Public Service Subcommittee

TN - Representative Iris Rudder (R)

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TN - Representative Rebecca Alexander (R)

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TN - Representative Vincent Dixie (D)

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TN - Representative Rick Eldridge (R)

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TN - Representative Curtis Johnson (R)

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TN - Representative Kelly Keisling (R)

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TN - Representative Dennis Powers (R)

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TN - HB8 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, increases from $50 to $100 the maximum amount that the state will match to an employee's optional retirement plan; deletes an obsolete provision related to the state match for an employee's optional retirement plan. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 25.

TN - HB13 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Retirement Savings Plan Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 50.

TN - HJR5 Constitutional Conventions - Makes application to Congress for the purpose of calling an Article V convention to propose an amendment to the United States Constitution to set a limit on the number of terms to which a person may be elected as a member of the Congress of the United States.

TN - HB14 House of Representatives - As introduced, requires the office of legislative information systems to archive the webpage of the house select committee on redistricting for the 112th General Assembly and to strive to ensure that all videos, documents, maps, and other information on the archived webpage remain functional and accessible. - Amends TCA Section 3-1-103.

TN - SJR4 Memorials, Recognition - Nation of Israel, 75th anniversary

TN - HB17 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates the month of May as "Silver Alert Awareness Month." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

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

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

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

TN - HB56 Law Enforcement - As introduced, allows any qualified permanent legal resident of the United States to be certified as a law enforcement officer and not just a permanent legal resident who is an honorably discharged military veteran; prohibits the POST commission from certifying a person decertified in another state because of criminal or other misconduct; requires the commission to evaluate the qualifications of a person certified as a law enforcement officer in another state by reviewing th...

TN - HB71 Public Contracts - As enacted, prohibits a party from protesting a solicitation for a public contract if the party cancels the solicitation; revises bonding requirements for submitting a protest or an appeal of a decision to a protest to the chief procurement officer or protest committee; establishes certain restrictions on the contractual terms of public contracts. - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 3, Part 5.

TN - HB72 Public Records - As enacted, removes a requirement to preserve leases to which the state is a party on microfilm and instead requires preservation of such leases on appropriate electronic or other storage media. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-303 and Section 12-2-108.

TN - HJR23 Naming and Designating - Designates Pumpkin Pie as a symbol of the State of Tennessee.

TN - HJR35 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes amendment to establish a term limit of 16 years for all state and local public officials.

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

TN - HB182 Ethics - As enacted, changes the date by which the Tennessee ethics commission must report to the governor and general assembly on the administration and enforcement of laws within its jurisdiction; specifies the scope of the commission's jurisdiction; revises provisions governing the issuance of advisory opinions by the commission; requires certain entities to notify the commission of the primary person responsible for administering and enforcing the entity's ethical standards; changes updat...

TN - HB184 Ethics - As enacted, requires assistant director and general counsel of the bureau of ethics and campaign finance, if any, to be employed upon the recommendation of the executive director and approval by the board of directors of the bureau; requires persons and entities required to register with the registry of election finance or the Tennessee ethics commission to provide an email address, or alternatively, a mailing address if no email address is available, for the purpose of serving noti...

TN - HB235 Correction, Dept. of - As introduced, reduces from 10 to five business days after a death, the time within which the commissioner must report the death of a person in custody to members of the general assembly representing the legislative districts where the deceased person resided; requires that the information contained in the report include the name of the department facility where the death occurred. - Amends TCA Title 4.

TN - HJR45 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes amendment to establish a term limit of 16 years for all state and local public officials, except for the governor, for whom a term limit is established of eight years.

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

TN - HB302 Lobbying, Lobbyists - As introduced, requires a lobbyist to wear a badge displaying certain information while engaged in lobbying the general assembly; requires the Tennessee ethics commission to design and produce the badges and authorizes the commission to charge a lobbyist for the actual cost of producing the badge. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 6.

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

TN - 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 - 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 - 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 - HJR58 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Encourages the federal government to provide free health care for all honorably discharged veterans.

TN - HB350 Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires a municipality or county to follow the statutory procedure for taking certain disciplinary actions against a police officer if the officer is under investigation for matters that are likely to lead to an indication of untrustworthiness that requires the disclosure of the officer's behavior to defense counsel in a criminal proceeding during which the officer's testimony is required. - Amends TCA Title 38.

TN - HB422 Civil Emergencies - As introduced, authorizes the renewal or extension of the executive order or proclamation issued by the governor declaring a state of emergency only by passage of a joint resolution by the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 58.

TN - HB442 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, authorizes 12 workweeks of paid family leave during a 12-month period for qualified state employees. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 8.

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

TN - HB449 State Government - As introduced, authorizes a governmental entity to publish notices of public meetings on a secure website of the governmental body; authorizes a person to request an electronic or hard copy of an e-newsletter or notice published by the governmental body if the governmental body provides such documents electronically. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 44, Part 1.

TN - HB477 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As introduced, designates April 5 of each year as "Cat and Dog Adoption Day." - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 15.

TN - HB478 State Employees - As introduced, requires the department of human services to develop, implement, and manage a program to provide monthly stipends for certain state employees for the cost of child care services. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 8, Chapter 50 and Title 71, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - HB503 State Symbols - As introduced, expresses the intent of the general assembly that the state museum, as much as is practicable, collect and display an example or representation of each official state symbol. - 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 - HB531 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, allows TCRS members to establish retirement credit for military service in active federal duty in the armed forces of the United States under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 8.

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

TN - HB547 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, creates a program for paid family medical leave for state employees. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 8; Title 16 and Title 50.

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

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

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

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

TN - 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 - HB693 Employees, Employers - As introduced, prohibits an appointing authority from entering a government employee's private property or residence without written consent from the employee. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 50.

TN - HB694 State Government - As introduced, prohibits a person, political subdivision, or public official, in connection with a state emergency, from categorizing or proclaiming by order, rule, or regulation that a lawful occupation is non-essential, or otherwise proclaiming by order, rule, or regulation that a lawful occupation is prohibited from operating based on what the lawful occupation is; specifies that a person harmed by a violation of the prohibition may bring a civil action for actual damage...

TN - HB698 Public Contracts - As introduced, requires the state procurement commission to ensure that at least 5 percent of state contracts are awarded to veteran-owned businesses. - Amends TCA Title 12.

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

TN - HB714 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, removes obsolete language requiring the commissioner of commerce and insurance to conduct a study of what impediments this state's law may create for insurance for use of justifiable force in this state and to submit a report on the study to the general assembly and governor no later than March 1, 2012. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HB718 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, increases, from 30 to 35, the number of days in advance that an insurance company is required to provide notice of an increase to the insurance company's premiums to a customer who has an account paid by bank draft or preauthorized check. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HB719 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, increases, from 15 to 20, the number of days from the date an agency contract is executed or the first insurance application is submitted that an appointing insurer has to file notice with the commissioner of commerce and insurance that the insurer is appointing a producer as its agent. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB726 General Assembly - As introduced, enacts the "Restoring State Sovereignty Through Nullification Act," which establishes processes by which the general assembly may nullify an unconstitutional federal statute, regulation, agency order, or executive order. - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 4.

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

TN - HB767 Public Employees - As introduced, adds emergency call takers and public safety dispatchers to the definition of first responder for purposes of death benefits. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 29 and Title 63.

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

TN - HB823 State Universities - As introduced, requires the University of Memphis to evaluate the university's educational programs to determine if changes are needed in any of the educational programs and to make the needed changes. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 11; Title 12; Title 49; Title 58; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HJR95 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Supports Taiwan's democracy, freedom, and meaningful participation in international organizations and cooperative efforts.

TN - HB844 General Assembly - As introduced, authorizes each house of the general assembly to appoint a chaplain. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 1, Part 1.

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 - HB870 Public Records - As introduced, changes from confidential to a public record the identity of an entity that compounds, distributes, or manufactures the drugs obtained and used by the department of correction to carry out an execution by lethal injection; declares the names of persons involved in carrying out a sentence of death are confidential and exempt from public disclosure. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7.

TN - HB884 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, revises the methods by which a local government employer wishing to participate in TCRS must pay the estimated increased pension liability created by a benefit improvement; requires the state to pay the estimated increased pension liability resulting from a benefit improvement affecting general employees or employees at institutions of higher education participating in the retirement system by amortizing the unfunded accrued liability over a peri...

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

TN - HB971 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, requires the bureau to develop and implement an alert system, in coordination with the department of safety, department of transportation, and local law enforcement agencies, to be activated on report of an active shooter. - Amends TCA Title 38.

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 - HB998 Redistricting, Legislative - As introduced, requires the comptroller of the treasury to report to the general assembly which counties, if any, redrew precinct lines to ensure no split precincts in legislative districts. - Amends TCA Section 3-1-102.

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

TN - HB1023 Historical Sites and Preservation - As introduced, requires certain artifacts from the Civil War pertaining to the Confederate States of America be transferred to the Sons of Confederate Veterans for preservation, at their cost. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11 and Title 12.

TN - HB1024 Historical Sites and Preservation - As introduced, prescribes a fine against a public entity for certain acts relating to historic memorials. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 4; Title 4, Chapter 11; Title 4, Chapter 12 and Title 4, Chapter 13.

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 - HB1027 Museums - As introduced, transfers the custody and care of the bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest held in the Tennessee State Museum to the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

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 - HB1038 General Assembly - As introduced, extends the period before an election, from 30 days to 45 days, during which mass mailings from a member of the general assembly to the persons in the member's district must be paid for with non-state funds. - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 8.

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

TN - HB1100 Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires law enforcement officers to satisfactorily complete a diversity training program created by the peace officer standards and training commission by July 1, 2024, or within six months of the officer's date of employment. - Amends TCA Section 38-8-107.

TN - HB1124 Open Meetings - As introduced, requires a governing body to provide members of the public the opportunity to comment at a meeting of the governing body if the meeting is open to the public pursuant to the Open Meetings Law and if members of the public give proper notice to the governing body. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 44 and Title 49.

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

TN - 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 - HB1160 Public Contracts - As introduced, removes insurance from the definition of "goods" as it relates to public purchasing. - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 3.

TN - HB1164 Highway Patrol - As introduced, requires the commissioner of safety, in consultation with the commissioner of human resources, to ensure that a minimum of six Tennessee highway patrol officers are allocated to a county designated as a tier 3 or tier 4 enhancement county that has a size greater than 600 square miles and a population greater than 20,000 but less than 50,000. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 20 and Title 4, Chapter 7.

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

TN - HB1208 Law Enforcement - As introduced, prohibits a law enforcement agency from employing a peace officer unless the peace officer obtains and continuously maintains liability insurance to cover damages resulting from misconduct, including intentional, negligent, or willful acts committed by the peace officer while acting in the scope of the peace officer's employment for the law enforcement agency. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 38; Title 50 and Title 56.

TN - HB1210 Police - As introduced, authorizes certain nonprofit property owners associations to employ and commission police officers. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 38.

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

TN - HB1221 General Assembly, Studies - As introduced, requires each report that is required to be submitted to the general assembly that relates to procurement, unemployment, labor, or contracting with this state to contain a component that describes any relevant demographic information. - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 4.

TN - HB1234 Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires a law enforcement officer to use only an appropriately marked law enforcement vehicle to make traffic stops in non-emergency situations; defines an appropriately marked law enforcement vehicle as one that bears insignias, stripes, decals, labels, seals, symbols, or other pictorial signs or lettering indicating the vehicle's identity as a law enforcement vehicle used by a particular law enforcement agency. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 55.

TN - HB1235 Law Enforcement - As introduced, prohibits a law enforcement agency from engaging in law enforcement activities which interfere with any person's First Amendment rights, engaging in First Amendment-related intelligence, or maintaining personal information about any person for the purpose of First Amendment-related intelligence unless the information is collected in the course of a lawful investigation of criminal conduct and is relevant to such investigation. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Ti...

TN - HB1236 Law Enforcement - As introduced, enacts the "Demilitarization of Police Act." - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8.

TN - HB1288 Historical Commission - As introduced, authorizes the commission to establish procedures and rules under which any duty, function, or responsibility of the commission may be carried out by a subcommittee of the commission. - Amends TCA Title 4.

TN - HB1316 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, establishes a program under which a state employee may receive up to six weeks of paid leave as a first time foster parent or after the first adoption of a minor child. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 8; Title 16 and Title 50.

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

TN - 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 - HB1327 Redistricting, Legislative - As introduced, requires the comptroller of the treasury to report to the senate judiciary committee and the state government committee of the house of representatives which counties, if any, redrew precinct lines to ensure no split precincts in legislative districts. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 16 and Title 3, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - HB1328 Redistricting, Legislative - As introduced, requires the general assembly to post an interactive map showing the boundaries of the districts of the state senate on the general assembly's website. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Section 3-1-102.

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

TN - 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 - 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 - HB1392 Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires the Tennessee bureau of investigation's annual report on the use of force by law enforcement to include data for each law enforcement agency, in addition to statewide and countywide aggregate data. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1420 Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, increases the base salary of certain categories of preferred service employees of the department. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 47; Title 48; Title 56 and Title 68.

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

TN - HB1462 Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires each law enforcement agency to develop a policy by July 1, 2023, on the use of force that emphasizes the use of force only as a reasonable and proportional response when viewed in light of the crime a suspect is alleged to have committed. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 39.

TN - HB1463 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As introduced, removes Columbus Day as a legal holiday; designates the first Monday after the Super Bowl as a legal holiday. - Amends TCA Section 15-1-101.

TN - HB1473 Law Enforcement - As introduced, decreases the time within which a hearing concerning a punitive employment action against a law enforcement officer must be set following a request for such hearing from 14 days to 10 days. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 38; Title 41; Title 49, Chapter 7 and Title 50.

TN - HB1474 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As introduced, renames Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples' Day. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 15 and Title 47.

TN - HB1491 Redistricting, Legislative - As introduced, requires the general assembly to post an interactive map showing the boundaries of the districts of the state house of representatives on the general assembly's website. - Amends TCA Section 3-1-103.

TN - HB1492 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, generally requires by January 1, 2024, each law enforcement agency to develop and enforce a policy that prohibits an officer from using a drone or other substantially similar device as a weapon under any circumstances while in the exercise of the officer's official duties; requires a law enforcement agency to permit an officer qualified to operate a drone to utilize a drone or a substantially similar device for the purpose of remotely detonating a bomb or simil...

TN - HB1513 State Employees - As introduced, authorizes a child care program operated for state employees of a state agency to be located in an office building leased by the state. - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 8.

TN - HB1517 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, authorizes certain governmental employees to provide security at a megasite; extends tort immunity to governmental entities and governmental employees providing such security. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 20; Section 38-8-133 and Title 64, Chapter 9.

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

TN - HB1521 Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires a law enforcement officer to undergo annual de-escalation training and an annual mental health evaluation in order to be certified by the peace officer standards and training commission; requires each law enforcement agency to adopt a policy limiting the circumstances under which a law enforcement officer may initiate pursuit of a suspect or person of interest using a motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 38.

TN - HB1523 County Government - As introduced, requires residents of a correctional institution, who cannot by law register in the county as voters, to be included in consideration of representation at their recorded home of residence prior to incarceration, or their new address if there is a change of home residence while incarcerated, for calculations of allocations for census-based federal and state aid. - Amends TCA Title 5 and Title 41.

TN - SJR273 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Rifle

TN - HB1554 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, establishes a program under which a state employee may receive up to six weeks of paid leave if the employee becomes a foster parent of a minor child. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 8; Title 16 and Title 50.

TN - HB1557 Ashland City - Subject to local approval, changes the duties of the city recorder; creates the office of city administrator and assigns duties to such office. - Amends Chapter 121 of the Private Acts of 2004; as rewritten.

TN - HJR674 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges the office of legislative administration to establish and encourages members of the 113th General Assembly and legislative employees to participate in a race relations and discrimination and age-based discrimination in the workplace training program.

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

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

TN - HB1609 Military - As introduced, prohibits the Tennessee national guard, or a member of the national guard, from being released from state duty into federal active duty combat unless the United States congress has passed an official declaration of war or has taken an official action pursuant to Article 1, Section 8, Clause 15, of the United States Constitution to explicitly call forth the Tennessee national guard or a member of the national guard for the enumerated purposes to expressly execute the ...

TN - HB1613 State Symbols - As introduced, designates Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree by Brenda Lee as the official state holiday song. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - HB1615 Governor - As introduced, provides that the violation of an executive order, proclamation, or rule issued by the governor cannot be enforced as a Class A misdemeanor unless such order, proclamation, or rule specifies that such violation is a Class A misdemeanor and the order, proclamation, or rule is approved by a majority vote of both houses of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 2, Part 1.

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

TN - HB1653 Law Enforcement - As introduced, upon written request by a member of the general assembly, requires all state and local law enforcement agencies to release to the member making the request a copy of all records collected by the agency, including, but not limited to, all writings and medical, toxicology, and other reports, of a perpetrator involved in a school shooting incident that occurred at a public or private school in this state in March of 2023. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5 ...

TN - HJR688 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Affirms support for Israel and condemns Hamas.

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

TN - 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 - HB1673 Historical Sites and Preservation - As introduced, repeals the Tennessee Heritage Protection Act. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1.

TN - HB1677 Publications, State - As introduced, revises provisions relative to the manner in which the department of general services contracts for, prints, and distributes publications of state departments and agencies. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 12.

TN - HB1687 Emergency Communications Districts - As introduced, authorizes a nurse practitioner or physician assistant to perform the mandatory physical examination of a public safety dispatcher or emergency call taker if the physical examination is included in the written protocol developed by the supervising physician and nurse practitioner or physician assistant. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 86, Part 2.

TN - HB1692 Public Records - As introduced, establishes the official policy for the maintenance of records by the department of tourist development. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 22 and Title 10, Chapter 7.

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

TN - HJR709 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges state government and departments and agencies thereof to consult a multi-faith calendar prior to scheduling official functions.

TN - HJR716 Naming and Designating - Designates the month of October 2024 as "Filipino American History Month."

TN - HJR717 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes amendment to allow people to propose laws by initiative petition.

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

TN - HB1786 Public Records - As introduced, requires proposals received in response to a solicitation for goods or services, and related records, including evaluations and memoranda, to be available for public inspection only after the completion of the evaluation of the same by the state. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1788 Public Contracts - As introduced, changes, from three years to five years, the time period for which a person awarded a state contract, change order, or contract modification must retain all books and records of cost or pricing data submitted to the state with regard to the agreement; changes, from three years to five years, the time period for which a contractor or subcontractor under a state-awarded contract must retain all books and records pertaining to the agreement; requires all state p...

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

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

TN - HB1820 General Assembly - As introduced, authorizes, beginning with the One Hundred Fourteenth General Assembly, a member of the general assembly to accept an alternative salary of $48,999, provided that the member must not receive expenses or per diem; permits the member to donate the difference in salary to a charitable organization; authorizes a member who accepts the alternative salary to revert to the standard salary calculation in a subsequent biennial general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 3.

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

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

TN - HB1840 Attorney General and Reporter - As introduced, requires foreign agents from certain countries of concern to register with the attorney general and reporter. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 48; Title 61 and Title 62.

TN - HB1841 Public Contracts - As introduced, prohibits certain foreign entities from submitting bids for contracts with the state or a political subdivision of the state; requires entities bidding on contracts to make certain disclosures and certifications related to the entities' business relationship with certain foreign entities; provides for civil penalties if the disclosures or certifications are false. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 12.

TN - HB1851 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, adds K-12 school bus drivers and cafeteria workers to the list of retired members of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system who may work more than 120 days each year while continuing to draw their retirement allowance. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49.

TN - HB1852 Ethics - As introduced, prohibits a candidate for office in the general assembly or a member of the general assembly from engaging in private business with a lobbyist or employer of a lobbyist. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 6 and Title 8, Chapter 50.

TN - HB1854 Attorney General and Reporter - As introduced, requires foreign agents from certain countries of concern to register with the attorney general and reporter. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 48; Title 61 and Title 62.

TN - HB1869 Human Rights - As introduced, creates a task force to study and develop reparation proposals for African Americans.

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 - HB1889 General Services, Dept. of - As introduced, authorizes the commissioner to perform certain activities related to management of real property owned by this state; increases the cost threshold for major maintenance contracts for state departments, colleges of applied technology, and public two-year institutions of higher learning above which the state building commission must approve and supervise the contract. - Amends TCA Title 4.

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

TN - HB1950 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As introduced, designates June 6 as a day of special observance for D-Day. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

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

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

TN - HB2040 State Employees - As introduced, provides for the immediate termination, without appeal, of a state employee who, after investigation by the proper authority, has been found to commit perjury or the falsification of a document, or has failed to report an illegal act or suspected abuse within the employee's department, agency, office, or scope of work; provides that such terminated employee is not eligible for future employment with this state. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 30.

TN - HB2085 Naming and Designating - As introduced, designates the bog turtle as an official state reptile. - Amends TCA Section 4-1-321.

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 - HB2090 Public Contracts - As introduced, requires certain information to be made available to each respondent for solicitation of a contract upon request; revises provisions relating to informal solicitations and small purchases; revises provisions relating to protests by aggrieved respondents to solicitations. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 56, Part 1; Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5 and Title 12, Chapter 3.

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

TN - HB2125 State Symbols - As introduced, designates November as "Christian Heritage Month." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1.

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

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

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

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

TN - HB2308 Health Care - As introduced, changes certain requirements for healthcare providers who are not physicians to qualify to prescribe a buprenorphine product for the treatment of opioid use disorder, recovery, or medication-assisted treatment. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

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

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

TN - HB2332 Human Rights - As introduced, enacts the "Reparations for Descendants of Enslaved People Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21.

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 - HB2354 Public Health - As introduced, prohibits a local government entity, school, or local education agency from implementing a mask mandate related to COVID-19. - Amends TCA Title 14.

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

TN - HB2387 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, allows a retired member of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system or of a local retirement fund to be reemployed as a full-time school resource officer at a public school in this state serving students in any of the grades kindergarten through 12, or as a full-time police officer on the campus of an institution governed by the Tennessee board of regents, without loss or suspension of the retired member's retirement benefits, if certain c...

TN - HB2407 General Assembly - As introduced, creates a select oversight committee on corrections. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 40 and Title 41.

TN - HB2408 Children - As introduced, recreates the select committee on children and youth. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 37; Title 49 and Title 68.

TN - HB2418 Public Contracts - As introduced, requires each contract between this state and a general contractor that has a value of $1,000,000 or more to require the general contractor to ensure that a minimum of 25 percent of the total value of the contract be performed by minority-owned businesses. - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 3 and Title 12, Chapter 4.

TN - HB2419 Public Records - As introduced, clarifies that only a person who has requested to personally inspect a state, county, or municipal record and whose request has been denied has standing to file an action for judicial review of the denial and that intervention by a non-governmental third party in a public records lawsuit is not permitted. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5 and Title 20.

TN - HB2476 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, authorizes firefighters, law enforcement officers, and emergency medical services personnel who are members of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system to be reemployed after retirement without having to wait a period of time after retirement; requires the member to be rehired at a rate or salary equivalent to that of a member with no experience based on the position for which the member is hired. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 36, Part 8 a...

TN - SJR906 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Supports Texas in efforts to secure its border and affirms each state's constitutional right of self-defense.

TN - HB2482 Redistricting, Legislative - As introduced, clarifies that including noncontiguous land islands of a county as part of a senate district that the rest of the county is located in does not violate the legislative intent of keeping districts contiguous. - Amends TCA Section 3-1-102 and Section 3-1-103.

TN - HB2510 General Assembly - As introduced, requires members of the general assembly to undergo a mental health evaluation within one month of the giving of the annual current issues ethics training; requires that the evaluations take place in a manner that maintains the privacy and confidentiality of each member. - Amends TCA Title 3.

TN - HB2520 Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, excludes property leased by a public entity to a non-governmental entity pursuant to a lease that conveys to the non-governmental entity the exclusive right to operate the property from the definition of "public property" as that term is used by the department to establish priority for vending operations for blind individuals. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - HB2533 State Government - As introduced, requires each entity that maintains an official website to publish the policy for the prevention of sexual harassment established pursuant to chapter 307 of the Public Acts of 1993 on its website. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4 and Title 8.

TN - HJR830 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Rifle

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

TN - HB2580 Public Records - As introduced, requires certain personal information of current or former commissioned law enforcement officers in this state to be maintained confidentially by a state or local department or agency in possession of such information upon written request of the officer. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5.

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

TN - HB2614 State Employees - As introduced, requires a state employee who has evidence that another state employee has committed perjury or the falsification of one or more documents to immediately notify the employee's appropriate supervisor. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 30.

TN - HB2618 County Government - As introduced, requires a nonprofit organization that has entered into a contract or memorandum of understanding with the district attorney general to disclose the list of persons or entities that have donated to the nonprofit in the previous calendar year, upon written request from a member of the general assembly or passage of a resolution requesting the information by a county legislative body for a county within the judicial district. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 38; Ti...

TN - HB2632 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, creates an incentive program for persons covered under a state healthcare plan under which 47.5 percent of a qualified rebate amount for a major medical treatment or procedure is distributed to a covered person, 47.5 percent of such amount is distributed to the state treasurer for credit to the general fund, and 5 percent is distributed to the third-party administrator selected by the department of finance and administration to administer the plan....

TN - HB2649 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, requires a full-time state employee's annual compensation to be sufficient to disqualify the employee for state supplemental benefit or public assistance programs, including, but not limited to, the temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) program, supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP), and TennCare program. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 30; Title 8, Chapter 50; Title 50 and Title 71.

TN - HB2659 General Assembly - As introduced, permits sergeants-at-arms to carry a handgun while in the course and scope of their duties within the legislative complex provided that they have a valid handgun carry permit; imposes a duty on the department of safety to implement a training program to train the sergeants-at-arms in all safety procedures for the legislative complex; requires a sergeant-at-arms who carries a firearm while in the course and scope of their duties to attend a firearms training c...

TN - HB2662 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, permits retired members of the TCRS to work in excess of the 120-day limit and continue to draw a person's retirement allowance if the person is employed in a public school system as a substitute teacher, a teacher, or a school bus driver and the respective director of the school system certifies that no other qualified personnel are available for the position during that period. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 35; Title 8, Chapter 36; Title 8,...

TN - HB2673 Law Enforcement - As introduced, opens eligibility for being employed as a police officer to persons discharged from the armed forces of the United States to those with an entry-level separation, medical discharge, or a separation for the convenience of the government. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8.

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

TN - 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 - 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 - HB2694 State Government - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee State Sovereignty Act of 2024." - Amends TCA Title 3.

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

TN - HB2736 State Government - As introduced, requires persons to meet certain qualifications in order to be eligible for appointment as chief executive officer of an administrative department of state government; creates a mechanism for the removal of such officers for cause by the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 4.

TN - HJR844 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses support for bid to host Special Olympics USA Games in Tennessee.

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

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 - HB2795 General Assembly - As introduced, enacts the "Restoring State Sovereignty Through Nullification Act," which establishes processes by which the general assembly may nullify an unconstitutional federal statute, regulation, agency order, or executive order. - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 4.

TN - HB2802 Public Contracts - As introduced, prescribes certain contractual and reporting requirements to protect the integrity of financial transactions in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12; Title 45 and Title 47.

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 - HB2847 State Government - As introduced, prohibits a commissioner of a state department from being employed by, or having any financial interest in, a public or private entity that is under the umbrella of, regulated or under oversight by, or in any way within the purview of the administrative or statutory authority of the department for which the commissioner has been appointed during the commissioner's term of appointment. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 8.

TN - HB2852 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, subject to approval of the board of directors of the Doe Mountain recreational authority, clarifies that employees of the authority are eligible to participate in all benefit programs that this state provides to state employees. - Amends TCA Section 11-25-109.

TN - HB2864 Naming and Designating - As introduced, designates barbecue as an official state food. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

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

TN - HB2872 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, requires clerks of court to collect and report a finding that a person is incompetent to stand trial in a criminal proceeding to the federal bureau of investigation and department of safety; prohibits the purchase or possession of a firearm by a person who has been adjudicated as a mental defective, including a person who has been found incompetent to stand trial in a criminal proceeding. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2875 General Assembly - As introduced, requires the office of legal services to draft and produce each legislative measure utilizing a system of different fonts, colors, or styles of text, or a combination thereof, to differentiate between existing law, proposed new language, language proposed for deletion or repeal, and language amending the proposed legislative measure. - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 4.

TN - HB2889 Corporations, For Profit - As introduced, authorizes the registered agent of a foreign corporation to resign the agency appointment by filing information with the secretary of state in an electronic format deemed suitable by the secretary of state. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 48; Title 61 and Title 62.

TN - HB2890 Open Meetings - As introduced, creates more specific notice requirements for governmental bodies holding public meetings to be used in addition to and not in lieu of other notices required by law. - Amends TCA Section 8-44-103.

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

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