| TN | SB1140 | Pass | As enacted, directs TACIR to perform a study of the collection and remittance of state and local taxes, including sales and use taxes, collected at the point of sale by businesses in this state. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Effective date(s) 05/28/2024 |
| TN | SB2044 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to law relating to the sentencing of a defendant who commits a nonviolent property offense on or after July 1, 2010. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1971 | Pass | As enacted, creates the criminal offense of abortion trafficking of a minor; provides for a civil action against a person committing the offense of abortion trafficking of a minor if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6; Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB0191 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to law relative to safety in school buildings, policies and procedures regarding grades, and the use of performance goals and measures for a public school or LEA; requires professional licenses issued by the state board of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Effective date(s) 05/28/2024, 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1771 | Pass | As enacted, generally makes the state liable and responsible for paying the expenses for HIV medication for inmates committed to a county jail or workhouse who previously received prescription medication to treat HIV or AIDS through a state departmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 999 |
| 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 | SB2158 | Pass | As enacted, requires the review of executive branch agency policies and spending as it relates to illegal immigration; requires a report to be compiled and delivered to the governor and the speakers of the senate and house of representatives regardin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 998 |
| 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 | SB2538 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the governor to deploy up to a brigade-sized force to Texas to assist in repelling the invasion at the southern border of the United States during fiscal year 2024-2025. - Amends TCA Title 58.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 983 |
| TN | SB0833 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to the law relative to confirmation of membership on the board of regents for the State University and Community College System; the Tennessee Promise Scholarship Act of 2014; the Wilder-Naifeh technical skills grant; and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/06/2024, 07/01/2024, 07/01/2025 |
| TN | SB1773 | Pass | As enacted, requires, beyond the 2023-2024 school year, each LEA and public charter school to provide each high school senior the opportunity to take nationally recognized assessments if the assessments meet certain criteria. - Amends TCA Title 49, C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 908 |
| TN | SB2109 | Pass | As enacted, creates a mechanism for the management and governance functions of certain boards to be transferred and assumed by the commission in the event a board ceases to exist under the Tennessee Governmental Entity Review Law. - Amends TCA Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2182 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes an industrial development corporation created by a housing opportunity county or by a municipality within the boundaries of the housing opportunity county or jointly by any combination of such entities to construct and install ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/09/2024 |
| TN | SB2263 | Pass | As enacted, increases the penalty for the offense of threatening to commit an act of mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 887 |
| TN | SB2551 | Pass | As enacted, requires, if a person is convicted of parentage fraud, the judge or jury to ascertain the value of any child support paid by the victim in reliance upon the parentage fraud, and to order the defendant to pay restitution of that value of c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 896 |
| TN | SB1769 | Pass | As enacted, enacts "Jillian's Law," which makes various changes relative to being adjudicated as a mental defective or judicially committed to a mental institution, including requiring a person judicially committed to remain committed until the compe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 784 |
| TN | SB1938 | Pass | As enacted, names the law prohibiting an LEA from deducting dues from the wages of the LEA's employees for a professional employees' organization the "Michael Maren Paycheck Protection Act." - Amends TCA Section 49-2-123.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/23/2024 |
| TN | SB2627 | Pass | As enacted, adds to the factors considered by a court when making child custody determinations evidence of physical or emotional abuse to the child or to any other person; requires judges involved in child custody proceedings to complete training tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 799 |
| TN | SB1660 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates a Natural Disaster Relief Program to be administered by TEMA. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 2, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Finance, Ways & Means |
| TN | SB2245 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the county administrator of elections to email assessment letters to candidates and political campaign committees for local public office when the administrator discovers that a campaign finance report has not been filed by the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 723 |
| TN | SB0305 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the speakers of the senate and house of representatives to appoint the members of the advisory task force to review the composition of judicial districts by January 1, 2025, rather than July 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 8; Titl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1193 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the administrative office of the courts to report the number of appeals filed appealing the finding that a criminal defendant is a repeat violent offender by no later than February 1 of each year to the senate judiciary commit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1348 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases the mandatory period of confinement for the felony offense of evading arrest from 30 days to 90 days; increases the mandatory period of confinement for the felony offense of evading arrest from 60 days to 120 days if the offe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1772 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes the reimbursement amount for property tax relief for disabled veteran homeowners; increases the reimbursement amount from payment on the first $175,000 of the full market value of the home to payment on the first $300,000 of th...
[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 | 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 | SB1807 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department, on or before January 1, 2025, and on or before January 1 of each subsequent year, to submit a report on the department's progress on passenger and freight rail and public transportation efforts at the state and fe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024 |
| TN | SB2514 | Pass | As enacted, adds the short title "The Gabby Act" to Chapter 237 of the Public Acts of 2023, which requires district attorneys general to designate one assistant district attorney general as the lead prosecutor in cases involving crimes committed agai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 04/04/2024 |
| TN | SB1596 | Pass | As enacted, requires the state university board for Tennessee State University to be vacated and reconstituted; extends the termination date for the Tennessee State University, board of trustees to June 30, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Effective date(s) 03/28/2024 |
| TN | SB1782 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, raises from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony certain animal cruelty offenses involving a cock; requires a fine of not less than $1,000 nor more than $2,500 for the offense of being a spectator at a cock fight. - Amends TCA Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB1784 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the board of directors of an emergency communications district to ensure that all calls coming from a blue-light emergency telephone are recorded. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 86.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB2383 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, specifies that a cause of action for wrongful death must be commenced within three years after the cause of action accrued. - Amends TCA Title 28 and Title 29.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB1767 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, expands the definition of "racketeering activity" to include committing, conspiring to commit, aiding, attempting to aid, soliciting, coercing, facilitating, or intimidating another person to commit the criminal offense of animal fight...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB2713 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, abolishes the governing board of directors for the Tennessee student assistance corporation and designates the corporation as a division of the commission; revises certain duties and powers of the commission; vacates and reconstitutes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Companion House Bill substituted |
| TN | SB1768 | Pass | As enacted, disqualifies an administrator of elections from serving as administrator if the administrator qualifies as a candidate for public office; requires the administrator to be recused from official duties at least 30 days prior to an election ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 579 |
| TN | SB1947 | Pass | As enacted, requires the board, in collaboration with the department of education and the Tennessee higher education commission, to identify math courses that may be substituted for Algebra II for purposes of satisfying high school graduation require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 583 |
| TN | SB1957 | Pass | As enacted, establishes a process for a licensed veterinarian to report suspected animal cruelty in violation of certain criminal laws and testify in a judicial or administrative proceeding concerning the care of the animal without being subject to c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 584 |
| TN | SB2809 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires LEAs and public charter schools to prohibit students from displaying, using, or accessing an electronic device during instructional time unless the electronic device is authorized, or provided to the student, by the LEA or pub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2787 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department of education to study the school choice programs available in other states and to submit a report of the department's findings at the conclusion of the study to the governor, the speaker of the house of represen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1853 | Pass | As enacted, increases from three to six the maximum number of credits a student may earn in a work-based learning program in one school year; reduces from 10 to 5 hours per week, the amount of time of supervised work experience required for each addi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 543 |
| TN | SB2111 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, revises the formula for calculating tax relief on real property owned by eligible disabled veterans so that in determining the amount of relief to such a taxpayer, the assessed value on the first $175,000 of full market value is to be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB2076 | Pass | As enacted, expands the Tennessee Adult Protection Act's definition of abuse or neglect to include certain situations when an adult is unable to maintain the adult's own health or welfare. - Amends TCA Section 71-6-102.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 512 |
| TN | SB2623 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires, on or before January 1, 2025, the commissioner of economic and community development, in consultation with the commissioner of revenue, to report to the finance, ways and means committees of the house of representatives and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB2640 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases, from 10 to 11 days, the time a merchant has to provide a written notice of objection to a writing or record that confirms a contract between the recipient and another merchant before the writing or record is considered suffi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SB2513 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, establishes a process for the department to issue licenses to commercial breeders of cats and dogs. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 43 and Title 44.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB2114 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, changes, from the governor to the president of the university, the appointing authority for members of an advisory board; removes the requirement that advisory board members be confirmed by the general assembly prior to beginning a ter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB0302 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the commissioner of revenue to report, on or before February 1, 2024, to the finance, ways and means committees of the senate and the house of representatives the total annual amount of industrial machinery franchise and excis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1854 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the board, in collaboration with the department of education, to identify math courses that may be substituted for Algebra II for purposes of satisfying high school graduation requirements and to submit a report to the educati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
Withdrawn. |
| TN | SB2534 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the superintendent of a workhouse to keep a record of the height and weight of each inmate in addition to the inmate's age, sex, complexion, color of hair and eyes, and nationality. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 41.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
