Bills Pending Tennessee Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee

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TNSB0750Intro
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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...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB1162Intro
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.
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2024-04-19
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TNSB1835Intro
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...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB1124Intro
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.
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2024-04-19
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TNSB0351Intro
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.
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2024-04-19
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TNSB2067Intro
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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 ...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB0111Intro
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...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB1904Intro
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...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB2277Intro
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.
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2024-04-19
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TNSB1316Intro
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...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB0229Intro
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...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB1977Intro
25%
As introduced, establishes the hunger-free campus grant program; provides grants to higher education institutions to address student hunger. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2024-04-19
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TNSB1799Intro
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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...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB2342Intro
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. - ...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB1934Intro
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.
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2024-04-19
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TNSB2765Intro
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.
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2024-04-19
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TNSB1912Intro
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...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB0641Intro
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.
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2024-04-19
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TNSB0763Intro
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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.
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2024-04-19
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TNSB0359Intro
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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 ...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB1647Intro
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As introduced, provides a 25 percent discount on the tuition charged by a state institution of higher education to the child of an active or retired member of the Tennessee army national guard or the Tennessee air national guard. - Amends TCA Title 4...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB2645Intro
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As introduced, increases, from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony, the penalty for a second or subsequent offense of aggravated reckless driving; requires a person who commits a second or subsequent offense of aggravated reckless driving to at...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB2921Intro
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As introduced, requires the bureau to reimburse a public or private air ambulance service that bills for transports and has a base of operations in this state that provides a covered emergency or nonemergency service to a TennCare recipient at a rate...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB0831Intro
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As introduced, extends annuity and insurance death benefits to the estate and surviving family members of a commissioned reserve law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty; immunizes such officers from tort liability under certain circumstanc...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB1134Intro
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As introduced, adds public safety dispatchers to those first responders eligible to receive certain benefits when killed in the line of duty. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 8 and Title 58, Chapter 2.
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2024-04-19
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TNSB0305Intro
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As introduced, requires the speakers of the senate and house of representatives to appoint the members of the advisory task force to review the composition of judicial districts by January 1, 2025, rather than July 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 8; Titl...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB1944Intro
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As introduced, repeals the professional privilege tax for tax years that begin on and after June 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.
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2024-04-19
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TNSB1704Intro
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As introduced, increases from a Class E felony to a Class D felony the offense of burglary of a conveyance. - Amends TCA Title 39.
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2024-04-19
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TNSB1348Intro
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As introduced, increases the mandatory period of confinement for the felony offense of evading arrest from 30 days to 90 days; increases the mandatory period of confinement for the felony offense of evading arrest from 60 days to 120 days if the offe...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB1725Intro
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As introduced, expands eligibility for property tax relief to a veteran who acquired a service-connected disability that is determined by the United States department of veterans affairs to be permanent and total due to individual unemployability. - ...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB0713Intro
25%
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...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB1672Intro
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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.
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2024-04-19
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TNSB0529Intro
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As introduced, eliminates the sales and use tax on infant diapers, wipes, and formula. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB0616Intro
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As introduced, requires the department to provide juveniles who are in the department's custody and housed in a juvenile detention facility approved, certified, or licensed by the department, including youth development centers, with 24-hour access, ...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB1010Intro
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As introduced, requires the department of children's services to include in the permanency plan of a child who has been removed from the custody of the child's parent or guardian, due to drug abuse by the parent or guardian, the requirement that the ...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB2327Intro
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As introduced, requires high school students to complete the eighth grade and be admitted to an eligible postsecondary institution as a dual enrollment student to qualify for a dual enrollment grant. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.
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2024-04-19
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TNSB0131Intro
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As introduced, adds the legislative librarian to the list of persons to whom the commissioners of revenue and transportation must provide a copy of their joint annual report summarizing the amount and source of tax revenues received and deposited dur...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB2773Intro
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As introduced, requires an annual training pay bonus supplement for eligible campus police officers and public safety officers in the amount of $800. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38 and Section 49-7-118.
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2024-04-19
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TNSB1193Intro
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As introduced, requires the administrative office of the courts to report the number of appeals filed appealing the finding that a criminal defendant is a repeat violent offender by no later than February 1 of each year to the senate judiciary commit...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB0395Intro
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As introduced, permanently exempts from sales and use tax, the retail sale of gun safes and gun safety devices; removes the temporary sales tax holiday. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.
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2024-04-19
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TNSB1053Intro
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As introduced, enacts the "Workers Need Child Care Act"; establishes the child care infrastructure fund from which the department of economic and community development disperses grants to nonprofit entities for establishing new licensed child care ag...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB0968Intro
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As introduced, expands eligibility for the Tennessee reconnect grant to include students who completed high school or obtained a GED® or HiSET® diploma during the 2019-2020 or 2020-2021 school year, and who are at least 21 years of age by January 1...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB2340Intro
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As introduced, requires the bureau to reimburse certain public or private ground-based ambulance services that bill for transports at a rate not less than 67.5 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers for...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB1352Intro
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As introduced, exempts the retail sale of food and food ingredients from the sales tax if sold to a person who is 70 years of age or older during the period beginning July 1, 2023, and ending September 30, 2023. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-228 and Titl...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB0459Intro
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As introduced, directs the bureau to establish, by January 1, 2024, a statewide program of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE) to provide comprehensive, integrated acute and long-term care services for qualifying frail, elderly individuals who ...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB0556Intro
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As introduced, requires the department of education to establish a fund to reimburse educators in an amount equal to the cost of an assessment required for licensure if the educator receives a qualifying score on the required assessment and receives ...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB0530Intro
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As introduced, enacts the "First Lady's Children's Trust Fund Act," which creates a trust fund to support persons and entities seeking assistance in the care of children in this state. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 33; Title 37; Title 50; Title 63; Tit...
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2024-04-19
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TNSB0780Intro
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As introduced, exempts the first $15,000 of the purchase price of an automobile from the sales tax if the purchaser is a member of the Tennessee air or army national guard. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.
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2024-04-19
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TNSB2157Intro
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As introduced, adds an additional assistant district attorney general position and criminal investigator position in each judicial district that includes a state correctional facility. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 16 and Title 41.
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2024-04-19
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TNSB0992Intro
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As introduced, establishes that full-time state employees who are members of a reserve component of the armed forces of the United States, including the Tennessee army and air national guard, shall continue to accrue annual and sick leave the employe...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
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