| TN | SB1142 | Pass | As enacted, vacates and reconstitutes the commission; makes other changes relative to the commission. - Amends TCA Title 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 06/30/2024 |
| TN | SB2923 | Pass | As enacted, requires, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, each local education agency and public charter school to provide students with age-appropriate and grade-appropriate instruction on firearm safety. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 800 |
| TN | SB1715 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a law enforcement agency to assign a law enforcement officer to serve as a school resource officer at a school within a local board of education's control that has not entered into a memorandum of understanding with a law enfor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-29
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SJR1380 | Pass | Franklin County 4-H Consumer Decision Making Judging Team, national champions
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Signed by Governor. |
| 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 | SB1861 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits the governor from dividing counties into separate declarations of emergency to avoid the requirement that the general assembly approve an extension of an executive order, proclamation, or TEMP beyond the 45-day maximum for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1536 | Pass | As enacted, makes applicable to Coffee County, present law that provides that whenever Hardeman County or Cumberland County acquires property at a tax sale, a nongovernmental entity holding a vested and duly recorded contractual right to the payment ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 717 |
| TN | SB1822 | Pass | As enacted, designates as official state books: "Farewell Address to the American People" by George Washington; "The Papers of Andrew Jackson"; "Democracy in America" by Alexis de Tocqueville; "All the King's Men" by Robert Penn Warren; "A Death in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 720 |
| 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 | SB1124 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, appropriates $20 million to the legislature for the purchase or construction of a building or other facility accessible to the Cordell Hull Building. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 12.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0111 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, designates social media platforms as common carriers and requires the entities to obtain certificates of public convenience and necessity from the Tennessee public utilities commission; prescribes fines against social media platforms t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2765 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Protecting Tennessee Schools and Events Act"; subject to appropriations, requires the department of education to contract for the provision of walk-through metal detectors to LEAs. - Amends TCA Title 12 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2773 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2669 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases the penalties for certain violations of the offense of unlawful photography; requires the court, rather than allowing the court discretion, to order a person convicted of certain unlawful photography offenses to register as a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1944 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, repeals the professional privilege tax for tax years that begin on and after June 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2540 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, directs the department of economic and community development to develop a program for the installation and operation of combustion turbine power plants to increase the state's electric generation capacity. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SJR1388 | Pass | Representative Judd Matheny
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Signed by Governor. |
| 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 | SR0304 | Pass | Alejandra F. Garcia
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | SR0314 | Pass | Alan Whittington, 50th birthday
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | SB2779 | Pass | As enacted, removes certain present law regarding prohibited activities for Tennessee Public Utility Commission commissioners. - Amends TCA Title 65.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024 |
| TN | SB2764 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes LEAs to extend career and technical education (CTE) class sizes and averages for CTE classes in grades 6-8; prohibits the CTE classes in grades 6-8 from exceeding the maximum class size and average set for general education cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 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 | SB2918 | Pass | As enacted, requires a campground owner to post in a high traffic area on the campground, or distribute to registered guests or visitors, a written policy on campground curfew, alcohol use, tobacco use, and pets; authorizes an owner to eject a person...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 665 |
| TN | SB2324 | Pass | As enacted, requires that a grant awarded to a marina from the portion of gasoline tax revenues apportioned to the wildlife resources fund for public and environmental infrastructure at marinas be based on the amount of gasoline sold at the marina re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1914 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act," which authorizes each local board of education and public charter school governing body to establish policies for its public schools to offer students whole milk options through bulk milk disp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024 |
| TN | SB2691 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits 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 temperature, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | SB1738 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Foster and Adoptive Parent Protection Act," which generally prohibits the department of children's services from requiring a current or prospective adoptive or foster parent to affirm, accept, or support any governme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 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 | SB2576 | Pass | As enacted, requires, rather than authorizes, law enforcement agencies to communicate with the appropriate federal official regarding the immigration status of any individual, including reporting knowledge that a particular alien is not lawfully pres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 716 |
| TN | SB0502 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, extends, from January 15 to February 1 of each calendar year, the due date of the annual report required to be submitted by the bureau of TennCare to certain legislative committees on the use and cost of opioids and other controlled su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB2041 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, specifies that a person or entity that produces, sells, sends, or distributes obscene matter in violation of state law may be held civilly liable for damages to an injured party. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 9.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SJR1135 | Engross
Sine Die | Opposes the United States' participation in the World Health Organization Pandemic Prevention Preparedness and Response Accord.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Delayed Bills Committee |
| TN | SJR0904 | Engross
Sine Die | Proposes an amendment to Article I, Section 26 of the Constitution of Tennessee to remove the provision that authorizes the legislature to regulate the wearing of arms with a view to prevent crime and to state that citizens have a right to keep, bear...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Engrossed; ready for transmission to House |
| TN | SJR0870 | Pass | Expresses support for State of Israel and condemns recent attacks on Israel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Signed by Governor. |
| 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 | SB2778 | Pass | As enacted, deletes the July 1, 2024, repeal date for the statutory provision authorizing county trustees to proceed against taxpayers delinquent in the payment of tangible personal property taxes by retaining an agent to collect the delinquent tangi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 04/04/2024 |
| TN | SB2060 | Pass | As enacted, enacts "Danielle's Law," which extends the statute of limitations for injuries to a person, who is 18 or older, relating to sexual assault to three years or five years depending on if law enforcement was notified of the assault. - Amends ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 04/04/2024 |
| TN | SB1699 | Pass | As enacted, expands the eligibility for filing a petition to obtain a lifetime order of protection to include victims of aggravated stalking, especially aggravated stalking, and felony harassment. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 632 |
| TN | SB2569 | Pass | As enacted, allows a juvenile court to transfer a child, who is 15 or older, to be tried as an adult in criminal court for the offense of organized retail crime, theft of a firearm, or an attempt to commit such offense; revises law with regard to con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 635 |
| 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 | SB2970 | Pass | Subject to local approval, adds duties and authorities of the chief of police and police officers of the town; restates that only a certified public accountant must be chosen by the board of mayor and aldermen to conduct an audit of the financial aff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 40 |
| TN | SB2562 | Pass | As enacted, revises various provisions regarding pretrial release of a defendant charged with a criminal offense to require the magistrate to give first consideration to ensuring the safety of the community when determining whether to impose conditio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 612 |
| TN | SB2040 | Pass | As enacted, adds using, altering, encrypting, ransoming, destroying, or otherwise rendering unavailable without authorization, electronic data, electronic devices, or network providers of critical infrastructure or of a farm to the offense of committ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 627 |
