| TN | SB0544 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to employ a guardian ad litem within each region of the state to advocate for each child who is in the custody of the department due to allegations of dependency and neglect and located within the region that th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0529 | Intro
25% | As introduced, eliminates the sales and use tax on infant diapers, wipes, and formula. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0531 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to maintain staffing to allow case managers to have no more than 20 open cases, rather than an average of 20 active cases; states that a "person residing in the child's home" includes a person living in a reside...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0530 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0536 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds, for purposes of juvenile court proceedings and termination of parental rights proceedings, certain offenses to those that constitute severe child abuse if the act was committed toward the child or there was a knowing failure to p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | 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 |
| TN | SB1741 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allocates 2.83 percent of the sales and use tax collected in the 11 fastest-growing counties to such counties; requires such counties to earmark such revenue for educational facility maintenance and construction and infrastructure. - A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | 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 |
| TN | 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 |
| TN | SB2157 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | 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 |
| TN | SB2509 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends the school turnaround pilot program beyond the 2024-2025 school year; increases, from five to 15, the number of schools in need of intervention that may participate in the school turnaround pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 49,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | 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 |
| TN | 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 |
| TN | SB0503 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends from October to November, the time within which a public institution of higher education that receives funds from the distribution of credit cards to students or any percentage from the use of cards bearing the college or unive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/23/2024 |
| TN | SB2383 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies that a cause of action for wrongful death must be commenced within three years after the cause of action accrued. - Amends TCA Title 28 and Title 29.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2634 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits a local legislative body from electing a member, who was expelled for disorderly behavior, to fill a vacancy in the general assembly that was created because of the member's expulsion. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 3; Title 4 a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
Deferred to Summer Study |
| TN | SB2622 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes public school students in grades nine through 12 to be excused from school attendance for one school day per school year to allow students to participate in a civic engagement activity. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB0024 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases, from $200 to $500, the amount each LEA and public charter school is required to pay each teacher in kindergarten through grade 12 for the purchase of instructional supplies for the 2023-2024 school year. - Amends TCA Title 4...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2275 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits physicians from prescribing, administering, or dispensing medication for, or otherwise treating, themselves, immediate family, and other specified individuals except for specified or emergency situations; prohibits a physicia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SB1940 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates the state foster care and adoption review board. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 36.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Withdrawn. |
| TN | SB1840 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes a pilot program for five years to allow private entities to provide foster care services to qualifying children; requires the department of children's services to create a process for selecting children for the program; dir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2575 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits a merchant from taking adverse employment action against an employee based solely on the employee reporting theft of merchandise or organized retail crime to law enforcement; defines "adverse employment action" as dismissing,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB1151 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits an illegal alien from being housed on real property owned by this state or a political subdivision of this state; excepts incarceration and other housing required as a result of a criminal conviction. - Amends TCA Title 4; Ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Sponsor change. |
| TN | SB1748 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of education to recommend, and the state board of education to adopt, academic standards for a year-long course in civics education for students in eighth grade; requires LEAs and public charter schools to imple...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2796 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases from five to 10 years the period of time the department of agriculture shall maintain records that are created by or submitted to the department for the regulation of hemp. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 43; Title 53;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB2747 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the ''Medical Ethics Defense Act.'' - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB2830 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires public charter schools to provide licensed employees of the public charter school six paid workweeks after a birth or stillbirth of the employee's child or the employee's adoption of a newly placed minor child. - Amends TCA Ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2433 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases from $1,000 to $1,500 the compensation claim amount that may be reimbursed to a healthcare provider for performing a forensic medical examination on a victim of a sexual assault case. - Amends TCA Title 29.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1991 | Intro
25% | As introduced, clarifies that a person licensed to practice medicine in this state may complete the person's continuing education requirements solely through courses, approved by the board of medical examiners, that are offered online; requires the b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1857 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces, from $25 to $20, the minimum amount of a partial payment of property taxes that the Trustee for the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County may accept. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SJR0158 | Intro
25% | Proposes additional language in Article II, Section 28 to prohibit the general assembly from levying, authorizing, or otherwise permitting a state tax on property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB7001 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires each LEA, public charter school, private school, and church-related school to develop a policy to direct how students, teachers, substitute teachers, and staff are to respond when a fire alarm is activated on school premises o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-23
Lay on the Table |
| TN | SB7008 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands the statutory duty that qualified mental health professionals and licensed behavior analysts have to notify potential victims and law enforcement of an actual threat of bodily harm against a clearly identified victim made by a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-23
Lay on the Table |
| TN | SB7017 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires each local education agency to post a notice in a conspicuous place on each school bus in operation by the LEA to notify others that no person shall enter onto school buses except for those authorized; requires new bus drivers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-23
Lay on the Table |
| TN | SB7082 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes prerequisites for emergency detention and admission to a treatment facility from "immediate" substantial likelihood of serious harm to "imminent" substantial likelihood of serious harm. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 33; Title 41...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-23
Lay on the Table |
| TN | SB7002 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates the criminal offense of recklessly, by any means of communication, threatening to commit an act of mass violence; requires the court to determine whether a defendant charged with threatening to commit an act of mass violence is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-22
Lay on the Table |
| TN | SB7083 | Intro
25% | As introduced, exempts a person from civil liability for damages, injuries, or death resulting from or arising out of the theft of the person's firearm that is properly stored in the person's motor vehicle unless the person commits an offense involvi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-22
Lay on the Table |
| TN | SB7003 | Intro
25% | As introduced, exempts a person from civil liability for damages, injuries, or death resulting from or arising out of the theft of the person's firearm or firearm ammunition properly stored in the person's motor vehicle unless the person commits an o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-21
Withdrawn. |
| TN | SB0849 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes exception that allows persons subject to the franchise tax or excise tax who were registered under prior law, or who have filed a return under prior law, to not be required to complete and file a registration information form. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1222 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes a juvenile court to order a child who has requested the expunction of the child's juvenile court records to undergo a mental health evaluation and use the evaluation results to assist in determining whether expunction would ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Sponsor change. |
| TN | SJR0630 | Intro
25% | Gallatin Rotary, 100th anniversary
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-14
Withdrawn. |
| TN | SJR0034 | Intro
25% | Proposes an amendment to Article II, Section 31 of the Constitution of Tennessee authorizing the governing body or state official charged with carrying out the purpose or objectives of a fund or trust that is administered or invested by the Treasury ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-06
Re-refer to Senate Cal. Comm. |
| TN | SB0008 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the penalty for aggravated assault involving strangulation or attempted strangulation from a Class C felony to a Class B felony if the victim was pregnant at the time of the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0352 | Intro
25% | As introduced, deletes an obsolete provision regarding the amount of a litigation tax that funds the statewide automated victim information and notification system. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 16; Title 40 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0327 | Intro
25% | As introduced, clarifies that protocols developed using evidence-based medicine and authorized by the bureau be made available to TennCare providers and managed care organizations on the bureau's website; requires updates or revisions to such protoco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0540 | Intro
25% | As introduced, makes various changes to the laws on adoption and termination of parental rights, including clarifying that the putative father registry must be consulted in certain circumstances within 10 working days of filing a petition to terminat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0539 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a foster care review board to submit its report to the judge on each child in foster care who is reviewed by the board within seven calendar days, instead of 10 calendar days, following its review. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0541 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases from five to seven the minimum number of children a facility must have under its care for three or more hours per day in order to fall within the definition of a child care agency for licensing purposes. - Amends TCA Title 71...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SJR0129 | Intro
25% | Urges the governor, department of human services, department of children's services, department of finance and administration, department of safety, courts, and nonprofit institutions within the State to take action to expand access to adoption in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
