced, deletes provisions authorizing early voting; deletes provision authorizing a person other than the voter to fill out a request for an absentee ballot for the voter. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1411 | 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 public policy opinion poll ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1454 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes a county election commission to designate a polling place outside of the precinct it is to serve for certain municipal elections only if the polling place serves not more than 50 registered voters of the municipality. - Amen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1483 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires candidates for elective office who are unaffiliated with a statewide political party to disclose their unaffiliated status on sample or informational ballots used for campaigning purposes. - Amends TCA Title 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1517 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds the election for city mayors to the list of races required to be automatically audited by a county election commission selected to conduct an audit. - Amends TCA Title 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1118 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes Warren County to participate in a pilot project utilizing convenient voting centers. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 3, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-03
Withdrawn. |
| TN | SB0516 | 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] | 2023-01-30
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
