Tennessee Senator Jeff Yarbro [D]

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TNSJR0041Engross
50%
John Richard "Dick" Lodge, Jr.
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2025-02-13
Engrossed; ready for transmission to House
TNSJR0043Engross
50%
Hurricane Helene recovery efforts
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2025-02-13
Engrossed; ready for transmission to House
TNSJR0034N/A
0%
Mary Nell Bryan
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2025-02-13
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSJR0050Engross
50%
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, 30th anniversary
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2025-02-13
Engrossed; ready for transmission to House
TNSB0314Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes an eligible education employee to qualify for paid leave during the legal process for adopting a newly placed minor child, specifically during that period of time beginning with the filing of a petition for adoption when a m...
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2025-02-12
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
TNSB0313Intro
25%
As introduced, excludes materials obtained by an individual teacher that are made available in the teacher's classroom to students assigned to the teacher's class from having to be identified in a list of library collection materials posted on the sc...
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2025-02-12
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB0316Intro
25%
As introduced, removes the requirement that the governor receive authorization by the general assembly prior to making any decision or obligating the state with regard to the expansion of optional enrollment in the medical assistance program. - Amend...
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2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee
TNSB0312Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department to conserve any federal funds a child in the department's care is eligible for or may receive for the child's reasonable, foreseeable future needs or use for special needs services not currently being provided b...
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2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSJR0040Intro
25%
Proposes constitutional amendment to allow people to propose laws by initiative.
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2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB0315Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Workers Need Child Care Act"; establishes the child care infrastructure fund from which the department disperses grants to nonprofit entities for establishing new licensed child care agencies in this state. - Amends TCA Tit...
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2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee
TNSB0335Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Voyeurism Victims Act," which expands the offense of unlawful photography to include an unauthorized photograph that the defendant knew would include the unclothed intimate area of the victim or the victim engaged in sexual...
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2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB0412Intro
25%
As introduced, requires county election commissions to set uniform hours for each polling place used for early voting such that each polling place opens and closes at the same time on a single day. - Amends TCA Title 2.
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2025-02-12
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
TNSB0807Intro
25%
As introduced, creates the Class C misdemeanor offense of storing a firearm or firearm ammunition in a motor vehicle while the person is not in the motor vehicle unless the firearm or firearm ammunition is kept from ordinary observation and locked wi...
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2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB0808Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes an employee who has been employed full-time with this state for at least 12 months to receive up to 15 hours of paid leave for certain qualified volunteer work. - Amends TCA Title 8.
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2025-02-12
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
TNSB0806Intro
25%
As introduced, requires that the trial for an unlawful detainer action be held no later than 14 days from the date the plaintiff filed the unlawful detainer motion; limits the scope of a hearing for an unlawful detainer motion based on nonpayment of ...
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2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB0813Intro
25%
As introduced, reduces from a Class C felony to a Class B misdemeanor the offense of criminal exposure of another to HIV; creates a Class C felony for the criminal exposure of another to HIV if a person transmitted HIV to another person. - Amends TCA...
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2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB0809Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee 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 63; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.
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2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB1249Intro
25%
As introduced, requires private schools that participate in the education savings account program or the individualized education account program to publish various items on the school's website; requires private schools that participate in either pr...
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2025-02-12
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB1128Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Shielding Tennesseans from Oligarchic Power and Eliminating Lawless Obstruction of Necessities Act (STOP ELON Act)," which creates a new offense of interfering with an individual's or entity's receipt of a loan, grant, or f...
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2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB1204Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Anti-Road Rage Act of 2024," which creates a Class E felony for the reckless discharge of a firearm while operating, or as a passenger in, a motor vehicle; creates a Class A misdemeanor for the reckless brandishing or displ...
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2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB1247Intro
25%
As introduced, changes from January 8 to January 31 the date by which the executive director of the Tennessee wildlife resources agency must submit an annual report on the administration of Reelfoot Lake natural area. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; T...
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2025-02-12
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee
TNSB1132Intro
25%
As introduced, increases the required assessments of students participating in the education savings account program or the individualized education account program to include all Tennessee comprehensive assessment program tests, Tennessee universal ...
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2025-02-12
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB1130Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Freedom to Read Act"; repeals the "Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
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2025-02-12
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB1129Intro
25%
As introduced, creates a Class E felony that is committed when a person exercises control over a motor vehicle knowing that the person does not have the permission of the owner of the motor vehicle; creates a Class A misdemeanor of possessing a firea...
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2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB1131Intro
25%
As introduced, allows a court to issue an emergency protection order upon a finding that a person poses an imminent risk of harm to the person or others if allowed to purchase or possess a firearm; authorizes a family member, household member, intima...
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2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB1207Intro
25%
As introduced, requires each lobbyist to include and maintain in the lobbyist's registration statement filed with the Tennessee ethics commission the identification of each bill and legislative measure for which the lobbyist is receiving compensation...
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2025-02-12
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
TNSB1208Intro
25%
As introduced, requires every year, instead of every other year, the commissioner of health, in consultation with the regulatory boards that license healthcare practitioners, to provide a letter no later than November 1 to the governor, the speaker o...
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2025-02-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB1250Intro
25%
As introduced, increases from 60 to 75 days the period after the close of each fiscal year within which the department of finance and administration must submit a report to the governor and members of the general assembly that includes an account of ...
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2025-02-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB1248Intro
25%
As introduced, requires health insurance carriers to provide mental health coverage in parity with alcoholism and drug dependence coverage. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 33; Title 39; Title 49; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title ...
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2025-02-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB1246Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Clean Energy and Jobs Act"; creates the Clean Energy Workforce Training Grant Fund; establishes a tax credit for certain systems, methods, improvements, structures, devices, or appliances used by renewable energy businesses...
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2025-02-12
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee
TNSB1206Intro
25%
As introduced, creates a grant program to facilitate green spaces in urban areas; authorizes the technical secretary of the air pollution control board to establish a program to encourage community-led programs that reduce air pollution. - Amends TCA...
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2025-02-12
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee
TNSB1261Intro
25%
As introduced, imposes requirements for health insurance issuers using artificial intelligence, algorithms, or other software for utilization review or utilization management functions. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27; Title 56 and Title 71.
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2025-02-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB1258Intro
25%
As introduced, requires a municipality that adopts an ordinance requiring nonresident property owners to vote by absentee ballot to file such ordinance with the county election commission no later than 75 days, rather than 60 days, before the electio...
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2025-02-12
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
TNSB1259Intro
25%
As introduced, specifies that "neglect" does not include permitting a child, whose basic needs are met and who is of sufficient age and maturity to avoid harm or unreasonable risk of harm, to engage in independent activities, including traveling to a...
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2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB1262Intro
25%
As introduced, prohibits sending by mail a fake check or an image of a fake check, for the purpose of advertising. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47.
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2025-02-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
TNSB1260Intro
25%
As introduced, designates Nashville as the hot chicken capital of this state. - Amends TCA Title 4.
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2025-02-12
To Senate State and Local Government Committee
TNSJR0086Intro
25%
Proposes an amendment to Article VI, Section 14, of the Tennessee Constitution to authorize municipalities to impose a civil penalty for a violation of a municipal ordinance not to exceed an amount prescribed by the general assembly.
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2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSJR0031PassSchool Custodians
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2025-02-10
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR0018PassTom Lee
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2025-02-10
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR0033PassPastor Ted Clower
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2025-02-10
Signed by Governor.
TNSB1331Intro
25%
As introduced, clarifies that on or before January 31 of each year, the department shall report information regarding child support to the general assembly and the governor. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 33; Title 34; Title 36; Title 37; Title...
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2025-02-10
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
TNSB1338Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the office of research and education accountability in the office of the comptroller of the treasury to annually report information about the students participating in the education freedom scholarship program to the general a...
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2025-02-10
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
TNSB1339Intro
25%
As introduced, changes, from 45 to 50 days from receipt of a request, the time that a controller has to inform a consumer of the controller's decision to decline to take action regarding the consumer's authenticated request under the Tennessee Inform...
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2025-02-10
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
TNSB1328Intro
25%
As introduced, extends from December 31 to January 15, the date by which the department of finance and administration must annually report in writing to the chairs of the committees of both houses having subject matter jurisdiction over finance-relat...
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2025-02-10
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
TNSB1346Intro
25%
As introduced, creates a civil and criminal action for individuals who are the subject of an intimate digital depiction that is disclosed without the individual's consent under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 28 and Title 39, Chapter 17.
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2025-02-10
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
TNSB1330Intro
25%
As introduced, deletes obsolete definitions of the term "contractor" and obsolete penalty provisions from statute governing the unlawful representation as a contractor without a license. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12; Titl...
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2025-02-10
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
TNSB1337Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the annual written report submitted to legislative committees with subject matter jurisdiction over criminal matters regarding activities of narcotics investigations by the bureau and the assistant director of the narcotics in...
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2025-02-10
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
TNSB1329Intro
25%
As introduced, reduces from 30 to 21 days the period by which a state department or agency, prior to executing a state professional facilities management contract for services within a state legislative district that would result in the outsourcing o...
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2025-02-10
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
TNSB1347Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the presence of one rather than two credible witnesses to be present when an officer of the commission destroys contraband distillation equipment, paraphernalia, and personal property. - Amends TCA Title 57.
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2025-02-10
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
TNSB1418Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Mental Health Volunteer Alliance Act." - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68.
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2025-02-10
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
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