| SB1431 | Intro
25% | 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
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0167 | Intro
25% | As introduced, exempts the retail sale of fruit and vegetables for human consumption from the food retail sales tax. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-228.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2171 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Mental Health Preceptor Tax Incentive Program." - Amends TCA Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2341 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds the MidSouth development district to the list of development districts to which this state intends to assist financially; specifies an overall state funding level for the nine development districts; changes the calculation for how...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2735 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows the state treasurer to enter into an agreement with an entity to carry out certain activities in order to serve as a facility to securely produce, store, process, and ship bullion products for the state's depository. - Amends TC...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1009 | Intro
25% | As introduced, deletes the provision granting broad discretion to the commissioner of revenue to administer the Business Tax Act from July 1, 2013, to December 31, 2014. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1901 | Intro
25% | 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
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2694 | Intro
25% | As introduced, retroactively allows employers to take a deduction from net earnings for state excise tax filing purposes, in the amount of expenses, including wages and compensation, associated with their employee retention credit allowable on their ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0705 | Intro
25% | As introduced, repeals the professional privilege tax for tax years that begin on and after June 1, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0349 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the board, in consultation with the Tennessee higher education commission, to develop a standardized entrepreneurial program that must be offered at each institution governed by the board to provide an affordable, cost effecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1754 | Intro
25% | As introduced, makes various changes to criminal offenses involving fentanyl; increases the penalty one classification for criminal offenses involving fentanyl if the defendant crossed county lines in the course of the criminal offense; requires cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0623 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds the criminal offenses of aggravated assault resulting in serious bodily injury to another or the death of another and aggravated assault involving the actual discharge of a firearm to those offenses that are not eligible for proba...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0186 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds an adopted child, stepchild, and relative related by marriage to the list of persons with whom a service member can jointly title and register a motor vehicle in order to qualify for a sales and use tax exemption on the sale or us...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2688 | Intro
25% | 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
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0999 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Rural Schools Innovation Act"; requires the department of education to establish a two-year pilot program for rural districts to partner together to expand access to high-quality, robust college and career pathways. - Amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2737 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes the treasurer to, subject to appropriations, use funds from the reserve for revenue fluctuation account to purchase precious metals bullion and specie and place the bullion and specie in a restricted account; authorizes the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1367 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the maximum full market value, from $175,000 to $210,000, of a disabled veteran's residence that is to be used in calculating a reimbursement for property tax paid by the disabled veteran. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-704.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0640 | Intro
25% | As introduced, eliminates the professional privilege tax for attorneys. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1845 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands the areas served by the West Tennessee River Basin Authority to include Perry, Stewart, Houston, and Humphreys counties. - Amends TCA Title 64, Chapter 1, Part 11.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1282 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds the government operations committees of both houses to the list of legislative committees to receive annual reports from the commission on aging and disability concerning funding sources used to support the health, safety, and wel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1783 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reallocates 5 percent of the privilege tax collected from licensees that offer sports wagering in this state from the lottery for education account to a new Tennessee Promise completion grant special account created to assist the commi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0741 | Intro
25% | As introduced, exempts feminine hygiene products from sales tax on the annual sales tax holiday. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2108 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces the sales tax holiday price threshold for clothing from $100 to $80; increases the sales tax holiday price threshold for shoes from $100 to $150. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2612 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "African American Cultural and Historical Grant Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 13.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1937 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates a high-value workforce readiness board that is administratively attached to the department to identify high-demand fields in this state and qualified institutions that offer workforce training programs in high-demand fields; cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2728 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Menstrual Hygiene Products Accessibility Act." - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 49 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2405 | Intro
25% | As introduced, deletes the offense of aggravated prostitution; requires the public records of a person charged with a misdemeanor or a felony offense that has been repealed to be removed and destroyed without cost upon petition by the person. - Amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0231 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes the amount of a minority teaching fellowship award for a recipient who is enrolled in a degree program leading to licensure as a teacher in an institution of higher education with an approved educator preparation program from $...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0112 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands the definition of "eligible postsecondary institution" to include certain private postsecondary institutions for purposes of a Tennessee HOPE scholarship, Tennessee HOPE access grant, Tennessee HOPE teacher's scholarship, or Wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0750 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to create and implement a promising futures program to provide scholarships to children who are not school age to assist them in developing early language and literacy skills in a high-quality early care and lea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1162 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases, from one to two, the number of free plates for the Purple Heart and disabled veteran license plates issued to veterans with disabilities. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-256 and Section 55-4-257.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1835 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the penalty from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony for a person who commits child abuse by knowingly treating a child under 18 in such a manner as to inflict injury. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37; Title 39 and Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1124 | Intro
25% | As introduced, appropriates $20 million to the legislature for the purchase or construction of a building or other facility accessible to the Cordell Hull Building. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 12.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0351 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows certain retail and other businesses a deduction from business taxes for the installation of electric vehicle chargers. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2067 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes issuance of an antique motor vehicle license plate to farm trucks older than 25 years old that are used for certain agricultural or horticultural purposes and not for general transportation. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 1 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0111 | Intro
25% | As introduced, designates social media platforms as common carriers and requires the entities to obtain certificates of public convenience and necessity from the Tennessee public utilities commission; prescribes fines against social media platforms t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1152 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-04-19
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/23/2024 |
| SB1904 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes business, excise, and franchise tax credits equal to unreimbursed TennCare costs for eligible healthcare providers that provide healthcare services to TennCare recipients; allows a refund to be issued in lieu of a tax credit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2277 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates a registry of persons convicted of the criminal offense of domestic assault; requires the bureau to maintain the registry. - Amends TCA Title 18; Section 38-6-103; Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1316 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the penalty for the offense of possession of a used, detached catalytic converter by an unauthorized person from a Class A misdemeanor punishable only by fine to a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 55 and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0229 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends eligibility for medical assistance under the TennCare program to a woman for a period up to 12 months after the date on which the woman’s pregnancy ends in live birth if the child meets the eligibility requirements for the Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1977 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes the hunger-free campus grant program; provides grants to higher education institutions to address student hunger. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1799 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands the sales tax exemption on motor vehicles sold to a member of the Tennessee national guard or military reserve who has been called into active military service to include those who are deployed under orders to a duty station in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2342 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates the criminal offense of recklessly, by any means of communication, threatening to commit an act of mass violence and the threat causes a reasonable expectation or reasonable fear of the commission of an act of mass violence. - ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1934 | Intro
25% | As introduced, eliminates the grocery tax; enacts the "Business Enterprise Tax Act"; and enacts the "Worldwide Combined Reporting Act." - Amends TCA Title 57 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2765 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Protecting Tennessee Schools and Events Act"; subject to appropriations, requires the department of education to contract for the provision of walk-through metal detectors to LEAs. - Amends TCA Title 12 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1912 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands the offense of unlawful exposure to include the distribution, with the intent to cause emotional distress, of an image of the intimate parts of another identifiable person or an image of an identifiable person engaged in sexual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0641 | Intro
25% | As introduced, phases out professional privilege tax over a three-year period for tax years that begin on and after June 1, 2024; reduces tax by $200 in the first year and by $100 in each remaining year. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0763 | Intro
25% | As introduced, exempts official Tennessee state flags and flags of the United States from the sales and use tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0359 | Intro
25% | 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
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
