Tennessee Rep. Monty Fritts (R)

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TN - HB846 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 - HB965 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 - HJR371 Memorials, Death - Lavana Ruth Sisson Huddleston

TN - HB653 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, requires healthcare facilities and long-term care facilities to permit in-person visitation of a patient or resident by family members and community pastoral care members; allows the facilities to place limitations on the frequency and duration of visitation in certain areas and to require the visitors to comply with safety protocols. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1189 Remedies and Special Proceedings - As enacted, limits the circumstances under which a qualified civil liability action may be brought against certain manufacturers, dealers, and sellers of firearms and related products. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6; Title 29; Title 39 and Title 47.

TN - HB651 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 - HJR1361 Memorials, Sports - Roane County High School girls' soccer team

TN - HB2208 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, expresses the intent of the general assembly that the membership of joint economic and community development boards be representative of the populations of the cities and counties for which the boards are formed. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 58.

TN - HJR119 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Encourages the State of Tennessee to develop an energy production plan in an effort to become an energy exporter.

TN - HB2469 Agriculture - As introduced, increases from five to 10 years the period of time the department of agriculture shall maintain records that are created by or submitted to the department for the regulation of hemp. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 43; Title 53; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HJR1360 Memorials, Recognition - Harriman High School, Anne Dallas Dudley Gold Level Award

TN - HJR1011 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Sarah Elizabeth Boles, 104th birthday

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

TN - HB1411 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires an LEA to obtain a student's parent's or legal guardian's consent to allow the student to participate in instruction, an activity, evaluation, assessment, survey, or analysis offered by the student's LEA. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB652 Medical Occupations - As introduced, reduces from three years to two years, the period a seller must keep on file a signed acknowledgement from a buyer that discloses that the seller is neither a licensed practitioner of the healing arts nor meets the criteria that would allow the seller to provide a diagnosis, treatment, or medical care in order for the sale or provision of information involving a natural health information exchange to not be considered the illegal practice of naturopathy. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - HJR1172 Memorials, Sports - Roane County High School golf team, state champions

TN - HB2304 Safety, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to provide written and electronic notice to the employing company of a person appointed and commissioned as a state facility protection officer to provide facility security when the department no longer requires the service of such person. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 38 and Title 68.

TN - HB2991 Rockwood - Subject to local approval, repeals requirement that the city create and maintain a roster of current employees and previous applicants qualified for the classified service; repeals ambiguous language relating to probationary period for employee discipline and grievances; implements term limits for members of the civil service board.

TN - HB2118 Energy - As introduced, reconstitutes the state energy policy council by adding a representative of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a representative of the nuclear energy industry. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 59; Title 60; Title 65 and Title 68.

TN - HB1504 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 - HB1983 Local Government, General - As introduced, prohibits a municipality, or an instrumentality of a municipality, from taking any action that affects or has the potential to affect the tax obligations, fees, or other costs for real property owners whose property is located outside a municipality's corporate boundary, unless the action is approved by the county legislative body in which such property is located. - Amends TCA Title 5 and Title 6.

TN - HB2082 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, requires the TBI to submit a report on the amount of money collected for background checks associated with firearm sales in excess of the costs associated with conducting the background checks to the criminal justice committee of the house of representatives and the judiciary committee of the senate by March 1, rather than February 1, of each year. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB2063 Environmental Preservation - As introduced, decreases, from 180 days to 150 days, the time that the air pollution control board can have more than one vacancy after an appointing authority of the board receives sufficient information to fill the appropriate vacancy before the board is required to report to the government operations committees. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 39; Title 42; Title 43; Title 44; Title 55; Title 58; Title 59; Title 60; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69.

TN - HB1298 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, clarifies that the notification from the commissioner of finance and administration to the chairs of the finance, ways and means committees of the senate and the house of representatives when it is determined that it is likely that amounts in the revenue fluctuation reserve will be required to be utilized to meet a shortfall of state tax revenue may be provided electronically. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 39 and Title 49.

TN - HB878 Marriage - As introduced, states that a person is not required to solemnize a marriage if the person has an objection to solemnizing the marriage based on the person's conscience or religious beliefs. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29 and Title 36.

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

TN - HB1537 Kingston - Subject to local approval, expands, from not later than 90 days to not later than 30 days prior to the beginning of the next fiscal year, the timeline the city manager has to submit the proposed annual budget to the council for approval. - Amends Chapter 328 of the Acts of 1903; as amended.

TN - HB1527 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, extends the period, from 30 days to 45 days, in which an owner of a rental car may furnish information of the person who rented the car when the car received a parking violation in order for the owner to avoid liability for the violation. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 54 and Title 55.

TN - HB1872 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, authorizes the enhancement of criminal penalties up to life in prison without parole upon conviction of violent crimes by illegal aliens; conviction of possession of a firearm or deadly weapon by an illegal alien; or conviction of a violent crime on the property of a school by any person. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 33; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 49.

TN - HJR813 Memorials, Death - Babette Ann "Babs" Antoniak

TN - HB2190 Governor - As introduced, changes from three to four the number of members the governor is authorized to appoint to an enrolling board in each county to act in lieu of the county assessor for purposes of enrolling county residents in the state militia. - Amends TCA Title 58.

TN - HJR980 Memorials, Death - Robert K. "Bob" Layton

TN - HB655 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 - HJR370 Memorials, Sports - Roane County-Kingston High School boys' golf team, 2022 TSSAA Division I, Class A state champions

TN - HB2387 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, allows a retired member of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system or of a local retirement fund to be reemployed as a full-time school resource officer at a public school in this state serving students in any of the grades kindergarten through 12, or as a full-time police officer on the campus of an institution governed by the Tennessee board of regents, without loss or suspension of the retired member's retirement benefits, if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49.

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

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

TN - HJR1132 Memorials, Death - William "Bill" Franklin Milburn

TN - HB727 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 - HB694 State Government - As introduced, prohibits a person, political subdivision, or public official, in connection with a state emergency, from categorizing or proclaiming by order, rule, or regulation that a lawful occupation is non-essential, or otherwise proclaiming by order, rule, or regulation that a lawful occupation is prohibited from operating based on what the lawful occupation is; specifies that a person harmed by a violation of the prohibition may bring a civil action for actual damages or declaratory relief. - Amends TCA Title 45; Title 47 and Title 58, Chapter 2.

TN - HB1904 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, exempts persons who are authorized to carry a firearm pursuant to an enhanced handgun carry permit or a concealed handgun carry permit from the criminal offense of possessing a firearm in a concealed manner at a meeting conducted by, or on property owned, operated, or managed or under the control of the individual, corporation, business entity, or government entity that is properly posted. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HB786 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, creates a new pathway for honorably discharged veterans to receive an occupational teaching license. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5.

TN - HB637 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 - HB120 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, expands the exception to the offense of unlawful carrying of a firearm with the intent to go armed from handguns to firearms if a person meets the age requirements, lawfully possesses the firearm, and is in a place where the person is lawfully present. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.

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 - HB164 Adoption - As enacted, authorizes a court to waive certain waiting periods and expedite certain proceedings relative to the adoption of children abandoned or voluntarily left at a facility or in a newborn safety device if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1; Title 37, Chapter 5 and Title 68, Chapter 11.

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

TN - HB695 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, establishes the amount of an occupational educator scholarship awarded by the department to prospective educators seeking a Tennessee occupational teaching license as the cost of tuition and mandatory fees at the postsecondary institution attended less all other gift aid, which must be credited first to the eligible prospective educator's tuition and mandatory fees. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

TN - 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 - SB638 School Vouchers - As enacted, expands student eligibility for an education savings account (ESA) to include students who were not enrolled, and who did not attend, a Tennessee public school for the one full school year immediately preceding the school year for which the student receives an ESA, but who were enrolled in, and who attended, a Tennessee public school in the 2019-2020, 2020-2021, or 2021-2022 school year, and to include students who are not eligible, for the first time, to enroll in a Tennessee school, but who were eligible, for the first time, to enroll in a Tennessee school in the 2019-2020, 2020-2021, or 2021-2022 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB406 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, expands the exception to the offense of unlawful carrying of a firearm with the intent to go armed from handguns to firearms if a person meets the age requirements, lawfully possesses the firearm, and is in a place where the person is lawfully present. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - SB601 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, justifies, under certain circumstances, the use of deadly force against another to prevent or terminate the other from committing or attempting to commit certain property offenses; specifies that the display or brandishing of a weapon does not constitute deadly force. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 11, Part 6.

TN - SB421 Education, State Board of - As enacted, extends, from six years to eight years, the minimum period of time from the last adoption within which the board is required to ensure that the standards review and development committees and advisory teams review the standards for English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies; extends, from 73 months to 97 months, the maximum term of a contract made by the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission with a publisher. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB715 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As introduced, exempts a governing board of a public institution of higher education from the requirement to promulgate rules to establish traffic and parking regulations. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

TN - SB1322 Handgun Permits - As introduced, requires the department of safety to issue permits with the designation "Enhanced Handgun Carry Permit" on the front of the permit; requires the department to issue replacement permits for any permit that contains the designation "Handgun Carry Permit" upon renewal or upon the permit holder's request. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - SB844 Sentencing - As introduced, adds the offense of rape to the offenses for which a defendant is not eligible for probation under the Tennessee Criminal Sentencing Reform Act of 1989. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5 and Title 40, Chapter 35.

TN - SB1437 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 - SB1303 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As enacted, revises present law relative to tuition reimbursement for national guardsmen. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - SB838 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes an LEA to award a high school student credit for a course offered by the LEA's high school if the student attains a qualifying score on the course's final examination without requiring the student to enroll in the course. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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 - SB529 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, eliminates the sales and use tax on infant diapers, wipes, and formula. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.

TN - SB483 Judges and Chancellors - As enacted, removes provisions that allow parties in certain civil cases to agree to employ a retired or former judge to hear the case and provide for the process and manner of trial. - Amends TCA Title 17, Chapter 2, Part 1.

TN - SB1450 Traffic Safety - As introduced, creates a four-year pilot program, during which drivers and passengers 21 years of age or older are exempt from the requirement to wear a crash helmet while operating or riding on motorcycles, motor-driven cycles, and motorized bicycles, if the person is covered by health or medical insurance other than insurance through TennCare; during the pilot program, makes a violation of the helmet law a secondary offense. - Amends TCA Section 55-9-302.

TN - SB182 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, prohibits the arrest, charge, or prosecution of a person for prostitution if the evidence for the arrest, charge, or prosecution results solely from the person's report of the criminal act; increases the penalty for patronizing prostitution from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

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 - SB1134 Public Employees - As introduced, adds public safety dispatchers to those first responders eligible to receive certain benefits when killed in the line of duty. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 8 and Title 58, Chapter 2.

TN - SB23 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates the month of May as "Silver Alert Awareness Month." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

TN - SB1179 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, adds a requirement that notice of the prohibition or restriction on the possession of weapons by an individual or entity must be posted no more than three feet from each entrance; requires the notice sign to measure at least 22 inches wide and 22 inches high, have a red background and white letters, and be mounted within a certain distance from the ground. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - SB780 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, exempts the first $15,000 of the purchase price of an automobile from the sales tax if the purchaser is a member of the Tennessee air or army national guard. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1218 Taxes, Litigation - As enacted, clarifies that a county continues to have the authority to levy a local litigation tax on an adoption proceeding in chancery, circuit, or juvenile court, and that the exemption does not limit or repeal such authority. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 6.

TN - SB303 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, enacts the "Gabby Act"; establishes a Purple Alert system for use when the Tennessee bureau of investigation receives a report of a missing or endangered domestic abuse victim. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 17; Title 25; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB576 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, permits registration plates to be renewed every 24 months instead of 12 months. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 8, Part 1; Title 55, Chapter 4 and Title 55, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1438 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, establishes the amount of an occupational educator scholarship awarded by the department to prospective educators seeking a Tennessee occupational teaching license as the cost of tuition and mandatory fees at the postsecondary institution attended less all other gift aid, which must be credited first to the eligible prospective educator's tuition and mandatory fees. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB570 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor offense for the possession of a device, tool, machine, implement, or other item capable of programming a smart key or key fob with the intent to use it or allow it to be used to commit theft. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 1 and Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 7.

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 - SB841 Local Government, General - As introduced, requires a person to obtain a valid entertainer permit from the adult-oriented establishment board, in those jurisdictions with a board, prior to performing adult cabaret entertainment for compensation; prohibits public, private, and commercial establishments from allowing persons under the age of 18 to attend a performance featuring adult cabaret entertainment. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51.

TN - SB644 Schools, Home - As enacted, removes the requirement that a parent-teacher of a home school student provide proof of the student's immunizations and receipt of health services or examinations required by law generally for children in this state to the local education agency; exempts home school students from the immunization requirements applicable to students attending a school, nursery school, kindergarten, preschool, or child care facility; authorizes an LEA, in situations where a home school student participates in an LEA-sponsored interscholastic or extracurricular activity or event, to request and receive proof that the student received a health service or examination that is required for the LEA's students to participate in the activity or event. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 68.

TN - SB462 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, reduces, from 29.0141 percent to 28.5262 percent, the share of state sales and use tax revenue deposited to the state general fund; increases, from 4.6030 percent to 5.0909 percent, the share appropriated to municipalities. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-103.

TN - SB659 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, removes, as exclusions from the Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act, a firearm that cannot be carried and used by one person, a firearm that discharges two or more projectiles with one activation of the trigger or other firing device, a firearm that has a bore diameter greater than one and one-half inches and that uses smokeless powder as a propellant, and ammunition with a projectile that explodes after leaving the firearm; creates the criminal offense of disenfranchising another of the person's constitutional rights in violation of the Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act; prohibits an employee or elected or appointed official of a state or local government entity from enforcing a federal law in violation of the Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 54 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

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 - SB908 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, clarifies that a threat to use deadly force by a private citizen making an arrest is not in itself considered a use of deadly force; prohibits a private citizen from threatening to use deadly force during the course of a citizen's arrest unless the arrest is for a crime committed or threatened against the citizen making the arrest or for a violent crime committed or threatened in the presence of the citizen making the arrest. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 11, Part 6.

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 - SB1093 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, removes the requirement to obtain a certificate of need to establish or relocate certain healthcare facilities or initiate certain healthcare services, except for the initiation of services for a burn unit or organ transplantation. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB1037 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, removes the authorization for an individual, corporation, business entity, or local, state, or federal government entity to prohibit the possession of weapons by a person who is at a meeting conducted by or on property owned, operated, or managed or under the control of the individual, corporation, business entity, or government entity; removes the criminal offense of possession of a weapon in a building or on property that is properly posted. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - SB311 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, makes gold and silver coinage legal tender; authorizes payment of taxes with gold and silver coinage; makes other changes concerning precious metals. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 38; Title 45 and Title 67.

TN - SB418 Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, requires the court to place a defendant for whom a bench warrant is issued due to failure to appear on a felony or a Class A or Class B misdemeanor that is violent or sexual in nature as determined by the court, or who is charged with a failure to appear on any available state or federal list or database as a fugitive from justice, without limitation, within 10 days of the defendant's failure to appear; states that a surety is not liable for any undertaking if the defendant has not been placed in such a database within the time required by law. - Amends TCA Section 40-11-139 and Section 40-11-142.

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 - 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 - SB102 Education - As enacted, prohibits a local education agency, public charter school, public institution of higher education, the state board of education, and the department of education from requiring an educator, employee of an LEA or charter school, faculty member, or employee of a public institution of higher education to complete or participate in implicit bias training; defines "implicit bias training"; prohibits adverse licensure and employment actions from being taken against such an individual for the individual's failure or refusal to participate in implicit bias training. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB827 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, allows law enforcement officers to carry a firearm when under the influence of alcohol or controlled substances and certain other circumstances; deletes the prohibition on carrying firearms and other weapons on higher education campuses and in parks; prohibits the carrying of weapons in K-12 schools except by certain persons, including any person permitted to carry a firearm under federal law. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13; Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 55, Chapter 10.

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 - SB1002 County Government - As introduced, creates a supplemental pay incentive program for county correctional officers who receive 40 hours or more of in-service training per calendar year. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8, Part 1 and Title 41.

TN - SB1092 General Assembly - As introduced, enacts the "Restoring State Sovereignty Through Nullification Act," which establishes processes by which the general assembly may nullify an unconstitutional federal statute, regulation, agency order, or executive order. - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 4.

TN - SB404 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, requires the board of regents to develop and administer a two-year pilot program to award grants to students enrolled in an eligible workforce training program. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1132 Historical Sites and Preservation - As enacted, removes authorization for the chief executive of a city or county, with the approval of the local legislative body, to fill a vacancy or remove an appointed member on a historic zoning commission. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 7, Part 4.

TN - SB641 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, phases out professional privilege tax over a three-year period for tax years that begin on and after June 1, 2024; reduces tax by $200 in the first year and by $100 in each remaining year. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.

TN - 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 - 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 - 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 - SB443 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, enacts the "Access and Opportunity Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.

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 - SB65 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee state veterans' homes board to June 30, 2026; requires the board to report back to the education, health, and general welfare joint evaluation committee by December 31, 2023, to update the committee on its progress in addressing the findings set forth in the November 2022 performance audit report. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 58, Chapter 7.

TN - SB1503 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, renames enhanced and concealed handgun carry permits as enhanced and concealed firearm carry permits and authorizes a permit holder to carry any firearms, rather than handguns, that the permit holder legally owns or possesses; expands the circumstances in which a permit holder may carry a firearm. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 10; Title 33; Title 36; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 50 and Title 70.

TN - SB817 Education, Higher - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Higher Education Freedom of Expression and Transparency Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7 and Title 49, Chapter 8.

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 - SB360 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, authorizes the department of safety to create a voucher program for the purpose of offsetting the cost of persons taking a handgun safety course for the first time; requires the department to report the number of courses taken using vouchers to the senate judiciary committee and house criminal justice committee. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 39.

TN - SB1371 Tennessee Fish & Wildlife Commission - As introduced, requires the commission to implement a preference point system for drawing half of the quota elk hunt permits; limits the amount that the commission charges for a quota elk hunt permit to a non-refundable $10.00 application fee. - Amends TCA Title 70.

TN - SB767 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, increases, over a five-year period, from 4.6030 percent to 5.0909 percent, the share of state sales and use tax revenue appropriated to municipalities; reduces, over a five-year period, from 29.0141 percent to 28.5262 percent, the share of state sales and use tax revenue deposited to the state general fund. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-103.

TN - SB1111 Public Health - As enacted, enacts the "Mature Minor Doctrine Clarification Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 14; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

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 - SB5 Health Care - As introduced, enacts the Youth Health Protection Act. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 9; Title 14; Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB1372 Game and Fish Laws - As introduced, prohibits the wildlife resource agency from prohibiting the importation into this state of a carcass if importation of the carcass is otherwise permitted under state and federal law. - Amends TCA Title 44; Title 53 and Title 70.

TN - SB3 Obscenity and Pornography - As enacted, creates an offense for a person who engages in an adult cabaret performance on public property or in a location where the adult cabaret performance could be viewed by a person who is not an adult. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 14.

TN - SB519 Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, allows the state treasurer to purchase and sell physical gold and precious metal. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 8.

TN - 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 - SB100 Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As introduced, prohibits a candidate or political campaign committee from accepting contributions that exceed 30 percent of the total contributions received by a candidate or political campaign committee from persons who are not residents of this state at the time the contribution is made. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10, Part 3.

TN - SB551 State Government - As enacted, requires governmental entities to provide a period of public comment for public meetings; authorizes the governmental entities to place reasonable restrictions on the period for public comment. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 44, Part 1.

TN - SB317 Education - As enacted, extends the benefits and opportunities provided to children of active duty members of the uniformed services in the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children to school-aged children in the household of a member of any reserve component of the armed forces of the United States, including members of the Tennessee army and air national guard who are enrolled in any of the grades K-12. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

TN - SJR556 Memorials, Recognition - Jasmine Carson

TN - SJR174 Memorials, Recognition - Danube Institute

TN - SJR536 Memorials, Recognition - Barry Stephenson, Bill Wilcox Bow Tie Award

TN - SJR128 Memorials, Death - Clara Louise Macklin

TN - SJR57 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Chris Whaley, Muddy Boot Award from East Tennessee Economic Council

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

TN - SJR56 Memorials, Recognition - Roane Choral Society, 50th anniversary

TN - SJR164 Memorials, Retirement - Sheriff Timothy W. Guider, Loudon County Sheriff's Office

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

TN - SJR533 Memorials, Recognition - Women Veterans Appreciation Day

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

TN - SJR55 Memorials, Retirement - Dr. Thomas Zacharia

TN - SJR124 Memorials, Death - Tyre D. Nichols

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

TN - SJR214 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Chad Lewis, Standards Recommendation Committee for Science and Social Studies

TN - SJR162 Memorials, Recognition - AMVETS Post 2, Oak Ridge, 75th anniversary

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

TN - SJR54 Memorials, Recognition - Una Wright Coffman

TN - SJR263 Memorials, Recognition - Safari Club International

TN - SJR157 Memorials, Retirement - Mark Watson