Tennessee Senator Raumesh Akbari [D]

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TNSB2954Intro
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As introduced, prohibits the manufacture, transfer, or purchase in this state of a detachable firearm ammunition magazine that is capable of storing and feeding more than 10 rounds of ammunition; a violation is subject to a civil penalty of up to $5,...
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2024-02-15
To Senate Delayed Bills Committee
TNSB2959Intro
25%
As introduced, allows a court to issue an extreme risk protection order upon a finding by clear and convincing evidence that a person poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to the person or others if allowed to possess or purchase a fi...
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2024-02-15
To Senate Delayed Bills Committee
TNSB2955Intro
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As introduced, allocates sales tax proceeds collected on firearms, ammunition, and firearm accessories to a mental health care in Tennessee schools' account for local education agencies to obtain school counselors, school therapists, and after school...
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2024-02-15
To Senate Delayed Bills Committee
TNSB2953Intro
25%
As introduced, prohibits the storage of a firearm or firearm ammunition in a motor vehicle unless the firearm or ammunition is not plainly observable and either the owner is present in the vehicle or the firearm or ammunition is inside a locked compa...
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2024-02-15
To Senate Delayed Bills Committee
TNSB2957Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the owner of a firearm to report loss or theft of the firearm to law enforcement within 24 hours of discovery of the loss or theft; a violation is punishable only by a civil penalty of up to $500. - Amends TCA Title 39.
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2024-02-15
To Senate Delayed Bills Committee
TNSB2960Intro
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As introduced, creates a committee to study the impacts of gun violence in communities in this state, prioritizing those that are of lower socioeconomic status and who have been disproportionately impacted by gun violence. - Amends TCA Title 38; Titl...
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2024-02-15
To Senate Delayed Bills Committee
TNSB2950Intro
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As introduced, directs the department to develop and implement, in consultation with the department of health, a public awareness campaign on mental health and gun safety; requires the department to make campaign materials available to the public for...
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2024-02-15
To Senate Delayed Bills Committee
TNSB2961Intro
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As introduced, prohibits a gun dealer from delivering a firearm to a purchaser until 15 business days after the completion of certain requirements. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6 and Section 39-17-1316.
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2024-02-15
To Senate Delayed Bills Committee
TNSB2956Intro
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As introduced, creates an offense to store or keep a firearm in any place unless the firearm is secured in a locked container, unloaded, and separate from ammunition so as to render the firearm inoperable by any person other than the owner or another...
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2024-02-15
To Senate Delayed Bills Committee
TNSB2948Intro
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As introduced, requires an individual who resides in this state and owns a firearm to maintain liability insurance in an amount of no less than $300,000 to insure the individual against losses or damages resulting from the accidental use of the indiv...
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2024-02-15
To Senate Delayed Bills Committee
TNSB2958Intro
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As introduced, requires, subject to certain exemptions, that a sale or transfer of a firearm be done through a federally licensed gun dealer; creates a Class B misdemeanor offense for sales or transfers that are not conducted through a gun dealer; ch...
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2024-02-15
To Senate Delayed Bills Committee
TNSB2949Intro
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As introduced, requires the administrative office of the courts to ensure that all circuit, criminal, chancery, general sessions, and county courts accurately, completely, and timely submit relevant information to the TBI to be included in databases ...
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2024-02-15
To Senate Delayed Bills Committee
TNSJR0874PassZya Sails, Jesse Haynes, Angel Daniel, and Treasure Burchett, National Ambassadors of the Do the Write Thing Challenge
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2024-02-14
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR0873PassFormer First Lady Rosalynn Carter
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2024-02-14
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR0829PassDr. Michael Ugwueke, University of Tennessee Health Science Center Advisory Board
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2024-02-14
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR0901PassTodd Helton, National Baseball Hall of Fame
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2024-02-14
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR0826PassDarrell Cobbins, State Board of Education
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2024-02-14
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR0917PassNorthside Neighborhood House of Chattanooga
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2024-02-14
Signed by Governor.
TNSB1567Intro
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As introduced, requires, subject to certain exemptions, that a sale or transfer of a firearm be done through a federally licensed gun dealer; creates a Class B misdemeanor offense for sales or transfers that are not conducted through a gun dealer. - ...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2725Intro
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As introduced, removes the killing of another committed in the perpetration of or attempt to perpetrate certain crimes from the elements of first degree murder; deletes the offense of criminal responsibility for conduct of another; deletes the offens...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2758Intro
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As introduced, extends, from October 1 to October 15, the date by which the department of education is required to provide a report regarding the physical education programs and activity for each local education agency to the education committee of t...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2756Intro
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As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Reconciliation Sentencing Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 16; Title 17; Title 40 and Title 41.
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2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2760Intro
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As introduced, decreases from 10 to nine days, the amount of time before trial a person shall notify the district attorney general in writing of their intention to rely upon an affirmative defense. - Amends TCA Title 39.
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2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2762Intro
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As introduced, requires the annual report submitted by the department of transportation on the status of projects funded by the transportation modernization fund be supplemental to, and not in place of, other reports required to be submitted by the d...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee
TNSB2727Intro
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As introduced, increases, from 60 to 70, the percentage of students enrolled in a school in the achievement school district (ASD) whose parents must have signed a petition demonstrating their support for their child's school remaining in the ASD in o...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2759Intro
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As introduced, changes the time frame within which each delinquent child ordered to probation supervision or committed to the custody of the department must undergo a validated risk and needs assessment to inform supervision levels, referrals to prog...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2731Intro
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As introduced, changes, from January 1 to December 1, the date by which the department of correction is required to transmit its annual report detailing the higher education opportunities available to eligible incarcerated individuals in this state t...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2761Intro
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As introduced, adds the date on which construction is anticipated to be completed to the list of information that must be included on the annual report submitted by the department on the status of projects funded by the IMPROVE Act. - Amends TCA Titl...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee
TNSB2872Intro
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As introduced, increases, from 14 to 15, the number of calendar days within which a person must accept or reject, in writing, an offer of employment as a teacher made between April 1 and June 1, including offers made on April 1, but excluding offers ...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee
TNSJR0869PassBrenda Louise Smith Allred
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2024-02-05
Signed by Governor.
TNSB1271Intro
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As introduced, clarifies that the department is to report the findings and recommendations, and not just an executive summary, of the special committee to study improvement of transportation services to the transportation and safety committee of the ...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee
TNSB0234Engross
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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.
TNSB2463Intro
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As introduced, requires the department to create and maintain an informational tool on the department's website that provides data related to the presence of facilities that are required to submit toxic release inventory data to the environmental pro...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee
TNSJR0907PassSara L. Lewis
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2024-02-01
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR0908PassLinda Street
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2024-02-01
Signed by Governor.
TNSB2472Intro
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As introduced, requires the department to provide to the general assembly a list that identifies each LEA that received an infrastructure stipend, along with the amount of the infrastructure stipend received, beginning with infrastructure stipends aw...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2469Intro
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As introduced, changes from 20 days to 15 days the notice of a hearing on a petition for restoration of rights of citizenship that must be given to the district attorney general of the county in which the petitioner currently resides and the district...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2470Intro
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As introduced, allows employers and public institutions of higher education in this state to establish, maintain, and implement policies, practices, and requirements designed to safeguard employees, applicants for employment, students, faculty, and s...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2464Intro
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As introduced, enacts the "Solar Workforce Development Act," which requires the department to establish and support a program that creates and maintains incentives for individuals to seek green energy jobs, and for entities to create, expand, and off...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee
TNSB2434Intro
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As introduced, prohibits a person from parking a vehicle upon a road, street, or highway in a residential district in such a manner or under such conditions as to leave available less than 12 feet of an unobstructed width of the roadway opposite the ...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee
TNSB2452Intro
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As introduced, enacts the "Reparations for Descendants of Enslaved People Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21.
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2024-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2474Intro
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As introduced, requires the clerk of each court to compile a monthly report of all criminal fines and fees assessed by the court in the previous month and submit the report to the administrative office of the courts; requires the administrative offic...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB2466Intro
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As introduced, adds as a condition for allowing the board to be able to charge a fee for reviewing and approving prelicensing general contractor education courses that the fee amount is listed on the board's website. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 50; T...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB2455Intro
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As introduced, enacts the "Separation of Need Act"; removes income eligibility requirements from free school lunch and breakfast programs; requires each local board of education and governing body of a public charter school to provide a free breakfas...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2446Intro
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As introduced, authorizes a local government to require a private employer to pay an hourly wage in excess of the minimum hourly wage set by state or federal law. - Amends TCA Title 12 and Title 50, Chapter 2.
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2024-02-01
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB2473Intro
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As introduced, makes students who graduate from an out-of-state high school eligible for the Tennessee HOPE scholarship if at least one of the student's parents resides in this state and has resided in this state no less than 10 years; requires the b...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2441Intro
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As introduced, authorizes a fire department to respond to a fire or an emergency in the jurisdiction or service area of another fire department upon providing notice prior to arrival. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 102.
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2024-02-01
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
TNSB1989Intro
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As introduced, creates the Class B misdemeanor of possessing, with intent to go armed, a large-capacity magazine outside of the person's residence, business, or premises; defines a large-capacity magazine as an ammunition feeding device with capacity...
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2024-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSJR0811PassBeth Chiles
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2024-01-30
Signed by Governor.
TNSB1924Intro
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As introduced, requires the department of education to ensure that an equivalent amount given as a scholarship amount to students in grades K-12 for the purposes of attending private schools be disbursed to the LEA in which the student was enrolled b...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee
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