Commerce and Labor

TN - Senator Paul Bailey (R)

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TN - Senator Art Swann (R)

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TN - Senator Frank Niceley (R)

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TN - Senator Raumesh Akbari (D)

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TN - Senator Jack Johnson (R)

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TN - Senator Shane Reeves (R)

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TN - Senator Steve Southerland (R)

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TN - Senator Bo Watson (R)

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TN - Senator Ken Yager (R)

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TN - SB73 Consumer Protection - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Information Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12; Title 43; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 50; Title 61; Title 66 and Title 67.

TN - SB85 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 - SB93 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 - SB97 Workers Compensation - As enacted, enacts the "Garrison-Jordan Survivor Benefits Act." - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6.

TN - SB111 Common Carriers - As introduced, designates social media platforms as common carriers and requires the entities to obtain certificates of public convenience and necessity from the Tennessee public utilities commission; prescribes fines against social media platforms that deplatform and shadow ban users based on political ideology, viewpoint, or personal animus, or discrimination based on race, creed, color, religion, sex, age, or national origin. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 47 and Title 65.

TN - SB120 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 - SB122 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 - SB130 Consumer Protection - As enacted, requires a financing company doing business in this state to provide on its mailed or emailed statements to a consumer a conspicuously displayed telephone number that a consumer may contact for service; specifies that failure to provide a conspicuously displayed telephone number as required is an unfair or deceptive act or practice under the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47.

TN - SB132 Credit and Debit Cards - As introduced, requires that state and local taxes and fees be excluded from the calculation of interchange fees by payment card networks for electronic payment transactions. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - SB138 Consumer Protection - As introduced, enacts the "Youth Mental Health Safety Act." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.

TN - SB150 Banks and Financial Institutions - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Bullion Depository Act." - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 9; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48 and Title 67.

TN - SB151 Labor - As introduced, authorizes certain visa holders to seek employment or an internship in this state consistent with federal law without verification by a state or local governmental entity through the systematic alien verification for entitlements (SAVE) program or the student and exchange visitor information system (SEVIS) if the alien can provide the applicable state or local governmental entity with proof satisfactory of the alien's status. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 50 and Title 57.

TN - SB156 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, creates a presumption of injury, death, or disability for arson investigators who are sworn deputies of a county sheriff's department as the result of exposure to smoke and other toxins for purposes of qualifying for certain benefits. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 8; Title 50 and Title 56.

TN - SB171 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, requires a local governmental entity to hold a referendum to approve a property tax increase that exceeds specified thresholds. - Amends TCA Title 48 and Title 67.

TN - SB180 Insurance, Motor Vehicles - As introduced, requires an insurer or insured individual to remove an automobile deemed a total loss from a repair facility's property within five business days of the date upon which the automobile is deemed a total loss; specifies additional requirements and penalties related to the requirement. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 66.

TN - SB196 Nurses, Nursing - As introduced, removes a reference to a repealed section that required the division of health related boards to provide to the board of pharmacy the names of all nurse practitioners and physician assistants who are authorized to write and sign prescriptions or issue legend drugs in Tennessee and the names of their supervising physicians. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 49; Title 53; Title 55; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB214 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 - SB219 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 - SB220 Health Care - As introduced, removes a code provision that created a task force to review the regulations of the residential and day provider agencies contracted by the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities, which ceased to exist as of June 30, 2014. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB221 Health, Dept. of - As enacted, authorizes the division of health related boards to hire a medical consultant. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB222 Health Care - As introduced, requires the annual report by each nurse home visitor program to be submitted to the department of health, in addition to the health care and services facility administering the program and the community in which the program is administered. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB233 Professions and Occupations - As enacted, revises present law relative to security guards/officers. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 57 and Title 62, Chapter 35.

TN - SB234 Consumer Protection - As introduced, limits the number of times that a real estate developer, business entity, or individual working on behalf of the developer or business entity is permitted to contact a property owner to make an unsolicited offer to buy the property owner's property; allows a property owner who believes a developer has violated the limitation to submit a complaint to the consumer affairs division in the office of the attorney general; adds additional requirements and penalt...

TN - SB238 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 - SB239 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, makes various changes to the Insurance Holding Company System Act, including a requirement to file an annual group capital calculation, requirements regarding the use and filing of results of a liquidity stress test, and other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 11.

TN - SB242 Sentencing - As introduced, extends, from five working days to 10 working days, the time within which the clerk of a court sentencing a person to a special alternative incarceration unit must mail to the department of correction a certified copy of the sentence and indictment, a personal history statement, and an affidavit of the custodian provided by the sheriff of the county. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - SB254 Labor and Workforce Development, Dept. of - As introduced, updates the maximum potential penalties for violations of the Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Act to match those allowed under federal law. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 3, Part 4.

TN - SB263 Workers Compensation - As enacted, makes various changes to the Workers' Compensation Law. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6.

TN - SB266 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, makes changes to the law regarding assignment of benefits to a healthcare provider; removes provisions of law relative to the collection of out-of-network charges by healthcare facilities. - Amends TCA Section 56-7-120 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.

TN - SB268 Financial Institutions, Dept. of - As enacted, enacts the "Money Transmission Modernization Act." - Amends TCA Title 45.

TN - SB308 TennCare - As introduced, requires the bureau to contract with at least one managed care organization that is partnered with a provider participation entity; establishes eligibility requirements for such entities to contract with TennCare; prohibits TennCare from choosing managed care organizations through a request for proposal or competitive bidding process beginning January 1, 2024; and makes other various changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB309 Health Care - As introduced, deletes provisions related to the infections taskforce that focused on strategies and recommendations for the prevention and control of antibiotic resistant infections, including MRSA, and reported aggregate data on incidence and trends for invasive MRSA in Tennessee to the general assembly from 2008-2010. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB310 Labor - As introduced, authorizes certain visa holders to seek employment or an internship in this state consistent with federal law without verification by a state or local governmental entity through the systematic alien verification for entitlements (SAVE) program or the student and exchange visitor information system (SEVIS) if the alien cannot be verified and the alien executes an affidavit under penalty of perjury that the alien is authorized to work in the United States under a J-1, H-...

TN - SB314 Insurance, Motor Vehicles - As introduced, prohibits, as an unfair claims settlement practice, an auto insurer from directing a body shop to repair a motor vehicle without first providing the insured with written notice of the insured's right to approve the type of body parts to be used in the repair of the motor vehicle and an opportunity to select the type of body parts to be used; specifies that the notice requirement only applies in the five years after the model year of the motor vehicle...

TN - SB338 TennCare - As introduced, requires the bureau to conduct an annual review of all medications and forms of treatment for lupus, and services for enrollees with a diagnosis of lupus that are eligible for coverage under the medical assistance program; requires the bureau to solicit and consider input from the public when conducting the annual review; requires an annual report to be made to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB339 Consumer Protection - As introduced, enacts the "Consumer Biometric Data Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 50 and Title 61.

TN - SB344 Consumer Protection - As introduced, reduces from 45 days to 30 days, the time within which an information holder must notify a resident of this state, or owner or licensee of the information, of a breach of system security. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 39; Title 47 and Title 49.

TN - SB356 Workers Compensation - As introduced, defines "labor representative" for purposes of workers' compensation law; specifies that the person representing an employee in mediation for a workers' compensation claim may be a labor representative; requires the department of labor and workforce development to promulgate rules to allow a labor representative to participate with a party engaged in mediation or another form of alternative dispute resolution for a workers' compensation claim. - Amends TC...

TN - SB365 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 - SB368 Consumer Protection - As enacted, enacts the "Real Property Records Integrity Act." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 66.

TN - SB380 Local Government, General - As introduced, clarifies that local governmental entities are not prohibited from evaluating bids, proposals, and qualifications based on experience, certifications, expertise, and past performance as stated in the solicitation documents, or requiring employees of the contractor to submit to a criminal history check to ensure the employees are permitted to enter controlled spaces of the governmental entities, in contracts for improvements to real property, or in a ...

TN - SB383 Employees, Employers - As introduced, prohibits an employer from asking for or requiring a prospective employee to provide the prospective employee's compensation history; requires an employer to provide notice to the employer's employees of employment advancement opportunities and openings; establishes other related requirements and rights. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 50.

TN - SB390 Employees, Employers - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Family Insurance Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21; Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5 and Title 50.

TN - SB394 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 - SB401 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 - SB403 Health Care - As introduced, authorizes the commissioner of health to submit, by electronic means, the commissioner's current annual report concerning the annual evaluation of the adequacy of the birth defects registry to the appropriate standing committees of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB409 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 - SB410 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 - SB411 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 - SB450 Tattoos and Piercings - As enacted, prohibits the sale or distribution of tattoo and body piercing paraphernalia to minors. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 62, Chapter 38, Part 2 and Title 62, Chapter 38, Part 3.

TN - SB451 Disabled Persons - As enacted, authorizes an employee of a public accommodation to ask for certain information about a dog guide in training; specifies that an individual utilizing a service animal or training a service animal in training is liable for damages to the same extent that an individual whose pet causes damages to a public accommodation is; makes other related changes to service animals and service animals in training. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 39; Title 44 and Title 62, Chapter ...

TN - SB454 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, authorizes the issuance of an insurance policy that an employer may offer to an employee for the purpose of providing family leave benefits. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 56.

TN - SB456 Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, excludes streaming video content from the definition of "cable service," and streaming content and direct-to-home satellite services from the definition of "video service," for purposes of the Competitive Cable and Video Services Act. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 59, Part 3.

TN - SB460 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 - SB465 Health Care - As introduced, removes a requirement, with regard to developing standards for determining eligibility for the care and treatment of persons suffering from epilepsy and other seizure disorders under a department program, that the department of health seek the advice of the epilepsy advisory committee, as such committee was terminated in 2008. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB479 Uniform Commercial Code - As introduced, incorporates into the Uniform Commercial Code the amendments adopted by the Uniform Law Commission in 2022. - Amends TCA Title 47.

TN - SB480 Business and Commerce - As introduced, increases from two years to 30 months the minimum period following the date of receipt that a transportation network must maintain records related to a rider complaint about a driver with whom the rider was matched and who the rider suspects was under the influence of drugs or alcohol during the trip. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12; Title 13; Title 42; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 62; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67 and Tit...

TN - SB482 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, requires an insurance company to provide written notice to a claimant at the same time payment of a settlement of a third-party liability claim is made by the insurance company. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 2.

TN - SB502 TennCare - As introduced, extends, from January 15 to February 1 of each calendar year, the due date of the annual report required to be submitted by the bureau of TennCare to certain legislative committees on the use and cost of opioids and other controlled substances in the prescription drug program for the TennCare program. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - SB504 Consumer Protection - As enacted, prohibits an individual or entity from selling, offering for sale, or providing an air ambulance membership agreement to an individual who is enrolled in TennCare Medicaid; requires an individual or entity that provides an air ambulance membership agreement to an individual who subsequently enrolls in TennCare Medicaid to provide the enrollee with a pro-rated refund of consideration paid for the membership; adds other related prohibitions, requirements, and p...

TN - SB547 Health Care - As introduced, requires the annual report by the board of dentistry to be made by February 1 each year and sent to the general assembly, in addition to the governor. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 33; Title 49; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB548 Fireworks - As introduced, permits the sale of fireworks in a municipality or county unless the municipality or county passes an ordinance or law prohibiting the sale of fireworks in the municipality or county. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 104.

TN - SB554 Codes - As introduced, provides that a resolution adopted by a county or municipal legislative body on or after July 1, 2023, to exempt itself from the statewide building construction standards relative to one-family and two-family dwellings expires 150 days, instead of 180 days, following the date of the election for the local legislative body next occurring following the adoption of the resolution. - Amends TCA Section 68-120-101.

TN - SB585 Health Care - As introduced, enacts the "Patient Rights Act." - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 29; Title 33; Title 34; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB594 Charitable Solicitations - As introduced, requires charitable organizations that solicit and receive contributions for charitable purposes related to a declared disaster in this state to expend or distribute the funds for that purpose within 24 months of the date the disaster is first declared; requires unused funds to be transferred to a fund managed by the director of TEMA to be used for the purpose of disaster relief activities in this state. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 48, Ch...

TN - SB642 Sewage - As introduced, requires an affidavit of affixation for a manufactured home affixed to a parcel of real property to contain a statement that the manufactured home is permanently connected to a functioning septic system, not just a septic system. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 47; Title 55; Title 66; Title 68 and Title 69, Chapter 3.

TN - SB647 Employees, Employers - As introduced, enacts the "No Quit Act"; requires an employer that is requesting an employee to voluntarily resign to provide the employee with written notice of the rights, privileges, and benefits the employee waives or loses if the employee voluntarily resigns. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 50.

TN - SB649 Consumer Protection - As enacted, enacts the "Booting Consumer Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 39; Title 47; Title 48; Title 55; Title 56; Title 62; Title 66 and Title 67.

TN - SB650 Economic and Community Development - As enacted, places certain restrictions on employers seeking to receive economic development incentives. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 50.

TN - SB658 Real Property - As introduced, specifies that a seller of residential property is required to disclose the presence of a known sinkhole on the property prior to entering into a contract with a buyer regardless of whether the sinkhole is indicated through the contour lines on the property's recorded plat map. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 66.

TN - SB661 Consumer Protection - As enacted, requires that if an entity requires on-site payment from a consumer for the parking of a motor vehicle on the entity's property, and the entity only accepts payment by use of a quick response (QR) code or a credit or debit card machine, then, in the event the QR code or the credit or debit card machine fails to operate correctly to process the payment transaction, the entity must either accept payment by cash, check, or credit or debit card or allow the consu...

TN - SB666 Health Care - As enacted, enacts the "Prior Authorization Fairness Act." - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - SB667 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, extends from two weeks to 30 days the period of time a pharmacist or pharmacy must be provided written notice prior to a covered entity, pharmacy benefits manager, the state or a political subdivision of the state, or a party representing such entity begins an initial on-site audit for an audit cycle. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 71.

TN - SB673 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires health benefit plans to provide certain coverage for prosthetic devices. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - SB675 Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, makes various changes to the prescription drug donation repository program operated by the department of health. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB676 Banks and Financial Institutions - As enacted, specifies that the requirement to notify the department of revenue of the death of the sole or last surviving lessee of a safe deposit box does not apply if the lessee died after December 31, 2015; specifies that a state trust institution is not required to publish public notice in order to establish and maintain a new trust office; authorizes the holder of debt secured by a mortgage, deed of trust, or other lien to assess and collect fees from t...

TN - SB677 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, authorizes a dental service plan corporation to limit participation in a plan that is providing or managing dental benefits for the impoverished uninsured on behalf of, or as required by, any governmental entity, only if such excluded provider is given written notice, the specific reason for such exclusion, and an opportunity for appeal. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB682 Banks and Financial Institutions - As enacted, extends, from May 1 to November 1, the due date of the report delivered by a lessor of a safe deposit box to the state treasurer containing the name and address of the lessee and an inventory of the contents of the box; extends, from May 1 to November 1, the deadline by which contents of an abandoned safe deposit box may be claimed before the lessor is required to sell the contents. - Amends TCA Section 45-2-907.

TN - SB692 Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, removes a provision that required the commissioner to, by March 1, 2012, conduct a study of Tennessee's insurance laws and report the results to the governor and to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB694 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 - SB695 Health Care - As introduced, requires the office of child nutrition and wellness in the department of health to submit an annual report by February 1 of each year to the chairs of the health and welfare committee of the senate and the health committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB707 Codes - As introduced, lowers the population threshold, from 25,000 to 20,000, below which two or more cities may agree to jointly engage one building inspector. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 68, Chapter 120.

TN - SB717 Landlord and Tenant - As enacted, requires a landlord to provide 60 days' notice of termination of tenancy for the purpose of eviction of a residential tenant of certain facilities for older persons if the tenant has paid the tenant's rent due and is not in arrears on rent payments, and the termination and eviction are to allow for new property development. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 66.

TN - SB721 Health Care - As enacted, exempts a patient receiving an initial behavioral health evaluation via telehealth from the requirement that a patient have an in-person encounter with a healthcare services provider, the healthcare services providers practice group, or the healthcare system within 16 months prior to an interactive visit in order to establish a provider-patient relationship for purposes of telehealth; allows a physician assistant who is authorized to prescribe drugs and who provides ...

TN - SB723 Codes - As enacted, authorizes certain persons entering into employment as a municipal or county building, plumbing, mechanical, or electrical inspector with an exempt jurisdiction to perform certain services. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 120, Part 1.

TN - SB732 Real Property - As introduced, requires the Tennessee real estate commission to provide on its website at no cost to users any directory of all brokers and affiliate brokers licensed by the commission if the commission publishes such a directory. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 62 and Title 66.

TN - SB734 Health Care - As introduced, removes the start date of January 1, 2012, for the requirement that a healthcare practitioner communicate the practitioner's full name and type of license in writing to a patient at the patient's initial office visit. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 50; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB737 Health Care - As introduced, requires, by September 1, the department of health to submit a report to the chairs of the general assembly's health-related committees concerning the number of hospitals found, within the last 20 years, to have failed to provide emergency services in accordance with rules adopted by the board for licensing healthcare facilities, or failed to furnish such services to any applicant who applies for the services in case of injury or acute medical condition where the ...

TN - SB742 Sex Discrimination - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Pay Equality Act" to revise present law concerning sex-based discrimination in compensation for employment. - Amends TCA Title 50.

TN - SB754 Fees - As introduced, requires the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) to study the fees assessed by registers pursuant to present law, including, at a minimum, the amount in fees collected, the amount in fees not collected, the method by which the fees are collected, and a comparison of such fees to similar fees assessed in neighboring states; requires TACIR to report its findings to the chair of the senate judiciary committee, the chair of the civil justice ...

TN - SB755 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires certain individual and group health insurance policies to provide coverage of a continuous glucose monitor for a person with diabetes who is insulin-dependent and is covered by the policy. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - SB759 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 - SB764 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony the punishment for the offense of assault by intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly causing bodily injury to another if the offense occurred while the defendant was trespassing on school property and was committed against a school employee. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - SB765 Consumer Protection - As introduced, decreases, from three business days to two business days, the amount of time that a consumer reporting agency has after receiving a written or electronic request from a consumer in this state to place a security freeze on the consumer's consumer report. - Amends TCA Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 50; Title 61 and Title 67.

TN - SB768 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 - SB770 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, requires the state board for licensing contractors to post, within 15 days, instead of 30 days, of the board's action with regard to the board disciplining a contractor, home improvement services provider, or home improvement contractor, on the board's website information identifying the person, the violation, and the date a penalty was imposed. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 50; Title 62 and Title 68.

TN - SB773 Sports - As enacted, makes changes concerning youth sports safety. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 62, Chapter 50 and Title 68.

TN - SB777 Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, permits the commissioner to submit to the governor by electronic means the required annual report of all official department transactions for the preceding year. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - SB792 Unemployment Compensation - As introduced, establishes unemployment work search requirements related to responding to a job offer and attendance to a scheduled job interview; establishes additional requirements for the type of work search activities required to maintain benefits; makes other related additions. - Amends TCA Section 50-7-303.

TN - SB797 TennCare - As introduced, removes an obsolete reference to a nine-person task force that was assigned to review oversight, utilization, and the future need for ICF/MR services and make recommendations to the general assembly and governor by June 30, 2007. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - SB798 Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, reduces from 15 to 10 days after the end of a calendar month the period by which an insurer domiciled in this state must report all material transactions to the commissioner that occurred in such calendar month. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - SB826 Education - As introduced, deletes an obsolete requirement that certain chief law enforcement officers submit a report by September 1, 2021, concerning school security deficiencies and recommendations for security improvement of schools. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB836 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, prohibits an insurer of homeowner's insurance, renter's insurance, or insurance that covers a manufactured or mobile home from making certain changes to or refusing to issue a policy based solely on the specific breed or mixture of breeds of a dog that lives or is otherwise cared for on the property to which the policy applies. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - SB847 Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As introduced, authorizes the commission to make an in-person warning as an alternative to a written warning when notifying a licensee of a violation for failure to post a warning sign on the premises that consumption of alcohol during pregnancy may be detrimental to a fetus. - Amends TCA Title 47 and Title 57.

TN - SB850 Labor - As introduced, requires the department of labor and workforce development to conduct a study of the Child Labor Act of 1976 and the Tennessee Protection of Minor Performers Act, and to report its findings to the governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, the speaker of the senate, and the legislative librarian no later than December 1, 2023. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 50.

TN - SB856 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 - SB862 Health Care - As introduced, requires the commissioner of commerce and insurance to make the standardized forms for health care insurance claims, developed by the commissioner along with the commissioner of health, available to insurance companies for free on the department of commerce and insurance's website. - Amends TCA Title 48 and Title 56.

TN - SB863 Real Property - As enacted, requires a board of directors for a unit owners' association to either update a reserve study or conduct a reserve study if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 27.

TN - SB866 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, requires the call button to each bed in a general patient area in a nursing home to be easily reachable to, and useable by, a patient. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB868 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 - SB870 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, exempts security guards and officers who are retired law enforcement officers with 20 or more years of service and who retired in good standing from certain training requirements. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 57 and Title 62, Chapter 35.

TN - SB876 Consumer Protection - As introduced, prohibits consumer reporting agencies from including on a consumer report a record of a civil action that is filed in this state, if the action is dismissed or any judgment issued in the action is satisfied. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 9, Chapter 8; Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 16; Title 18; Title 20; Title 21; Title 27; Title 28; Title 29; Title 45; Title 47; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 66.

TN - SB886 Charitable Solicitations - As introduced, exempts a child care agency from the registration requirements for charitable organizations. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 101.

TN - SB909 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 - SB913 Fireworks - As introduced, increases, from two to three days, the permit expiration grace period for a holder of a fireworks permit. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 104.

TN - SB914 Fireworks - As introduced, requires the state fire marshal to accept an application for a public display of fireworks, regardless of when the application is submitted, and approve the permit for the display if all other permitting and safety requirements are met. - Amends TCA Section 68-104-211.

TN - SB926 Industrial Development - As enacted, removes the requirement that members of the board of directors for an industrial development corporation be qualified electors of and taxpayers in the county or city that created the corporation. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53.

TN - SB934 Funeral Directors and Embalmers - As introduced, reduces from 180 days to 90 days, the amount of time in which an operator of a crematory facility must wait from the date of cremation before interring, entombing, or inurning unclaimed cremated human remains. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 5.

TN - SB936 Consumer Protection - As introduced, removes a requirement that sorghum molasses that is sold or offered for sale in this state be prominently labeled as being either 100 percent pure sorghum molasses or not pure sorghum molasses; removes a cause of action for a person who suffers an injury or death, or an ascertainable loss of money or property, as a result of a violation of the labeling requirement. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 15.

TN - SB938 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, enacts the "Affordability is Access Act," which requires individual and group health plans to provide coverage for over-the-counter contraceptives that have been approved for use by the federal food and drug administration. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 53 and Title 56.

TN - SB940 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, changes, from $7.25 to $12, the minimum hourly wage for employees within the state. - Amends TCA Section 8-23-203; Title 12 and Title 50, Chapter 2.

TN - SB964 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 - SB981 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 - SB984 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 - SB996 Internet and e-Commerce - As introduced, prohibits an online payment system from freezing the funds of a user without first providing the user with a 90-day written notice of the online payment system's intent to freeze the user's funds; designates a violation as an unfair or deceptive act or practice pursuant to the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47, Chapter 18.

TN - SB1005 Consumer Protection - As enacted, specifies that it is an unfair or deceptive act to issue or deliver a home service contract to a consumer in this state that does not specify the merchandise and services to be provided, and any applicable limitations, exceptions, or exclusions of the contract. - Amends TCA Section 47-18-104.

TN - SB1015 Employees, Employers - As introduced, enacts the "Family Caregiver Antidiscrimination Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 50.

TN - SB1016 TennCare - As introduced, removes the statutory provision that currently prohibits the governor from making a decision or obligating the state with regard to the expansion of optional enrollment in the medicaid program pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act unless the governor is authorized to do so by joint resolution of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - SB1022 Employees, Employers - As introduced, requires an employer to permit an employee who is a local elected official to leave work in order to perform the duties of the elected office; requires the employer to permit the employee to use the employees available paid time off for that purpose if the employee elects to do so; permits an employer to require the employee to submit a written statement from a local elections official to verify that the employee is a local elected official. - Amends TCA ...

TN - SB1028 Employees, Employers - As introduced, enacts the "Employee Child Care Assistance Partnership Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 50 and Title 56.

TN - SB1030 Real Property - As introduced, increases, from 30 to 35, the number of business days a business entity that owns residential property in this state that is subject to a declaration has to send to the homeowners' association a change in contact information for the business entity or a transfer of the ownership interest in the residential property. - Amends TCA Title 48 and Title 66.

TN - SB1043 Tickets, Admission - As enacted, requires a third-party ticket reseller, ticket broker, ticket issuer, and ticket resale website to meet certain requirements with regard to selling tickets. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 39; Title 47; Title 48 and Title 67.

TN - SB1067 Consumer Protection - As introduced, deems it an unfair and deceptive trade practice for a government agency to hold a membership in an organization that collaborates with, or is directly or indirectly sponsored by, manufacturers of medical products for which the agency is responsible for creating or implementing state policy. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 53 and Title 68.

TN - SB1074 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Preexisting Conditions Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - SB1075 Business and Commerce - As introduced, changes, from 30 days to 35 days, the time within which a check must be presented for payment or given to a depositary bank for collection before the liability of the endorser is discharged under the Uniform Commercial Code. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 9; Title 12; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 61 and Title 67.

TN - SB1084 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, increases, from $7.25 to $15, the minimum hourly wage for employees within the state. - Amends TCA Section 8-23-203; Title 12 and Title 50, Chapter 2.

TN - SB1091 Banks and Financial Institutions - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Fair Access to Financial Services Act." - Amends TCA Title 45; Title 47, Chapter 18, Part 1 and Title 56.

TN - SB1095 Telecommunications - As introduced, specifies that the Tennessee public utility commission shall deem an applicant to have satisfied all requirements necessary for approval of a state-issued certificate of franchise authority if the applicant has provided fiber-to-the-premises to at least 1,000 customers for a period of at least one year prior to the application. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 10; Title 65; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - SB1106 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, deletes the Alarm Contractors Licensing Act of 1991; authorizes counties and municipalities to offer alarm system monitoring under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 32.

TN - SB1109 Employees, Employers - As introduced, requires an employer that requires an immunization as a condition of employment or continued employment to exempt from the immunization requirement a person who files a signed, written statement that the immunization conflicts with the persons religious tenets or practices; prohibits an employer from taking adverse action against a person who files a statement of religious objection. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 14; Title 37; Title 50 and Title 68.

TN - SB1116 Consumer Protection - As introduced, prohibits a motor vehicle dealer or manufacturer from selling, or offering for sale, a subscription service to access certain motor vehicle features; makes a violation an unfair or deceptive act or practice under the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 55, Chapter 17.

TN - SB1143 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 - SB1147 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 - SB1170 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, increases the length of notice the executive director of the board must give a person holding a current licensure registration to practice as a professional or registered nurse that the renewal fee is due, from 60 days to 65 days prior to the due date of the renewal fee. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 49; Title 53; Title 55; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB1178 TennCare - As introduced, authorizes the comptroller to report, in electronic format, the final study, and the oral and written comments, concerning the annual actuarial study of TennCare and participating managed care organizations to the finance, ways and means committees of the senate and the house of representatives, the office of legislative budget analysis, and the fiscal review committee of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - SB1180 Workers Compensation - As introduced, changes, from December 31 to December 15, the date by which the bureau of workers' compensation must produce a report listing the name of each covered employer that failed, during the preceding fiscal year, to provide workers' compensation coverage or qualify as a self-insured employer. - Amends TCA Title 50.

TN - SB1184 Real Property - As introduced, requires payment of a $2,500 fee for the transfer of real property located within communities governed by certain nonprofit property owners' associations; adds other related requirements. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 66.

TN - SB1185 Mobile Homes and Manufactured Buildings - As introduced, requires a mobile home lot owner to provide notice to the lender of financing for the mobile home of a pending eviction; authorizes the mobile home lot owner to seek payment of rent for the mobile home if the lender does not move it within 10 days of the eviction; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 55, Chapter 4, Part 4 and Title 66.

TN - SB1188 Safety - As introduced, enacts the "Fuel Gas Detector Act"; requires the installation and maintenance of fuel gas detectors in rooms containing an appliance fueled by propane, natural gas, or any liquefied petroleum gas for certain residential buildings. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 49; Title 66 and Title 68.

TN - SB1197 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, requires an insurer to provide the names of the beneficiaries of a decedent's life insurance policy, the benefit amount under the policy, and other information requested by a funeral director or funeral establishment that contacts the insurer on behalf of the decedent's family. - Amends TCA Title 35; Title 56 and Title 62, Chapter 5.

TN - SB1198 Cemeteries - As introduced, increases, from 10 to 15, the number of days before the effective date of termination of a temporary permit authorizing operation of a cemetery that the commissioner of commerce and insurance is required to provide notice to a temporary permit holder that the commissioner is terminating the temporary permit. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 11; Title 13; Title 39; Title 46; Title 62 and Title 67.

TN - SB1201 Contractors - As introduced, specifies circumstances under which a contractor can seek early release of a retainage held by a party with which the contractor has a written contract; makes other changes related to retainages for contractors. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 15 and Title 66.

TN - SB1246 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, exempts persons licensed as instructors to teach the practice and theory of aesthetics, manicuring, barbering, or cosmetology from the course requirements necessary to practice as an aesthetician, manicurist, barber, or cosmetologist. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 3 and Title 62, Chapter 4.

TN - SB1247 Professions and Occupations - As enacted, makes revisions to the law relative to reinstating certificates of registration for professional master barbers, barber instructors, and technicians, and licenses of cosmetologists, manicurists, aestheticians, and natural hair stylists. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 3 and Title 62, Chapter 4.

TN - SB1252 Consumer Protection - As introduced, enacts the "Consumer Wheelchair Repair Bill of Rights Act." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.

TN - SB1256 Landlord and Tenant - As introduced, requires residential landlords in Shelby County to register with the county or with the respective jurisdiction in Shelby County in which the dwelling units are located. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 28.

TN - SB1257 Mortgages - As introduced, enacts the "Homeowner Bill of Rights." - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47.

TN - SB1260 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 - SB1263 Workers Compensation - As introduced, permits an injured employee to choose a treating physician in any specialty and makes various other changes related to the selection of treating physicians for injured workers under the Workers Compensation Law. - Amends TCA Title 50.

TN - SB1275 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 - SB1276 Landlord and Tenant - As introduced, requires a landlord, or another person authorized to enter into a rental agreement on the landlord's behalf, to disclose to a residential tenant certain contact information for the agent authorized to manage the premises and an owner of the premises, or a person or agent authorized to act for and on behalf of the owner for the acceptance of service of process and for receipt of notices and demands. - Amends TCA Title 66.

TN - SB1283 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, requires that a broadband ready communitys ordinance or policy for reviewing applications must contain a provision that all applications related to the project be either approved or denied within 30 calendar days, rather than 30 business days, after the applications are submitted. - Amends TCA Title 4.

TN - SB1284 Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, removes references to repealed provisions of law that provided an additional definition of contractor, and additional penalties, in relation to unlawful representation as a licensed contractor. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12; Title 13; Title 42; Title 43; Title 44; Title 45; Title 46; Title 47; Title 48; Title 50; Title 53; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 61; Title 62; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68 and T...

TN - SB1285 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 - SB1286 Financial Institutions, Dept. of - As introduced, removes a reference to a repealed provision of law that required state banks and certain securities broker-dealers to adhere to certain disclosure requirements of the federal deposit insurance corporation. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 45; Title 47 and Title 48.

TN - SB1287 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, removes a reference to a repealed provision of law that established an exception to the prohibition of managed health insurance issuers contacting or employing an agent to directly contact a patient of a physician's practice in an effort to change a referral for services to another provider if the managed health insurance issuer has contracted with the physician directly. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 10; Title 33...

TN - SB1288 Workers Compensation - As introduced, extends from December 31 to January 1, the date by which the bureau of workers' compensation must produce its annual report listing the name of each covered employer that failed, during the preceding state fiscal year, to provide workers' compensation coverage or qualify as a self-insured employer as required by law. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 56.

TN - SB1289 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 - SB1290 Labor and Workforce Development, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the commissioner to ensure that a listing is made available to the public on the department of labor and workforce development's public website of apprenticeship programs that are mandated by state or federal law due to the program sponsor receiving funds or resources from the state or federal government and that are approved by the office of apprenticeship; requires the listing to be updated no less than twice annually. - Am...

TN - SB1291 Consumer Protection - As introduced, increases, from three to five days, the number of days a consumer reporting agency has to place a security freeze on a consumer report after receiving the written or electronic request from the Tennessee consumer. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12; Title 43; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 50; Title 61; Title 66 and Title 67.

TN - SB1292 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 - SB1293 Financial Institutions, Dept. of - As introduced, extends from 30 to 45 days, the time in which the commissioner has to approve a proposed state banks application for a certificate of authority. - Amends TCA Title 45.

TN - SB1294 DNA and Genetic Testing - As enacted, prohibits a life insurance provider from canceling a life insurance policy based on genetic information, from requesting or requiring genetic testing as a condition of insurability, and from accessing the genetic data of an individual without consent. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 27.

TN - SB1295 Consumer Protection - As enacted, enacts the "Genetic Information Privacy Act." - Amends TCA Title 47.

TN - SB1296 Surveyors - As introduced, expands notice requirement for land surveyors conducting boundary surveys by requiring them to notify all adjoining landowners of the survey rather than just when the surveyor discovers or reasonably should have discovered discrepancies between the deed descriptions of the adjoining owners. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 18, Part 1.

TN - SB1297 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, authorizes an insurer that offers a health benefit plan to deliver notices and documents related to health, vision, and dental coverage electronically to its insureds with consent. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - SB1298 Safety - As introduced, enacts the "Rescue Squad Recognition Act," which establishes a process by which the state fire marshal may issue a three-year certificate of recognition to a newly established rescue squad. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 68.

TN - SB1299 Consumer Protection - As introduced, requires a social media platform to provide certain information about its content and data management, business practices, and acceptable use policy; prohibits a social media platform from censoring the expression of a user who resides in this state based on viewpoint or geographic location; imposes other related requirements and prohibitions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 47 and Title 65.

TN - SB1300 Telecommunications - As introduced, removes a requirement that the comptroller report to the general assembly, not later than January 31, 2008, with recommendations regarding whether the pilot project that authorized certain municipal electric systems to provide services beyond their service area with certain limitations should be continued or expanded to other systems. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 9; Title 12; Title 13; Title 35, Chapter 8, Part 1; Section 37-10-204; Section 38-6-121...

TN - SB1301 Workers Compensation - As introduced, extends the permitted occurrence date, from June 30, 2023, to June 30, 2025, for an injury underlying a workers' compensation case in which the court of workers' compensation claims is authorized to award reasonable attorneys' fees and costs if an employer wrongfully denies a claim or fails to timely initiate a benefit to which the employee or a dependent is entitled for the injury. - Amends TCA Section 50-6-226.

TN - SB1311 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, changes the date, from March 19 to March 18, 1991, of authorization for an insurance company affiliate to be considered eligible for a tax credit based on the affiliate's reinsurance agreement with an insurance company, in which the tax imposed on gross premiums is allocated from the ceding company to the reinsuring company and allows the reinsuring company to use the premium tax liability as a tax credit. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 67.

TN - SB1314 Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, prohibits a healthcare prescriber from issuing a prescription for a dual-purpose prescription medication for diabetes to a person in this state if the person does not have a diagnosis of diabetes; defines a dual-purpose prescription medication for diabetes as a prescription drug that has a listed indication for diabetes and may also be used for purposes of weight loss in persons who do not have a diagnosis of diabetes. - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 56; Titl...

TN - SB1328 Charitable Solicitations - As introduced, increases from seven to 14 days the period within which an applicant for a charitable solicitation registration may request a hearing following receipt of notification that the applicant has not satisfied the registration requirements. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 101, Part 5.

TN - SB1338 Economic and Community Development, Dept. of - As enacted, makes various changes relative to the Broadband Accessibility Grant Program. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 7; Title 65 and Title 67.

TN - SB1339 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 - SB1345 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 - SB1174 Business and Commerce - As enacted, revises the types of entities that may serve as registered agents for certain corporations, companies, and partnerships; requires a registered agent to maintain a business office at the location of the agent's registered office. - Amends TCA Title 48 and Title 61.

TN - SB1351 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, removes the provision that transferred the duties required of the Tennessee industrial development authority as of June 30, 1981, relative to the outstanding loan guarantees and commitments made by the authority, to the department of economic and community development. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 67.

TN - SB1353 Consumer Protection - As introduced, prohibits a business entity from retaining a copy, in an electronic or other format, of a person's identification unless the retention of that copy is specifically required by federal or state law, or the business entity obtains the express consent of the holder of that identification; prohibits a business entity from refusing to transact business with a person solely on the basis that the person refuses to provide express consent to the business entity or...

TN - SB1358 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, requires franchise holders, and certificated providers, that provide broadband service to file on or before July 1, 2023, and by July 1 of the two subsequent years thereafter, a map or other information with the appropriate regulatory entity indicating the specific locations where the provider offered broadband service that is capable of delivering download speeds of at least 100 Mbps and upload speeds of at least 20 Mbps. - Amends TCA Title 7 and...

TN - SB1365 Telecommunications - As introduced, prohibits the construction or operation of a cell tower on or within 1,640 feet of a school. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 13 and Title 65.

TN - SB1366 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 - SB1369 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, removes the requirement that an individual applying for an insurance producer license take a prelicensing course of study for a line of authority; removes other references to the prelicensing education requirement for applicants for an insurance producer license. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - SB1377 Codes - As enacted, makes changes to present law concerning residential and energy codes. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 13, Chapter 19 and Title 68, Chapter 120.

TN - SB1378 Banks and Financial Institutions - As introduced, increases, from $1.00 to $5.00, the threshold before which a borrower is entitled to a refund or refund credit of the precomputed interest charge for a loan that is precomputed that the borrower prepays in full. - Amends TCA Title 45, Chapter 12; Title 45, Chapter 18; Title 45, Chapter 5 and Title 45, Chapter 7.

TN - SB1379 Banks and Financial Institutions - As introduced, prohibits a financial institution from releasing or providing the account balance or transaction activity of an account to a person without first obtaining the account holder's express permission or without a warrant issued by a judicial officer located in this state. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47, Chapter 18.

TN - SB1386 Banks and Financial Institutions - As introduced, reduces, from 60 days to 45 days, the time within which, after the end of the calendar year, the commissioner of financial institutions must submit the department's annual report to the governor. - Amends TCA Title 45.

TN - SB1392 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, makes revisions to the Tennessee Right to Shop Act. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - SB1401 Child Custody and Support - As introduced, requires a party who files a divorce complaint to also simultaneously file information regarding whether parties have health insurance coverage in employer-based health coverage and whether such coverage is provided for any children of the marriage; makes mandatory the provision of sworn statements regarding parties' income, expenses, real and personal property, and whether parties have health insurance coverage in employer-based health coverage and ...

TN - SB1404 TennCare - As introduced, adds the legislative librarian as a party to whom the bureau must send a copy of its annual report that describes the nature and purpose of requests to utilize data from the all payer claims database that were submitted to the bureau or the health information committee. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB1410 Labor - As enacted, removes the prohibition that a person 16 or 17 years of age may not be employed in any place where the average monthly gross receipts from the sale of intoxicating beverages exceeds 25 percent of the total gross receipts of the place of employment if the person is not permitted to take orders for or serve intoxicating beverages. - Amends TCA Title 50 and Title 57.

TN - SB1442 TennCare - As introduced, authorizes the bureau of TennCare and the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities to issue their annual joint report to the insurance committee of the house of representatives and the health and welfare committee of the senate on the status of the Katie Beckett program in an electronic format. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB1444 Contractors - As introduced, increases the minimum total project cost amount for which a license as a contractor is required from $25,000 to $40,928; ties the minimum total project cost amount to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics Producer Price Index by Industry: Building Materials and Supplies Dealers; requires the board for licensing contractors to update the amount at least annually and publish the amount on its public website. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1445 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, lowers from 30 to 21 days, the time following a change of business address that a licensed polygraph examiner or licensed company has to notify the commissioner of commerce and insurance in writing. - Amends TCA Title 62.

TN - SB1449 Consumer Protection - As enacted, exempts an affiliate of a business licensed under state insurance laws and a person or entity providing certain service contracts, or an affiliate of the person or entity, from requirements governing businesses that make automatic renewal offers or continuous service offers to consumers. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18, Part 1 and Title 56.

TN - SB1456 Consumer Protection - As introduced, increases the time frame, from 90 to 95 days, when it is considered to be an unfair or deceptive act for a business to advertise that the business is going out of business. - Amends TCA Title 20; Title 29 and Title 47.

TN - SB1507 Education - As introduced, deletes an obsolete reference to the date July 1, 1993, after which a child is not able to enter first grade without having attended an approved kindergarten program, unless the child otherwise meets the requirements of the state board of education for transfer or admission and is accepted by the LEA. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 51; Title 5; Title 6; Title 9; Title 49 and Title 67.

TN - SB1519 Schools, Charter - As introduced, removes the Tennessee public charter school commission as an appellate charter school authorizer; transfers the commission's authority to authorize charter schools on appeal and to serve as the local education agency for each charter school it authorizes to the state board of education; terminates the commission on July 1, 2023. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

TN - SB1523 Tickets, Admission - As introduced, prohibits a ticket vendor from charging additional fees for the sale of a ticket that exceed 15 percent of the face value of the ticket; requires a ticket vendor to disclose the face value of the ticket, the cost of additional mandatory fees, the cost of additional fees charged by the ticket vendor, and the total cost of the ticket, to the consumer; specifies that a violation constitutes an unfair or deceptive act or practice, subject to penalties and remed...

TN - SJR234 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - David Crowell, Tennessee Public Utility Commission

TN - SB1575 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, as an alternative for an applicant for a health-related professional license or certificate having to show United States citizenship or authorization to work in the United States as verified by the SAVE program, allows the applicant to show proof of application for a valid visa that would authorize the applicant to lawfully work in the United States; requires the board of medical examiners to grant a full and unrestricted license to practice medici...

TN - SB1643 Consumer Protection - As introduced, requires commercial entities that publish or distribute material on an internet website, more than one-third of which is sexual material harmful to minors, to verify that an individual attempting to access the material is 18 years of age or older; prohibits a commercial entity or a third party that performs the age verification from retaining any identifying information of the individual. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 68.

TN - SB1651 General Assembly, Directed Studies - As introduced, requires TACIR to conduct a study on approaches to the regulation of artificial intelligence and submit a report of such study, including recommended legislative approaches, to the speakers of each house and the legislative librarian no later than January 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 47.

TN - SB1658 Consumer Protection - As introduced, requires certain data controllers to register with the consumer protection division of the office of the attorney general and reporter; requires the division to create and maintain a website and accessible deletion mechanism that a consumer can use to make a single deletion request that is binding on all controllers registered with the division; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.

TN - SB1661 Charitable Solicitations - As introduced, revises various provisions regarding the regulation of charitable solicitations in this state. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 101, Part 5.

TN - SB1662 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 - SB1666 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 - SB1669 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 - SB1683 Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, caps the total amount that a health insurance carrier can require a covered patient with diabetes to pay for a 30-day supply of insulin at no more than $35; caps the total price that a person who supplies prescription insulin drugs into or within this state for use by a patient with diabetes can charge for a 30-day supply of insulin at no more than $35. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 53; Title 56, Chapter 7; Title 63 and Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - SB1684 Credit, Consumer - As introduced, requires consumer reporting agencies to include on a consumer report reported payments of rent and utilities. - Amends TCA Title 13; Title 45; Title 47 and Title 66.

TN - SB1685 TennCare - As introduced, authorizes the governor to expand medicaid eligibility solely for the purpose of providing gun violence prevention services. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB1692 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 - SB1694 Landlord and Tenant - As introduced, requires a landlord, or another person authorized to enter into a rental agreement on the landlord's behalf, to disclose to a residential tenant certain contact information for the agent authorized to manage the premises and an owner of the premises, or a person or agent authorized to act for and on behalf of the owner for the acceptance of service of process and for receipt of notices and demands. - Amends TCA Title 66.

TN - SB1698 Insurance, Liability - As introduced, expands the conditions under which certain contracts between a taxpayer and tax preparation service company are not considered contracts of insurance to include circumstances when the tax preparation service company obtains a contractual liability insurance policy or posts a bond. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - SB1702 Banks and Financial Institutions - As introduced, makes it an unfair or deceptive practice under the Consumer Protection Act of 1977 for a financial institution to require a firearms retailer to use firearms-specific transaction codes. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 54; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13; Title 45 and Title 47.

TN - SB1735 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 - SB1737 Banks and Financial Institutions - As introduced, requires financial institutions to make determinations about the provision or denial of services based on an analysis of risk factors unique to each current or prospective customer; prohibits financial institutions from denying or canceling services to a person, or otherwise discriminating against a person, based upon the use of a social credit score or other factors. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4 and Title 45.

TN - SB1753 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits the denial of accident and sickness insurance policy benefits when there is a loss due to accidental fentanyl poisoning. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 68.

TN - SB1758 Consumer Protection - As introduced, prohibits a consumer reporting agency from creating or furnishing a consumer report that contains certain information if the information antedates the report by more than seven years, unless certain exceptions apply. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6; Title 45; Title 47; Title 56 and Title 62.

TN - SB1762 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 - SB1764 Uniform Commercial Code - As introduced, defines the term "central bank digital currency" and excludes the term from the definition of "money" for purposes of the Uniform Commercial Code. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 45 and Title 47.

TN - SB1765 Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, requires the department of finance and administration, in collaboration with the department of health and the bureau of TennCare, to apply for federal approval to import prescription drugs from Canada; requires the department to notify the governor, speaker of the house of representatives and speaker of the senate upon receipt of federal approval; requires the department of finance and administration to develop a plan to implement a program within six mon...

TN - SJR847 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Herbert Hilliard, Tennessee Public Utility Commission

TN - SB1792 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 - SB1804 Health Care - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Contraceptive Freedom Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB1817 Employees, Employers - As introduced, requires the bureau of workers compensation to publish the annual report of its review on the impact of the Workers' Compensation Reform Act of 2013 on its website. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 50.

TN - SB1827 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires that every health insurance policy or health benefit plan issued in this state that provides medical and surgical benefits as well as mental health or substance use disorder benefits must cover an annual mental health wellness examination. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 33; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - SB1831 Consumer Protection - As introduced, prohibits consumer reporting agencies from including on a consumer report a record of a medical debt judgment that is filed in this state; requires a healthcare provider or facility that accepts public funds as compensation for losses due to providing uncompensated care to ensure that an amount of outstanding patient debt equal to the amount of public funds accepted is designated as satisfied and that patient is notified of such satisfied debt; prohibits t...

TN - SB1832 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Maternal Health Equity Advisory Committee Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB1833 Consumer Protection - As introduced, prohibits healthcare providers from reporting a patient's medical debt to a consumer reporting agency; prohibits consumer reporting agencies from including on a consumer report a record of a medical debt. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 8; Title 16; Title 18; Title 20; Title 21; Title 27; Title 28; Title 29; Title 45; Title 47; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB1866 Labor - As introduced, clarifies that in determining whether a person is an illegal alien for employment purposes, the person's status is considered with respect to the employment of the person at a particular time. - Amends TCA Title 50.

TN - SB1881 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, removes from the definition of "provider-based telemedicine" the requirement that the healthcare service provider or the provider's practice group or healthcare system have an established provider-patient relationship that is documented by an in-person encounter within 16 months prior to the interactive visit. - Amends TCA Section 56-7-1003.

TN - SB1886 Charitable Institutions - As introduced, provides mechanisms by which a charitable organization providing certain community services may use an official state logo or emblem for purposes of providing such services. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Section 29-34-213.

TN - SB1893 Real Property - As introduced, requires a landlord, leasing company, or management company to disclose all fees charged in addition to the rent during a billing cycle to a prospective tenant prior to the prospective tenant's submission of an application, and whether the landlord or company accepts reusable screening reports or charges an application fee; creates requirements for an individual to use a reusable tenant screening report in an application for residential rental property; makes ot...

TN - SB1894 Consumer Protection - As introduced, requires a business that makes an automatic renewal offer or continuous service offer to a consumer to obtain affirmative consent to the agreement containing the automatic renewal offer terms or continuous service offer terms no less than 60 days before the business charges the consumer's credit or debit card, or the consumer's account through a third party. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.

TN - SB1908 Cemeteries - As introduced, requires a cemetery company offering to sell a grave space in a pre-need contract to offer the option to pre-pay for the interment right and interment services applicable to the space; requires the offer of an option to pre-pay for the interment right and interment services to include a written disclosure of the days of the week for which such services for the purchased interment right would be available without additional fees and that pre-paying for the interment...

TN - SB1909 Cemeteries - As introduced, creates a process by which a grave space will be considered abandoned and revert to the cemetery company that owns or controls the cemetery land or property on which the grave space is located if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 26; Title 35; Title 46 and Title 62, Chapter 5.

TN - SB1911 Business and Commerce - As introduced, authorizes a tanning facility to operate either with a trained attendant on duty or a self-serving customer kiosk that allows a customer to initiate the tanning process without the service of a trained attendant; authorizes a tanning facility to remain open 24 hours a day. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - SB1915 Licenses - As introduced, prohibits certain licensing authorities from automatically barring an individual from licensure because of the individual's criminal record; requires the licensing authority to provide individualized consideration of an individual's criminal record and circumstances; specifies which convictions a licensing authority may consider in making a determination for licensure; makes other changes related to licensure determinations and criminal records. - Amends TCA Title 62...

TN - SB1919 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires a health benefit plan that amends, renews, or delivers a policy of coverage on or after July 1, 2024, and that provides coverage for prescription contraceptives, to provide coverage for a 12-month refill of contraceptives obtained at one time by an insured person, unless the insured requests a smaller supply or the prescriber instructs that the insured must receive a smaller supply. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.

TN - SB1935 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, on or after January 1, 2025, requires a health carrier that issues or renews a health insurance policy, health benefit plan, or contract of accident or health insurance providing benefits for medical or hospital expenses to provide coverage for the expenses of standard fertility services for patients with iatrogenic infertility; excludes employer-sponsored health plans. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27 and Title 56, Chapter 7.

TN - SB1937 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 - SB1950 Real Property - As introduced, prohibits certain foreign-party-controlled businesses from acquiring an interest in public or private land in this state; prohibits certain foreign parties from acquiring agricultural land in this state; requires land acquired in violation of this act to divest such land within two years; creates a Class E felony for violations of the act. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 2.

TN - SB2000 Real Property - As introduced, enacts the "Homeowners' Association Act." - Amends TCA Title 48 and Title 66.

TN - SB2008 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits an insurer, pharmacy benefits manager, or third-party administrator from changing or conditioning the terms of health plan coverage based on availability of financial or other product assistance for a prescription drug; establishes certain procedures for calculating an enrollee's contribution to an applicable cost sharing requirement. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 10; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB2010 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires a health benefit plan to provide coverage and reimbursement for prosthetic and custom orthotic devices in a manner that equals or exceeds the levels of coverage and reimbursement for such devices under the federal medicare program and is no more restrictive than coverage of and reimbursement for other medical devices provided under the health benefit plan. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 47; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - SB2012 Health Care - As introduced, broadens the electronic health care records modernization act to include subjecting healthcare entities to injunctive relief and civil penalties for interfering with their patients accessing electronic health information and prohibiting healthcare entities from disclosing electronic health reports or tests to patients until 72 hours after the results have been finalized in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 47; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB2013 Auctions and Auctioneers - As introduced, clarifies that a public automobile auction means a person that offers motor vehicles for sale to the highest bidder, where buyers are members of the public, by a motor vehicle dealer licensed to sell used motor vehicles that holds a public auto auction license and uses the services of a public automobile auctioneer licensed by the commission. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 17 and Title 62, Chapter 19.

TN - SB2014 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, establishes a 72-hour waiting period before a health benefit plan may require, as a condition of further coverage, that a provider promptly contact the health insurer for prior authorization for continuing treatment and other care for an enrollee. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.

TN - SB2016 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires a 340B entity that receives federal grant funds through 317 or 318 of the Public Health Service Act to enter into an agreement with the department on such terms and conditions as the commissioner may require in order to be eligible to receive in-kind funds from the state or a political subdivision of the state on or after July 1, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 68.

TN - SB2024 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, changes from three to one the number of incorporators or organizers a captive insurance company that is incorporated or organized in this state must have when being organized; deletes the requirement that the incorporator or organizer of the captive insurance company must be a resident of this state when being organized. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - SB2026 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires managed health insurance issuers that offer healthy benefit cards to demonstrate that the healthy benefit cards are accepted at all retail food establishments that meet certain criteria within a given geographic area. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 67.

TN - SB2027 Labor - As introduced, clarifies that under Title 50, Chapter 2, the term "work" has the same meaning as interpreted by the United States supreme court for purposes of the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947; makes additional changes related to Title 50, Chapter 2. - Amends TCA Title 50.

TN - SB2030 Real Property - As introduced, specifies that documents provided through a website with the primary function of providing certificates, registrations, licenses, or similar documents for assistance animals in exchange for payment of a fee are not reliable documentation in seeking an exemption to a prohibition on animals in rental property. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 66.

TN - SB2031 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the commissioner study laws in contiguous states concerning requirements for prescribing and dispensing medication and submit a report of findings to the chair of the health and welfare committee of the senate, the chair of the health committee of the house of representatives, and the legislative librarian on or before December 31, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 20; Title 33; Title 39; Title 47; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Titl...

TN - SB2035 Consumer Protection - As introduced, requires a manufacturer of agricultural equipment or agricultural equipment parts to provide an owner or independent repair shop access to tools, software, and documentation to allow the provision of services for the equipment. - Amends TCA Title 43 and Title 47, Chapter 18.

TN - SB2036 TennCare - As introduced, prohibits an individual from being considered ineligible to receive payment for providing TennCare medicaid-reimbursed home- and community-based long-term care services to an individual eligible to receive such services on the basis that the individual providing care and the individual receiving care reside in the same home. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB2042 Consumer Protection - As introduced, requires a commercial entity that knowingly publishes or distributes on the internet material harmful to minors to provide internet or cellular service subscribers the opportunity to request that the commercial entity block website access through the subscriber's internet or cellular service subscription. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6 and Title 47, Chapter 18.

TN - SB2045 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 - SB2050 Health Care - As introduced, by January 1, 2025, requires the department of health to report to legislative committees the number of persons in this state who have died from accidental fentanyl poisoning over the last 10 years, the methods used by the department to address accidental fentanyl poisoning in this state, and the effectiveness of such methods. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 68.

TN - SB2051 Consumer Protection - As introduced, prohibits a consumer reporting agency from creating or furnishing a consumer report that contains certain information if the information antedates the report by more than seven years, unless certain exceptions apply. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6; Title 45; Title 47; Title 56 and Title 62.

TN - SB2072 Financial Institutions, Dept. of - As introduced, changes how the department calculates annual assessments for trust companies, including differentiating between public and private trust companies; changes the threshold at which a bank may obtain an evaluation in lieu of an appraisal for real property acquired by the bank. - Amends TCA Title 45, Chapter 1 and Title 45, Chapter 2.

TN - SB2094 Workers Compensation - As introduced, requires an employer to report to the bureau of workers compensation each accident that results in a work-related death or personal injury within 14 calendar days of the date the employer is notified of the accident or has knowledge of the accident, whichever is earlier, instead of reporting accidents at different intervals based upon the nature of the injury and whether the injured employee is able to return within seven days of the accident; and makes o...

TN - SB2096 Trade Regulation - As introduced, defines and adds "voice" as a protected personal right; adds commercial availability of a sound recording or audiovisual work in which the individual's name, voice, likeness, or image is readily identifiable to considerations for determining whether non-use has occurred; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 1 and Title 47.

TN - SB2097 Children - As introduced, creates the "Protecting Children from Social Media Act." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.

TN - SB2100 Safety - As introduced, authorizes the use of certain third-party examiners, inspectors, engineers, and professionals in lieu of a local or state examiner, inspector, engineer, or professional for certain permitted processes and requirements; establishes procedures and requirements for the use of a third-party examiner, inspector, engineer, or professional. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 120; Title 68, Chapter 221 and Title 69, Chapter 3, Part 1.

TN - SB2110 Uniform Commercial Code - As introduced, excludes United States central bank digital currency and accounts evidenced by a certificate of deposit from the definition of a deposit account for purposes of secured transactions under the Uniform Commercial Code. - Amends TCA Section 47-9-102.

TN - SB2126 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, increases, from $7.25 to $15, the minimum hourly wage for employees within the state. - Amends TCA Section 8-23-203; Title 12 and Title 50, Chapter 2.

TN - SB2133 Business and Commerce - As introduced, declares that an intrastate commercial good that is produced in this state and that remains within the borders of this state is not subject to federal law or federal regulation under the authority of congress to regulate interstate commerce. - Amends TCA Title 4.

TN - SB2139 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 - SB2142 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 - SB2143 Employees, Employers - As introduced, removes an outdated provision that required the department of labor and workforce development, on or before January 1, 2014, to report to the commerce and labor committee of the senate and the business and utilities committee of the house of representatives concerning the department's findings and recommendations concerning the Tennessee works pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 50.

TN - SB2145 Business Organizations - As introduced, requires incorporators of a corporation to provide at least five days' notice, rather than two days' notice, before holding an organizational meeting to elect directors or a board of directors to complete the organization of the corporation if initial directors are not named in the charter. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 48.

TN - SB2148 Consumer Protection - As introduced, requires financial institutions and insurers to make determinations about the provision or denial of services based on an analysis of risk factors unique to each current or prospective customer; prohibits financial institutions and insurers from denying or canceling services to a person, or otherwise discriminating against a person, based upon the use of a social credit score or other factors. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 45; Title 47 and Title 56.

TN - SB2149 Securities - As introduced, deletes an obsolete reference to a repealed act in the list of securities exempted from the securities registration requirement of the Tennessee Securities Act of 1980. - Amends TCA Title 48.

TN - SB2150 Real Property - As introduced, reduces from 30 business days to 30 days, the amount of time that a business entity that is subject to a declaration has to send notice of a change in contact information for the entity or a transfer of the ownership interest in the residential property to the homeowners' association. - Amends TCA Title 13 and Title 66.

TN - SB2153 Real Property - As introduced, authorizes a member of a homeowners' association for a neighborhood in Williamson County with at least 300 single family residential homes and two or more gates restricting ingress and egress to the neighborhood to request a report from the board of directors for the homeowners' association regarding criminal activity in the gated subdivision; requires the board to compile the report and make it available to each household in the subdivision. - Amends TCA Title ...

TN - SB2163 Codes - As introduced, increases from 10 working days to 15 business days the amount of time the fire marshal has to issue a decision on a dispute between a city and county regarding a building or fire code. - Amends TCA Title 13 and Title 68, Chapter 120.

TN - SB2209 Fireworks - As introduced, allows a firework exhibitor whose license has been expired for 95 or fewer days, rather than 90 or fewer days, to renew the license and have it retroactive to the date the old license expired. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 68.

TN - SB2219 Uniform Commercial Code - As introduced, defines the term "central bank digital currency" and excludes the term from the definition of "money" for purposes of the Uniform Commercial Code. - Amends TCA Title 47.

TN - SB2220 Credit and Debit Cards - As introduced, prohibits certain financial entities from assigning a merchant code to or otherwise classifying a merchant that is a seller of firearms or ammunition separately from a general merchandise retailer or sporting goods retailer; authorizes the department of financial institutions to assess a civil penalty of no more than $10,000 for a violation, or to bring an action to enjoin a violation of the prohibition. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 45 and Title 47.

TN - SB2223 Credit and Debit Cards - As introduced, enacts the "Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act," which prohibits a financial institution from requiring the usage of a merchant code that distinguishes a firearms retailer from a general merchandise retailer or a sporting goods retailer and from disclosing a financial record collected in violation of the prohibition. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6; Title 29; Title 38; Title 39; Title 45 and Title 47.

TN - SB2264 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, reduces, from 75 to 60, days after the end of the pre-need seller's fiscal year the time by which a pre-need seller and trustee must file an annual report with the commissioner of commerce and insurance. - Amends TCA Title 62 and Title 63.

TN - SB2274 Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, requires a pharmacy or other authorized dispensing person or entity to make all reasonable efforts to contact and notify a person of the lowest available cost of a prescription drug prior to the point of sale. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 71.

TN - SB2278 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 - SB2328 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, establishes procedures for recoupment of overpayments made to a healthcare provider by certain health insurance entities. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB2330 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 - SB2339 Public Utility Commission - As introduced, changes, from the first Monday of February to February 15, the date by which the commission is required to submit its annual report to the general assembly and the governor regarding all matters relating to the commission's office for the preceding year. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 65.

TN - SB2361 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits health carriers, health benefit plans, or utilization review organizations from using step therapy protocols as a basis to restrict, delay, or deny coverage for a prescription drug or drug regimen for the treatment of cancer and associated conditions if certain criteria are met. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB2363 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires hospitals and physicians to accept electronic insurance cards as valid proof of an insurance policy, plan, or contract. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 71.

TN - SB2368 Health Care - As introduced, requires the commissioner of finance and administration, or the commissioner's designee, to make available to the public on the department's website any proposed budget document or other financial publication that lists complex rehabilitation technology benefits separately if the document or publication establishes a change in reimbursement for complex rehabilitation technology. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB2370 Computers and Electronic Processing - As introduced, enacts the "Blockchain Basics Act." - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48 and Title 67.

TN - SB2372 Children - As introduced, requires a social media company to obtain parental consent before allowing a minor to create an account or access an already existing account; prohibits a social media company from using practices, designs, or features on the social media platform that the social media company knows or should know cause minors to develop an addiction to the social media platform. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 47, Chapter 18.

TN - SB2373 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 - SB2378 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, increases, from $50,000 to $100,000, the amount of the bond running to the state that every insurance company doing a workers' compensation business in this state must furnish to the commissioner of commerce and insurance; increases, from $100,000 to $200,000, the amount that such a company has on deposit with another state in which the company is organized and domiciled and from which a certificate of that state's commissioner o...

TN - SB2391 Trade Regulation - As introduced, revises provisions governing trade practices and consumer protection. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6, Part 4 and Title 47.

TN - SB2396 Health Care - As introduced, requires gender clinics accepting funds from this state to perform gender transition procedures to also perform detransition procedures; requires insurance entities providing coverage of gender transition procedures to also cover detransition procedures; requires certain gender clinics and insurance entities to report information regarding detransition procedures to the department of health. - Amends TCA Title 1; Title 4; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and...

TN - SB2397 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, urges the department of health along with the department of agriculture to study the effects of the sale and distribution of vapor products to persons under 21 and make recommendations to the legislature with regard to reducing such sale and distribution. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 15.

TN - SB2401 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, mandates private insurance coverage for treatment of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS) and pediatric acute onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS). - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - SB2402 TennCare - As introduced, requires TennCare coverage of treatment of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS) and pediatric acute onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS). - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - SB2409 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, increases the minimum hourly wage for food delivery employees within this state from $7.25 to $12. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12 and Title 50.

TN - SB2429 Contractors - As introduced, changes from a reviewed or audited financial statement prepared by a licensed public accountant or a certified public accountant to a compilation prepared by a licensed public accountant or a certified public accountant that a contractor who is seeking renewal of a license with a monetary limit exceeding $1,500,000 must submit with the renewal application. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 6.

TN - SB2430 Codes - As introduced, prohibits a local government from limiting or prohibiting the use or installation of products that meet the national codes and standards or materials that meet the national codes and standards for single-family or multi-family housing or commercial construction under four stories; deletes provision declaring that a denial of a waiver by a local governmental entity pertaining to construction materials does not constitute a prohibition of those construction materials. - A...

TN - SB2431 Consumer Protection - As introduced, requires a person to include a disclosure on certain content generated by artificial intelligence that the content was generated using artificial intelligence; makes it an unfair or deceptive act or practice under the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977 to distribute certain content generated using artificial intelligence without the required disclosure. - Amends TCA Title 47.

TN - SB2435 Consumer Protection - As introduced, prohibits a person engaged in the business of installing vehicle immobilization devices on motor vehicles from installing a device on a motor vehicle after sunset or before sunrise. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.

TN - SB2446 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, authorizes a local government to require a private employer to pay an hourly wage in excess of the minimum hourly wage set by state or federal law. - Amends TCA Title 12 and Title 50, Chapter 2.

TN - SB2447 Business and Commerce - As introduced, requires the department of economic and community development to establish and support, subject to appropriation, entrepreneurship assistance centers, the purpose of which is to train minority group members, women, individuals with a disability, dislocated workers, and veterans in the principles and practice of entrepreneurship in order to prepare those persons to pursue self-employment opportunities and to pursue a minority-owned business or a women-own...

TN - SB2460 Consumer Protection - As introduced, creates a violation under the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977 for a person or entity that alters the appearance, action, or speech of an individual through the use of synthetic media in a communication that is knowingly distributed publicly with the intent to malign, slander, defame, or otherwise intentionally mislead the public and damage the reputation of the individual. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 8; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 47, C...

TN - SB2466 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, adds as a condition for allowing the board to be able to charge a fee for reviewing and approving prelicensing general contractor education courses that the fee amount is listed on the board's website. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 50; Title 62; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 70.

TN - SB2467 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 - SB2480 Health Care - As introduced, prohibits an ambulance service that has exclusive rights to provide emergency services within a county, municipality, or geographic area from charging rates that are unreasonable, excessive, or based on rates charged by entities that classify individuals as in-network or out-of-network for services provided for calls received by an emergency dispatch center operated by such county, municipality, or geographical area that has given the exclusive rights to the ambul...

TN - SB2490 Business Organizations - As introduced, enacts the "End Hedge Fund Control of Tennessee Homes Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 13; Title 47; Title 48; Title 62; Title 66 and Title 67.

TN - SB2497 Public Utility Commission - As introduced, requires the commission to make the annual report the commission submits to the general assembly and governor regarding all matters relating to its office for the preceding year available on its website in a publicly accessible location. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 54 and Title 65.

TN - SB2498 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 - SB2505 Contracts - As introduced, requires that contracts entered into between a personal seat license (PSL) holder of 10 or more years and a professional sports franchise for the purchase of a subsequent PSL with an upgraded or improved seating classification include a provision that enables the PSL holder to purchase the subsequent PSL for the same price as the previous PSL; applies to all contracts for subsequent PSL purchases entered into for seating at stadiums in certain counties on or after J...

TN - SB2513 Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, establishes a process for the department to issue licenses to commercial breeders of cats and dogs. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 43 and Title 44.

TN - SB2518 Business Organizations - As introduced, increases the minimum filing fee required when certain business entities file an annual report with the secretary of state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 43; Title 48 and Title 61.

TN - SB2522 Home Improvement Contractors - As introduced, increases, from 30 to 35, the number of days after a change of control in ownership, management, or a change of address or trade name, that a home improvement contractor licensee has to notify the state board for licensing contractors. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 29 and Title 62.

TN - SB2523 Real Property - As introduced, redesignates sanctioned foreign governmental and business entities and persons connected with such entities as foreign adversaries; restates the order in which proceeds from the sale of property acquired illegally are disbursed by requiring that the attorney general and bona fide lien holders be reimbursed from such proceeds prior to any remaining funds being paid to the restricted foreign entity; adds banks, credit unions, and those licensed by the department o...

TN - SB2530 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 - SB2535 Statutes and Codification - As introduced, defines "life" for statutory construction purposes to mean the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death; excludes from the definition artificial intelligence, a computer algorithm, a software program, computer hardware, or any type of machine. - Amends TCA Title 1.

TN - SB2537 Economic and Community Development, Dept. of - As introduced, requires that grants provided by the department to provide assistance to distressed counties and communities in this state require a 10-percent match of funds raised locally, which may include public and private funds. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 7.

TN - SB2545 Economic and Community Development, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the comptroller of the treasury to report to the finance, ways and means committee of the senate and the finance, ways and means committee of the house of representatives on the utilization of funds for the Tennessee job skills program, administered by the department of economic and community development, by February 1 annually. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 49; Title 50; Title 62; Title ...

TN - SB2547 Unclaimed Property - As introduced, allows the treasurer to file the annual report regarding the total amount and value of abandoned or unclaimed property with certain executive and legislative branch officials electronically. - Amends TCA Title 43; Title 44; Title 47; Title 48 and Title 66.

TN - SB2553 Health Care - As introduced, authorizes the governor to expand medicaid pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; authorizes the governor to negotiate with the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services to determine the terms of the expansion. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - SB2560 Banks and Financial Institutions - As introduced, enacts the "Equality in Financial Services Act." - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47, Chapter 18.

TN - SB2575 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, prohibits a merchant from taking adverse employment action against an employee based solely on the employee reporting theft of merchandise or organized retail crime to law enforcement; defines "adverse employment action" as dismissing, demoting, suspending, reducing compensation, or transferring an employee for punitive reasons. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 50.

TN - SB2577 Funeral Directors and Embalmers - As introduced, authorizes sellers of pre-need funeral contracts to keep the interest that accrues on the contract after payment is made for the merchandise and services set forth in the contracts. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 5.

TN - SB2578 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 - SB2584 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 - SB2600 Health Care - As introduced, changes, from January 15 to March 1, the date by which the commissioner of health, in consultation with the department of finance and administration and any other state agency involved in the administration of the safety net program, is required to report to the general assembly on data relating to access to care and safety net adequacy related issues. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB2601 Treasurer, State - As introduced, creates a bullion depository within the office of the state treasurer. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 5 and Title 45.

TN - SB2603 Food and Food Products - As introduced, clarifies that a cell-cultured protein offered for sale, sold, or distributed in this state and labeled or advertised as meat, a meat food product, poultry, or a poultry food product is misbranded under the Tennessee Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act; specifies that under the Tennessee Meat and Poultry Inspection Act the definitions of "meat," "meat food product," "poultry," or "poultry food product" do not include a cell-cultured protein. - Amends TCA Title...

TN - SB2611 Business and Commerce - As introduced, requires corporations registered with the secretary of state to submit certain information to the secretary of state; requires corporations that are publicly held domestic or foreign corporations with their principal executive offices located in this state to provide the secretary of state with information regarding diversity of board members and officers; requires the secretary of state to publish certain information regarding such diversity. - Amends T...

TN - SB2614 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, specifies that gold, silver, platinum, and palladium are included in the definition of precious metals as the term relates to the treasurer's purchase and sale of precious metal bullion or specie. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 38; Title 45 and Title 67.

TN - SB2615 Consumer Protection - As introduced, prohibits a person selling or offering for sale goods or services at retail, and who employs at least six employees, from requiring a buyer to pay using credit for in-person transactions; requires a person selling or offering for sale goods or services at retail to accept legal tender when offered by the buyer as payment; violations treated as a prohibited practice under the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 47, Chap...

TN - SB2618 Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to publish on its website the notices it receives of the exact location that blasting will occur and the beginning and end date of the blasting. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 105.

TN - SB2623 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, requires, on or before January 1, 2025, the commissioner of economic and community development, in consultation with the commissioner of revenue, to report to the finance, ways and means committees of the house of representatives and the senate on the economic development impact of the Border Region Retail Tourism Development District Act on the regions of the state where certified border region retail tourism development districts are locat...

TN - SB2629 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, on or after January 1, 2025, requires a health carrier that issues or renews a health insurance policy, health benefit plan, or contract of accident or health insurance providing benefits for medical or hospital expenses to provide coverage for the expenses of standard fertility services for patients with infertility as the result of cancer treatment; excludes employer-sponsored health plans. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27 and ...

TN - SB2638 Advertising - As introduced, bans pharmaceutical advertisements in newspapers, online, and on television in this state. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 53 and Title 68.

TN - SB2639 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 - SB2640 Uniform Commercial Code - As introduced, increases, from 10 to 11 days, the time a merchant has to provide a written notice of objection to a writing or record that confirms a contract between the recipient and another merchant before the writing or record is considered sufficient to satisfy the statute of frauds under the Uniform Commercial Code. - Amends TCA Title 47.

TN - SB2646 Employees, Employers - As introduced, increases the hourly minimum wage to $20.00, or the federal minimum wage established pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, whichever rate is greater. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 23; Title 12, Chapter 4, Part 4 and Title 50, Chapter 2.

TN - SB2676 TennCare - As introduced, prohibits a TennCare enrollee from staying in an emergency department or emergency room facility for more than 72 hours without medical necessity; imposes penalties on TennCare and managed care organizations for causing an enrollees extended emergency department or emergency room facility stay. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB2687 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, specifies that an individual who has been a licensed insurance producer since January 1, 2004, rather than January 1, 1994, is not required to complete continuing education requirements for renewal of the insurance producer license. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 6.

TN - SB2692 Surveyors - As introduced, requires a description of real property by metes and bounds contained within any deed of conveyance of real property of any property not previously described in a recorded instrument to be prepared by a registered land surveyor. - Amends TCA Title 62 and Title 66, Chapter 5, Part 1.

TN - SB2693 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, redefines "cable services" and "video services" for purposes of the Competitive Cable and Video Services Act to include video programming accessed via a service that enables end users to access content, information, electronic mail, or other services offered over the internet, including streaming video content; includes revenue from providing internet services as gross revenue for a holder of a state-issued certificate of franchise authority. - Am...

TN - SB2698 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, requires an applicant for an insurance producer license for title insurance to complete a pre-licensing course of study that consists of a minimum of 30 hours of course work. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - SB2702 Real Property - As introduced, increases from $2,000 to $3,000, the amount per violation assessed by the secretary of state as a civil penalty against a sanctioned nonresident alien, sanctioned foreign business, sanctioned foreign government, or agent, trustee, or other fiduciary thereof, for failing to timely register with the secretary of state an interest in real property in this state on or after July 1, 2023, held by such individual or entity. - Amends TCA Title 66.

TN - SB2707 Interest Rates - As introduced, changes the definition of a "home loan" to a closed-end loan with a term of at least 241 months; removes existing variable limits on the maximum effective rate of annual interest on home loans of no higher than two points greater than the rate established by the FNMA auction or four points greater than the 30-year treasury bond market yield index, leaving the maximum rate of interest per annum for home loans that may be charged at a fixed 18 percent limit. - Am...

TN - SB2709 Private Investigators - As introduced, authorizes sponsors of private investigator apprentices to submit apprentice training reports to the commissioner of commerce and insurance electronically. - Amends TCA Title 62 and Title 68, Chapter 21.

TN - SB2712 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, authorizes economic incentive programs for persons with disabilities to submit electronically their list of existing employment incentive programs promoting the hiring of disabled individuals to the commissioner of revenue for approval, on or before July 1 each year. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 7; Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 21.

TN - SB2732 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 - SB2733 TennCare - As introduced, authorizes the governor to expand medicaid for mental health prevention and treatment pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; authorizes the governor to negotiate with the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services to determine the terms of the expansion. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33 and Title 71.

TN - SB2735 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 - SB2737 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 - SB2738 Health Care - As introduced, removes an outdated requirement that the apprentice plan developed by the boards and commissions of the various medical professions, in consultation with the division of health related boards, be submitted to the speakers, the government operations committees of the senate and house of representatives, the commissioner of commerce and insurance, the commissioner of health, and the commissioner of labor and workforce development on or before December 31, 2014. - Am...

TN - SB2753 Charitable Solicitations - As introduced, exempts a child care agency from the registration requirements for charitable organizations. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 101.

TN - SB2799 Children - As introduced, requires the commissioner of labor and workforce development to furnish a minor and the minor's parent or guardian with a written statement of the reasons for the commissioner's refusal to grant a special exemption to the Child Labor Act of 1976 when a demand for a written statement of the reasons of the refusal is made within seven days, instead of five, of the refusal for the special exemption. - Amends TCA Title 50.

TN - SB2800 Banks and Financial Institutions - As introduced, requires a state bank to report to the commissioner of financial institutions within 48 hours, rather than 24 hours, any changes in chief executive officers of the state bank. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 45 and Title 68.

TN - SB2801 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 - SB2806 Real Property - As introduced, enacts the "Private Property Protection Act," which provides a method for a property owner to seek just compensation for a diminution of value of the property caused by the enactment or enforcement of land use regulations on the property. - Amends TCA Title 29.

TN - SB2811 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 - SB2812 Health Care - As introduced, requires a health insurance carrier to provide certain information used by the health insurance carrier to calculate payments paid to the healthcare provider within 10 calendar days, rather than 10 business days, of receipt of a written request from a healthcare provider. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB2818 Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, extends from 10 to 14 days the period following receipt of notice from the board of pharmacy within which an owner or person in possession of drugs or devices that have been deemed misbranded or adulterated must request a show cause hearing before the board on the applicability of the adulterated drug or device statute. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 53; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - SB2839 Fireworks - As introduced, removes the requirement that a request for the issuance of a retailer's or seasonal retailer's fireworks permit be accompanied by a statement signed by the chief executive officer of the county or municipality in which fireworks are to be sold or offered for sale, or a person appointed or designated by the chief executive officer, that the sale of fireworks in the county or municipality is permissible. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 104.

TN - SB2843 Real Property - As introduced, restricts certain real property transactions by certain foreign aliens and entities. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 20 and Title 66, Chapter 2.

TN - SB2851 Cooperatives - As introduced, authorizes a cooperative that services Stewart, Cheatham, Robertson, Sumner, and Montgomery counties to provide broadband service within the jurisdictional limits of Springfield. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 65; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - SB2857 Safety - As introduced, prohibits the use of physical broadband infrastructure and equipment from certain entities and countries in the construction or use of existing critical telecommunications infrastructure; establishes related requirements and penalties. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 13; Title 49 and Title 65.

TN - SB2858 Consumer Protection - As introduced, creates the "Motor Vehicle Consumer Privacy Act of 2024." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 47 and Title 65, Chapter 4.

TN - SB2863 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 - SB2870 Food and Food Products - As introduced, prohibits the importation, sale, and distribution of cell-cultured food products in this state. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 44; Title 47 and Title 53.

TN - SB2876 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires certain insurance policies or contracts that cover pregnancy and maternity benefits to cover benefits of perinatal educational courses, at no cost, for mothers, fathers, and one other person designated by the mother; requires insurance providers required to provide such benefits to provide information about such courses on their website. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - SB2883 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 - SB2891 Consumer Protection - As introduced, removes an obsolete provision that applied penalties and remedies of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977 to a repealed part of the Code. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.

TN - SB2893 Labor and Workforce Development, Dept. of - As introduced, removes the requirement that, no later than December 31, 2021, the commissioner, or the commissioner's designee, submit to the U.S. secretary of labor and the administrator of the national office of apprenticeship, an application to recognize the Tennessee office of apprenticeship as a state apprenticeship agency pursuant to federal law. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 50.

TN - SB2899 Real Property - As introduced, updates requirements regarding public notice for a foreclosure sale of real property, including a requirement that public notice be posted on the secretary of state's website. - Amends TCA Title 35.

TN - SB2906 Contractors - As introduced, removes references to repealed provisions of law that provided an additional definition of contractor, and additional penalties, in relation to unlawful representation as a licensed contractor. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12; Title 13; Title 42; Title 43; Title 44; Title 45; Title 46; Title 47; Title 48; Title 50; Title 53; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 61; Title 62; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB2907 Economic and Community Development, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to include information on which unserved locations have received or are in the process of receiving broadband service since the last update to the broadband accessibility map. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 7 and Title 65.

TN - SB2908 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, authorizes a funeral director or funeral establishment providing funeral services for a deceased person insured or believed to be insured under a contract of life insurance to request certain information about the life insurance contract. - Amends TCA Title 35; Title 56 and Title 62, Chapter 5.

TN - SB2909 Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to compile and maintain a list of employers that are self-insured for purposes of workers' compensation; requires the list to be published on the department's website in a publicly accessible location. - Amends TCA Title 12; Title 48; Title 50 and Title 56.

TN - SB2910 Credit and Debit Cards - As introduced, prohibits certain financial entities from assigning a merchant code to or otherwise classifying a merchant that is a seller of firearms or ammunition separately from a general merchandise retailer or sporting goods retailer; authorizes the department of financial institutions to assess a civil penalty of no more than $10,000 for a violation, or to bring an action to enjoin a violation of the prohibition. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 45 and Title 47.

TN - SB2925 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, authorizes the commissioners of economic and community development and revenue to electronically submit their report of their findings and recommendations regarding franchise tax credits, excise tax credits, and sales and use tax credits available to certain businesses that is due every four years to the governor, the speakers of both houses, the finance, ways and means committees of both houses, and the office of legislative budget analysis. - Am...

TN - SB2927 Real Property - As introduced, prohibits certain Chinese entities from directly or indirectly owning, having a controlling interest in, acquiring by purchase, grant, devise, or descent an interest, or holding by lease, contract, or usufruct an interest in, except a de minimus indirect interest, real property in this state or real property within 10 miles of a military installation; requires divestment within two years of any such interest unlawfully held; requires certain property owners to r...