Business & Utilities Subcommittee

TN - Representative Clark Boyd (R)

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TN - Representative Rebecca Alexander (R)

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TN - Representative Jeff Burkhart (R)

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TN - Representative John Ray Clemmons (D)

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TN - Representative Bob Freeman (D)

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TN - Representative Michael Hale (R)

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TN - Representative John Holsclaw (R)

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TN - Representative Curtis Johnson (R)

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TN - Representative Pat Marsh (R)

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TN - Representative Dwayne Thompson (D)

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TN - Representative Kevin Vaughan (R)

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TN - Representative Greg Vital (R)

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TN - Representative Jason Zachary (R)

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TN - HB21 Economic and Community Development, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "Support Micro-Businesses Act" to create a revolving loan fund to support certain small businesses. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 9; Title 10; Title 13; Title 45 and Title 67.

TN - HB34 Landlord and Tenant - As introduced, requires residential landlords in Shelby County to register with the county or with the respective jurisdiction in Shelby County in which the dwelling units are located. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 28.

TN - HB52 Surveyors - As introduced, expands notice requirement for land surveyors conducting boundary surveys by requiring them to notify all adjoining landowners of the survey rather than just when the surveyor discovers or reasonably should have discovered discrepancies between the deed descriptions of the adjoining owners. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 18, Part 1.

TN - HB103 Barbers and/or Cosmetologists - As enacted, creates an eyelash specialist license; authorizes the establishment of eyelash services shops in accordance with requirements for other licensed shops; authorizes schools to offer courses of instruction that consist of 50 percent of the hours needed for an eyelash specialist license to be obtained from apprenticing; requires certain rule promulgation by the board of cosmetology and barber examiners. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 3; Title 62, Chapte...

TN - HB105 Landlord and Tenant - As introduced, increases from $10 to $250 per year the limit on the fee that an agency or department of local government that is responsible for enforcing building codes in the jurisdiction where the landlord's dwelling units are located may charge the landlord for registering with the agency or government; increases from $50 to $100 per week the fine that a landlord who fails to register is to be assessed. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 28.

TN - HB154 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, enacts the "Employee Ownership, Empowerment, and Expansion Act," to support the growth and expansion of employee-owned businesses. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 12, Chapter 3; Title 45; Title 50; Title 56, Chapter 1 and Title 67.

TN - HB165 Disabled Persons - As enacted, authorizes an employee of a public accommodation to ask for certain information about a dog guide in training; specifies that an individual utilizing a service animal or training a service animal in training is liable for damages to the same extent that an individual whose pet causes damages to a public accommodation is; makes other related changes to service animals and service animals in training. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 39; Title 44 and Title 62, Chapter ...

TN - HB167 Tattoos and Piercings - As enacted, prohibits the sale or distribution of tattoo and body piercing paraphernalia to minors. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 62, Chapter 38, Part 2 and Title 62, Chapter 38, Part 3.

TN - HB171 Safety - As introduced, enacts the "Fuel Gas Detector Act"; requires the installation and maintenance of fuel gas detectors in rooms containing an appliance fueled by propane, natural gas, or any liquefied petroleum gas for certain residential buildings. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 49; Title 66 and Title 68.

TN - HB280 Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, increases maximum per diem allowable for commissioners of utility district board in Morgan and Roane Counties, from $300 to $500 per board meeting. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 82, Part 3 and Title 66.

TN - HB286 Fireworks - As introduced, permits the sale of fireworks in a municipality or county unless the municipality or county passes an ordinance or law prohibiting the sale of fireworks in the municipality or county. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 104.

TN - HB296 Codes - As enacted, authorizes certain persons entering into employment as a municipal or county building, plumbing, mechanical, or electrical inspector with an exempt jurisdiction to perform certain services. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 120, Part 1.

TN - HB349 Business and Commerce - As enacted, revises the types of entities that may serve as registered agents for certain corporations, companies, and partnerships; requires a registered agent to maintain a business office at the location of the agent's registered office. - Amends TCA Title 48 and Title 61.

TN - HB351 Industrial Development - As introduced, authorizes the establishment of industrial development corporations solely to assist and benefit minority-owned businesses, locally owned businesses, small businesses, and women-owned businesses. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53.

TN - HB379 Professions and Occupations - As enacted, revises present law relative to security guards/officers. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 57 and Title 62, Chapter 35.

TN - HB392 Business and Commerce - As enacted, generally prohibits a municipality or county from adopting or enforcing an ordinance, order, or regulation that requires a permit or fee for the installation or use of a battery-charged security fence that is in addition to an alarm system permit issued by the municipality or county; imposes installation or operational requirements for a battery-charged security fence that are inconsistent with current requirements in law for a battery-charged security fenc...

TN - HB408 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, prohibits an entity that delivers energy that powers heating or cooling to residential properties from shutting off energy delivery if a state of emergency has been declared due to weather or if temperatures reach levels that would be a threat to health or safety if energy is shut off. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 65 and Title 68.

TN - HB484 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for the offense of possession of a used, detached catalytic converter by an unauthorized person from a Class A misdemeanor punishable only by fine to a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 55 and Title 62.

TN - HB487 Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, excludes streaming video content from the definition of "cable service," and streaming content and direct-to-home satellite services from the definition of "video service," for purposes of the Competitive Cable and Video Services Act. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 59, Part 3.

TN - HB591 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, deletes the Alarm Contractors Licensing Act of 1991; authorizes counties and municipalities to offer alarm system monitoring under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 32.

TN - HB592 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, repeals the Soil Scientist Licensure Act of 2009. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 18, Part 2 and Section 62-36-114.

TN - HB601 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, requires a utility that provides electricity to prioritize the provision of electricity to a healthcare facility when engaging in load management for the electric service system. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 64; Title 65 and Title 68.

TN - HB623 Real Property - As introduced, specifies that a seller of residential property is required to disclose the presence of a known sinkhole on the property prior to entering into a contract with a buyer regardless of whether the sinkhole is indicated through the contour lines on the property's recorded plat map. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 66.

TN - HB640 Uniform Commercial Code - As introduced, incorporates into the Uniform Commercial Code the amendments adopted by the Uniform Law Commission in 2022. - Amends TCA Title 47.

TN - HB655 Contractors - As introduced, increases the minimum total project cost amount for which a license as a contractor is required from $25,000 to $40,928; ties the minimum total project cost amount to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics Producer Price Index by Industry: Building Materials and Supplies Dealers; requires the board for licensing contractors to update the amount at least annually and publish the amount on its public website. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 6.

TN - HB660 Business and Commerce - As enacted, authorizes the sale or purchase of previously titled antique or unique motor vehicles without a motor vehicle dealer license through auction formats that meet certain criteria. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 17 and Title 62, Chapter 19.

TN - HB682 Common Carriers - As introduced, designates social media platforms as common carriers and requires the entities to obtain certificates of public convenience and necessity from the Tennessee public utilities commission; prescribes fines against social media platforms that deplatform and shadow ban users based on political ideology, viewpoint, or personal animus, or discrimination based on race, creed, color, religion, sex, age, or national origin. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 47 and Title 65.

TN - HB732 Political Parties - As introduced, prohibits a political party from requiring a person to pay a fee in order to run as that political party's candidate for public office. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB742 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, requires municipalities with a population greater than 40,000 to provide water and sewer systems; prohibits such municipalities from entering into contracts for water and sewer systems with other municipalities. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 7 and Title 68.

TN - HB750 Real Property - As enacted, requires a board of directors for a unit owners' association to either update a reserve study or conduct a reserve study if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 27.

TN - HB753 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, changes a utility district board member's insurance compensation option from payment to reimbursement of payment for premiums paid for equivalent or similar medical insurance coverage and life insurance coverage by the member; allows a utility district board member to receive reimbursement of premiums paid for medical insurance coverage under medicare and any medicare supplement insurance policy. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 82.

TN - HB796 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, authorizes graduates of unaccredited engineering technology curriculums to apply for and become registered as engineers, provided that such persons have prior engineering experience and meet certain examination requirements. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 62, Chapter 2, Part 4.

TN - HB798 Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, increases the membership of the executive committee for the underground utility damage enforcement board from three to five members by adding two additional board members to the committee. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5 and Title 65, Chapter 31.

TN - HB799 Codes - As enacted, makes changes to present law concerning residential and energy codes. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 13, Chapter 19 and Title 68, Chapter 120.

TN - HB802 Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, makes changes to the Underground Utility Damage Prevention Act. - Amends TCA Title 65, Chapter 28 and Title 65, Chapter 31.

TN - HB805 Consumer Protection - As enacted, extends the prohibitions, requirements, and penalties that apply to telephone solicitations to text message solicitations. - Amends TCA Title 65, Chapter 4.

TN - HB814 Fire Prevention and Investigation - As enacted, requires the state fire marshal to create a state fire permit that mobile food units may obtain annually to demonstrate fire safety and electrical code compliance to local governments; requires a local government to recognize the state fire permit in its jurisdiction; prohibits the local government from requiring a local fire permit if the mobile food unit holds a state fire permit. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 102.

TN - HB881 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, authorizes the sale or purchase of previously titled antique or unique motor vehicles without a motor vehicle dealer license through auction formats that meet certain criteria. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 17 and Title 62, Chapter 19.

TN - HB919 Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, clarifies that commissioners for utility districts created pursuant to the Utility District Law of 1937 in Franklin and Marion counties are not prohibited from serving more than two consecutive terms. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 82, Part 3.

TN - HB921 Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, revises provisions relating to contracts executed for purchases, services, and leases by the president of a municipal energy authority or the superintendent of a municipal electric plant. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 34; Title 7, Chapter 36; Title 7, Chapter 52 and Title 12.

TN - HB943 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, requires franchise holders, and certificated providers, that provide broadband service to file on or before July 1, 2023, and by July 1 of the two subsequent years thereafter, a map or other information with the appropriate regulatory entity indicating the specific locations where the provider offered broadband service that is capable of delivering download speeds of at least 100 Mbps and upload speeds of at least 20 Mbps. - Amends TCA Title 7 and...

TN - HB946 Energy - As enacted, requires a political subdivision that imposes requirements or expectations related to the type of clean or renewable energy used by a public utility in an ordinance, resolution, or other regulation to include certain sources of energy as permissible sources of clean or renewable energy. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 64; Title 65; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HB947 Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, terminates the water and wastewater financing board and the utility management review board and creates a new Tennessee board of utility regulation in the office of the comptroller of the treasury; makes various changes to the management of affected utility systems. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 64; Title 65; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HB964 Business Organizations - As enacted, establishes a procedure by which a domestic or foreign limited partnership may elect and register to use an assumed name for transacting business in this state. - Amends TCA Title 61.

TN - HB988 Landlord and Tenant - As enacted, requires a landlord to provide 60 days' notice of termination of tenancy for the purpose of eviction of a residential tenant of certain facilities for older persons if the tenant has paid the tenant's rent due and is not in arrears on rent payments, and the termination and eviction are to allow for new property development. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 66.

TN - HJR119 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Encourages the State of Tennessee to develop an energy production plan in an effort to become an energy exporter.

TN - HB1037 Energy - As introduced, directs TACIR to study the reliability of the power grid on which this state relies for electricity, including assessing the grid's reliability in extreme weather scenarios, examining precautions taken by municipal utilities, electric cooperatives, and other similar entities to mitigate the potential impact of extreme weather scenarios, and determining whether municipal utilities, electric cooperatives, and other similar entities have the capability of doing an annual ...

TN - HB1061 Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, removes references to repealed provisions of law that provided an additional definition of contractor, and additional penalties, in relation to unlawful representation as a licensed contractor. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12; Title 13; Title 42; Title 43; Title 44; Title 45; Title 46; Title 47; Title 48; Title 50; Title 53; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 61; Title 62; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68 and T...

TN - HB1063 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, increases, from five to 10, the number of days the commissioner of finance and administration has to send notice to a municipality regarding the municipality's failure to remit funds in accordance with the amortization schedule for the municipality's waterworks construction loan agreement. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 13; Title 65 and Title 68.

TN - HB1067 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, requires a municipal utility system or metropolitan electric plant that established a program before January 1, 2021, for purposes of accepting and distributing excess receipts for bona fide charitable purposes, and that operates the program on an opt-out basis, to begin operating the program on an opt-in basis by January 1, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 34; Title 7, Chapter 52 and Title 65.

TN - HB1083 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, changes from two days to two business days the time frame during which an adversary hearing on a petition to enjoin or restrain removal from the jurisdiction of material the district attorney general believes violates certain laws regarding material harmful to minors must be held and the timeframe after the conclusion of the hearing within which the court will reach a determination. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB1123 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, prohibits a utility district from condemning property outside the service area of the utility. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 82.

TN - HB1131 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, directs the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations to perform a study of the coverage area for which electric cooperatives provide services within this state, and to report its findings to each member of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 65.

TN - HB1136 Fireworks - As introduced, increases, from two to three days, the permit expiration grace period for a holder of a fireworks permit. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 104.

TN - HB1137 Fireworks - As introduced, requires the state fire marshal to accept an application for a public display of fireworks, regardless of when the application is submitted, and approve the permit for the display if all other permitting and safety requirements are met. - Amends TCA Section 68-104-211.

TN - HB1182 Consumer Protection - As enacted, enacts the "Real Property Records Integrity Act." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 66.

TN - HB1211 Economic and Community Development, Dept. of - As enacted, makes various changes relative to the Broadband Accessibility Grant Program. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 7; Title 65 and Title 67.

TN - HB1275 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, exempts security guards and officers who are retired law enforcement officers with 20 or more years of service and who retired in good standing from certain training requirements. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 57 and Title 62, Chapter 35.

TN - HB1276 Contractors - As introduced, specifies circumstances under which a contractor can seek early release of a retainage held by a party with which the contractor has a written contract; makes other changes related to retainages for contractors. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 15 and Title 66.

TN - HB1290 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, exempts persons licensed as instructors to teach the practice and theory of aesthetics, manicuring, barbering, or cosmetology from the course requirements necessary to practice as an aesthetician, manicurist, barber, or cosmetologist. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 3 and Title 62, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1291 Professions and Occupations - As enacted, makes revisions to the law relative to reinstating certificates of registration for professional master barbers, barber instructors, and technicians, and licenses of cosmetologists, manicurists, aestheticians, and natural hair stylists. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 3 and Title 62, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1305 Landlord and Tenant - As introduced, requires a landlord, or another person authorized to enter into a rental agreement on the landlord's behalf, to disclose to a residential tenant certain contact information for the agent authorized to manage the premises and an owner of the premises, or a person or agent authorized to act for and on behalf of the owner for the acceptance of service of process and for receipt of notices and demands. - Amends TCA Title 66.

TN - HB1342 Economic and Community Development - As enacted, places certain restrictions on employers seeking to receive economic development incentives. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 50.

TN - HB1343 Telecommunications - As introduced, specifies that the Tennessee public utility commission shall deem an applicant to have satisfied all requirements necessary for approval of a state-issued certificate of franchise authority if the applicant has provided fiber-to-the-premises to at least 1,000 customers for a period of at least one year prior to the application. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 10; Title 65; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HB1446 Telecommunications - As introduced, prohibits the construction or operation of a cell tower on or within 1,640 feet of a school. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 13 and Title 65.

TN - HB1452 Codes - As enacted, makes various changes to the present law relative to the board of boiler rules formulating definitions, rules, and regulations for the safe and proper construction, installation, repair, use, and operation of boilers within this state. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 122.

TN - HB1494 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, requires certain utility providers to refund or reimburse, or provide rebates against future billing for utility services, to customers who experience an extended interruption or loss, or a permanent loss, of a vital utility service. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 65 and Title 68.

TN - HB1516 Fire Prevention and Investigation - As introduced, requires the state fire marshal to create a state fire permit that mobile food units may obtain annually to demonstrate fire safety and electrical code compliance to local governments; requires a local government to recognize the state fire permit in its jurisdiction; prohibits the local government from requiring a local fire permit if the mobile food unit holds a state fire permit. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 102.

TN - HB1526 Business and Commerce - As introduced, transfers the duty to issue and renew business licenses from the county clerks and city officials to the department of revenue. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 21, Part 7; Section 50-6-904 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 7.

TN - HJR135 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Requests TVA to address energy issues as they pertain to winter weather events in order to avoid rolling blackouts and power outages.

TN - HB1541 Rutherford County - Subject to local approval, increases membership of the county board of juvenile detention commissioners from four to six. - Amends Chapter 65 of the Private Acts of 2022.

TN - HB1702 Labor - As introduced, extends the Go Build Tennessee Act by changing the repeal date from July 1, 2024, to July 1, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 41 and Title 62, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - HB1731 Consumer Protection - As introduced, decreases from two inches to one and one-half inches the minimum height of the lettering required to be used on the mandatory signage posted on property for which an agreement exists with a person engaged in the business of installing vehicle immobilization devices on parked motor vehicles. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 39; Title 47; Title 48; Title 55; Title 56; Title 62; Title 66 and Title 67.

TN - HB1807 Codes - As introduced, requires the state fire marshal or another state entity that receives an inspection request for new construction or the renovation of an existing building to conduct the inspection within 72 hours of receipt of the request. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 7; Title 12; Title 13; Title 62; Title 66 and Title 68.

TN - HB1811 Funeral Directors and Embalmers - As introduced, authorizes sellers of pre-need funeral contracts to keep the interest that accrues on the contract after payment is made for the merchandise and services set forth in the contracts. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1814 Landlord and Tenant - As introduced, requires a landlord, or another person authorized to enter into a rental agreement on the landlord's behalf, to disclose to a residential tenant certain contact information for the agent authorized to manage the premises and an owner of the premises, or a person or agent authorized to act for and on behalf of the owner for the acceptance of service of process and for receipt of notices and demands. - Amends TCA Title 66.

TN - HB1842 Safety - As introduced, prohibits the use of physical broadband infrastructure and equipment from certain entities and countries in the construction or use of existing critical telecommunications infrastructure; establishes related requirements and penalties. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 13; Title 49 and Title 65.

TN - HB1859 Licenses - As introduced, prohibits certain licensing authorities from automatically barring an individual from licensure because of the individual's criminal record; requires the licensing authority to provide individualized consideration of an individual's criminal record and circumstances; specifies which convictions a licensing authority may consider in making a determination for licensure; makes other changes related to licensure determinations and criminal records. - Amends TCA Title 62...

TN - HB1879 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, requires a utility to notify the utility's customer and the owner of the property, if different from the utility's customer, when the utility service provided to a property by the utility is terminated. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69.

TN - HB1892 Safety - As introduced, authorizes the use of certain third-party examiners, inspectors, engineers, and professionals in lieu of a local or state examiner, inspector, engineer, or professional for certain permitted processes and requirements; establishes procedures and requirements for the use of a third-party examiner, inspector, engineer, or professional. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 120; Title 68, Chapter 221 and Title 69, Chapter 3, Part 1.

TN - HB1903 Contractors - As introduced, changes from a reviewed or audited financial statement prepared by a licensed public accountant or a certified public accountant to a compilation prepared by a licensed public accountant or a certified public accountant that a contractor who is seeking renewal of a license with a monetary limit exceeding $1,500,000 must submit with the renewal application. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1958 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, prohibits a utility district or a municipal or public corporation providing a utility service to a local government from executing a no-bid contract for energy-related services under the professional services contract exemption for public contracts if the total value of the contract exceeds $50,000. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 12 and Title 65.

TN - HB2025 Real Property - As introduced, requires a landlord, leasing company, or management company to disclose all fees charged in addition to the rent during a billing cycle to a prospective tenant prior to the prospective tenant's submission of an application, and whether the landlord or company accepts reusable screening reports or charges an application fee; creates requirements for an individual to use a reusable tenant screening report in an application for residential rental property; makes ot...

TN - HB2026 Cemeteries - As introduced, requires a cemetery company offering to sell a grave space in a pre-need contract to offer the option to pre-pay for the interment right and interment services applicable to the space; requires the offer of an option to pre-pay for the interment right and interment services to include a written disclosure of the days of the week for which such services for the purchased interment right would be available without additional fees and that pre-paying for the interment...

TN - HB2027 Cemeteries - As introduced, creates a process by which a grave space will be considered abandoned and revert to the cemetery company that owns or controls the cemetery land or property on which the grave space is located if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 26; Title 35; Title 46 and Title 62, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2072 Surveyors - As introduced, requires a description of real property by metes and bounds contained within any deed of conveyance of real property of any property not previously described in a recorded instrument to be prepared by a registered land surveyor. - Amends TCA Title 62 and Title 66, Chapter 5, Part 1.

TN - HB2103 Boats, Boating - As introduced, requires rules of the fish and wildlife commission governing the numbering, safety equipment, and operation of vessels to be published in the newspaper at least 20 days, instead of 15 days, before the rules become effective. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 9.

TN - HB2108 Energy - As introduced, clarifies that a political subdivision that imposes requirements or expectations related to the type of clean or renewable energy used by a public utility in an ordinance, resolution, or other regulation must include certain sources of energy as permissible sources of clean or renewable energy, regardless of whether the political subdivision classifies the requirements or expectations as relating to clean energy or renewable energy. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title...

TN - HB2135 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, redefines "cable services" and "video services" for purposes of the Competitive Cable and Video Services Act to include video programming accessed via a service that enables end users to access content, information, electronic mail, or other services offered over the internet, including streaming video content; includes revenue from providing internet services as gross revenue for a holder of a state-issued certificate of franchise authority. - Am...

TN - HB2146 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, authorizes the sale or purchase of previously titled antique or unique motor vehicles without a motor vehicle dealer license through auction formats held in Hamilton County that meet certain criteria. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 17 and Title 62, Chapter 19.

TN - HB2173 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, revises provisions related to the special account in the general fund known as the "pre-need funeral account"; deletes the indigent burial fund. - Amends TCA Section 62-5-414.

TN - HB2178 Labor and Workforce Development, Dept. of - As introduced, creates a high-value workforce readiness board that is administratively attached to the department to identify high-demand fields in this state and qualified institutions that offer workforce training programs in high-demand fields; creates a high-value workforce readiness grant program to be administered by the department to encourage individuals to pursue credentials in high-demand fields in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 4...

TN - HB2210 Business Organizations - As introduced, enacts the "End Hedge Fund Control of Tennessee Homes Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 13; Title 47; Title 48; Title 62; Title 66 and Title 67.

TN - HB2235 Surveyors - As introduced, requires that each year of progressive practical experience required of an applicant to qualify as a registered land surveyor be spent under the direct supervision of a practicing professional land surveyor rather than just part of the time an applicant receives such experience; adds requirement that certain applicants be certified as a professional land surveyor in training (PLSIT) as part of the application to qualify as a registered land surveyor. - Amends TCA Se...

TN - HB2266 Real Property - As introduced, specifies that documents provided through a website with the primary function of providing certificates, registrations, licenses, or similar documents for assistance animals in exchange for payment of a fee are not reliable documentation in seeking an exemption to a prohibition on animals in rental property. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 66.

TN - HB2268 Auctions and Auctioneers - As introduced, clarifies that a public automobile auction means a person that offers motor vehicles for sale to the highest bidder, where buyers are members of the public, by a motor vehicle dealer licensed to sell used motor vehicles that holds a public auto auction license and uses the services of a public automobile auctioneer licensed by the commission. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 17 and Title 62, Chapter 19.

TN - HB2286 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, makes revisions to the Underground Utility Damage Prevention Act, such as amending requirements for emergency excavations and the imposition of civil penalties. - Amends TCA Title 65, Chapter 31.

TN - HB2300 Public Utility Commission - As introduced, requires the commission to make the annual report the commission submits to the general assembly and governor regarding all matters relating to its office for the preceding year available on its website in a publicly accessible location. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 54 and Title 65.

TN - HB2309 Computers and Electronic Processing - As introduced, enacts the "Blockchain Basics Act." - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48 and Title 67.

TN - HB2370 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, requires a utility to obtain written consent from the owner of residential or commercial property for which the utility provides services before the utility installs a smart meter for the property; requires a utility to obtain written confirmation from the owner of the property that the owner consents to the continued presence and use of the smart meter if a smart meter is already present. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 65...

TN - HB2440 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, reduces, from 75 to 60, days after the end of the pre-need seller's fiscal year the time by which a pre-need seller and trustee must file an annual report with the commissioner of commerce and insurance. - Amends TCA Title 62 and Title 63.

TN - HB2455 Business and Commerce - As introduced, requires the department of economic and community development to establish and support, subject to appropriation, entrepreneurship assistance centers, the purpose of which is to train minority group members, women, individuals with a disability, dislocated workers, and veterans in the principles and practice of entrepreneurship in order to prepare those persons to pursue self-employment opportunities and to pursue a minority-owned business or a women-own...

TN - HB2474 Medical Occupations - As introduced, authorizes persons certified to operate vehicles as emergency medical responders to be employed as ambulance operators for non-emergency transport services on a part-time basis. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 14; Title 58; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 68, Chapter 140, Part 3.

TN - HB2479 Business and Commerce - As introduced, declares that an intrastate commercial good that is produced in this state and that remains within the borders of this state is not subject to federal law or federal regulation under the authority of congress to regulate interstate commerce. - Amends TCA Title 4.

TN - HB2500 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, prohibits a utility from terminating or otherwise interrupting utility service to its customers on a day for which the national weather service has issued a heat advisory or excessive heat warning for an area for which the utility provides services, or for two days following the issuance of the heat advisory or excessive heat warning. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69.

TN - HB2523 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, increases, from $200 to $400, the monthly compensation for the board of directors of the Reelfoot Lake regional utility and planning district; authorizes the board of directors to participate in the group medical and life insurance plan provided to district employees, to be reimbursed for premiums paid for equivalent or similar medical and life insurance coverage, and to be reimbursed for premiums paid for medical insurance coverage by medicare. -...

TN - HB2530 Codes - As introduced, prohibits a local government from limiting or prohibiting the use or installation of products that meet the national codes and standards or materials that meet the national codes and standards for single-family or multi-family housing or commercial construction under four stories; deletes provision declaring that a denial of a waiver by a local governmental entity pertaining to construction materials does not constitute a prohibition of those construction materials. - A...

TN - HB2552 Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As introduced, beginning in 2025, requires the commission to compile and submit to the general assembly a biennial report on underage and other high-risk alcohol consumption, including incidents of accidents, injuries, death, and citations relating to such consumption. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 1, Part 2.

TN - HB2576 Home Improvement Contractors - As introduced, increases, from 30 to 35, the number of days after a change of control in ownership, management, or a change of address or trade name, that a home improvement contractor licensee has to notify the state board for licensing contractors. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 29 and Title 62.

TN - HB2577 Fireworks - As introduced, allows a firework exhibitor whose license has been expired for 95 or fewer days, rather than 90 or fewer days, to renew the license and have it retroactive to the date the old license expired. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 68.

TN - HB2578 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, authorizes graduates of unaccredited engineering technology curriculums to apply for and become registered as engineers, provided that such persons have prior engineering experience and meet certain examination requirements. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 62, Chapter 2, Part 4.

TN - HB2617 Unclaimed Property - As introduced, allows the treasurer to file the annual report regarding the total amount and value of abandoned or unclaimed property with certain executive and legislative branch officials electronically. - Amends TCA Title 43; Title 44; Title 47; Title 48 and Title 66.

TN - HB2633 Business Organizations - As introduced, increases the minimum filing fee required when certain business entities file an annual report with the secretary of state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 43; Title 48 and Title 61.

TN - HB2646 Contracts - As introduced, requires that contracts entered into between a personal seat license (PSL) holder of 10 or more years and a professional sports franchise for the purchase of a subsequent PSL with an upgraded or improved seating classification include a provision that enables the PSL holder to purchase the subsequent PSL for the same price as the previous PSL; applies to all contracts for subsequent PSL purchases entered into for seating at stadiums in certain counties on or after J...

TN - HB2653 Fireworks - As introduced, removes the requirement that a request for the issuance of a retailer's or seasonal retailer's fireworks permit be accompanied by a statement signed by the chief executive officer of the county or municipality in which fireworks are to be sold or offered for sale, or a person appointed or designated by the chief executive officer, that the sale of fireworks in the county or municipality is permissible. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 104.

TN - HB2656 Business and Commerce - As introduced, requires corporations registered with the secretary of state to submit certain information to the secretary of state; requires corporations that are publicly held domestic or foreign corporations with their principal executive offices located in this state to provide the secretary of state with information regarding diversity of board members and officers; requires the secretary of state to publish certain information regarding such diversity. - Amends T...

TN - HB2712 Culture and Arts - As introduced, requires, on or before January 1, 2025, the department of revenue to report to the finance, ways and means committees of both houses the total amount of moneys received under law relative to property tax in fiscal years 2023 and 2024 from the sales of tickets, fees, or other charges made for admission to performance venues in this state, and the revenue effect of exempting dues, fees, or other charges made on or for the admission of the public to television, ...

TN - HB2733 Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to publish on its website the notices it receives of the exact location that blasting will occur and the beginning and end date of the blasting. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 105.

TN - HB2747 Finance and Administration, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council Act." - Amends TCA Title 4.

TN - HB2781 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, requires a holder of a certificate of registration to notify the state board of cosmetology and barber examiners within 35 days, instead of 30 days, of a change to the certificate holder's mailing address. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49 and Title 62.

TN - HB2823 General Assembly, Directed Studies - As introduced, requires TACIR to conduct a study on approaches to the regulation of artificial intelligence and submit a report of such study, including recommended legislative approaches, to the speakers of each house and the legislative librarian no later than January 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 47.

TN - HB2874 Private Investigators - As introduced, authorizes sponsors of private investigator apprentices to submit apprentice training reports to the commissioner of commerce and insurance electronically. - Amends TCA Title 62 and Title 68, Chapter 21.

TN - HB2896 Cooperatives - As introduced, authorizes a cooperative that services Stewart, Cheatham, Robertson, Sumner, and Montgomery counties to provide broadband service within the jurisdictional limits of Springfield. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 65; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HB2910 Economic and Community Development, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to include information on which unserved locations have received or are in the process of receiving broadband service since the last update to the broadband accessibility map. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 7 and Title 65.

TN - HB2925 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, deletes an obsolete provision requiring the public utility commission to report by 2011 to the speaker of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, the governor, the chair of the commerce and labor committee of the senate, and the chair of the commerce committee of the house of representatives regarding state-issued certificates of franchise authority under the Competitive Cable and Video Services Act. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6;...