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TN - Representative Jason Zachary (R)

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TN - Representative Tim Hicks (R)

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TN - Representative Karen Camper (D)

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TN - Representative John Ray Clemmons (D)

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TN - Representative John Crawford (R)

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TN - Representative Tandy Darby (R)

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TN - Representative Elaine Davis (R)

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TN - Representative Jeremy Faison (R)

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TN - Representative Andrew Farmer (R)

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TN - Representative Patsy Hazlewood (R)

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TN - Representative Dan Howell (R)

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TN - Representative Bud Hulsey (R)

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TN - Representative Kelly Keisling (R)

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TN - Representative William Lamberth (R)

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TN - Representative Pat Marsh (R)

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TN - Representative Debra Moody (R)

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TN - Representative John Ragan (R)

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TN - Representative Cameron Sexton (R)

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TN - Representative Bryan Terry (R)

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TN - Representative Dwayne Thompson (D)

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TN - Representative Chris Todd (R)

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TN - Representative Joe Towns, Jr. (D)

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TN - Representative Kevin Vaughan (R)

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TN - Representative Mark White (R)

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TN - HB2289 Nurses, Nursing - As introduced, removes a medication aide's authority, pursuant to a nursing delegation, to administer oral medications and topical medications prescribed with a designation authorizing or requiring administration on an as-needed basis; removes prohibition against a medical aide administering medications delivered by aerosol, nebulizers, or metered hand-held inhalers without a spacer. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 7.

TN - HB2169 Adoption - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Foster and Adoptive Parent Protection Act," which prohibits the department of children's services from requiring an adoptive or foster parent to support a policy on sexual orientation or gender identity that conflicts with the parent's sincerely held religious or moral beliefs. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - HB100 Taxes, Litigation - As enacted, clarifies that a county continues to have the authority to levy a local litigation tax on an adoption proceeding in chancery, circuit, or juvenile court, and that the exemption does not limit or repeal such authority. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 6.

TN - HB828 Election Laws - As enacted, requires the officer of elections at each polling place to post a sign on election day informing voters that it is against the law to vote in a political party's primary without being a bona fide member of or affiliated with that political party, or to declare allegiance to that party without the intent to affiliate with that party. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB1747 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the uniform law commission to June 30, 2032; changes name of the entity from the "national conference of commissioners on uniform state laws" to the "uniform law commission" wherever the name appears in statute to accurately reflect the entity's current name. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 12; Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 4, Chapter 9; Title 36, Chapter 6, Part 2; Title 47; Title 56, Chapter 3, Part 9 and Title 66, Chapter 3, Part 3.

TN - HB606 Adoption - As enacted, makes various revisions to present law relative to adoption. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 36; Title 37; Title 47 and Title 71.

TN - HB1367 Attorney General and Reporter - As enacted, adds additional companies to the statewide opioid settlement agreement for which the attorney general and reporter has the authority to release pending or future claims. - Amends TCA Title 20 and Title 33.

TN - HB26 Fines and Penalties - As enacted, prohibits a court clerk, upon request by an individual on a payment or installment plan, from requiring the individual to pay outstanding court-assessed fines, fees, taxes, or costs arising from a criminal proceeding during the 180-day period following the individual's release from a term of imprisonment sentence of one year or more for a felony offense; excludes from this provision restitution owed to a victim and certain fines, fees, taxes, or costs that ha...

TN - HB899 Agriculture, Dept. of - As introduced, requires commissioner to, not later than December 31, 2024, submit a report electronically identifying all state property under contract or lease for agricultural purposes, and a summary of the terms of each contract or lease, to the chair of the energy, agriculture and natural resources committee of the senate and the chair of the agriculture and natural resources committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 2; Title ...

TN - HB1553 Lexington - Subject to local approval, clarifies that vacancies on the board of mayor and aldermen and in the office of mayor be filled by majority vote of the remaining board members, with the appointee to serve only until the next regular election, at which time the remaining unexpired term is filled; authorizes mayor to vote in board matters but only to break a tie vote; removes city residency requirement for certain officers and managers by allowing such persons to reside in the county. ...

TN - HB2809 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, expands the definition of a law enforcement officer to include retired law enforcement officers who are carrying a firearm pursuant to certain state laws for purposes of when a law enforcement officer may carry a firearm. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 39.

TN - HB461 Adoption - As enacted, adds to the grounds upon which initiation of termination of parental or guardianship rights may be based that the parent has been confined in a correctional or detention facility of any type, by order of the court as a result of one or more criminal acts, under a sentence of six or more years, and one or more other grounds in current law exists. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - HB163 Adoption - As enacted, revises the definition of abandonment for purposes of termination of parental rights to include circumstances where the parent or guardian fails to visit or support the child for a period of three consecutive months if the child is less than four years of age. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1; Title 37, Chapter 5 and Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - HB215 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Megasite Authority of West Tennessee to June 30, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 64, Chapter 9.

TN - HB2635 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires a health benefit plan that amends, renews, or delivers a policy of coverage on or after July 1, 2024, and that provides coverage for prescription contraceptives, to provide coverage for a 12-month refill of contraceptives obtained at one time by an insured person, unless the insured requests a smaller supply or the prescriber instructs that the insured must receive a smaller supply. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.

TN - HB2313 Naming and Designating - As introduced, designates "Under a Tennessee Moon" by Kelly Lang as an official state song. - Amends TCA Section 4-1-302.

TN - HB291 Advertising - As enacted, deletes the obsolete date on which the commissioner of transportation is required to begin promulgating and enforcing rules necessary to carry out the "Outdoor Advertising Control Act of 2020"; deletes restrictions on the matters to be governed by such rules. - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 17 and Title 54, Chapter 21.

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 - HB2814 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, raises the penalty for the offense of drag racing from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 5.

TN - HB385 Sentencing - As enacted, requires the superintendent or jail administrator to notify the department of corrections of the amount of sentence reduction credits for good institutional behavior that a convicted felon should receive for the felon's time incarcerated prior to imposition of sentence instead of the superintendent or jail administrator objecting to an award of credits at the rate of eight days for each month served. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 41.

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 - HB2902 Health Care - As introduced, removes from code an outdated requirement that the polysomnography professional standards committee hold at least one public meeting each year during the years 2007 through 2010 to allow public discussion of new developments in the practice of polysomnography. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 14; Title 49 and Title 63.

TN - HB2091 Trade Regulation - As introduced, defines and adds "voice" as a protected personal right; adds commercial availability of a sound recording or audiovisual work in which the individual's name, voice, likeness, or image is readily identifiable to considerations for determining whether non-use has occurred; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 1 and Title 47.

TN - HB2248 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, authorizes the department to contract with a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that maintains a principal office in this state and that is affiliated with a nonprofit membership organization composed of family physicians, family medicine residents, and medical students in this state for the nonprofit organization to administer some or all portions of the family medicine student loan repayment program. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 63.

TN - HB1678 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, transfers certain duties and authority regarding data reported by health facilities from the executive director of the health facilities commission to the department; requires licensed birthing centers to report claims data on discharges to the department at least quarterly; removes requirement that an owner of a hospital that closes must submit to the department a report of the statistical particulars relative to the hospital's patients for the fiscal year. ...

TN - HB27 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As enacted, allows a student who earns the student's first baccalaureate degree in less than the projected completion time to continue to receive the Tennessee HOPE scholarship in pursuit of an advanced degree. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HB1907 Labor - As introduced, clarifies that in determining whether a person is an illegal alien for employment purposes, the person's status is considered with respect to the employment of the person at a particular time. - Amends TCA Title 50.

TN - HB1639 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, provides that, if an incapacitated or deceased patient has no authorized representative, the patient's next of kin will be treated as an authorized representative for the patient for the purposes of obtaining the patient's hospital records. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1756 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the department of transportation to June 30, 2028; requires the department to report back to the government operations committee by December 31, 2024, to update the committee on its progress in addressing the findings and observations set forth in the December 2023 performance audit report. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 3.

TN - HB211 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the elevator and amusement device safety board to June 30, 2028. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 68, Chapter 121.

TN - HB486 Financial Disclosure - As enacted, requires political campaign committees to report contributions and expenditures for a local election to the registry of election finance rather than to the local county election commission; requires complaints on statements of local political campaign committees to be filed in the office of the registry of election finance rather than with the local district attorney. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10.

TN - HB406 Consumer Protection - As enacted, requires a financing company doing business in this state to provide on its mailed or emailed statements to a consumer a conspicuously displayed telephone number that a consumer may contact for service; specifies that failure to provide a conspicuously displayed telephone number as required is an unfair or deceptive act or practice under the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47.

TN - HB2945 Child Custody and Support - As introduced, expands a parent's right to unimpeded telephone conversations with the parent's child at least twice a week when the child is in the custody of the other parent to include video conference conversations, if available. - Amends TCA Title 14; Title 36; Title 37; Title 39; Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68.

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 - HB5 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, requires that a person convicted of especially aggravated kidnapping, aggravated rape, or rape be sentenced from within at least Range II for the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1785 Education - As introduced, replaces the uniform accounting policy manual for local school systems with an internal school funds manual; removes the requirement that the commissioner of finance and administration approve the manual so that only the comptroller of the treasury's approval is required. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 1.

TN - HJR64 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Shanea McKinney, University of Tennessee Board of Trustees

TN - HB1870 Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As introduced, requires the training curriculum for a program of alcohol awareness that applicants for a server permit must complete to include training to recognize signs indicating that a person may be under the influence of a date rape drug and signs indicating that a person may be the victim of sex trafficking or labor trafficking. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - HB1544 Appropriations - As enacted, authorizes the index of appropriations from state tax revenues for 2022-2023 fiscal year to exceed the index of estimated growth in the state's economy by $2,536,600,000 or 11.45 percent. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 52.

TN - HB1150 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to conduct a statewide needs analysis of preschool education in this state; requires the department to establish the Tennessee preschool task force to assist in developing a strategic plan for preschool education in this state and to provide recommendations on high-quality programming; requires, subject to available funding, the department to implement a pilot program to award grant funds to five LEAs to implement innovative and high-q...

TN - HB1089 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, clarifies which jurisdictions are eligible to hold a referendum to authorize the sale of wine in retail food stores. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3, Part 8.

TN - HJR114 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Daniel French, State Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission

TN - HB2780 Children - As introduced, permits parents to request electronically a copy of the child's report card, notice of school attendance, names of teachers, class schedules, standardized test scores, and any other records customarily available to parents. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 20; Title 24; Title 26; Title 29; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 40; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1620 Law Enforcement - As introduced, deletes the July 1, 2024, termination date for Chapter 462 of the Public Acts of 2021, allowing a law enforcement agency to continue to use a drone to search for and collect evidence or obtain information with the consent of a private property owner, in case of a natural emergency, or to investigate a crime that is occurring or has occurred. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13 and Chapter 462 of the Public Acts of 2021.

TN - HB1605 Flags - As introduced, prohibits LEAs and public charter schools from displaying in public schools flags other than the official United States flag and the official Tennessee state flag. - Amends TCA Section 5-5-114; Section 6-54-144 and Title 49.

TN - HB1760 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the medical payment committee to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 50, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2873 State Government - As introduced, increases the number of days before a meeting, from 45 to 60, that electronic notice must be provided to a holder of a professional or occupational license, certification, or registration where a change in rules or fees is on the agenda of a meeting of the department of environment and conservation or any of its divisions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 40 and Title 41.

TN - HB2293 Election Laws - As introduced, enacts the "Print Disability Absentee Voting Act," which prescribes a process by which a person with a print disability may apply for and receive an absentee ballot and vote by mailing in the absentee ballot. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 6.

TN - HB216 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the prevailing wage commission to June 30, 2028. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 12, Chapter 4, Part 4.

TN - HB2152 Courts, General Sessions - As introduced, requires the judge of the general sessions court in Scott County to devote full time to the duties of such office and prohibits the judge from the practice of law or any other employment which conflicts with the performance of their duties as judge. - Amends TCA Title 16 and Title 17.

TN - HB465 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, increases from 10 to 20, the amount of days within the action complained of, that an aggrieved party must make a written request for a formal hearing under the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, when the commissioner of revenue issues or refuses to issue a certificate of title, discharges or refuses to discharge a lien, or issues or refuses to issue a replacement certificate of title. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HB2106 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, allows certain felony offenders to petition to have the offender's criminal history records sealed after completion of all requirements of sentencing and at least five years without being convicted of a new offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1189 Remedies and Special Proceedings - As enacted, limits the circumstances under which a qualified civil liability action may be brought against certain manufacturers, dealers, and sellers of firearms and related products. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6; Title 29; Title 39 and Title 47.

TN - HJR62 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Bradford D. Box, University of Tennessee Board of Trustees

TN - HB458 Boats, Boating - As enacted, revises various provisions of present law concerning the offense of boating under the influence. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4 and Title 69, Chapter 9, Part 2.

TN - HB2686 Expunction - As introduced, clarifies that an eligible petitioner may file a petition for expunction under certain circumstances if the offense the person is seeking to expunge occurred prior to any conviction for an offense that is not eligible for expunction; allows an eligible petitioner who has been convicted of more than two offenses to seek expunction of two eligible offenses under certain circumstances; makes various other clarifications relating to expunction laws. - Amends TCA Sectio...

TN - HB2242 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, specifies that only middle school students enrolled in the lowest grade level at a middle school are required to take one course in computer science; authorizes the board to promulgate rules to effectuate the act. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2046 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to submit written summaries of policies and guidelines adopted by it to the chairs of the government operations committees of each house, with the policies and guidelines to be posted on the subsequent joint rule review committee agenda for the month following the submission of the summaries. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 37.

TN - HB1695 Autopsies - As introduced, specifies that reports of county medical examiners and autopsy reports of victims of violent crime who are minors are not public documents; allows a parent or legal guardian of a minor victim of a violent crime to consent to the release of the report of the county medical examiner or autopsy report of the minor victim if the parent or legal guardian is not a suspect in the circumstances of the minor's death. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 38; Title 39 and T...

TN - HB2992 Henry County - Subject to local approval, authorizes the Henry County Hospital District to sell or lease assets outside of the ordinary course of business, including, without limitation, substantially all the assets of the Henry County Nursing Home. - Amends Chapter 176 of the Private Acts of 1953, as amended.

TN - HB396 Workers Compensation - As enacted, enacts the "Garrison-Jordan Survivor Benefits Act." - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2865 Veterans - As introduced, requires the commissioner of mental health and substance abuse services to report on or before February 1 of each year to the judiciary committee of the senate and the civil justice committee of the house of representatives on the status of veterans treatment court program grant funds. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 16; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB622 State Symbols - As enacted, designates "The Tennessee in Me" by Debbie Mathis Watts as an official state song. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - HB2301 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, requires the sheriff's department's and municipal law enforcement department's annual audit report of the disposition of goods seized and forfeited and fines imposed in relation to offenses involving controlled substances to be posted on the website of the sheriff's department or municipal law enforcement department. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB226 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee corn promotion board to June 30, 2028. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 43, Chapter 29.

TN - HB855 Adoption - As enacted, changes the time period during which the Tennessee putative father registry must have been consulted prior to the filing of a petition to terminate parental rights from 10 days to 10 working days; requires the appointment of a guardian ad litem in an adoption involving a mentally disabled child when the child is 14 years of age or older at any time before the granting of the petition rather than at any age. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - HB214 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the medical cannabis commission to June 30, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 68, Chapter 7.

TN - HB325 Opioids - As enacted, permanently extends the present law, which is set to terminate on July 1, 2023, that establishes limitations on the prescription of opioids and authorizes the promulgation of rules related to the calculation of those limitations and makes other changes relative to opioids. - Amends TCA Section 53-10-303; Section 63-1-164 and Chapter 1039 of the Public Acts of 2018.

TN - HB1698 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, requires the juvenile court to include in the disposition for a juvenile who has been found to have made a threat to commit mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity, in addition to any other disposition authorized by law, the suspension of the juvenile's driving privileges or ability to obtain a driver license for a period of one year. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39.

TN - HB2929 Codes - As introduced, removes the requirement that the state building commission set a ratio for water closets at publicly and privately owned facilities where the public congregates, including certain football stadiums in Davidson County. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 120, Part 5.

TN - HB1569 Obion County - Subject to local approval, repeals the Obion County Highway Commission. - Amends Chapter 202 of the Private Acts of 1984; as amended.

TN - HB1828 State Symbols - As introduced, designates as official state books of Tennessee "Farewell Address to the American People" by George Washington; "Democracy in America" by Alexis de Tocqueville; "Aitken Bible"; "The Papers of Andrew Jackson"; "Roots" by Alex Haley ; "A Death in the Family" by James Agee; "All the King's Men" by Robert Penn Warren; "American Lion" by Jon Meacham; "The Civil War: A Narrative" by Shelby Foote; and "Coat of Many Colors" by Dolly Parton; requires the secretary of sta...

TN - HB2383 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, authorizes motorcycles to be operated on certain limited access highway and interstate shoulders to proceed to nearest exit when speed of traffic is 25 miles per hour or less. - Amends TCA Title 54; Title 55, Chapter 1 and Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - HB2643 District Attorneys - As introduced, 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 against children and requires the Tennessee bureau of investigation to provide annual training to assistant district attorneys designated as lead prosecutors in crimes committed against children. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 16;...

TN - HB38 Attorney General and Reporter - As enacted, specifies that when, in the judgment of the speaker of the house of representatives and the speaker of the senate, the interest of the state requires additional counsel to the attorney general and reporter, the speakers shall retain additional counsel to prosecute an action against the federal government on behalf of the state if the representation does not include payment of a fixed or contingent fee to any such additional counsel or otherwise incr...

TN - HB2140 Zoning - As introduced, requires methadone clinics to be located in incorporated areas or in areas subject to zoning regulations, located within a five-mile radius of a police department and emergency medical services station, and located at least 2,000 feet from a congested intersection; grandfathers in existing methadone clinics. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 7; Title 33, Chapter 2 and Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - HB495 Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, enacts the "Topical Medical Waste Reduction Act of 2023," which establishes certain regulations of facility-provided medications. - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB827 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, requires the call button to each bed in a general patient area in a nursing home to be easily reachable to, and useable by, a patient. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB993 Mining and Quarrying - As enacted, makes changes to the Primacy and Reclamation Act of Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 59; Title 67; Title 68; Title 69 and Chapter 548 of the Public Acts of 2021.

TN - HB2395 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, requires the bureau to submit a report on child and human trafficking crimes and trends in this state and current programs and activities of the bureau's human trafficking unit to the legislative librarian as well as to the governor, and the speakers of each house of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1893 Taxes, Franchise - As introduced, deletes the provision requiring that the measure of the franchise tax must not be less than the actual value of the real or tangible property owned or used by a taxpayer in this state; authorizes the commissioner of revenue to issue refunds under certain conditions to taxpayers who properly file a claim for refund for taxes paid under that provision. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 1 and Title 67, Chapter 4.

TN - HB2451 Health Care - As introduced, requires certain information to be included in a healthcare practitioner advertisement; adds certain activities to and exempts certain activities from the definition of the practice of medicine. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1153 Naming and Designating - As enacted, designates the National Guard Armory to be constructed in Warren County as the "Major General Terry Max Haston National Guard Armory".

TN - HB1655 Education - As introduced, enacts the "Mathematics Supports Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1683 Controlled Substances - As introduced, removes obsolete references to federal law that pertain to the prescription of certain controlled substances. - Amends TCA Section 53-11-311 and Section 63-1-164.

TN - HB250 Education - As enacted, requires, beyond the 2022-2023 school year, each LEA and public charter school to provide each high school senior, instead of students generally, the opportunity to take nationally recognized assessments if the assessments meet certain criteria. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB895 TennCare - As enacted, clarifies that the Medical Assistance Act of 1968 does not require a vendor, healthcare provider, or telehealth provider group that provides healthcare services exclusively via telehealth to have a physical address or site in this state in order to be eligible to enroll as a vendor, provider, or provider group for the medical assistance program. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2619 Correction, Dept. of - As introduced, permits the department to file its annual report regarding the effectiveness of diversion of offenders from state correctional institutions electronically. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.

TN - HB2226 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Maternal Health Equity Advisory Committee Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1444 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, makes changes to present law relative to criminal offenses involving motor vehicles. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 55.

TN - HB1570 Greenbrier - Subject to local approval, alters the duties of the mayor and the town administrator; increases the salary of the mayor from $400 per month to $1,000 per month. - Amends Chapter 158 of the Private Acts of 2002; as amended.

TN - HB1757 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the health facilities commission to June 30, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - HB2120 Eminent Domain - As introduced, excludes recreational facilities, recreational purposes, and parks from the definition of "public use" as it applies to eminent domain. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 17, Part 1.

TN - HB447 Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - As enacted, designates a segment of the Duck River in Maury County as a Class II scenic river; requires permitting of certain water resource projects in Class II scenic river areas, subject to rules promulgated by the commissioner of environment and conservation. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 13; Title 64, Chapter 1, Part 6 and Title 68, Chapter 211.

TN - HB804 Taxes - As enacted, revises present law relative to a taxpayer's duty to list fully such tangible personal property used, or held for use, in the taxpayer's business or profession on such schedule, place its correct value thereon, sign the schedule, and return it to the assessor on or before March 1 of each year; requires TACIR to monitor implementation and to periodically report its findings on collections and administration of the business personal property tax to the general assembly. - ...

TN - HB661 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, authorizes licensed physical therapists to issue certified statements of disability in same manner as physicians for a person's application for a disabled registration plate, decal, or placard. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 21.

TN - HB371 TennCare - As enacted, prohibits the state from filing certain claims seeking recovery against the estates of deceased ABLE account beneficiaries. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 4, Part 8.

TN - HB2205 District Attorneys - As introduced, establishes that the district attorney general shall only prosecute cases in municipal court where the municipality provides sufficient additional prosecutorial personnel for the district attorney general; empowers the district attorney general with sole and exclusive discretion in determining the necessity and sufficiency of the additional prosecutorial personnel; specifies the particular resources the district attorney general has absolute discretion to u...

TN - SJR1004 Memorials, Recognition - Allison Russell

TN - SJR11 Naming and Designating - "Certified Government Financial Manager Month," March 2023

TN - HB1359 Expunction - As enacted, authorizes the expunction of public records, without cost, of a person who has been charged with a felony or a misdemeanor if the charge is abated by death. - Amends TCA Section 40-32-101.

TN - HB1621 Dekalb County - Subject to local approval, authorizes the road supervisor rather than the county mayor to sign checks drawn on the county trustee for expenses associated with road work within the county. - Amends Chapter 511 of the Private Acts of 1945, as amended.

TN - HB1181 Consumer Protection - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Information Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12; Title 43; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 50; Title 61; Title 66 and Title 67.

TN - HB1126 Victims' Rights - As enacted, requires judge to order payment of restitution by owner who is convicted of allowing their dog to run loose and the dog causes bodily injury or death to another person, or damages another person's property. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 39 and Title 44.

TN - HB2000 Attorney General and Reporter - As introduced, empowers the attorney general to fix the attorney general's and their assistant's compensation; limits the attorney general's salary to an associate justice on the supreme court or a Class 1 official; permits the attorney general to pay salaries in periodic installments. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2302 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases from 15 days to 15 business days the time period a court may send notification of a defendant's conviction of aggravated cruelty to animals to the appropriate protective agencies if the defendant resides in a household with minor children or elderly individuals. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.

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 - HJR65 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - William C. Rhodes III, University of Tennessee Board of Trustees

TN - HB817 Election Laws - As enacted, prohibits members of local governing bodies to be elected through an election procedure that requires candidates to be nominated from a district and elected at large. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 6.

TN - HB944 Domestic Violence - As enacted, revises present law definitions relative to abuse. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6 and Title 71.

TN - HB1645 Orders of Protection - As introduced, expands the eligibility for filing a petition to obtain a lifetime order of protection to include victims of aggravated stalking, especially aggravated stalking, and felony harassment. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39.

TN - HB1306 Consumer Protection - As enacted, requires that if an entity requires on-site payment from a consumer for the parking of a motor vehicle on the entity's property, and the entity only accepts payment by use of a quick response (QR) code or a credit or debit card machine, then, in the event the QR code or the credit or debit card machine fails to operate correctly to process the payment transaction, the entity must either accept payment by cash, check, or credit or debit card or allow the consu...

TN - HB1797 Education, State Board of - As introduced, requires the public high school in which the public high school student member of the state board of education is enrolled to count the student as present for time the student spends performing the student's duties as a member of the state board of education. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 30.

TN - HB1886 Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, implements penalties for certain offenses for beneficiaries of the temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) program and food stamp program; removes an exemption from the TANF work requirement; removes the requirement that the TANF maximum payment standard must not increase when a caregiver relative becomes pregnant while receiving assistance. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 3, Part 1 and Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 3.

TN - HB1741 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact to June 30, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 17.

TN - HB2859 Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - As introduced, authorizes the operation of a golf cart on gravel roads within the campgrounds of state parks in addition to paved roads if such gravel roads are marked suitable for a golf cart. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 11; Title 68; Title 69 and Title 70.

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 - HB2981 Humboldt - Subject to local approval, enacts the Humboldt Utilities Authority Act to create and empower the Humboldt Utilities Authority. - Amends Chapter 61 of the Private Acts of 2001.

TN - HB2567 Planning, Public - As introduced, makes certain revisions to the Neighborhood Preservation Act. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 6.

TN - HB284 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, standardizes the thresholds for competitive sealed bids for counties, municipalities, utility districts, local education agencies, and other local governmental entities. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 14; Title 6, Chapter 56, Part 3; Title 12, Chapter 3, Part 12; Title 49, Chapter 13; Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 2 and Title 54.

TN - HJR771 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - William S. Jones, Middle Tennessee State University Board of Trustees

TN - HB2316 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, requires the defined geographical limitation for purposes of exercising police power to be incorporated into an agreement relating to security provided by law enforcement officers for health and related facilities. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - HB1822 Attorney General and Reporter - As introduced, changes the reporting month from January to March for when the attorney general and reporter must report information about orders for wiretapping and electronic surveillance to the administrative office of the United States courts, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Section 40-6-308.

TN - HJR113 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Michael Carter Sr., Public Charter School Commission

TN - HB1977 Law Enforcement - As introduced, authorizes a POST-certified law enforcement officer, rather than a full-time, salaried police officer, to detain a person based on a reasonable belief that the person's motor vehicle does not comply with state law regarding tinted motor vehicle windows. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 55.

TN - HB1519 General Assembly - As enacted, adds certain exceptions to the prohibition that members of the general assembly may not bid on, sell, or offer for sale any service to a state entity or have a financial interest in the bid, sale, or offer for sale of any service to a state entity. - Amends TCA Section 12-4-103.

TN - HB1718 Bail, Bail Bonds - As introduced, requires any conditions of release imposed on a defendant to include a requirement that the defendant submit to pretrial monitoring to ensure compliance with the conditions; requires the court to order bail to be forfeited and an arrest warrant issued if the defendant does not comply with conditions of release; limits, to criminal or circuit court judges, those who may release a defendant who has been arrested for failure to comply with the conditions of rele...

TN - HB2087 Financial Institutions, Dept. of - As introduced, changes how the department calculates annual assessments for trust companies, including differentiating between public and private trust companies; changes the threshold at which a bank may obtain an evaluation in lieu of an appraisal for real property acquired by the bank. - Amends TCA Title 45, Chapter 1 and Title 45, Chapter 2.

TN - HB448 State Government - As enacted, requires governmental entities to provide a period of public comment for public meetings; authorizes the governmental entities to place reasonable restrictions on the period for public comment. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 44, Part 1.

TN - HB765 Traffic Safety - As enacted, authorizes three- or four-wheel all-terrain vehicles or three- or four-wheel off-highway vehicles to be operated on certain roads in Fentress County. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - HB130 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As enacted, removes the authority of the state board of equalization to create an assessment appeals commission to hear and act upon complaints and appeals regarding the assessment, classification, and value of property for purposes of taxation. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3 and Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1774 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the state protest committee to June 30, 2028; removes requirement that the chief procurement officer send minutes of protest proceedings to the state protest committee and comptroller. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 56.

TN - HB1198 Alcohol Offenses, Motor Vehicles - As enacted, enacts the "Silas Gable Flatt Law," which creates an offense of knowingly providing a motor vehicle to another person who the provider of the vehicle knows or should know is under the influence of an intoxicant or whose driver license has been suspended or revoked under certain circumstances, punishable as a Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55, Chapter 10.

TN - HB1185 Trusts - As enacted, makes various changes to present law on trusts. - Amends TCA Title 30 and Title 35.

TN - HB1551 Monroe County - Subject to local approval, increases, from nine to 10, the number of county school board members. - Repeals Chapter 117 of the Private Acts of 1963; as amended.

TN - HB2976 Tipton County - Subject to local approval, creates the "West Tennessee Regional Utility Authority." - to.

TN - HB2325 Boards and Commissions - As introduced, creates the artificial intelligence advisory council to recommend an action plan to guide awareness, education, and usage of artificial intelligence in state government that aligns with the states policies and goals and that supports public employees in the efficient and effective delivery of customer service. - Amends TCA Title 4.

TN - HJR849 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges the United States to withdraw from the United Nations.

TN - HB2337 Tennessee Housing Development Agency - As introduced, requires the agency to establish the payment standard amount for the monthly housing assistance payment under the federal housing choice voucher program to the maximum allowed by federal law. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 23.

TN - HB2122 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to create a continuing education program for the purpose of providing healthcare professionals with information and training relative to public and office safety. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1924 Sentencing - As introduced, increases the penalty for indecent exposure from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony if the person was confined in a penal institution at the time of the commission of the offense and the offense was committed with the intent to abuse, torment, harass, or embarrass a guard or staff member; requires a mandatory minimum sentence of 14 days of incarceration; requires the mandatory minimum sentence to be served consecutive to any sentence being served at the time...

TN - HJR159 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Caroline Ezell McAnally, University of Tennessee Southern Advisory Board

TN - HB942 Dentists and Dentistry - As enacted, enacts the "Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63, Chapter 4 and Title 63, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1016 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, changes the date, from February 1 to January 15, by which the commissioner must annually report to the governor and the general assembly on the implementation of and compliance with the Schools Against Violence in Education Act. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 49.

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 - HB1675 Foster Care - As introduced, expands the eligibility for reimbursement as a relative caregiver by removing the income limitations and including a relative caregiver who meets the eligibility requirements and has been awarded custody by an order of any court. - Amends TCA Section 37-1-102 and Section 37-2-422.

TN - HB2497 Disabled Persons - As introduced, removes a report due by March 1, 2006, from the commissioner to legislative committees concerning the effectiveness of a demonstration project wherein a nursing home allowed a disabled volunteer to assume certain functions in the nursing home. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 68.

TN - HB316 Financial Institutions, Dept. of - As enacted, enacts the "Money Transmission Modernization Act." - Amends TCA Title 45.

TN - HB2080 Public Officials - As introduced, prohibits an individual holding an elected office of a local government from holding another elected office in this state at the same time; expands the prohibition on a candidate qualifying or being nominated for more than one state office or county constitutional office to include any elected office in this state. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 8.

TN - HB289 Capital Punishment - As enacted, requires a sentence of death to be carried out within 30 business days of the conclusion of any appeals or post-conviction relief, if the jury unanimously determines that certain circumstances are met. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1129 Taxes, Privilege - As enacted, extends provisions related to the allocation of revenue from the surcharge or tax on the lease or rental of passenger motor vehicles as it pertains to costs related to an arena facility for a National Basketball Association (NBA) member professional basketball team until June 30, 2059. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HB2977 Petersburg - Subject to local approval, adds duties and authorities of the chief of police and police officers of the town; restates that only a certified public accountant must be chosen by the board of mayor and aldermen to conduct an audit of the financial affairs of the town, removing the option of having the audit conducted by a public accountant. - Amends Chapter 272 of the Acts of 1901; as amended and rewritten.

TN - HB1997 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, requires the trust principal of the K-12 mental health endowment account to be reduced by $75,000,000 in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, and reallocated to the trust's K-12 mental health special reserve account. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 5.

TN - HB1644 Safety - As introduced, requires each LEA, public charter school, private school, and church-related school to develop a procedure to determine the cause of a fire alarm activation, including the potential of an active shooter event; requires each LEA to coordinate with appropriate safety teams to incorporate the procedure; specifies that the procedure must be implemented no later than July 1, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 49.

TN - HB30 Local Government, General - As introduced, requires a person to obtain a valid entertainer permit from the adult-oriented establishment board, in those jurisdictions with a board, prior to performing adult cabaret entertainment for compensation; prohibits public, private, and commercial establishments from allowing persons under the age of 18 to attend a performance featuring adult cabaret entertainment. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51.

TN - HB1074 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, requires reimbursement payments from insurers to chiropractors for services rendered to be based on the same methodology for the calculation of payments to medical doctors for the provision of services. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7 and Title 63, Chapter 4.

TN - HB2790 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates a Class B misdemeanor that is committed when a person knowingly tampers with, removes, or vandalizes a monitoring device that the person is required to use as a condition of bond, probation, or parole; requires an entity monitoring such a device to notify the court with jurisdiction over the person's bond, board of parole, or probation officer upon becoming aware that there has been an attempt to either tamper with, disable, remove, or otherwise make...

TN - HB555 Victims' Rights - As enacted, revises present law relative to the criminal injuries compensation fund for victims of human trafficking offenses. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 8 and Title 29, Chapter 13.

TN - HJR820 Memorials, Congress - Opposes expansion of World Health Organization's authority and supports ending U.S. government funding of the organization.

TN - HB1939 TennCare - As introduced, prohibits an individual from being considered ineligible to receive payment for providing TennCare medicaid-reimbursed home- and community-based long-term care services to an individual eligible to receive such services on the basis that the individual providing care and the individual receiving care reside in the same home. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1895 Abortion - As introduced, 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 for the wrongful death of an unborn child that was aborted. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6; Title 29; Title 37 and Title 39.

TN - HB702 Controlled Substances - As enacted, enacts the "One Pill Will Kill Act," which adds fentanyl, carfentanil, remifentanil, alfentanil, and thiafentanil to what constitutes a qualifying controlled substance for purposes of certain felony offenses. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2254 Children - As introduced, adds three persons to the state child fatality review team who are each state residents with a child under 18 years of age; requires the state child fatality review team to distribute the team's annual report to each local education agency and to the board of the Tennessee Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 36; Title 37 and Title 68.

TN - HB1561 Sumner County - Subject to local approval, prohibits public entities in Sumner County from using eminent domain to acquire privately owned real property for parks, trails, paths, or greenways for walking, running, hiking, bicycling, or equestrian use, unless the privately owned real property is parallel to, runs directly along the length of, and extends in the same direction as a highway, road, or street.

TN - HB328 Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, renames the "Tennessee Local Development Authority Act" to be the "Tennessee Local Development Authority Public Safety Protection Act of 2023" and makes various changes to its existing provisions. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 9.

TN - HJR109 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Natalie Tate, University of Tennessee Health Science Center Advisory Board

TN - HB1374 Remedies and Special Proceedings - As enacted, revises present law provisions relative to persons who are eligible for compensation for criminal injuries. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 13, Part 1.

TN - HB1072 Veterans Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to establish an honor guard grant program to provide grants to veteran service organizations to offset expenses incurred by the organization and members of the organization's honor guard in providing military funeral honors for qualifying Tennessee veterans. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 25; Title 46, Chapter 6 and Title 58.

TN - HB1202 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, authorizes a faculty or staff member of a school to carry a concealed handgun on school grounds subject to certain conditions, including obtaining an enhanced handgun carry permit and completing annual training. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 8.

TN - HB2971 Budget Procedures - As introduced, deletes the Tennessee job skills program and fund. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 11; Title 12; Title 13; Title 16; Title 17; Title 18; Title 29; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 43; Title 44; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 49; Title 50; Title 53; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 57; Title 58; Title 59; Title 60; Title 61; Title 62; Title 63; Title...

TN - HB1777 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the Tennessee central economic authority to June 30, 2030. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 64, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2687 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, revises the instruction required as part of a family life curriculum; requires the Tennessee joint task force on children's justice and child sexual abuse, in consultation with the children's services advisory council, to annually recommend certain age-appropriate curricula to the department of education; revises the information that LEAs and public charter schools must annually provide to the department of children's services. - Amends TCA Title 37 a...

TN - HB2532 Fire Prevention and Investigation - As introduced, requires a county fire investigator who makes an arrest pursuant to an arson investigation to notify local law enforcement of the arrest as soon as practicable. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 12; Title 58 and Title 68.

TN - HB1881 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for assault against a law enforcement officer from a Class A misdemeanor with a mandatory minimum 30-day sentence and $5,000 fine to a Class E felony with a mandatory minimum 60-day sentence and $10,000 fine. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2315 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, for purposes of the retirement system determining whether a certain payment is includable as earnable compensation, excludes from the definition of "earnable compensation" compensation paid to a member from an eligible deferred compensation plan under federal law; makes other revisions to laws governing deferred compensation plans. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 25; Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35 and Title 8, Chapter 36.

TN - HB268 Victims' Rights - As introduced, requires a law enforcement agency to provide victims of crime with the contact information for crisis intervention services and emergency and medical services, in addition to the availability of any such services. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 68.

TN - HB647 Health Care - As introduced, limits what can be included in calculating the permissible costs that may be charged for copying and mailing a patient's medical records. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Section 63-2-102.

TN - HB324 Public Employees - As enacted, makes various changes to present law pertaining to leave for state employees. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27 and Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 8.

TN - HB430 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, allows a juvenile court to impose a blended sentence on a child 16 years of age or older for a juvenile offense that would be a Class A, B, or C felony if committed by an adult; defines blended sentencing as a combination of any disposition otherwise provided for juveniles and a period of adult probation to be served after the child turns 18 years of age and which ends on or before the child's twenty-fifth birthday. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title...

TN - HB705 Expunction - As enacted, requires a court ordering the expunction of a person's public records of a criminal offense as a result of successful completion of a diversion program to include the person's state control number in the expunction order submitted to the Tennessee bureau of investigation. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.

TN - HB2163 Sexual Offenses - As introduced, specifies that for the purposes of sexual exploitation of children offenses, the term "material" includes computer-generated images created, adapted, or modified by artificial intelligence; defines "artificial intelligence." - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB327 Governor - As enacted, removes the requirement that the nonprofit partner of the governor's office of faith-based and community initiatives use its own revenues to cover the cost of the nonprofit partner's activities; removes the prohibition on a state employee benefitting from the nonprofit partner's activities; prohibits a state employee from receiving compensation from funds received by the nonprofit partner; removes the statement of the general assembly's intent that the state not realize...

TN - HB1547 Livingston - Subject to local approval, moves the day of municipal elections from the first Wednesday to the first Tuesday in June to coincide with state and national elections; removes prohibition on compensation for aldermen. - Amends Chapter 130 of the Acts of 1907; as amended.

TN - HB1008 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, specifies that a course of conduct for purposes of stalking includes one instance of placing an electronic tracking device on a person or in or on a person's property, unless the electronic tracking device is placed by or at the direction of a law enforcement officer. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2060 Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, increases from 50 to 100 the number of patients to whom a licensed nurse practitioner or physician assistant who is authorized to prescribe Schedule II or III drugs may prescribe buprenorphine products; increases from four to 10 the maximum number of licensed nurse practitioners or physician assistants who prescribe buprenorphine products that a physician may supervise or collaborate with at one time; makes other changes relative to the use of buprenorphin...

TN - HJR112 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Alan Levine, Public Charter School Commission

TN - HB2062 Traffic Safety - As introduced, creates a street racing task force to study and determine best practices for curbing illegal street racing in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 55.

TN - HB393 Food and Food Products - As introduced, extends from 10 days to 14 days the minimum time period that a person may be enjoined from activity done in conjunction with meat or poultry based on a violation of the Tennessee Meat and Poultry Inspection Act. - Amends TCA Title 43; Title 44; Title 49; Title 53, Chapter 7 and Title 62.

TN - HJR755 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Cherrye Robertson, Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission

TN - HB2670 Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As introduced, requires the commission to prescribe requirements for a notice that must be prominently posted at the establishment of a retail package store licensee that sells at retail a product containing a hemp-derived cannabinoid, including the age restriction for purchasing such products and other information regarding consumer health and safety. - Amends TCA Title 43; Title 57 and Title 67.

TN - HB1740 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the advisory council on state procurement to June 30, 2028. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 56.

TN - HB577 Sentencing - As enacted, adds as a factor the court may consider for the purpose of enhancing a defendant's sentence upon conviction of a criminal offense, consideration of whether the defendant committed the offense of aggravated assault or attempted first degree murder on grounds or premises defined as a healthcare facility. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2404 Children - As introduced, revises the definition of a dependent and neglected child in juvenile court proceedings to provide that a child must be dependent and neglected at the time of the filing of the court petition and adds that dependency and neglect due to a condition of want or suffering may be due to the child's mental health or substance abuse issues. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - HJR927 Memorials, Recognition - Taiwan Relations Act, 45th anniversary

TN - HB1097 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires each local education agency that operates a high school and each public charter high school to offer independent study programs to its enrolled high school students; establishes certain requirements for LEAs and public charter high schools offering independent study programs. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1768 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the standards committee, department of children's services to June 30, 2030. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 37, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2102 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, authorizes the commission to designate VETS campuses that strive to increase enrollment, continuation, and graduation rates of veterans, and that meet certain qualification criteria established by the commission, as VETS Bravo campuses; establishes reporting requirements for VETS Bravo campuses. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 13.

TN - HB1563 Maury County - Subject to local approval, requires the civil service board to meet semi annually rather then annually; designates the county mayor as the board secretary, to replace the county human resources director; removes board authority to hold performance examinations to determine qualifications for employment; deletes competitive promotion examination requirements; provides for a right of appeals upon a suspension of an employee by the sheriff. - Amends Chapter 26 of the Private Acts ...

TN - HJR27 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses strong support for completion of the southern border wall and urges Congress to immediately take action to fund the construction.

TN - HB159 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, exempts from the offense of possessing or carrying a weapon on school property the possession or carrying of a pocket knife by a nonstudent adult on election day if the knife remains concealed at all times while the adult is on school property for the sole purpose of voting in an election for which the school is the adult's designated polling place. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17 and Title 49.

TN - HB1542 Bond Issues - As enacted, authorizes the state to issue and sell bonds of up to $83,800,000.

TN - HB1366 Correction, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to provide an inmate who is discharged from imprisonment for a felony offense and who intends to reside in this state with certain documentation to assist the inmate in obtaining post-release employment and to coordinate with the department of safety to provide a photo identification license if the inmate does not have a current photo identification license or driver license. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 55.

TN - HJR772 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Tony Treadway, East Tennessee State University Board of Trustees

TN - HB2114 Open Meetings - As introduced, requires, beginning July 1, 2024, public notices that are required to be published in a newspaper of general circulation to also be published on a free-to-access news and information website in the county if the website meets certain requirements. - Amends TCA Title 1 and Title 8, Chapter 44.

TN - HB2190 Governor - As introduced, changes from three to four the number of members the governor is authorized to appoint to an enrolling board in each county to act in lieu of the county assessor for purposes of enrolling county residents in the state militia. - Amends TCA Title 58.

TN - HB1170 Health Care - As introduced, requires the Tennessee peace officer standards and training (POST) commission to adopt guidelines and materials instructing law enforcement officers on the best practices for recognizing and responding to a medical crisis involving a person under arrest or under the care or supervision of the law enforcement officer. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 41 and Title 68.

TN - HB1618 Game and Fish Laws - As introduced, authorizes a person to hunt on or over privately owned land where bait is present; specifies that written consent and compliance with other requirements to catch or kill a wild animal on the land of another still apply. - Amends TCA Title 70.

TN - HB2641 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, authorizes counties and municipalities, by resolution or ordinance of their governing bodies, to levy a tax on the retail sale of food and food ingredients for human consumption within the county or municipality at a rate less than the local option sales tax rate. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 7.

TN - HB2097 Boards and Commissions - As introduced, requires state regulatory boards within the department of commerce and insurance and state health related boards within the department of health to issue advisory opinions upon request. - Amends TCA Title 62 and Title 63.

TN - HB1837 Education, Higher - As introduced, prohibits a public institution of higher learning that holds personal information of students from sharing the personal information with a third party, unless the third party agrees in writing that the personal information will only be used for the purpose for which information is originally requested. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7 and Title 49.

TN - HB1883 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, creates the right of an attorney in fact designated to make healthcare decisions under a durable power of attorney for health care to conduct at least one in-person visitation with the principal for each day the principal is in a hospital; permits the hospital to require the attorney in fact to submit to non-invasive health and safety protocols; prohibits the visitation right from being terminated, suspended, waived, or otherwise limited d...

TN - HB231 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee state veterans' homes board to June 30, 2026; requires the board to report back to the education, health, and general welfare joint evaluation committee by December 31, 2023, to update the committee on its progress in addressing the findings set forth in the November 2022 performance audit report. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 58, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1853 Health Care - As introduced, for the purposes of regulation of health and related facilities, exempts from the definition of "home health service" services provided by a person or entity that solely provides services of occupational and physical therapy or communication disorders and sciences by healthcare professionals if provided only on an outpatient basis; and therapy outpatient services provided by a person or entity under the social security act and reimbursed under medicare part B or a...

TN - HB2251 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, enacts the "Smart Heart Act"; establishes various requirements for automatic external defibrillators in schools and response protocols for cardiac-related medical emergencies. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.

TN - HB2006 State Symbols - As introduced, designates "Tennessee, Tennessee" by Wayne Jerrolds as an official state song. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - HB158 Education - As enacted, prohibits a local education agency, public charter school, public institution of higher education, the state board of education, and the department of education from requiring an educator, employee of an LEA or charter school, faculty member, or employee of a public institution of higher education to complete or participate in implicit bias training; defines "implicit bias training"; prohibits adverse licensure and employment actions from being taken against such an in...

TN - HJR761 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - William J. Carver, Tennessee Lottery Corporation Board

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 - HB1258 Probate Law - As introduced, requires a personal representative for an estate to serve a copy of each claim filed against the estate, within five days of receipt, to any known party interested in the estate, including creditors, distributees, and heirs. - Amends TCA Title 30.

TN - HB2075 Revenue, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to, on or before December 31, 2025, procure and implement an electronic lien and title system to be used throughout the state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 19; Title 8, Chapter 13; Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 12; Title 47, Chapter 9; Title 55; Title 66 and Title 69, Chapter 9.

TN - HB1755 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the department of labor and workforce development to June 30, 2028. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 3.

TN - HB2762 Credit and Debit Cards - As introduced, enacts the "Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act," which prohibits a financial institution from requiring the usage of a merchant code that distinguishes a firearms retailer from a general merchandise retailer or a sporting goods retailer and from disclosing a financial record collected in violation of the prohibition. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6; Title 29; Title 38; Title 39; Title 45 and Title 47.

TN - HB587 DUI Offenses - As introduced, lowers the threshold for enhancing the minimum sentence of a person convicted of driving under the influence of an intoxicant, from a blood alcohol concentration of 0.20 percent or more to a blood alcohol concentration of 0.15 percent or more. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13; Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4 and Title 69, Chapter 9, Part 2.

TN - HB1456 Schools, Private - As enacted, authorizes a private school and a local government to execute a contract or memorandum of understanding to allow the law enforcement agency of the local government to provide school resource officers to the private school. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 38 and Title 49.

TN - HB2685 County Government - As introduced, creates a process for members of a county legislative body and members of the public to challenge a vote of a member of the county legislative body if that member, or the member's spouse, is an employee of the county and voted on a matter that would increase the pay or benefits of that member or that member's spouse. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 5.

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 - HB2494 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, revises certain enrollment, attendance, individualized education program, and resident requirements for certain education funding to follow a student who is admitted to a state-licensed or out-of-state mental health facility from the student's LEA to the facility. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2590 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, makes bullying and cyber-bullying offenses subject to the same penalties as harassment; requires an officer to make a report of bullying and notify a parent or guardian when victim is a minor. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 49.

TN - HB2645 Vital Records - As introduced, makes various changes to the present law relative to birth certificates. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 68.

TN - HB117 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, specifies that the department must submit the early grades reading report to the education committee of the senate and the education committees of the house of representatives by January 15 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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 - HB898 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As enacted, requires the assessor of property, in determining whether land is agricultural land for purposes of property taxes, to consider certain factors. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1051 Mental Illness - As enacted, authorizes certain licensed advanced practice nurses and physician assistants to execute a certificate of need if a person is admitted and detained by a hospital or treatment resource for emergency diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment; makes other revisions to the execution of certificates of need. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 6, Part 4.

TN - HB2922 Education - As introduced, authorizes the department of education to make its standardized form for reporting student allergies available to all local education agencies on its website. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1647 Budget Procedures - As introduced, requires all requests for amendments to county budgets by county departments and other entities to be approved by the department or entity seeking the amendment prior to being submitted to the county legislative body for consideration; applies only to counties that have adopted the Local Option Budgeting Law of 1993. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 12 and Title 9.

TN - HB281 Courts, Municipal - As enacted, specifies that municipal court has jurisdiction over the expunction of a person's conviction for a violation of a municipal ordinance from the public records; specifies conditions for such expunction. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 18, Part 3 and Title 40.

TN - HB1536 School Districts, Special - Pursuant to the request of the Franklin special school district of Williamson County, permits the district to issue bonds or notes in an amount not to exceed $20 million and to authorize the issuance of tax anticipation notes from time to time. - Amends Chapter 563 of the Private Acts of 1949.

TN - HB1923 Board of Regents - As introduced, requires a Tennessee college of applied technology (TCAT) to reserve an enrollment slot for each dual enrollment student in the term immediately following the last term in which the student was enrolled in the TCAT as a dual enrollment student if space is available for the student at the TCAT in the program in which the student was previously enrolled. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - HJR733 Naming and Designating - Designates August 1 as "Gold Star Children's Day."

TN - HB523 Water Pollution - As enacted, makes revisions to the Water Quality Control Act. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 3, Part 1.

TN - HB218 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact Act to June 30, 2031. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 11, Part 5.

TN - HB496 Health Care - As enacted, requires certain health related boards to either render a decision on the application or inform the applicant of the need to appear before such board within 60 days from the date the respective board receives a completed application for licensure from either an initial applicant or an applicant who is licensed in another state or territory of the United States or in the District of Columbia. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63; Title 68, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 68, Ch...

TN - HB482 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, revises the punishment for critical infrastructure vandalism. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 40 and Title 65, Chapter 35.

TN - HB50 Statutes and Codification - As enacted, codifies the Acts of the 2022 regular session.

TN - HB230 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee public charter school commission to June 30, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49, Chapter 13.

TN - HB1921 County Government - As introduced, specifies that the county mayor is not a member of the county commission for purposes of compliance with the Open Meetings Act. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 6, Part 1 and Title 8, Chapter 44.

TN - HB155 Health, Dept. of - As enacted, requires an annual training pay bonus supplement for eligible emergency medical services personnel in the amount of $800. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 140, Part 3.

TN - HB864 Local Government, General - As enacted, prohibits as against public policy a metropolitan government ordinance, charter provision, or resolution that requires a supermajority vote of the local legislative body in order to make improvements to, renovations to, or the demolition and replacement of existing facilities owned by the metropolitan government when such facilities are to be used for substantially the same purpose as the use prior to any changes; requires that the voting requirement fo...

TN - HB2690 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to issue grants, subject to appropriations, to support the installation of powered, height-adjustable, adult-sized changing tables in single occupancy family restrooms in privately and municipally owned buildings open to the public across this state; authorizes the commissioner to create and convene an ad hoc committee to advise and assist with grant applications. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part...

TN - HB1400 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, requires certain persons convicted of rape, when the victim is 13-17, or incest, when the victim is a minor, to be punished as a Range II offender; allows the sentence imposed, if appropriate, to be within Range III but in no case lower than Range II. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB9 Obscenity and Pornography - As enacted, creates an offense for a person who engages in an adult cabaret performance on public property or in a location where the adult cabaret performance could be viewed by a person who is not an adult. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 14.

TN - HB2716 General Assembly - As introduced, prohibits a local legislative body from electing a member, who was expelled for disorderly behavior, to fill a vacancy in the general assembly that was created because of the member's expulsion. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 3; Title 4 and Title 39.

TN - HB1872 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, authorizes the enhancement of criminal penalties up to life in prison without parole upon conviction of violent crimes by illegal aliens; conviction of possession of a firearm or deadly weapon by an illegal alien; or conviction of a violent crime on the property of a school by any person. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 33; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 49.

TN - HB922 Agriculture - As enacted, requires an amendment to the articles of incorporation of an agricultural or horticultural marketing cooperative association to change the name of the association or its principal place of business to be adopted if the appropriate notice of the meeting of the board of directors was given; changes the requirements for notice for a meeting held after failure to gain a quorum to vote on a proposed amendment; makes additional changes related to voting on amendments to an...

TN - HB541 Courts - As introduced, authorizes a party to civil litigation to petition the court for removal and destruction of records under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 9, Chapter 8; Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 16; Title 18; Title 20; Title 21; Title 27; Title 28; Title 29; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 66.

TN - HB129 Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, deauthorizes the use of promissory notes secured by a first mortgage or a first deed of trust upon residential real property as collateral by banks in which public funds are invested or deposited by a governmental entity for investments or deposits above the insurance limitations provided by the FDIC. - Amends TCA Section 9-1-107.

TN - HB1564 Burns - Subject to local approval, moves from the first Monday in April to the second Monday in December the date for the biennial organizational meeting of the incoming board of commissioners; moves the monthly meeting of the board to the second Monday of each month. - Amends Chapter 89 of the Private Acts of 2008.

TN - HB1459 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor for a warden or chief administrative officer employed by a penal institution, who knows that certain offenses have occurred within the institution, to fail to report such offenses to the district attorney general for the judicial district in which the institution is located and the district attorney general who prosecuted the offense for which the offender is incarcerated within five business days of becoming aware of the offense b...

TN - HB1608 Special License Plates - As introduced, extends, from 30 days to 45 days, the time frame for an applicant who does not meet the requirements for a Tennessee Sheriffs Association or Fraternal Order of Police license plate to surrender the plate to the county clerk. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB535 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts "Dillard's Law," which allows the surviving parent or guardian of a child whose parent was a victim of vehicular homicide to convert a restitution order for child maintenance payments to a civil judgment at any time rather than following conclusion of the defendant's sentence. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.

TN - HB1058 Public Officials - As introduced, authorizes trial judges in Memphis, within their annual budget appropriation, to appoint persons to serve as court officers who serve at the will and under the supervision of the appointing judge. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 8.

TN - HB315 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, revises law relative to the total number of beds in private for-profit and private not-for-profit intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities (ICF/1ID). - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 1.

TN - HB663 Education - As enacted, makes changes to the "Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR107 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Jimmy Granbery, University of Tennessee Southern Campus Advisory Board

TN - HB1641 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor of violating a condition of release on bail; authorizes a law enforcement officer to arrest a person without a warrant based on probable cause to believe that the person has violated a condition of release. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB560 Real Property - As introduced, provides a method for a property owner to seek just compensation for a diminution in value of the property caused by the enactment or enforcement of land use regulations on the property. - Amends TCA Title 29.

TN - HJR785 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Tonya Reynoldson, UT Martin Advisory Board

TN - HJR749 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Madge Cleveland, Heritage Conservation Trust Fund Board

TN - HB213 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the energy efficient schools council to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49, Chapter 17.

TN - HJR756 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Jim Hamilton, Tennessee Claims Commission

TN - HJR124 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - John Bruce Saltsman, Jr., Tennessee Fish and Wildlife Commission

TN - HB2588 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, under certain conditions, authorizes a member of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system who has been elected or appointed as a member of a city or county board on or after January 1, 2012, and who simultaneously holds that position and another position with a different employer as a retirement system member, to continue service in the elected or appointed board member position while receiving a retirement allowance. - Amends TCA Section ...

TN - HB450 Expunction - As enacted, allows a defendant or defendant's counsel, in addition to a judge or district attorney general, to request a certificate from the Tennessee bureau of investigation relative to a defendant's eligibility for pretrial diversion. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6, Part 1 and Title 40.

TN - HB1197 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, reconstitutes boards of directors for sports authorities in certain counties having a metropolitan form of government. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6 and Title 7, Chapter 67.

TN - HB736 Education - As enacted, changes from urges to requires the standards recommendation committee to include certain academic standards regarding the civil rights movement in the committee's final recommendation of academic standards in the subject of social studies for students in grades nine through 12. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB199 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the board of nursing to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 7.

TN - HB2715 Judicial Districts - As introduced, creates one additional trial court in the 18th judicial district. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.

TN - HB1812 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, allows all LEA and public charter school employees, instead of only teachers, to receive their full salary, or average pay, and full benefits in the event they sustain a personal injury as the result of a physical assault or other violent criminal act committed against them while they are acting in the course and scope of their employment. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1969 Day Care - As introduced, requires installation of carbon monoxide alarms in each room of a child care agency where care is provided to a child; requires the alarms to meet certain national certification standards and be installed in accordance with national fire safety recommendations or manufacturer instructions; establishes dates by which the alarms must be installed in new and existing child care agencies. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 120 and Title 71, Chapter 3.

TN - HB221 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 22.

TN - HB114 Sentencing - As enacted, allows a court to sentence a defendant convicted of two or more criminal offenses to consecutive sentences if the defendant is sentenced for criminal offenses involving more than one victim and the court finds that a separate consecutive sentence for each offense is in the interest of justice. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - HJR691 Memorials, Death - Margaret Elizabeth "Bettie" Kirkland

TN - HB1848 Human Rights - As introduced, requires adult cabarets and adult-oriented establishments to post a notice on the inside and outside of each bathroom door and door used by customers or patrons to enter or exit the facility that provides the contact information for the Tennessee Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline established and maintained by the Tennessee bureau of investigation. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 14.

TN - HB82 Workers Compensation - As enacted, makes various changes to the Workers' Compensation Law. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2126 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, allows a juvenile court to transfer a child 15 years of age or older to be tried as an adult in criminal court for the offense of organized retail crime, theft of a firearm, or an attempt to commit such offense. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39.

TN - HB2261 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, defines a home for the aged that houses three or fewer nonrelated persons as a tier 1 home for the aged that is subject to licensure and regulation by the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities; defines a home for the aged that houses four or more nonrelated persons as a tier 2 home for the aged that is subject to licensure and regulation by the health facilities commission; makes other related changes to the meaning of ...

TN - HB403 Consumer Protection - As enacted, regulates the production and sale of hemp-derived cannabinoids, including products known as delta-8 and delta-10. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 38; Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 4; Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 43, Chapter 27; Title 53; Title 67 and Title 68, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1967 Water Authorities - As introduced, authorizes the governing body of an incorporated city or town to approve a project or request of its board of waterworks and/or sewerage commissioners by passage of a proper ordinance or resolution. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 35.

TN - HB1623 Traffic Safety - As introduced, authorizes a county or municipality to hire employees or appoint volunteers to divert vehicular traffic or temporarily close a lane to certain vehicular traffic within a marked school zone during the period of time that it is necessary to provide convenience for vehicles dropping off or picking up students from school; requires warning signs be posted in advance of the school zone. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 54 and Title 55.

TN - HB33 Assessors - As enacted, makes various changes to law relative to emergency response, including requiring certain information be provided to the assessor of property. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 2 and Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1351 Sheriffs - As enacted, requires an action brought against a county for any wrong, injury, loss, damage or expense resulting from any act or failure to act on the part of any deputy appointed by the sheriff to be filed within one year after the cause of action accrued; clarifies that failure of the county to respond in 60 days is not a default but rather the county is deemed to have denied the material, well pleaded factual allegations of the complaint. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 8 and Tit...

TN - HB2304 Safety, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to provide written and electronic notice to the employing company of a person appointed and commissioned as a state facility protection officer to provide facility security when the department no longer requires the service of such person. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 38 and Title 68.

TN - HB557 Evidence - As enacted, expands the admissibility of a forensic interview to include statements made by a child under 18 years of age rather than under 13 years of age; expands admissible forensic interviews from statements made by a child describing sexual contact performed with or on the child by another to statements describing sexual or physically violent contact performed with or on the child by another or performed by a person with or on another and witnessed by the child; makes other ch...

TN - HB878 Marriage - As introduced, states that a person is not required to solemnize a marriage if the person has an objection to solemnizing the marriage based on the person's conscience or religious beliefs. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29 and Title 36.

TN - SJR923 Naming and Designating - Designates the last weekend in October as "Honor Your Hometown Weekend" in Tennessee.

TN - HB2059 Education - As introduced, increases from three to six the maximum number of credits a student may earn in a work-based learning program in one school year. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR855 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Encourages Tennesseans to limit intake of high-calorie and high-fat foods.

TN - HB2176 Open Meetings - As introduced, permits a court to award the reasonable court costs and attorney's fees to a petitioner successfully proving that a governing body knowingly and willfully violated the public meetings laws in this state. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 4, Part 6 and Title 8, Chapter 44, Part 1.

TN - HB81 Environment and Conservation, Department of - As enacted, allows the department to disclose motor vehicle accident reports to authorized persons relating to a guest's use of state parks. - Amends TCA Section 11-1-102.

TN - HJR928 Memorials, Recognition - Oliver Oxford

TN - HB2504 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, makes it an offense for a person, on behalf of a debt collector or inbound telemarketer service, to knowingly cause any caller identification service to transmit misleading or inaccurate caller identification information, including caller identification information that does not match the area code of the person or the debt collector or inbound telemarketer service the person is calling on behalf of, or is not a toll-free phone number, to a subscriber with t...

TN - HB1070 Public Contracts - As enacted, prohibits a state agency, local agency, or law enforcement agency from purchasing or acquiring a drone or other covered telecommunications equipment or service produced by a manufacturer banned under the federal National Defense Authorization Act of 2019. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12 and Title 39, Chapter 13.

TN - HB803 Medical Occupations - As enacted, expands the types of medication a certified medical assistant may administer and prepare as ordered by an authorized healthcare provider. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.

TN - HB66 Health Care - As enacted, authorizes the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities to provide home health services to outpatients through its administration of the Tennessee Early Intervention System and the home- and community-based services provided through such system. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.

TN - HB2306 Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to compile and maintain a list of employers that are self-insured for purposes of workers' compensation; requires the list to be published on the department's website in a publicly accessible location. - Amends TCA Title 12; Title 48; Title 50 and Title 56.

TN - HB1566 Oakland - Subject to local approval, authorizes the town to impose fees on the development of land to pay for capital improvement; authorizes the board of mayor and aldermen to appoint and remove all directors and department heads, upon majority vote; and replaces the town manager with the board as the appointing authority for the town recorder. - Amends Chapter 167 of the Private Acts of 1994; as amended.

TN - HB275 Public Health - As enacted, applies on a statewide basis, rather than only in Nashville, Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Memphis, the distance parameter for the prohibition on needle and hypodermic syringe exchange programs being operated within 1,000 feet of a school or public park; removes the distance parameter of 2,000 feet that presently applies on a statewide basis outside those four cities; provided, however, that such a program established in Kingsport must not conduct an exchange within ...

TN - HB2230 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As introduced, designates the calendar week that includes October 28 as the "Reverend Kelly Miller Smith, Sr. Week of Service." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2 and Title 49.

TN - HB2475 Courts, Juvenile - As introduced, allows the court to require the parent or guardian of a child adjudicated unruly in whole or in part for habitual and unlawful absence to provide additional information deemed necessary by the court for imposition of a disposition that adequately addresses the child's circumstances, educational barriers, and root causes of truancy. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 49.

TN - HB2279 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, expands the delinquent acts that constitute a violent juvenile sexual offense for purposes of the sexual offender registry to include an adjudication of delinquency for an act that, if committed by an adult, constitutes the criminal offense of rape of a child if the victim is less than four years younger than the offender and the judge, taking into account the facts and circumstances surrounding the delinquent act, orders that the juvenile be required to re...

TN - HB2110 Labor - As introduced, clarifies that under Title 50, Chapter 2, the term "work" has the same meaning as interpreted by the United States supreme court for purposes of the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947; makes additional changes related to Title 50, Chapter 2. - Amends TCA Title 50.

TN - HJR760 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - John Crosslin, Tennessee Lottery Corporation Board

TN - HB220 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the selection panel for TennCare reviewers to June 30, 2028. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 56, Chapter 32.

TN - HB253 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, establishes the Class B misdemeanor of parentage fraud. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39.

TN - HB1642 Bail, Bail Bonds - As introduced, revises various provisions regarding pretrial release of a defendant charged with a criminal offense to require the magistrate to give first consideration to ensuring the safety of the community when determining whether to impose conditions of release or require a deposit of bail. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - HB2954 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, enacts the "Prostate-Specific Antigen Screening for High-risk Insured Men Act," which requires health insurance coverage for the early detection of prostate cancer for men who meet certain risk criteria or age thresholds. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HB2303 Marriage - As introduced, requires only marriage license applicants under the age of 18 to provide the name and address of the applicant's parents, guardian, or next of kin. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3.

TN - SJR870 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses support for State of Israel and condemns recent attacks on Israel.

TN - HB537 Game and Fish Laws - As enacted, deletes the requirement that proceeds from the sale of lifetime sportsman licenses be deposited into the lifetime sportsman endowment fund. - Amends TCA Title 70, Chapter 1, Part 5.

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 - HB769 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, clarifies that excessive or unusual noise or annoying smoke can be used to determine whether a muffler is in good working order and in constant operation as required by law; exempts farm tractors or implements of husbandry from this law; adds a defense to prosecution if certain evidence is provided. - Amends TCA Section 55-9-202.

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 - HB2613 Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As introduced, requires the commissioner to keep and maintain an electronic copy of each audit of a wholesaler for purposes of tax collection for not less than three years. - Amends TCA Title 57 and Title 62.

TN - HB1754 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the department of general services to June 30, 2028. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 3.

TN - HB384 Wine & Wineries - As enacted, authorizes wineries, farm wineries, and manufacturers of alcoholic beverages to distill and fortify wine and blend the distilled or fortified wine with their products. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3.

TN - HB2692 Domestic Violence - As introduced, requires the court to order an offender to wear a global positioning monitoring system device under certain circumstances unless the court finds the offender no longer poses a threat to the alleged victim or public safety; specifies that a cellular device application or electronic receptor device provided to the victim must be capable of notifying the victim if the offender is within a prescribed proximity of the victim's cellular device or electronic recept...

TN - HB80 Water Pollution - As enacted, specifies that underground injection activities authorized by rule are not subject to the general five-year term limit for discharge permits under the Water Quality Control Act of 1977. - Amends TCA Section 69-3-108.

TN - HB180 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, authorizes, to the extent required by federal law, a vehicle operated by an engine fueled by natural gas or powered primarily by means of electric battery power to exceed vehicle weight limits, up to a maximum gross vehicle weight of 82,000 pounds, under criteria similar to the exception provided for vehicles operated by an engine fueled primarily by natural gas. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1077 Food and Food Products - As enacted, creates a farmers market food unit permit for food service establishments that meet requirements. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 43; Title 53; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HB1672 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, authorizes certain legislative bodies, by a two-thirds majority vote, to expand the hours for the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption on premises and beer on Sundays consistent with the hours for sale on weekdays. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3; Title 57, Chapter 4 and Title 57, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2002 Judicial Districts - As introduced, creates one additional circuit court in the 4th judicial district. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.

TN - HB1429 Health Care - As enacted, enacts "Quinnlee's Law." - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - HJR813 Memorials, Death - Babette Ann "Babs" Antoniak

TN - HB2677 County Officers - As introduced, increases the annual continuing education requirement for county commissioners from seven to eight hours; requires that the training be obtained by CTAS meetings; extends a $600 stipend to county commissioners for completion of annual training requirements. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 5 and Title 7.

TN - HB1373 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, adds that to be eligible for a professional license or permit issued by the alcoholic beverage commission, an applicant may show that the applicant has a valid J-1 or F-1 student visa. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 50.

TN - HB2326 Education - As introduced, changes, from 10 days to 10 business days, the maximum amount of time the commissioner of education can suspend schools in a year when the commissioner requires all teachers to attend county institutes or educational meetings. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB356 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, allows county clerks to increase the fees for the service of handling mail orders of plates and decals in an amount not to exceed an applicable United States postal service price increase in a given year. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-105.

TN - HB1759 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the medical advisory committee to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 50, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1971 Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, authorizes the department to enter into, or amend an existing, grant contract or other contract as necessary to ensure successful implementation and completion of the Tennessee opportunity pilot program. - Amends TCA Section 71-5-1203.

TN - HB2124 Immigration - As introduced, requires, rather than authorizes, law enforcement agencies to communicate with the appropriate federal official regarding the immigration status of any individual, including reporting knowledge that a particular alien is not lawfully present in the United States or otherwise cooperate with the appropriate federal official in the identification, apprehension, detention, or removal of aliens not lawfully present in the United States. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 68.

TN - HB1787 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, specifies that the ratings services that grade potential investments for idle funds of local governments be nationally recognized statistical rating organizations as identified by the United States securities and exchange commission. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 8, Part 3; Title 6, Chapter 56, Part 1 and Title 7, Chapter 82.

TN - HB520 Education - As introduced, requires local education agencies and public institutions of higher education to provide information to students and parents on the importance of water safety courses and to inform them of age appropriate water safety courses available in their area each school year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6; Title 49, Chapter 7 and Title 49, Chapter 8.

TN - HB734 Public Records - As enacted, clarifies that a person requesting public records is not entitled to special or more expeditious access to records under this part due to the person's occupation or association with a specific profession. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1388 Health, Dept. of - As enacted, terminates the radiologic imaging and radiation therapy board of examiners; authorizes the board of medical examiners, to establish and issue limited and full X-ray certifications. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2710 Guardians and Conservators - As introduced, permits a physician, psychologist, or senior psychological examiner who performs an examination on the respondent in a conservatorship proceeding to submit a report to the court that has been declared under penalty of perjury, rather than a sworn report. - Amends TCA Title 34.

TN - HB1897 Election Laws - As introduced, 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 in which an immediate family member of the administrator is on the ballot. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB1151 State Employees - As enacted, authorizes the grant of sick leave from a sick leave bank to a state employee to care for a sick minor child of the employee. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 8; Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 9 and Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 8.

TN - HB2743 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires each institution of higher education in this state to classify a student who is the spouse or dependent child of a service member as an in-state student for tuition purposes if certain criteria are met. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB772 Election Laws - As enacted, provides that a candidate's name may only be printed on the ballot if it is the name of a person whom the chair of a statewide political party has certified to be placed on the ballot for the office of president to the secretary of state; transfers responsibility for notifying county election commissions of candidate names that must appear on the ballot for each political party in the presidential preference primary from the secretary of state to the coordinator of...

TN - HB1634 Education - As introduced, revises language prohibiting educators from discriminating against students on certain, specified bases to generally prohibiting educators from discriminating against students who are members of a protected class under federal or state law; removes the definition of "gender identity" for purposes of the family life curriculum. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HR7 General Assembly, Review Or Ratification of Rules - Ratifies and approves the amendments and revisions to the Tennessee Rules of Civil Procedure, as promulgated by the Supreme Court.

TN - HB521 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, creates the professional music therapist advisory committee of the board of examiners in psychology to regulate the practice of music therapy. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 63, Chapter 11.

TN - HB727 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires a student's parent or legal guardian, or the student if the student has reached the age of majority, to provide certain consent before the student may engage in certain activities at school. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 68.

TN - HB658 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts from sales tax the retail sale of infant diapers, wipes, and formula sold between July 1, 2023, and June 30, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.

TN - HB962 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes an LEA to award a high school student credit for a course offered by the LEA's high school if the student attains a qualifying score on the course's final examination without requiring the student to enroll in the course. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SJR856 Naming and Designating - Designates Steve Sweat as honorary State Historian of the late Sheriff Buford Pusser.

TN - HB323 Taxes - As enacted, makes various revisions to present tax law. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HJR998 Memorials, Recognition - Metro Nashville Public Schools

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 - HB933 Election Laws - As enacted, requires each high school to inform each high school senior that upon reaching the age of 18 the student may be eligible to vote and provide information from the secretary of state about voter eligibility and how to register to vote. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 49.

TN - HB2773 Health Care - As introduced, requires that a minor's parent or legal guardian have access to the minor's prescription records even when the minor is able to obtain treatment without parental consent. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 66 and Title 68.

TN - HB1449 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, enacts the "Pigeon River Economic Recovery District Act," which allows a county that borders or is crossed by the Pigeon River to elect to be a "Pigeon River economic recovery district" for alternative sales and use tax revenue distribution and for allowing the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages at commercial enterprises within the boundaries of a Pigeon River economic recovery district. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 7; Titl...

TN - HJR924 Memorials, Death - Robert William Gray, Sr.

TN - HB2216 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As introduced, extends the statute of limitations for injuries to a person 18 years of age or older relating to sexual assault to three years or five years depending on if law enforcement was notified of the assault. - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1036 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, makes various changes relative to TCRS membership. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 25 and Title 8, Chapter 35.

TN - HB1743 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the board of physician assistants to June 30, 2030. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 19.

TN - HB358 Education, State Board of - As enacted, removes the requirement that the state board establish guidelines to suspend, deny, or revoke the license of a teacher who is delinquent or in default on a repayment or service obligation under a guaranteed student loan; deletes a provision that authorized the state board to exercise discretion with regard to certain licensure actions if the teacher's default or delinquency is the result of a medical hardship. - Amends TCA Section 49-5-108.

TN - HB1242 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes it a Class A misdemeanor to knowingly possess xylazine; makes it a Class C felony to knowingly manufacture, deliver, or sell xylazine, or to knowingly possess xylazine with intent to manufacture, deliver, or sell xylazine; provides exceptions for veterinarians. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2566 Naming and Designating - As introduced, designates "Tennessee, In My Dreams" by Makky Kaylor as an official state song. - Amends TCA Section 4-1-302.

TN - HB306 Schools, Private - As enacted, limits the ability of a student enrolled in a private school to participate in an interscholastic athletic activity or event, to such activity or event where membership in the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association is required, in accordance with the student's immutable biological sex as determined by anatomy and genetics existing at the time of birth. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 50.

TN - HB2068 Criminal Offenses - 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 Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 2.

TN - HJR934 Memorials, Academic Achievement - 8th grade WOW Award recipients at Union Grove Middle School

TN - HB1453 Animal Control - As enacted, authorizes persons residing on property that adjoins the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to take, attempt to take, or harm a bear that enters on the person's property if certain criteria is met. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 70.

TN - HB2264 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows certain schools in need of intervention to exit the school turnaround pilot program before the 2024-2025 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1376 Education, Higher - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Higher Education Freedom of Expression and Transparency Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7 and Title 49, Chapter 8.

TN - HB559 School Vouchers - As enacted, expands student eligibility for an education savings account (ESA) to include students who were not enrolled, and who did not attend, a Tennessee public school for the one full school year immediately preceding the school year for which the student receives an ESA, but who were enrolled in, and who attended, a Tennessee public school in the 2019-2020, 2020-2021, or 2021-2022 school year, and to include students who are not eligible, for the first time, to enroll ...

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 - HB204 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the department of commerce and insurance to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 3.

TN - HB1004 Boards and Commissions - As enacted, requires an appointed member of a governing body for a state entity to serve in such capacity until the member's successor is duly appointed and qualified; authorizes the removal of such member by the member's appointing authority with or without cause; removes term limits for members of the advisory council on state procurement. - Amends TCA Title 1; Title 4; Title 49; Title 62; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 70.

TN - HB1988 TennCare - As introduced, extends the nursing home annual assessment fee to June 30, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 10.

TN - HB2145 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, creates an offense for possessing or distributing a license plate flipper. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.

TN - HB2508 Child Custody and Support - As introduced, requires the department of human services to notify the department of safety that a child support obligor whose commercial driver license was suspended or revoked for noncompliance with a child support order is in reasonable compliance with the order when the obligor submits documentation that the support is being withheld from the obligor's income received from an employment position requiring the operation of a commercial motor vehicle; requires th...

TN - HB2224 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to annually notify each local education agency (LEA) in writing of all state and federal grant programs available to assist the LEA in expanding mental health services and resources in schools. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1610 Massage Therapy - As introduced, increases from 500 to 650 the minimum number of curriculum hours that an applicant for licensure in massage must have completed at a board-approved institution for massage, bodywork, or somatic therapy in order to be eligible for licensure under the Massage Licensure Act of 1995. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 18.

TN - HB1652 General Assembly - As introduced, declares that no circuit, chancery, or other court has subject matter jurisdiction over any legal action, challenging any rule, regulation, or procedure of the senate or house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 16.

TN - HB219 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Sam Davis memorial association, board of trustees to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 13, Part 3 and Title 4, Chapter 29.

TN - HB1437 State Symbols - As enacted, designates "Copperhead Road" by Steve Earle as an official state song. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - HB1021 Victims' Rights - As introduced, increases from 30 to 60 days, after the order of a court to release money held in trust to the custodian of a minor who was a victim of a crime, the period by which the custodian must provide an accounting to the court as to how the money was spent. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 29 and Title 40.

TN - HB678 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, deletes the provision repealing the "Virtual Public Schools Act" on June 30, 2023. - Amends TCA Section 49-16-216.

TN - HB23 Open Meetings - As enacted, requires a legislative body for a municipal, metropolitan, or county government to make available to the public, at no charge and at least 48 hours prior to a meeting, the agenda for the upcoming meeting in a place accessible to the public; authorizes such body to deliberate or act upon matters not listed on the agenda if the body follows its bylaws or properly adopted rules and procedures and complies with all other applicable state laws. - Amends TCA Title 8, Cha...

TN - HB1503 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, requires the commissioner of commerce and insurance to conduct a study on the implementation of the federal No Surprises Act and its implications for physicians and healthcare facilities in this state; revises present law concerning network adequacy. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HJR100 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Melissa Steagall-Jones, East Tennessee State University Board of Trustees

TN - HB1888 Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - As introduced, expands the definition of "park operations" to include certain park facilities used in connection with fee-based recreational activities or intended to be revenue-generating; clarifies that the definition includes other boat rental facilities in addition to marinas. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 3, Part 1.

TN - HB2362 Emergency Communications Districts - As introduced, changes the years, from 2010, 2011, and 2012 to 2021, 2022, and 2023, that the emergency communications board must use to calculate the average of total recurring annual revenue the district received from certain sources for purposes of determining the base amount of funding to distribute to an emergency communications district each year. - Amends TCA Section 7-86-303(e).

TN - HB1241 Financial Institutions, Dept. of - As introduced, extends from 30 to 45 days, the time in which the commissioner has to approve a proposed state banks application for a certificate of authority. - Amends TCA Title 45.

TN - HB254 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, increases, from $27,000 to $50,000, the maximum market value on which property tax relief is calculated for elderly, low-income homeowners. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.

TN - HB2435 Education - As introduced, requires the commissioner of education to annually transmit, no later than October 1 of each year, filings submitted to the commissioner by a local board of education regarding any action or inaction taken by the board in response to an investigation conducted by the director of schools in response to a complaint filed by a parent or legal guardian of a student who received instruction in family life that the parent or legal guardian believes to violate the requirem...

TN - HB1107 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires the chairs of the government operations committees of each house to review the report submitted to the general assembly by Tennessee State University of the university's progress in improving facilities and infrastructure and to determine if a further review of the university is needed based upon the university's progress of improvement in the report. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

TN - HB818 School Transportation - As enacted, revises present law provisions relative to cameras on school buses and failing to stop upon approaching a school bus that has stopped on the highway. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - HB1875 Criminal Offenses - 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 fighting. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB794 DUI Offenses - As enacted, revises present law provisions relative to the electronic monitoring indigency fund. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 39; Title 40; Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4 and Title 69.

TN - HJR103 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Trudy Harper, Tennessee Technological University Board of Trustees

TN - HB692 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, changes from February 1 to February 15, the date by which the commissioner is required to annually report to the governor and the general assembly on the implementation and compliance with the Schools Against Violence in Education Act. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB407 Boats, Boating - As enacted, limits the fish and wildlife commission's authority to regulate only certain paddlecraft rental operations; revises the reporting requirement for paddlecraft rental operations; designates records provided to TWRA by a paddlecraft rental outfitter confidential and not to be open for inspection by members of the public. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 11; Title 69, Chapter 9 and Title 70.

TN - HB2180 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, expands student eligibility for a Tennessee future teacher scholarship to include students enrolled in an approved educator preparation program at Western Governors University. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 7.

TN - HB596 Employees, Employers - As introduced, enacts the "No Quit Act"; requires an employer that is requesting an employee to voluntarily resign to provide the employee with written notice of the rights, privileges, and benefits the employee waives or loses if the employee voluntarily resigns. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 50.

TN - HB589 Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, adds district attorneys general to those the department must release confidential information to upon presentation of an appropriate court order. - Amends TCA Title 10 and Title 37.

TN - HB3002 Bolivar - Subject to local approval, changes the appointing authority for vacancies on the Board of Directors of the Bolivar Energy Authority from the mayor to the members of the Board of Directors. - Amends Chapter 130 of the Private Acts of 2006.

TN - HB987 Judges and Chancellors - As enacted, requires the board of judicial conduct to provide a complainant with a copy of the hearing panel's findings and judgment and the board's formal finding of fact and opinion and any sanction imposed; allows a complainant to appeal the board's decision to the Tennessee supreme court. - Amends TCA Title 17.

TN - HB1540 Milan - Subject to local approval, changes the date for city elections to coincide with federal elections; removes the requirement for the board of aldermen to approve the mayor's appointment of a city recorder; removes the city's authority to operate a hospital. - Amends Chapter 7 of the Private Acts of 1999; as amended.

TN - HB2170 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits an insurer, pharmacy benefits manager, or third-party administrator from changing or conditioning the terms of health plan coverage based on availability of financial or other product assistance for a prescription drug; establishes certain procedures for calculating an enrollee's contribution to an applicable cost sharing requirement. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 10; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1375 Historical Commission - As introduced, vacates the commission and reconstitutes the commission; changes the size and appointing authorities for the commission from 24 gubernatorial appointees to 20 total members with five each being appointed by the governor, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives and five ex officio non-voting members. - Amends TCA Title 4.

TN - HB2644 Adoption - As introduced, makes various changes to present law on adoption and foster parents; specifies that an adult has an affirmative obligation to inquire whether their sexual activity has resulted in a pregnancy; requires a court to receive written consent from a child 14 years of age or older prior to the child's adoption. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - HB2285 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, authorizes the issuance of temporary teaching permits for courses for which an end-of-course examination is required. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB556 Elder Abuse - As enacted, requires that court clerks notify the health facilities commission, instead of the department of health, when an offender is to be placed on the registry of persons who have been determined to have abused, neglected, misappropriated, or exploited the property of vulnerable individuals; requires that such notice is given within 90 days of conviction of the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 5.

TN - HB854 Adoption - As enacted, makes revisions to present law relative to termination of certain parental rights. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1.

TN - HB2839 Garnishments and Executions - As introduced, makes various revisions to provisions related to property that is exempt from execution, seizure, or attachment. - Amends TCA Section 26-2-111.

TN - HB2793 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, extends the deadline by which a distressed rural county must apply to be eligible to retain the sales and use tax generated from a commercial development district from December 31, 2024, to December 31, 2030. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB53 Fairs - As enacted, substitutes a representative of the Tennessee Association of Fairs for the Association's executive director as a member of the state fair and exposition commission. - Amends TCA Section 4-57-104.

TN - HB1095 Health Care - As enacted, places requirements for registration of a temporary healthcare staffing agency. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 50; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2117 Local Government, General - As introduced, requires a political subdivision to provide a written attestation with the political subdivision's annual audit to the comptroller of the treasury certifying that the political subdivision has not sought or received a grant in intentional pursuit of certain prohibited policies. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 20; Title 21; Title 27; Title 28 and Title 29.

TN - HB695 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, establishes the amount of an occupational educator scholarship awarded by the department to prospective educators seeking a Tennessee occupational teaching license as the cost of tuition and mandatory fees at the postsecondary institution attended less all other gift aid, which must be credited first to the eligible prospective educator's tuition and mandatory fees. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1358 Health Care - As enacted, directs the department of health to officially request the United States department of health and human services to add newborn screening for metachromatic leukodystrophy to the recommended uniform screening panel. - Amends TCA Title 14; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HJR803 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Designates the period of July 1, 2024, through July 31, 2024, as a time of prayer and fasting in Tennessee and seeks Gods hand of mercy healing on Tennessee.

TN - HB1682 Mental Illness - As introduced, adds a certificate of need for care and treatment that was completed by a licensed physician and a qualified advanced practice provider as a suitable certification for filing with a court for the purpose of a probable cause hearing on a persons need for involuntary admission to inpatient treatment, and as a prerequisite to judicial commitment. - Amends TCA Section 33-6-503 and Section 33-6-421.

TN - HB2165 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires a request made by a student to an employee of the student's LEA or public charter school for an accommodation to affirm the student's gender identity to be reported to a school administrator and to the student's parent; prohibits an employee of an LEA or public charter school from knowingly providing false or misleading information to a student's parent regarding the student's gender identity or intention to transition to a gender that differ...

TN - HJR798 Memorials, Government Officials - Urges Governor Lee to work with neighboring states and law enforcement officials to identify and prosecute child and human traffickers.

TN - HB1772 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the state funding board to June 30, 2032. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 9, Chapter 9.

TN - HB1890 Agriculture - As introduced, establishes a program to allow the department of agriculture to acquire and administer real estate interests in the state, including the administration of grants for the purpose of preserving farm and forestry land; creates the Farmland Preservation Fund to be used for the program; specifies provisions that must be included in an agricultural easement acquired through the program. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - HB2393 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, makes various changes to the fees collected by the commission from Tennessee SARA institutions pursuant to the State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement Act. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1763 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the public records commission to June 30, 2032. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 3.

TN - HJR1095 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Bryan Richey

TN - HB431 Aircraft and Airports - As enacted, changes the present law that imposes and remits a tax on a person's purchase, use, consumption, or storage of aviation fuel that is used in the operation of an aircraft of a certificated or licensed air carrier with a transportation hub within this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 42 and Title 67.

TN - HB1279 Taxes - As enacted, makes changes to the Convention Center Authorities Act of 2009. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 67.

TN - HB2486 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, authorizes a director of schools to delegate one or more of the duties assigned to the director by the local board of education to another administrator or employee of the LEA, if the board has adopted a policy authorizing the respective duty to be delegated to the respective individual. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB707 Law Enforcement - As introduced, authorizes the Tennessee bureau of investigation to electronically file its annual use of force report to the chair of the judiciary committee of the senate and the chair of the criminal justice committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 24; Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35; Title 8, Chapter 36; Title 8, Chapter 37; Title 38, Chapter 8, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 140.

TN - HB2156 Education - As introduced, increases, from 45 to 60, the number of days a child care person or entity may receive an extension on a temporary certificate from the state board of education to operate a child care program prior to the issuance of an initial annual certificate of approval. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB948 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates the second Monday in April of each year as "Tennessee Lineworker Appreciation Day." - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 15.

TN - HB2522 Medical Occupations - As introduced, authorizes the board of osteopathic examination to issue advisory private letter rulings upon request to affected licensees regarding matters within the board's primary jurisdiction; provides that such rulings only affect the licensee making the inquiry and have no precedential value for another inquiry or future contested case that might come before the board. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - HB1057 Water Pollution - As enacted, requires the department of environment and conservation to exempt from compensatory mitigation an amount of wetland equal in size to the area for which mitigation would not be required if the permit applicant qualified for coverage under a general permit, if the only factor that disqualifies an applicant for an aquatic resource alteration permit for wetland impacts from having the activities for which a permit is sought covered under a general permit is the size ...

TN - HJR757 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Michael Ugwueke, University of Tennessee Health Science Center Advisory Board

TN - HB888 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, requires the department of agriculture to make its annual report on its enforcement of the Prevention of Youth Access to Tobacco, Smoking Hemp, and Vapor Products Act available on its website. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 47, Chapter 25 and Title 67.

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

TN - HB2100 Consumer Protection - As introduced, requires financial institutions and insurers to make determinations about the provision or denial of services based on an analysis of risk factors unique to each current or prospective customer; prohibits financial institutions and insurers from denying or canceling services to a person, or otherwise discriminating against a person, based upon the use of a social credit score or other factors. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 45; Title 47 and Title 56.

TN - HB628 Health Care - As introduced, removes the start date of January 1, 2012, for the requirement that a healthcare practitioner communicate the practitioner's full name and type of license in writing to a patient at the patient's initial office visit. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 50; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1689 Solid Waste Disposal - As introduced, expands the permitted uses for money received by a county for each tire sold in the county to include removal of illegally disposed waste tires from public or private property; authorizes the department of environment and conservation to provide funds to a local government for the investigation and clean-up of unpermitted waste tire disposal sites; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-1610 and Title 68, Chapter 211.

TN - HB2374 Health Care - As introduced, requires a health insurance carrier to provide certain information used by the health insurance carrier to calculate payments paid to the healthcare provider within 10 calendar days, rather than 10 business days, of receipt of a written request from a healthcare provider. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB607 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, makes changes relative to the coverage of complex rehabilitation technology (CRT) by health insurance entities and managed care organizations. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HB319 Environment and Conservation, Department of - As enacted, establishes a "brownfield redevelopment area fund" to be used by the department to administer a brownfield redevelopment area grant program; creates a franchise and excise tax credit equal to the remediation costs for a brownfield property for a qualified development project in a tier 3 or tier 4 enhancement county; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53, Part 3; Title 9, Chapter 23; Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 2...

TN - HB2280 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, authorizes a special occasion license to be issued in a jurisdiction wherein the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises has not been approved with written approval to hold an event by and in such jurisdiction that is signed by the executive officer or chair of the legislative body of such jurisdiction. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1106 Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, allows a juvenile court to transfer a juvenile 16 years of age or older to a criminal court of competent jurisdiction to be tried as an adult for committing the offense of escape from a youth development center approved, certified, or licensed by the department of children's services. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1 and Title 37, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1688 Driver Licenses - As introduced, deletes the provision authorizing a municipality or county to pass an ordinance or resolution permitting a person charged with violating certain traffic ordinances or statutes to deposit the person's driver license with the court in lieu of bail. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 8.

TN - HB729 Audiologists and Speech Pathologists - As enacted, clarifies the emergency medical backup requirement for speech language pathologists using endoscopes so that the procedure may be performed when a physician is on the premises or is remotely available regardless of whether the procedure is performed in a community or institutional setting. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 17, Part 1.

TN - HB2732 Tennessee Fish & Wildlife Commission - As introduced, authorizes the Tennessee wildlife resources agency to enter into license agreements for the operation of facilities on lands under the control or supervision of the agency for the improved utilization of state lands and facilities; such license agreements must first be approved by the state building commission and the attorney general and reporter; clarifies that persons engaging in the business of propagating certain wildlife do not need ...

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 - HB983 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, requires local education agencies (LEAs) to provide licensed employees of the LEA 6 paid workweeks after a birth or stillbirth of the employee's child or employee's adoption of a newly placed minor child. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 49.

TN - HJR766 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Lauren Smith, Public Charter School Commission

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 - HJR190 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Stephen Powell, Standards Recommendation Committee for Science and Social Studies

TN - HB536 Tennessee Fish & Wildlife Commission - As enacted, adds to qualifications for appointment to the commission that commissioners be well informed on boating operation, regulation, and safety. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 9, Part 2 and Title 70, Chapter 1, Part 2.

TN - HB1779 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Development Compact to June 30, 2032. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 69, Chapter 8.

TN - HB1643 Mental Illness - As introduced, requires the state to pay the cost of a court-ordered mental health evaluation and treatment for criminal defendants who have been charged with a misdemeanor and are believed to be incompetent to stand trial or for whom there is a question about mental capacity at the time of the offense. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1651 Charitable Institutions - As introduced, establishes a five-day period after the effective date of this act during which a nonprofit organization may apply to operate a charitable gaming event during the annual period beginning July 1, 2023, until June 30, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 17.

TN - HB522 Law Enforcement - As enacted, if the Tennessee highway patrol is assigned a protective detail, authorizes a Tennessee highway patrolman and an officer of a local law enforcement agency to utilize their respective agency's vehicle or emergency equipment for purposes of conducting the protective detail. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 58.

TN - HB2055 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, deletes a reference to a repealed statute from the present law governing the deadline by which an action by the county board of equalization during its regular session must be completed and notice of its decision and appeal procedure must be sent. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HJR932 Memorials, Academic Achievement - 6th grade WOW awards at Union Grove Middle School

TN - HB771 State Symbols - As enacted, requests the governor to submit a new design of the great seal of the state of Tennessee by July 1, 2025, that incorporates the language "In God We Trust." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - HB1545 Appropriations - As enacted, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2022, and July 1, 2023.

TN - HB723 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, expands employees allowed to carry a handgun on property owned, operated, or controlled by a public institution of higher education to include retired law enforcement officers who retired in good standing with 20 years of service and are employed on a part-time basis by a public institution of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - HB826 Education - As enacted, authorizes a director of schools, or a director's designee, to not assign a student in grades 7-12 who has been suspended for more than 10 days or expelled from the regular school program for an offense of violence or threatened violence, or an offense that threatened the safety of persons attending or assigned to the student's school, to an alternative school or alternative program if the director or designee determines that assigning the student to the alternative sc...

TN - HB2760 Children - As introduced, increases, from two to three, the number of hours of training or continuing education courses on domestic violence or child abuse all judges in child custody proceedings are required to complete per year; increases, from 10 to 15, the number of hours of such training required every five years. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - HB552 Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, states that the goal of the department must be to act in the best interest of the child at all times and that goal must be reflected in any mission statement or motto established by the department. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - HB1868 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, prohibits a gun dealer from delivering to a purchaser a trigger crank, bump stock, bump-fire device, or any other part, combination of parts, component, device, attachment, or accessory that is designed or functions to accelerate the rate of fire of a firearm until 72 hours have passed from the initial time at which the sale of the firearm accessory was sought by the purchaser. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HJR800 Memorials, Retirement - Coach Nick Saban

TN - HB411 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, revises the definitions of "wine" and "beer" with regard to law relative to traffic in intoxicating liquors and regulating the sale of wine in retail stores. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3 and Title 57, Chapter 5.

TN - HJR911 Memorials, Recognition - Allison Russell

TN - HB2199 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, enacts "MaKayla's Law," which expands the offense of reckless endangerment to include a person's reckless failure to render inoperable or safely secure or lock a firearm, resulting in a child under 13 gaining possession of the firearm and injuring or killing the child or another. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-103.

TN - HB2547 Purchasing and Procurement - As introduced, authorizes a local governmental entity to purchase fuel and fuel products in the open market without public advertisement or competitive bidding, but requires the entity, whenever possible, to obtain at least three documented quotes; permits such purchases from the department of general services' contract where available. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 14, Part 2 and Title 12, Chapter 3, Part 12.

TN - HB273 Health, Dept. of - As enacted, authorizes the division of health related boards to hire a medical consultant. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1960 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, authorizes public hospitals, upon approval of the hospital's governing body, to establish a state employee and retiree healthcare incentive program that will allow for the waiver of applicable out-of-pocket expenses associated with medical care at the public hospital for state employees and retirees and their covered dependents participating in the state group insurance plan. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27.

TN - HB2020 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, expands postsecondary academic programs in fermentation authorizing students to taste alcoholic beverages as part of the program. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4, Part 1.

TN - HB2076 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, establishes procedures for recoupment of overpayments made to a healthcare provider by certain health insurance entities. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB613 Wine & Wineries - As enacted, authorizes two or more wineries to enter into an alternating proprietorship agreement to share certain premises of the wineries that are party to the agreement. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3.

TN - HB2388 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, authorizes LEAs to extend career technical education (CTE) class sizes and averages in middle school CTE courses grades six through eight; provided, that CTE classes in grades six through eight do not exceed the maximum class size and the class size average set for general education classes in grades six through eight. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1.

TN - HB1132 Veterinarians - As introduced, makes certain changes concerning establishment of a veterinarian-client-patient relationship; authorizes continuation of such relationship for up to 24 months, rather than 12 months, in case of livestock. - Amends TCA Title 44; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HJR120 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Honors the memories of Zackery Grooms and Chance Black and requests TWRA to erect a marker in remembrance of the young men.

TN - HB1012 County Officers - As introduced, authorizes a county election council to notify the Tennessee Constable Association, the Tennessee Constable Council, and the East Tennessee Constables Association of the election or appointment of a constable by electronic means. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 10; Title 8, Chapter 21, Part 9 and Section 65-3-118.

TN - HB843 Education, Higher - As introduced, changes, from September 15 to October 1, the date by which each public institution of higher education operating a hearing center must provide a written report to the Tennessee higher education commission, the education committee of the senate, and the education administration committee of the house of representatives regarding the operation of the hearing center. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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 - HB1212 Labor - As enacted, removes the prohibition that a person 16 or 17 years of age may not be employed in any place where the average monthly gross receipts from the sale of intoxicating beverages exceeds 25 percent of the total gross receipts of the place of employment if the person is not permitted to take orders for or serve intoxicating beverages. - Amends TCA Title 50 and Title 57.

TN - HB1558 Niota - Subject to local approval, requires the salary of the mayor and commissioners be set by ordinance in conjunction with the annual budget rather than pursuant to fixed amounts in the charter; removes general supervisory authority of the commissioner of finance and taxation over the city library; removes requirement that the city administrator report directly to the mayor and board of commissioners; removes residency requirement for city administrator. - Amends Chapter 48 of the Private ...

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 - HB1365 State Government - As enacted, revises provisions relating to background checks for persons considered for appointment to or employment in various positions in state government and for administrators and employees of child care agencies. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6; Title 68, Chapter 102 and Title 71, Chapter 3.

TN - HB2095 Taxes, Gasoline, Petroleum Products - As introduced, requires that a grant awarded to a marina from the portion of gasoline tax revenues apportioned to the wildlife resources fund for public and environmental infrastructure at marinas be based on the amount of gasoline sold at the marina receiving the grant. - Amends TCA Section 67-3-901.

TN - HB2967 Rutherford County - Subject to local approval, raises the threshold requiring purchases and contracts to be procured through a public, competitive bidding process from $25,000 to $50,000. - Amends Chapter 421 of the Private Acts of 1943; as amended and rewritten.

TN - HB1217 Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, makes changes and additions to present law concerning the state building commission and capital projects. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 49.

TN - HB2320 Debtor Creditor Relations - As introduced, specifies certain documents that must be attached to an initial pleading in an action on a consumer debt; exempts funds to the aggregate value of $2,500 in a judgment debtor's deposit account with a bank or other financial institution in this state from execution, seizure, or attachment unless certain circumstances apply. - Amends TCA Title 20; Title 25 and Title 26.

TN - HB191 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, authorizes certain establishments to sell alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - HB1826 TennCare - As introduced, requires TennCare coverage of rapid whole genome sequencing when certain clinical criteria are met. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HB2642 State Government - As introduced, adds a fire engine converted to a for-hire passenger vehicle as a type of entertainment transportation that may be regulated by a governmental entity. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 57; Title 65; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HB2678 Education - As introduced, changes from November 1 to October 15 the deadline for the comptroller to annually submit a report concerning the implementation of the Tennessee Literacy Success Act. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 37; Title 49; Title 50; Title 66 and Title 67.

TN - HJR859 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article I, Section 15 of the Constitution of Tennessee to remove the right to bail for the following offenses when the proof is evident or the presumption great: act of terrorism; second degree murder; aggravated rape of a child; aggravated rape; grave torture; and any other offense, as of November 3, 2026, for which a defendant, if convicted, could not be released prior to the expiration of at least 85 percent of the entire sentence imposed.

TN - HJR155 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Hal Bynum, University of Tennessee at Martin Advisory Board

TN - HB1319 Flags - As introduced, requires the United States flag and the official state flag to be displayed continuously on property owned, operated, or controlled by this state or a political subdivision of this state, including educational institutions and public school buildings; restricts the display of flags other than the United States flag and the official state flag on said property to only those periods of time for which an entity represented by the flag is meeting or performing an authorized...

TN - HB197 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the board of boiler rules to June 30, 2028. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 68, Chapter 122.

TN - HB1746 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the Tennessee collection service board to June 30, 2030. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 62, Chapter 20.

TN - HB2978 Fayette County - Subject to local approval, creates the Fayette County Water Authority.

TN - HR8 General Assembly, Review Or Ratification of Rules - Ratifies and approves the amendments and revisions to the Tennessee Rules of Criminal Procedure as promulgated and adopted by the Tennessee Supreme Court.

TN - SJR31 Naming and Designating - Designates the City of Friendsville as the Pink Marble Capital of Tennessee

TN - HB1476 Correction, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the criteria established by the department for awarding credits for good institutional behavior to include a requirement that the inmate complete a department-approved validated risk and needs assessment and participate in programming or employment in order for the inmate to be eligible to earn sentence credits for good institutional behavior. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 10; Title 16; Title 17; Title 18; Title 33; Title 37; Title 38; Title ...

TN - HB1039 Comptroller, State - As enacted, requires the comptroller of the treasury to compare a list of registered voters provided by the state coordinator of elections to the comptrollers geographic information system data to ensure that registered voters have been assigned to the correct congressional, state house, state senate, and county governing body districts. - Amends TCA Section 2-3-102.

TN - HB2048 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, changes from three to one the number of incorporators or organizers a captive insurance company that is incorporated or organized in this state must have when being organized; deletes the requirement that the incorporator or organizer of the captive insurance company must be a resident of this state when being organized. - Amends TCA Title 56.

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 - HB1649 Election Laws - As introduced, requires LEAs and public charter schools of a county to be closed for instruction on presidential primary election days if the county election commission uses such schools as a polling place. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 3, Part 1.

TN - HB2089 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Disability and Aging Act of 2024." - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 8; Title 12; Title 13; Title 33; Title 34; Title 37; Title 40; Title 41; Title 45; Title 49; Title 52; Title 55; Title 56; Title 63; Title 67; Title 68; Title 71 and Chapter 1100 of the Public Acts of 2010.

TN - HB314 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, makes changes to the law regarding assignment of benefits to a healthcare provider; removes provisions of law relative to the collection of out-of-network charges by healthcare facilities. - Amends TCA Section 56-7-120 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.

TN - HJR160 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Doran Johnson, University of Tennessee Southern Advisory Board

TN - HB2787 Codes - As introduced, authorizes a local government to amend adopted building codes to include three-family dwellings and four-family dwellings within the scope of the residential code. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 120.

TN - HB774 Local Government, General - As enacted, enacts the "Protecting Tennessee Businesses and Workers Act." - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 50.

TN - HB2053 Clerks, Court - As introduced, requires clerks of circuit court, criminal court, general sessions courts, other special courts created by law, and municipal courts exercising concurrent general sessions jurisdiction, to notify the Tennessee bureau of investigation of the final disposition in criminal proceedings within three business days of the disposition, rather than 72 hours. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 18 and Title 18, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1631 Schools, Private - As introduced, clarifies that a private school serving students in any of the grades pre-K through 12 is authorized to adopt a handgun carry policy for the private school's property. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13; Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 50.

TN - HB93 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, changes, from the department of education to the student's LEA, the entity responsible for determining whether a third or fourth grade student who previously tested not proficient in English language arts has shown adequate growth on an assessment administered to the student for purposes of promotion. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB910 Local Government, General - As enacted, prohibits local governments from dismissing, disciplining, fining, or penalizing a jailer or corrections officer employed by a local government, or denying employment to a person applying to be a jailer or corrections officer, based on where the jailer or corrections officer or applicant resides. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8, Chapter 50 and Title 8, Chapter 8.

TN - HB141 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, authorizes the commissioner of transportation to include the anticipated completion dates for projects under construction in the commissioner's quarterly report to the state building commission on the status of road projects. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 54; Title 55; Title 65 and Title 67.

TN - HB1970 Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As introduced, deletes a redundant definition of the term "commission," as that term is already defined title-wide in 57-3-101. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102.

TN - HB452 Jails, Local Lock-ups - As enacted, requires a prisoner of a county workhouse or jail who is released from custody on work release or otherwise allowed to leave the grounds of the county workhouse or jail for employment or to perform work in the community, whether paid or unpaid, to use an electronic monitoring device at all times when the prisoner is not on the grounds of the county workhouse or jail; requires the employer or person utilizing the prisoner for work to pay the costs of the ele...

TN - HB491 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, expands the types of projects that may be funded under the Tourism Development Authority Act; clarifies the sources of revenue to fund such projects; excludes ad valorem real property taxes from such sources of revenue that are available to fund projects under the Act. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 69.

TN - HB1794 Election Laws - As introduced, enacts the "Uniform Faithful Presidential Electors Act." - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB2420 Elder Abuse - As introduced, increases from 48 hours to 72 hours, the time period prior to a hearing on the merits of a complaint for an order authorizing the provision of protective services necessary to prevent imminent danger of irreparable physical or mental harm or cessation of life, within which the adult alleged to be in need of protective services and any person to whom the adult is lawfully married must be served with a copy of the complaint, unless for good cause shown, a shorter t...

TN - HJR156 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Scott LeRoy, University of Tennessee Chattanooga Advisory Board

TN - HB311 Public Contracts - As introduced, requires the state procurement commission to strive to ensure that at least 5 percent of procurement contracts are awarded to veteran-owned businesses. - Amends TCA Title 12.

TN - HB183 Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As enacted, makes various changes to campaign finance laws. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10; Title 3, Chapter 6; Title 4, Chapter 55; Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 5 and Title 57.

TN - HB322 Education - As enacted, revises various provisions of present law relative to safety in elementary and secondary education and the Schools Against Violence in Education Act. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504; Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 62, Chapter 35.

TN - HB1598 State Symbols - As introduced, designates Cleveland, Tennessee, as the hot slaw capital of this state. - Amends TCA Title 4.

TN - HB208 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 3.

TN - HB940 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, enacts "Abrials Law, the Keeping Children Safe from Family Violence Act," which makes various changes to child custody law. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - HB2183 Children - As introduced, deletes the statutory provision that repeals the Tennessee Zero to Three Court Initiative on January 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1.

TN - HB801 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, permanently reenacts the "Proton Therapy Access Act," which was repealed on January 1, 2023. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 23.

TN - HB2903 Opioids - As introduced, requires the division of TennCare to ensure that a non-opioid drug approved by the United States food and drug administration for the treatment or management of pain is not disadvantaged or discouraged with respect to coverage relative to an opioid or narcotic drug for the treatment or management of pain on the preferred drug list; makes other changes regarding the use of opioids and non-opioid drugs. - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1776 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the Tennessee board of court reporting to June 30, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 20, Chapter 9, Part 6.

TN - HB2088 Military - As introduced, authorizes the military department to administer a critical skills retention bonus program to be used to award retention bonuses of up to $10,000 to enlisted service members in the Tennessee national guard; entitles certain state employees who are members of a reserve component of the armed forces of the United States or the national guard to special leave with partial pay during a period in which the members have been called to active duty. - Amends TCA Title 58, Ch...

TN - HB174 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, allows a person returning to service on other than a full-time basis in a position covered by the optional retirement program for higher education institutions to take or continue taking distributions from the optional retirement program during the period of reemployment under certain conditions. - Amends TCA Section 8-25-213.

TN - HB2386 Search & Seizure - As introduced, authorizes a law enforcement officer to execute a search warrant for medical records or a test to determine the alcohol or drug content, or both, of a person's blood anywhere in the state, rather than in the county in which the warrant was issued. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 55.

TN - HB2018 Taxes, Personal Property - As introduced, deletes the July 1, 2024, repeal date for the statutory provision authorizing county trustees to proceed against taxpayers delinquent in the payment of tangible personal property taxes by retaining an agent to collect the delinquent tangible personal property taxes. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB65 Human Services, Dept. of - As enacted, changes the department's periodic review of the child support guidelines from every three years from the date of promulgation to every four years. - Amends TCA Section 36-5-101.

TN - HB459 Education - As enacted, clarifies that public charter schools and the state board of education are prohibited from employing individuals found by the department of children's services to have committed an act of child abuse in the same manner as other educational entities; clarifies that the state board is prohibited from granting, reactivating, or restoring an educator license or temporary teaching permit for such individuals; adds the state board and public charter schools to the list of ed...

TN - HB1789 Education, State Board of - As introduced, clarifies that pleas of guilt and nolo contendere to certain criminal offenses subject an educator to automatic revocation of an educator license by the state board; specifies that criminal offenses committed in another jurisdiction that are equivalent to those that if committed in this state subject an educator to automatic revocation of an educator license similarly subject an educator to automatic revocation of an educator license by the state boa...

TN - HB2693 Mental Illness - As introduced, requires the court that finds a person incompetent to stand trial for a criminal offense due to intellectual disability to also determine whether the person is subject to involuntary care and treatment at the hearing in which the person is declared incompetent; states that the district attorney general is not required to file a complaint to require involuntary care and treatment for a person who is found incompetent to stand trial due to intellectual disability...

TN - HJR854 Naming and Designating - Designates August 11, 2024, as "Sheriff Eddie Tester Day."

TN - HB1482 Bonding, Surety and Professional - As enacted, allows the Tennessee Association of Professional Bail Agents to provide or contract for one or more virtual classes for agents; increases the maximum amount the association may charge for eight hours of continuing education; prohibits a person from attending such continuing education classes if the person has been convicted in any state of certain offenses. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 11, Part 4.

TN - HB1980 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, authorizes a charitable nonprofit corporation located in Knox County or within a municipality located within Knox County that acquires replacement property which is operated as a licensed residential home for the aged, to claim and file a property tax exemption as a religious, charitable, scientific, or nonprofit educational institution. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB611 State Government - As enacted, clarifies that employees of state governmental entities who are compensated through funding sources other than this state are subject to the Tennessee State Employees Uniform Nepotism Policy Act of 1980; creates criminal and civil penalties for a state employee who violates the Act; authorizes the attorney general and reporter to investigate violations of the Act. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 31 and Title 8, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2975 Bruceton - Subject to local approval, raises the monetary limit on purchases that do not require competitive bidding from $2,500 to $25,000. - Amends Chapter 325 of the Private Acts of 1980; as amended.

TN - HB2323 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the mandatory minimum confinement period for a defendant after a third or subsequent conviction of domestic assault to 90 days; upgrades the offense classification to a Class E felony upon a defendant's conviction for a sixth or subsequent qualifying misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2262 Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, adds services to the list of purchases that may be made for use in a business enterprise program for the blind without taking bids for the purchases, advertising bids for such purchases, or complying with other state law on purchasing on behalf of state government; changes from the director of services for the blind to the commissioner of human services or the commissioner's designee, the person authorized to make such purchases; designates the purcha...

TN - HB2373 Open Meetings - As introduced, authorizes a governing body to provide a period of public comment for each item on an agenda for a public meeting or at the end of the agenda for comment collectively on matters germane to the items on the agenda. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 44.

TN - HB248 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, requires a person convicted of domestic assault involving strangulation to serve a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 days incarceration; enhances offenses involving strangulation or attempted strangulation based on certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1225 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, revises present law relative to child support. - Amends TCA Section 8-23-103 and Title 36.

TN - HB1162 Arbitration - As enacted, makes various revisions to the "Uniform Arbitration Act." - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 5; Section 47-18-5519(f)(2); Section 56-7-1206(h)(1); Section 60-1-607(c)(2) and Section 66-34-104(f).

TN - HB514 Health Care - As enacted, revises law requiring the governor to appoint three members to the medical cannabis commission, such that at least one member must be a patient who has been diagnosed with a qualifying medical disease or condition and who can establish the diagnosis for purposes of appointment to and service on the commission with a valid letter of attestation. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 43; Title 50; Title 56; Title 63; Title 67; Title 68 and ...

TN - HB2541 Energy - As introduced, authorizes mayors of certain local governments to enter into voluntary agreements for energy infrastructure improvements for clean or renewable energy; requires that agreements be approved either by resolution of the respective legislative bodies of such local governments or in accordance with statutory requirements. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13, Chapter 3; Title 13, Chapter 4 and Title 13, Chapter 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 - HB766 Transportation, Dept. of - As enacted, makes revisions to law relative to traffic-control signals. - Amends TCA Title 54 and Title 55.

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 - HB2310 Public Health - As introduced, creates a civil cause of action against any person who knowingly removes a minor from this state without the consent of a parent of the minor for the purpose of assisting the minor in obtaining a healthcare procedure that is for the purpose of enabling the minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor's sex or treating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor's sex and asserted identity. - Ame...

TN - HB1817 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class D felony for the offense of child endangerment by a parent or custodian of a child eight years of age or less if the parent or guardian knowingly exposes the child to, or knowingly fails to protect the child from, abuse or neglect resulting in physical injury or imminent danger to the child; increases the penalty from a Class D felony to a Class B felony for a person who negligently, by act or omiss...

TN - HB1313 Health Care - As enacted, requires hospitals that have a certification from a department-approved, nationally recognized certifying body recognizing the hospital as capable of providing neuroendovascular treatment to report data quarterly consistent with nationally recognized stroke consensus measures on the treatment of individuals with confirmed stroke to the East Tennessee State University College of Public Health. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 68, Chapter 1.

TN - HB1552 Chapel Hill - Subject to local approval, clarifies that vacancies on the board and in the office of mayor be filled by majority vote of the remaining board members with the appointee to serve only until the next regular election at which time the remaining unexpired term is filled; consolidates and expands certain powers exercised by the town relative to special assessments, indebtedness, bonds, condemnation, public utilities, and correctional facilities; removes minimum age requirement for t...

TN - HB1955 Election Laws - As introduced, requires a third-party voter registration organization to register and provide certain information to the coordinator of elections before engaging in a voter registration event or program; prohibits persons and organizations collecting voter registrations from taking certain actions with regard to the voter registrations and provides civil penalties for violations. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB101 Abortion - As introduced, excludes from the offense of criminal abortion an abortion performed to prevent the death of the pregnant woman or to prevent serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function of the pregnant woman or on a patient whose pregnancy is the result of rape or incest; permits a law enforcement officer to confirm to a physician that the pregnant woman has filed a report of alleged rape or incest. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 63 and...

TN - HB24 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As enacted, requires the bureau to provide quarterly updates to legislative committees on its efforts to hire and train employees within the forensic services division and the average amount of time taken to perform forensic analysis on evidence in cases involving sexual offenses; requires the bureau, by January 1, 2025, to submit a report to legislative committees detailing any additional resources and personnel that would be required in order to perform f...

TN - HB2433 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, authorizes the department of agriculture to submit and publish its annual report to the general assembly and the public on efforts to prevent the sale of tobacco products to individuals under 21 years of age electronically and on the department's website. - Amends TCA Title 25; Title 39; Title 47 and Title 67.

TN - HJR748 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Mario Duarte, UT Chattanooga Advisory Board

TN - HB1307 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, authorizes the department of safety to create a voucher program for the purpose of offsetting the cost of persons taking a handgun safety course for the first time; requires the department to report the number of courses taken using vouchers to the senate judiciary committee and house criminal justice committee. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 39.

TN - HB548 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor offense for the possession of a device, tool, machine, implement, or other item capable of programming a smart key or key fob with the intent to use it or allow it to be used to commit theft. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 1 and Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 7.

TN - HB1015 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, prohibits persons engaged in the business of towing motor vehicles by wrecker or otherwise, or storing such motor vehicles, for remuneration from charging the owner or lienholder a storage fee for a period exceeding 21 days without the owner or lienholder's consent unless certain exceptions apply. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 23 and Title 66.

TN - HB1726 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, prohibits the department of children's services from requiring an immunization as a condition of adopting or overseeing a child in foster care if an individual or member of an individual's household objects to immunization on the basis of religious or moral convictions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 36; Title 37 and Title 71.

TN - HB2317 Day Care - As introduced, requires TACIR to complete a study and issue a report on laws, regulations, and rules affecting the start-up, operation, and expansion of child care businesses in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 36; Title 37; Title 49 and Title 71.

TN - HB2797 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, specifies that the required notice of a public meeting by an industrial development corporation related to the approval of a payment in lieu of taxes for a lessee of the corporation must be published on the website of the corporation. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13 and Title 48.

TN - HB2623 Housing - As introduced, authorizes the chief legislative body of a municipality to create a voluntary attainable housing incentive program by ordinance for the purpose of authorizing certain incentives to be provided to property owners who seek to build attainable housing. - Amends TCA Title 13 and Title 66.

TN - HB2041 Marriage - As introduced, prohibits marriage between first cousins. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3.

TN - HJR303 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Alexia Poe, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, advisory board

TN - HB207 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the department of human resources to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 3.

TN - HB1229 Housing - As introduced, requires a county having a metropolitan form of government that creates a special escrow account earmarked for the sole purpose of generating revenue to provide low income persons with safe and affordable housing to notify the Tennessee housing development agency and the chairs of the local government committee of the house of representatives and the state and local government committee of the senate. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13, Chapter 23; Title...

TN - HB57 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, makes various changes to the Insurance Holding Company System Act, including a requirement to file an annual group capital calculation, requirements regarding the use and filing of results of a liquidity stress test, and other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 11.

TN - HB1281 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As enacted, establishes a family medicine student loan repayment grant program to incentivize physicians in residency training to provide medical health services in health resource shortage areas following completion of their training. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 63.

TN - HB1799 Election Laws - As introduced, requires each person, corporation, organization, partnership, or political party that seeks to provide training or conferences related to the administration of elections to county election commissions to be approved by the secretary of state prior to providing such training or conference. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HJR801 Memorials, Congress - Urges the federal government to do all within its power to secure the U.S. border.

TN - HB435 Education - As enacted, establishes a deaf mentor and parent advisor program to assist families in implementing bilingual and bicultural home-based programming for young children who are deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind at the Tennessee Schools for the Deaf and the West Tennessee School for the Deaf. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 50, Part 10.

TN - HB1745 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the child care agency licensing board of review to June 30, 2030. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 71, Chapter 3.

TN - HB258 Education - As enacted, changes, from the state board of education to local boards of education, the entity responsible for requiring certain examinations of school bus drivers, for requiring certain reports, and for revoking the certificates of school bus drivers found to be unfit; expands the types of convictions for which a school bus driver's certificate must be revoked; revises various provisions to change, from the state board of education to the department of safety, the entity respons...

TN - HB594 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, requires a beer wholesaler to keep each original bill of sale or a digital duplicate from the sale of beer to a beer retailer for three years rather than two years; requires the beer retailer to keep a duplicate of the bill of sale for three years rather than two years. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 57 and Title 68.

TN - HB1431 Public Employees - As enacted, increases the pay schedule for certain assistant district attorneys general, assistant district public defenders, district investigators, and criminal investigators. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14 and Title 8, Chapter 7.

TN - HB938 Annexation - As enacted, allows owners of real property used primarily for agricultural purposes who reside in a territory previously annexed by ordinance upon the initiative of the municipality to petition the municipality to deannex such property, if certain conditions are present. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51.

TN - HB1796 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, authorizes licensed chiropractic physicians to issue certified statements of disability in the same manner as physicians for a person's application for a disabled registration plate, decal, or placard. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 21.

TN - HB853 Real Property - As enacted, provides that the plane coordinate values for a point on the earth's surface used to express the geographic position or location of such point consist of two distances expressed in either International, instead of United States survey, feet and decimals of a foot or meters and decimals of a meter when using the Tennessee State Plane Coordinate System; removes a requirement when the values are expressed in United States survey feet that they be used as the standard ...

TN - HB786 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, creates a new pathway for honorably discharged veterans to receive an occupational teaching license. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1043 Gaming - As enacted, requires the department of mental health and substance abuse services to use funds distributed from revenue received from sports gaming to provide treatment services for juvenile addiction and mental health disorders secondary to providing services for gambling addiction and gambling disorders. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 14; Title 38; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 5; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 49 and Title 67.

TN - HB2989 Gibson County - As introduced, moves election date for the county special school district board of trustees to coincide with the general election. - Amends Chapter 62 of the Private Acts of 1981; as amended.

TN - HB1109 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, adds to the offense of custodial interference, a parent or other family member who harbors or hides a child within or outside this state, knowing that the child has been placed in the custody of the department of children's services pursuant to a protective custody order or an emergency custody order entered by a court; states that it is not a defense that the person harboring or hiding the child has not been served with an actual copy of a protective custody o...

TN - HB257 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, clarifies that an owner or lessee of a motor vehicle who is the parent, legal guardian, or conservator of a person who has an intellectual or developmental disability or medical condition, who may be operating the owner's or lessee's vehicle, and who needs assistance in communicating specific needs to law enforcement and first responders, may apply for a designation of such person's need in the Tennessee Vehicle Title and Registration ...

TN - HB445 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, removes the condition that the department of transportation first authorize the installation of surveillance cameras on interstates and state highways before such cameras may be operated by law enforcement agencies; authorizes the operation of surveillance cameras by law enforcement agencies on such highways under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 38 and Title 55.

TN - HB1783 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As introduced, continues permanent rules filed with the secretary of state between January 1, 2023, and December 31, 2023, that are in effect on the effective date of this act until repealed or amended by subsequent rule of the appropriate rulemaking agency or until otherwise superseded by legislative enactment. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5.

TN - HB841 Obscenity and Pornography - As enacted, makes it a Class E felony for a book publisher, distributor, or seller to knowingly sell or distribute obscene matter to a public school serving any of the grades K-12; adds additional fines for a violation. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 9.

TN - HB2496 Energy - As introduced, requires the grantee under a solar power facility agreement to file a copy of the agreement with the office of energy programs in the department of environment and conservation; directs the office of energy programs to expand and maintain its existing website with additional guidance and resources regarding solar energy for various persons. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 5; Section 7-53-316 and Title 66, Chapter 9, Part 2.

TN - HB201 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the board of trustees of the college savings trust fund program to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 8.

TN - HB724 County Officers - As enacted, requires a candidate for the office of constable to undergo a cognitive and psychological examination by a licensed psychologist to ensure the fitness of the candidate prior to running for office. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 10 and Title 38, Chapter 8.

TN - HB2143 State Employees - As introduced, permits employees of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of state government to complete Tennessee foster parent training and in-service training during the course of their employment without having to use paid sick, annual, or compensatory time up to a certain amount of time. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 37 and Title 71.

TN - HB2891 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, aligns local school board elections with the August primary and November general elections. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 49, Chapter 2.

TN - HB44 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, authorizes the City of McEwen and cities in Henry, Benton, Lewis, Grainger, and Hardeman counties to hold a referendum to authorize the manufacture, receipt, sale, storage, transportation, distribution, and possession of alcoholic beverages within the territorial limits of the respective city. - Amends TCA Section 57-3-106.

TN - HB1535 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, provides that whenever Coffee County acquires property at a tax sale, any non-governmental entity holding a vested and duly recorded contractual right to the payment of fees or assessments secured by the property retains such right; further provides that Coffee County will be liable for the payment of such fees and assessments if the county makes actual use of the property purchased at the tax sale. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 20 and Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1744 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the bureau of workers' compensation to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 14.

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 - 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 - HB886 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, allows dealers, when reporting and remitting sales taxes to the department of revenue, to retain a certain portion of such taxes in order to compensate for costs incurred in accounting for and remitting such taxes; establishes certain maximum limitations for certain dealers. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 5.

TN - SJR160 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses commitment to quality rehabilitation services for persons who are blind and urges the Department of Human Services to collaborate with the National Federation of the Blind of Tennessee to develop a plan for establishing a facility that provides comprehensive on-site, facility-based vocational rehabilitation services that allow the individual who is blind to be totally immersed in the training experience.

TN - HB743 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, authorizes the issuance of a retail package store license to an operator within the general services district of a metropolitan government that has approved the retail sale of liquor for off-premises consumption by local option election. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 57.

TN - HB1295 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to conduct a study of best practices in other states for the use of ninth grade "on-track" indicators in state accountability systems to prevent students from dropping out of high school, to submit a report of the outcomes of the study to legislative committees, and to publish the report on the department's website. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1780 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the trial court vacancy commission to June 30, 2030. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 17, Chapter 4.

TN - HB2360 Judicial Officers - As introduced, establishes that in Knox County one magistrate judge must be appointed by a majority of the county's general sessions judges and the length of their term is decided by a majority of the county's general sessions judges; specifies the magistrates' duties as issuing arrest warrants and setting bonds. - Amends TCA Section 40-1-111.

TN - HB237 Handgun Permits - As introduced, requires a person to obtain an enhanced or concealed handgun permit to carry a handgun in certain counties. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HB540 Naming and Designating - As enacted, names the educational facility located on the campus of the John S. Wilder youth development center "The Barbara Ward Cooper Education Center." - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 5.

TN - HB111 Solid Waste Disposal - As enacted, requires the solid waste disposal fee imposed by Wayne County, or a municipality or solid waste authority in Wayne County, to be subject to the same penalty and interest as delinquent property taxes if not paid within 30 days after notice of such fee is mailed. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 211, Part 8.

TN - HJR769 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Stephen Smith, Middle Tennessee State University Board of Trustees

TN - HB1128 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, extends from 90 days to 100 days, the amount of time in which captured plate data collected or retained by a governmental entity through the use of an automated license plate recognition system may be stored unless the data is retained or stored as part of an ongoing investigation. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 10; Title 16; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.

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 - HB340 Education - As enacted, requires a student to be considered in violation of a zero tolerance offense and be expelled for not less than one calendar year, except that a director of schools may modify such expulsion on a case-by-case basis, for threatening mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1346 Real Property - As enacted, prohibits this state and its political subdivisions from adopting or implementing policy recommendations that deliberately or inadvertently infringe or restrict private property rights without due process, as may be required by policy recommendations originating in, or traceable to, "Agenda 21," adopted by the United Nations in 1992 at its Conference on Environment and Development, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the U.N.'s proposal to reach net zer...

TN - HB78 Driver Licenses - As enacted, requires proof of financial responsibility be maintained for the period of a driver license's suspension or revocation rather than for a period of three years in order for a person's registration to not be suspended or revoked when the commissioner of safety suspends or revokes the person's license by reason of a conviction; makes other revisions related to compliance with proof of financial responsibility requirements. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 12, Part 1 a...

TN - HB2861 Public Health - As introduced, requires the commissioner of health to submit an electronic copy of the annual report on immunization rates of children, by county, to the governor and the speakers of the senate and the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 14; Title 37, Chapter 10, Part 4; Title 49 and Title 63.

TN - HB2368 Local Government, General - As introduced, establishes the "Residential Infrastructure Development Act of 2024." - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 84; Title 9, Chapter 21; Title 66, Chapter 5 and Title 67.

TN - HB905 Judges and Chancellors - As enacted, adds one additional criminal court judge in the thirteenth judicial district, one additional circuit court judge in the nineteenth judicial district, and one additional circuit court judge in the twenty-second judicial district. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.

TN - HB1534 Anderson County - Subject to local approval, repeals act creating position of county service officer. - Repeals Chapter 396 of the Private Acts of 1947 and Chapter 358 of the Private Acts of 1959

TN - HB2405 Social Workers - As introduced, enacts the Social Work Licensure Compact. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2472 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires LEAs and public charter schools to advise an employee who is assaulted by a student of the employee's rights as a result of the assault; requires, instead of authorizes, the suspension of a student who commits an assault against an employee of the LEA or public charter school in which the student is enrolled from attendance at school and from attendance at all school-sponsored events for at least one calendar year. - Amends TCA Title 37; Titl...

TN - HB1135 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, makes revisions to present law relative to retirement benefits of certain members of the general assembly and their beneficiaries. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35; Title 8, Chapter 36 and Title 8, Chapter 37.

TN - HB1538 Robertson County - Subject to local approval, increases from $500 to $525 the monthly compensation of the Robertson County highway commissioners and chairman of the commission. - Amends Chapter 380 of the Private Acts of 1947; as amended.

TN - HB1908 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "Beyond Ordinary Learning Opportunities (BOLO) Act," which requires the department to establish a one-year pilot program to place a therapy dog in five public schools in the 2024-2025 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB374 Sports - As enacted, moves administrative regulation of the Fantasy Sports Act from the office of the secretary of state to the sports wagering advisory council. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 39; Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 67.

TN - HB2305 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, requires official vintage license plates that are issued and registered by the state in lieu of the standard antique motor vehicle registration plate to be displayed on antique motor vehicles when they are being operated on public roads and highways or are stationary; allows holders of standard antique motor vehicle registration plates to display unofficial, unregistered vintage license plates only when the vehicle is stationary; requi...

TN - HB318 Children - As enacted, revises present law provisions governing adoption and foster care. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 37, Chapter 2, Part 4.

TN - HB763 County Clerks - As enacted, removes certain duties of county clerks regarding revenue. - Amends TCA Section 18-6-105.

TN - HB1602 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, requires a video or audio recording to be made of any interrogation of a child who has been taken into custody on suspicion that the child committed a delinquent act or unruly conduct unless a technical issue with the equipment or exigent circumstances prevent the recording. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - HB2711 Trade Regulation - As introduced, revises provisions governing trade practices and consumer protection. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6, Part 4 and Title 47.

TN - HJR935 Memorials, Retirement - Mona Kerr

TN - HB196 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the board of appeals for the department of human resources to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 8, Chapter 30.

TN - HB588 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, specifies that an LEA that has established a virtual school may enter into an agreement with an LEA that has not established a virtual school for the LEA's virtual school to provide remote instruction to students enrolled in either LEA who have been suspended or expelled from the regular school program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB413 Probation and Parole - As enacted, states that the four years of qualifying full-time professional experience required to be a probation and parole officer may include experience in law enforcement. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 40.

TN - HB271 Health Care - As enacted, establishes certain rules regarding certified psychological testing technicians. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB47 State Symbols - As enacted, establishes the phrase "Send Me." as an additional state motto. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - HB2540 Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As introduced, increases the age at which a rabbit that has been colored, stained, or otherwise had their natural color changed must not be sold as a pet, toy, premium, or novelty from under two months of age to under six months of age. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 2.

TN - HB1625 Mental Illness - As introduced, requires a qualified mental health professional or behavior analyst to warn or protect an identified victim or group of people when the professional or analyst determines that a service recipient has communicated an intent for actual threat of bodily harm; requires the professional or behavior analyst to report such threat; provides immunity from civil, criminal, and regulatory liability for a professional or analyst who takes reasonable action to warn or prote...

TN - HB2611 Attorney General and Reporter - As introduced, authorizes the attorney general and reporter to investigate human trafficking offenses, organized crime offenses, and related criminal activity; authorizes the attorney general and reporter to prosecute such offenses either with consent of the district attorney general or after appointment as district attorney general pro tempore by the supreme court; requires the Tennessee bureau of investigation to provide assistance to the attorney general and...

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 - HB2991 Rockwood - Subject to local approval, repeals requirement that the city create and maintain a roster of current employees and previous applicants qualified for the classified service; repeals ambiguous language relating to probationary period for employee discipline and grievances; implements term limits for members of the civil service board.

TN - HB825 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, replaces the term "motor-driven cycle" with "motorscooter" for various purposes related to the operation of such vehicles, including issuance of operator licenses, the rules of the road, and required safety and lighting equipment. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HB1931 Local Government, General - As introduced, prohibits a local governmental entity or official from adopting or enacting an ordinance or policy that prohibits or limits the ability of a law enforcement agency to take all necessary steps that are lawful under state and federal law to fulfill the law enforcement agency's duties to prevent and detect crime and apprehend criminal offenders; states that an ordinance or policy that is adopted in violation of the prohibition is null and void. - Amends...

TN - HB1636 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, authorizes persons who are 65 years of age or older to file professional privilege tax documents and payment in paper form in lieu of any required electronic form; permits the commissioner of revenue to require that the paper filing or payment be accompanied by a manual handling fee. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HJR263 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Katherine Shultz, Standards Recommendation Committee for Science and Social Studies

TN - HR102 General Assembly, Review Or Ratification of Rules - Ratifies and approves the amendments and revisions to the Tennessee Rules of Civil Procedure, as promulgated by the Supreme Court.

TN - HB2153 Scott County - Subject to local approval, sets the salary of the county attorney at $65,000 annually, subject to cost-of-living increases. - Amends Chapter 289 of the Private Acts of 1976; as amended.

TN - HB203 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the department of children's services to June 30, 2024; requires the department to submit quarterly reports to the chairs of the government operations committees to provide updates on the department's progress in addressing performance audit findings; requires the department to appear before the education, health, and general welfare joint evaluation committee no later than June 30, 2023, to present information included in the department's six-month follow-up...

TN - HB2572 Sexual Offenses - As introduced, expands the offense of aggravated rape to include when the defendant commits rape knowing that the defendant is infected with HIV. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5.

TN - HJR689 Memorials, Congress - Urges Congress to keep the power to declare war and for the National Guard to be protected from executive power.

TN - HB2022 TennCare - As introduced, extends the ground ambulance service annual assessment to June 30, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 7; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2848 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the Class C felony offense of acquiring or otherwise exercising control over bees or a structure or equipment used to keep, handle, house, exhibit, breed, or offer for sale bees, without the consent of the owner and with the intent to deprive the owner of the bees, structure, or equipment. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 43.

TN - HB975 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, restores the requirement that a retired member's new employer pay to TCRS during each period of reemployment the greater of a payment equal to the amount the employer would have contributed to the retirement system had the retired member been a member of the retirement system during the period of reemployment; or an amount equal to 5 percent of the retired member's pay rate for reemployment in a position covered by the retirement system without t...

TN - HB1762 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the Occupational Therapy Licensure Compact to June 30, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 13.

TN - HB128 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As enacted, increases the statute of limitation for prosecution of official misconduct and destruction of and tampering with governmental records to six years from the date of the offense. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 2.

TN - HJR43 Memorials, Sports - Abby Cheeseman, The Webb School, TSSAA Division II, Class A Girls' Individual State Cross Country Champion

TN - HB239 Statutes and Codification - As enacted, adds "sex" as a defined term for statutory construction purposes. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 8.

TN - HB1707 Charitable Solicitations - As introduced, revises various provisions regarding the regulation of charitable solicitations in this state. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 101, Part 5.

TN - HB2079 Veterinarians - As introduced, 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 criminal or civil liability. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 43; Title 44; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2111 Boards and Commissions - As introduced, authorizes a member of the Tennessee Commission for the United States Semiquincentennial Commission to designate a person to carry out the member's responsibilities and duties under the Tennessee Commission for the United States Semiquincentennial Commission Act. - Amends Chapter 384 of the Public Acts of 2019.

TN - HB897 Education - As enacted, authorizes, upon a request of a director of schools or the director of a public charter school, the commissioner of education to issue an endorsement exemption to a teacher, in accordance with state board rules, to teach a physical education class required by law to elementary school students. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2461 TennCare - As introduced, directs the bureau to amend existing or promulgate new rules by December 31, 2024, to allow for the reimbursement of qualifying remote ultrasound procedures and remote fetal nonstress tests utilizing established CPT codes for such procedures when the patient is in a residence or other off-site location that is separate from the patient's provider and the same standard of care is met. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2452 Children - As introduced, removes the declaration that it is the responsibility of each parent and legal guardian to ensure that their children are vaccinated according to Center for Disease Control or American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines, and replaces the declaration with a recommendation that children be vaccinated with vaccines recommended by the commissioner of health when advised by the parent or legal guardian's trusted healthcare provider. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - HB2728 Probation and Parole - As introduced, authorizes probation officers to meet with probationers utilizing a technology portal or for probationer's employer to submit weekly reports verifying the probationer's current employment in place of an in-person meeting upon approval by the department of correction. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - HJR99 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Ron Ramsey, East Tennessee State University Board of Trustees

TN - HB2054 Real Property - As introduced, increases from 1,500 to 5,000 the number of acres of land that may be placed within one property tax jurisdiction for purposes of classification and assessment as agricultural, forest, or open space land; increases from 1,500 to 5,000 the maximum acreage available to a real property owner that may be classified as forest or open space land. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2674 Purchasing and Procurement - As introduced, authorizes the chief procurement officer to develop regulations, policies, procedures, templates, or other guidance related to the acquisition of information systems and software, in coordination with the division of strategic technology solutions and the information systems council. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 56.

TN - HB686 Victims' Rights - As enacted, prohibits disclosure of certain information by an advocate in regard to a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, or human trafficking in a judicial, legislative, or administrative proceeding unless the victim gives express written consent. - Amends TCA Title 24; Title 36 and Title 39.

TN - HB313 Law Enforcement - As enacted, prohibits the POST commission from certifying a person decertified in another state because of criminal or other misconduct; requires the commission to evaluate the qualifications of a person certified as a law enforcement officer in another state by reviewing the person's training, practical experience, and education. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8, Part 1.

TN - HB359 Schools, Charter - As enacted, removes the requirement that the annual training course for a charter school governing body be certified by the Tennessee Charter School Center; requires all training for the governing body of a public charter school to be approved by the state board of education. - Amends TCA Section 49-13-111.

TN - HB2851 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires the office of the comptroller of the treasury to include in any audit conducted by the office of a governing board of a public institution of higher education an examination into whether each institution governed by the board is complying with the equal protection provisions of the Tennessee and United States constitutions in the institution's admission program and practices. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8, Chapter 4; Title 49, Chapter 8; Title 49, C...

TN - HB1228 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, allows the annual report of financial expenditures, activities, and proposed plans, which is submitted by the board of directors of the South Central Tennessee Railroad Authority to the department of transportation and to the governing bodies of Dickson, Hickman, Lewis, Perry, and Wayne counties, and the cities of Centerville, Dickson, Hohenwald, Linden, and Waynesboro, to be submitted electronically. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 6...

TN - HB889 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, requires a school official or teacher who observes or otherwise has knowledge of an assault and battery or vandalism endangering life, health, or safety committed by a student on school property to report the action immediately to the school principal and the director of schools, instead of reporting only to the school principal. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB563 Marriage - As enacted, creates a class C misdemeanor for certain local public officers who charge a fee or demand compensation for solemnizing a marriage. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3.

TN - HB2222 DNA and Genetic Testing - As introduced, adds testing for variants of the Apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) gene associated with increased risk of developing chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease to the conditions for which the department of health must develop screening programs. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2200 Wine & Wineries - As introduced, requires the Tennessee wine and grape board to annually report by March 1 to certain committees of the general assembly each rule promulgated by the board and the rationale for each rule. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - HB1909 Weapons - As introduced, specifies that it is not a criminal offense for an adult person to carry or possess pepper spray, a taser, or another similar device for purposes of self-defense when on property owned, operated, or in use by any college or university board of trustees, regents, or directors for the administration of any public or private educational institution; prohibits the adoption of a policy by a college, university, or other educational institution prohibiting an adult person f...

TN - HB1765 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the Tennessee real estate commission to June 30, 2030. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 62, Chapter 13.

TN - HJR94 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article I, Section 35 of the Constitution of Tennessee to expand the rights of victims of crimes.

TN - HB2159 Obscenity and Pornography - As introduced, specifies that a person or entity that produces, sells, sends, or distributes obscene matter in violation of state law may be held civilly liable for damages to an injured party. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 9.

TN - HB1144 School Transportation - As enacted, clarifies that the registration fee for one school bus owned by a person under contract with a local education agency (LEA) for the provision of transportation services is equal to the fee charged for a school bus owned by an LEA. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 21 and Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1562 Petersburg - Subject to local approval, makes changes to the duties of the mayor; reduces the term of the mayor and vice mayor from four years to two; provides a method to fill vacancies on the board if the vacancies cause the board to lack a quorum; authorizes the board to set the salary of the board members by ordinance; revises the powers of the city; authorizes the appointment of a treasurer and town administrator; requires the town judge to be a licensed attorney. - Amends Chapter 272 of...

TN - HB1684 Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) - As introduced, enacts the "Resilient Tennessee Revolving Loan Fund Act." - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 2.

TN - HB1663 Sentencing - As introduced, authorizes the death penalty as a punishment for rape of a child, aggravated rape of a child, or especially aggravated rape of a child. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Chapter 1062 of the Public Acts of 2022.

TN - HJR811 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Recognizes the benefits of chess in education and correctional systems.

TN - HB641 Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to conduct an assessment of the home to determine whether the child will receive proper care and supervision, including a visit to the home, prior to the department notifying a court in writing of its intention to place a child at home on a trial home visit. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - HB68 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires LEAs to conduct summer learning camps and after-school learning mini-camps annually instead of only in the summers immediately following the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school years; revises the definition of "priority student" to allow additional "at-risk" children and students entering certain grade levels to participate in after-school learning mini-camps, learning loss bridge camps, and summer learning camps. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Pa...

TN - HB485 Traffic Safety - As enacted, enacts the "Eddie Conrad Act," which establishes the number of points to be charged to a person's driving record for violations of driving while using a wireless telecommunications device. - Amends TCA Section 55-8-199.

TN - HB632 Election Laws - As enacted, makes changes to law relative to convenient voting centers, including authorizing Henry County to establish a convenient voting center pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 3, Part 3.

TN - HB3000 Cheatham County - Subject to local approval, levies a privilege tax upon motor vehicles driving on the public roads and highways of Cheatham County; repeals prior private acts levying such privilege tax. - Repeals Chapter 258 of the Private Acts of 1963; as amended.

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 - HJR28 Memorials, Retirement - Paul Vasterling, Nashville Ballet Artistic Director

TN - HB667 Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, makes various changes to the prescription drug donation repository program operated by the department of health. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1060 Employees, Employers - As enacted, makes changes to the Tennessee Employment Security Law relative to benefit eligibility conditions, disqualifications events, and methods for employers to report certain conduct of claimants. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 50; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1560 Blount County - Subject to local approval, alters the conditions under which the county is authorized to own and operate a nonprofit hospital. - Amends Chapter 187 of the Private Acts of 1945.

TN - HB1101 Driver Licenses - As enacted, authorizes a minor who is issued a motorcycle learner's permit and who has completed a certified motorcycle education course approved by the department of safety to operate a motorcycle without limitations on the distance from the minor's home if the minor is accompanied by, and under the direct supervision of, a parent or legal guardian who is also operating a motorcycle and who holds a valid motorcycle operator's license. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50 and T...

TN - HB54 Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As enacted, permits the commissioner to require submission of a set of fingerprints by an investment adviser representative applicant; updates when registration as an issuer-dealer becomes effective after submission of an application; and makes other various changes regarding the regulation of financial services. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 56, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - HB1193 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, broadens the offense of desecration of a venerable object by changing the culpable mental state from intentionally to recklessly or knowingly desecrating a place of worship or burial or a state or national flag. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - HB1899 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, authorizes LEAs and public charter schools to employ retired law enforcement officers who are retired from a federal, state, or local law enforcement agency and honorably discharged veterans of the United States armed forces to serve as school resource officers on school premises. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 37; Title 38; Title 49 and Title 62.

TN - HB317 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, changes the designation of June 19, known as "Juneteenth," from a day of special observance to a legal holiday. - Amends TCA Title 15.

TN - HB2019 County Government - As introduced, requires the county legislative body to set the annual budget for the county mayor's office, at a minimum, at an amount not less than the average of the budgeted amount for the county mayor's office for the five preceding fiscal years. - Amends TCA Title 5 and Title 9.

TN - HB1018 Game and Fish Laws - As enacted, clarifies authority of the fish and wildlife commission to set fees for nonresident licenses; makes other clarifications and changes to present law concerning regulation of hunting and fishing. - Amends TCA Title 70.

TN - HB2464 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, requires local boards of education to include school safety training in the training requirements for substitute teachers; clarifies that LEAs are prohibited from hiring a substitute teacher whose license in another state is revoked; makes other changes concerning LEA policies for substitute teachers. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1658 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the Class E felony offense of assault against a participant in judicial proceedings, which occurs when a person, while on the premises of a building in which judicial proceedings occur, knowingly assaults a victim that the person knows or reasonably should know is present due to the victim's participation in judicial proceedings. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB1081 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, adds to the current list of advisory factors that a court must consider, but is not bound by, in determining whether to enhance a defendant's sentence whether the defendant committed an assaultive offense, criminal homicide, kidnapping, false imprisonment, robbery, or a sexual offense while engaged in the performance of official duties as a law enforcement officer. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1163 Health Care - As introduced, requires the commissioner of commerce and insurance to make the standardized forms for health care insurance claims, developed by the commissioner along with the commissioner of health, available to insurance companies for free on the department of commerce and insurance's website. - Amends TCA Title 48 and Title 56.

TN - HB2753 District Attorneys - As introduced, requires each district attorney general to provide an annual report by March 1 to the governor and attorney general and reporter containing aggregate, non-personally identifying information on arrests, indictments, transfers, and dispositions in the previous calendar year; requires the attorney general and reporter to compile a statewide report summarizing the information provided by each district attorney general and submit the report to the governor, spea...

TN - HB1416 Education - As enacted, extends the benefits and opportunities provided to children of active duty members of the uniformed services in the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children to school-aged children in the household of a member of any reserve component of the armed forces of the United States, including members of the Tennessee army and air national guard who are enrolled in any of the grades K-12. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1573 Sullivan County - Subject to local approval, removes the prohibition on the general sessions court from hearing a case in which the defendant is charged with driving a motor vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant or drug. - Amends Chapter 349 of the Private Acts of 1947; as amended.

TN - HB1362 Gaming - As enacted, revises and adds various provisions for purposes of regulating vendors of licensees; revises provisions relating to applications, fees, and penalties; authorizes the sports wagering council to keep certain moneys for administrative purposes; revises provisions relating to recordkeeping and inspections for licensees and registrants. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39, Chapter 17 and Title 47.

TN - HB2905 Insurance, Liability - As introduced, expands the conditions under which certain contracts between a taxpayer and tax preparation service company are not considered contracts of insurance to include circumstances when the tax preparation service company obtains a contractual liability insurance policy or posts a bond. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - HB1280 Elder Abuse - As enacted, expands the offense of aggravated stalking to include a person who commits stalking against a victim who is at least 65 or older. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 3 and Title 71, Chapter 6.

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 - HB400 White Bluff - Subject to local approval, authorizes the Town of White Bluff to construct, regulate, and assess fees for the use of or impact upon, certain public infrastructure projects; authorizes the Town to exercise eminent domain for purposes of acquiring property for such projects. - Amends Chapter 25 of the Private Acts of 2003.

TN - HB738 Health, Dept. of - As enacted, creates the doula services advisory committee, attached to the department for administrative purposes, to advise the department by establishing core competencies and standards for the provision of doula services in this state, and recommend reimbursement rates and fee schedules for TennCare reimbursement for doula services. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 71.

TN - HB832 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, removes those convicted of criminal exposure to HIV from having to register as a sex offender; allows an offender, who was required to register as a sex offender because the offender was convicted of the offense of criminal exposure of another to HIV and the offense was committed prior to July 1, 2023, to file a request for termination of registration requirements with TBI headquarters in Nashville. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.

TN - HB1119 Wine & Wineries - As enacted, authorizes wineries and farm wine producers in this state to maintain copies of their licenses, permits, and other documents electronically for purposes of establishing compliance with the law; beginning July 1, 2024, authorizes wineries and farm wine producers that hold two or more licenses or permits to choose the expiration date for such licenses or permits within certain parameters. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3.

TN - HB92 Traffic Safety - As enacted, enacts the "Jabari Bailey Highway Safety Act," which requires drivers to change lanes or reduce speed upon approaching a stationary vehicle that has flashing hazard lights activated; increases fines for failing to change lanes or reduce speed upon approaching a stationary emergency, recovery, highway maintenance, solid waste, utility service, or other vehicle that has flashing lights activated. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - HB2436 Agriculture, Dept. of - As introduced, reduces, from 30 to 25, the number of days within which the commissioner is required to declare a county to be a "Johnson grass extermination area" following receipt of notice from the county's legislative body that it has elected such designation. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3; Title 43 and Title 44.

TN - HB1565 Smithville - Subject to local approval, removes prohibition on persons convicted of malfeasance or misfeasance in office, felonies, or crimes involving moral turpitude from being an employee of the city for ten years after the conviction; reduces, from a 2/3 majority to a simple majority, the required vote by the council for approving and removing mayoral appointments; authorizes the city board to appoint and promote city employees. - Amends Chapter 486 of the Private Acts of 1941; as amended...

TN - HB1600 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, prohibits the purchase or possession of a firearm by a person under 25 years of age if the person was previously adjudicated delinquent for an act that, if committed by an adult, would have constituted one or more certain offenses; allows the Tennessee bureau of investigation access to juvenile court records for the limited purpose of performing a background check prior to the purchase or transfer of a firearm to determine whether a person has been adj...

TN - HB2584 Water Pollution - As introduced, requires the department of environment and conservation to refund one half of the appropriate permit fee to a local government that applies for and receives a general or individual permit to replace or otherwise maintain a culvert if the department inspects the culvert and finds that it complies with applicable state and federal law. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 68 and Title 69.

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 - HB1 Public Health - As enacted, prohibits a healthcare provider from performing on a minor or administering to a minor a medical procedure if the performance or administration of the procedure is for the purpose of enabling a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minors sex. - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 29; Title 33; Title 34; Title 36; Title 37; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2406 Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, directs the department to identify federal and state regulations that inhibit the efficient processing of applications and delivery of benefits for the food assistance program; requires the department to submit any necessary waiver applications by October 31; requires the department to submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the general assembly by December 31. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - HB1863 Dieticians and Nutritionists - As introduced, enacts the "Dietitian Licensure Compact." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1597 State Symbols - As introduced, designates hot slaw as the official state food. - Amends TCA Title 4.

TN - HB2665 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, permits a court to order a child who is adjudicated as a traffic violator, in addition to the child's parent or legal guardian, to pay a fine of not more than $50. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Title 41.

TN - HJR139 General Assembly, Studies - Directs TACIR to review home affordability and rising costs of impact fees.

TN - HJR299 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Rhonda Wright Moody, Fish and Wildlife Commission

TN - HB1191 Education - As introduced, increases from 16 to 20 point font the minimum font size that a postsecondary educational institution must use for the required transferability of credits disclosure given to a student prior to the student signing an enrollment contract. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2625 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires the Tennessee higher education commission and each governing board of a public institution of higher education in this state to revise certain rules and take certain actions with respect to institutional accreditation; specifies that a public institution of higher education in this state may bring a civil cause of action against an accrediting agency or association in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1733 State Government - As introduced, prohibits a state governmental entity from contracting with, negotiating with, or paying an individual or entity if the state governmental entity has proof satisfactory after a proper inquiry that the individual or entity is a system hacker. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 12.

TN - HB136 Consumer Protection - As enacted, exempts an affiliate of a business licensed under state insurance laws and a person or entity providing certain service contracts, or an affiliate of the person or entity, from requirements governing businesses that make automatic renewal offers or continuous service offers to consumers. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18, Part 1 and Title 56.

TN - HB2119 Eminent Domain - As introduced, specifies that a condemner bears the burden of proving by a preponderance of evidence certain facts regarding the condemnation; creates a right for property owners whose property is being condemned to have a court determine whether the taking is necessary to accomplish the public use. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 17.

TN - HJR192 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Linda Moss Mines, Standards Recommendation Committee for Science and Social Studies

TN - HB562 Military - As enacted, clarifies that compensation for members of the national guard must accrue upon them being ordered to active state service and the payment of compensation to members must use this state's established weekly pay cycle as needed to effectuate compensation. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 1.

TN - HB2994 Viola - Subject to local approval, reduces the number of aldermen from five to two; deletes an obsolete provision regarding work houses. - Amends Chapter 320 of the Acts of 1901; as amended.

TN - HB2063 Environmental Preservation - As introduced, decreases, from 180 days to 150 days, the time that the air pollution control board can have more than one vacancy after an appointing authority of the board receives sufficient information to fill the appropriate vacancy before the board is required to report to the government operations committees. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 39; Title 42; Title 43; Title 44; Title 55; Title 58; Title 59; Title 60; Title 65; Tit...

TN - HB1808 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to file a petition for termination of parental rights within 10 business days if there has been substantial noncompliance by a parent or guardian with the statement of responsibilities in a permanency plan over a period of six months. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - HJR758 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Garnett Decosimo, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Advisory Board

TN - HB2559 Education - As introduced, changes from 10 to 14 the number of days public high schools, including public charter high schools, are required to notify freshman and sophomore high school students enrolled at their schools of the opportunity to pursue an Industry 4.0 diploma distinction. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2840 State Inmates - As introduced, increases the education good time sentence reduction credit from 60 days to 90 days. - Amends TCA Title 41.

TN - HB39 Civil Procedure - As enacted, specifies that recoverable costs on appeal include the cost of preparing and transmitting the record, the cost of a transcript of the evidence or proceedings, the cost of producing necessary copies of briefs and the record, premiums paid for bonds to preserve rights pending appeal and costs incurred to obtain the bonds such as the cost of letters of credit or other costs incurred to provide security for the bonds pending appeal, litigation taxes, and any other fe...

TN - HB2860 Food and Food Products - As introduced, prohibits the importation, sale, and distribution of cell-cultured food products in this state. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 44; Title 47 and Title 53.

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 - HB2937 Local Government, General - As introduced, upon approval by majority vote of the governing body of a county or municipality, prohibits the respective member of the approving governing body from serving on both the county and municipal governing body simultaneously; applies only to counties, and municipalities within such counties, with a population in excess of 200,000, according to the 2020 or a subsequent federal census; if so approved, authorizes a member of both a county and municipal gov...

TN - HB40 Real Property - As enacted, prohibits certain foreign ownership of real property in this state by nonresident aliens and foreign entities if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 43; Title 44; Title 47; Title 48 and Title 66.

TN - HB885 Health Care - As enacted, enacts the "Prior Authorization Fairness Act." - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HB2263 Conservation - As introduced, requires that appointees to the fish and wildlife commission participate in activities regulated by the commission; requires the commission and wildlife resource agency to encourage hunting, angling, and trapping as preferred methods of wildlife management and conservation within this state. - Amends TCA Title 70.

TN - HB2934 Open Meetings - As introduced, requires a state or local governing body to make the agenda for a regular meeting available to the public at a place accessible to the public, including on its website, if available, not less than 48 hours prior to the meeting. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 44, Part 1.

TN - HB2980 Cottage Grove - Subject to local approval, deletes the position of town marshal; requires candidates for the board of mayor and alderman to be permanent residents of the city; changes reasons to declare a vacancy on the board of mayor and alderman. - Amends Chapter 333 of the Private Acts of 1953; as rewritten.

TN - HB2911 Child Custody and Support - As introduced, specifies that the court may order reasonable visitation to grandparents when it is in the best interest of the child; requires the reasonable visitation to be, at a minimum, sufficient contact that reasonably permits a strong and meaningful relationship to be established with the child. - Amends TCA Title 36.

TN - HJR830 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Rifle

TN - HB1567 Overton County - Subject to local approval, establishes that juvenile court has concurrent jurisdiction with chancery and circuit courts relating to cases of adoption, pursuant to general law.

TN - HB300 County Government - As introduced, authorizes county governments to publish required public notices on the county's website in lieu of publication in a newspaper of general circulation as long as such publication complies with all other requirements for publication, including the period for publication. - Amends TCA Section 1-3-120; Title 5; Title 8, Chapter 44 and Title 10, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1753 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the department of finance and administration to June 30, 2028. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 3.

TN - HB2215 Real Property - As introduced, enacts the Real Estate Fraud Reduction Act, which requires county registers of deeds and notaries public to verify the identity of a person recording or notarizing a document relating to certain real estate transactions, as applicable, using a government-issued identification card; requires such registers and notaries to document and maintain as a permanent record certain personally identifying information of a person recording or notarizing such a document; spe...

TN - HJR767 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Christine P. Richards, Public Charter School Commission

TN - HB2384 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, changes, from August 1 of each year to before July 31 of each year, the date by which the name, address, and telephone number of the person designated to check a bus or vehicle for children at stops under the Tennessee Children with Disabilities Transportation Act must be sent to the appropriate LEA. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 49 and Title 54.

TN - HB1277 Historical Sites and Preservation - As enacted, removes authorization for the chief executive of a city or county, with the approval of the local legislative body, to fill a vacancy or remove an appointed member on a historic zoning commission. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 7, Part 4.

TN - HB2109 Taxes - As introduced, adds hydrogen gas to the definition of alternative fuel for the purposes of fuel tax law; subjects hydrogen gas to the compressed natural gas tax; exempts hydrogen gas from the sales and use tax. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HB2398 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, adds local law enforcement officials to those who must be appointed to each district-wide school safety team; specifies that it is each district-wide school safety team and each building-level school safety team that is required to annually review the respective district-wide or building-level school safety plan. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1928 School Transportation - As introduced, clarifies, for purposes of obtaining a school bus endorsement on a driver license and for other purposes, that a school bus is a vehicle designed to transport 16 or more passengers, including the driver; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 21 and Title 55, Chapter 50.

TN - HB1715 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, requires the state to reimburse veterans with permanent and total disabilities for 100 percent of the local property taxes paid on their residences; removes the limitations that such reimbursement be a partial payment and that it be paid on the first $175,000 of the full market value of the residence. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-704.

TN - HB1582 Madison County - Subject to local approval, repeals the prohibition on possessing, storing, using, manufacturing, or selling pyrotechnics. - Repeals Chapter 479 of the Private Acts of 1949.

TN - HB1758 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the Interstate Mining Compact to June 30, 2032. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 59, Chapter 10.

TN - HB2982 Graysville - Subject to local approval, removes as a duty of the city clerk to serve as the clerk of the municipal court; removes an unnecessary reference to a treasurer. - Amends Chapter 41 of the Private Acts of 1917; as rewritten.

TN - HB1445 Education, Higher - As enacted, prohibits a public postsecondary institution that provides internet access to students, faculty, staff, or the general public from allowing an individual to access a social media platform using the institution's network if the platform is owned or hosted by a company based in the People's Republic of China; grants certain exemptions for law enforcement activities; investigatory functions; and audit, compliance, or legal functions of the institution. - Amends TC...

TN - HB1973 Health Care - As introduced, requires all infants born in this state to be screened for specific genetic, metabolic, or other heritable conditions, including, but not limited to, conditions listed on the Recommended Uniform Screening Panel (RUSP); allows the department of health to require newborn screening for conditions not listed on the RUSP; requires certain implementation and reporting requirements regarding such newborn screening. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 5, Part 4.

TN - HB2966 Van Buren County - Subject to local approval, repeals the private purchasing act for Van Buren County that requires the County to solicit sealed bids for purchases and contracts in excess of $2,500, thereby bringing the County under the general law purchasing authority for counties (The County Purchasing Law of 1957), which authorizes a county to approve purchases and contracts of up to $10,000 without bid solicitation.

TN - HB2008 Education - As introduced, requires organizers of public school athletic events to accept cash as a form of payment for admission to the event or the purchase of concessions or other items for sale at the event; prohibits organizers of public school athletic events from charging a cash price that exceeds the price if paid by credit or debit card; designates a violation to be an unfair or deceptive act or practice in violation of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977. - Amends TCA Titl...

TN - HB457 Sports - As enacted, makes changes concerning youth sports safety. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 62, Chapter 50 and Title 68.

TN - HB2936 Children - As introduced, enacts the Families Rights and Responsibilities Act." - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2684 Bail, Bail Bonds - As introduced, requires a defendant for whom a bench warrant is issued due to failure to appear on a felony or a Class A or Class B misdemeanor that is violent or sexual in nature as determined by the court, or who is charged with a failure to appear, to be placed on any available state or federal list or database as a fugitive from justice, without limitation, within 10 days after the bench warrant is received by law enforcement. - Amends TCA Section 40-11-139 and Section ...

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 - HB1532 Lebanon - Subject to local approval, authorizes, in the absence of the city attorney, any assistant city attorney to approve as to form all contracts, deeds, bonds, ordinances, resolutions, and other documents to be signed in the name of or made by or with the city. - Amends Chapter 644 of the Private Acts of 1911; as amended.

TN - HJR106 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - David McKinney, University of Memphis Board of Trustees

TN - HB228 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee interagency cash flow committee to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 6.

TN - HB48 Local Government, General - As enacted, caps at 20 the number of members that may be elected to the governing body of a metropolitan or municipal government. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 5; Title 6 and Title 7.

TN - HB1669 Day Care - As introduced, requires a child care agency to inform parents at least 60 days before permanent closure of the child care agency; applies to parents of enrolled children who are currently enrolled at the agency and for whom tuition or attendance fees are being paid, have attended the agency within the last 90 calendar days, or are on a wait list to be enrolled at the agency. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 71.

TN - HB2209 County Officers - As introduced, requires a court to place a constable on administrative leave pending a preliminary hearing, instead of until the conclusion of the criminal prosecution, if the constable is indicted or formally charged with a misdemeanor involving gambling or moral turpitude or a felony; requires a court to place the constable on administrative leave until the conclusion of the criminal prosecution if the court finds probable cause that the constable committed the crime. - Am...

TN - HB99 County Government - As enacted, authorizes members of a county records commission who do not receive a fixed annual salary from the state or the county to receive an increased per diem rate of up to $150 for each day of actual meeting instead of the current rate of $25. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 4.

TN - HB869 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, requires the commission to continue submitting to the governor, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives annual reports on or before December 31 assessing food security among student populations. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2682 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, reduces from 60 to 30 days the waiting period before a law enforcement officer who is a member of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system may be reemployed after the officer's effective date of retirement. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 36, Part 8.

TN - HB369 Education, Higher - As introduced, prohibits a public institution of higher education that accepts applications for admission from inquiring about an applicant's criminal history on the application. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

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 - HJR63 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Lang Wiseman, University of Tennessee Board of Trustees

TN - HJR131 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Addresses and establishes the declared public policy of the State of Tennessee relative to the right of the citizens and those within the boundaries of this State to keep, bear, and wear arms.

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 - HJR111 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Chris Tutor, Public Charter School Commission

TN - HB2904 Boards and Commissions - As introduced, clarifies that the executive directors of the board of pharmacy and the board of nursing are employees of the department of health, under the supervision and control of the division of health related boards. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1635 Hotels and Restaurants - As introduced, prohibits emotional support animals that are not trained, or being trained, to perform tasks or work for a person with a disability from indoor areas of food service establishments. - Amends TCA Section 6-54-135; Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 2; Title 44 and Title 68.

TN - HB443 Municipal Government - As introduced, deletes an obsolete provision that temporarily prohibited a municipality from annexing territory by ordinance and required a review and evaluation of annexation laws. - Amends TCA Title 6 and Title 64.

TN - HJR13 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article VII, Section 5 of the Constitution of Tennessee to change the date of elections for judicial and other civil officers from the first Thursday in August to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.

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 - HB859 Health, Dept. of - As enacted, authorizes the department to disclose de-identified data that is collected from records maintained by ambulance service and invalid vehicle operators licensed or permitted by the department, including for the purpose of providing opioid overdose response and resources throughout this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33 and Title 68.

TN - HB2182 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, redefines "qualified data center" for purposes of sales and use taxes to include a data center that previously made a capital investment in excess of $100 million during an investment period not to exceed three years and creates at least 15 net new full-time employee jobs upon the data center being transferred to an affiliate pursuant to a corporate reorganization. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-102.

TN - HJR778 Naming and Designating - Designates February 24 as "SCN2A Awareness Day."

TN - HB1002 Attorney General and Reporter - As enacted, grants the attorney general and reporter, in cases where a defendant has been sentenced to death and is seeking collateral or direct review of a conviction or sentence, exclusive control over the state's defense of the request for review and reimbursement for expenses incurred in connection with such matter. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4.

TN - HB1311 Medical Occupations - As enacted, enacts the "Graduate Physicians Act." - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB145 Secretary of State - As enacted, extends the period of reduced fees payable to the secretary of state relating to nonprofit charitable gaming and the solicitation of charitable funds. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 17, Part 1 and Title 48, Chapter 101, Part 5.

TN - HB2788 Child Abuse - As introduced, allows the district attorneys general conference, the administrative office of the courts, the Tennessee chapter of children's advocacy centers, the department of children's services, and law enforcement agencies to enter into data sharing agreements that allow for the sharing of information necessary to ensure compliance with statutory reporting requirements; specifies that data shared pursuant to an agreement retains its confidential status consistent with curre...

TN - HB412 Expunction - As enacted, authorizes the expunction of public records regarding a motor vehicle operator's refusal to submit to breath and blood tests to determine alcohol or drug content of a motor vehicle operator's blood under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Section 40-32-101 and Section 55-10-407.

TN - HB1773 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the state procurement commission to June 30, 2028. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 56.

TN - HB1806 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, permits an owner or lessee of a motorcycle to receive a disabled decal to affix to a new specialty earmarked, cultural, or other special purpose plate that is authorized for motorcycles. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 21 and Title 55, Chapter 4.

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 - HB2545 Medical Occupations - As introduced, defines "hospital-based laboratory" and "hospital-based laboratory supervisor" for purposes of the Tennessee Medical Laboratory Act; provides hospital-based laboratory supervisors the authority to supervise up to four hospital-based laboratories located in rural counties; makes certain other changes relative to hospital-based laboratories. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - HB2808 Jails, Local Lock-ups - As introduced, 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 department, agency, or program, including TennCare. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 41 and Title 68.

TN - HB500 Appropriations - As introduced, appropriates $20 million to the legislature for the purchase or construction of a building or other facility accessible to the Cordell Hull Building. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 12.

TN - HB2968 Davidson County - Subject to local approval, creates the East Bank Development Authority for the metropolitan government of Nashville and Davidson County.

TN - SJR202 Memorials, Public Service - Hugh Clement

TN - HB2057 Property Assessors - As introduced, revises the schedule of required property reappraisals by county property assessors from a three- to six-year cycle to a one- to four-year cycle; makes various other updates to property reappraisal requirements and procedures. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-1005 and Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 16.

TN - HB2188 Sentencing - As introduced, states that, for inmates serving a sentence of two years or more for an offense committed on or after July 1, 2024, sentence reduction credits shall not operate to alter the defendant's sentence expiration date, but may be used to reduce the percentage of the sentence imposed by the court that the person must serve before becoming eligible for release on parole; requires release eligibility for each defendant to occur when the defendant becomes eligible for parole ...

TN - HB893 TennCare - As enacted, extends the ground ambulance service annual assessment to June 30, 2024; makes certain changes to the methodology used to calculate the assessment. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 7; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1766 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the regional transportation authority of Middle Tennessee to June 30, 2032. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 64, Chapter 8.

TN - HB3001 Oneida - Subject to local approval, grants the town with the same powers and authorities granted to municipalities chartered under the general law mayor-aldermanic charter. - Amends Chapter 211 of the Private Acts of 1917; as amended.

TN - HB195 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the board for professional counselors, marital and family therapists, and clinical pastoral therapists to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 22.

TN - HB808 Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, states that for the purpose of regulating child care agencies, a nontraditional child care agency does not include a person or entity that places children in family boarding homes or foster homes. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 5, Part 5.

TN - HB1994 Guardians and Conservators - As introduced, establishes a process for the transfer of a guardianship or conservatorship matter from the court appointing the guardian or conservator to a court in another county of this state. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 21, Part 4 and Title 34, Chapter 8.

TN - HJR81 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes additional language in Article II, Section 28 to prohibit the general assembly from levying, authorizing, or otherwise permitting a state tax on property.

TN - HB1548 Gallatin - Subject to local approval, requires the city council to appoint a city judge, who replaces the city recorder as the officer presiding over the city court; removes requirement that city recorder be elected and instead be appointed by city council; authorizes city officials to hold appointive office while serving as city official; updates the titles of certain department heads. - Amends Chapter 67 of the Private Acts of 1953; as amended.

TN - HB1607 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, requires the commissioner of transportation to include any change orders in the commissioner's quarterly report submitted to the state building commission regarding the status of road projects. - Amends TCA Title 54.

TN - HB2294 Election Laws - As introduced, requires a qualified voter to request an absentee ballot not later than 10 days before an election rather than not later than seven days before an election; requires a voter seeking to be placed on the permanent absentee voting register to file a physician's statement and application for ballot not later than 10 days before an election rather than not later than seven days before an election. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2974 Trenton - Subject to local approval, amends the City of Trenton's election cycle for the Board of Mayor and Aldermen to align the election with the state and federal general election in November of even-numbered years. - Amends Chapter 14 of the Private Acts of 2011.

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 - HB2346 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, creates a mechanism for the management and governance functions of a local governing board of trustees for a state university to be transferred and assumed by the commission in the event a state university board ceases to exist under the Tennessee Governmental Entity Review Law. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

TN - HB2105 Driver Licenses - As introduced, authorizes the department of safety to issue a driver privilege card or permit that confers the same privileges as a driver license to a person who is not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident of the United States. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3.

TN - HB2524 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As introduced, establishes October 9 of each year as "PANDAS Awareness Day" to promote awareness of Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections and Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome. - Amends TCA Title 15.

TN - HJR751 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Jeremy Nagoshiner, Heritage Conservation Trust Fund Board

TN - HB1750 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the consumer advocate division in the office of the attorney general and reporter to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 65, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1687 Emergency Communications Districts - As introduced, authorizes a nurse practitioner or physician assistant to perform the mandatory physical examination of a public safety dispatcher or emergency call taker if the physical examination is included in the written protocol developed by the supervising physician and nurse practitioner or physician assistant. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 86, Part 2.

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 - HB2318 Medical Occupations - As introduced, makes various changes to the authorized scope of practice of physician assistants and advanced practice nurses who meet certain qualifications. - Amends TCA Title 55; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB867 Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As introduced, authorizes sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages on certain commercial passenger buses. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1176 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, makes changes relative to the board of commissioners for certain airport authorities. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5, Chapter 6 and Title 42.

TN - HB706 Public Employees - As enacted, makes changes to the present law relative to reemployment after retirement from public employment. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 36, Part 8.

TN - HB1253 Witnesses - As enacted, requires the department of correction to advance or reimburse witness expenses necessary to the prosecution of certain criminal cases; requires the county to seek to recover from a convicted defendant who is declared not to be indigent, the costs of the advance or reimbursement of witness expenses made by the department of correction. - Amends TCA Section 40-25-129.

TN - HB2283 Education - As introduced, changes, from October 1 to December 1, the annual deadline for private and church-related schools to provide school building-level school safety plans to local law enforcement agencies and other participating emergency response organizations. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-804.

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 - HB2391 Election Laws - As introduced, changes the date by which a county election commission may begin voting at nursing homes from 29 days before the election to 27 days before the election. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB1912 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, allows a Tennessee HOPE scholarship student or a nontraditional Tennessee HOPE scholarship student who earned the student's first baccalaureate degree between July 1, 2022, and July 1, 2023, in less than five years from the date of the student's initial enrollment at any postsecondary institution to continue to receive the scholarship upon resuming the student's education at an eligible postsecondary institution in pursuit of an advanced deg...

TN - HB337 Estates - As enacted, enacts "The Small Estate Probate Act," makes various changes to "The Small Estate Affidavit Limited Letter of Authority Act" and replaces that act. - Amends TCA Title 30, Chapter 4.

TN - HB2666 Licenses - As introduced, establishes qualifications for a person to receive a professional counselor license through a reciprocal agreement that this state has entered into on or before January 1, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1723 TennCare - As introduced, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment Act of 2024," which requires each covered hospital licensed as of July 1, 2024 to pay an annual coverage assessment for FY 2024-2025 of a certain percentage of the covered hospital's annual coverage assessment base. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HB776 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, restricts the types of costs of a project within a certified border region retail tourism development district or regional retail tourism development district that can be covered by an apportionment of state sales and use taxes to a municipality or industrial development corporation; makes other revisions to the Border Region Tourism Development District Act and the Regional Retail Tourism Development District Act. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 40 and Title 7, Ch...

TN - HB36 Schools, Charter - As enacted, revises the requirement for automatic revocation of a public charter school agreement to apply only if certain conditions exist; prohibits the 2022 and 2023 priority school list from being considered as one of the priority school cycles required for automatic revocation of a public charter school agreement. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.

TN - HB874 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, prohibits a health insurance issuer or a managed health insurance issuer from engaging in certain conduct. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56, Chapter 7; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HJR753 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Mike Frick, Heritage Conservation Trust Fund Board

TN - SJR127 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses support for the Allowing Military Exemptions, Recognizing Individual Concerns About New Shots (AMERICANS) Act of 2023.

TN - HB1046 Tennessee Housing Development Agency - As introduced, decreases, from nine to eight, the number of affirmative votes required by members of the agency's board of directors in order for the agency to approve the operation of its financial assistance programs, which support the financing of residential housing construction for lower and moderate income persons and families. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53; Title 13; Title 48, Chapter 101, Part 3; Title 56 and Title 67.

TN - HJR80 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges the Attorney General and Reporter to evaluate any newly passed federal statute, regulation, or executive order that may affect the rights of Tennesseans to bear arms, and, if such statute, regulation, or executive order infringes on that right, to bring suit on behalf of the state of Tennessee to challenge any such infringement.

TN - HB1693 State Government - As introduced, authorizes ex officio members of the Tennessee commission for the United States semiquincentennial commission to appoint designees to serve on the commission; transfers the administrative attachment for the commission from the department of tourist development to the Tennessee State Museum. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 44.

TN - HB2683 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, requires the board of trustees for the retirement system to include a certification of the amount of normal contributions, accumulated liability contribution, and cost of living contribution required from an employer for state judges and attorneys general in the board's annual report showing the fiscal transactions of the retirement system. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 24; Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35; Title 8, Chapter 36 and Titl...

TN - HB2155 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, 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.

TN - HB142 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, provides that a commercial driver license issued with a hazardous materials endorsement expires on the date the hazardous materials endorsement authorization expires. - Amends TCA Title 54; Title 55; Title 65 and Title 67.

TN - HB2206 Law Enforcement - As introduced, authorizes the import and export of human remains by state, local, and municipal law enforcement agencies for the purpose of human remains detection training; requires the Tennessee bureau of investigation, in consultation with the department of health, to promulgate rules regarding the secure storage of human remains, the use of human remains as a training aid for human remains detection training, and proper disposal methods for human remains, after such rema...

TN - HB2081 Health Care - As introduced, allows unlicensed persons who have completed a competency-based training program and are employed by certain personal support service agencies licensed under title 33 to administer certain medications to individuals who are incapable of self-administration in the individual's home; prohibits administration of certain medications by unlicensed persons. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 1, Part 9.

TN - HB1614 Consumer Protection - As introduced, enacts the "Protect Tennessee Minors Act"; requires an individual or commercial entity that publishes or distributes in this state a website that contains a substantial portion of material harmful to minors perform reasonable age-verification methods to verify the age of individuals attempting to access the material; specifies that a violation of age-verification or data retention requirements is a Class C felony. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17 and Titl...

TN - HB775 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, requires the Tennessee wine and grape board to submit its annual report on the wine industry and viticulture in this state and on current and future activities of the board to the governor, the commissioner of finance and administration, the chair of the agriculture and natural resources committee of the house of representatives, and the chair of the energy, agriculture and natural resources committee of the senate by February 1 of each year. - Amends TCA ...

TN - HB2791 Courts, Juvenile - As introduced, requires the administrative office of the courts to submit a report, by July 1 and January 1 of each year, listing each juvenile court, if any, that is not in compliance with quality statewide data collection requirements, including the dates of noncompliance and steps that could be taken to bring the court into compliance; requires the report to be filed with the juvenile court judge for the court that is not in compliance with this section and the chairs of...

TN - HB1920 Sentencing - As introduced, extends the percentage of a misdemeanor sentence that a court may require a defendant to serve from 75 percent to 100 percent. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 41, Chapter 21, Part 2.

TN - HB2460 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, expands the definition of "victim" for the purposes of restitution to include a reciprocal, as defined by current law, when the reciprocal has compensated a subscriber for loss incurred as a result of the offense to the extent that the reciprocal paid compensation to the subscriber. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 35, Part 3.

TN - HB152 TennCare - As enacted, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment Act of 2023." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2198 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, 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.

TN - HB644 Education - As enacted, replaces Financial Literacy Week, the first full week of April, with Financial Literacy Month, the entire month of April; requires the financial literacy commission to study financial literacy in this state and report to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2 and Title 49.

TN - HB160 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, makes changes to the requirements for applicants for server permits. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3, Part 7.

TN - HB229 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee opioid abatement council to June 30, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 33, Chapter 11.

TN - HB1930 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, enacts the "Parental Accountability Act," requiring the juvenile court to assess a fine of $1,000 against a child who is found to be delinquent for a second or subsequent delinquent act, to be paid by the childs parent, legal custodian, or guardian who had custody of the child at the time of the offense; permits the court to require the parent, legal custodian, or guardian to perform community service work in lieu of the mandatory fine if indigent. - Amends...

TN - HB2868 Taxes, Hotel Motel - As introduced, authorizes a municipality to change the allocation of revenue, but not its designated use, of a privilege tax upon the privilege of occupancy in a hotel if the tax preexisted July 1, 2021. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 14.

TN - HB2281 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, requires an applicant for an insurance producer license for title insurance to complete a pre-licensing course of study that consists of a minimum of 30 hours of course work. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - HB2618 County Government - As introduced, requires a nonprofit organization that has entered into a contract or memorandum of understanding with the district attorney general to disclose the list of persons or entities that have donated to the nonprofit in the previous calendar year, upon written request from a member of the general assembly or passage of a resolution requesting the information by a county legislative body for a county within the judicial district. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 38; Ti...

TN - SJR4 Memorials, Recognition - Nation of Israel, 75th anniversary

TN - HB1232 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes a local board of education to contract with a private college or university accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to maintain a training school for grades pre-kindergarten through 12 to provide practice teaching experience for teachers in training. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1059 Education, Higher - As introduced, removes a provision that, in developing course equivalencies and awarding academic credits, required state institutions of higher education to submit such equivalencies to the Tennessee higher education commission (THEC) on or before December 15, 2018, detailing how academic credit toward the institution's respective credentials will be awarded. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB887 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, authorizes an insurer that offers a health benefit plan to deliver notices and documents related to health, vision, and dental coverage electronically to its insureds with consent. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HB1064 Annexation - As introduced, increases from three to four the number of copies of a plan of services that a municipality must provide for public inspection in connection with a proposed annexation. - Amends TCA Title 6 and Title 68, Chapter 221.

TN - HB223 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the statewide community services agency to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 37, Chapter 5, Part 3.

TN - HB754 Hamblen County - Subject to local approval, adjusts the compensation of the road commissioners to be $200 or greater, instead of equal to $200 a month; adjusts the compensation of the chairman to be $350 or greater, instead of equal to $350 a month; requires the legislative body of Hamblen County to determine the amount of compensation. - Amends Chapter 313 of the Private Acts of 1949; as amended.

TN - HB2691 Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As introduced, prohibits the department of agriculture or any other state or local department or agency from entering private property without probable cause to believe that a criminal offense has occurred or is occurring, the consent of the property owner, a warrant, or a recognized warrant exception; requires a member of a society incorporated for the prevention of cruelty to animals to notify the appropriate local law enforcement agency of the member's intent to ...

TN - HB1479 Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, allows the state treasurer to purchase and sell physical gold and precious metal. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 8.

TN - HB2622 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As introduced, allows the board of pharmacy to license ambulatory surgical treatment centers if certain criteria are met. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB654 Taxes - As enacted, revises various provisions of present law relative to credits to dealers, credits to prevent multistate taxations, and credits for the resale of telecommunication services of sales and use taxes. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HB1543 Budget Procedures - As enacted, increases, for FY 23-24, the state employer match to 200 percent of the amount contributed by each state employee to the state's 401(k) plan per month, up to a maximum of $100 per month. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 11; Title 12; Title 13; Title 16; Title 17; Title 18; Title 29; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 43; Title 44; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Ti...

TN - HB1770 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the state election commission to June 30, 2032. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 11 and Title 4, Chapter 29.

TN - HB2363 Sentencing - As introduced, enacts "Ledford's Law," requiring a prisoner convicted of vehicular homicide involving intoxication or aggravated vehicular homicide to attend substance-abuse treatment as a condition of parole; states that failure to attend required treatment is a violation of the prisoner's parole. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1975 Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the commissioner to include in the annual block grant report information detailing the department's use of federal TANF funds in furtherance of the four purposes of the TANF program. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - HB2607 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, authorizes retail package store licensees and beer permittees to sell hemp-based products; prohibits retail package store licensees from charging certain fees. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3 and Title 57, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2969 Clay County - Subject to local approval, increases the hotel-motel tax rate from 2.5 percent to 4 percent. - Amends Chapter 25 of the Private Acts of 2009.

TN - HB2818 Education - As introduced, authorizes public school students in grades nine through 12 to be excused from school attendance for one school day per school year to allow students to participate in a civic engagement activity. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2 Public Health - As enacted, makes permanent various provisions regarding COVID-19. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 14; Title 29, Chapter 20 and Section 49-7-159 and Chapter 896 of the Public Acts of 2022.

TN - HB2509 Victims' Rights - As introduced, adds that a person who is an accessory after the fact for a crime in which a claim for criminal injuries compensation is based is ineligible to receive an award of these funds. - Amends TCA Section 29-13-105.

TN - HB1950 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As introduced, designates June 6 as a day of special observance for D-Day. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

TN - HB2269 Health Care - As introduced, requires the health facilities commission, within 10 working days after concluding an inspection or investigation of a nursing home, to mail to the nursing home the executive director's order, which must not only inform the nursing home of its right to contest the action but also must detail the procedure for contesting the action. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 68.

TN - HR101 General Assembly, Review Or Ratification of Rules - Ratifies and approves the amendments and revisions to the Tennessee Rules of Appellate Procedure, as promulgated by the Supreme Court.

TN - HB2612 Real Property - As introduced, authorizes a member of a homeowners' association for a neighborhood in Williamson County with at least 300 single family residential homes and two or more gates restricting ingress and egress to the neighborhood to request a report from the board of directors for the homeowners' association regarding criminal activity in the gated subdivision; requires the board to compile the report and make it available to each household in the subdivision. - Amends TCA Title ...

TN - HB1030 Criminal Offenses - 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 committee and the house criminal justice committee. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.

TN - HB1031 Boards and Commissions - As enacted, creates the inmate disciplinary oversight board for the purpose of granting or denying sentence credits for good institutional behavior and determining whether sentence credits previously awarded should be removed for commission of certain disciplinary offenses. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 8; Title 40 and Title 41.

TN - HJR754 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Angie Box, Heritage Conservation Trust Fund Board

TN - HJR770 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Michael Wade, Middle Tennessee State University Board of Trustees

TN - HB1805 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, authorizes proration of the registration fee for freight motor vehicles operated for commercial purposes upon the death of an eligible operator of the freight motor vehicle; requires submission of certain documentation prior to issuance of a refund for the unused portion of the registration fee paid. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1581 Pleasant Hill - Subject to local approval, authorizes purchasing limits for which competitive bids are not required be set by ordinance pursuant to state law requirements. - to amend.

TN - HB2984 Davidson County - Subject to local approval, creates the East Bank Development Authority for the metropolitan government of Nashville and Davidson County.

TN - HB2443 County Clerks - As introduced, requires a person seeking to qualify for election to the office of county clerk to be a qualified voter of the county and a resident of the county for one year prior to the date of the qualifying deadline for running as a candidate for county clerk. - Amends TCA Title 18, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1555 White County - Subject to local approval, establishes that general sessions court has concurrent jurisdiction with chancery and circuit courts relating to cases of adoption, pursuant to general law.

TN - HB91 Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, allows the department to disclose information about a case to the public if all parties involved in the case, including the child, are deceased and all identifying personal information of the parties is redacted. - Amends TCA Title 10 and Section 37-5-107.

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 - HB1557 Ashland City - Subject to local approval, changes the duties of the city recorder; creates the office of city administrator and assigns duties to such office. - Amends Chapter 121 of the Private Acts of 2004; as rewritten.

TN - HB1426 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, establishes a limitation to the amusement tax exemption under the Retailers' Sales Tax Act relative to certain sports leagues. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.

TN - HB1761 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the professional art therapist advisory committee of the board of examiners in psychology to June 30, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 11.

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 - HJR58 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Encourages the federal government to provide free health care for all honorably discharged veterans.

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 - HB554 District Attorneys - As enacted, requires district attorneys general to designate one assistant district attorney general as the lead prosecutor in cases involving crimes committed against children; requires the Tennessee bureau of investigation to provide annual training to assistant district attorneys designated as lead prosecutors in crimes committed against children. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 7; Title 16, Chapter 2 and Title 38, Chapter 6.

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 - HB2425 Municipal Government - As introduced, requires notices relating to annexation or municipal zoning to be published, posted, or mailed 21 days, rather than 15 days, prior to the public hearing on the annexation or zoning; requires the annexing municipality to provide notice of annexation to property owners whose property is within 200 feet of the territory being annexed; requires signs that inform viewers of the proposed annexation to be posted in and around the area being annexed. - Amends TCA...

TN - HB2466 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, authorizes the bureau to provide a defendant with a certified copy of an order expunging the public records of a criminal offense following the dismissal of charges entered on behalf of the defendant; allows the bureau to charge a reasonable fee for the certified copy. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 40.

TN - HB1742 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the board of funeral directors and embalmers to June 30, 2030. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 62, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2308 Health Care - As introduced, changes certain requirements for healthcare providers who are not physicians to qualify to prescribe a buprenorphine product for the treatment of opioid use disorder, recovery, or medication-assisted treatment. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB355 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, requires that a health benefit plan that provides coverage for a screening mammogram must provide coverage for diagnostic imaging and supplemental breast screening without imposing a cost-sharing requirement on the patient. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.

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 - HB954 Local Government, General - As enacted, authorizes local governments to use tax revenue received from the Tennessee Sports Gaming Act to be used for emergency services as well as for local infrastructure projects. - Amends TCA Section 4-49-104.

TN - HJR926 Memorials, Recognition - Claudia Byrd, Bristolian of the Year

TN - HB133 Election Laws - As introduced, increases the time allowed for an employee to take time off to vote on election day from three to four hours. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 8.

TN - HB2804 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, authorizes the treasurer to, subject to appropriations, use funds from the reserve for revenue fluctuation account to purchase precious metals bullion and specie and place the bullion and specie in a restricted account; authorizes the treasurer to store the physical bullion or specie with an entity designated by the treasurer, with the approval of the comptroller of the treasury; declares that specie may be used as legal tender in this state; requir...

TN - HB2090 Public Contracts - As introduced, requires certain information to be made available to each respondent for solicitation of a contract upon request; revises provisions relating to informal solicitations and small purchases; revises provisions relating to protests by aggrieved respondents to solicitations. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 56, Part 1; Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5 and Title 12, Chapter 3.

TN - HJR844 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses support for bid to host Special Olympics USA Games in Tennessee.

TN - HB1188 Education - As introduced, authorizes the department of education to submit, in electronic format, its annual report on virtual education programs to the governor, the general assembly, and the state board of education. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB883 Abortion - As enacted, makes various changes relative to abortion. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 53; Title 56; Title 62; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2820 Public Defenders - As introduced, requires a supplemental adjustment to state funding for public defender offices in the twentieth and thirtieth judicial districts for pay parity purposes. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14.

TN - HB512 Banks and Financial Institutions - As enacted, extends, from May 1 to November 1, the due date of the report delivered by a lessor of a safe deposit box to the state treasurer containing the name and address of the lessee and an inventory of the contents of the box; extends, from May 1 to November 1, the deadline by which contents of an abandoned safe deposit box may be claimed before the lessor is required to sell the contents. - Amends TCA Section 45-2-907.

TN - HB1752 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the department of correction to June 30, 2027; requires the department to report back to the government operations committee by December 31, 2024, to update the committee on its progress in addressing the findings set forth in the December 2023 performance audit report. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 3.

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 - HB1831 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows the parent or guardian of a student with a documented academic or behavioral delay to voluntarily retain the student in the student's current grade level; requires the LEA or public charter school in which such student is enrolled to retain the student in the student's current grade level at the request of the student's parent or guardian unless the student has already been retained in that grade level. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1259 Real Property - As introduced, removes ambiguous language and clarifies that a transfer of a possibility of reverter or right of entry by a holder other than the original grantor is invalid unless the validity of the future interest was determined by a final judgment in a judicial proceeding, or by a settlement among interested persons, prior to July 1, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 66.

TN - HB125 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, exempts from the sales tax the retail sale of trailers that are removed for registration and use in another state within three calendar days of purchase. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.

TN - HB1725 Firefighters - As introduced, removes the requirement that length of service awards for volunteer firefighters are awarded on a first come, first served basis; requires a portion of the appropriated funds in each fiscal year to be used to pay expenses incurred for the administration of the length of service award program; requires unexpended funds remaining after the payment of grant awards and expenses for the administration of the program to be carried forward into the next fiscal year. - A...

TN - HB1824 Opioids - As introduced, adds The Kroger Co. to the list of companies that are released by the attorney general and reporter for pending or future claims regarding opioids. - Amends TCA Title 20 and Title 33.

TN - HB90 Local Government, General - As enacted, prohibits local governments from expending funds for the purposes of assisting a person in obtaining a criminal abortion. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 8.

TN - HB1261 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department, in administering the individualized education account program, to develop and implement a process for notifying all parents of their children's potential eligibility for an individualized education account, instead of only ensuring lower-income families are so notified; requires the department to report whether the process increased student participation in the program to the education committee of the senate and the education adminis...

TN - HJR765 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Krissi McInturff, State Board of Education

TN - HB2921 TennCare - As introduced, requires all TennCare health benefit plans to provide coverage and reimbursement for mental health services and treatment to the same extent that the plans provide coverage and reimbursement for the treatment of alcoholism and drug dependence. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 33; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HB603 Election Laws - As introduced, requires a county election commission to issue a notice requiring removal of campaign signs if the signs have not been removed from highway rights-of-way or other publicly owned property within three weeks after an election; authorizes the election commission to levy a civil penalty not to exceed $50 per day, per parcel of property on the candidate or campaign committee if the signs are not removed after receiving the notice. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 1.

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 - HB758 Consumer Protection - As enacted, specifies that it is an unfair or deceptive act to issue or deliver a home service contract to a consumer in this state that does not specify the merchandise and services to be provided, and any applicable limitations, exceptions, or exclusions of the contract. - Amends TCA Section 47-18-104.

TN - HB2704 Child Abuse - As introduced, permits the second look commission to electronically submit the report detailing the commission's findings and recommendations from a review of an appropriate sampling of cases involving a second or subsequent incident of severe child abuse to the governor, the senate judiciary and health and welfare committees, and the house of representatives civil justice committee. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2676 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - 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 the commission on July 1, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49.

TN - HB2553 Real Property - As introduced, restricts certain foreign investments in land located within this state through the creation of two separate prohibitions, one that restricts a prohibited foreign-party-controlled business from acquiring real property and another that restricts a prohibited foreign-party from acquiring agricultural land located within this state. - Amends TCA Title 43; Title 44; Title 47; Title 48 and Title 66.

TN - HB1199 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As enacted, revises present law relative to tuition reimbursement for national guardsmen. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1946 Recreational Areas - As introduced, authorizes available funds in the Ocoee River recreation and economic development fund to be paid to the Tennessee Valley Authority for additional releases of water on the Ocoee River. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11; Title 65, Chapter 15 and Title 70, Chapter 7.

TN - HJR95 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Supports Taiwan's democracy, freedom, and meaningful participation in international organizations and cooperative efforts.

TN - HB2878 Air Pollution - As introduced, specifies that for purposes of air quality control, all equipment used in the process of producing nonmetallic materials contained within an aggregate processing facility or asphalt plant, including crushers, screens, conveyors, and feeders, is considered one air contaminant source. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - HB2621 Railroads - As introduced, increases from $10 to $25, the minimum fine amount for persons or corporations owning or operating a railroad in this state who violate the requirements to make and furnish good and sufficient crossings on the public highways crossed by them, and to keep such crossings in lawful repair at their own expense. - Amends TCA Title 65.

TN - HB2766 Driver Education - As introduced, requires the department of safety to ensure that any classroom training that is required as a prerequisite to obtaining a Class H or hardship license may be completed online. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3.

TN - HB2845 Beer - As introduced, prohibits a beer permittee from selling at retail refrigerated or cold beer. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 55 and Title 57.

TN - HB426 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the commissioner to report the average student performance level rating achieved in each subject tested on the most recently administered Tennessee comprehensive assessment program test and on the most recently administered assessment for purposes of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, along with the median household income for each county in which each LEA or public charter school is located, to the education committee of the senate ...

TN - HB335 Municipal Government - As enacted, authorizes the board of commissioners of a city chartered under the city manager-commission general law charter to call for a special election to fill a vacancy on the board. - Amends TCA Section 6-20-110.

TN - HB1080 Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, clarifies that, in regard to a charitable organization's limitation of tort liability, providing shelter from adverse weather includes, but is not limited to, allowing persons to enter the premises for purposes of temporary shelter from severe storms. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 34.

TN - HB1387 Lottery, Charitable - As enacted, allows a 501(c)(3) foundation connected to a chamber of commerce that has been in continuous and active existence in this state for at least 10 successive years in the county to hold an annual event. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 17.

TN - HB2546 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, states that, as used in the offense of stalking, harassment must be committed by the defendant with reckless disregard for whether the victim will suffer emotional distress as a result of the conduct and the victim does suffer emotional distress as a result of the conduct. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - SJR1080 Memorials, Death - Jillian Ludwig

TN - HB225 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee consolidated retirement system, board of trustees to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 8, Chapter 34.

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 - HB200 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the board of pharmacy to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 10.

TN - HB62 Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, makes changes to the compensation of teachers in the special school district. - Amends TCA Section 37-5-119.

TN - HJR764 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Darrell Cobbins, State Board of Education

TN - HB77 DUI Offenses - As enacted, requires that any ignition interlock device that is installed on or after January 1, 2024, employ global positioning system (GPS) technology that will geotag the motor vehicle's location whenever an initial startup test, a random retest, or a skipped test occurs, or when circumvention of the device is detected. - Amends TCA Section 55-10-411.

TN - HB2070 Transportation, Dept. of - As introduced, establishes the office of rail and public transportation within the department; requires, among other duties and responsibilities, the office to determine the costs and requirements, including engineering, needed to implement passenger rail service on certain corridors in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 54, Chapter 1; Title 64 and Title 65.

TN - HB633 Consumer Protection - As enacted, prohibits an individual or entity from selling, offering for sale, or providing an air ambulance membership agreement to an individual who is enrolled in TennCare Medicaid; requires an individual or entity that provides an air ambulance membership agreement to an individual who subsequently enrolls in TennCare Medicaid to provide the enrollee with a pro-rated refund of consideration paid for the membership; adds other related prohibitions, requirements, and p...

TN - HB2274 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, changes from January 15 to January 1, the beginning date of each year at which time the department of transportation may reduce the maximum weight of vehicle loads if necessary to protect the streets, roads, highways, or other public thoroughfares from unnecessary injury or damage. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 47; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 65; Title 66 and Title 67.

TN - HB995 Education - As enacted, requires, prior to the administration of corporal punishment against a student, the student's teacher or school principal to make certain documentation in the student's educational record; prohibits corporal punishment against a student found to have a disability unless authorized in accordance with law. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HJR1027 Memorials, Death - Jillian Ludwig

TN - HB985 Civil Procedure - As enacted, permits the use of a person's full social security number; taxpayer identification number; birth date; name, if the person is a minor; or financial account number in court filings regarding parenting plans. - Amends TCA Title 20, Chapter 6.

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 - HB2729 Driver Licenses - As introduced, changes, when considering enhancements for the offense of driving while privilege canceled, suspended, or revoked, the period of time that may be used to consider prior convictions from within 10 years prior to the immediate violation to from within the revocation period set forth in the original judgment. - Amends TCA Section 55-50-504.

TN - HB2764 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires a parent or guardian to notify their student's school if the student is adjudicated delinquent for any criminal offense involving a firearm, whether the offense was committed in this state or in another state. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 49.

TN - HB1894 Food and Food Products - As introduced, defines food that contains a vaccine or vaccine material as a drug for purposes of the Tennessee Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 53.

TN - HB252 Schools, Home - As enacted, removes the requirement that a parent-teacher of a home school student provide proof of the student's immunizations and receipt of health services or examinations required by law generally for children in this state to the local education agency; exempts home school students from the immunization requirements applicable to students attending a school, nursery school, kindergarten, preschool, or child care facility; authorizes an LEA, in situations where a home scho...

TN - HB1919 Civil Emergencies - As introduced, clarifies that an "occurrence," for purposes of the Mutual Aid and Emergency and Disaster Assistance Agreement Act of 2004, includes events that result in bodily injury or property damage; specifies the government officials through which mutual aid may be requested under the Act. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 8.

TN - HB1803 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, clarifies when a student must be enrolled in an eligible postsecondary program to be eligible to receive a Tennessee Promise scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - HB982 Controlled Substances - As enacted, protects a person's statement regarding the use or possession of marijuana to certain licensed health providers that was made in the course or scope of the person's medical care for the purpose of obtaining medical advice on possible adverse effects of marijuana use in combination with other medications or medical treatment from being admissible as evidence in any criminal trial, hearing, or proceeding in which the person is a defendant; authorizes the pers...

TN - HB957 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, allows an eligible independent postsecondary institution and certain private, nonprofit technical schools to charge dual enrollment students tuition or fees in an amount that exceeds the amount of the student's dual enrollment grant. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - SB1023 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, authorizes the issuance of a retail package store license to an operator within the general services district of a metropolitan government that has approved the retail sale of liquor for off-premises consumption by local option election. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 57.

TN - HB294 Education, Higher - As enacted, expands the Save Tennessee Students Act to require public institutions of higher education that issue new student identification cards to students enrolled in the institution to include certain contact information for crisis and suicide prevention resources on the cards; requires the institutions to post certain contact information for crisis and suicide prevention resources in a conspicuous place on each campus operated by the institution. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB424 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, authorizes the commissioner of education to grant an individual pursuing clinical experience in an educator preparation program (EPP) who meets certain requirements a temporary permit to teach in a teaching position in which an LEA or public charter school is unable to secure a qualified teacher with a valid license for the type and kind of school in which a vacancy exists. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1708 Charitable Institutions - As introduced, revises certain fees payable to the secretary of state by certain charitable organizations; increases from $500,000 to $1,000,000 the amount of gross revenue received during a fiscal year to trigger certain reporting requirements; assesses a late fee per month on certain financial reports that are not timely filed. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 17, Part 1 and Title 48, Chapter 101, Part 5.

TN - HB1270 Correctional Programs - As enacted, revises present law relative to community corrections. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 36.

TN - HB619 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to notify the committing court within a certain period of time of the proposed discharge of a child committed to the custody of the department for an indefinite time; establishes a procedure to be followed when the committing court objects to the department's discharge of the child. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - HJR931 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Russell Spaulding, Rookie Teacher of the Year, Union Grove Middle School

TN - HB2232 Welfare - As introduced, creates a pilot project to place a moratorium on the loss of public assistance benefits for child care workers based solely on wage increases that cause their income to exceed program eligibility limits; requires TACIR to study wages and related issues for child care workers, including the benefits cliff. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 71.

TN - HB2327 Mental Illness - As introduced, requires the department of health to produce an annual report on suicide, including the number of completed and attempted suicides statewide, as well as broken down by county, and other demographics, including age, race, and ethnicity, and the method or means used of the attempted or completed suicide. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.

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 - HJR108 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Beverly Johnson, University of Tennessee Southern Campus Advisory Board

TN - HB1659 Public Officials - As introduced, raises the base salary from $156,024 to $205,328 for district attorneys general and district public defenders. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 16.

TN - HB498 Health Care - As enacted, exempts a patient receiving an initial behavioral health evaluation via telehealth from the requirement that a patient have an in-person encounter with a healthcare services provider, the healthcare services providers practice group, or the healthcare system within 16 months prior to an interactive visit in order to establish a provider-patient relationship for purposes of telehealth; allows a physician assistant who is authorized to prescribe drugs and who provides ...

TN - HB2244 Local Government, General - As introduced, expresses legislative intent that the persons appointed to a charter commission for the consolidation of the functions of the county and creation of a metropolitan government be representative of both incorporated and unincorporated areas of the county. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9 and Title 67.

TN - HJR189 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Chad Lewis, Standards Recommendation Committee for Science and Social Studies

TN - SJR848 Memorials, Government Officials - Urges development of comprehensive statewide Paid Family Caregiving Policy and Program.

TN - HB2047 Liens - As introduced, adds former public officials to the list of officials who may contest liens on real property believed to lack any legal basis. - Amends TCA Section 47-9-513 and Title 66, Chapter 21, Part 1.

TN - HB1537 Kingston - Subject to local approval, expands, from not later than 90 days to not later than 30 days prior to the beginning of the next fiscal year, the timeline the city manager has to submit the proposed annual budget to the council for approval. - Amends Chapter 328 of the Acts of 1903; as amended.

TN - HB2240 Taxes, Hotel Motel - As introduced, requires a municipality levying the hotel-motel tax under general law to submit a report annually detailing how the revenue earned from the tax is used by the municipality; requires the comptroller of the treasury to audit the reports of the municipality; requires a municipality found to have used the funds improperly to appropriate general funds in the same amount for promotion of tourism and tourism development; prohibits a municipality, on and after July...

TN - SJR918 Memorials, Government Officials - Urges creation of state certified peer recovery program for veterans.

TN - HB1195 Therapists, Physical and Occupational - As enacted, allows the practice of physical therapy to be under the written or oral referral of a nurse practitioner or physician assistant; removes certain minimum education requirements to engage in the independent practice of physical therapy. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - HB64 Human Services, Dept. of - As enacted, increases, from three to four years, the duration of Tennessee opportunity pilot programs for which temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) program funds must be dedicated; extends, from 12 to 18 months, the length of time following the end of each federal fiscal year by which the department must spend all unobligated TANF program funds; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Section 71-5-1201; Section 71-5-1203 and Section 71-5-1204.

TN - HB879 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, authorizes a housing authority-related entity participating in a mixed-finance project to form a self-insurance pooling arrangement, if the housing authority with which the entity is related has formed partnerships, limited liability companies, or other entities in which an authority, or an entity affiliated with the authority, is a general partner, managing member, or otherwise participates in the activities of the entity. - Amends TCA...

TN - HB2900 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, as an alternative for an applicant for certain professional licenses or certificates having to show United States citizenship or authorization to work in the United States as verified by the SAVE program, allows the applicant to show proof of application for a valid visa that would authorize the applicant to lawfully work in the United States or a valid J-1 or F-1 student visa; requires the board of medical examiners to grant a full and unrestricte...

TN - HJR954 Memorials, Retirement - Joe Gregory

TN - HB1922 Children - As introduced, adds certain assisted-care living facilities, nursing homes, and emergency communications centers as locations where a newborn safety device may be located. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.

TN - HB572 Treasurer, State - As enacted, permits the state treasurer to sell a security immediately after the treasurer takes custody of the security if the records of the holder do not reflect the identity of the person entitled to the security; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Section 66-29-142.

TN - HB608 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, removes the requirement that an individual applying for an insurance producer license take a prelicensing course of study for a line of authority; removes other references to the prelicensing education requirement for applicants for an insurance producer license. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - HB2249 Real Property - As introduced, reduces from 30 business days to 30 days, the amount of time that a business entity that is subject to a declaration has to send notice of a change in contact information for the entity or a transfer of the ownership interest in the residential property to the homeowners' association. - Amends TCA Title 13 and Title 66.

TN - HB551 Adoption - As enacted, makes various changes to adoption law. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Title 68, Chapter 3, Part 3.

TN - HB138 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, makes various revisions to law relative to designating bridges, highways, and roads. - Amends TCA Title 54.

TN - HB1231 Tickets, Admission - As enacted, requires a third-party ticket reseller, ticket broker, ticket issuer, and ticket resale website to meet certain requirements with regard to selling tickets. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 39; Title 47; Title 48 and Title 67.

TN - HB1086 Schools, Charter - As enacted, revises various provisions relative to charter schools. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.

TN - HB1775 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the Tennessee auctioneer commission to June 30, 2030. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 62, Chapter 19.

TN - HB1164 Highway Patrol - As introduced, requires the commissioner of safety, in consultation with the commissioner of human resources, to ensure that a minimum of six Tennessee highway patrol officers are allocated to a county designated as a tier 3 or tier 4 enhancement county that has a size greater than 600 square miles and a population greater than 20,000 but less than 50,000. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 20 and Title 4, Chapter 7.

TN - HB2930 Courts, Administrative Office of the - As introduced, directs the administrative office of the courts (AOC) to define and develop a centralized system of case management, document management, electronic case filing, electronic payment methods, data reporting, and any other capability deemed necessary for collection and reporting of all state and local court public case level data. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 16 and Title 18.

TN - HB1339 Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to actively seek and apply for federal grants and other available federal funds, and utilize available federal funds, for the purpose of alleviating childhood hunger. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.

TN - HB2528 Education - As introduced, changes from February 1 to January 15, the deadline for the commissioners of safety and education to present their annual report to the governor and the general assembly concerning implementation of the Schools Against Violence in Education (SAVE) Act. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 49 and Title 67.

TN - HB2125 State Symbols - As introduced, designates November as "Christian Heritage Month." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1.

TN - HB2144 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As introduced, allows the board of pharmacy to license ambulatory surgical treatment centers engaged in the practice of pharmacy. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1248 Elder Abuse - As introduced, requires the department of human services to advertise prominently on the home page of the department's website the division of adult protective services' toll-free telephone service that enables citizens within the state to call the division free of charge to report abuse, neglect, or exploitation and to seek relevant assistance from the division in such matters. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 38; Title 39; Title 45; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2595 Remedies and Special Proceedings - As introduced, increases from $1,000 to $1,500 the compensation claim amount that may be reimbursed to a healthcare provider for performing a forensic medical examination on a victim of a sexual assault case. - Amends TCA Title 29.

TN - HJR933 Memorials, Academic Achievement - 7th grade WOW Award recipients at Union Grove Middle School

TN - HB1862 Medical Occupations - As introduced, enacts the Physician Assistant (PA) Licensure Compact. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2489 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, authorizes the issuance of temporary teaching permits to teach physical education classes in elementary schools. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2864 Naming and Designating - As introduced, designates barbecue as an official state food. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - HB2434 Tort Liability and Reform - As introduced, declares a private entity to be not civilly liable in a class action resulting from a cybersecurity event unless the cybersecurity event was caused by willful, wanton, or gross negligence on the part of the private entity. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 47.

TN - HB3004 Shelby County - Subject to local approval, changes the allocation of the revenue from the privilege tax on occupancy in a hotel. - Amends Chapter 131 of the Private Acts of 1969; as amended.

TN - HB2877 Animal Control - As introduced, increases from $25 to $40, the deposit amount that an agency cannot accept less than from a new owner adopting a cat or dog that has not been spayed or neutered, and to ensure that the spaying or neutering occurs, the agency permits the owner to receive a refund of the deposit upon providing confirmation of the spaying or neutering. - Amends TCA Title 44 and Title 63.

TN - HB685 Transportation, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to identify locations of state and local government roads in this state where injuries to bicyclists and pedestrians are elevated in comparison to the statewide average. - Amends TCA Title 54 and Title 55.

TN - HB916 TennCare - As introduced, extends, from January 15 to February 1 of each calendar year, the due date of the annual report required to be submitted by the bureau of TennCare to certain legislative committees on the use and cost of opioids and other controlled substances in the prescription drug program for the TennCare program. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HB390 Education - As introduced, deletes a provision authorizing the state board of education to, in its discretion, waive the requirement that a person employed as a supervisor for the supervision of teaching grades 1-12 have a license of qualification issued by the board if the supervisor was employed and serving in that capacity in a nonequalizing local school district as of January 1, 1957. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB903 Municipal Government - As enacted, authorizes a municipality to add the cost of remedying a condition on real property that endangers the health, safety, and welfare of other citizens to the property tax notice of the owner of the real property, if the owner fails or refuses to remedy the condition in a specified time period. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 33 and Title 6, Chapter 54.

TN - HB119 Tennessee Fish & Wildlife Commission - As introduced, requires the commission to implement a preference point system for drawing half of the quota elk hunt permits; limits the amount that the commission charges for a quota elk hunt permit to a non-refundable $10.00 application fee. - Amends TCA Title 70.

TN - HB704 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As enacted, expands the duties of the medicaid fraud control unit of the Tennessee bureau of investigation to include investigation of complaints of abuse, neglect and financial exploitation of medicaid recipients in any setting; allows the director of the Tennessee bureau of investigation to create new divisions within the bureau as necessary. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 71.

TN - HB334 Medical Occupations - As introduced, removes certain limitations placed on a person trying to meet the educational requirement for licensure as a polysomnographic technologist by presenting proof of successful completion of an accredited sleep technologist educational program (A-STEP) that is accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - HB1918 Recreational Areas - As introduced, requires a campground owner to post in a high traffic area on the campground or distribute to registered guests or visitors a written policy on campground curfew, alcohol use, tobacco use, and pets; authorizes a campground owner to eject a person from the campground and notify the appropriate local law enforcement authorities of any person in response to certain actions by the person; classifies remaining on a campground after having been asked to leave by ...

TN - HB2931 Judges and Chancellors - As introduced, requires a judge who enters into a deferred discipline agreement regarding a matter before the board of judicial conduct to sign an affidavit stating that the judge consents to the recommendation of the investigative panel, the consent is freely and voluntarily rendered, there is a pending proceeding involving allegations of misconduct, which must be specifically set forth in the affidavit, and the facts set forth in the affidavit are true; requires the...

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 - HB1769 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the state board of education to June 30, 2030. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - HB2857 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, removes from the definition of "provider-based telemedicine" the requirement that the healthcare service provider or the provider's practice group or healthcare system have an established provider-patient relationship that is documented by an in-person encounter within 16 months prior to the interactive visit. - Amends TCA Section 56-7-1003.

TN - SJR35 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Rejects and expresses disapproval of the American Law Institute's 2022 changes to Article 213 of the Model Penal Code: Sexual Assault and Related Offenses.

TN - HB2624 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, grants first priority to property tax liens relative to receiver's liens and other liens established under the Neighborhood Preservation Act and the Tennessee Local Land Bank Program; clarifies that various provisions governing judicial sales do not apply to property tax proceedings; makes various revisions to laws governing property tax liens, delinquent property taxes, and property tax proceedings. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 8; Title 13; Title 26 and Titl...

TN - HB2972 Bond Issues - As introduced, authorizes the state to issue and sell bonds of up to $87,700,000.

TN - HB675 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, increases from 24 months to 36 months the period for which vehicle registrations by businesses that register at least 15,000 vehicles annually and that are engaged in the rental of motor vehicles, trucks, and trailers may be issued; specifies that the fees must be in an amount to offset the revenue that would otherwise be generated by 12-month registration fees. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-104.

TN - HB184 Ethics - As enacted, requires assistant director and general counsel of the bureau of ethics and campaign finance, if any, to be employed upon the recommendation of the executive director and approval by the board of directors of the bureau; requires persons and entities required to register with the registry of election finance or the Tennessee ethics commission to provide an email address, or alternatively, a mailing address if no email address is available, for the purpose of serving noti...

TN - HB1554 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, establishes a program under which a state employee may receive up to six weeks of paid leave if the employee becomes a foster parent of a minor child. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 8; Title 16 and Title 50.

TN - HB2296 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, requires the board for professional counselors, marital and family therapists, and clinical pastoral therapists to license without examination a marital and family therapist applicant who is licensed in another state if the applicant's qualifications meet the licensure requirements of this state; removes the board's authorization to license an applicant by endorsement. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 33 and Title 63, Chapter 22.

TN - HB1982 Marriage - As introduced, requires only an applicant for a marriage license who is under the age of 18 to provide the name and address of the applicant's parents, guardian, or next of kin. - Amends TCA Section 36-3-104.

TN - HB2118 Energy - As introduced, reconstitutes the state energy policy council by adding a representative of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a representative of the nuclear energy industry. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 59; Title 60; Title 65 and Title 68.

TN - HB2784 Education, Higher - As introduced, establishes deadlines for public institutions of higher education to initiate and complete an investigation into a report filed by a student or employee alleging they have been penalized, discriminated against, or received adverse treatment due to their refusal to support or otherwise assent to a divisive concept, specific ideology, or political viewpoint; establishes financial penalties for institutions that fail to timely investigate such reports or fail t...

TN - HB806 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes revisions to the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act of 1989, including expanding the definition of racketeering activity. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 12, Part 2.

TN - HB236 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As introduced, requires each state agency head to complete periodic training for purposes of complying with the requirements of the "Regulatory Flexibility Act of 2007." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2986 Carroll County - Subject to local approval, establishes the office of highway supervisor; aligns the powers and duties of the highway supervisor with the Tennessee County Uniform Highway Law. - Amends Chapter 148 of the Private Acts of 1986; as amended.

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 - HB1832 Consumer Protection - As introduced, requires a business that makes an automatic renewal offer or continuous service offer to a consumer to obtain affirmative consent to the agreement containing the automatic renewal offer terms or continuous service offer terms no less than 60 days before the business charges the consumer's credit or debit card, or the consumer's account through a third party. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.

TN - HB996 Education - As introduced, changes from February 15 to February 1, the date by which the state board of education, with the assistance of the department of education and the Tennessee higher education commission, must issue a report card or assessment on the effectiveness of teacher training programs. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR425 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Bill Shedden, Pioneer Award, Tennessee School Plant Management Association

TN - HB493 TennCare - As enacted, extends the nursing home annual assessment fee to June 30, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 10.

TN - HJR750 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Charles Hankla, Heritage Conservation Trust Fund Board

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 - HB689 Bail, Bail Bonds - As introduced, requires an officer to provide an alleged victim of certain criminal offenses with a document notifying the victim of the global positioning monitoring system used as a condition of bail. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4.

TN - HB1312 Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, revises the law relative to the board of medical examiners issuing a temporary license of limited duration to certain international medical school graduates. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - HB1858 Victims' Rights - As introduced, expands the ways in which applicants may apply for the home address confidentiality program to include moving to a new address unknown to the offender and not previously identified in a public record. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 38, Part 6.

TN - HB2365 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As introduced, allows members of the council on autism spectrum disorder to receive reimbursement for travel expenses. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Section 4-3-2711.

TN - HB884 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, revises the methods by which a local government employer wishing to participate in TCRS must pay the estimated increased pension liability created by a benefit improvement; requires the state to pay the estimated increased pension liability resulting from a benefit improvement affecting general employees or employees at institutions of higher education participating in the retirement system by amortizing the unfunded accrued liability over a peri...

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 - HB227 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee heritage conservation trust fund board of trustees to June 30, 2028. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 11, Chapter 7.

TN - HB612 Capital Punishment - As enacted, establishes the procedure for the administrative office of the courts to issue payment to an expert who makes a court-ordered determination of intellectual disability in a person who has been sentenced to death prior to May 11, 2021. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 2.

TN - HB1788 Public Contracts - As introduced, changes, from three years to five years, the time period for which a person awarded a state contract, change order, or contract modification must retain all books and records of cost or pricing data submitted to the state with regard to the agreement; changes, from three years to five years, the time period for which a contractor or subcontractor under a state-awarded contract must retain all books and records pertaining to the agreement; requires all state p...

TN - HB2826 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department, using existing resources, to develop a conflict resolution program that may be adopted and implemented by LEAs and public charter schools to assist students in any of the grades K-12 in developing the skills necessary for nonviolent conflict resolution. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2907 Health Care - As introduced, prohibits physicians from prescribing, administering, or dispensing medication for, or otherwise treating, themselves, immediate family, and other specified individuals except for specified or emergency situations; prohibits a physician's supervisee from prescribing, administering, or dispensing medication for, or otherwise treating, the physician or the physician's immediate family except for emergency situations. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 39; Title 53; Title...

TN - HB320 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, clarifies that machinery, equipment, and associated parts used by the department of general services or a contracted entity for the Megasite Authority of West Tennessee is included in the definition of "industrial machinery" for purposes of sales and use taxes. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-102.

TN - HB2487 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, conditions the expulsion of a student for committing the zero tolerance offense of threatening mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity to threats of mass violence determined to be valid based on the results of a threat assessment; requires directors of schools and heads of public charter schools to report threats of mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity made by a student that are determined, based on...

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 - HB529 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, revises various provisions regarding the automatic revocation of educator licenses. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1186 Courts, Juvenile - As enacted, rewrites the provisions for requests for review of a juvenile court case heard by a magistrate by changing the right from a de novo hearing by the juvenile court judge to a review by the juvenile court judge with a presumption of correctness as to the magistrate's order; makes other relevant revisions. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1.

TN - HB1697 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, removes the requirement that LEAs administer a pretest to students participating in an after-school learning mini-camp, learning loss bridge camp, or summer learning camp; deletes various reporting, funding, and accountability provisions regarding such pretests. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HJR768 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Tom Griscom, Public Charter School Commission

TN - HB1264 County Officers - As introduced, requires as a qualification for office that a constable be certified by a qualified healthcare provider as being free from any mental impairment that would affect the constable's ability to perform an essential function of the job with or without reasonable accommodation; requires a constable with law enforcement powers to successfully complete a training program that is equivalent to or superior to the training or continuing training required for a law enforc...

TN - HJR718 Memorials, Death - Reverend Clarence Sexton

TN - HB1216 Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, provides that whenever Cumberland County acquires property at a tax sale, a non-governmental entity holding a vested and duly recorded contractual right to the payment of fees or assessments secured by such property retains such right; provides that Cumberland County is liable for the payment of such fees and assessments if the county makes actual use of the property purchased at the tax sale. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 20 and Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2371 Vital Records - As introduced, increases from 48 hours to two business days the time by which a physician in charge of a patient who dies or a medical examiner must determine the cause of death and complete and sign a medical certification of death. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68, Chapter 3.

TN - HB1450 Housing - As introduced, increases from 18 to 24 months the period of exemption from real property taxes to which a charitable organization is entitled for the first lot purchased or developed by the organization for the construction of a single family residence for a low-income household. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 13; Title 48; Title 49; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HB474 Local Government, General - As introduced, expresses legislative intent that the persons appointed to a charter commission for the consolidation of the functions of the county and creation of a metropolitan government be representative of both incorporated and unincorporated areas of the county. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9 and Title 67.

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 - HB1000 Expunction - As enacted, makes various changes relative to expunction. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2480 Milk, Dairy Products - As introduced, changes from February 1 to February 15 the date by which licensees and registrants under the Dairy Law must provide an annual report concerning their business to the commissioner of agriculture. - Amends TCA Title 43; Title 44; Title 49 and Title 53.

TN - HB1628 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates new criminal offenses of assault within a healthcare facility and aggravated assault within a healthcare facility. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HJR762 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Herbert Hilliard, Tennessee Public Utility Commission

TN - HJR300 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Bradford D. Box, Fish and Wildlife Commission

TN - HB1937 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, deletes an obsolete pilot project that expired in 2014 related to the exchange of notifications of violations of alcohol laws between the alcoholic beverage commission and the county beer boards. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - HB2272 Education - As introduced, requires the state department of education to submit the U.S department of education's interpretations and directives on the implementation of department rules providing guidance to this state to the chairs of certain legislative committees; requires such information to be submitted to each member of the joint government operations rule review committee prior to each rule review meeting. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

TN - HB1056 Environment and Conservation, Department of - As enacted, adds to the bill of rights for permit applicants under the Water Quality Control Act that permit applicants have the right to have their construction stormwater permit applications considered based on the activities described in the permit application and conditions that exist at the time the permit application is under consideration, rather than possible future conditions unrelated to the activities for which the permit is sought as i...

TN - HJR988 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. David Morgan

TN - HB1648 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, authorizes, upon request, the department of revenue to issue lien-free salvage certificates of title to a salvage pool operator under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 3, Part 2.

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 - HB17 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates the month of May as "Silver Alert Awareness Month." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

TN - HB937 Election Laws - As enacted, authorizes Washington County to establish a convenient voting center pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 3, Part 3.

TN - HJR929 Memorials, Recognition - Julia Green Elementary School, 75th anniversary

TN - HB1640 Mental Illness - As introduced, expands the definition of "adjudication as a mental defective" to include a person who has been found incompetent to stand trial in a criminal proceeding and requires the clerk of court in such a proceeding to collect and report any such finding to the federal bureau of investigation-NICS Index and the department of safety; establishes a rebuttable presumption that a person who has been charged with a criminal offense and found incompetent to stand trial poses ...

TN - HB366 Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, makes changes to property tax relief under the Property Tax Freeze Act. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.

TN - HB1380 Public Health - As enacted, enacts the "Mature Minor Doctrine Clarification Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 14; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1679 Dentists and Dentistry - As introduced, increases, from three to five, the number of dental hygienists who can work under the supervision of a licensed dentist at any one time. - Amends TCA Section 63-5-108.

TN - HB1568 Murfreesboro - Subject to local approval, authorizes the creation of a solid waste authority; authorizes the authority to issue bonds. - Amends Chapter 429 of the Private Acts of 1931.

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 - HB1630 Education - As introduced, requires the governing board of each public institution of higher education to promulgate rules, and requires each local board of education and governing body of a public charter school to adopt a policy, regarding the use of artificial intelligence technology by students, teachers, faculty, and staff for instructional and assignment purposes. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2031 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for intentionally obstructing a highway, street, or other place used for the passage of vehicles or conveyances from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class D felony; allows a person who suffers loss or injury as a result of such an offense to bring a cause of action against the offender to recover compensatory damages from the loss or injury. - Amends TCA Title 39.

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 - HB441 District Attorneys - As introduced, authorizes a district attorney general investigating a report of abuse, neglect, or exploitation made pursuant to the Tennessee Adult Protection Act to seek all remedies made available under the Act or another criminal provision; authorizes a district attorney general to convene a special grand jury to review a death or allegation of sexual abuse of, or felony theft from, an adult who is protected under the Act. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2223 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, creates an Amber+ Alert system for the purpose of issuing alerts with respect to certain youth who are reported missing under unexplained or suspicious circumstances, reported missing and at risk of harm, or reported missing and developmentally disabled or cognitively impaired. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - HB234 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As enacted, continues permanent rules filed with the secretary of state between January 1, 2022, and December 31, 2022, that are in effect on the effective date of this act until repealed or amended by subsequent rule of the appropriate rulemaking agency or until otherwise superseded by legislative enactment. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5.

TN - HJR930 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jill Pugh, Union Grove Middle School Teacher of the Year

TN - HB662 Education - As enacted, revises present law that relative to a local board of education keeping on file and available in each school library added or amended operating policies and a notice of each deleted operating policy; authorizes a person who holds an active industry license or credential relevant to a career and technical education course to provide instruction to students in the career and technical education course as long as the instruction is supervised at all times in the classroom...

TN - HB232 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the underground storage tanks and solid waste disposal control board to June 30, 2027; establishes minimum attendance requirement for board members and requires removal of members who do not meet the requirement. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 68, Chapter 211, Part 1.

TN - HB2392 State Universities - As introduced, adds state university boards of trustees to the list of governing boards authorized to promulgate rules to effectuate the requirement that persons required to register for the federal draft must be registered for the draft in order to be eligible for enrollment in a state postsecondary school. - Amends TCA Section 49-7-114.

TN - HB2997 Gates - Subject to local approval, removes authority of the board of mayor and aldermen to elect a town marshal or marshals; removes authority of a member of the board to serve as city recorder; repeals residency requirement for a person to be elected as city recorder. - Amends Chapter 286 of the Private Acts of 1943; as amended.

TN - HB312 Adoption - As enacted, makes various changes in regard to maintaining and securing documents in certain parental rights proceedings and the grounds for termination of parental rights. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - HB144 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, changes from 25 to 17 the number of days of incarceration a person convicted of a second offense of driving under the influence of an intoxicant must serve before the person can participate in a substance abuse treatment program; requires a person charged with or convicted of a third or subsequent offense of driving under the influence of an intoxicant involving the use of alcohol to wear a transdermal alcohol monitoring device for a 90-day period of continuous...

TN - HB1389 Metropolitan Government - As introduced, deletes the limitation that a report regarding a nonprofit organization's desire for financial assistance from a county with a metropolitan form of government filed with the clerks is only open for public inspection during regular business hours of the clerk's office. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 12 and Title 67.

TN - HB74 Education - As enacted, updates the terms "general education development credential," "high school equivalency test," and variations of the terms to "high school equivalency credential." - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 8; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 40; Title 41; Title 49; Title 50; Title 54; Title 55; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2061 Mental Illness - As introduced, clarifies the meaning of local law enforcement for purposes of the required notification to law enforcement by an inpatient mental health treatment facility or hospital that a service recipient has been committed; requires the clerk of court who maintains records of the adjudication as a mental defective or judicial commitment to a mental institution of a Tennessee resident to notify the clerk of court in the county of the persons permanent residence. - Amends ...

TN - HB2419 Public Records - As introduced, clarifies that only a person who has requested to personally inspect a state, county, or municipal record and whose request has been denied has standing to file an action for judicial review of the denial and that intervention by a non-governmental third party in a public records lawsuit is not permitted. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5 and Title 20.

TN - HB222 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the state unemployment compensation advisory council to June 30, 2028. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 50, Chapter 7.

TN - HB764 Local Government, General - As enacted, makes changes to present law relative to community oversight boards. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8.

TN - HB575 Physicians and Surgeons - As introduced, requires the board of medical examiners to consider including a course in maternal mental health when establishing continuing medical educational requirements for persons licensed to practice medicine. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - HJR191 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Ashley Flood, Standards Recommendation Committee for Science and Social Studies

TN - HB1767 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the sports wagering council to June 30, 2028. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 49.

TN - HB616 Traffic Safety - As enacted, requires a motor vehicle or trailer transporting a load of logs or pulpwood that protrudes at least four feet beyond the end of the body or bed of the vehicle or trailer to have certain items securely affixed to the end of the projecting load while the vehicle or trailer is loaded with the protruding logs or pulpwood. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 55 and Title 65.

TN - HB1680 Elder Abuse - As introduced, 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.

TN - HB2128 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, authorizes issuance of an antique motor vehicle license plate to farm trucks older than 25 years old that are used for certain agricultural or horticultural purposes and not for general transportation. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 1 and Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1901 Uniform Commercial Code - As introduced, defines the term "central bank digital currency" and excludes the term from the definition of "money" for purposes of the Uniform Commercial Code. - Amends TCA Title 47.

TN - HB1492 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, generally requires by January 1, 2024, each law enforcement agency to develop and enforce a policy that prohibits an officer from using a drone or other substantially similar device as a weapon under any circumstances while in the exercise of the officer's official duties; requires a law enforcement agency to permit an officer qualified to operate a drone to utilize a drone or a substantially similar device for the purpose of remotely detonating a bomb or simil...

TN - HB2001 Healthcare Liability - As introduced, extends, from three business days to five business days, the time in which a provider must send a claimant's medical records to a requesting party after receipt of payment for the records. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 26.

TN - HB2121 Political Parties - As introduced, moves the period during which a political party must meet to elect at-large delegates and alternates for the party convention from between the second Tuesday in February and the first Tuesday in March to between the first Thursday in April and the first Thursday in May. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 13.

TN - HB1572 Bolivar - Subject to local approval, increases the maximum threshold, from $50,000 to $100,000, that the board of directors of the Bolivar Energy Authority is authorized to set for purchases by the chief executive officer that do not require board approval. - Amends Chapter 130 of the Private Acts of 2006.

TN - HB233 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the underground utility damage enforcement board to June 30, 2028. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 65, Chapter 31.

TN - HB1583 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, requires an individual who resides in this state and owns a firearm to maintain liability insurance in an amount of no less than $300,000 to insure the individual against losses or damages resulting from the accidental use of the individual's firearm; requires the individual to provide documentation of the insurance upon request by a party that suffers losses or damages resulting from the accidental use of the individual's firearm; specifies that a vio...

TN - HB1781 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the University of Tennessee, board of trustees, to June 30, 2028. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

TN - HB2880 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, replaces references to "poisonous snakes" with "venomous snakes"; defines "venomous." - Amends TCA Section 39-17-101 and Title 70.

TN - HB1717 Judicial Officers - As introduced, requires, upon request of the county legislative body, the judicial commissioners to submit any relevant information to the county legislative body at least seven days before the public hearing. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - HB2093 Medical Occupations - As introduced, requires health-related boards that license practitioners authorized to prescribe buprenorphine-containing products to post nonresidential buprenorphine guidelines and standards on the licensing board's website no more than 10 days after receipt of the guidelines. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2426 County Government - As introduced, reduces from 30 to 21 days, the period by which a local government building official must, after a building permit is issued, mail to the county tax collection official the form upon which the permit applicant acknowledges the privilege taxes owed under the County Powers Relief Act. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 29.

TN - HB210 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Doe Mountain recreation authority to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 11, Chapter 25.

TN - HB212 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the employee suggestion award board to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 27 and Title 4, Chapter 29.

TN - HB693 Employees, Employers - As introduced, prohibits an appointing authority from entering a government employee's private property or residence without written consent from the employee. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 50.

TN - HB2094 Governor - As introduced, prohibits the governor from dividing counties into separate declarations of emergency to avoid the requirement that the general assembly approve an extension of an executive order, proclamation, or TEMP beyond the 45-day maximum for the same disaster or occurrence. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 2, Part 1.

TN - HB2010 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, increases, from $50,000 to $100,000, the amount of the bond running to the state that every insurance company doing a workers' compensation business in this state must furnish to the commissioner of commerce and insurance; increases, from $100,000 to $200,000, the amount that such a company has on deposit with another state in which the company is organized and domiciled and from which a certificate of that state's commissioner o...

TN - HB882 Election Laws - As enacted, allows a candidate to demand and receive a list of all voters who changed their residential address at the polling place; requires a recount to include the verification of any address of residence changed at the polling place. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 17 and Title 2, Chapter 8.

TN - HB2610 Human Rights - As introduced, terminates the human rights commission with no wind-down period; creates the human rights division in the office of attorney general; transfers the commission's functions to the new division. - Amends TCA Title 4; Section 8-50-103 and Section 68-1-113.

TN - HB209 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the department of safety to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 3.

TN - HB2311 Education - As introduced, requires the principal or head of a school that maintains an opioid antagonist at the school to ensure that the opioid antagonist is stored in accordance with manufacturer instructions; prohibits a school from prohibiting a student, employee, or visitor from possessing an opioid antagonist while the person is on school property or attending a school-sponsored activity held at a location that is not school property. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1539 Putnam County - Subject to local approval, establishes that general sessions court has concurrent jurisdiction with chancery and circuit courts relating to cases of adoption, pursuant to general law.

TN - HJR153 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - John Charles Wilson, State Forestry Commission

TN - HB2203 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, decreases from 60 to 30 days when the district attorney may submit recommendations to the court and the petitioner regarding a person's petition to expunge an offense. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3 and Title 40.

TN - HB690 Medical Occupations - As enacted, authorizes the board of examiners in psychology to designate as a health service provider in this state, a person who has held a valid license or certificate to practice psychology in another state under certain conditions. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 63, Chapter 11.

TN - HB126 County Boundaries - As enacted, establishes a new boundary line between Shelby County and Fayette County. - Amends TCA Section 3-1-102; Section 3-1-103 and Title 5, Chapter 2.

TN - HB150 Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - As enacted, designates certain segments of Chickamauga Creek as Class I natural river areas. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 13.

TN - HB892 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, adds the director of schools as a person to whom a principal must report the principal's direct knowledge of an offense of assault and battery or vandalism committed by a student on school property endangering the life, health, or safety of others; expands the educator's bill of rights to include the educator's right to report an offense of assault and battery or vandalism committed by a student on school property and the educator's righ...

TN - HB1719 Bail, Bail Bonds - As introduced, removes the defendant's financial condition as a consideration for the magistrate in determining the amount of bail necessary to reasonably assure the appearance of the defendant at trial and protect the safety of the public. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - HB2389 County Officers - As introduced, deletes provisions that exempt persons in Fentress County from meeting certain qualifications to qualify for election or appointment to the office of constable. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 10.

TN - HB2366 Health Care - As introduced, changes the application requirements for international medical school graduates applying for special licenses. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - HB1694 Workers Compensation - As introduced, requires an employer to report to the bureau of workers compensation each accident that results in a work-related death or personal injury within 14 calendar days of the date the employer is notified of the accident or has knowledge of the accident, whichever is earlier, instead of reporting accidents at different intervals based upon the nature of the injury and whether the injured employee is able to return within seven days of the accident; and makes o...

TN - HB1309 DNA and Genetic Testing - As enacted, prohibits a life insurance provider from canceling a life insurance policy based on genetic information, from requesting or requiring genetic testing as a condition of insurability, and from accessing the genetic data of an individual without consent. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 27.

TN - HB2174 Food and Food Products - As introduced, redefines "food service establishment" to exclude an establishment whose primary business is other than food service, that incidentally makes casual, occasional food sales for two days or less while an organized temporary event is being conducted less than one-quarter mile from the establishment, for the purposes of exempting such establishments from regulation by the department of health and local governments. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Ti...

TN - HB288 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, increases the compensation for members of the board of directors of the Tellico Reservoir Development Agency to $300 per meeting and $225 for meetings of committees of the board; increases the threshold at which sealed bids are required for purchases and contracts. - Amends TCA Title 64, Chapter 1, Part 7.

TN - HB339 Marriage - As enacted, clarifies that former municipal judges may solemnize a marriage. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 3.

TN - SJR44 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges state agencies to expand cardiovascular screening programs.

TN - HJR759 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Robert Carter, University of Memphis Board of Trustees

TN - HB1691 TennCare - As introduced, requires compliance with federal law regarding third-party liability. - Amends TCA Section 71-05-117.

TN - HB2321 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, increases the amount of personal needs allowance from $50 to $70 for long-term nursing home residents. - Amends TCA Title 71.

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 - HJR856 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Recognizes negative effects of parental incarceration on children.

TN - HB1430 Industrial Development - As enacted, removes the requirement that members of the board of directors for an industrial development corporation be qualified electors of and taxpayers in the county or city that created the corporation. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53.

TN - HB1550 Taxes, Hotel Motel - Subject to local approval, extends the deadline by which a tourism construction project must be initiated, from December 31, 2023, to December 31, 2024, as a condition to receiving funding for such project from the proceeds of the Madison County and City of Jackson hotel-motel tax. - Amends Chapter 324 of the Private Acts of 1980; as amended.

TN - HB1664 Law Enforcement - As introduced, authorizes a law enforcement agency to assign a law enforcement officer to serve as a school resource officer at a school within a local board of education's control that has not entered into a memorandum of understanding with a law enforcement agency to assign a school resource officer to the school. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 37; Title 38; Title 49 and Title 62.

TN - HB242 Anatomical Gifts - As introduced, requires the individual that signs the death certificate of a decedent, or an agent of the individual, to ask whether the family or other appropriate person wants to make an anatomical gift of the decedent's body or part; prohibits a procurement organization from contacting the family or other appropriate person if the family or other appropriate person refused to make an anatomical gift of the decedent's body or part. - Amends TCA Title 32; Title 63 and Titl...

TN - HB1619 Election Laws - As introduced, revises the petition signature thresholds for qualifying as a recognized minor party for a statewide election, an election for a seat in either house of the general assembly, and for any other public office. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB1134 County Officers - As enacted, makes various changes to law relative to county officials. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 8; Title 9; Title 18; Title 54 and Title 67.

TN - HB395 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, allows persons who are not otherwise prohibited by law from possessing a handgun to carry a handgun while hunting under certain circumstances, rather than only persons with a handgun carry permit. - Amends TCA Title 44, Chapter 17 and Title 70, Chapter 4, Part 1.

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 - HB2650 Health Care - As introduced, continues the requirement that a temporary healthcare staffing agency presently doing business in this state provide notice to the health facilities commission identifying its business entity and any controlling person by December 31 of each year, instead of ending December 31, 2023. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB584 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, authorizes a hospital, or an affiliated entity of the hospital, to employ an emergency physician to treat patients at a satellite emergency department, or a physician to treat patients at a primary care clinic or urgent care clinic, which is located in this state, if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - HB2086 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires a 340B entity that receives federal grant funds through 317 or 318 of the Public Health Service Act to enter into an agreement with the department on such terms and conditions as the commissioner may require in order to be eligible to receive in-kind funds from the state or a political subdivision of the state on or after July 1, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 68.

TN - HB1088 Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA) - As introduced, allows a local education agency (LEA) that experiences growth in its average daily membership (ADM), excluding the ADM of the LEA's virtual schools, exceeding 2 percent for each year of a two-consecutive-year period to be eligible for an infrastructure stipend for the 2023-2024 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB739 Schools, Charter - As introduced, requires the governing body of a public charter school to submit the proposed compensation of a member of its licensed administrative or supervisory staff to its authorizer for approval if the proposed compensation exceeds 150 percent of the average statewide compensation of LEA licensed administrative and supervisory staff according to the position held and training and experience compiled for each school year by the comptroller. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapt...

TN - HB329 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, generally increases the base salaries in the state salary schedule for teachers formulated by the commissioner of education; prohibits an LEA from deducting dues from the wages of the LEA's employees for a professional employees' organization. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 1 and Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 3.

TN - HB1751 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the department of children's services to June 30, 2026; requires the department to submit quarterly written reports to the government operations committees during 2024 and 2025 to provide updates on the department's progress in addressing the findings set forth in the December 2022 performance audit report. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 4, Chapter 3 and Title 37.

TN - HB2819 Education - As introduced, extends, from February 1 to March 1, the date by which the commissioner of education and the commissioner of safety are required to report to the governor and the general assembly on the implementation and compliance with the Schools Against Violence in Education Act. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 49.

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 - HB1716 Courts, General Sessions - As introduced, specifies that in a county with more than one general sessions judge, the management and supervision of any appointed judicial commissioners must rotate between the general sessions judges in the county on an annual basis. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 17 and Title 40.

TN - HB418 Judges and Chancellors - As enacted, removes provisions that allow parties in certain civil cases to agree to employ a retired or former judge to hear the case and provide for the process and manner of trial. - Amends TCA Title 17, Chapter 2, Part 1.

TN - HB1556 Franklin - Subject to local approval, authorizes the vice mayor to vote on all matters when serving as mayor in the temporary absence of the mayor. - Amends Chapter 126 of the Private Acts of 1967; as amended.

TN - HB1633 Safety - As introduced, requires the department of safety to create de-escalation training for teachers, administrators, and other school personnel; requires LEAs and public charter schools to ensure that the LEA's or public charter school's teachers, administrators, and other school personnel annually receive the de-escalation training. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR752 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Phil Poux, Heritage Conservation Trust Fund Board

TN - HJR763 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - J. Ford Little, Fish and Wildlife Commission

TN - HB590 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, changes from March 1 to March 15, the date by which the department must make a presentation to the appropriate committees of the senate and the house of representatives on the comprehensive annual report of the status of child care agencies within the state subject to the department's jurisdiction. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 15; Title 16; Title 36; Title 37; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1880 Bonds and Undertakings, Regulation of - As introduced, under certain conditions, exempts the issuance of general obligation refunding bonds that will repay a public building authority loan from the requirement that a plan of refunding be submitted for review to the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Section 9-21-911.

TN - HB1025 Historical Sites and Preservation - As enacted, creates the Tennessee monuments and memorials commission, which is required to study, hear, and resolve petitions for waiver under the Tennessee heritage protection act. - Amends TCA Section 4-1-412.

TN - HB1885 General Services, Dept. of - As introduced, removes the annual reporting requirements associated with acquiring, owning, and leasing motor vehicles purchased by the commissioner for use as state vehicles; removes the requirement that information collected by the commissioner regarding energy-efficient and alternative fuel motor vehicles be shared on the department's website. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 11.

TN - HB1321 School Transportation - As enacted, allows school bus drivers to use a portable electronic device for navigation of the school bus and for accurately accounting for students at bus pick-up and drop-off locations through use of the device's global positioning system if no hands are used to hold the device or to enter data into the device while the school bus is in motion; the device is mounted on the school bus's windshield, dashboard, or center console area; and the driver views only data rel...

TN - HB1700 School Transportation - As introduced, requires each LEA to post a conspicuous notice on all school buses in operation in the LEA notifying others that no person shall enter onto school buses except those authorized by law; requires the training standards for school bus drivers established by the departments of education and safety to include procedures concerning persons improperly on school buses; requires student transportation management training for transportation supervisors appointed b...

TN - HB2950 Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As introduced, deletes a redundant definition in law relative to intoxicating liquors that defines the commission. - Amends TCA Title 57 and Title 67.

TN - HB2697 Schools, Charter - As introduced, requires public charter schools to provide educators six work weeks of paid leave after the birth or stillbirth of the educator's child or after the educator's adoption of a newly placed minor child. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49.

TN - HB2901 Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, changes prerequisites for emergency detention and admission to a treatment facility from "immediate" substantial likelihood of serious harm to "imminent" substantial likelihood of serious harm. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 33; Title 41 and Title 68.

TN - HB2774 Immigration - As introduced, 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 regarding such review. - Amends TCA Title 4.

TN - HB1022 Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, requires the court to place a defendant for whom a bench warrant is issued due to failure to appear on a felony or a Class A or Class B misdemeanor that is violent or sexual in nature as determined by the court, or who is charged with a failure to appear on any available state or federal list or database as a fugitive from justice, without limitation, within 10 days of the defendant's failure to appear; states that a surety is not liable for any undertaking if t...

TN - HB353 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, enacts the "Sergeant Chris Jenkins Law." - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55.

TN - HJR304 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Tom Smith, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, advisory board

TN - HB1749 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the Compact for Education to June 30, 2032. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49, Chapter 12, Part 2.

TN - HB2074 Taxes - As introduced, allows a request for an extension of time to file a business tax return and pay the tax to be signed by the taxpayer or the taxpayer's representative. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HB398 Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, requires mental health evaluation and treatment for juveniles who commit aggravated animal cruelty under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39.

TN - HJR938 Memorials, Death - SPC Jeremy Daniel Evans, U.S. Army

TN - HB338 Estates - As enacted, allows a copy of a will, portions of a will, or letters of administration to be sent to beneficiaries and residuary distributees by electronic mail in addition to first class mail or personal delivery. - Amends TCA Title 20; Title 30; Title 32 and Title 35.

TN - HB2979 Pikeville - Subject to local approval, increases the monthly salary for the members of the board of aldermen from $150 to $500 a month. - Amends Chapter 574 of the Private Acts of 1939; as amended.

TN - HB896 Education, State Board of - As enacted, extends, from six years to eight years, the minimum period of time from the last adoption within which the board is required to ensure that the standards review and development committees and advisory teams review the standards for English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies; extends, from 73 months to 97 months, the maximum term of a contract made by the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission with a publisher....

TN - HJR158 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Charles Doug Haney, University of Tennessee Southern Advisory Board

TN - HB831 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As enacted, requires the bureau to develop a request for certification form to be completed by the court and submitted to the bureau prior to entering an order of expunction, with a few exceptions; requires the bureau to determine and certify whether a submitted offense is eligible for expunction; prohibits entry of an order of expunction on or after January 1, 2024, unless a certificate of eligibility from the bureau is attached to the order of expunction....

TN - HB2267 Remedies and Special Proceedings - As introduced, lowers, from 15 to seven, the number of days by which a general sessions judge may postpone a trial for forcible entry and detainer; makes other changes related to forcible entry and detainers. - Amends TCA Title 27; Title 29 and Title 66.

TN - HB164 Adoption - As enacted, authorizes a court to waive certain waiting periods and expedite certain proceedings relative to the adoption of children abandoned or voluntarily left at a facility or in a newborn safety device if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1; Title 37, Chapter 5 and Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - HB444 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, authorizes the city of Moscow and other municipalities with a population between 570 and 699 persons that employ a full-time police department to hold a referendum on the question of whether to authorize package stores and liquor-by-the-drink in their respective jurisdictions. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - HB1790 Comptroller, State - As introduced, modifies the course work required to receive a certified municipal finance officer (CMFO) designation; requires examinations, including test questions, administered by MTAS and CTAS to be designated as a municipal or county finance officer, respectively, to be confidential. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 56, Part 4 and Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5.

TN - HB609 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, authorizes the issuance of an insurance policy that an employer may offer to an employee for the purpose of providing family leave benefits. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 56.

TN - HB1013 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, clarifies that a sheriff and sheriff's deputy are law enforcement officers for purposes of the criminal code; clarifies that a deputy jailer is a law enforcement officer only for the purposes of enhancement of a crime under the criminal code. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 39.

TN - HJR118 Naming and Designating - Designates October 2023 as "Spina Bifida Month,"

TN - HB1727 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, specifies that a parent or guardian who knowingly leaves their child under the care or supervision of a person who is required to register as a sexual offender commits a Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 4 and Title 40.

TN - HJR857 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Requests the commissioner of education to forgive any snow days used by local education agencies during the week of January 15, 2024.

TN - HJR98 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Katherine Cannata, Austin Peay State University Board of Trustees

TN - HB1357 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires an LEA to pay a teacher their full salary, in addition to their full benefits, if the teacher is absent from assigned duties as the result of a personal injury caused by a physical assault or other violent criminal act committed against the teacher in the course of the teacher's employment activities, with certain limitations and exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 7.

TN - HB1944 Traffic Safety - As introduced, makes it a Class B misdemeanor offense for a person to operate a passenger motor vehicle on a street, road, or highway in this state if, by alteration of the suspension, frame, or chassis, the height of the vehicle's front fender is four or more inches greater than the height of the rear fender. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HJR19 Memorials, Congress - Urges Congress to permit states to make child abuse registries public.

TN - HB489 Banks and Financial Institutions - As enacted, specifies that the requirement to notify the department of revenue of the death of the sole or last surviving lessee of a safe deposit box does not apply if the lessee died after December 31, 2015; specifies that a state trust institution is not required to publish public notice in order to establish and maintain a new trust office; authorizes the holder of debt secured by a mortgage, deed of trust, or other lien to assess and collect fees from t...

TN - HB782 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, requires, upon the request of the commission, each public elementary and middle school, or each LEA on behalf of the schools, to provide information to the commission or department of education about the financial literacy education provided to elementary and middle school students during the school year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 17.

TN - HB1062 Financial Institutions, Dept. of - As introduced, removes a reference to a repealed provision of law that required state banks and certain securities broker-dealers to adhere to certain disclosure requirements of the federal deposit insurance corporation. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 45; Title 47 and Title 48.

TN - HB2004 Public Health - As introduced, requires the department of health, in conjunction with the department of environment and conservation, to investigate the frequency of diagnoses of cancer, Parkinson's disease, and other significant health-related issues in Maury County and Lawrence County. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3 and Title 68, Chapter 1.

TN - HB321 Transportation, Dept. of - As enacted, enacts the "Transportation Modernization Act of 2023." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2; Section 12-2-112; Title 54 and Title 55.

TN - HB1906 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As introduced, allows a minor victim 30 years after the victim turns 18 years of age to sue the alleged perpetrator for any injury or illness stemming from the offense of trafficking for a commercial sex act. - Amends TCA Title 28 and Title 39.

TN - HB1846 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to make an annual report to the governor on the total number of firearm injuries and deaths in this state per 100,000 people; requires the attorney general and reporter to assist the department, upon request, in collecting information necessary for the report. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 39; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2537 Marriage - As introduced, authorizes district attorneys general and former district attorneys general to solemnize marriages, if the district attorney general or former district attorney general has filed notice with the office of vital records indicating their intent to solemnize marriages. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 3.

TN - HB198 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the board of medical examiners to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1194 Health Care - As enacted, makes changes to law relative to the Alzheimer's and dementia respite care program. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.

TN - HJR97 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Mike OMalley, Austin Peay State University Board of Trustees

TN - HB1085 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, extends provisions related to the apportionment and distribution of state tax revenue as they pertain to National Basketball Association franchises until June 30, 2059. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HB1830 Judicial Districts - As introduced, creates one additional circuit court in the 23rd judicial district. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.

TN - HB1308 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, creates a process for a person to file a voluntary waiver of firearm rights for the purpose of prohibiting the person from purchasing or possessing a firearm; provides for a revocation of the voluntary waiver of firearm rights; creates the offense of selling or transferring a firearm to a person knowing that the person has executed a voluntary waiver of firearm rights that has not been revoked. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Pa...

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 - HJR157 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Drew Getty, State Forestry Commission

TN - HJR23 Naming and Designating - Designates Pumpkin Pie as a symbol of the State of Tennessee.

TN - HB433 Education - As enacted, expands the eligibility criteria for an education savings account to include students zoned to attend an LEA with at least three schools identified as priority schools in 2015, and at least three schools identified as being in the bottom 10 percent of schools in 2017. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2429 DUI Offenses - As introduced, states that the court, rather than the sheriff or administrative officer of a local jail, may authorize the use of alternative facilities for the incarceration of an offender convicted of a first time offense of driving under the influence. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4.

TN - HB1825 Controlled Substances - As introduced, increases the limit on the amount of products containing ephedrine or pseudoephedrine base, or their salts, isomers, or salts of isomers that a pharmacy may sell or a person may purchase in a 30-day period from 5.76 grams to 7.2 grams; removes the limit on the amount of such products that may be purchased or sold within a one-year period. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

TN - HB1786 Public Records - As introduced, requires proposals received in response to a solicitation for goods or services, and related records, including evaluations and memoranda, to be available for public inspection only after the completion of the evaluation of the same by the state. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1887 Military - As introduced, expands the types of duty that qualify a member of the national guard, state guard, or civil air patrol who is also a state employee for employment protections; specifies a calculation to determine the amount of monetary benefits for a national guard member who is injured or killed in the line of duty based on the member's average salary. - Amends TCA Section 8-33-110 and Section 58-1-230.

TN - HB1882 Health Care - As introduced, requires a healthcare provider to provide to a patient or the patients authorized representative a full copy of the patients medical records within 10 working days of receipt of a written request by the patient or representative, instead of providing a full copy or a summary of the records; requires a healthcare provider to provide to a principal or an attorney in fact acting pursuant to a durable power of attorney for health care a full copy of the principals med...

TN - HB2168 Orders of Protection - As introduced, states that an order of protection issued by a general sessions court or other official remains in effect during the appeal to circuit or chancery court unless otherwise ordered by the general sessions judge or official. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6.

TN - HB2078 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, prohibits any person from transporting an illegal alien into this state; increases from $1,000 to $5,000 the fine for transporting illegal aliens. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1531 Lebanon - Subject to local approval, authorizes the city council to set the threshold over which public advertisement and sealed competitive bids are required for nonemergency, nonproprietary purchases at the level authorized by state law. - Amends Chapter 644 of the Private Acts of 1911; as amended.

TN - HB779 Medical Occupations - As enacted, requires the board of medical examiners, the board of osteopathic examination, board of nursing, board of physician assistants, and board of alcohol and drug abuse counselors, when such board receives a completed application for licensure from an applicant who is licensed in another state or territory of the United States or in the District of Columbia, to, within 45 days from the date the board receives the completed application, render a decision on the app...

TN - HB952 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, establishes regulations regarding the licensing and regulating of certain medically related facilities. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB976 Firefighters - As enacted, enacts the "James 'Dustin' Samples Act." - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 9; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 102.

TN - HB1549 Greeneville - Subject to local approval, rewrites the town charter. - Amends Chapter 563 of the Acts of 1903; as amended.

TN - HJR706 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes amendment to prohibit a member of the general assembly who is expelled from the general assembly from qualifying for office in the general assembly for four years immediately following expulsion.

TN - HB2998 Tullahoma - Subject to local approval, rewrites the city charter. - Amends Chapter 553 of the Acts of 1903; as amended.

TN - HB701 Sexual Offenses - As introduced, adds the act of soliciting a minor to engage in conduct that would be statutory rape by an authority figure to the offense of solicitation of a minor; requires a person convicted of continuous sexual abuse of a minor to be sentenced to community supervision for life in addition to any other punishment. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB472 Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As enacted, establishes standards for shelter that must be provided to dogs under animal cruelty laws. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 44.

TN - HB241 Witnesses - As introduced, creates the Tennessee witness protection and relocation grant pilot program to be administered by the attorney general and reporter. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.

TN - HB202 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the controlled substance database committee to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 53.

TN - HB526 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, removes requirement for receipt of certain grants and loans for water and wastewater treatment infrastructure projects that a municipality includes depreciation in its calculation of fees or rates. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 65; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HB2348 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, prohibits an entity supported in whole or in part by public funds from knowingly providing meeting spaces or other forums, including, but not limited to, electronic and print platforms, to a designated entity by which the designated entity may solicit material support, recruit new members, encourage violent action, or advocate divisive concepts; specifies a violation of the prohibition as a Class E felony, punishable only by a fine of up to $3,000. - Amends ...

TN - HB1764 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the real estate appraiser commission to June 30, 2030. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 62, Chapter 39.

TN - HB1816 Statutes and Codification - As introduced, codifies the Acts of the 2023 regular and extraordinary sessions.

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;...

TN - HB415 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, enacts the "Sexual Assault Response Team Act." - Amends TCA Title 38.

TN - HB2369 Local Government, General - As introduced, removes jurisdictional exceptions to prohibition on discrimination against first responders based upon residency with respect to employment; prohibits all local governments in this state from discriminating against first responders with respect to employment based on residence. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 41 and Title 68.

TN - HB1278 Driver Licenses - As introduced, lowers the minimum visual acuity requirement for drivers of non-commercial vehicles from 20/40 to 20/50. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HB713 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, authorizes issuance of a license plate in the emergency category to emergency communication dispatchers. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1127 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, removes the limitation that ATVs and off-highway vehicles may be operated on a certain segment of State Route 330 within the Town of Oliver Springs in Anderson County only two weekends per year. - Amends TCA Section 55-8-185.

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 - HB206 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the department of health to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 4, Chapter 3 and Title 63.

TN - HB1271 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, enacts the "Access and Opportunity Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1956 Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, requires the department of finance and administration, in collaboration with the department of health and the bureau of TennCare, to apply for federal approval to import prescription drugs from Canada; requires the department to notify the governor, speaker of the house of representatives and speaker of the senate upon receipt of federal approval; requires the department of finance and administration to develop a plan to implement a program within six mon...

TN - HB1606 Transportation, Dept. of - As introduced, adds the office of legislative budget analysis as a recipient of the joint annual report provided by the commissioners of transportation and revenue that summarizes the amount and source of all moneys received and deposited in the transportation equity fund. - Amends TCA Title 54; Title 55; Title 65 and Title 67.

TN - HB1484 Prisons and Reformatory Institutions - As enacted, revises present law relative to medical care of prisoners. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 41 and Title 68.

TN - HB1782 Sunset Laws - As introduced, places the Tennessee monuments and memorials commission in the sunset law with a scheduled termination date of June 30, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 4 and Title 4, Chapter 29.

TN - SJR62 Naming and Designating - Designates February 22, 2023 as "Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Awareness Day" in Tennessee.

TN - HB961 Education, Higher - As enacted, allows adjunct faculty to participate in the Brian Byrge Act by allowing them to enroll in one course consisting of no more than four credit hours or 120 clock hours, per term at the community college or Tennessee college of applied technology at which they are employed, without paying tuition charges or maintenance fees. - Amends TCA Section 49-7-158.

TN - HB2959 Correctional Programs - As introduced, creates a committee to study the establishment of incarcerated parenting plans to facilitate the ongoing relationships between incarcerated parents and their children within this state; requires the committee to report its findings and recommendations to the civil justice committee of the house of representatives and the judiciary committee of the senate by December 1, 2024, including any model incarcerated parenting plan and any proposed legislation. - ...

TN - HJR274 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Ray Smith, Standards Recommendation Committee for Science and Social Studies

TN - HB1026 Conservation - As enacted, authorizes expenditures from the 1986 wetland acquisition fund to acquire forest tracts within Cumberland County adjacent to Catoosa Wildlife Management Area known as the "Oakley Tract(s)," including lands adjacent thereto. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 14, Part 4 and Title 67, Chapter 4.

TN - HB332 TennCare - As introduced, requires the bureau to contract with at least one managed care organization that is partnered with a provider participation entity; establishes eligibility requirements for such entities to contract with TennCare; prohibits TennCare from choosing managed care organizations through a request for proposal or competitive bidding process beginning January 1, 2024; and makes other various changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2943 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, expands the application of certain indecent exposure offenses by including victims from 13 to 17 years of age; increases the penalty for indecent exposure if the victim is between 13 and 17 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 68.

TN - HB2940 TennCare - As introduced, enacts the "TennCare for Working Individuals with Disabilities Act." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2058 Education, State Board of - 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 education committees by October 15, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB437 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, revises various provisions of present law pertaining to the promotion of students from third grade. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR810 Memorials, Government Officials - Urges Governor Lee to deploy Tennessee National Guard to support Texas in its efforts to secure border.

TN - HB634 Children - As enacted, creates the child care improvement fund, to be administered by the department of human services; creates a child care improvement pilot program to provide grants to nonprofit organizations to be used for establishing a new child care agency in this state or making improvements to, or assisting with staffing, recruitment, or salary gaps, at an existing child care agency in this state. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 37 and Title 71.

TN - HB830 Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, revises present law relative to admission to bail. - Amends TCA Title 40.

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 - HB2142 Education - As introduced, increases from a Class C misdemeanor to a Class B misdemeanor the penalty for a student's parent, guardian, or legal custodian failing to report an adjudication that the student committed certain delinquent acts to the school principal; specifies that a school principal shall ask a student's parent, guardian, or legal custodian whether there has been any such adjudication. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2035 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, preempts the entire field of legislation regarding extreme risk protection orders to the exclusion of all county, city, town, municipality, or metropolitan government law, ordinances, resolutions, enactments, or regulation; declares a federal statute, rule, executive order, or a federal judicial order that has the effect of enforcing an extreme risk protection order to be null and void; creates a Class A misdemeanor offense of attempting to enforce a f...

TN - HB394 Food and Food Products - As enacted, makes various changes to the Tennessee Meat and Poultry Inspection Act and establishes a state meat inspection program. - Amends TCA Title 10; Title 29; Title 39; Title 43; Title 44; Title 53 and Title 68.

TN - HB1676 Children - As introduced, specifies that a juvenile court proceeding may be commenced by the taking of a child into custody or the removal of custody from a parent or legal guardian; requires the juvenile court in a dependency and neglect proceeding to determine whether a parent, guardian, relative, or caregiver of the child cannot be excluded as a perpetrator of severe child abuse against the child; prohibits a juvenile court from returning a child victim of severe child abuse to the custody...

TN - HB2882 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, each local education agency and public charter school to provide students with age-appropriate and grade-appropriate instruction on firearm safety. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2003 Guardians and Conservators - As introduced, allows a court to charge the cost of an attorney ad litem in a guardianship or conservatorship proceeding against the property of the respondent, the petitioner, or any other party or partially to any one or more of them as determined in the court's discretion. - Amends TCA Title 34.

TN - HB1936 Education - As introduced, 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, Chapter 6 and Chapter 439 of the Public Acts of 2023.

TN - HB835 Election Laws - As introduced, requires the coordinator of elections to compare the statewide voter registration database with those of other relevant state agencies and county records when compiling information to distribute to the county elections commissions for purposes of purging voters who have moved; requires the coordinator of elections to compare the statewide voter registration database with the department of safety database to ensure non-United States citizens are not registered to...

TN - HB2113 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As introduced, requires causes of action for unpaid wages for hours worked, overtime, minimum wage, salary, bonuses, commissions, or other compensation owed to an employee or independent contractor, including ones for breach of contract, unjust enrichment, or quantum merit for unpaid wages for hours worked, overtime, minimum wage, salary, bonuses, commissions, or other compensation, to be commenced within three years from the accruing of the cause of actio...

TN - HB217 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the professional art therapist advisory committee of the board of examiners in psychology to June 30, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 11, Part 4.

TN - HB2999 Morristown - Subject to local approval, rewrites the city charter. - Amends Chapter 103 of the Acts of 1903; as amended.

TN - HB2973 Appropriations - As introduced, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2023, and July 1, 2024.

TN - HB1251 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, expands the definition of "sexual activity," as used in the offense of soliciting sexual exploitation of a minor, to include exhibition of the female breast, genitals, buttocks, anus, or pubic or rectal area of any person that can be reasonably construed as being for the purpose of the sexual arousal or gratification of the defendant or another. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB636 Election Laws - As introduced, allows a person who is excluded as a candidate from a primary ballot based on a determination that the person is not a bona fide member of the political party to qualify as an independent candidate if the nominating petition is filed within seven calendar days of the final determination of the exclusion. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HJR55 Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - Recommends the designation of the Cumberland Trail State Scenic Trail as a state scenic and recreational trail.

TN - HB2358 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As introduced, establishes a procedure for certain specialty medications to be returned to and re-dispensed by certain approved pharmacies. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1891 Children - As introduced, creates the "Protecting Children from Social Media Act." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.

TN - HB1771 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the state energy policy council to June 30, 2030. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 68, Chapter 204.

TN - HB2328 Health Care - As introduced, prohibits a licensed professional counselor, licensed marital and family therapist, or licensed clinical pastoral therapist from receiving compensation for services rendered in a free health clinic, including, but not limited to, reimbursement from an individual or from any third party payor. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - HB1120 Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to make chaplain services available on a regular basis to juveniles who are housed in a youth development center; prohibits the department from requiring a juvenile to attend or use chaplain services; requires the department to provide annual training to youth service officers on best practices for behavior management and conflict resolution in the context of supervision of juvenile justice youth; requires the department to h...

TN - HB2376 Public Health - As introduced, changes from March 1 to January 15 the date by which the bureau of TennCare must submit an annual report to the general assembly concerning aspects of quality and outcomes in perinatal care for the previous two years that includes a description of initiatives by managed care organizations to improve key performance indicators of perinatal care outcomes, and a determination of the effectiveness of managed care organizations' initiatives toward improving perinatal...

TN - HB1310 Consumer Protection - As enacted, enacts the "Genetic Information Privacy Act." - Amends TCA Title 47.

TN - HB2381 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires each local board of education and public charter school governing body to adopt a code of conduct for visitors for each school under the authority of the board or governing body that describes the types of acceptable behavior from visitors on school grounds. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1877 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires hospitals and physicians to accept electronic insurance cards as valid proof of an insurance policy, plan, or contract. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 71.

TN - HB115 Secretary of State - As enacted, requires the Secretary of State to establish and implement a program designated as the Tennessee Businesses Against Trafficking program to engage participating corporations and other private entities in voluntary efforts to identify, prevent, and combat human trafficking. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 1.

TN - HB249 Courts, General Sessions - As enacted, specifies that in general sessions court cases involving an order granting possession of real property, a writ of possession must issue by operation of law if no appeal is taken within the 10-day appellate period. - Amends TCA Title 27, Chapter 5 and Title 29, Chapter 18.

TN - SJR808 Memorials, Recognition - Kidizenship

TN - HB1213 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, makes revisions to the Tennessee Right to Shop Act. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.

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 - HB344 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires LEAs to classify school nurses as licensed personnel for salary purposes; requires an LEA to pay a school nurse the base salary established for licensed teachers for the respective school year if the school nurse holds a valid license to practice professional nursing as a registered nurse with zero years of experience; requires an LEA to pay a school nurse more or less than the established base salary per school year if the nurse has more or ...

TN - HB2983 Maury County - Subject to local approval, repeals obsolete language regarding the establishment of a civil service system for sheriff's department employees, which has been replaced by a new civil service system for such employees. - Amends Chapter 475 of the Private Acts of 1967; as amended.

TN - HB2444 Jails, Local Lock-ups - As introduced, allows a prisoner of a county workhouse or jail to be released from custody on work release or otherwise allowed to leave the grounds of the county workhouse or jail for employment or to perform work in the community, whether paid or unpaid, without using an electronic monitoring device if the judge of the sentencing court and the sheriff of the county where the jail or workhouse is located approve the prisoner's release in writing. - Amends TCA Title 41...

TN - HB1601 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires each local board of education and public charter school governing body to adopt a comprehensive code of conduct for each school under the authority of the board or governing body that describes the types of acceptable behavior from persons on school grounds. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB929 Driver Licenses - As enacted, exempts a person under 18 years of age who is in custody of the department of children's services or receiving foster care services from payment of fees for issuance, renewal, or reinstatement of a driver license, instruction permit, intermediate driver license, or photo identification card. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 49 and Title 55.

TN - HB1993 Guardians and Conservators - As introduced, allows the clerk of court to waive an in-person oath by a fiduciary if the fiduciary files with the clerk a written fiduciary oath that contains certain language and is sworn or affirmed by the fiduciary in the presence of a notary public or signed and dated under penalty of perjury; specifies certain language that a fiduciary oath must contain under various circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 34, Chapter 1.

TN - HB2177 Textbooks - As introduced, requires a local board of education that provides electronic textbooks and instructional materials to provide a student reasonable access to a printed version of an electronic textbook or instructional material if the student or the student's parent or legal guardian submits a written request to the principal of the student's school for a physical or hard copy of the textbook or instructional material. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 22.

TN - HJR236 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - David Crowell, Tennessee Public Utility Commission

TN - HB2378 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, adds the legislative librarian as a party to which the commissioner must submit an annual report on the work done by the commissioner in supervising dentists and dental equipment in the various state institutions, as well as in distributing literature throughout the state to inform the public on proper dental care. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 14; Title 29; Title 33; Title 37; Title 39; Title 53; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1748 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the commission on children and youth to June 30, 2028. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 37, Chapter 3.

TN - HB88 Driver Licenses - As enacted, requires the department of safety to waive the knowledge test, and accept alternative requirements, for active duty and honorably discharged service members and members of the national guard or the armed forces reserves applying for temporary commercial learner's permits; identifies certain alternative requirements, which include operating a commercial motor vehicle in the military in combination with a good driving record. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50.

TN - HB297 Game and Fish Laws - As enacted, deletes requirement that the Tennessee Fish and Wildlife Commission file proclamations establishing hunting and fishing seasons with the county clerks for the counties affected and instead requires such proclamations be made available on the Tennessee wildlife resources agency website. - Amends TCA Section 70-4-107.

TN - HB137 Special License Plates - As enacted, reorganizes provisions regarding new specialty earmarked license plates; removes outdated provisions, including the obsolete street rod specialty plate; adds new specialty earmarked license plates. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB72 Public Records - As enacted, removes a requirement to preserve leases to which the state is a party on microfilm and instead requires preservation of such leases on appropriate electronic or other storage media. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-303 and Section 12-2-108.

TN - HB650 Consumer Protection - As enacted, enacts the "Booting Consumer Protection Act." - 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 - HJR305 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - J. Gregory Davenport, Fish and Wildlife Commission

TN - SJR924 Naming and Designating - Designates March 2024 as "Certified Government Financial Manager Month."

TN - HB2011 Health Care - As introduced, broadens the electronic health care records modernization act to include subjecting healthcare entities to injunctive relief and civil penalties for interfering with their patients accessing electronic health information and prohibiting healthcare entities from disclosing electronic health reports or tests to patients until 72 hours after the results have been finalized in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 47; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1823 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, defines "firearm hold agreement" as a private transaction between a licensed federal firearms dealer and a firearm owner under which the dealer takes possession of the owners firearm at the owner's request, holds the firearm for an agreed period of time, and then returns the firearm; states that a person does not have a cause of action against a licensed federal firearms dealer for any act or omission arising from a firearm hold agreement and resulting...

TN - HB1692 Public Records - As introduced, establishes the official policy for the maintenance of records by the department of tourist development. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 22 and Title 10, Chapter 7.

TN - HJR925 Memorials, Death - Pamela Jane Cooper

TN - HB205 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the department of environment and conservation to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 3.

TN - HB1613 State Symbols - As introduced, designates Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree by Brenda Lee as the official state holiday song. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - HB2265 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, adds using, altering, encrypting, ransoming, destroying, or otherwise rendering unavailable without authorization, electronic data, electronic devices, or network providers of critical infrastructure or of a farm to the offense of committing critical infrastructure vandalism. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB2382 Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As introduced, 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 candidate or political campaign committee. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10.

TN - HB1855 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires each public institution of higher education to establish a policy framework to promote the security of academic research conducted at the institution to mitigate against the risk of foreign influence. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - HB182 Ethics - As enacted, changes the date by which the Tennessee ethics commission must report to the governor and general assembly on the administration and enforcement of laws within its jurisdiction; specifies the scope of the commission's jurisdiction; revises provisions governing the issuance of advisory opinions by the commission; requires certain entities to notify the commission of the primary person responsible for administering and enforcing the entity's ethical standards; changes updat...

TN - HB170 Zoning - As enacted, states that property owners should expect that a permit application will be judged on the law in effect at the time of application; declares that the general assembly rejects the pending ordinance doctrine, as described by the Tennessee supreme court in its May 14, 2007, opinion in the case of Harding Academy v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, as contrary to the public policy interests of property owners in this state. - Amends TCA Title 27 and T...

TN - HB2842 Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, prohibits the department from regulating or otherwise overseeing farming activities involving topsoil, rock removal, or the building of a pond when such activities are conducted in an area that is less than five acres in size, and the property on which the activities occur has a greenbelt classification pursuant to the Agricultural, Forest and Open Space Land Act of 1976. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 11; T...

TN - HB1861 Schools, Home - As introduced, requires a public school that is not a member of an interscholastic athletic regulatory organization or association to offer home school students who are zoned to attend the school the same opportunity to participate in the interscholastic athletics offered by the school as is required of a public school who is a member of an interscholastic athletic regulatory organization or association that maintains eligibility requirements for home school students. - Amends...

TN - HJR38 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article I, Section 26 of the Constitution of Tennessee to remove the provision that authorizes the legislature to regulate the wearing of arms with a view to prevent crime and to clarify that citizens have a right to keep and bear arms for their defense, and not just for common defense.

TN - HB949 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, authorizes a dental service plan corporation to limit participation in a plan that is providing or managing dental benefits for the impoverished uninsured on behalf of, or as required by, any governmental entity, only if such excluded provider is given written notice, the specific reason for such exclusion, and an opportunity for appeal. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB432 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Future Teacher Scholarship Act of 2023." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB973 Law Enforcement - As introduced, changes from February 1 to February 15 the date by which a community oversight board must submit a report to the chair of the senate judiciary committee and the chair of the criminal justice committee of the house of representatives that includes the number and nature of matters reported to the board, the number and nature of reviews conducted by the board, and the number and nature of advisory reports and recommendations issued by the board. - Amends TCA Titl...

TN - HB87 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, revises law relative to garagekeeper's or towing firm's liens, unclaimed or abandoned vehicles and notification of owners and lienholders, and motor vehicle storage. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 47; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 65 and Title 66.

TN - HJR786 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Camron Rudd, Tennessee Technological University board of trustees

TN - HB722 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, increases the classification for voluntary manslaughter from a Class C felony to a Class B felony. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB745 Schools, Charter - As introduced, enacts the "Transparency in Charter School Finance Act." - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7 and Title 49, Chapter 13.

TN - HB71 Public Contracts - As enacted, prohibits a party from protesting a solicitation for a public contract if the party cancels the solicitation; revises bonding requirements for submitting a protest or an appeal of a decision to a protest to the chief procurement officer or protest committee; establishes certain restrictions on the contractual terms of public contracts. - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 3, Part 5.

TN - HB1384 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, deletes the criminal offense of aggravated prostitution and permits a person to have a prior conviction for aggravated prostitution that was the result of the person's status as a human trafficking victim expunged if the person meets certain conditions. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB76 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, eliminates the disabled license plate fee for a parent or guardian of an individual who is permanently and totally confined to a wheelchair and who does not own or operate a vehicle; discontinues the honorary consular cultural plate. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 21, Part 1 and Title 55, Chapter 4, Part 2.

TN - HB2990 Athens - Subject to local approval, sets a term limit of three terms for members of the city council; specifies the emergency management powers of the mayor; changes references from "councilman" to "councilperson". - Amends Chapter 455 of the Private Acts of 1953; as amended.

TN - HB2897 Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, requires a pharmacy or other authorized dispensing person or entity to make all reasonable efforts to contact and notify a person of the lowest available cost of a prescription drug prior to the point of sale. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 71.

TN - HB483 Local Government, General - As enacted, prohibits political subdivisions from prohibiting, based on the type or source of energy to be delivered to an individual customer, the sale or installation of an appliance utilized for cooking, space heating, water heating, or another end use. - Amends TCA Section 7-51-2102.

TN - HB1739 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the termination date for the Tennessee State University, board of trustees to June 30, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49, Chapter 8.

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 - HB752 Children - As enacted, creates a criminal offense of a foster parent from a kinship placement knowingly allowing a child in the foster parent's care to visit with the child's parent if the foster parent has knowledge of a current court order prohibiting the parent from visiting with the child, with a first violation being a Class C misdemeanor punishable by a fine only and a second or subsequent violation being a Class B misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39.

TN - HB187 Civil Procedure - As enacted, authorizes a plaintiff in certain civil actions filed against an owner and operator of an uninsured motor vehicle, where comparative fault is or becomes an issue, to amend the complaint to add certain persons as defendants or institute a separate action against such persons within a certain time following the filing of the first answer or first amended answer alleging such person's fault if such actions would otherwise be barred by the statute of limitations and ...

TN - HB410 Traffic Safety - As enacted, authorizes the legislative body of a municipality to establish the fine for speeding within a residential zone within its jurisdictional boundaries at $200. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - HB336 Purchasing and Procurement - As enacted, increases the threshold, from $10,000 to $25,000, above which sealed bids are required by a city chartered under the city manager-commission general law charter; increases the threshold, from $10,000 to $25,000, below which the board of commissioners in such city may delegate the approval of contracts to the city manager. - Amends TCA Section 6-19-104.

TN - HJR150 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Linda Bustamante Padron, Maury County Public Schools Elementary School Teacher of the Year

TN - HJR104 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Tom Jones, Tennessee Technological University Board of Trustees

TN - HB680 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, increases, from one-half unit to one unit, the amount of elective credit a student may receive for completing a released time course if the student's local board of education has adopted a policy to allow credit to be awarded to students for work completed in a released time course. - Amends TCA Section 49-2-130.

TN - HB1778 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the board of control of the Tennessee corrections institute to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 41, Chapter 7.

TN - HB586 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, eliminates the professional privilege tax for attorneys. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.

TN - HB2713 Trusts - As introduced, makes various changes to present law on trusts, estates, and partnerships. - Amends TCA Title 35; Title 45; Title 61 and Title 66.

TN - HJR261 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Lea Bartch, Standards Recommendation Committee for Science and Social Studies

TN - HB2993 Enville - Subject to local approval, increases the monthly salary of the Mayor from two dollars a month to $1,200 a month; changes the regular meeting date for the mayor and board from Friday to a monthly, regularly scheduled date, as determined by the board; removes certain voting prohibitions for persons who live outside the limits of the municipality but who own real estate within the corporate limits of the municipality. - Amends Chapter 6 of the Private Acts of 1953.

TN - HB2312 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, authorizes municipal tax collectors and taxing entities to also accept partial payments of delinquent property taxes in the same manner as county trustees; requires such officials to include in their plan for accepting partial payments a description of the accounting system technology or manual processes to be used to record partial payments of delinquent property taxes and a statement indicating that funds received as partial payments on delinquent property...

TN - HB224 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee board of water quality, oil, and gas to June 30, 2028. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 69, Chapter 3.

TN - HB1681 Vocational Training and Rehabilitation - As introduced, terminates the statewide advisory board for community-based vocational rehabilitation services with no wind down period; maintains the existing authority and responsibilities of local advisory boards. - Amends TCA Section 4-29-247 and Title 49, Chapter 11, Part 7.

TN - HB1626 Abortion - As introduced, enacts the "Fundamental Right to Reproductive Health Care Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 20; Title 37; Title 39; Title 49; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB871 Election Laws - As introduced, changes from January 15 to January 1, the time by which the state coordinator of elections must annually file a report with the state and local government committee of the senate and the state government committee of the house of representatives regarding the status of agreements entered into with other states, the progress or difficulties of reaching agreements with other states, and other information the state coordinator of elections deems necessary to keep t...

TN - HB1317 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, makes various changes to the board of pharmacy. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 63, Chapter 1 and Title 63, Chapter 10, Part 3.

TN - HB29 Education, Higher - As enacted, authorizes a state university and the University of Tennessee system to coordinate with a two-year institution governed by the board of regents for the two-year institution to provide remedial or developmental courses or coursework, regardless of whether the university offers remedial or developmental courses or coursework at present. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - HB2985 Carroll County - Subject to local approval, enacts the "Carroll County Financial Management System of 2024." - to create a financial management system in Carroll County.

TN - HB1286 Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, requires the department of treasury investment division staff to invest, reinvest, manage, and select investment options for program assets for financial reasons, excluding environmental, social, and governance interests that may not be material to the financial analysis of the investment, for the exclusive benefit of the beneficiaries of the programs while maximizing long-term shareholder value; makes other changes concerning the authority of the stat...

TN - HB820 Child Custody and Support - As introduced, allows a court to temporarily halt a child support obligor's support payments if the support obligor has made an overpayment of child support and to apply the overpayment toward current and future child support obligations until the overpayment is exhausted. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - HB282 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As introduced, authorizes as part of the practice of pharmacy the prescribing of dietary fluoride supplements, certain immunization agents, opioid antagonists, and certain other drugs and products; makes various other changes to pharmacy practice. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 58; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB375 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, requires the Tennessee Duck River development agency to set a per thousand-gallon fee to charge participating entities for water withdrawals; makes other changes to the operation of the agency. - Amends TCA Title 64, Chapter 1, Part 6.

TN - HJR5 Constitutional Conventions - Makes application to Congress for the purpose of calling an Article V convention to propose an amendment to the United States Constitution to set a limit on the number of terms to which a person may be elected as a member of the Congress of the United States.

TN - HB1990 Disabled Persons - As introduced, replaces references in the Disabled Drivers Law of 1975 to persons "who are permanently and totally confined to a wheelchair" with references to persons "who use a wheelchair because of a permanent incapacity for ambulation". - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 21, Part 1.

TN - HB1324 Education - As enacted, revises present law concerning participation in school board meetings by electronic participation. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2987 Algood - Subject to local approval, authorizes the city to lease real, mixed, and personal property inside or outside of the city. - Amends Chapter 78 of the Private Acts of 2014.

TN - HB75 Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation - As enacted, authorizes the responding law enforcement officer or the district attorney general's office to extend criminal immunity to persons who are experiencing a subsequent drug overdose and who are seeking medical assistance. - Amends TCA Section 63-1-156.

TN - HJR747 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dan Strasser, UT-Martin Advisory Board

TN - HB1269 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, specifies that a teacher or other employee of a public school or LEA is not required to refer to a student using the student's preferred pronoun if the pronoun is not consistent with the student's biological sex; insulates a teacher or other employee of a public school or LEA from civil liability and adverse employment action for referring to a student using the pronoun that is consistent with the student's biological sex. - Amends TCA T...

TN - HB2096 Election Laws - As introduced, authorizes a county election commission to elect by majority vote to enter into the contract, lease, and option agreement with the coordinator of elections for the financing of the purchase of voting machines; clarifies that the county election commission selects the voting machines to be used in a county and is responsible for the destruction of the voting machines once the machines are deemed obsolete. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 5.

TN - HB981 Public Health - As enacted, vacates and reconstitutes the Tennessee emergency medical services board, as of July 1, 2023. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 68, Chapter 140, Part 3.

TN - HB1254 Election Laws - As enacted, revises present law relative to procedures for voting at a polling place. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB2158 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, reduces, from 3,000 to 750, the number of students for which one public school nurse is considered sufficient to adequately provide services for purposes of the Tennessee public school nurse program. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.

TN - HB2147 Health Care - As introduced, requires the commissioner of finance and administration, or the commissioner's designee, to make available to the public on the department's website any proposed budget document or other financial publication that lists complex rehabilitation technology benefits separately if the document or publication establishes a change in reimbursement for complex rehabilitation technology. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.