Tennessee Senator Joseph Hensley [R]

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TNSB0156Intro
25%
As introduced, prohibits the Tennessee national guard, or a member of the national guard, from being released from state duty into federal active duty combat unless the United States congress has passed an official declaration of war or has taken an ...
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2025-01-31
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB0614Intro
25%
As introduced, requires that, if a local government adopts a budget that includes the required maintenance of effort for education funding but fails to appropriate or allocate the full amount budgeted to the LEA, the local government must, in the fol...
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2025-01-31
Filed for introduction
TNSB0615Intro
25%
As introduced, decreases from 10 business days to 10 calendar days, the amount of time the advisory council on workers' compensation has to provide a summary of a meeting after it has been conducted to each member of legislative committees with juris...
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2025-01-31
Filed for introduction
TNSB0660Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes a county clerk, during a period when the clerk's office is closed due to an emergency, to request the assistance of a county clerk in a contiguous county for purposes of registering motor vehicles and related transactions. -...
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2025-01-31
Filed for introduction
TNSB0659Intro
25%
As introduced, increases, from two to four, the number of temporary sales periods that a bona fide religious institution may participate in and be exempt from registering to collect sales tax on sales directly to consumers made during such temporary ...
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2025-01-31
Filed for introduction
TNSB0656Intro
25%
As introduced, extends the use of service of a conventional and Class D school bus from 200,000 miles to 230,000 miles. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 55.
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2025-01-31
Filed for introduction
TNSB0661Intro
25%
As introduced, extends from January 15 to February 15, the date by which, every five years, the fiscal review committee must report to the chief clerks of the senate and the house of representatives of the general assembly the percentage of change in...
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2025-01-31
Filed for introduction
TNSB0657Intro
25%
As introduced, adds organized retail crime and possession or employment of a firearm during the commission of or attempt to commit a dangerous felony to the definition of racketeering activity; clarifies that carjacking is racketeering activity. - Am...
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2025-01-31
Filed for introduction
TNSB0658Intro
25%
As introduced, requires acceptable forms of identification to cast a vote in an election in this state to be valid and unexpired; prohibits the registration of an applicant to vote without such a valid, unexpired identification. - Amends TCA Title 2.
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2025-01-31
Filed for introduction
TNSB0458Intro
25%
As introduced, adds the legislature librarian to the list of persons the commissioner of health must submit an annual report to on the work done by and under the commissioner regarding the general supervision of dentists and dental equipment in the v...
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2025-01-29
Filed for introduction
TNSB0495Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes a city incorporated under a city manager-commission charter to contract with a private entity for the development, construction, management, or operation of an indoor or outdoor sports facility under terms acceptable to the ...
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2025-01-29
Filed for introduction
TNSB0374Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department of children's services to study the need for a new juvenile detention facility to be constructed in the western grand division of this state that would serve the detention and treatment needs of juveniles in tha...
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2025-01-29
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSJR0017Engross
50%
President Jimmy Carter
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2025-01-28
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB0347Intro
25%
As introduced, revises the definition of "signature" for purposes of certain election-related documents, including absentee ballot and voter registration forms, and petitions for nomination, referendum, or another purpose; revises requirements for si...
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2025-01-28
Filed for introduction
TNSB0348Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the state coordinator of elections to monthly compare the statewide voter registration database with relevant databases of state and federal agencies to ensure non-United States citizens are not registered to vote in this stat...
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2025-01-28
Filed for introduction
TNSJR0018Engross
50%
Tom Lee
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2025-01-28
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSJR0033Engross
50%
Pastor Ted Clower
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2025-01-28
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB0210Intro
25%
As introduced, establishes separate reimbursement rates for ground-based rural ambulance services and urban ambulance services provided to TennCare recipients; allows for certain rural ambulance service providers to receive emergency medical services...
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2025-01-27
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
TNSB0267Intro
25%
As introduced, clarifies that the location to which specimens are transported that are collected at a collection station owned and operated by a medical laboratory owner that is a licensee of a medical laboratory in this state does not affect the abi...
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2025-01-27
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
TNSB0263Intro
25%
As introduced, prohibits the enforcement and recognition of requirements or mandates issued by the World Health Organization, United Nations, or World Economic Forum in this state or its political subdivisions. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 4...
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2025-01-27
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
TNSB0268Intro
25%
As introduced, requires a financial institution to verify the immigration status of a person sending funds electronically outside of the United States and its territories; changes the definition of resident or citizen of this state to mean citizens o...
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2025-01-27
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
TNSB0265Intro
25%
As introduced, establishes a process for renaming an international airport governed by a metropolitan airport authority to Trump International Airport. - Amends TCA Title 42, Chapter 3; Title 42, Chapter 4 and Title 55.
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2025-01-27
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
TNSB0266Intro
25%
As introduced, prohibits state and local government entities from displaying or allowing display of flags other than Tennessee and U.S. flags on courthouses and public roads and sidewalks; prohibits LEAs and public charter schools from displaying in ...
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2025-01-27
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
TNSB0264Intro
25%
As introduced, requires TennCare to certify an eligible healthcare providers' unreimbursed costs in a calendar year as charitable contributions made exclusively for public purposes to TennCare; requires eligible healthcare providers to pay TennCare $...
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2025-01-27
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
TNSJR0008PassUniversity of Tennessee baseball team, 2024 NCAA Men's College World Series Champions
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2025-01-17
Signed by Governor.
TNSB0158Intro
25%
As introduced, increases, from 130 minutes per full school week to 60 minutes per school day, the minimum amount of physical activity required for elementary school students; establishes additional requirements for the minimum amount of physical acti...
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2025-01-16
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
TNSB0162Intro
25%
As introduced, prohibits public water system operators from adding fluoride to their water systems. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 221.
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2025-01-16
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
TNSB0159Intro
25%
As introduced, prohibits using voting machines or voting equipment to cast, receive, or transmit an election ballot via the internet, except for military personnel and citizens abroad. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 6, Part 5 and Title 2, Chapter 9.
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2025-01-16
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
TNSB0160Intro
25%
As introduced, requires a municipality that does not provide ambulance service to reimburse the county for such service in proportion to the municipality's population to the population of the county, up to 50 percent of the total cost of providing th...
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2025-01-16
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
TNSB0161Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the board of education for an LEA that operates at least one high school to adopt a policy for the selection of, and to select for the 2025-2026 school year and for each subsequent school year, at least one junior or senior st...
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2025-01-16
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
TNSB0163Intro
25%
As introduced, increases the penalty for reckless endangerment when the offense is committed by discharging a firearm or antique firearm into a motor vehicle from a Class E felony to a Class C felony, if the motor vehicle is occupied, or a Class D fe...
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2025-01-16
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
TNSB0157Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department to use student performance on career readiness assessments administered to high school seniors as part of the school grading system if the department uses student performance on postsecondary readiness assessmen...
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2025-01-16
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
TNSB0194Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Unborn Child Protection Act of 2025." - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 2; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.
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2025-01-16
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
TNSB0185Intro
25%
As introduced, establishes TennCare minimum and maximum reimbursement rate levels for rural hospitals and requires that the reimbursement rate is based on the rural hospital's current federal fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71,...
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2025-01-16
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB0005Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department of safety to redesign driver licenses, instruction permits, intermediate driver licenses, and photo identification cards issued to lawful permanent residents of the United States, and temporary driver licenses a...
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2025-01-15
Passed on Second Consideration, held on desk pending committee appointments
TNSB0006Intro
25%
As introduced, requires a law enforcement agency in custody of an individual unlawfully present in the United States to request an immigration detainer and detain such individual for the maximum period as specified in the detainer; requires such agen...
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2025-01-15
Passed on Second Consideration, held on desk pending committee appointments
TNSJR0001Intro
25%
Proposes additional language in Article II, Section 28 to prohibit the general assembly from levying, authorizing, or otherwise permitting a state tax on property.
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2025-01-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNSB0010Intro
25%
As introduced, requires LEAs and public charter schools to adopt a policy to prohibit students from using wireless communication devices during instructional time except in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2025-01-15
Passed on Second Consideration, held on desk pending committee appointments
TNSB0016Intro
25%
As introduced, prohibits a public school from using public funds to have a membership with an association that regulates interscholastic athletics and prohibits a student from participating in an interscholastic athletic competition due to the studen...
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2025-01-15
Passed on Second Consideration, held on desk pending committee appointments
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