| TN | SB2221 | Pass | As enacted, establishes a Class E felony for a person who commits assault against a participant in judicial proceedings while on the premises of a building in which judicial proceedings occur; makes revisions to law regarding wiretapping and electron...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
Effective date(s) 05/28/2024, 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2664 | Pass | As enacted, requires each institution of higher education in this state to classify a student who is the spouse or dependent child of a service member as an in-state student for tuition purposes if certain criteria are met. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2665 | Pass | As 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-03
Effective date(s) 05/28/2024 |
| TN | SB1676 | Pass | As enacted, requires a municipality levying the hotel-motel tax under general law to submit a report annually detailing the amount of revenue spent by the municipality, and its subordinate contractors, and how those expenditures have been designated ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Effective date(s) 05/28/2024 |
| TN | SB2015 | Pass | As enacted, extends the nursing home annual assessment fee to June 30, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 10.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB0795 | Pass | As enacted, enacts anti-squatter laws. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 66.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| 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 | 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 | SB2155 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Chris Wright Act," which increases the penalty for a third or subsequent domestic assault conviction from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony; upgrades the offense classification for certain qualifying misdemeanor offens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 987 |
| TN | SB2146 | Pass | As 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-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 993 |
| TN | SB2659 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to law relative to the Tennessee future teacher scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 982 |
| TN | SB2062 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Back the Blue Act," which increases the penalty for assault against a law enforcement officer from a Class A misdemeanor with a mandatory minimum 30-day sentence and $5,000 fine to a Class E felony with a mandatory minimum 60-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 976 |
| 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 | SB1659 | Pass | As enacted, increases from 1,500 to 3,000, for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, the amount of acreage of land permitted to be placed within any one taxing jurisdiction under the Agricultural, Forest and Open Space Land Act. - Amends T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 978 |
| TN | SB2517 | Pass | As enacted, creates one additional circuit court in the 4th judicial district, creates one additional trial court in the 19th judicial district; eliminates part VII of the circuit court in the 13th judicial district; and eliminates part IX of the cri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 977 |
| TN | SB2215 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to the "Schools Against Violence in Education Act." - Amends TCA Section 49-6-804.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/06/2024 |
| TN | SB2931 | Pass | As enacted, conditions the expulsion of a student for committing the zero tolerance offense of threatening mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity to threats of mass violence determined to be valid based on the results of a t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2933 | Pass | As enacted, revises certain enrollment, attendance, individualized education program, and resident requirements for certain education funding to follow a student who is admitted to a state-licensed or out-of-state mental health facility from the stud...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2929 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department of children's services, county medical examiners, chief medical examiners, and facilities that perform autopsies to establish policies and procedures for the prioritization of the completion of final autopsy report...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2932 | Pass | As enacted, requires a director of schools who is appointed by the local board of education elected by the general public to have a baccalaureate degree and meet any other qualifications or requirements established by the local board of education. - ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2081 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the military department to administer a critical skills retention bonus program to be used to award retention bonuses of up to $10,000 to enlisted service members in the Tennessee national guard; entitles certain state employee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/01/2024 |
| 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 | SB2022 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to law relative to the health facilities commission; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/06/2024, 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1943 | Pass | As enacted, allows all LEA and public charter school employees, instead of only teachers, to receive their full salary, or average pay, and full benefits in the event they sustain a personal injury as the result of a physical assault or other violent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2928 | Pass | As enacted, generally prohibits, in Montgomery, Williamson, Rutherford, Hamilton, Knox, Davidson, and Shelby counties, a member of a county governing body from simultaneously serving as a member of the governing body of a municipality within the coun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 763 |
| TN | SB2100 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the use of certain third-party examiners, inspectors, engineers, and professionals in lieu of a local or state examiner, inspector, engineer, or professional for certain permitted processes and requirements; establishes procedu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 10/01/2024 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
