| TN | SB1434 | Pass | As enacted, allows school bus drivers to use a portable electronic device for navigation of the school bus and for accurately accounting for students at bus pick-up and drop-off locations through use of the device's global positioning system if no ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB1034 | Pass | As enacted, makes various changes to law relative to county officials. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 8; Title 9; Title 18; Title 54 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB1219 | Pass | As enacted, requires certain persons convicted of rape, when the victim is 13-17, or incest, when the victim is a minor, to be punished as a Range II offender; allows the sentence imposed, if appropriate, to be within Range III but in no case lower t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB1237 | Pass | As enacted, limits the ability of a student enrolled in a private school to participate in an interscholastic athletic activity or event, to such activity or event where membership in the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association is required, i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | SB0014 | Pass | As enacted, requires the bureau to provide quarterly updates to legislative committees on its efforts to hire and train employees within the forensic services division and the average amount of time taken to perform forensic analysis on evidence in c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | SB0980 | Pass | As enacted, revises various provisions relative to charter schools. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/24/2023 |
| TN | SB0467 | Pass | As enacted, revises the punishment for critical infrastructure vandalism. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 40 and Title 65, Chapter 35.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 302 |
| TN | SB0442 | Pass | As enacted, enacts "Dillard's Law," which allows the surviving parent or guardian of a child whose parent was a victim of vehicular homicide to convert a restitution order for child maintenance payments to a civil judgment at any time rather than fol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0497 | Pass | As enacted, revises the definitions of "wine" and "beer" with regard to law relative to traffic in intoxicating liquors and regulating the sale of wine in retail stores. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3 and Title 57, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 236 |
| TN | SB0975 | Pass | As enacted, revises provisions relating to contracts executed for purchases, services, and leases by the president of a municipal energy authority or the superintendent of a municipal electric plant. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 34; Title 7, Chapter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | SB0661 | Pass | As enacted, requires that if an entity requires on-site payment from a consumer for the parking of a motor vehicle on the entity's property, and the entity only accepts payment by use of a quick response (QR) code or a credit or debit card machine, t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 323 |
| TN | SB0838 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes an LEA to award a high school student credit for a course offered by the LEA's high school if the student attains a qualifying score on the course's final examination without requiring the student to enroll in the course. - Ame...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | SB0817 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Higher Education Freedom of Expression and Transparency Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7 and Title 49, Chapter 8.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0681 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Protecting Tennessee Businesses and Workers Act." - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 309 |
| TN | SJR0597 | Pass | Jeff Harmon, 12th Judicial District Public Defender
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB0435 | Pass | As enacted, increases the classification for voluntary manslaughter from a Class C felony to a Class B felony. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 308 |
| TN | SB1208 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department, in administering the individualized education account program, to develop and implement a process for notifying all parents of their children's potential eligibility for an individualized education account, instea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 321 |
| TN | SJR0781 | Pass | Theron Ira Louis Lacy
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB0644 | Pass | As enacted, removes the requirement that a parent-teacher of a home school student provide proof of the student's immunizations and receipt of health services or examinations required by law generally for children in this state to the local education...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-02
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 296 |
| TN | SJR0557 | Pass | David Hicks Lillard, Sr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-02
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB0018 | Pass | As enacted, requires that a person convicted of especially aggravated kidnapping, aggravated rape, or rape be sentenced from within at least Range II for the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 155 |
| TN | SB0638 | Pass | As enacted, expands student eligibility for an education savings account (ESA) to include students who were not enrolled, and who did not attend, a Tennessee public school for the one full school year immediately preceding the school year for which t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
Effective date(s) 04/17/2023 |
| TN | SB0097 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Garrison-Jordan Survivor Benefits Act." - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB1281 | Pass | As enacted, revises present law provisions relative to cameras on school buses and failing to stop upon approaching a school bus that has stopped on the highway. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SJR0522 | Pass | Former Tennessee First Lady Honey Alexander
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0533 | Pass | Women Veterans Appreciation Day
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SR0123 | Pass | Prabhjot Kaur
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | SJR0534 | Pass | Great Smoky Mountains National Park Honoring Our Veterans Day
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SR0121 | Pass | Elizabeth McNish Holiway
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | SB0600 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits local governments from expending funds for the purposes of assisting a person in obtaining a criminal abortion. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 8.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
Effective date(s) 04/17/2023 |
| TN | SR0133 | Pass | Senator Mark Pody and Barbara Pody, 50th wedding anniversary
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-21
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | SB0042 | Pass | As enacted, extends the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Effective date(s) 03/31/2023 |
| TN | SB0043 | Pass | As enacted, extends the department of safety to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Effective date(s) 04/04/2023 |
| TN | SB0976 | Pass | As enacted, replaces the term "motor-driven cycle" with "motorscooter" for various purposes related to the operation of such vehicles, including issuance of operator licenses, the rules of the road, and required safety and lighting equipment. - Amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Effective date(s) 03/31/2023; 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB0523 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Topical Medical Waste Reduction Act of 2023," which establishes certain regulations of facility-provided medications. - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Effective date(s) 04/13/2023 |
| TN | SB1389 | Pass | As enacted, requires a political subdivision that imposes requirements or expectations related to the type of clean or renewable energy used by a public utility in an ordinance, resolution, or other regulation to include certain sources of energy as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 154 |
| TN | SB0834 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits a public postsecondary institution that provides internet access to students, faculty, staff, or the general public from allowing an individual to access a social media platform using the institution's network if the platform is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Effective date(s) 04/13/2023 |
| TN | SB0450 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits the sale or distribution of tattoo and body piercing paraphernalia to minors. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 62, Chapter 38, Part 2 and Title 62, Chapter 38, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB1005 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that it is an unfair or deceptive act to issue or deliver a home service contract to a consumer in this state that does not specify the merchandise and services to be provided, and any applicable limitations, exceptions, or excl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0925 | Pass | As enacted, enacts "Quinnlee's Law." - Amends TCA Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Effective date(s) 03/31/2023 |
| TN | SB1225 | Pass | As enacted, requires that court clerks notify the health facilities commission, instead of the department of health, when an offender is to be placed on the registry of persons who have been determined to have abused, neglected, misappropriated, or e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Effective date(s) 03/31/2023 |
| TN | SB0238 | Pass | As enacted, permits the commissioner to require submission of a set of fingerprints by an investment adviser representative applicant; updates when registration as an issuer-dealer becomes effective after submission of an application; and makes other...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Effective date(s) 04/04/2023; 01/01/2024 |
| TN | SB0487 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that when, in the judgment of the speaker of the house of representatives and the speaker of the senate, the interest of the state requires additional counsel to the attorney general and reporter, the speakers shall retain addit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 134 |
| TN | SJR0127 | Pass | Expresses support for the Allowing Military Exemptions, Recognizing Individual Concerns About New Shots (AMERICANS) Act of 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-13
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0532 | Pass | State Capitol Troopers and Sergeants at Arms
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-13
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0004 | Pass | Nation of Israel, 75th anniversary
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-12
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0342 | Pass | Sergeant Harold Lee Russell II, Tennessee Highway Patrol
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0344 | Pass | Mayor Dale R. Kelley
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0343 | Pass | Judge John Everett Williams
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0482 | Pass | TDOT Deputy Commissioner and Chief Policy Advisor Paul D. Degges
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-05
Signed by Governor. |
