| TN | SJR0149 | Intro
25% | Mark Gwyn
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Filed for introduction |
| TN | SJR0043 | Engross
50% | Hurricane Helene recovery efforts
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Engrossed; ready for transmission to House |
| TN | SJR0041 | Engross
50% | John Richard "Dick" Lodge, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Engrossed; ready for transmission to House |
| TN | SB0483 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits public airports that provide commercial services from entering into an agreement that authorizes a private third-party vendor that provides expedited security screening to use the standard security lane or the transportation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB0485 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires certain procedures, currently found in the federal Indian Child Welfare Act, to be applied by courts in child custody proceedings involving an Indian child. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0481 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes the requirement for a claimant to post a bond when filing a claim to seized property. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0473 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Veterans Assistance for Livelihood, Opportunity, and Relief (VALOR) Act," which exempts disabled veterans who have 100 percent permanent and total disability from a service-connected cause from the payment of certain taxes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0468 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Women's Safety and Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 37; Title 41; Title 49 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0494 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Family Right to Educational Emancipation (FREE) Act," which creates a new category of independent home schools that are not subject to the data collection, reporting, or assessment requirements applicable to existing indepe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB0467 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies that a commercial entity that knowingly possesses, promotes, purchases, produces, sells, sends, transports, or distributes obscene matter in violation of state law may be held civilly liable to an individual for nominal damag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-12
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0493 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the burden of proof required to be met by the state in civil asset forfeiture proceedings from a preponderance of evidence standard to a clear and convincing evidence standard. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0472 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires all residential educational programs in this state, regardless of type or duration, that allow minors to participate or to access residential facilities to segregate all restrooms, changing areas, and showers by immutable biol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB0470 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Protecting Tennessee Schools and Events Act." - Amends TCA Title 12 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB0474 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits a healthcare provider from inquiring as to a patient's ownership, possession of, or access to firearm ammunition or firearm accessories; subjects the healthcare provider to disciplinary action and a fine of $1,000 if the heal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0484 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes the sale of homemade food items that contain dairy, meat, or poultry to the extent permitted by federal law. - Amends TCA Title 53 and Title 68, Chapter 14, Part 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB0478 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires an annual training pay bonus supplement for eligible campus police officers and public safety officers in the amount of $800. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38 and Section 49-7-118.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB0482 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands the offense of unlawful photography to include a photograph that the defendant knew would include the victim engaged in sexual activity; increases the penalty for the offense of unlawful photography from a Class A misdemeanor o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0488 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes abandonment as an option for a property owner after a municipality determines the structure located on the property is unfit for human occupation or use; authorizes all municipalities to adopt ordinances to inspect residential ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0492 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires an enforcement officer to issue an out-of-service order to a driver issued a commercial driver license if the officer determines during a safety inspection that the driver is unable to read and speak the English language in vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB0490 | Intro
25% | As introduced, permits the expunction of a Class E felony conviction for official misconduct. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40, Chapter 32.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0486 | Intro
25% | As introduced, appropriates $25 million to the legislature for planning and construction of a new parking garage that has at least 400 parking spaces, is attached to the Cordell Hull Building, and is used solely by legislative employees. - Amends TCA...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0491 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies that for purposes of carrying out a sentence of death, lethal injection protocol may include the use of pharmaceutical fentanyl. - Amends TCA Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0475 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces the percentage of sentence that a person convicted of first degree murder on or after July 1, 1995, and sentenced to life imprisonment is required to serve before becoming eligible for release from 100 percent of 60 years less ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0476 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires LEAs and public charter schools to prohibit food or beverage items that contain Red 40 to be sold, offered for sale, or provided to students on school property unless the food or beverage item is sold to the student as part of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB0487 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces, from $100 billion to $50 billion, the amount of assets held by a state or national bank, savings and loan association, savings bank, credit union, industrial loan and thrift, or mortgage lender that are necessary to fall withi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB0469 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases from 2.4 to 5 percent, the amount of realty transfer tax and mortgage tax collections retained as commission by county registers for collecting and reporting those taxes; requires 50 percent of such collections to be deposite...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0471 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes that family life curriculum must include age-appropriate instruction and evidence regarding the positive personal and societal outcomes associated with the method by which a person completes the following in sequential orde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB0466 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies the damages that may be awarded against a person or commercial entity that publishes or distributes a website containing a substantial portion of content harmful to minors includes actual damages, nominal damages, and punitiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0480 | Intro
25% | As introduced, deletes the definition of "blighted area" and defines "blighted property" for purposes of condemnation by housing authorities; clarifies that housing authorities may acquire real property without using eminent domain; authorizes housin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0477 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the board of claims to hear claims for compensation by persons wrongfully imprisoned whose charges are dismissed and sentences vacated; authorizes persons whose charges were dismissed and sentences vacated prior to enactment o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0489 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Medical Cannabis Act," which establishes a medical cannabis program to be administered by the Tennessee medical cannabis program commission. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38, Chapter 3; Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 4...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB6002 | Pass | As introduced, creates within the department of safety the centralized immigration enforcement division, to be administered by the chief immigration enforcement officer; establishes a grant program for purposes of promoting the enforcement of federal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB6003 | Pass | As introduced, creates two funds within the state treasury to be known as the Hurricane Helene interest payment fund and the governor's response and recovery fund; authorizes moneys in each fund to be used to assist with the response to and the recov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB6004 | Pass | As introduced, authorizes TEMA to assist a political subdivision or local emergency management agency with recovery from disasters and emergencies on public property at the request of the political subdivision or agency; suspends certain eligibility ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB6007 | Pass | As introduced, requires the comptroller to disburse payments to property owners whose real or personal property was destroyed or damaged by a FEMA-certified disaster occurring between September 26, 2024, and September 30, 2024, under certain conditio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB1031 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Restore Trust in Public Health Messaging Act." - Amends TCA Title 53 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| TN | SB1042 | Intro
25% | As introduced, lowers the minimum age, from 25 to 21, that is necessary to receive an initial school bus endorsement. - Amends TCA Section 5-8-102; Title 49 and Title 55.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB1033 | Intro
25% | As introduced, designates the intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances, or apparatus within the borders of this state into the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting temperatu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB1041 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes a local board of education and public charter school governing body to employ or accept as a volunteer a school chaplain to provide support, services, and programs for students, school staff, and students' parents. - Amends ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1040 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits out-of-state political campaign committees from making contributions to influence a state or local primary election for the Republican Party. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1032 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires officials who are employed or contracted by the federal government, the state government, or a local government within this state, or an agency or department thereof, to obtain a search warrant that identifies the person or pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1039 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits a healthcare facility from authorizing a licensed healthcare professional from performing a drug or alcohol test or screen on a patient who is pregnant, less than one year postpartum, or a newborn without written and oral con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1035 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the administrative office of the courts to report by October 1, 2025, to the speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives the number of persons found guilty of the Class A misdemeanor of, as an employe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary 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] | 2025-02-12
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1038 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the fee that county clerks and other agents are authorized to collect from purchases of hunting and fishing licenses from $1.00 to $3.00 for annual licenses and $.50 to $3.00 for temporary licenses. - Amends TCA Section 70-2-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB1030 | Intro
25% | As introduced, deletes the responsibility of a parent or legal guardian to ensure that such person's child receives vaccines as recommended by guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the American Academy of Pediatrics. - Amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1029 | Intro
25% | As introduced, makes changes to the process for voting absentee under the federal Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 6, Part 5.
[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 | SB1036 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires that all driver licenses and photo identification licenses be manufactured and printed in this state; requires the department of safety to review and determine the cost-effectiveness of having such licenses manufactured and pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
