| TN | SB2566 | Pass | As enacted, requires any conditions of release imposed on certain felony defendants to include a requirement that the defendant submit to pretrial monitoring to ensure compliance with the conditions; requires the court to order bail to be forfeited a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2337 | Pass | As enacted, increases the penalty for indecent exposure from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony if the person was confined in a penal institution at the time of the commission of the offense and the offense was committed with the intent to abu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2134 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Social Work Licensure Compact." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2204 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to the law relative to the Ocoee River; adds "Class IV Olympic river areas" to the types of river areas included in the state scenic rivers system; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11; Title 65, Chapter 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Effective date(s) 05/28/2024, 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1881 | Pass | As enacted, removes from the definition of "provider-based telemedicine" the requirement that the healthcare service provider or the provider's practice group or healthcare system have an established provider-patient relationship that is documented b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Effective date(s) 05/28/2024 |
| TN | SB2151 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits a healthcare provider from coercing a person, including a person who has legal authority to make healthcare decisions for a child, to consent to a vaccination, misleading or misrepresenting that a vaccination is required by stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2368 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to the law relative to wheelchair repair. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1792 | Pass | As enacted, 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-verifica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Effective date(s) 01/01/2025 |
| TN | SB1882 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a charitable nonprofit corporation located in Knox County or within a municipality located within Knox County that acquires replacement property which is operated as a licensed residential home for the aged, to claim and file a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Effective date(s) 05/28/2024 |
| TN | SB2116 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Ben Kredich Act," which, for the purpose of proving a person violated state law relative to driving under the influence of an intoxicant, establishes that evidence that the person was suspected to be impaired secondary to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2158 | Pass | As enacted, requires the review of executive branch agency policies and spending as it relates to illegal immigration; requires a report to be compiled and delivered to the governor and the speakers of the senate and house of representatives regardin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 998 |
| TN | SB0129 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits the comptroller of the treasury, in determining whether a utility system is financially distressed, from considering the straight-line depreciation of an asset acquired or completed in the 12 calendar months preceding the audit,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB0757 | Pass | As enacted, generally requires, when a person is arrested, booked, or confined in the jail of a county or municipality, the arresting law enforcement agency and the keeper of a jail to collaborate to verify the citizenship status of the person and th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1771 | Pass | As enacted, generally makes the state liable and responsible for paying the expenses for HIV medication for inmates committed to a county jail or workhouse who previously received prescription medication to treat HIV or AIDS through a state departmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 999 |
| TN | SB2159 | Pass | As enacted, increases the amount of personal needs allowance from $50 to $70 for long-term nursing home residents. - Amends TCA Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 986 |
| TN | SB2711 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits Memphis and Nashville, with regard to hotel motel taxes, having a preexisting privilege tax or authority, from changing the designated use; authorizes those municipalities to otherwise change the allocations of the revenue, exce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1001 |
| TN | SB2791 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "TennCare for Working Individuals with Disabilities Act." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1002 |
| TN | SB2883 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Prostate-Specific Antigen Screening for High-risk Insured Men Act" or the "PSA Screening for HIM Act." - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1003 |
| TN | SB2639 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to law regarding restrictions on land purchases by sanctioned aliens or foreign entities. - Amends TCA Title 43; Title 44; Title 47; Title 48 and Title 66.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 995 |
| TN | SB1000 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Rural and Workforce Housing Act." - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53; Title 13; Title 48, Chapter 101, Part 3; Title 56 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 971 |
| TN | SB2332 | Pass | As enacted, raises the base salary from $156,024 to $205,328 for district attorneys general and district public defenders. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 16.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 974 |
| TN | SB2117 | Pass | As enacted, defines a home for the aged that houses three or fewer nonrelated persons as a tier 1 home for the aged that is subject to licensure and regulation by the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities; defines a home for the a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 984 |
| TN | SB2538 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the governor to deploy up to a brigade-sized force to Texas to assist in repelling the invasion at the southern border of the United States during fiscal year 2024-2025. - Amends TCA Title 58.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 983 |
| TN | SB1824 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to law relative to exemptions from sales and use tax for natural disaster claimants. - Amends TCA Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 979 |
| TN | SB0756 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a financial service provider, or an officer or employee of the provider, that has reasonable cause to suspect that an elderly or vulnerable adult is the victim or target of financial exploitation, to convey the suspicion to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 972 |
| TN | SB0993 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages on certain commercial passenger buses. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/06/2024 |
| TN | SJR0848 | Pass | Urges development of comprehensive statewide Paid Family Caregiving Policy and Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB1834 | Pass | As introduced, authorizes the death penalty as a punishment for rape of a child, aggravated rape of a child, or especially aggravated rape of a child. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Chapter 1062 of the Public Acts of 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2374 | Pass | As enacted, requires TACIR to complete a study and issue a report on laws, regulations, and rules affecting the start-up, operation, and expansion of child care businesses in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 36; Title 37; Title 49 and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/06/2024 |
| TN | SB2328 | Pass | As enacted, establishes procedures for recoupment of overpayments made to a healthcare provider by certain health insurance entities. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2103 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the commissioner of revenue to issue refunds under certain conditions to taxpayers who properly file a claim for refund for franchise taxes paid; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 1 and Title 67, Chapter 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/10/2024 |
| TN | SB1936 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to law relative to international medical school graduates applying for and utilizing special licenses. - Amends TCA Title 63.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/06/2024, 01/01/2025 |
| TN | SB2565 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits a magistrate from considering a defendant's ability to pay when determining the amount of bail necessary to reasonably assure the appearance of the defendant while at the same time protecting the safety of the public. - Amends T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2571 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Parental Accountability Act." - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2570 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a person who suffers loss or injury as a result of a defendant intentionally obstructing a highway, street, or other place used for the passage of vehicles or conveyances to bring a cause of action against such person to recove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2296 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the department to contract with a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that maintains a principal office in this state and that is affiliated with a nonprofit membership organization composed of family physicians, family medicine r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2976 | Pass | Subject to local approval, repeals requirement that the city create and maintain a roster of current employees and previous applicants qualified for the classified service; repeals ambiguous language relating to probationary period for employee disci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 55 |
| TN | SB2299 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies what constitutes a "home care organization" relative to law regulating health facilities and resources. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 14; Title 29; Title 33; Title 37; Title 39; Title 53; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2915 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Ethan Wade Walls Act," which authorizes proration of the registration fee for freight motor vehicles operated for commercial purposes upon the death of an eligible operator of the freight motor vehicle; requires submission of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/09/2024 |
| TN | SB2307 | Pass | As enacted, adds hydrogen gas to the definition of alternative fuel for the purposes of fuel tax law; subjects hydrogen gas to the compressed natural gas tax; exempts hydrogen gas from the sales and use tax. - Amends TCA Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 01/01/2025 |
| TN | SB2583 | Pass | As enacted, redefines a "qualified data center," for purposes of sales and use taxes, to include a data center that previously made the required capital investment in excess of $100 million and previously created at least 15 net new full-time employe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 886 |
| TN | SB2578 | Pass | As enacted, revises provisions related to the special account in the general fund known as the "pre-need funeral account"; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Section 62-5-414.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/09/2024, 01/01/2025 |
| TN | SB2253 | Pass | As enacted, provides that in health care liability actions, the common law collateral source rule is abrogated and the damages awarded may include, in addition to others, certain actual economic losses suffered by the claimant. - Amends TCA Title 29,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1740 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment Act of 2024," which requires each covered hospital licensed as of July 1, 2024 to pay an annual coverage assessment for FY 2024-2025 of a certain percentage of the covered hospital's annual coverage ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/09/2024, 06/30/2024 |
| TN | SB0137 | Pass | As enacted, requires the coordinator of elections to compare the statewide voter registration database with the department of safety database to ensure non-United States citizens are not registered to vote in this state. - Amends TCA Section 2-2-106 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 900 |
| TN | SB2901 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes, until June 30, 2026, a retired member of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system, or of a local retirement fund, to be reemployed in a position covered by the retirement system without the loss or suspension of the member...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 918 |
| TN | SJR1531 | Pass | Johnny O. Moore
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB2801 | Pass | As enacted, requires TennCare health benefit plans to provide coverage and reimbursement for mental health services and treatment to the same extent that the plans provide coverage and reimbursement for the treatment of alcoholism and drug dependence...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2375 | Pass | As enacted, requires, in an action on consumer debt filed in a general sessions court, the plaintiff to include certain information with a civil warrant or any other leading process used to initiate the action; requires, prior to an award of a defaul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 914 |
| TN | SB2690 | Pass | As enacted, extends the deadline by which a distressed rural county must apply to be eligible to retain the sales and use tax generated from a commercial development district from December 31, 2024, to December 31, 2030. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 920 |
