| TN | SJR0177 | Intro
25% | James S. "Steve" Jones, Fish and Wildlife Commission
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration |
| TN | SB0210 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SJR0017 | Engross
50% | President Jimmy Carter
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Naming & Designating Committee |
| TN | SB0429 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates a Class B misdemeanor for knowingly activating and pointing a laser pointer or other device utilizing a laser beam at a person driving an automobile, boat, airplane, or any other motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| TN | SB0558 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes the commission to regulate the operation of sport shooting ranges rather than firing ranges; authorizes the Tennessee wildlife resources agency to establish fees for the use of such ranges in operation prior to July 1, 1998....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB0880 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits a state agency from disseminating, proposing, or finalizing any regulatory action for a substance, mixture, or chemical related to drinking water, water pollution control, hazardous substances, contaminated site remediation, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB0885 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows nuclear energy production facilities to seek pollution control tax credits for certain machinery and equipment. - Amends TCA Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB0884 | Intro
25% | As introduced, clarifies that a political subdivision that imposes requirements or expectations related to the type of clean or green, or renewable, energy used by a public utility in an ordinance, resolution, or other regulation must include certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SB0185 | Intro
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,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SJR0100 | Intro
25% | Sharon Jean-Phillipe, State Forestry Commission
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
Recommended for adoption by Senate Energy, Ag., and Nat. Resources Committee, refer Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SJR0116 | Intro
25% | Mark Rogers, Forestry Commission
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
Recommended for adoption by Senate Energy, Ag., and Nat. Resources Committee, refer Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SB0278 | Intro
25% | As introduced, designates certain portions of the Duck River and certain portions of various creeks as Class II pastoral river areas. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 13.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| TN | SJR0090 | Intro
25% | Michael Bittel, Heritage Conservation Trust Fund Board of Trustees
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
Recommended for adoption by Senate Energy, Ag., and Nat. Resources Committee, refer Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SJR0112 | Intro
25% | Jake Almond, Forestry Commission
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
Recommended for adoption by Senate Energy, Ag., and Nat. Resources Committee, refer Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SB0251 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes that a retiree who is a member of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system must have had a bona fide separation of service before the retiree is allowed to accept temporary reemployment without a loss or suspension of b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Placed on Senate State and Local Government Committee calendar for 3/4/2025 |
| TN | SB0421 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes certain prescribing physician assistants and nurse practitioners to prescribe buprenorphine products for the treatment of opioid use disorder when the physician assistant or nurse practitioner is employed by or contracts wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0435 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires health benefit plans and TennCare health benefit plans to cover biomarker testing on and after January 1, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB0437 | Intro
25% | As introduced, revises certain protocols for mental health and substance abuse services. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB6003 | Pass | As introduced, creates two funds within the state treasury to be known as the Hurricane Helene interest payment fund and the governor's response and recovery fund; authorizes moneys in each fund to be used to assist with the response to and the recov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Effective date(s) 02/12/2025 |
| TN | SB6007 | Pass | As introduced, requires the comptroller to disburse payments to property owners whose real or personal property was destroyed or damaged by a FEMA-certified disaster occurring between September 26, 2024, and September 30, 2024, under certain conditio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Effective date(s) 02/12/2025 |
| TN | SB6002 | Pass | As introduced, creates within the department of safety the centralized immigration enforcement division, to be administered by the chief immigration enforcement officer; establishes a grant program for purposes of promoting the enforcement of federal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Effective date(s) 02/12/2025, 07/01/2025, 01/01/2026 |
| TN | SB6006 | Pass | As introduced, creates the Tennessee transportation financing authority to provide financing and refinancing for the development, maintenance, and improvement of transportation facilities within the state; makes related revisions. - Amends TCA Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Effective date(s) 02/12/2025 |
| TN | SB0518 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes certain utility systems to borrow money in anticipation of revenue collections and to issue negotiable notes to evidence such borrowing to provide emergency cash flow for such systems, with oversight of such actions by the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0559 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies that if the occupant of a self-service storage facility does not sign a written rental agreement revision and continues to use the facility for not less than 30 days from the date of receipt of the agreement, then the occupan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SB0556 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits the commission from exercising regulatory authority over the entry of, rates for, or terms or conditions used by a broadband internet access service or interconnected VoIP service, or from treating a provider of such services...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB0569 | Intro
25% | As introduced, makes certain changes to the practice of pharmacy, including removing the present prohibition on requiring a patient to pay an administrative fee for pharmacist-provided hormonal contraceptives when the patient is insured or covered an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | SB6004 | Pass | As introduced, authorizes TEMA to assist a political subdivision or local emergency management agency with recovery from disasters and emergencies on public property at the request of the political subdivision or agency; suspends certain eligibility ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Effective date(s) 02/12/2025 |
| TN | SB6001 | Pass | As introduced, enacts the "Education Freedom Act of 2025." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 49; Title 8 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 7 |
| TN | SB6005 | Pass | As introduced, makes appropriations sufficient for the payment of any lawful expenses of the first extraordinary session of the 114th General Assembly; makes other appropriations related to such extraordinary session.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Effective date(s) 02/12/2025, 07/01/2025 |
| TN | SB0889 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases, by 15 cents over a 10-year period, and subject to a two-thirds vote of the county legislative body, the maximum mineral severance tax rate that may be levied by a county on all sand, gravel, sandstone, chert, and limestone s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0890 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces from 10 working days to 10 calendar days from receipt of a written request by a patient or patient's authorized representative, the length of time a healthcare provider has to provide the patient or the patient's authorized rep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB0886 | Intro
25% | As introduced, exempts a real estate broker licensee who was originally licensed prior to January 1, 2005, and does not supervise any affiliate brokers from the requirement to furnish certification of satisfactory completion of 16 classroom hours in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB1063 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a healthcare provider to notify a patient of a communication between the provider and the patient's health insurance entity if the provider contacts the health insurance entity seeking additional information needed to process ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SJR0122 | Enroll
75% | Bud and Kay Mitchell
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | SB0978 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes all TCA references from "adult day care" to "adult day services". - Amends TCA Section 4-3-1205; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 18; Title 52, Chapter 8; Section 68-1-904; Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0207 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes a fund for the development and implementation of programs that benefit Tennesseans by preserving farmland and forestland, including a grant program for conservation easements. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 1, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SJR0043 | Enroll
75% | Hurricane Helene recovery efforts
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | SJR0064 | Enroll
75% | Area Agencies on Aging in Tennessee
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | SJR0041 | Enroll
75% | John Richard "Dick" Lodge, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Signed by Senate Speaker |
| TN | SJR0048 | Intro
25% | Ratifies the increase of the 911 surcharge rate to $1.86 as approved by the Tennessee Emergency Communications Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB0171 | Engross
50% | As introduced, enacts "The Ink of Hope Act"; requires tattoo operators and tattoo artists to complete up to one hour of training on recognizing and reporting signs of human trafficking. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 38.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SJR0141 | Engross
50% | Vietnam War, 50th anniversary of its end
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SJR0160 | Intro
25% | Encourages Tennessee's teachers to use the names Gulf of America and Mount McKinley in classroom instruction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Introduced, Passed on First Consideration |
| TN | SB0669 | Engross
50% | As introduced, deletes all references to the world health organization; requires a pandemic to be declared by the federal centers for disease and prevention control, rather than the world health organization, with a subsequent declaration of a state ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SJR0007 | Engross
50% | Designates Sunday, February 2, 2025, and the first Sunday in February thereafter "Four Chaplains Day."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Naming & Designating Committee |
| TN | SB0433 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits the abandonment of an animal in a person's custody and provides that it is not a defense to prosecution that the person abandoned the animal at or near an animal shelter, veterinary clinic, or other place of shelter if the pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0430 | Intro
25% | As introduced, urges the department of revenue to study the potential economic impact of making all franchise and excise tax credits transferable to any person or entity other than the entity to whom or to which the credits are initially made availab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
Refer to Senate F,W&M Revenue Subcommittee |
| TN | SB1080 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires 50 percent of collections of the recordation tax levied on transfers of realty to be remitted to each county; requires counties to use such funds for transportation infrastructure, schools, and other nonrecurring expenses. - A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| TN | SB1427 | Intro
25% | Subject to local approval, abolishes the Bedford County road board. - Repeals Chapter 30 of the Private Acts of 1975 and Chapter 39 of the Private Acts of 1989.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Passed on Second Consideration, held on desk. Local Bill |
| TN | SB0436 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds mandating the use of biosimilar drugs as a cost-saving measure the bureau of TennCare may implement; adds that a health carrier, health benefit plan, or utilization review organization may require a patient to try a biosimilar pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
