Tennessee Senator Raumesh Akbari [D] | Senate | Introduced

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TNSB0662Intro
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As introduced, establishes a rebuttable presumption that a person poses an imminent substantial likelihood of serious harm and needs emergency detention and examination if the person was charged with one of certain criminal offenses and ordered by th...
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2025-01-31
Filed for introduction
TNSB0517Intro
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As introduced, authorizes local education agencies and public charter schools to provide up to four days of the required 180 days of classroom instruction via hybrid learning in the event of dangerous or extreme weather conditions, or an emergency, a...
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2025-01-30
Filed for introduction
TNSB0578Intro
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As introduced, designates December 14 of each year as "Hazel Moore Day." - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 4.
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2025-01-30
Filed for introduction
TNSB0579Intro
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As introduced, allows for eligible employees to be absent 12 weeks from work following a living organ donation surgery; prohibits insurers from denying coverage or varying any term or condition of a life insurance policy, disability insurance policy,...
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2025-01-30
Filed for introduction
TNSB0585Intro
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As introduced, allows the department, office of criminal justice programs, to use available existing resources to seek appropriate funding and resources from the federal and state governments to design and implement grants to reduce gun violence in t...
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2025-01-30
Filed for introduction
TNSB0589Intro
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As introduced, expands the definition of a health benefit plan; requires a health benefit plan that amends, renews, or delivers a policy of coverage on or after January 1, 2026, and that provides coverage for prescription contraceptives, to provide c...
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2025-01-30
Filed for introduction
TNSB0586Intro
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As introduced, clarifies that a person commits the offense of unlawful exposure by distributing a private, intimate image of another identifiable person with intent to cause emotional distress, regardless of whether the person who distributes the ima...
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2025-01-30
Filed for introduction
TNSB0582Intro
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As introduced, requires the department to establish enrollment deadlines for voluntary pre-kindergarten programs so that at-risk students who will be four years old by August 15 must be enrolled by the beginning of the school year and students who ar...
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2025-01-30
Filed for introduction
TNSB0588Intro
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As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee for Tampons Act," which requires public institutions of higher education to provide feminine hygiene products in all women's and girl's bathrooms and locker rooms. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapt...
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2025-01-30
Filed for introduction
TNSB0580Intro
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As introduced, requires the governor's office of faith-based and community initiatives to establish a grant program for the purpose of supporting and funding nonprofit and faith-based child care programs for children four years of age and younger. - ...
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2025-01-30
Filed for introduction
TNSB0583Intro
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As introduced, requires the department to award grants to local education agencies that operate or authorize at least one public school located in a county with a county juvenile offense rate that is at least 10 percent higher than the statewide juve...
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2025-01-30
Filed for introduction
TNSB0581Intro
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As introduced, requires a law enforcement officer initiating a traffic stop or pedestrian stop, on or after January 1, 2026, to inform the person stopped of the reason for the stop before engaging the person in questioning related to an investigation...
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2025-01-30
Filed for introduction
TNSB0584Intro
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As introduced, authorizes the commissioner to develop and maintain an essential buffer stock of necessary medicines and healthcare supplies to be distributed during a natural or man-made disaster, mass casualty event, or public health emergency. - Am...
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2025-01-30
Filed for introduction
TNSB0587Intro
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As introduced, requires the department to establish and administer a pilot program for the placement of hygiene vending machines that dispense feminine hygiene products to students at no cost to the student in women's restrooms or locker rooms in eac...
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2025-01-30
Filed for introduction
TNSB0501Intro
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As introduced, authorizes the governor to expand medicaid eligibility solely for the purpose of providing treatment for a patient with a diagnosis of sickle cell disease in accordance with the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and to...
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2025-01-29
Filed for introduction
TNSB0344Intro
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As introduced, requires at least one full-time employee at each school under the jurisdiction of an LEA or public charter school to annually receive training in seizure safety and first aid. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 50 and Title 71.
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2025-01-28
Filed for introduction
TNSJR0053Intro
25%
Tay Keith
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2025-01-28
Filed for introduction
TNSB0419Intro
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As introduced, increases the amount of compensation an injured plaintiff in a civil action may receive for noneconomic damages from $750,000 to $1.5 million; increases the amount of compensation an injured plaintiff in a civil action may receive for ...
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2025-01-28
Filed for introduction
TNSR0005Intro
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Dr. Priscilla Davis, 80th birthday
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2025-01-28
Filed for introduction
TNSR0004Intro
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Delta Days at the Capitol
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2025-01-28
Filed for introduction
TNSB0418Intro
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As introduced, increases the amount that a person may recover in an action brought against a local governmental entity under the Tennessee Governmental Tort Liability Act for claims brought on or after July 1, 2025, to $750,000 for the bodily injury ...
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2025-01-28
Filed for introduction
TNSB0234Intro
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As introduced, expands the notification and uniform requirements for peace officers who provide security or other duties outside of their primary jurisdiction to apply statewide rather than only in certain counties. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 35.
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2025-01-27
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
TNSB0231Intro
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As introduced, requires health benefit plans to provide coverage for habilitative or rehabilitative speech therapy services; prohibits such coverage from being subject to any maximum annual benefit, limited based on the type of medical condition, or ...
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2025-01-27
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
TNSB0232Intro
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As introduced, authorizes the county election commission to designate restroom facilities in each building in which the election is held that are for the use of workers or volunteers working for a campaign with certain limitations on access. - Amends...
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2025-01-27
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
TNSB0233Intro
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As introduced, creates the conservatorship management task force. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 34 and Title 71, Chapter 2.
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2025-01-27
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
TNSB0235Intro
25%
As introduced, requires an employing law enforcement agency to contact any prior law enforcement agency that employed the agency's officer or special deputy as part of the thorough investigation into the person's good moral character. - Amends TCA Ti...
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2025-01-27
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
TNSB0338Intro
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As introduced, designates "Tennessee" by Arrested Development as an official state song. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.
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2025-01-27
Filed for introduction
TNSB0336Intro
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As introduced, removes the permanent deprivation of the right of suffrage upon conviction of first degree murder, aggravated rape, treason, or voter fraud; removes the requirement that a person must have paid all court costs in order to be eligible f...
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2025-01-27
Filed for introduction
TNSB0337Intro
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As introduced, authorizes certain counties to levy a local option sales tax at the rate of 3.75 percent, instead of a maximum of 2.75 percent, if the revenue from the increase in such tax is used by the county exclusively for the construction of a ne...
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2025-01-27
Filed for introduction
TNSB0155Intro
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As introduced, enacts the "Menstrual Hygiene Products Accessibility Act," which requires, instead of authorizes, LEAs and public charter schools to provide feminine hygiene products at no charge in all women's and girls' bathrooms, in all locker room...
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2025-01-16
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
TNSB0003Intro
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As introduced, clarifies that the term "abortion," as defined for the offense of criminal abortion, does not include the use of contraceptives, including any device, medication, biological product, or procedure that is generally intended for use in t...
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2025-01-15
Passed on Second Consideration, held on desk pending committee appointments
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