Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee

TN - Representative Gary Hicks (R)

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TN - Representative Charlie Baum (R)

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TN - Representative Karen Camper (D)

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TN - Representative Mark Cochran (R)

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TN - Representative Jeremy Faison (R)

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TN - Representative Johnny Garrett (R)

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TN - Representative David Hawk (R)

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TN - Representative Patsy Hazlewood (R)

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TN - Representative Tim Hicks (R)

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TN - Representative Harold Love, Jr. (D)

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TN - Representative Jerome Moon (R)

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TN - Representative Johnny Shaw (D)

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TN - Representative Sam Whitson (R)

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TN - Representative Ryan Williams (R)

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TN - HB348 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, changes the date within which a student must be enrolled in a full-time eligible postsecondary program to be eligible for a Tennessee Promise scholarship from the fall term after the student's graduation of high school or similar achievement to no later than 16 months after the student's graduation of high school or similar achievement. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

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

TN - HB1839 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, enacts the "Mental Health Preceptor Tax Incentive Program." - Amends TCA Title 67.

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 - 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 - HB792 Children - As introduced, enacts the "First Lady's Children's Trust Fund Act," which creates a trust fund to support persons and entities seeking assistance in the care of children in this state. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 33; Title 37; Title 50; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

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 - HB2175 Traffic Safety - As introduced, requires the department of transportation to establish and administer a student pedestrian protection grant program; under certain conditions, authorizes grants to be awarded to local governments for designing, constructing, and repairing sidewalk infrastructure around public schools. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49; Title 54 and Title 55.

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 - 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 - HJR132 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article II, Section 31 of the Constitution of Tennessee authorizing the governing body or state official charged with carrying out the purpose or objectives of a fund or trust that is administered or invested by the Treasury and that contains state funds, in whole or in part, to adopt, with approval of the Treasurer and the Comptroller of the Treasury, an investment policy to authorize all or part of such fund or trust to be invested such t...

TN - HB2344 Education - As introduced, enacts the "Protecting Tennessee Schools and Events Act"; subject to appropriations, requires the department of education to contract for the provision of walk-through metal detectors to LEAs. - Amends TCA Title 12 and Title 49.

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 - HB147 Bond Issues - As introduced, authorizes the state, acting by resolution of its funding board, to issue and sell its bonds and bond anticipation notes for certain purposes.

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 - HB1117 Taxes - As introduced, exempts from franchise and excise taxes, a community development entity or sub-community development entity that is certified by the United States department of the treasury's community development financial institutions fund, and that has received an allocation of the federal new markets tax credits or federal sub-new markets tax credits from a community development entity that are used to fund a qualified low-income community investment in a Tennessee facility or oper...

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

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB2942 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, provides a working families' tax refund for state and local sales and use tax paid on or after January 1, 2024, by low-income taxpayers who are eligible for the federal earned income tax credit. - Amends TCA Title 67.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB1490 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, deletes the provision granting broad discretion to the commissioner of revenue to administer the Business Tax Act from July 1, 2013, to December 31, 2014. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4.

TN - HB931 Gaming - As introduced, requires the state treasurer to allocate 2 percent of the privilege tax revenue collected from sports gaming to urban and rural at-risk youth programs. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 49 and Title 67.

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 - 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 - HB290 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, removes the requirement for a defendant to pay a fee of $100 to the Tennessee bureau of investigation upon the defendant's request for diversion. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6, Part 1 and Title 40.

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 - 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 - 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 - HB156 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 - 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 - 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 - HB505 Election Laws - As introduced, authorizes the county election commission to notify individuals filing a petition for recall, referendum, or initiative to notify the individuals of a defect in the petition that must be cured prior to certification for final approval. - Amends TCA Title 2.

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 - HB1274 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, repeals the professional privilege tax for tax years that begin on and after June 1, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.

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 - HB2467 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, authorizes a county to create a program by which an owner of real property in the county may apply for a classification of the property as zoning-exempt property, which values the property based on the zoning classification that existed at the time the owner came into possession of the property and its current use. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

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 - 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 - HB2030 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, expands the offense of unlawful exposure to include the distribution, with the intent to cause emotional distress, of an image of the intimate parts of another identifiable person or an image of an identifiable person engaged in sexually explicit conduct and the image was created or modified by means of a computer software program, artificial intelligence application, or other digital editing tools. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB1862 Medical Occupations - As introduced, enacts the Physician Assistant (PA) Licensure Compact. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB1706 Budget Procedures - As introduced, authorizes grant payments under the grant assistance program for nursing home care to be made either monthly or quarterly. - 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 42; Title 43; Title 44; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 49; Title 50; Title 53; Title 54; Title 55; Tit...

TN - HB1590 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, allocates sales tax proceeds collected on firearms, ammunition, and firearm accessories to a mental health care in Tennessee schools' account for local education agencies to obtain school counselors, school therapists, and after school programs that promote being involved in positive extracurricular activities. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49 and Title 67.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB276 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, changes the amount of a minority teaching fellowship award for a recipient who is enrolled in a degree program leading to licensure as a teacher in an institution of higher education with an approved educator preparation program from $5,000 to the cost of tuition and fees at the respective institution. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

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

TN - HB381 Sentencing - As introduced, adds as an enhancement factor to be used in determining the sentence for a criminal offense that the defendant is an adult and committed the offense with a minor, regardless of whether the minor was convicted of the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

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 - HB2211 TennCare - As introduced, establishes TennCare minimum and maximum reimbursement rate levels for rural hospitals and requires that the reimbursement rate is based on the rural hospital's current federal fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1843 Taxes - As introduced, enacts the "Allied Investments in Tennessee Act." - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HB256 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, exempts the retail sale of food and food ingredients from the sales tax if sold during the period beginning August 1, 2023, and ending September 30, 2023. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2043 Taxes - As introduced, eliminates the grocery tax; enacts the "Business Enterprise Tax Act"; and enacts the "Worldwide Combined Reporting Act." - Amends TCA Title 57 and Title 67.

TN - HJR851 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article II, Section 28 of the Constitution of Tennessee to authorize the General Assembly to exempt historical properties from taxes on real property.

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

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

TN - HB2513 Sentencing - As introduced, creates a sentencing enhancement factor for a defendant who wears a mask or other device that conceals the defendant's identity during the commission of an offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

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 - HB688 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates a Class C felony of reckless endangerment committed against a population within a geographic territory by members of a criminal gang and the commission of the offense is gang-related; authorizes a court to revoke or prohibit the issuance of a driver license to individuals convicted of such offenses for a five-year period. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13 and Title 40, Chapter 35.

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 - 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 - HB1926 Taxes, Business - As introduced, for purposes of the commissioner of revenue changing a taxpayer's business tax period to correspond to the taxpayer's fiscal year, authorizes the commissioner to change the due date of the taxpayer's business tax return to a date that is not less than 60 calendar days, rather than two calendar months, following the end of the taxpayer's business tax period. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 7.

TN - HB28 Annexation - As introduced, deletes requirement that municipalities adopt a comprehensive growth plan and have an approved urban growth boundary prior to annexing unincorporated territory. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 10; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 49 and Title 65, Chapter 4.

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 - 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 - HB2527 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, expands the purposes for which the apportionment and distribution of state tax revenues to a sports authority owned by the city of Memphis can be used to include payment of, or the reimbursement of, expenses associated with securing renovations to the indoor sports facility owned by the sports authority in which a National Basketball Association franchise is a tenant. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

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 - HB2044 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, exempts from the state sales and use tax the retail sale of food and food ingredients that are voucher-eligible under the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

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

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB1914 Education, Higher - As introduced, establishes the hunger-free campus grant program; provides grants to higher education institutions to address student hunger. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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 - 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 - HB868 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts official Tennessee state flags and flags of the United States from the sales and use tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.

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 - 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 - HB2477 Medical Occupations - As introduced, requires the department of health to reimburse an applicant's first attempt fee for taking the NREMT examination, a condition for an initial EMT or paramedic license to be issued, so long as the applicant has current or pending employment as an EMT, and has made a formal written request to the department. - Amends TCA Title 68.

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 - 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 - HB1791 General Assembly - As introduced, establishes parameters for biennial September sessions. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 3.

TN - HB148 Budget Procedures - As introduced, deletes requirements that budget document includes personal income statement for calendar year 1977 and actual state appropriations for fiscal year 1977-1978. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 52.

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 - 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 - HB1019 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, enacts the "Pregnancy Resource Tax Credit Act," which authorizes business, excise, and franchise tax credits for businesses that make monetary contributions to eligible nonprofit organizations that provide certain pregnancy-related services. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1006 Forfeiture of Assets - As introduced, removes the requirement for a person to post a bond when filing a claim to seized property. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33.

TN - HB409 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts the retail sale of fruit and vegetables for human consumption from the food retail sales tax. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-228.

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 - 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 - HB2490 TennCare - As introduced, establishes separate reimbursement rates for ground-based rural ambulance services and urban ambulance services provided to TennCare recipients; allows for certain rural ambulance service providers to receive emergency medical services equipment grants. - Amends TCA Title 71.

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 - 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 - HB1187 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, reduces, from 29.0141 percent to 28.5262 percent, the share of state sales and use tax revenue deposited to the state general fund; increases, from 4.6030 percent to 5.0909 percent, the share appropriated to municipalities. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-103.

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 - HB2679 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, extends the school turnaround pilot program beyond the 2024-2025 school year; increases, from five to 15, the number of schools in need of intervention that may participate in the school turnaround pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 37.

TN - HB1438 Taxes - As introduced, eliminates the 4 percent state sales tax on food for human consumption; increases the tax on cigarettes from three cents per cigarette to 8.35 cents per cigarette; increases the tax on other tobacco products from 6.6 percent to 17 percent of the wholesale cost price. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HB1978 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases from a Class E felony to a Class D felony the offense of burglary of a conveyance. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB149 Appropriations - As introduced, makes appropriations for the purpose of defraying the expenses of certain legislative enactments passed during the 2023 session of the 113th General Assembly; earmarks sufficient state funds for the purpose of funding any bill naming a highway or bridge in honor of a service member killed in action.

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

TN - HB135 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, extends mandatory retirement provision imposed on certain public safety officers to commissioned special agents of the department of revenue and commissioned members of the department of environment and conservation; requires such persons to also receive, in addition to the retirement service allowance, a supplemental bridge allowance. - Amends TCA Title 8.

TN - HB902 Education - As introduced, establishes the future of work commission to govern the activities of the Tennessee education and workforce data center established in the department of finance and administration's office of evidence and impact to collect, conduct research using, respond to public records requests for, and publish reports regarding certain education and workforce data to create a web-based platform to provide an overview of progress from education into the workforce. - Amends TCA T...

TN - HB425 TennCare - As introduced, extends eligibility for medical assistance under the TennCare program to a woman for a period up to 12 months after the date on which the womans pregnancy ends in live birth if the child meets the eligibility requirements for the CoverKids program. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - HB1954 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for illegally transferring a firearm to a minor from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class D felony and requires that an adult who is convicted be punished as criminally responsible for any resulting crime; creates the Class D felony of inducing or coercing a minor to commit theft of a firearm or robbery or burglary involving theft of a firearm. - Amends TCA Title 39.

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 - 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 - HB1617 Sexual Offenders - As introduced, extends from 10 years to 15 years the period of time following termination of active supervision on probation, parole, or any other alternative to incarceration, or discharge from incarceration without supervision after which an offender may file a request for termination of the requirement to register as a sexual offender or violent sexual offender. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB1962 Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to utilize cost estimation models to determine the cost of day care when setting the annual day care reimbursement rate. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 68 and Title 71.

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 - HB1905 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony for a person who commits child abuse by knowingly treating a child under 18 in such a manner as to inflict injury. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1818 Public Officials - As introduced, creates a recall process for elected non-constitutional public officials. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 8.

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 - HJR841 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article XI, Section 5 of the Constitution of Tennessee to authorize local education agencies to approve lotteries conducted by nonprofit school support organizations; provided, that the net proceeds of the lotterys revenues are allocated to the local education agency to be used for educational or extracurricular purposes.

TN - HB1632 Education - As introduced, gives a parent of a child who attends, or who is eligible to attend, a school operated by a local education agency or a public charter school standing to file a civil action against the LEA or public charter school in a chancery court of competent jurisdiction to enforce the Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 38.

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 - 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 - HB2252 Taxes, Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, levies a tax on vapor products in a manner similar to the tax levied on tobacco products. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HB2202 General Assembly - As introduced, increases the monthly home office allowance for members of the general assembly from $1,250 per month to $2,250 per month. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 1.

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 - HB2179 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, requires high school students to complete the eighth grade and be admitted to an eligible postsecondary institution as a dual enrollment student to qualify for a dual enrollment grant. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

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

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 - HB2207 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, enacts the "Menstrual Hygiene Products Accessibility Act." - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 49 and Title 67.

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

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

TN - HB1267 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, adds an adopted child, stepchild, and relative related by marriage to the list of persons with whom a service member can jointly title and register a motor vehicle in order to qualify for a sales and use tax exemption on the sale or use of the motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-303.

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 - 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 - HB2855 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, repeals the professional privilege tax for tax years that begin on and after June 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.

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

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 - 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 - 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 - HB566 Public Health - As introduced, enacts the "Overdose Fatality Review Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 33; Title 53; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2141 Fines and Penalties - As introduced, increases the penalty from a Class C misdemeanor to a Class B misdemeanor for removing a wild animal, wild fowl, or fish while trespassing on land; increases various fines under $500 to not more than $500. - Amends TCA Title 70.

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 - HB471 Business and Commerce - As introduced, authorizes a municipality or public authority in which a tourism development zone is located to file with the commissioner of finance and administration and the state building commission its annual report concerning the zone in an electronic format. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 13 and Title 66.

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 - HB712 Correction, Dept. of - As introduced, increases wages and salaries of preferred service employees of the department by 15 percent. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 6 and Title 41.

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 - HB2898 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, creates a registry of persons convicted of the criminal offense of domestic assault; requires the bureau to maintain the registry. - Amends TCA Title 18; Section 38-6-103; Title 39 and Title 40.

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 - 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 - 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 - HB1911 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalties for certain violations of the offense of unlawful photography; requires the court, rather than allowing the court discretion, to order a person convicted of certain unlawful photography offenses to register as a sexual offender; makes various other changes to the offense of unlawful photography. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-605 and Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2.

TN - HB1184 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, eliminates the sales and use tax on infant diapers, wipes, and formula. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.

TN - HB1415 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, exempts the first $15,000 of the purchase price of an automobile from the sales tax if the purchaser is a member of the Tennessee air or army national guard. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

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

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB2803 Treasurer, State - As introduced, allows the state treasurer to enter into an agreement with an entity to carry out certain activities in order to serve as a facility to securely produce, store, process, and ship bullion products for the state's depository. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4.

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 - 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 - HB2718 Appropriations - As introduced, authorizes direct and continuing appropriations by airport authorities for the issuance of debt that is not a liability of the state and the payment of debt service thereon. - Amends TCA Title 9.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB2702 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, requires the juvenile court to transfer a child to the sheriff of the county to be held according to law and dealt with as an adult in the criminal court if the child is charged with an offense involving theft of a firearm or a felony offense involving the use of a firearm and the child was 14 or older at the time of the alleged conduct . - Amends TCA Title 37.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB785 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to create and implement a promising futures program to provide scholarships to children who are not school age to assist them in developing early language and literacy skills in a high-quality early care and learning program; redirects, from the lottery for education account to an account administered by the department to provide funding for the promising futures scholarship program, a certain percentage of the privilege tax collect...

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 - HB416 TennCare - As introduced, directs the bureau to establish, by January 1, 2024, a statewide program of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE) to provide comprehensive, integrated acute and long-term care services for qualifying frail, elderly individuals who require nursing facility levels of care; sets minimum program enrollment limits; authorizes the director to seek any federal waiver the director deems necessary to establish the program. - Amends TCA Title 71.

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 - HB2538 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the criminal offense of recklessly, by any means of communication, threatening to commit an act of mass violence and the threat causes a reasonable expectation or reasonable fear of the commission of an act of mass violence. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 3 and Title 40, Chapter 11.

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 - 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 - 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 - HB1322 Public Records - As introduced, requires the office of open records counsel, in coordination with the department of safety and department of revenue, to develop and maintain a system to track bulk purchases of public records containing personal information from state motor vehicle records and authorized for release to purchasers of such information. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 4, Part 6; Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5 and Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 2.

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 - 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 - 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 - HB909 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, extends annuity and insurance death benefits to the estate and surviving family members of a commissioned reserve law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty; immunizes such officers from tort liability under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 8 and Title 29.

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

TN - HB488 Taxes - As introduced, extends the repeal date by one month for the allocation of a portion of the beer tax and the tax on soft drinks to the highway fund for the purpose of funding programs for the prevention and collection of litter and trash and matters related to the programs, - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 5 and Title 67, Chapter 4.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB1254 Election Laws - As enacted, revises present law relative to procedures for voting at a polling place. - Amends TCA Title 2.

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 - HB2973 Appropriations - As introduced, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2023, and July 1, 2024.

TN - HB586 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, eliminates the professional privilege tax for attorneys. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.

TN - HB1629 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, requires half of the unencumbered revenue from the recordation tax to be distributed to counties for school debt and school capital projects. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-409.

TN - HB1417 Appropriations - As introduced, makes appropriations for the purpose of defraying the expenses of certain legislative enactments passed during the 2023 session of the 113th General Assembly; earmarks sufficient state funds for the purpose of funding any bill naming a highway or bridge in honor of a service member killed in action.

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 - 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 - HB2201 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, changes the reporting month from January to July 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 Title 37; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB1622 Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires an annual training pay bonus supplement for eligible campus police officers and public safety officers in the amount of $800. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38 and Section 49-7-118.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB1705 Bond Issues - As introduced, authorizes the state, acting by resolution of its funding board, to issue and sell its bonds and bond anticipation notes for certain purposes.

TN - HB671 Charitable Solicitations - As introduced, exempts a child care agency from the registration requirements for charitable organizations. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 101.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB402 Driver Licenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for driving upon a highway without a valid driver license for the vehicle being driven from a Class C misdemeanor to a Class B misdemeanor for a first offense and a Class A misdemeanor for a second or subsequent offense committed within 10 years of a prior offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55.

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 - 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 - HB43 Judges and Chancellors - As introduced, adds an additional trial court in the 23rd judicial district composed of Cheatham, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, and Stewart counties effective September 1, 2023, with the additional judge or chancellor to be appointed by the governor. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2, 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB432 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Future Teacher Scholarship Act of 2023." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB747 Taxes, Excise - As introduced, enacts the "CEO Pay Disparity Tax Act," which imposes a pay disparity surcharge in the amount of an additional 0.1 percent to the standard 6.5 percent excise tax rate on each company whose top executive is paid at least 100 times more than the median income of the company's employees. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HJR797 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes amendment to prohibit a member of the General Assembly who is expelled from the General Assembly from being reelected or reappointed to, or employed by, the General Assembly.

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 - HB2627 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, repeals the professional privilege tax for tax years that begin on and after June 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.

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

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB849 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, enacts the "Rural Schools Innovation Act"; requires the department of education to establish a two-year pilot program for rural districts to partner together to expand access to high-quality, robust college and career pathways. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB345 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, permits registration plates to be renewed every 24 months instead of 12 months. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 8, Part 1; Title 55, Chapter 4 and Title 55, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1475 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the mandatory period of confinement for the felony offense of evading arrest from 30 days to 90 days; increases the mandatory period of confinement for the felony offense of evading arrest from 60 days to 120 days if the offense creates a risk of death or injury to innocent bystanders, pursuing law enforcement officers, or other third parties; removes unlawful attempted arrest as a defense to the felony offense of evading arrest. - Amends TCA Title...

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 - 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 - HB2184 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, reallocates 5 percent of the privilege tax collected from licensees that offer sports wagering in this state from the lottery for education account to a new Tennessee Promise completion grant special account created to assist the commission in awarding completion grants to certain Tennessee Promise scholarship students; makes the four-year pilot program established by the commission to award completion grants to certain Tennessee Promise ...

TN - HB2297 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As introduced, requires Part B of the Katie Beckett program to serve a minimum of 5,000 program participants. - Amends TCA Section 71-5-164.

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 - 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 - HB599 Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, requires the department to collect and publish data concerning landslides and floods; requires the department to establish a network of weather stations across the state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 5; Title 58; Title 64, Chapter 3; Title 68 and Title 69.

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 - HB153 Budget Procedures - As introduced, authorizes grant payments under the grant assistance program for nursing home care to be made either monthly or quarterly. - 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 42; Title 43; Title 44; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 49; Title 50; Title 53; Title 54; Title 55; Tit...

TN - HB2828 Historical Sites and Preservation - As introduced, enacts the "African American Cultural and Historical Grant Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 13.

TN - HB708 County Government - As introduced, creates a supplemental pay incentive program for county correctional officers who receive 40 hours or more of in-service training per calendar year. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8, Part 1 and Title 41.

TN - HB2827 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, increases, from one to two, the number of free plates for the Purple Heart and disabled veteran license plates issued to veterans with disabilities. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-256 and Section 55-4-257.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB2052 Abortion - As introduced, requires the commissioner of health to maintain any record or report on disposition of an aborted fetus or aborted fetal tissue for at least 15 years. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 16; Title 20; Title 29; Title 37; Title 39; Title 62; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

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 - HJR685 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article VII, Section 1 of the Constitution of Tennessee to specify the duties of the sheriff, trustee, register, county clerk, and assessor of property.

TN - HB166 Military - As introduced, establishes that full-time state employees who are members of a reserve component of the armed forces of the United States, including the Tennessee army and air national guard, shall continue to accrue annual and sick leave the employee would ordinarily accrue during any period of absence from the employee's respective duties for military service. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 33 and Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 8.

TN - HB1998 TennCare - As introduced, requires the bureau to reimburse certain public or private ground-based ambulance services that bill for transports at a rate not less than 67.5 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers for emergency services and 100 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers for nonemergency services. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - HB764 Local Government, General - As enacted, makes changes to present law relative to community oversight boards. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8.

TN - HB580 Taxes - As introduced, eliminates the professional privilege tax for attorneys. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB507 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, requires 10 percent of tax revenue over-collections from the prior fiscal year to be deposited into the infrastructure and building fund reserve account in the general fund; authorizes appropriations from the infrastructure and building fund account only for capital improvement and infrastructure projects. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 54 and Title 67.

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 - 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 - HB342 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, permanently exempts from sales and use tax, the retail sale of gun safes and gun safety devices; removes the temporary sales tax holiday. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

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 - HB1864 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, reduces the sales tax holiday price threshold for clothing from $100 to $80; increases the sales tax holiday price threshold for shoes from $100 to $150. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

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 - 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 - 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 - HB2322 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, requires certain health benefit plans to include coverage for treatment services required for and related to treatment of an acquired brain injury; prohibits health benefit plans from imposing certain limitations on the number of days of acute care, post-acute care, and covered inpatient care for acquired brain injuries; makes additional changes related to such coverage. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 56.

TN - HB1382 Public Employees - As introduced, adds public safety dispatchers to those first responders eligible to receive certain benefits when killed in the line of duty. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 8 and Title 58, Chapter 2.

TN - HB1835 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, allocates 2.83 percent of the sales and use tax collected in the 11 fastest-growing counties to such counties; requires such counties to earmark such revenue for educational facility maintenance and construction and infrastructure. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

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 - 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 - HB2767 State Employees - As introduced, classifies as state employees for purposes of defense and other related provisions, soil and water conservation district board of supervisors, employees, officers, and agents, and persons designated by a soil and water conservation district as participants in volunteer programs authorized by such districts. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 42 and Title 9, Chapter 8.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB595 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows registered voters of any county, instead of only Madison County, who reside within the geographic boundaries of an LEA to file a petition with the county election commission demanding the recall of a member of the LEA's local board of education. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49.

TN - HB585 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, phases out professional privilege tax over a three-year period for tax years that begin on and after June 1, 2024; reduces tax by $200 in the first year and by $100 in each remaining year. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.

TN - HB2038 Energy - As introduced, directs the department of economic and community development to develop a program for the installation and operation of combustion turbine power plants to increase the state's electric generation capacity. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 12; Title 60; Title 64; Title 65; Title 67 and Title 68.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB419 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, increases the time period, from six months to one year, in which a local government is prohibited from holding a referendum to levy the local option sales tax after a referendum was held on the question and was rejected. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 7.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB2134 Taxes, Excise - As introduced, retroactively allows employers to take a deduction from net earnings for state excise tax filing purposes, in the amount of expenses, including wages and compensation, associated with their employee retention credit allowable on their federal payroll tax return. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 21.

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 - HB1245 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, allows for a sentence of death to be carried out by electrocution as an alternative to lethal injection if the commissioner of correction certifies to the governor that the department is unable to adhere to the lethal injection protocol required to carry out the sentence of death. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 23.

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 - 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 - HB186 Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the commissioner to make available to healthcare providers on the department's website the prescribed claims forms for reporting by healthcare providers. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

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 - 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 - 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 - HB2794 Law Enforcement - As introduced, authorizes a state or local law enforcement agency, at the direction of the executive officer with authority over such agency or the commissioner of safety, to provide aid and assistance to another state or a law enforcement agency of another state during an emergency. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 8; Title 38; Title 58 and Title 68.

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 - HB1874 Emergency Communications Districts - As introduced, requires the board of directors of an emergency communications district to ensure that all calls coming from a blue-light emergency telephone are recorded. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 86.

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

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 - 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 - HB1665 Game and Fish Laws - As introduced, requires that veterans and active military personnel be issued no-cost hunting permits and licenses that are required to participate in the waterfowl seasons during which only veterans and active military personnel may hunt. - Amends TCA Title 70.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB259 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, defines Sevierville as a premiere type tourist resort for purposes of sales tax distribution. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - HB1005 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, renames enhanced and concealed handgun carry permits as enhanced and concealed firearm carry permits and authorizes a permit holder to carry any firearms, rather than handguns, that the permit holder legally owns or possesses; expands the circumstances in which a permit holder may carry a firearm. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 10; Title 33; Title 36; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 50 and Title 70.

TN - HB755 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, designates the segment of State Route 66 from its intersection with State Route 160 in Hamblen County to its intersection with Interstate 81 at Exit 4 in Jefferson County as a scenic highway. - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 17.

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 - 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 - HB138 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, makes various revisions to law relative to designating bridges, highways, and roads. - Amends TCA Title 54.

TN - HB784 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, requires the department of education to establish a fund to reimburse educators in an amount equal to the cost of an assessment required for licensure if the educator receives a qualifying score on the required assessment and receives a license to teach in this state or an endorsement while currently employed by a local education agency or public charter school. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 56.

TN - HB578 Handgun Permits - As introduced, eliminates the application and processing fee for an enhanced handgun carry permit. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

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 - HB567 Welfare - As introduced, requires TennCare to create and implement a three-year pilot program to provide remote maternal health services to eligible TennCare recipients; authorizes the TennCare director to seek a federal waiver as necessary to implement the pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 71.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB2854 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, exempts the retail sale of firearms that have a barrel less than an internal diameter of .50 caliber and shotguns of 10 gauge or greater from the sales and use tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.

TN - HB31 Sentencing - As introduced, adds the offense of rape to the offenses for which a defendant is not eligible for probation under the Tennessee Criminal Sentencing Reform Act of 1989. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5 and Title 40, Chapter 35.

TN - HB1079 Municipal Government - As introduced, extends indefinitely the time frame, by deleting the June 30, 2028, termination date, that a municipality that continues to receive an allocation of state sales tax revenue pursuant to the now-repealed Courthouse Square Revitalization Pilot Project Act of 2005, will continue to receive the allocation of the revenue. - Amends TCA Title 6 and Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1637 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts from sales tax the retail sale of infant diapers, wipes, and formula sold between July 1, 2024, and June 30, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.

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 - 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 - HB190 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, adds a requirement that notice of the prohibition or restriction on the possession of weapons by an individual or entity must be posted no more than three feet from each entrance; requires the notice sign to measure at least 22 inches wide and 22 inches high, have a red background and white letters, and be mounted within a certain distance from the ground. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

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

TN - HB247 Taxes, Business - As introduced, exempts services furnished by persons engaged in the appraisal of real estate or real property from business tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 7.

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 - 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 - 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 - HB1336 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, enacts the "Workers Need Child Care Act"; establishes the child care infrastructure fund from which the department of economic and community development disperses grants to nonprofit entities for establishing new licensed child care agencies in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 37 and Title 71.

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 - HB2099 District Attorneys - As introduced, requires the clerk of every court having jurisdiction of criminal offenses to include a $12.50 charge in every cost bill, to be remitted to the county government to provide support services for the purpose of promoting public safety at the sole discretion of the district attorney general; takes effect upon two-thirds vote of the county legislative body or, if the county is imposing a similar fee to benefit the public defenders office, upon written request a...

TN - HB2051 TennCare - As introduced, requires the bureau to reimburse a public or private air ambulance service that bills for transports and has a base of operations in this state that provides a covered emergency or nonemergency service to a TennCare recipient at a rate not less than 67.5 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 71.

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 - HB2972 Bond Issues - As introduced, authorizes the state to issue and sell bonds of up to $87,700,000.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB1704 Appropriations - As introduced, makes appropriations for the purpose of defraying the expenses of certain legislative enactments passed during the 2024 session of the 113th General Assembly; earmarks sufficient state funds for the purpose of funding any bill naming a highway or bridge in honor of a service member killed in action.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB2028 Safety - As introduced, adds training in the use of anti-choking devices to the training that coaches of school youth athletic activities at an LEA or public charter school are required to receive. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.

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 - 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 - HB2940 TennCare - As introduced, enacts the "TennCare for Working Individuals with Disabilities Act." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB1927 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, authorizes LEAs and public charter schools to reimburse teachers for child care expenses paid by the teacher each month for the teacher's dependent child to receive child care services through certain child care programs certified by the department of education or child care agencies licensed by the department of human services; requires, subject to appropriation, this state to reimburse LEAs and public charter schools a portion of any such monthly re...

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB2471 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, permits a juvenile court to transfer a child to criminal court to be tried as an adult at any age if the child is charged with a second or subsequent criminal gang offense. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.

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 - HB639 Taxes - As introduced, adds the legislative librarian to the list of persons to whom the commissioners of revenue and transportation must provide a copy of their joint annual report summarizing the amount and source of tax revenues received and deposited during the preceding fiscal year in the transportation equity fund. - Amends TCA Title 67.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB295 Taxes, Business - As introduced, allows certain retail and other businesses a deduction from business taxes for the installation of electric vehicle chargers. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 7.

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 - HB610 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, authorizes a credit against premium taxes in the amount of the charges, expenses, and fees paid by insurance companies for certain examinations performed by the commissioner of commerce and insurance. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 4, Part 2.

TN - HB2696 Bail, Bail Bonds - As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor offense of violation of a condition of release; allows arrest without a warrant of a person committing the offense of violation of a condition of release; requires the violation of a condition of release to be punished as a misdemeanor criminal offense. - Amends TCA Title 40.

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 - HB331 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, requires the salaries paid to teachers and other professional personnel in a state special school on or after July 1, 2023, to equal or exceed the salaries paid to teachers and other professional personnel with comparable training and experience at the state special school with the highest paying salary schedule on July 1, 2023; prohibits reduction of the salaries paid to teachers and other professional personnel in the state special ...

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 - HB1315 Health Care - As introduced, permits the services authorized in a collaborative pharmacy practice agreement to include weight management services; requires the bureau of TennCare to make available, or cause to be made available, anti-obesity medication to a recipient if the medication is medically necessary. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 10 and Title 71, Chapter 5.

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

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 - 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 - HB2866 Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, directs the department to conduct a study, utilizing existing resources, on the effectiveness of state programs incentivizing students to pursue careers in mental health care; requires the study to include an analysis of similar programs in contiguous states and recommendations for the general assembly on creating a successful program in this state; requires a report to the general assembly by December 31, 2024. - Amends TCA ...

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 - 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 - HB1666 Water Authorities - As introduced, expands the areas served by the West Tennessee River Basin Authority to include Perry, Stewart, Houston, and Humphreys counties. - Amends TCA Title 64, Chapter 1, Part 11.

TN - HB2338 State Employees - As introduced, increases, from three days to three months, the amount of paid leave provided to the officers and employees of the various agencies, boards, and departments of state government in the event of death of such officers' or employees' children or stepchildren. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50.

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 - HB104 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, requires the bureau to perform forensic analysis of sexual assault evidence collection kits within 30 days of the bureau's receipt of the sexual assault evidence collection kit from a law enforcement agency; requires the bureau to submit a plan for eliminating any existing backlog of sexual assault evidence collection kits waiting for analysis; requires the bureau to expunge a DNA record from a local, state, or national DNA database under cer...

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 - 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 - HB160 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, makes changes to the requirements for applicants for server permits. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3, Part 7.

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 - HB972 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts feminine hygiene products from sales tax on the annual sales tax holiday. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

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 - 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 - 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 - HJR858 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article VI, Section 14 of the Tennessee Constitution to authorize municipal courts to impose civil penalties up to $3,000 for violations of municipal ordinances.

TN - HB597 Board of Regents - As introduced, requires the board, in consultation with the Tennessee higher education commission, to develop a standardized entrepreneurial program that must be offered at each institution governed by the board to provide an affordable, cost effective training program for students interested in starting a new business. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 8.

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 - HB1183 Education - As introduced, extends from October to November, the time within which a public institution of higher education that receives funds from the distribution of credit cards to students or any percentage from the use of cards bearing the college or university name or logo must report the amount of such funds or percentage received as well as how the funds were expended during the previous fiscal year to the education committee of the senate and the education administration committee o...

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 - 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 - HB157 Taxes, Business - As introduced, eliminates the business tax for tax periods that begin on or after January 1, 2024. - Amends TCA Section 7-52-606; Section 38-1-201; Section 39-17-1806; Section 50-6-904; Section 58-2-205; Section 58-2-204; Section 62-44-102 and Title 67.

TN - HB2745 Taxes, Franchise - As introduced, requires the department of revenue to submit, by January 1, 2026, a one-time report to the finance, ways and means committees of the house of representatives and the senate concerning the revenue effects of certain amendments made to the provision of the Franchise Tax Law of 1999 that determines the apportionment of a taxpayer's net worth. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 21.

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 - 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 - 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 - HB1830 Judicial Districts - As introduced, creates one additional circuit court in the 23rd judicial district. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.

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 - 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 - HB789 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, increases, over a five-year period, from 4.6030 percent to 5.0909 percent, the share of state sales and use tax revenue appropriated to municipalities; reduces, over a five-year period, from 29.0141 percent to 28.5262 percent, the share of state sales and use tax revenue deposited to the state general fund. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-103.

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 - HB1974 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, allocates all revenue generated from the sales tax on retail sales of new or used motor vehicles and new or used tires to the state highway fund; earmarks a share of sales tax revenue allocated to the general fund to the department of transportation for administrative expenses. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 54; Title 55 and Title 67.

TN - HB1075 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, expands eligibility for a dual enrollment grant to include students who are sophomores in high school and admitted to an eligible postsecondary institution as a dual enrollment student. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

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 - HB1827 Courts, Juvenile - As introduced, extends the period of time during which a child who is alleged to be unruly may be detained prior to a detention hearing from no more than 24 hours excluding nonjudicial days or 72 hours total to no more than 72 hours excluding nonjudicial days or 96 hours total. - Amends TCA Title 37.

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 - HB391 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, requires the board of regents to develop and administer a two-year pilot program to award grants to students enrolled in an eligible workforce training program. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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 - HB1215 Managed Care Organizations - As introduced, prohibits any managed care organization that contracts with the bureau of TennCare to provide medical assistance from providing reimbursement or coverage for a medical procedure if the performance or administration of the procedure is for the purpose of enabling a person to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the person's sex, or treating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between a person's sex and ass...

TN - HB2597 Opioids - As introduced, shortens, from September 30 to September 15, the deadline in which opioid fund deposits, abatement strategies, and disbursement or expenses paid from the fund must be reported to executive and legislative branch officials. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 9; Title 20; Title 29; Title 33; Title 47; Title 53; Title 67, Chapter 4; Title 68 and Title 71.

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 - 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 - 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 - HB1329 Tourist Development, Dept. of - As introduced, establishes the "Juneteenth Celebration Fund," to be administered by the department of tourist development for the purpose of making grants to local tourism and convention bureaus and nonprofit entities to host Juneteenth celebration festivals in local communities. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 22 and Title 9.

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 - 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 - 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 - HB504 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, phases out professional privilege tax over four-year period for tax years that begin on and after June 1, 2024; reduces tax by $100 per year over such period. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.

TN - HB1703 Budget Procedures - As introduced, deletes requirements that budget document includes personal income statement for calendar year 1977 and actual state appropriations for fiscal year 1977-1978. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 52.

TN - HB1481 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, makes gold and silver coinage legal tender; authorizes payment of taxes with gold and silver coinage; makes other changes concerning precious metals. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 38; Title 45 and Title 67.

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 - 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 - HB2863 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, increases, from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony, the penalty for a second or subsequent offense of aggravated reckless driving; requires a person who commits a second or subsequent offense of aggravated reckless driving to attend a driver education course and to have their license suspended for at least six months; requires law enforcement to seize a person's vehicle and crush, destroy, or sell the vehicle upon a second or subsequent offense of aggrav...

TN - HB1871 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, expands the sales tax exemption on motor vehicles sold to a member of the Tennessee national guard or military reserve who has been called into active military service to include those who are deployed under orders to a duty station in another state or another country and not just to those deployed to a combat zone. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Section 67-6-303.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB2009 Taxes - As introduced, creates a sales tax refund for a primary or secondary vehicle purchased in response to a natural disaster. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.

TN - HB2586 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, suspends the professional privilege tax for any year in which the amount of state general fund tax revenue over-collections during the prior fiscal year exceeded $500,000,000. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.

TN - HB251 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Special Educator Scholarship Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

TN - HB955 Taxes - As introduced, requires a bank designated by the county trustee to act as a collection agent for the trustee and accept the deposit of county and municipal property taxes, to provide to the county trustee such evidence of the taxes deposited into the account and a copy of the deposit forms at least every five business days, instead of every three business days. - Amends TCA Title 67.

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 - HB343 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, extends for an additional year, until June 30, 2024, the sales tax holiday for the retail sale of gun safes and gun safety devices. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

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 - 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 - 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 - HB700 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, increases, from one to two, the number of free plates for the Purple Heart and disabled veteran license plates issued to veterans with disabilities. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-256 and Section 55-4-257.

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 - 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 - 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 - HB1011 Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, authorizes the department to submit its annual report to the governor and general assembly on the state's solid waste management system in electronic format. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 68.

TN - HB1361 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, increases the maximum full market value, from $175,000 to $210,000, of a disabled veteran's residence that is to be used in calculating a reimbursement for property tax paid by the disabled veteran. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-704.

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 - HB152 TennCare - As enacted, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment Act of 2023." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

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 - 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 - 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 - HB760 Handgun Permits - As introduced, waives lifetime enhanced handgun carry permit fees for state residents who are retired veterans of the United States armed forces. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.

TN - HB1174 Education - As introduced, removes language that incorrectly refers to the department of safety as the department of safety and homeland security in a provision that requires the department of safety, in collaboration with the department of education, to develop a school security assessment for use in Tennessee public schools. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 38 and Title 49.

TN - HB1999 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, adds the MidSouth development district to the list of development districts to which this state intends to assist financially; specifies an overall state funding level for the nine development districts; changes the calculation for how much funding each development district will receive. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 14, Part 1.

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 - 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 - HB1795 Natural Disasters - As introduced, creates a Natural Disaster Relief Program to be administered by TEMA. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 2, Part 1.

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 - HB1520 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, establishes an extended juvenile court jurisdiction pilot project through which a juvenile court in Davidson County or Shelby County may choose to proceed with a case against a juvenile that could be transferred to criminal court as an extended juvenile court jurisdiction case and allow the youth to remain under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court until the age of 24. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1.

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 - 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 - HB2445 TennCare - As introduced, enacts "Emma's Bill," which requires that when making a determination of medical necessity, the bureau shall take into consideration the patient's overall condition and use such overall condition as a factor to determine the level of funding and what medical items and services the patient receives, even if such determination does not result in the least costly course of diagnosis or treatment. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.

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 - 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 - 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 - HB2961 Evidence - As introduced, directs the Tennessee advisory committee on intergovernmental relations (TACIR), with the assistance of the Tennessee bureau of investigation, the district attorneys general conference, and the department of safety, to study the feasibility of a Shelby County crime lab and the impact of such a crime lab on public health, safety, education, housing, and the economy for citizens and visitors of Shelby County, the city of Memphis, this state, and the Tennessee, Arkansas...

TN - HB243 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, exempts the retail sale of food and food ingredients from the sales tax if sold to a person who is 70 years of age or older during the period beginning July 1, 2023, and ending September 30, 2023. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-228 and Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.

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 - HB361 Local Government, General - As introduced, authorizes local governments to create a program to provide grants to eligible nonprofit organizations that own residential property and rent the property for at least 25 percent below market rate. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13 and Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB7 Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA) - As introduced, increases, from $200 to $500, the amount each LEA and public charter school is required to pay each teacher in kindergarten through grade 12 for the purchase of instructional supplies for the 2023-2024 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3.

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 - 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 - 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 - HB2171 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, increases from 10 days to 15 days, the time frame the commissioner of revenue must mail notice to the licensee's last known address, prior to a date set for hearing, giving them an opportunity to be heard before revoking their license to sell, distribute, or handle tobacco products. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 43; Title 47 and Title 67.

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 - HB2212 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, allows the comptroller of the treasury to investigate the operations of rural hospitals and facilitate the transfer of the ownership and operations of government-owned rural hospitals that have failed or are abandoned. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 6; Title 8; Title 56; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.

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 - 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 - 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 - HB1878 Victims' Rights - As introduced, increases from 48 hours to seven days the time in which a victim of a crime or a member of the victim's family has to report the crime to law enforcement to be eligible to receive a claim for compensation unless good cause is shown. - Amends TCA Title 29.

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 - 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 - 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 - HB373 Probation and Parole - As introduced, adds the criminal offenses of aggravated assault resulting in serious bodily injury to another or the death of another and aggravated assault involving the actual discharge of a firearm to those offenses that are not eligible for probated sentence, if the offenses were committed intentionally or knowingly. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

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

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 - HB140 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, authorizes the department of revenue, in cooperation with other governmental agencies or interested nonprofit organizations, to publicize to potential participants the availability, under the Precious Cargo Act of 2021, of a designation within the Tennessee Vehicle Title and Registration System (VTRS) database of a need for assistance with expressive language or communicating needs to first responders. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 54; T...

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 - HB793 Taxes - As introduced, removes exception that allows persons subject to the franchise tax or excise tax who were registered under prior law, or who have filed a return under prior law, to not be required to complete and file a registration information form. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 21.

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

TN - HB1616 Election Laws - As introduced, prescribes a process by which a person must declare a statewide political party or recognized minor party affiliation before voting in a primary election; designates persons who choose not to affiliate with a political party as "Unaffiliated"; authorizes unaffiliated voters to vote in primary elections. - Amends TCA Title 2.

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 - 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.