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TNSB1692Enroll
75%
As introduced, decreases from two inches to one and one-half inches the minimum height of the lettering required to be used on the mandatory signage posted on property for which an agreement exists with a person engaged in the business of installing ...
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2024-05-09
Signed by Senate Speaker
TNSB1792Enroll
75%
As introduced, 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-verif...
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2024-05-09
Signed by Senate Speaker
TNSB1894PassAs enacted, makes changes to the law relative to obtaining affirmative consent from a consumer when processing automatic renewal agreements. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.
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2024-05-09
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNSB2148PassAs enacted, requires financial institutions and insurers to make determinations about the provision or denial of services based on certain analysis; prohibits financial institutions and insurers from denying or canceling services to a person, or othe...
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2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 746
TNSB2223PassAs enacted, enacts the "Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act." - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6; Title 29; Title 38; Title 39; Title 45 and Title 47.
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2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNSB1252Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Consumer Wheelchair Repair Bill of Rights Act." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.
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2024-03-27
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB2035Intro
25%
As introduced, requires a manufacturer of agricultural equipment or agricultural equipment parts to provide an owner or independent repair shop access to tools, software, and documentation to allow the provision of services for the equipment. - Amend...
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2024-03-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB2431Intro
25%
As introduced, requires a person to include a disclosure on certain content generated by artificial intelligence that the content was generated using artificial intelligence; makes it an unfair or deceptive act or practice under the Tennessee Consume...
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2024-03-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB2460Intro
25%
As introduced, creates a violation under the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977 for a person or entity that alters the appearance, action, or speech of an individual through the use of synthetic media in a communication that is knowingly distr...
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2024-03-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB2435Intro
25%
As introduced, prohibits a person engaged in the business of installing vehicle immobilization devices on motor vehicles from installing a device on a motor vehicle after sunset or before sunrise. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.
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2024-03-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB2042FailAs introduced, requires a commercial entity that knowingly publishes or distributes on the internet material harmful to minors to provide internet or cellular service subscribers the opportunity to request that the commercial entity block website acc...
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2024-03-12
Failed in Senate Commerce and Labor Committee / no motion
TNSB2615Intro
25%
As introduced, prohibits a person selling or offering for sale goods or services at retail, and who employs at least six employees, from requiring a buyer to pay using credit for in-person transactions; requires a person selling or offering for sale ...
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2024-03-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB2858Intro
25%
As introduced, creates the "Motor Vehicle Consumer Privacy Act of 2024." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 47 and Title 65, Chapter 4.
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2024-03-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB1833FailAs introduced, prohibits healthcare providers from reporting a patient's medical debt to a consumer reporting agency; prohibits consumer reporting agencies from including on a consumer report a record of a medical debt. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter ...
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2024-02-20
Failed in Senate Commerce and Labor Committee - no second
TNSB1831FailAs introduced, prohibits consumer reporting agencies from including on a consumer report a record of a medical debt judgment that is filed in this state; requires a healthcare provider or facility that accepts public funds as compensation for losses ...
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2024-02-20
Failed in Senate Commerce and Labor Committee - no second
TNSB2891Intro
25%
As introduced, removes an obsolete provision that applied penalties and remedies of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977 to a repealed part of the Code. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.
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2024-02-05
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB0234Engross
50%
As introduced, limits the number of times that a real estate developer, business entity, or individual working on behalf of the developer or business entity is permitted to contact a property owner to make an unsolicited offer to buy the property own...
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2024-02-02
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB2051Intro
25%
As introduced, prohibits a consumer reporting agency from creating or furnishing a consumer report that contains certain information if the information antedates the report by more than seven years, unless certain exceptions apply. - Amends TCA Title...
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2024-01-31
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB1758Intro
25%
As introduced, prohibits a consumer reporting agency from creating or furnishing a consumer report that contains certain information if the information antedates the report by more than seven years, unless certain exceptions apply. - Amends TCA Title...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB1643Intro
25%
As introduced, requires commercial entities that publish or distribute material on an internet website, more than one-third of which is sexual material harmful to minors, to verify that an individual attempting to access the material is 18 years of a...
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2024-01-10
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB1658Intro
25%
As introduced, requires certain data controllers to register with the consumer protection division of the office of the attorney general and reporter; requires the division to create and maintain a website and accessible deletion mechanism that a con...
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2024-01-10
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB0073PassAs enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Information Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12; Title 43; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 50; Title 61; Title 66 and Title 67.
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2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 408
TNSB0378PassAs enacted, regulates the production and sale of hemp-derived cannabinoids, including products known as delta-8 and delta-10. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 38; Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 4; Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 43, Chapter 27; Title 53; Title 6...
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2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 07/01/2023, 07/01/2024
TNSB0130PassAs enacted, requires a financing company doing business in this state to provide on its mailed or emailed statements to a consumer a conspicuously displayed telephone number that a consumer may contact for service; specifies that failure to provide a...
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2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
TNSB0649PassAs enacted, enacts the "Booting Consumer Protection 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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2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
TNSB0661PassAs enacted, requires that if an entity requires on-site payment from a consumer for the parking of a motor vehicle on the entity's property, and the entity only accepts payment by use of a quick response (QR) code or a credit or debit card machine, t...
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2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 323
TNSB1295PassAs enacted, enacts the "Genetic Information Privacy Act." - Amends TCA Title 47.
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2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 324
TNSB0368PassAs enacted, enacts the "Real Property Records Integrity Act." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 66.
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2023-04-25
Effective date(s) 04/17/2023
TNSB0504PassAs enacted, prohibits an individual or entity from selling, offering for sale, or providing an air ambulance membership agreement to an individual who is enrolled in TennCare Medicaid; requires an individual or entity that provides an air ambulance m...
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2023-04-18
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
TNSB0868PassAs enacted, extends the prohibitions, requirements, and penalties that apply to telephone solicitations to text message solicitations. - Amends TCA Title 65, Chapter 4.
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2023-04-18
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
TNSB1005PassAs enacted, specifies that it is an unfair or deceptive act to issue or deliver a home service contract to a consumer in this state that does not specify the merchandise and services to be provided, and any applicable limitations, exceptions, or excl...
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2023-04-18
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
TNSB1449PassAs enacted, exempts an affiliate of a business licensed under state insurance laws and a person or entity providing certain service contracts, or an affiliate of the person or entity, from requirements governing businesses that make automatic renewal...
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2023-03-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 58
TNSB0876Intro
25%
As introduced, prohibits consumer reporting agencies from including on a consumer report a record of a civil action that is filed in this state, if the action is dismissed or any judgment issued in the action is satisfied. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title...
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2023-03-21
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB0138Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Youth Mental Health Safety Act." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.
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2023-03-20
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB1299Intro
25%
As introduced, requires a social media platform to provide certain information about its content and data management, business practices, and acceptable use policy; prohibits a social media platform from censoring the expression of a user who resides...
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2023-03-20
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB1067Intro
25%
As introduced, deems it an unfair and deceptive trade practice for a government agency to hold a membership in an organization that collaborates with, or is directly or indirectly sponsored by, manufacturers of medical products for which the agency i...
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2023-03-14
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB1116Intro
25%
As introduced, prohibits a motor vehicle dealer or manufacturer from selling, or offering for sale, a subscription service to access certain motor vehicle features; makes a violation an unfair or deceptive act or practice under the Tennessee Consumer...
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2023-03-14
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB1353Intro
25%
As introduced, prohibits a business entity from retaining a copy, in an electronic or other format, of a person's identification unless the retention of that copy is specifically required by federal or state law, or the business entity obtains the ex...
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2023-03-14
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB0077Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Consumer Wheelchair Repair Bill of Rights Act," which requires a manufacturer of powered wheelchairs to provide independent repair providers or owners of powered wheelchairs any new or used replacement parts and other resou...
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2023-02-15
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB0765Intro
25%
As introduced, decreases, from three business days to two business days, the amount of time that a consumer reporting agency has after receiving a written or electronic request from a consumer in this state to place a security freeze on the consumer'...
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2023-02-06
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB0936Intro
25%
As introduced, removes a requirement that sorghum molasses that is sold or offered for sale in this state be prominently labeled as being either 100 percent pure sorghum molasses or not pure sorghum molasses; removes a cause of action for a person wh...
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2023-02-06
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB1291Intro
25%
As introduced, increases, from three to five days, the number of days a consumer reporting agency has to place a security freeze on a consumer report after receiving the written or electronic request from the Tennessee consumer. - Amends TCA Title 4;...
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2023-02-06
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB1456Intro
25%
As introduced, increases the time frame, from 90 to 95 days, when it is considered to be an unfair or deceptive act for a business to advertise that the business is going out of business. - Amends TCA Title 20; Title 29 and Title 47.
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2023-02-06
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB0339Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Consumer Biometric Data Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 50 and Title 61.
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2023-01-25
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB0344Intro
25%
As introduced, reduces from 45 days to 30 days, the time within which an information holder must notify a resident of this state, or owner or licensee of the information, of a breach of system security. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title...
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2023-01-25
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
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