Tennessee Senator Raumesh Akbari [D] | Bills

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TNSB2732PassAs enacted, enacts the "Cosmetology Licensure Compact." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49 and Title 62.
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2024-06-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNSB2730PassAs enacted, requires, for the twentieth (Davidson County) and thirtieth (Shelby County) judicial districts, the state to pay, in equal quarterly installments, to the county or metropolitan government which has a local public defender, an amount annua...
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2024-06-03
Effective date(s) 05/28/2024
TNSB2496PassAs enacted, authorizes the chief legislative body of a municipality to create a voluntary attainable housing incentive program by ordinance for the purpose of authorizing certain incentives to be provided to property owners who seek to build attainab...
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2024-06-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNSB2665PassAs enacted, enacts the "Jacob (Jake) T. Barnhardt Act," which creates a street racing task force to study and determine best practices for curbing illegal street racing in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 55.
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2024-06-03
Effective date(s) 05/28/2024
TNSB0898PassAs enacted, creates the professional music therapist advisory committee of the board of examiners in psychology to regulate the practice of music therapy. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 63, Chapter 11.
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2024-05-31
Effective date(s) 05/28/2024, 01/01/2025
TNSB1931PassAs enacted, requires the department to annually notify each local education agency (LEA) in writing of all state and federal grant programs available to assist the LEA in expanding mental health services and resources in schools. - Amends TCA Title 4...
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2024-05-31
Effective date(s) 05/28/2024
TNSB2368PassAs 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.
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2024-05-31
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNSB2134PassAs enacted, enacts the "Social Work Licensure Compact." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.
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2024-05-31
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNSB1137PassAs enacted, authorizes a municipality to aid or otherwise provide assistance to an industrial development corporation for that portion of any project owned by the corporation; and consisting of multifamily housing facilities to be occupied by persons...
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2024-05-31
Effective date(s) 05/28/2024
TNSB2269PassAs enacted, directs the department to identify federal and state regulations that inhibit the efficient processing of applications and delivery of benefits for the food assistance program; requires the department to submit any necessary waiver applic...
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2024-05-31
Effective date(s) 05/28/2024
TNSB1806PassAs enacted, requires the department to submit any new departmental policies within 60 days of adoption to the judiciary committee of the senate, the civil justice committee of the house, and the government operations committees of the senate and the ...
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2024-05-31
Effective date(s) 05/28/2024
TNSB2883PassAs 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.
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2024-05-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1003
TNSB2987PassSubject to local approval, changes the allocation of the revenue from the privilege tax on occupancy in a hotel. - Amends Chapter 131 of the Private Acts of 1969; as amended.
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2024-05-29
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 67
TNSB2711PassAs 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...
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2024-05-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1001
TNSB2530PassAs enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council Act." - Amends TCA Title 4.
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2024-05-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 988
TNSB2791PassAs enacted, enacts the "TennCare for Working Individuals with Disabilities Act." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.
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2024-05-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1002
TNSB2146PassAs enacted, requires a child who has been admitted to a juvenile detention facility, prior to being adjudicated for an alleged delinquent act, to be allowed at least one telephone call with the child's parent, guardian, or legal custodian and one 30-...
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2024-05-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 993
TNSB1260PassAs enacted, makes various changes to law relative to industrial development corporations until June 30, 2028. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53.
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2024-05-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 968
TNSB2659PassAs enacted, makes revisions to law relative to the Tennessee future teacher scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 7.
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2024-05-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 982
TNSB1480PassAs enacted, requires an officer to provide an alleged victim of certain criminal offenses with a document notifying the victim of the global positioning monitoring system used as a condition of bail. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55, Chap...
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2024-05-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 969
TNSB2117PassAs 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...
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2024-05-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 984
TNSB0756PassAs 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...
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2024-05-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 972
TNSB2911PassAs enacted, prohibits the purchase or possession of a firearm by a person under 25 if the person was previously adjudicated delinquent for an act that, if committed by an adult, would have constituted certain offenses; allows the TBI access to juveni...
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2024-05-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 973
TNSB2448PassAs enacted, requires the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations to conduct a study and compile a report to be submitted to the general assembly on real estate fraud in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8, Chapter 13; Title...
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2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/06/2024
TNSB0734PassAs enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Wellness Law." - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 50; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.
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2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/06/2024, 01/01/2025
TNSB2655PassAs enacted, requires public charter schools to provide educators six work weeks of paid leave after the birth or stillbirth of the educator's child or after the educator's adoption of a newly placed minor child. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49.
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2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/01/2024
TNSB1694PassAs enacted, requires a landlord, or a person authorized to enter into a rental agreement on the landlord's behalf, to disclose to the tenant in writing at or before the commencement of the tenancy certain contact information for the acceptance of ser...
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2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 907
TNSB2636PassAs enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Prevention of Drunk Driving Act." - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 55 and Title 57.
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2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/09/2024
TNSB2635PassAs enacted, requires the statewide building construction safety standards to allow a local government to amend the adopted building code for three-family dwellings and four-family dwellings in accordance with the standards; provides that, in amending...
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2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNSB2689PassAs enacted, directs the administrative office of the courts (AOC) to define and develop a centralized system of case management, document management, electronic case filing, electronic payment methods, data reporting, and any other capability deemed ...
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2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/06/2024
TNSB2508PassAs enacted, requires the Tennessee film, entertainment and music commission, or a subcontracted nonprofit organization, to provide grants to eligible live music and performance venues, performers, and promoters to be used to support live music perfor...
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2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNSB1929PassAs enacted, requires, for purposes of any endangered child and young adult alert program implemented by the TBI that is distinct from the America's Missing Broadcast Emergency Response (AMBER) Alert system and that is used to notify local media about...
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2024-05-09
Effective date(s) 05/01/2024
TNSB1930PassAs enacted, requires the department of health to conduct a review and issue a report to the general assembly on variants of the apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) gene associated with increased risk of end-stage renal disease. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 5...
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2024-05-09
Effective date(s) 05/01/2024
TNSB1832PassAs enacted, adds to the composition of the Tennessee maternal mortality review and prevention team four members appointed by the commissioner of health who are from community-based organizations. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.
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2024-05-09
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNSB1894PassAs enacted, makes changes to the law relative to obtaining affirmative consent from a consumer when processing automatic renewal agreements. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.
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2024-05-09
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNSB1917PassAs enacted, prohibits marriage between first cousins. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3.
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2024-05-09
Effective date(s) 04/29/2024
TNSB1919PassAs enacted, requires a health benefit plan that amends, renews, or delivers a policy of coverage on or after July 1, 2024, and that provides coverage for prescription contraceptives, to provide coverage for a 12-month refill of contraceptives obtaine...
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2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 01/01/2025
TNSB1657PassAs enacted, requires the department to submit an annual report to the governor stating the total number of firearm injuries and deaths caused by firearms in this state per 100,000 people that have occurred in the previous calendar year. - Amends TCA ...
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2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/23/2024
TNSB2627PassAs enacted, adds to the factors considered by a court when making child custody determinations evidence of physical or emotional abuse to the child or to any other person; requires judges involved in child custody proceedings to complete training tha...
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2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 799
TNSB2400PassAs enacted, establishes October 9 of each year as "PANDAS Awareness Day" to promote awareness of Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections and Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome. - Amends TC...
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2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/23/2024
TNSB1801PassAs enacted, makes changes to the law relative to statutes of limitations for bringing actions for injury or illness based on certain child sexual abuse offenses, including trafficking offenses. - Amends TCA Title 28 and Title 39.
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2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 790
TNSB2410PassAs enacted, establishes an offense for a person, on behalf of a debt collector or inbound telemarketer service, to knowingly cause a caller identification service to transmit misleading or inaccurate caller identification information to a subscriber ...
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2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 758
TNSB2591PassAs enacted, makes certain revisions to the "Neighborhood Preservation Act." - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 6.
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2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 796
TNSB1266Engross
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As introduced, changes from February 1 to February 15, the date by which the commissioner is required to annually report to the governor and the general assembly on the implementation and compliance with the Schools Against Violence in Education Act....
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2024-04-25
Held on desk.
TNSB2471Intro
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As introduced, expands the purposes for which the apportionment and distribution of state tax revenues to a sports authority owned by the city of Memphis can be used to include payment of, or the reimbursement of, expenses associated with securing re...
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2024-04-23
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB1987PassAs enacted, designates “Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree” by Brenda Lee as the official state holiday song; requires the secretary of state to include the song in the Tennessee Blue Book. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.
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2024-04-22
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 719
TNSB2877Engross
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As introduced, directs the Tennessee advisory committee on intergovernmental relations (TACIR), with the assistance of the Tennessee bureau of investigation, the district attorneys general conference, and the department of safety, to study the feasib...
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2024-04-22
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.
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
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
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
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB0231Intro
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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 $...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
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