Tennessee Rep. Mary Littleton (R)

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TN - Civil Justice (House)

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TN - Children & Family Affairs Subcommittee (House)

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

TN - HB1105 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, changes from January 15 to February 15 of each year the date by which the department must evaluate the success of programs for at risk adolescents and report findings and recommendations to the judiciary committee of the senate and the civil justice committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 37 and Title 49.

TN - HB2167 District Attorneys - As introduced, changes, from January 15 to February 15, the date by which district attorneys general must annually report on the status and progress of child protective teams organized in their respective district to the judiciary committee of the senate and the civil justice committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 33; Title 34; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 49; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1228 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, allows the annual report of financial expenditures, activities, and proposed plans, which is submitted by the board of directors of the South Central Tennessee Railroad Authority to the department of transportation and to the governing bodies of Dickson, Hickman, Lewis, Perry, and Wayne counties, and the cities of Centerville, Dickson, Hohenwald, Linden, and Waynesboro, to be submitted electronically. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 64, Chapter 2, Part 2.

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

TN - HR164 Memorials, Recognition - National Drug Endangered Children Awareness Day, April 24, 2024

TN - HJR792 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Arnold Simpkins, 100th birthday

TN - HJR978 Memorials, Recognition - Frances Fambrough, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

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

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

TN - HB2706 Education - As introduced, clarifies that it is the commissioner of safety with whom a copy of each local education agency's district-wide comprehensive safety plan and each building-level school safety plan, including all amendments to each such plan, must be filed no later than 30 days after its adoption. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 37; Title 49 and Title 68.

TN - HB2166 Courts, Juvenile - As introduced, allows a child found to be dependent or neglected to be committed or confined to an institution or other facility designed or operated for the benefit of delinquent children if the court finds by a preponderance of the evidence that the child may pose a risk of harm to the child's self or others and is in need of intensive services. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - HB2168 Orders of Protection - As introduced, states that an order of protection issued by a general sessions court or other official remains in effect during the appeal to circuit or chancery court unless otherwise ordered by the general sessions judge or official. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6.

TN - HJR1371 Memorials, Recognition - National Drug Endangered Children Awareness Day, April 24, 2024

TN - HB2165 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires a request made by a student to an employee of the student's LEA or public charter school for an accommodation to affirm the student's gender identity to be reported to a school administrator and to the student's parent; prohibits an employee of an LEA or public charter school from knowingly providing false or misleading information to a student's parent regarding the student's gender identity or intention to transition to a gender that differs from the student's sex at the time of birth; authorizes civil actions to be filed by parents and by the attorney general and reporter against a noncompliant LEA or public charter school. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2788 Child Abuse - As introduced, allows the district attorneys general conference, the administrative office of the courts, the Tennessee chapter of children's advocacy centers, the department of children's services, and law enforcement agencies to enter into data sharing agreements that allow for the sharing of information necessary to ensure compliance with statutory reporting requirements; specifies that data shared pursuant to an agreement retains its confidential status consistent with current law. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 2 and Title 37.

TN - HJR571 Memorials, Recognition - Youth efforts on behalf of mental health legislation

TN - HB558 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires an LEA or public charter school to allow a student to be absent from school for one full school day each year to allow the student time to address the student's mental or behavioral health. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

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

TN - HJR19 Memorials, Congress - Urges Congress to permit states to make child abuse registries public.

TN - HJR705 Memorials, Retirement - Sergeant Deadrick Grimes

TN - HB677 Wine & Wineries - As introduced, authorizes a person to serve as the designated manager for up to 10 retail food stores for purposes of ordering and receiving deliveries of wine from a wholesaler. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - HB753 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, changes a utility district board member's insurance compensation option from payment to reimbursement of payment for premiums paid for equivalent or similar medical insurance coverage and life insurance coverage by the member; allows a utility district board member to receive reimbursement of premiums paid for medical insurance coverage under medicare and any medicare supplement insurance policy. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 82.

TN - HJR383 Memorials, Recognition - Harpeth High School, official Special Olympics Unified Champion School

TN - HJR1133 Memorials, Recognition - Katie Collins, 2024 4-H Youth in Action Award

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

TN - HB2704 Child Abuse - As introduced, permits the second look commission to electronically submit the report detailing the commission's findings and recommendations from a review of an appropriate sampling of cases involving a second or subsequent incident of severe child abuse to the governor, the senate judiciary and health and welfare committees, and the house of representatives civil justice committee. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

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

TN - HB1546 Burns - Subject to local approval, moves from the first Monday in April to the second Monday in April the date for the biennial organizational meeting of the incoming board of commissioners; moves the monthly meeting of the board to the second Monday of each month; expands the board's authority with respect to public infrastructure and the board's ability to exercise eminent domain in furtherance of that purpose. - Amends Chapter 89 of the Private Acts of 2008.

TN - HB83 Ashland City - Subject to local approval, changes the dates for elections for mayor and councilman from the first Saturday in December in odd-numbered years to the third Thursday in August in even-numbered years. - Amends Chapter 121 of the Private Acts of 2004; as amended.

TN - HB2791 Courts, Juvenile - As introduced, requires the administrative office of the courts to submit a report, by July 1 and January 1 of each year, listing each juvenile court, if any, that is not in compliance with quality statewide data collection requirements, including the dates of noncompliance and steps that could be taken to bring the court into compliance; requires the report to be filed with the juvenile court judge for the court that is not in compliance with this section and the chairs of the judiciary committee of the senate and the civil justice committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - HB914 Children - As introduced, adds, as a condition to a court permitting a dependent or neglected child under three years of age to remain with the child's parent, guardian, or other custodian, a requirement that the parent, guardian, or other custodian submit to the department of children's services documentation of a well-baby routine examination by a licensed physician at certain intervals if the child has been diagnosed with neonatal abstinence syndrome. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB709 Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to obtain specific authorization from the general assembly before seeking, applying for, accepting, or renewing a waiver of work requirements established by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; prohibits the department from exercising the state's option to provide an exemption from the work requirements; requires the department to assign individuals who are subject to participation conditions to an appropriate employment and training program. - Amends TCA Title 71.

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

TN - HB1102 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, increases from $25 to $30, the civil penalty imposed by the alcoholic beverage commission for each day a licensee that sells alcoholic beverages at retail not for consumption on the premises, or a licensee that sells alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises, fails to post a sign provided by the commission containing a warning that drinking alcoholic beverages during pregnancy can cause birth defects, including fetal alcohol syndrome and fetal alcohol effects. - Amends TCA Title 57.

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

TN - HJR979 Memorials, Recognition - Kerry Pruett, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

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

TN - HB1817 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class D felony for the offense of child endangerment by a parent or custodian of a child eight years of age or less if the parent or guardian knowingly exposes the child to, or knowingly fails to protect the child from, abuse or neglect resulting in physical injury or imminent danger to the child; increases the penalty from a Class D felony to a Class B felony for a person who negligently, by act or omission, engages in conduct that places a child eight years of age or less in imminent danger of death, bodily injury, or physical or mental impairment. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HJR1348 Memorials, Recognition - Jerry V. Smith, Dickson County 2024 Good Scout Award

TN - HB913 Controlled Substances - As introduced, requires a practitioner to discuss with patients the addiction and overdose risks associated with certain prescription drugs, alternative treatments that may be available, and the reasons why the prescription is necessary prior to issuing an initial prescription and prior to issuing a third prescription for certain controlled substances in a course of treatment for acute or chronic pain. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 53 and Title 63.

TN - HB399 Sexual Offenses - As introduced, increases the maximum age for a victim of aggravated rape of a child from eight years of age to 12 years of age; changes the age for rape of a child from more than eight years of age but less than 13 years of age to more than 12 years of age but less than 18 years of age; increases the punishment for incest if the offense was committed against a child under 18 years of age from a Class C felony to a Class A felony punishable by a mandatory sentence of imprisonment for life without possibility of parole. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13 and Title 39, Chapter 15.

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

TN - HJR68 Memorials, Death - Charles Ray Williams

TN - HB557 Evidence - As enacted, expands the admissibility of a forensic interview to include statements made by a child under 18 years of age rather than under 13 years of age; expands admissible forensic interviews from statements made by a child describing sexual contact performed with or on the child by another to statements describing sexual or physically violent contact performed with or on the child by another or performed by a person with or on another and witnessed by the child; makes other changes relevant to forensic interviews. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 7 and Title 37.

TN - HJR1282 Memorials, Recognition - Ashland City Free Will Baptist Church, 100th anniversary

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

TN - HB590 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, changes from March 1 to March 15, the date by which the department must make a presentation to the appropriate committees of the senate and the house of representatives on the comprehensive annual report of the status of child care agencies within the state subject to the department's jurisdiction. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 15; Title 16; Title 36; Title 37; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB398 Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, requires mental health evaluation and treatment for juveniles who commit aggravated animal cruelty under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39.

TN - HJR409 Memorials, Recognition - Pioneer Bible Class of Dickson First United Methodist Church, 100th anniversary

TN - HB2164 County Boundaries - As introduced, requires an application for legislation to change a county boundary to include the physical address of each parcel of real property subject to the application. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 8 and Title 66.

TN - HB397 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, adds the state and local government committee of the senate and the state government committee of the house of representatives to the list of entities to which the Tennessee Wine and Grape Board must submit its annual report. - Amends TCA Title 57.

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

TN - HB752 Children - As enacted, creates a criminal offense of a foster parent from a kinship placement knowingly allowing a child in the foster parent's care to visit with the child's parent if the foster parent has knowledge of a current court order prohibiting the parent from visiting with the child, with a first violation being a Class C misdemeanor punishable by a fine only and a second or subsequent violation being a Class B misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39.

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

TN - HJR557 Memorials, Recognition - National Drug Endangered Children Awareness Day, April 26, 2023

TN - HB554 District Attorneys - As enacted, requires district attorneys general to designate one assistant district attorney general as the lead prosecutor in cases involving crimes committed against children; requires the Tennessee bureau of investigation to provide annual training to assistant district attorneys designated as lead prosecutors in crimes committed against children. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 7; Title 16, Chapter 2 and Title 38, Chapter 6.

TN - HJR724 Memorials, Recognition - TriStar Horizon Medical Center, 65th anniversary

TN - HJR67 Memorials, Recognition - Run for the Fallen

TN - HB2701 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 - HJR463 Memorials, Recognition - Anna Claire Christy, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - HJR866 Memorials, Retirement - Police Chief Jeff Lewis, Dickson Police Department

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

TN - HB2703 Children - As introduced, deletes obsolete requirements for a joint report on juvenile justice data collection required to be submitted to the governor and the speakers of each house of the general assembly on or before January 1, 2019. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - HJR494 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Emily Williams, Eagle Scout

TN - HB2790 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates a Class B misdemeanor that is committed when a person knowingly tampers with, removes, or vandalizes a monitoring device that the person is required to use as a condition of bond, probation, or parole; requires an entity monitoring such a device to notify the court with jurisdiction over the person's bond, board of parole, or probation officer upon becoming aware that there has been an attempt to either tamper with, disable, remove, or otherwise make the device ineffective. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - HB1559 Burns - Subject to local approval, moves from the first Monday in April to the second Monday in April the date for the biennial organizational meeting of the incoming board of commissioners; moves the monthly meeting of the board to the second Monday of each month. - Amends Chapter 89 of the Private Acts of 2008.

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

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

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

TN - HJR464 Memorials, Recognition - Marjorie "Cricket" Allen, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - HB1227 Opioids - As introduced, requires the department of mental health and substance abuse services to make available on its public website an electronic copy of the written minutes of each meeting of the Tennessee opioid abatement council. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2789 Sexual Offenses - As introduced, creates the offense of aggravated patronizing prostitution; requires testing of a person initially arrested for aggravated patronizing prostitution for HIV. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2792 Driver Licenses - As introduced, requires the department of safety to establish and implement a secure digital license system for the issuance of digital driver licenses and photo identification licenses upon request. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3.

TN - HB553 TennCare - As introduced, reduces from 30 days to 15 days the time within which an enrollee or applicant is responsible for mailing documentation of any material change affecting any information given to the bureau or in the enrollee's or applicant's application. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1101 Driver Licenses - As enacted, authorizes a minor who is issued a motorcycle learner's permit and who has completed a certified motorcycle education course approved by the department of safety to operate a motorcycle without limitations on the distance from the minor's home if the minor is accompanied by, and under the direct supervision of, a parent or legal guardian who is also operating a motorcycle and who holds a valid motorcycle operator's license. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50 and Title 55, Chapter 51.

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

TN - HJR852 Memorials, Retirement - Margaret "Missy" Sullivan

TN - HJR977 Memorials, Recognition - Courtney Campbell, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - HB1104 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, changes, from 18 years to 17 years, the age at which a juvenile committed to the department for an offense punishable by confinement in the penitentiary may be found to be incorrigible and, subject to an agreement between the commissioner of correction and the commissioner of children's services, may be transferred to the penitentiary. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.

TN - HB2705 Education, Higher - As introduced, provides a 25 percent tuition discount to children under 24 years of age whose parent is a full-time employee of a public school or public charter school in a position other than as a teacher, and has been employed by public school or public charter school in this state for at least seven consecutive years. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB867 Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As introduced, authorizes sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages on certain commercial passenger buses. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4.

TN - HB2933 Autopsies - As introduced, requires the medical examiner's office or regional forensic center to ascertain and document current psychotropic drug use, and prescription drug use from the past 10 years, by a deceased individual who died under suspicious, unusual, or unnatural circumstances, and any blood, tissue, or other tests as necessary; requires the medical examiners office to disclose the psychotropic drug use of the individual to the public, to ensure accurate vital statistics relating to homicides and suicides. - Amends TCA Title 38.

TN - HJR725 Memorials, Retirement - Roshon Rosie Heath

TN - SB1237 Schools, Private - As enacted, limits the ability of a student enrolled in a private school to participate in an interscholastic athletic activity or event, to such activity or event where membership in the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association is required, in accordance with the student's immutable biological sex as determined by anatomy and genetics existing at the time of birth. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 50.

TN - SB799 Health, Dept. of - As enacted, authorizes the department to disclose de-identified data that is collected from records maintained by ambulance service and invalid vehicle operators licensed or permitted by the department, including for the purpose of providing opioid overdose response and resources throughout this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33 and Title 68.

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

TN - SB1420 Judges and Chancellors - As enacted, adds one additional criminal court judge in the thirteenth judicial district, one additional circuit court judge in the nineteenth judicial district, and one additional circuit court judge in the twenty-second judicial district. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.

TN - SB637 Attorney General and Reporter - As enacted, adds additional companies to the statewide opioid settlement agreement for which the attorney general and reporter has the authority to release pending or future claims. - Amends TCA Title 20 and Title 33.

TN - SJR361 Memorials, Recognition - Paige Clark, Miss Tennessee Volunteer 2023

TN - SJR556 Memorials, Recognition - Jasmine Carson

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 - SJR174 Memorials, Recognition - Danube Institute

TN - SB854 Election Laws - As enacted, allows a candidate to demand and receive a list of all voters who changed their residential address at the polling place; requires a recount to include the verification of any address of residence changed at the polling place. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 17 and Title 2, Chapter 8.

TN - SB535 Adoption - As enacted, revises the definition of abandonment for purposes of termination of parental rights to include circumstances where the parent or guardian fails to visit or support the child for a period of three consecutive months if the child is less than four years of age. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1; Title 37, Chapter 5 and Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - SB258 DUI Offenses - As enacted, requires that any ignition interlock device that is installed on or after January 1, 2024, employ global positioning system (GPS) technology that will geotag the motor vehicle's location whenever an initial startup test, a random retest, or a skipped test occurs, or when circumvention of the device is detected. - Amends TCA Section 55-10-411.

TN - SB172 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, exempts from the offense of possessing or carrying a weapon on school property the possession or carrying of a pocket knife by a nonstudent adult on election day if the knife remains concealed at all times while the adult is on school property for the sole purpose of voting in an election for which the school is the adult's designated polling place. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17 and Title 49.

TN - SJR128 Memorials, Death - Clara Louise Macklin

TN - SB1501 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, changes the date, from February 1 to January 15, by which the commissioner must annually report to the governor and the general assembly on the implementation of and compliance with the Schools Against Violence in Education Act. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 49.

TN - SB1103 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to file a petition to terminate the parental rights of a parent if the parent has not substantially complied with the statement of responsibilities in the child's permanency plan and the period of time originally established in the child's permanency plan has elapsed. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - SB1119 Naming and Designating - As enacted, designates the National Guard Armory to be constructed in Warren County as the "Major General Terry Max Haston National Guard Armory".

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

TN - SB1208 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department, in administering the individualized education account program, to develop and implement a process for notifying all parents of their children's potential eligibility for an individualized education account, instead of only ensuring lower-income families are so notified; requires the department to report whether the process increased student participation in the program to the education committee of the senate and the education administration committee of the house of representatives by January 31 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SJR159 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Credit Unions, 100 years

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 - SB932 Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, revises present law relative to admission to bail. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - SB1230 Gaming - As enacted, requires the department of mental health and substance abuse services to use funds distributed from revenue received from sports gaming to provide treatment services for juvenile addiction and mental health disorders secondary to providing services for gambling addiction and gambling disorders. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 14; Title 38; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 5; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 49 and Title 67.

TN - SB1278 Birth Control - As introduced, requires the department of health to provide voluntary reversible long-acting contraception to women at no charge. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 1.

TN - SB1056 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor for a warden or chief administrative officer employed by a penal institution, who knows that certain offenses have occurred within the institution, to fail to report such offenses to the district attorney general for the judicial district in which the institution is located and the district attorney general who prosecuted the offense for which the offender is incarcerated within five business days of becoming aware of the offense being committed; authorizes the court to order sentences to run consecutively if the court finds by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant was incarcerated at the time of the offense and is convicted of an offense that is reportable by a warden or chief administrator. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

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

TN - SB1121 Handgun Permits - As introduced, eliminates the application and processing fee for an enhanced handgun carry permit. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

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

TN - HB753 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, changes a utility district board member's insurance compensation option from payment to reimbursement of payment for premiums paid for equivalent or similar medical insurance coverage and life insurance coverage by the member; allows a utility district board member to receive reimbursement of premiums paid for medical insurance coverage under medicare and any medicare supplement insurance policy. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 82.

TN - SB536 Child Abuse - As introduced, adds, for purposes of juvenile court proceedings and termination of parental rights proceedings, certain offenses to those that constitute severe child abuse if the act was committed toward the child or there was a knowing failure to protect the child from the commission of the act toward the child. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1 and Title 37, Chapter 1.

TN - SB1418 Judges and Chancellors - As introduced, adds an additional trial court in the 23rd judicial district composed of Cheatham, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, and Stewart counties effective September 1, 2023, with the additional judge or chancellor to be appointed by the governor. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2, Part 5.

TN - SJR355 Memorials, Sports - Hampton High School boys' basketball team, TSSAA Division I, Class 1A state champions

TN - SB18 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, requires that a person convicted of especially aggravated kidnapping, aggravated rape, or rape be sentenced from within at least Range II for the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB271 Environment and Conservation, Department of - As enacted, establishes a "brownfield redevelopment area fund" to be used by the department to administer a brownfield redevelopment area grant program; creates a franchise and excise tax credit equal to the remediation costs for a brownfield property for a qualified development project in a tier 3 or tier 4 enhancement county; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53, Part 3; Title 9, Chapter 23; Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20 and Title 68, Chapter 212, Part 2.

TN - SB447 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to notify the committing court within a certain period of time of the proposed discharge of a child committed to the custody of the department for an indefinite time; establishes a procedure to be followed when the committing court objects to the department's discharge of the child. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - SB1318 Alcohol Offenses, Motor Vehicles - As enacted, enacts the "Silas Gable Flatt Law," which creates an offense of knowingly providing a motor vehicle to another person who the provider of the vehicle knows or should know is under the influence of an intoxicant or whose driver license has been suspended or revoked under certain circumstances, punishable as a Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55, Chapter 10.

TN - SB543 Children - As enacted, creates the child care improvement fund, to be administered by the department of human services; creates a child care improvement pilot program to provide grants to nonprofit organizations to be used for establishing a new child care agency in this state or making improvements to, or assisting with staffing, recruitment, or salary gaps, at an existing child care agency in this state. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 37 and Title 71.

TN - SB745 Abortion - As enacted, makes various changes relative to abortion. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 53; Title 56; Title 62; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB813 Public Employees - As enacted, increases the pay schedule for certain assistant district attorneys general, assistant district public defenders, district investigators, and criminal investigators. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14 and Title 8, Chapter 7.

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

TN - 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 - SB275 Taxes - As enacted, makes various revisions to present tax law. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - SB201 Traffic Safety - As enacted, enacts the "Jabari Bailey Highway Safety Act," which requires drivers to change lanes or reduce speed upon approaching a stationary vehicle that has flashing hazard lights activated; increases fines for failing to change lanes or reduce speed upon approaching a stationary emergency, recovery, highway maintenance, solid waste, utility service, or other vehicle that has flashing lights activated. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - HB914 Children - As introduced, adds, as a condition to a court permitting a dependent or neglected child under three years of age to remain with the child's parent, guardian, or other custodian, a requirement that the parent, guardian, or other custodian submit to the department of children's services documentation of a well-baby routine examination by a licensed physician at certain intervals if the child has been diagnosed with neonatal abstinence syndrome. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB992 Military - As introduced, establishes that full-time state employees who are members of a reserve component of the armed forces of the United States, including the Tennessee army and air national guard, shall continue to accrue annual and sick leave the employee would ordinarily accrue during any period of absence from the employee's respective duties for military service. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 33 and Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 8.

TN - SB442 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts "Dillard's Law," which allows the surviving parent or guardian of a child whose parent was a victim of vehicular homicide to convert a restitution order for child maintenance payments to a civil judgment at any time rather than following conclusion of the defendant's sentence. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.

TN - SB1389 Energy - As enacted, requires a political subdivision that imposes requirements or expectations related to the type of clean or renewable energy used by a public utility in an ordinance, resolution, or other regulation to include certain sources of energy as permissible sources of clean or renewable energy. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 64; Title 65; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - SB270 Children - As enacted, revises present law provisions governing adoption and foster care. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 37, Chapter 2, Part 4.

TN - 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 consumer to leave the property without providing payment at the time. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 47 and Title 48.

TN - HB116 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, expands the definition of "eligible postsecondary institution" to include certain private postsecondary institutions for purposes of a Tennessee HOPE scholarship, Tennessee HOPE access grant, Tennessee HOPE teacher's scholarship, or Wilder-Naifeh technical skills grant. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - SB1398 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes it a Class A misdemeanor to knowingly possess xylazine; makes it a Class C felony to knowingly manufacture, deliver, or sell xylazine, or to knowingly possess xylazine with intent to manufacture, deliver, or sell xylazine; provides exceptions for veterinarians. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB213 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, requires a person convicted of domestic assault involving strangulation to serve a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 days incarceration; enhances offenses involving strangulation or attempted strangulation based on certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB1059 Obscenity and Pornography - As enacted, makes it a Class E felony for a book publisher, distributor, or seller to knowingly sell or distribute obscene matter to a public school serving any of the grades K-12; adds additional fines for a violation. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 9.

TN - SB126 Solid Waste Disposal - As enacted, requires the solid waste disposal fee imposed by Wayne County, or a municipality or solid waste authority in Wayne County, to be subject to the same penalty and interest as delinquent property taxes if not paid within 30 days after notice of such fee is mailed. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 211, Part 8.

TN - SB537 Adoption - As enacted, adds to the grounds upon which initiation of termination of parental or guardianship rights may be based that the parent has been confined in a correctional or detention facility of any type, by order of the court as a result of one or more criminal acts, under a sentence of six or more years, and one or more other grounds in current law exists. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - HB913 Controlled Substances - As introduced, requires a practitioner to discuss with patients the addiction and overdose risks associated with certain prescription drugs, alternative treatments that may be available, and the reasons why the prescription is necessary prior to issuing an initial prescription and prior to issuing a third prescription for certain controlled substances in a course of treatment for acute or chronic pain. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 53 and Title 63.

TN - SB921 Adoption - As enacted, changes the time period during which the Tennessee putative father registry must have been consulted prior to the filing of a petition to terminate parental rights from 10 days to 10 working days; requires the appointment of a guardian ad litem in an adoption involving a mentally disabled child when the child is 14 years of age or older at any time before the granting of the petition rather than at any age. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - HB469 Physicians and Surgeons - As introduced, authorizes an individual licensed in another state to practice medicine to practice telehealth in this state if the patient cannot otherwise receive the services the healthcare provider will provide within this state and the healthcare provider files a limited waiver request with the appropriate licensing board that certifies that the patient needs such services and that other options for the services are unavailable in this state. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 63.

TN - SB1212 Secretary of State - As enacted, requires the Secretary of State to establish and implement a program designated as the Tennessee Businesses Against Trafficking program to engage participating corporations and other private entities in voluntary efforts to identify, prevent, and combat human trafficking. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 1.

TN - SB617 Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to make chaplain services available on a regular basis to juveniles who are housed in a youth development center; prohibits the department from requiring a juvenile to attend or use chaplain services; requires the department to provide annual training to youth service officers on best practices for behavior management and conflict resolution in the context of supervision of juvenile justice youth; requires the department to house children 16 years of age or older separately from younger children, unless housing the children together is necessary for the safety and well-being of the younger children or to otherwise comply with law relative to the use of seclusion at juvenile detention facilities. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - SB193 Controlled Substances - As enacted, enacts the "One Pill Will Kill Act," which adds fentanyl, carfentanil, remifentanil, alfentanil, and thiafentanil to what constitutes a qualifying controlled substance for purposes of certain felony offenses. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB1434 School Transportation - As enacted, allows school bus drivers to use a portable electronic device for navigation of the school bus and for accurately accounting for students at bus pick-up and drop-off locations through use of the device's global positioning system if no hands are used to hold the device or to enter data into the device while the school bus is in motion; the device is mounted on the school bus's windshield, dashboard, or center console area; and the driver views only data related to the navigation of the bus. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 55.

TN - SB1 Public Health - As enacted, prohibits a healthcare provider from performing on a minor or administering to a minor a medical procedure if the performance or administration of the procedure is for the purpose of enabling a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minors sex. - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 29; Title 33; Title 34; Title 36; Title 37; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB1319 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, adds to the offense of custodial interference, a parent or other family member who harbors or hides a child within or outside this state, knowing that the child has been placed in the custody of the department of children's services pursuant to a protective custody order or an emergency custody order entered by a court; states that it is not a defense that the person harboring or hiding the child has not been served with an actual copy of a protective custody order or emergency custody order. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 6 and Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 3.

TN - SB979 Domestic Violence - As enacted, revises present law definitions relative to abuse. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6 and Title 71.

TN - SB880 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, revises present law relative to child support. - Amends TCA Section 8-23-103 and Title 36.

TN - SB678 Health Care - As enacted, makes changes to law relative to the Alzheimer's and dementia respite care program. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.

TN - HB590 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, changes from March 1 to March 15, the date by which the department must make a presentation to the appropriate committees of the senate and the house of representatives on the comprehensive annual report of the status of child care agencies within the state subject to the department's jurisdiction. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 15; Title 16; Title 36; Title 37; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB274 Education - As enacted, revises various provisions of present law relative to safety in elementary and secondary education and the Schools Against Violence in Education Act. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504; Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 62, Chapter 35.

TN - SB612 Children - As introduced, extends from March 1 to April 1 of each year, the date by which the department of children's services must appear before the judiciary committee of the senate and the civil justice committee of the house of representatives for a review of the policies of the department and attached protocol and procedures for these policies and any provisions that affect the children the department serves. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 34; Title 36; Title 37; Title 41; Title 49; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SJR127 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses support for the Allowing Military Exemptions, Recognizing Individual Concerns About New Shots (AMERICANS) Act of 2023.

TN - SB1443 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires a student's parent or legal guardian, or the student if the student has reached the age of majority, to provide certain consent before the student may engage in certain activities at school. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 68.

TN - SB1112 Capital Punishment - As enacted, requires a sentence of death to be carried out within 30 business days of the conclusion of any appeals or post-conviction relief, if the jury unanimously determines that certain circumstances are met. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB925 Health Care - As enacted, enacts "Quinnlee's Law." - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - SJR533 Memorials, Recognition - Women Veterans Appreciation Day

TN - SB264 Adoption - As enacted, makes various changes in regard to maintaining and securing documents in certain parental rights proceedings and the grounds for termination of parental rights. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - SB244 Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, makes changes to the compensation of teachers in the special school district. - Amends TCA Section 37-5-119.

TN - SB391 Courts, General Sessions - As enacted, specifies that in general sessions court cases involving an order granting possession of real property, a writ of possession must issue by operation of law if no appeal is taken within the 10-day appellate period. - Amends TCA Title 27, Chapter 5 and Title 29, Chapter 18.

TN - 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 - HB752 Children - As enacted, creates a criminal offense of a foster parent from a kinship placement knowingly allowing a child in the foster parent's care to visit with the child's parent if the foster parent has knowledge of a current court order prohibiting the parent from visiting with the child, with a first violation being a Class C misdemeanor punishable by a fine only and a second or subsequent violation being a Class B misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39.

TN - SB280 Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, renames the "Tennessee Local Development Authority Act" to be the "Tennessee Local Development Authority Public Safety Protection Act of 2023" and makes various changes to its existing provisions. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 9.

TN - 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 - SB610 Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, adds district attorneys general to those the department must release confidential information to upon presentation of an appropriate court order. - Amends TCA Title 10 and Title 37.

TN - SB74 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As enacted, allows a student who earns the student's first baccalaureate degree in less than the projected completion time to continue to receive the Tennessee HOPE scholarship in pursuit of an advanced degree. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - SB1159 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, increases the period in which a juvenile and the juvenile's parents must receive notice of a hearing to transfer the juvenile to adult court from 14 days prior to the hearing to 15 days prior to the hearing. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 33; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 49.

TN - SB256 Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation - As enacted, authorizes the responding law enforcement officer or the district attorney general's office to extend criminal immunity to persons who are experiencing a subsequent drug overdose and who are seeking medical assistance. - Amends TCA Section 63-1-156.

TN - SB420 State Symbols - As enacted, requests the governor to submit a new design of the great seal of the state of Tennessee by July 1, 2025, that incorporates the language "In God We Trust." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

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

TN - SB1129 Elder Abuse - As enacted, expands the offense of aggravated stalking to include a person who commits stalking against a victim who is at least 65 or older. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 3 and Title 71, Chapter 6.

TN - SB722 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, enacts "Abrials Law, the Keeping Children Safe from Family Violence Act," which makes various changes to child custody law. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.

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

TN - SB600 Local Government, General - As enacted, prohibits local governments from expending funds for the purposes of assisting a person in obtaining a criminal abortion. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 8.

TN - SB332 Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, allows the department to disclose information about a case to the public if all parties involved in the case, including the child, are deceased and all identifying personal information of the parties is redacted. - Amends TCA Title 10 and Section 37-5-107.

TN - SB520 Transportation, Dept. of - As enacted, makes revisions to law relative to traffic-control signals. - Amends TCA Title 54 and Title 55.

TN - SB273 Transportation, Dept. of - As enacted, enacts the "Transportation Modernization Act of 2023." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2; Section 12-2-112; Title 54 and Title 55.

TN - 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 - SB457 Health, Dept. of - As enacted, requires an annual training pay bonus supplement for eligible emergency medical services personnel in the amount of $800. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 140, Part 3.

TN - SB1463 Military - As enacted, clarifies that compensation for members of the national guard must accrue upon them being ordered to active state service and the payment of compensation to members must use this state's established weekly pay cycle as needed to effectuate compensation. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 1.

TN - SJR179 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee State University Aristocrat of Bands

TN - SB1281 School Transportation - As enacted, revises present law provisions relative to cameras on school buses and failing to stop upon approaching a school bus that has stopped on the highway. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - SB1100 Historical Sites and Preservation - As enacted, creates the Tennessee monuments and memorials commission, which is required to study, hear, and resolve petitions for waiver under the Tennessee heritage protection act. - Amends TCA Section 4-1-412.

TN - 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 - SB552 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, enacts the "Sergeant Chris Jenkins Law." - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55.

TN - SB431 Physicians and Surgeons - As introduced, authorizes an individual licensed in another state to practice medicine to practice telehealth in this state if the patient cannot otherwise receive the services the healthcare provider will provide within this state and the healthcare provider files a limited waiver request with the appropriate licensing board that certifies that the patient needs such services and that other options for the services are unavailable in this state. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 63.

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 - SJR124 Memorials, Death - Tyre D. Nichols

TN - SB11 Public Health - As enacted, makes permanent various provisions regarding COVID-19. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 14; Title 29, Chapter 20 and Section 49-7-159 and Chapter 896 of the Public Acts of 2022.

TN - HB312 Adoption - As enacted, makes various changes in regard to maintaining and securing documents in certain parental rights proceedings and the grounds for termination of parental rights. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - SB281 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, generally increases the base salaries in the state salary schedule for teachers formulated by the commissioner of education; prohibits an LEA from deducting dues from the wages of the LEA's employees for a professional employees' organization. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 1 and Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 3.

TN - SB1500 Attorney General and Reporter - As enacted, grants the attorney general and reporter, in cases where a defendant has been sentenced to death and is seeking collateral or direct review of a conviction or sentence, exclusive control over the state's defense of the request for review and reimbursement for expenses incurred in connection with such matter. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4.

TN - SJR210 Memorials, Recognition - Lt. Governor Randy McNally

TN - HB642 Children - As introduced, extends from March 1 to April 1 of each year, the date by which the department of children's services must appear before the judiciary committee of the senate and the civil justice committee of the house of representatives for a review of the policies of the department and attached protocol and procedures for these policies and any provisions that affect the children the department serves. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 34; Title 36; Title 37; Title 41; Title 49; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB616 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to provide juveniles who are in the department's custody and housed in a juvenile detention facility approved, certified, or licensed by the department, including youth development centers, with 24-hour access, seven days a week, to psychological and behavioral health services. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 5.

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

TN - SB515 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, expands employees allowed to carry a handgun on property owned, operated, or controlled by a public institution of higher education to include retired law enforcement officers who retired in good standing with 20 years of service and are employed on a part-time basis by a public institution of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - SB919 Adoption - As enacted, makes revisions to present law relative to termination of certain parental rights. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1.

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 - SB1046 Veterans Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to establish an honor guard grant program to provide grants to veteran service organizations to offset expenses incurred by the organization and members of the organization's honor guard in providing military funeral honors for qualifying Tennessee veterans. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 25; Title 46, Chapter 6 and Title 58.

TN - SB87 Local Government, General - As enacted, caps at 20 the number of members that may be elected to the governing body of a metropolitan or municipal government. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 5; Title 6 and Title 7.

TN - SB1336 Public Contracts - As introduced, requires the state procurement commission to strive to ensure that at least 5 percent of procurement contracts are awarded to veteran-owned businesses. - Amends TCA Title 12.

TN - SB467 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, revises the punishment for critical infrastructure vandalism. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 40 and Title 65, Chapter 35.

TN - SJR534 Memorials, Recognition - Great Smoky Mountains National Park Honoring Our Veterans Day

TN - SB1124 Appropriations - As introduced, appropriates $20 million to the legislature for the purchase or construction of a building or other facility accessible to the Cordell Hull Building. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 12.

TN - SB933 Forfeiture of Assets - As introduced, clarifies that a motor vehicle used in the commission or flight from commission of the offense of drag racing is subject to civil asset forfeiture; designates the department of safety as the applicable agency for such forfeiture proceedings. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 5.

TN - HB43 Judges and Chancellors - As introduced, adds an additional trial court in the 23rd judicial district composed of Cheatham, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, and Stewart counties effective September 1, 2023, with the additional judge or chancellor to be appointed by the governor. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2, Part 5.

TN - SJR263 Memorials, Recognition - Safari Club International

TN - SB123 Food and Food Products - As enacted, makes various changes to the Tennessee Meat and Poultry Inspection Act and establishes a state meat inspection program. - Amends TCA Title 10; Title 29; Title 39; Title 43; Title 44; Title 53 and Title 68.

TN - HB867 Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As introduced, authorizes sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages on certain commercial passenger buses. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4.

TN - HB976 Firefighters - As enacted, enacts the "James 'Dustin' Samples Act." - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 9; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 102.

TN - SB112 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, expands the definition of "eligible postsecondary institution" to include certain private postsecondary institutions for purposes of a Tennessee HOPE scholarship, Tennessee HOPE access grant, Tennessee HOPE teacher's scholarship, or Wilder-Naifeh technical skills grant. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - SB672 Mental Illness - As enacted, authorizes certain licensed advanced practice nurses and physician assistants to execute a certificate of need if a person is admitted and detained by a hospital or treatment resource for emergency diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment; makes other revisions to the execution of certificates of need. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 6, Part 4.

TN - SB534 Adoption - As enacted, authorizes a court to waive certain waiting periods and expedite certain proceedings relative to the adoption of children abandoned or voluntarily left at a facility or in a newborn safety device if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1; Title 37, Chapter 5 and Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - 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 - SB1068 Expunction - As enacted, makes various changes relative to expunction. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB542 Adoption - As enacted, makes various revisions to present law relative to adoption. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 36; Title 37; Title 47 and Title 71.

TN - 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.