| TN | SB0145 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends indefinitely the time frame, by deleting the June 30, 2028, termination date, that a municipality that continues to receive an allocation of state sales tax revenue pursuant to the now-repealed Courthouse Square Revitalization ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0631 | Intro
25% | As introduced, designates March 3 of each year as "Sister Sandra Smithson Day." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0842 | Intro
25% | As introduced, clarifies that any governmental entity may purchase any of the insurance authorized under state law, without the necessity of public bidding, as required by any public or private act or charter restriction, if such insurance is purchas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1050 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes a complaint process with the secretary of state for any person who contends that the person’s name or address was included on a document filed with the secretary of state without the person’s consent. - Amends TCA Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
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| TN | SB0479 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Restoring State Sovereignty Through Nullification Act," which establishes processes by which the general assembly may nullify an unconstitutional federal statute, regulation, agency order, or executive order. - Amends TCA T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
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| TN | SB0013 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands, from nine to 11, the number of members appointed to serve on the emergency communications board. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 7, Chapter 86, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
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| TN | SB0542 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the TCRS board of trustees to divest the retirement system from investment activity it has in a company known to be majority-owned by China; requires a local governing body to divest its political subdivision pension plan from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
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| TN | SB0314 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes an eligible education employee to qualify for paid leave during the legal process for adopting a newly placed minor child, specifically during that period of time beginning with the filing of a petition for adoption when a m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SJR0182 | Intro
25% | Arab American Heritage Month
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
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| TN | SB0232 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes the county election commission to designate restroom facilities in each building in which the election is held that are for the use of workers or volunteers working for a campaign with certain limitations on access. - Amends...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0186 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds that a requested comptroller study reviewing the number of nonviolent offenders who are incarcerated for offenses but who have not been convicted be shared with the legislative librarian on or before the date of the submission of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
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| TN | SB1313 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates a vested property right upon the submission, rather than the approval, of a development plan or building permit; specifies that the vesting period applicable when it is based on the submission of a building permit is three year...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
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| TN | SB0305 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits an organization or entity receiving financial assistance from this state for programs or activities from denying benefits to, excluding from participation in, or discriminating against a person otherwise eligible for the prog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
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| TN | SB0233 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates the conservatorship management task force. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 34 and Title 71, Chapter 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0510 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes that certain public officials, including members of the general assembly, who take office on or after July 1, 2025, have mandatory membership in the Tennessee consolidated retirement system (TCRS); allows a retiree to reann...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
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| TN | SB0179 | Intro
25% | As introduced, defines "district," for purposes of municipal elections, to mean a district, region, precinct, sector, territory, or other geographical area prescribed for the purposes of nominating and electing candidates. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
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| TN | SB1008 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes municipalities to create, implement, and enforce a rental property registry for all residential rental dwelling units within the municipality's jurisdiction; requires owners of residential rental dwelling units to register; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
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| TN | SB0261 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of correction, in consultation with the inmate disciplinary oversight board, to compose a report detailing the number of inmates who earned sentence reduction credits, and to submit the report to legislative com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
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| TN | SB0625 | Intro
25% | As introduced, clarifies exception to when a state entity must advertise for leasing space when the entity has requirements that are special and unique. - Amends TCA Section 12-2-114.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
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| TN | SB1315 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces from 1.125 percent to 0.75 percent the administrative fee percentage the department takes from the proceeds of the business tax, short-term rental unit occupancy tax, local tax surcharge, coal severance tax, and local option sa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0548 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies that an impermissible indirect gift to candidates for public office and certain officials and their family members includes, but is not limited to, a gift provided by an entity that is related to, and its business or politica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0941 | Intro
25% | As enacted, establishes a five-day period after the effective date of this act during which a nonprofit organization may apply to operate a charitable gaming event during the annual period beginning July 1, 2025, until June 30, 2026. - Amends TCA Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
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| TN | SB0178 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a governing body subject to the open meetings laws to reserve a period of public comment to provide the public with the opportunity to comment on any matter germane to the jurisdiction of the governing body, regardless of whet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
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| TN | SB0212 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands the requirement that state and local governing bodies make an agenda available to the public prior to regular public meetings of the body to include the governing bodies of certain nonprofit organizations, including nonprofit c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
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| TN | SB0279 | Intro
25% | As introduced, defines "working day" for purposes of determining the military leave and compensation available to state and local government employees who are members of any reserve component of the armed forces of the United States who are called to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
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| TN | SB0532 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes a county that has adopted the County Sheriff's Civil Service Act of 1974 to rescind such adoption by a two-thirds vote of the county legislative body. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 8, Part 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0634 | Intro
25% | As introduced, designates March 13 of each year as "Father Charles Strobel Day." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1080 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires 50 percent of collections of the recordation tax levied on transfers of realty to be remitted to each county; requires counties to use such funds for transportation infrastructure, schools, and other nonrecurring expenses. - A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
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| TN | SB0384 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a hotel operator to remit the hotel tax to the municipality when a person has maintained occupancy for 30 continuous days and to cease collecting the tax from the person for the remainder of their stay in the operator's hotel....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
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| TN | SB0843 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires half the revenue collected from recordation taxes be returned to the county in which the real property is located on a recurring basis; applies to transfers of real property on or after July 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1061 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes, subject to a two-thirds vote of the legislative body, the county trustee or other property tax collecting official in Hamilton County to decline to bill or refer for collection a de minimis personal property tax totaling le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
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| TN | SB0317 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits a person from acting as an agent of a hostile foreign principal unless the person has filed a registration statement with the Tennessee ethics commission; requires each foreign-supported political organization to register wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
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| TN | SB0539 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes the process for property tax assessment and valuation of multi-unit rental housing that receives a federal, state, or local incentive based on low-income renter restrictions. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 13; Title 48; Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1034 | Intro
25% | As introduced, designates a seal that has been erected for, named, or dedicated on public property in honor of any historic conflict, historic entity, historic event, historic figure, or historic organization as a memorial for purposes of protection ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0165 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the amount of funding the state is authorized to match local contributions for funding of human resource agencies. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 26.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0788 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reallocates 3 percent of revenue derived from the beer barrelage tax that is provided to the general fund to the department of agriculture for the purposes of supporting growth in the utilization of Tennessee agricultural products in b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0308 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the alcoholic beverage commission to produce an annual report of the convictions related to alcoholic vaporizing devices and file such report with legislative committees having jurisdiction over consumption of alcoholic bevera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0624 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits an individual holding an elected office of a local government from holding another elected office in this state at the same time; grandfathers individuals holding more than one office presently until the terms expire; clarifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | HJR0035 | Engross
50% | Recognizes emergency telecommunicators as first responders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-03
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | HJR0127 | Engross
50% | Music Therapy Week
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0762 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires each county to levy a tax at the rate of 5 percent of the sales price of lottery tickets or shares when sold at retail within the jurisdiction of the county; requires the state to administer the collection of the tax. - Amends...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0815 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases, from 30 to 45, the number of days within the end of a fiscal year, for which a municipality is requesting an allocation of sales and use taxes revenues, that a municipality may submit a summary of the cost of an economic dev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1087 | Intro
25% | As introduced, urges the department of safety to study the enforcement of federal immigration laws, detentions and removals, investigations in this state, and immigration-related progress and challenges; requires the department to submit a report to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0357 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces from 90 to 60 days the time in which a joint consolidation committee must report its findings and recommendations on the feasibility of the consolidation of multiple counties. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0722 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the board of trustees of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system to convert a person's participation in the retirement system, for service as a member of the general assembly and as a participant in the hybrid plan, from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1037 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases, from 30 to 45, the number of days the office of open records counsel has to acknowledge and approve a plan submitted by a governing body detailing how the body plans to comply with electronic communication requirements that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1358 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases, from three days to three months, the amount of paid leave provided to the officers and employees of the various agencies, boards, and departments of state government in the event of the death of such officers' or employees' ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0513 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends, from June 30, 2025, to June 30, 2028, the authorization for an emergency medical service employee who has been retired for at least 60 days from TCRS to accept employment as an emergency medical services employee without loss ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0629 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends the period, from three years to four years, that a taxpayer of the tourist accommodation tax to a metropolitan government is required to keep the records used to determine the amount of the tax. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 6...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0352 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the chief executive officer of a state agency or department to ensure that its policies, practices, and procedures relating to the recruitment, hiring, advancement, and retention of qualified individuals with disabilities are ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
