| TN | SB0517 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Representative Darren Jernigan Act," which requires, beginning on January 1, 2025, and each year thereafter, the department of revenue to verify that the owner of each disabled parking placard has not died; requires the depart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Effective date(s) 4/19/2024 |
| TN | SJR1382 | Pass | Cheri Doane, Ms. Tennessee Senior America 2023
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR1362 | Pass | Hannah-Kate McFadden
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR1489 | Pass | Officer Joseph McKinney, Memphis Police Department
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB0112 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, expands the definition of "eligible postsecondary institution" to include certain private postsecondary institutions for purposes of a Tennessee HOPE scholarship, Tennessee HOPE access grant, Tennessee HOPE teacher's scholarship, or Wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0186 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, adds an adopted child, stepchild, and relative related by marriage to the list of persons with whom a service member can jointly title and register a motor vehicle in order to qualify for a sales and use tax exemption on the sale or us...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0556 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department of education to establish a fund to reimburse educators in an amount equal to the cost of an assessment required for licensure if the educator receives a qualifying score on the required assessment and receives ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0641 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, phases out professional privilege tax over a three-year period for tax years that begin on and after June 1, 2024; reduces tax by $200 in the first year and by $100 in each remaining year. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0640 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, eliminates the professional privilege tax for attorneys. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0968 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, expands eligibility for the Tennessee reconnect grant to include students who completed high school or obtained a GED® or HiSET® diploma during the 2019-2020 or 2020-2021 school year, and who are at least 21 years of age by January 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1783 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | SB2213 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, adds pre-kindergarten students with special education needs and peer models to the categories of students who generate education funding through the TISA. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2394 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases, from one to two, the number of free plates for the Purple Heart and disabled veteran license plates issued to veterans with disabilities. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-256 and Section 55-4-257.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SJR1235 | Pass | Michael Maren
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR1192 | Pass | Senator Art Swann
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR1388 | Pass | Representative Judd Matheny
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB0503 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | SR0314 | Pass | Alan Whittington, 50th birthday
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | SB2214 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that only middle school students enrolled in the lowest grade level at a middle school are required to take one course in computer science; authorizes the board to promulgate rules to effectuate the act. - Amends TCA Title 49, C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024, 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2219 | Pass | As enacted, defines "central bank digital currency," and revises the definitions of "money" and "deposit account," for purposes of the Uniform Commercial Code. - Amends TCA Title 47.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024 |
| TN | SB2428 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a county that has entered into a written mutual aid agreement with each municipality within the county relating to the provisions of fire services in the context of state military affairs, emergencies, and civil defense law, to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024 |
| TN | SB2429 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the state board for licensing contractors, without cause, to require a financial statement of a licensure applicant that is reviewed or audited and attested to by a licensed public accountant or certified public accountant if t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 664 |
| TN | SB2498 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes graduates of unaccredited engineering technology curriculums to apply for and become registered as engineers, provided that such persons have prior engineering experience and meet certain examination requirements; repeals the b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024, 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2359 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits the department from requiring an immunization as a condition of adopting or overseeing a child in foster care if an individual or member of an individual's household objects to immunization on the basis of religious or moral con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024 |
| TN | SB2909 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Self-Insurers' Guaranty Association Act" to provide a mechanism for the payment of self-insured workers' compensation claims to avoid excessive delay in payment and to avoid financial loss to claimants because of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 666 |
| TN | SB2083 | Pass | As enacted, expands the types of duty that qualify a member of the national guard, state guard, or civil air patrol who is also a state employee for employment protections; specifies a calculation to determine the amount of monetary benefits for a na...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024 |
| TN | SB2547 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, allows the treasurer to file the annual report regarding the total amount and value of abandoned or unclaimed property with certain executive and legislative branch officials electronically. - Amends TCA Title 43; Title 44; Title 47; T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SJR1174 | Pass | Field Training Officer Taylor Heath, Fairview Police Department
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SR0280 | Pass | Cheri Doane, Ms. Tennessee Senior America 2023
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| TN | SB2284 | Pass | As enacted, requires a person seeking to qualify for election to the office of county clerk to be a qualified voter of the county and a resident of the county for one year prior to the date of the qualifying deadline for running as a candidate for co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 04/04/2024 |
| TN | SB0908 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies that a threat to use deadly force by a private citizen making an arrest is not in itself considered a use of deadly force; prohibits a private citizen from threatening to use deadly force during the course of a citizen's arre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Withdrawn. |
| TN | SB2211 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the commission to designate VETS campuses that strive to increase enrollment, continuation, and graduation rates of veterans, and that meet certain qualification criteria established by the commission, as VETS Bravo campuses; e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 622 |
| TN | SB2089 | Pass | As enacted, expands the permitted uses for money received by a county for each tire sold in the county to include removal of illegally disposed waste tires from public or private property; authorizes the department of environment and conservation to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 614 |
| TN | SB2484 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department to issue grants, subject to appropriations, to support the installation of powered, height-adjustable, adult-sized changing tables in single occupancy family restrooms in privately and municipally owned buildings o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Effective date(s) 03/27/2024 |
| TN | SB2713 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, abolishes the governing board of directors for the Tennessee student assistance corporation and designates the corporation as a division of the commission; revises certain duties and powers of the commission; vacates and reconstitutes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SR0257 | Pass | Post-Vietnam War era veterans of the Tennessee Military Collectors Association
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | SB2430 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits a local government from limiting or prohibiting the use or installation of products that meet the national codes and standards or materials that meet the national codes and standards for single-family or multi-family housing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB2104 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Medical Autonomy Related to Cannabis Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 43; Title 45; Title 50; Title 53; Title 57; Title 63; Title 67; Title 68 and Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1701 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that pleas of guilt and nolo contendere to certain criminal offenses subject an educator to automatic revocation of an educator license by the state board; specifies that criminal offenses committed in another jurisdiction that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 577 |
| TN | SB2227 | Pass | As enacted, allows the clerk of court to waive an in-person oath by a fiduciary if the fiduciary files with the clerk a written fiduciary oath that contains certain language and is sworn or affirmed by the fiduciary in the presence of a notary public...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 582 |
| TN | SR0256 | Pass | National Medal of Honor Day
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | SJR1067 | Pass | Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) and the National Celebration of General Aviation Flyover
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR1164 | Pass | Robert Jonathan Doyle Springer
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB2930 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, provides a 25 percent tuition discount to a full-time certified teacher employed in a public school in this state for courses taken at a public institution of higher education in this state that are related to the person's employment a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SJR1045 | Pass | Veterans buried in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR1043 | Pass | Post-Vietnam War era veterans of the Tennessee Military Collectors Association
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB0107 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that an owner or lessee of a motor vehicle who is the parent, legal guardian, or conservator of a person who has an intellectual or developmental disability or medical condition, who may be operating the owner's or lessee's vehi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Effective date(s) 01/01/2025 |
| TN | SB1177 | Pass | As enacted, requires, beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, each LEA and public charter school to have fifth grade students complete one semester of Tennessee history in the first semester of the students' fifth grade year. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Effective date(s) 03/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1742 | Pass | As enacted, requires proposals received in response to a solicitation for goods or services, and related records, including evaluations and memoranda, to be available for public inspection only after the completion of the evaluation of the same by th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Effective date(s) 03/11/2024 |
| TN | SB2218 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the payment of greenbelt rollback taxes in full at closing when greenbelt property is sold. - Amends TCA Title 66; Section 67-4-409 and Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 10.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
