Tennessee Rep. Ryan Williams (R)

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TN - Appropriations Subcommittee (House)

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TN - Council on Pensions

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TN - HR166 Memorials, Recognition - Keith Bilbrey

TN - HB1968 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, extends, from five business days to 10 calendar days after the conclusion of a tax sale, the deadline by which a court clerk must file a report of sale or other notice reflecting the results of the tax sale, prior to the confirmation of the sale by the court. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 11; Title 12; Title 13; Title 49; Title 54; Title 55; Title 64; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HB2317 Day Care - As introduced, requires TACIR to complete a study and issue a report on laws, regulations, and rules affecting the start-up, operation, and expansion of child care businesses in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 36; Title 37; Title 49 and Title 71.

TN - HB1192 Housing - As introduced, authorizes the Tennessee housing development agency to establish secure campsites to assist those with short-term housing needs for up to two years; revises provisions relating to outpatient mental health treatment programs. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 23, Part 1 and Title 33.

TN - HB2170 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits an insurer, pharmacy benefits manager, or third-party administrator from changing or conditioning the terms of health plan coverage based on availability of financial or other product assistance for a prescription drug; establishes certain procedures for calculating an enrollee's contribution to an applicable cost sharing requirement. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 10; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HJR1500 Memorials, Recognition - Keith Bilbrey

TN - HB1190 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the commissioner to notify each LEA when the office of research and education accountability publishes a report germane to kindergarten through grade 12 education. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1196 Labor and Workforce Development, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the commissioner to ensure that a listing is made available to the public on the department of labor and workforce development's public website of apprenticeship programs that are mandated by state or federal law due to the program sponsor receiving funds or resources from the state or federal government and that are approved by the office of apprenticeship; requires the listing to be updated no less than twice annually. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 50; Title 62 and Title 67.

TN - HJR642 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jeremy Stoner, National HealthCare Corporation Administrator of the Year

TN - HB1191 Education - As introduced, increases from 16 to 20 point font the minimum font size that a postsecondary educational institution must use for the required transferability of credits disclosure given to a student prior to the student signing an enrollment contract. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1701 Day Care - As introduced, requires TACIR to complete a study and issue a report on laws, regulations, and rules affecting the start up, operation, and expansion of child care businesses in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 36; Title 37; Title 49 and Title 71.

TN - HB2987 Algood - Subject to local approval, authorizes the city to lease real, mixed, and personal property inside or outside of the city. - Amends Chapter 78 of the Private Acts of 2014.

TN - HB1600 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, prohibits the purchase or possession of a firearm by a person under 25 years of age if the person was previously adjudicated delinquent for an act that, if committed by an adult, would have constituted one or more certain offenses; allows the Tennessee bureau of investigation access to juvenile court records for the limited purpose of performing a background check prior to the purchase or transfer of a firearm to determine whether a person has been adjudicated as a mental defective or committed to a mental health institution at 16 years of age or older, as required by federal law, or is prohibited from purchasing a firearm because of an adjudication as delinquent. - Amends TCA Title 18; Title 37 and Title 39.

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

TN - HB1200 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, changes the date, from March 19 to March 18, 1991, of authorization for an insurance company affiliate to be considered eligible for a tax credit based on the affiliate's reinsurance agreement with an insurance company, in which the tax imposed on gross premiums is allocated from the ceding company to the reinsuring company and allows the reinsuring company to use the premium tax liability as a tax credit. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 67.

TN - HB1201 Lottery, Charitable - As introduced, exempts a school foundation or a school support organization that is a nonprofit organization and is seeking to operate an annual nonprofit gaming event for the benefit of the organization from submitting an annual event application each year; instead, the application is renewed each year; requires the one-time application to be updated for any changes of information; waives subsequent application fees for such nonprofit organization. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 17 and Title 49.

TN - HB1202 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, authorizes a faculty or staff member of a school to carry a concealed handgun on school grounds subject to certain conditions, including obtaining an enhanced handgun carry permit and completing annual training. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 8.

TN - HB2316 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, requires the defined geographical limitation for purposes of exercising police power to be incorporated into an agreement relating to security provided by law enforcement officers for health and related facilities. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - HB1853 Health Care - As introduced, for the purposes of regulation of health and related facilities, exempts from the definition of "home health service" services provided by a person or entity that solely provides services of occupational and physical therapy or communication disorders and sciences by healthcare professionals if provided only on an outpatient basis; and therapy outpatient services provided by a person or entity under the social security act and reimbursed under medicare part B or a similar medicare advantage plan. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1198 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 - HB1193 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, broadens the offense of desecration of a venerable object by changing the culpable mental state from intentionally to recklessly or knowingly desecrating a place of worship or burial or a state or national flag. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - HB2318 Medical Occupations - As introduced, makes various changes to the authorized scope of practice of physician assistants and advanced practice nurses who meet certain qualifications. - Amends TCA Title 55; Title 63 and Title 68.

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

TN - HB2071 Annexation - As introduced, specifies circumstances in which a referendum will not be required to effectuate annexation of territory; removes repealer provision for exceptions to the referendum requirement. - Amends TCA Section 6-51-104.

TN - HR92 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Emma Jean Puckett, 90th Birthday

TN - HJR710 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Ross Elzie Williams, 100th birthday

TN - HB1194 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 - HJR1018 Memorials, Death - Byron Justin Parrott

TN - HB1197 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, reconstitutes boards of directors for sports authorities in certain counties having a metropolitan form of government. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6 and Title 7, Chapter 67.

TN - HB1599 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, prohibits the purchase or possession of a firearm by a person 18 or older but less than 25 if the person was previously adjudicated delinquent for an act that, if committed by an adult, would have constituted certain offenses; allows the TBI access to juvenile court records for the limited purpose of performing certain background checks prior to the purchase or transfer of a firearm. - Amends TCA Title 18; Title 37 and Title 39.

TN - HB1203 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, increases the time period by which a local education agency must make a district-wide and building-level school safety plan available for public comment, from 30 to 45 days, prior to the adoption of the proposed plan. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 62, Chapter 35.

TN - HJR531 Memorials, Interns - Christian MacDaniel Mahan

TN - HR28 Memorials, Recognition - National Vending Day

TN - HB2676 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, abolishes the governing board of directors for the Tennessee student assistance corporation and designates the corporation as a division of the commission; revises certain duties and powers of the commission; vacates and reconstitutes the commission on July 1, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49.

TN - HB1702 Labor - As introduced, extends the Go Build Tennessee Act by changing the repeal date from July 1, 2024, to July 1, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 41 and Title 62, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - HR27 Memorials, Retirement - Paul Korth

TN - HB1199 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As enacted, revises present law relative to tuition reimbursement for national guardsmen. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1539 Putnam County - Subject to local approval, establishes that general sessions court has concurrent jurisdiction with chancery and circuit courts relating to cases of adoption, pursuant to general law.

TN - HB2948 Election Laws - As introduced, creates a process for the majority and minority party caucuses of the general assembly to nominate candidates for United States senator. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 13.

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

TN - HJR1027 Memorials, Death - Jillian Ludwig

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

TN - HB1195 Therapists, Physical and Occupational - As enacted, allows the practice of physical therapy to be under the written or oral referral of a nurse practitioner or physician assistant; removes certain minimum education requirements to engage in the independent practice of physical therapy. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - HB401 Education - As introduced, establishes a school safety technology fund as a special account within the general fund to provide local education agencies with the funding necessary to purchase a technology platform designed to assist schools in performing routine checks of school building doors to ensure that the doors are locked. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HJR125 Memorials, Recognition - Run for the Wall Week in Tennessee

TN - HJR2 Memorials, Sports - Hany Mukhtar, 2022 Landon Donovan Major League Soccer Most Valuable Player Award

TN - HJR7 Memorials, Sports - Walker Zimmerman, 2022 FIFA World Cup, United States Men's National Team

TN - HJR4 Memorials, Recognition - National Wild Turkey Federation, 50th Anniversary

TN - SB170 Secretary of State - As enacted, extends the period of reduced fees payable to the secretary of state relating to nonprofit charitable gaming and the solicitation of charitable funds. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 17, Part 1 and Title 48, Chapter 101, Part 5.

TN - 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 - 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 - SB1326 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, makes changes relative to the board of commissioners for certain airport authorities. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5, Chapter 6 and Title 42.

TN - 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 - SB1532 Appropriations - As enacted, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2022, and July 1, 2023.

TN - SB630 Water Pollution - As introduced, specifies that a discharge permit is not required under the Water Quality Control Act for excavations supporting agricultural activity or timber harvesting. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 221 and Title 69.

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 - SB967 Education - As enacted, revises present law that relative to a local board of education keeping on file and available in each school library added or amended operating policies and a notice of each deleted operating policy; authorizes a person who holds an active industry license or credential relevant to a career and technical education course to provide instruction to students in the career and technical education course as long as the instruction is supervised at all times in the classroom by a licensed teacher who serves as the teacher of record for the course; holds such a person subject to investigation pursuant to law relative to investigating applicants for teaching positions. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB85 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, enacts the "Employee Ownership, Empowerment, and Expansion Act," to support the growth and expansion of employee-owned businesses. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 12, Chapter 3; Title 45; Title 50; Title 56, Chapter 1 and Title 67.

TN - SB832 Local Government, General - As enacted, prohibits as against public policy a metropolitan government ordinance, charter provision, or resolution that requires a supermajority vote of the local legislative body in order to make improvements to, renovations to, or the demolition and replacement of existing facilities owned by the metropolitan government when such facilities are to be used for substantially the same purpose as the use prior to any changes; requires that the voting requirement for such actions involving existing facilities must be the same voting requirement applicable to ordinances of the legislative body in general. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 5; Title 6 and Title 7.

TN - SB435 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, increases the classification for voluntary manslaughter from a Class C felony to a Class B felony. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

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

TN - SB1533 Budget Procedures - As enacted, increases, for FY 23-24, the state employer match to 200 percent of the amount contributed by each state employee to the state's 401(k) plan per month, up to a maximum of $100 per month. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 11; Title 12; Title 13; Title 16; Title 17; Title 18; Title 29; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 43; Title 44; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 49; Title 50; Title 53; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 57; Title 58; Title 59; Title 60; Title 61; Title 62; Title 63; Title 64; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68; Title 69; Title 70 and Title 71.

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 - SB161 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, makes changes to the requirements for applicants for server permits. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3, Part 7.

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 - SB261 Water Pollution - As enacted, specifies that underground injection activities authorized by rule are not subject to the general five-year term limit for discharge permits under the Water Quality Control Act of 1977. - Amends TCA Section 69-3-108.

TN - SB1192 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, extends the time eligible taxpayers may apply for a refund or present a credit voucher for credit on their taxes from within 35 days from the date taxes in the jurisdiction become delinquent for that year to within 40 days from that date. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 9; Title 28; Title 66 and Title 67.

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 - SB676 Banks and Financial Institutions - As enacted, specifies that the requirement to notify the department of revenue of the death of the sole or last surviving lessee of a safe deposit box does not apply if the lessee died after December 31, 2015; specifies that a state trust institution is not required to publish public notice in order to establish and maintain a new trust office; authorizes the holder of debt secured by a mortgage, deed of trust, or other lien to assess and collect fees from the borrower of the debt for the anticipated or actual costs of making entry of partial or entire payments upon the record, or for registering a formal release. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 66.

TN - SB631 Water Pollution - As introduced, prohibits the department of environment and conservation from applying criteria that will result in the classification of real property as a wetland, or otherwise regulating real property as a wetland, unless the property is classified as a wetland under federal law. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11, Chapter 14, Part 4; Title 66 and Title 69.

TN - SB1211 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 - 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 - SB723 Codes - As enacted, authorizes certain persons entering into employment as a municipal or county building, plumbing, mechanical, or electrical inspector with an exempt jurisdiction to perform certain services. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 120, Part 1.

TN - SB1019 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, generally requires by January 1, 2024, each law enforcement agency to develop and enforce a policy that prohibits an officer from using a drone or other substantially similar device as a weapon under any circumstances while in the exercise of the officer's official duties; requires a law enforcement agency to permit an officer qualified to operate a drone to utilize a drone or a substantially similar device for the purpose of remotely detonating a bomb or similar incendiary or explosive device. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 70, Chapter 4, Part 3 and Chapter 462 of the Private Acts of 2021.

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 - SB834 Education, Higher - As enacted, prohibits a public postsecondary institution that provides internet access to students, faculty, staff, or the general public from allowing an individual to access a social media platform using the institution's network if the platform is owned or hosted by a company based in the People's Republic of China; grants certain exemptions for law enforcement activities; investigatory functions; and audit, compliance, or legal functions of the institution. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB628 Environment and Conservation, Department of - As enacted, adds to the bill of rights for permit applicants under the Water Quality Control Act that permit applicants have the right to have their construction stormwater permit applications considered based on the activities described in the permit application and conditions that exist at the time the permit application is under consideration, rather than possible future conditions unrelated to the activities for which the permit is sought as identified in the application. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 69.

TN - SB786 Agriculture - As enacted, requires an amendment to the articles of incorporation of an agricultural or horticultural marketing cooperative association to change the name of the association or its principal place of business to be adopted if the appropriate notice of the meeting of the board of directors was given; changes the requirements for notice for a meeting held after failure to gain a quorum to vote on a proposed amendment; makes additional changes related to voting on amendments to an association's articles of incorporation. - Amends TCA Title 43.

TN - SB629 Water Pollution - As enacted, requires the department of environment and conservation to exempt from compensatory mitigation an amount of wetland equal in size to the area for which mitigation would not be required if the permit applicant qualified for coverage under a general permit, if the only factor that disqualifies an applicant for an aquatic resource alteration permit for wetland impacts from having the activities for which a permit is sought covered under a general permit is the size of the wetland that the permit will apply to. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 3.

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

TN - SB120 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, authorizes a credit against premium taxes in the amount of the charges, expenses, and fees paid by insurance companies for certain examinations performed by the commissioner of commerce and insurance. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 4, Part 2.

TN - SB484 Education - As introduced, establishes a school safety technology fund as a special account within the general fund to provide local education agencies with the funding necessary to purchase a technology platform designed to assist schools in performing routine checks of school building doors to ensure that the doors are locked. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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 - SB292 Public Health - As enacted, applies on a statewide basis, rather than only in Nashville, Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Memphis, the distance parameter for the prohibition on needle and hypodermic syringe exchange programs being operated within 1,000 feet of a school or public park; removes the distance parameter of 2,000 feet that presently applies on a statewide basis outside those four cities; provided, however, that such a program established in Kingsport must not conduct an exchange within 2,000 feet of a school or public park. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - SB648 Taxes - As enacted, makes changes to the Convention Center Authorities Act of 2009. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 67.

TN - SB1534 Appropriations - As enacted, authorizes the index of appropriations from state tax revenues for 2022-2023 fiscal year to exceed the index of estimated growth in the state's economy by $2,536,600,000 or 11.45 percent. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 52.

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

TN - 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 - 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 - SB1535 Bond Issues - As enacted, authorizes the state to issue and sell bonds of up to $83,800,000.

TN - SB657 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - SB845 Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, terminates the water and wastewater financing board and the utility management review board and creates a new Tennessee board of utility regulation in the office of the comptroller of the treasury; makes various changes to the management of affected utility systems. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 64; Title 65; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - SB350 Education, Higher - As enacted, expands the Save Tennessee Students Act to require public institutions of higher education that issue new student identification cards to students enrolled in the institution to include certain contact information for crisis and suicide prevention resources on the cards; requires the institutions to post certain contact information for crisis and suicide prevention resources in a conspicuous place on each campus operated by the institution. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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 - SB1459 Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, makes changes and additions to present law concerning the state building commission and capital projects. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 49.

TN - SJR556 Memorials, Recognition - Jasmine Carson

TN - SJR128 Memorials, Death - Clara Louise Macklin

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

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

TN - SJR65 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Brian Noland, Honorary Alumnus of East Tennessee State University

TN - SJR136 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Trudy Harper, Tennessee Technological University Board of Trustees

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

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 - SJR132 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Ron Ramsey, East Tennessee State University Board of Trustees

TN - SJR533 Memorials, Recognition - Women Veterans Appreciation Day

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

TN - SJR124 Memorials, Death - Tyre D. Nichols

TN - SJR137 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Tom Jones, Tennessee Technological University Board of Trustees

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

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

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

TN - SJR594 Memorials, Recognition - Shelley T. Gardner, 2022-2023 President, Tennessee District Public Defenders Conference