Children & Family Affairs Subcommittee

TN - Representative Mary Littleton (R)

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TN - Representative Rush Bricken (R)

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TN - Representative Andrew Farmer (R)

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TN - Representative Ron Gant (R)

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TN - Representative Johnny Garrett (R)

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TN - Representative Torrey Harris (D)

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TN - Representative Darren Jernigan (D)

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TN - Representative Jason Powell (D)

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TN - Representative Robert Stevens (R)

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TN - HB2431 Paternity - As introduced, specifies that if a man has executed a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity, then the man and the mother of the child born out of wedlock are legal parents of the child; specifies that the mother of a child born out of wedlock is the child's legal parent and has primary residential care and custody of the child absent an order of custody to the contrary. - Amends TCA Title 24 and Title 36.

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 - HB19 Fiduciaries - As introduced, allows persons convicted of a criminal offense and sentenced to a term of imprisonment in a penitentiary to serve as executor, administrator or guardian, fiduciary, or conservator; removes the requirement that a petition for appointment of a conservator, a petition for letters of administration, and a petition for letters testamentary contain a statement of any misdemeanor conviction of the proposed conservator or personal representative. - Amends TCA Title 30; Ti...

TN - HB2548 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to promulgate rules to require that if an individual or member of the individual's household objects to an immunization on the basis of religious or moral convictions, then the department shall not require the individual or member of the individual's household to undergo any immunization as a condition of adopting or fostering children. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 36; Title 37 and Title 71.

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 - HB2516 State Government - As introduced, creates the office of conservatorship management and registry. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 34 and Title 71, Chapter 2.

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 - 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 - 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 - HB1032 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, sets new caseload requirements for case managers in the department to take effect January 1, 2025; requires the department to employ special response team personnel, who do not maintain regular caseloads but are available to assume cases from case managers to assist in maintaining caseload standards, respond to emergent situations, and guard against interruption in service delivery; requires the department to notify the governor, the members of t...

TN - HB330 Children - As introduced, deletes provisions related to a report regarding the status of the development of a plan for a statewide system of care for children's mental health due by February 1, 2009, and plans regarding implementation of the system of children's mental health care statewide due by July 1, 2010, and July 1, 2012, all of which were submitted by the council on children's mental health care to the governor, the judiciary, education, and health and welfare committees of the senate...

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 - HB1177 Divorce, Annulment and Alimony - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Domestic Relations Arbitration Act." - Amends TCA Title 36.

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 - HB1348 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, allows a child to be committed to the custody of the department of children's services if the child is adjudicated delinquent for an offense that would constitute a misdemeanor if committed by an adult and the child has previously been adjudicated delinquent for another listed offense; requires an officer to make efforts to contact a child's parent or guardian when issuing the child a misdemeanor citation in lieu of continued custody, if the officer deems i...

TN - HB1394 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, prohibits the department from collecting or expending moneys that are received as survivor benefits, disability benefits, or otherwise from the social security administration on behalf of a child in the custody of the department; requires the department to receive and hold such moneys in a trust account for the child to be released to the child without condition upon the child's eighteenth birthday. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9 and Titl...

TN - HB1386 Marriage - As introduced, enacts the "Marital Contract at Common Law Recording Act"; authorizes county clerks to accept and record a record of common law marriage between one man and one woman; limits the jurisdiction of circuit courts and chancery courts in cases involving the definition of common law marriage to the principles of common law marriage. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 10; Title 16; Title 36; Title 39; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HB1098 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, removes the requirement that a delinquent or unruly child committed to the custody of the department for an indefinite time remain in custody for no longer than six months in absence of certain circumstances; requires a delinquent or unruly child committed to the custody of the department for an indefinite time to remain in the department's custody until discharge or other placement is warranted by the child's response to evidence-based services ...

TN - HB672 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires department to determine whether any child who is placed in a youth development center has an intellectual disability. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 5.

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

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 - HB308 Children - As introduced, establishes an office of the guardian ad litem pilot project within the twenty-second judicial district to represent the best interest of children in dependency and neglect cases; requires the pilot project to be supervised by the secretary of state's office. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 16; Title 36 and Title 37.

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 - HB1121 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to create a pilot program for juveniles in the custody of the department and housed at the John S. Wilder youth development center that utilizes a step-down approach to provide services and support to juveniles and assist in a juvenile's transition out of the custody of the department and reunification with family members. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - HB464 Children - As introduced, makes various changes to the laws on adoption and termination of parental rights, including clarifying that the putative father registry must be consulted in certain circumstances within 10 working days of filing a petition to terminate parental rights, rather than 10 days. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Title 68.

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 - 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 - HB915 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to file a petition to terminate the parental rights of a parent if the parent has not substantially complied with the statement of responsibilities in the child's permanency plan and the period of time originally established in the child's permanency plan has elapsed. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - HB2503 Child Custody and Support - As introduced, requires the court to include in any parenting plan involving shared custody of a child, the establishment of at least one designated location for the exchange of the child; provides that, unless otherwise agreed by both parents in writing, the court may require the parents to exchange the child at a neutral safe exchange location; requires each sheriff to designate at least one parking lot at the sheriffs office as a neutral safe exchange location a...

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 - HB1995 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to create a separate marriage license application form and marriage license form that may be used by applicants if the bride is a female and the groom is a male; prohibits a county clerk from certifying and recording this marriage license form if the form was used to solemnize a marriage between persons other than a female bride and a male groom. - Amends TCA Title 18, Chapter 6; Title 36, Chapter 3 and Title 68, Chapter 3.

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 - HB1986 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, prohibits the department from accepting anonymous reports of child abuse or neglect; requires the investigator of allegations of child abuse or neglect to provide the parent or person having control over a child who is the subject of the investigation with certain materials prior to visiting the child's home or interviewing the child. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39.

TN - HB1989 Contracts - As introduced, prohibits the department of children's services from using penalties in determining the amounts payable in contracts or grants to providers for services related to the prevention, treatment, or care of delinquent juveniles. - Amends TCA Section 37-5-121.

TN - HB1942 Children - As introduced, clarifies that the notification given by the court to a petitioning parent that the duty of future child support by the parent who is the subject of a termination petition will be forever terminated by entry of an order terminating parental rights must be in writing. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 33; Title 36; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

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 - 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 - 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 - HB1913 Children - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Parents' Bill of Rights." - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 49.

TN - HB2067 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires that a newborn safety device be installed in each county in this state. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 68.

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 - 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 - HB2844 Children - As introduced, requires monthly reports from a volunteer of the office of community contact within the department of education evaluating the progress of the juvenile assigned to the volunteer. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 37; Title 38; Title 40; Title 41; Title 49; Title 68 and Title 71.

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 - 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 - HB1139 Children and Youth, Commission on - As introduced, creates the children's program outcome recovery team, to be organized by the Tennessee commission on children and youth, to review cases of children and families being served by the department of children's services; requires the children's program outcome recovery team to report the previous year's findings and recommendations for improving the department of children's services to the governor and the members of the general assembly by Janua...

TN - HB2755 Children - As introduced, bans the use of personal protection spray devices, such as mace, pepper spray, or tear gas, on any child under the supervision of the department of children's services or in a juvenile detention facility. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39; Title 68 and Title 71.

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 - HB2485 Foster Care - As introduced, changes the ages for the voluntary extension of foster care program from a young adult who is at least 18 years of age but less than 21 years of age to a young adult who is at least 18 years of age but less than 23 years of age. - Amends TCA Section 37-2-604.

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 - HB551 Adoption - As enacted, makes various changes to adoption law. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Title 68, Chapter 3, Part 3.

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 - HB620 Child Custody and Support - As introduced, establishes a presumption, rebuttable by a preponderance of the evidence, that joint legal custody and equally shared parenting time is in the best interest of the child; removes the presumption under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 6.

TN - HB339 Marriage - As enacted, clarifies that former municipal judges may solemnize a marriage. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 3.

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 - 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 - HB1369 Child Custody and Support - As introduced, requires a party who files a divorce complaint to also simultaneously file information regarding whether parties have health insurance coverage in employer-based health coverage and whether such coverage is provided for any children of the marriage; makes mandatory the provision of sworn statements regarding parties' income, expenses, real and personal property, and whether parties have health insurance coverage in employer-based health coverage and ...

TN - HB1393 Foster Care - As introduced, requires the department of children's services to include in the permanency plan of a child who has been removed from the custody of the child's parent or guardian, due to drug abuse by the parent or guardian, the requirement that the parent or guardian submit to monthly drug testing prior to and for at least six months after the return of the child to the custody of the parent or guardian, to demonstrate that the parent or guardian is able to maintain a drug free...

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB1833 Marriage - As introduced, authorizes a master mason to solemnize a marriage. - Amends TCA Section 36-3-301.

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

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 - HB2045 Adoption - As introduced, creates the state foster care and adoption review board. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 36.

TN - HB2050 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, directs the department to submit to the United States department of health and human services a waiver request to exempt this state from the immunization requirements of the National Model Foster Family Home Licensing Standards for Title IV-E agencies; directs the department to submit the waiver request prior to or as part of the department's next occurring Title IV-E program plan application submission. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 37.

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 - 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 - HB2957 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, deletes the Class B misdemeanor of parentage fraud. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39.

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 - 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 - HB731 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to remove and destroy certain records of an investigation if the department investigates an individual and closes the case without finding probable cause to believe that a child in the individual's care was dependent and neglected or that the individual committed a criminal violation of title 39. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 37; Title 38 and Title 39.

TN - HB1515 Marriage - As introduced, specifies that the premarital preparation course, the completion of which exempts an individual from having to pay $60 of the fee charged on the issuance of a marriage license, may include instruction regarding the adverse childhood experiences to minor children who are affected by the dissolution of their parents' marriage. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 36; Title 49 and Title 67.

TN - HB1303 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to collect, maintain, and transmit to the childrens bureau within the United States department of health and human services data required or requested pursuant to federal law for programs focused on childrens welfare; requires the department to aggregate and publish the data on the departments website. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - HB1403 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to maintain staffing levels of case managers so that each region has enough case managers to allow caseloads not to exceed 20 active cases by January 1, 2024, and 12 active cases by July 1, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - HB862 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to provide juveniles who are in the department's custody and housed in a juvenile detention facility approved, certified, or licensed by the department, including youth development centers, with 24-hour access, seven days a week, to psychological and behavioral health services. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 5.

TN - HB914 Children - As introduced, adds, as a condition to a court permitting a dependent or neglected child under three years of age to remain with the child's parent, guardian, or other custodian, a requirement that the parent, guardian, or other custodian submit to the department of children's services documentation of a well-baby routine examination by a licensed physician at certain intervals if the child has been diagnosed with neonatal abstinence syndrome. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39; Title...

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

TN - HB759 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to employ a guardian ad litem within each region of the state to advocate for each child who is in the custody of the department due to allegations of dependency and neglect and located within the region that the guardian ad litem serves; requires the guardians ad litem to review dependency and neglect cases of children who have been in the custody of the department for six months to determine whether termination of parent...

TN - HB630 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to maintain staffing to allow case managers to have no more than 20 open cases, rather than an average of 20 active cases; states that a "person residing in the child's home" includes a person living in a residential setting with a child who is in the custody of the department for purposes of reporting, investigating, and treating child sexual abuse. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - HB1395 Foster Care - As introduced, requires the department of children's services to provide a foster parent who is providing care for a foster child that is 15 years of age or older with a supplement in an amount equal to the actual cost incurred by the parent for providing car insurance for the foster child. - Amends TCA Title 37.

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 - HB930 Child Custody and Support - As introduced, removes driver licenses from the list of licenses that can be revoked for failure to pay child support; removes process for issuance of a restricted driver license for a person who is enrolled in a payment plan to pay child support arrears. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 40 and Title 55.

TN - HB460 Child Abuse - As introduced, adds, for purposes of juvenile court proceedings and termination of parental rights proceedings, certain offenses to those that constitute severe child abuse if the act was committed toward the child or there was a knowing failure to protect the child from the commission of the act toward the child. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1 and Title 37, Chapter 1.

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 - HB467 Divorce, Annulment and Alimony - As introduced, allows a court in a divorce or annulment action to provide for the ownership or joint ownership of any pet or companion animal owned by the parties, taking into consideration the well-being of the animal. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 4.

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 - 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 - 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 - HB1103 Children and Youth, Commission on - As introduced, creates the Tennessee juvenile justice review commission to review an appropriate sampling of juvenile justice cases and any critical incidents involving juveniles in order to provide the general assembly with findings and legislative recommendations. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 37.

TN - HB1414 Children - As introduced, enacts the "Families' Rights and Responsibilities Act," which declares that the ability of a parent to direct the upbringing, education, health care, and mental health of that parents child is a fundamental right. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 49.

TN - HB2598 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to maintain staffing levels of case managers not to exceed 20 active cases or 20 children monitored in active cases for six months following the effective date of this act, then reduced to 14 active cases or 14 children monitored in active cases. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - HB2483 Courts, Administrative Office of the - As introduced, requires the administrative office of the courts to create standards of practice for guardians and conservators; declares that it is the policy of this state that guardians and conservators must abide by the highest ethical standards of decision-making when making decisions for their wards or protected persons. - Amends TCA Title 34 and Title 71, Chapter 2.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB1815 Foster Care - As introduced, establishes a pilot program for five years to allow private entities to provide foster care services to qualifying children; requires the department of children's services to create a process for selecting children for the program; directs the pilot program to submit monthly reports to the state foster care review board; requires the comptroller to audit the program. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - HB1804 Child Custody and Support - As introduced, establishes a presumption, rebuttable by a preponderance of the evidence, that joint legal custody and equally shared parenting time is in the best interest of the child; removes the presumption under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 6.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB2647 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, removes an outdated provision that required the department to report to the chairs of the government operations committees of the senate and the house of representatives, and appear before the education, health, and general welfare joint evaluation committee, in 2023 relative to the December 2022 performance audit report issued by the division of state audit. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 37.