Tennessee Rep. William Slater (R)

TN - Education Administration (House)

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Vice Chair

TN - K-12 Subcommittee (House)

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Member

TN - Local Government (House)

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Member

TN - Cities & Counties Subcommittee (House)

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Member

TN - HB463 Bail, Bail Bonds - As introduced, lowers from two to one, the number of sureties required to sign a deed of trust, along with the defendant, when the defendant is seeking to secure a bail bond by real estate. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 16, Chapter 3, Part 8; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HJR778 Naming and Designating - Designates February 24 as "SCN2A Awareness Day."

TN - HB462 Children - As introduced, requires a foster care review board to submit its report to the judge on each child in foster care who is reviewed by the board within seven calendar days, instead of 10 calendar days, following its review. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Title 68, Chapter 3, Part 3.

TN - HB459 Education - As enacted, clarifies that public charter schools and the state board of education are prohibited from employing individuals found by the department of children's services to have committed an act of child abuse in the same manner as other educational entities; clarifies that the state board is prohibited from granting, reactivating, or restoring an educator license or temporary teaching permit for such individuals; adds the state board and public charter schools to the list of educational entities to which the department is required to make certain disclosures when one of its employees is alleged to have committed an act of child abuse. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5.

TN - HJR1388 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Julia Ann Jones, Salutatorian, Trousdale County High School

TN - HB1391 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, changes, from 21 days to 30 days, the time in which a court must hold a hearing from the date a claimant's motion is filed to have the state show cause why forfeited property should not be returned or a lien lis pendens released. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 11.

TN - HB962 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 - HB2403 Education - As introduced, adds the Classical Learning Test (CLT) to the assessments on which a student must attain a certain minimum score in order to be eligible for certain financial aid opportunities; adds the CLT as an acceptable assessment of student readiness for postsecondary education for purposes of high school graduation requirements; requires each public institution of higher education to accept student scores on the CLT for purposes of admission, and to weigh scores achieved on the CLT in the same manner as the institution weighs scores achieved on the ACT or SAT. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB958 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, extends eligibility for a Tennessee middle college scholarship to students enrolled in any eligible postsecondary institution located in this state, instead of only eligible public two-year postsecondary institutions, that is partnering with a local education agency to offer middle college to students. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HJR1390 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jacob Steven McDaniel, Salutatorian, Christian Community Schools

TN - HB2665 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, permits a court to order a child who is adjudicated as a traffic violator, in addition to the child's parent or legal guardian, to pay a fine of not more than $50. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Title 41.

TN - HB2562 Education - As introduced, changes from November 1 to November 15 of each year, the deadline for LEAs to provide feedback and recommendations regarding TISA to the department of education and the comptroller. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2404 Children - As introduced, revises the definition of a dependent and neglected child in juvenile court proceedings to provide that a child must be dependent and neglected at the time of the filing of the court petition and adds that dependency and neglect due to a condition of want or suffering may be due to the child's mental health or substance abuse issues. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - HB1268 Eminent Domain - As introduced, changes, from 30 days to 60 days, the time in which a respondent who is not satisfied with the amount deposited by a condemner, or otherwise objects to a taking through the use of eminent domain, must file an answer to the petition initiating a condemnation proceeding. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 29, Chapter 17 and Title 29, Chapter 16.

TN - HJR1387 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Dalton Wyatt Malmin, Valedictorian, Trousdale County High School

TN - HB959 Students - As introduced, requires LEAs to allow nonresident students to enroll in a school in which spaces are available. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR1389 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Caroline Caverly, Valedictorian, Christian Community Schools

TN - HJR1346 Memorials, Recognition - Jerry Moll, Strong and Courageous Award

TN - HB1700 School Transportation - As introduced, requires each LEA to post a conspicuous notice on all school buses in operation in the LEA notifying others that no person shall enter onto school buses except those authorized by law; requires the training standards for school bus drivers established by the departments of education and safety to include procedures concerning persons improperly on school buses; requires student transportation management training for transportation supervisors appointed by local LEAs, charter schools, and charter management organizations to include procedures concerning persons improperly on school buses. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB460 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 - HB461 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 - HB957 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, allows an eligible independent postsecondary institution and certain private, nonprofit technical schools to charge dual enrollment students tuition or fees in an amount that exceeds the amount of the student's dual enrollment grant. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HB2271 Registers of Deeds - As introduced, requires a register of deeds to consult with a county assessor of property when a quitclaim deed is recorded and send a postcard notification of the recording to the address of the person or entity that paid the property taxes on the property that is the subject of the quitclaim deed for the previous tax year. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 13; Title 35; Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 45; Title 47; Title 66 and Section 67-4-409.

TN - HB2923 Education - As introduced, requires public charter schools to provide licensed employees of the public charter school six paid workweeks after a birth or stillbirth of the employee's child or the employee's adoption of a newly placed minor child. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49.

TN - HJR667 Memorials, Academic Achievement - William Tyler Lannom, Valedictorian, Trousdale County High School

TN - HB2664 Public Health - As introduced, requires the commissioner of health to submit an electronic copy of the annual report on immunization rates of children, by county, to the governor and the speakers of the senate and the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 14; Title 37, Chapter 10, Part 4; Title 49 and Title 63.

TN - HB1561 Sumner County - Subject to local approval, prohibits public entities in Sumner County from using eminent domain to acquire privately owned real property for parks, trails, paths, or greenways for walking, running, hiking, bicycling, or equestrian use, unless the privately owned real property is parallel to, runs directly along the length of, and extends in the same direction as a highway, road, or street.

TN - HB1789 Education, State Board of - As introduced, clarifies that pleas of guilt and nolo contendere to certain criminal offenses subject an educator to automatic revocation of an educator license by the state board; specifies that criminal offenses committed in another jurisdiction that are equivalent to those that if committed in this state subject an educator to automatic revocation of an educator license similarly subject an educator to automatic revocation of an educator license by the state board. - Amends TCA Section 49-5-417.

TN - HJR666 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Elizabeth Rylee Harris, Salutatorian, Trousdale County High School

TN - HB529 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, revises various provisions regarding the automatic revocation of educator licenses. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 5.

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

TN - HB2988 Gallatin - Subject to local approval, authorizes the City of Gallatin to impose impact fees. - Amends Chapter 67 of the Private Acts of 1953; as amended.

TN - HB533 Education, Higher - As introduced, delays the annual reporting date, from February 1 to February 15, that each governing board of a public institution of higher education must report to the office of legislative budget analysis with information regarding expenditures of revenues derived from tuition or fee increases in the previous full academic year. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8; Title 49, Chapter 9 and Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - HB464 Children - As introduced, makes various changes to the laws on adoption and termination of parental rights, including clarifying that the putative father registry must be consulted in certain circumstances within 10 working days of filing a petition to terminate parental rights, rather than 10 days. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Title 68.

TN - HB1736 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires the department of education to recommend, and the state board of education to adopt, academic standards for a year-long course in civics education for students in eighth grade; requires LEAs and public charter schools to implement the year-long course in civics education for students in eighth grade beginning with the 2025-2026 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1919 Civil Emergencies - As introduced, clarifies that an "occurrence," for purposes of the Mutual Aid and Emergency and Disaster Assistance Agreement Act of 2004, includes events that result in bodily injury or property damage; specifies the government officials through which mutual aid may be requested under the Act. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 8.

TN - HB2272 Education - As introduced, requires the state department of education to submit the U.S department of education's interpretations and directives on the implementation of department rules providing guidance to this state to the chairs of certain legislative committees; requires such information to be submitted to each member of the joint government operations rule review committee prior to each rule review meeting. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

TN - SJR461 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Tonya Billingsley, Hawkins Middle School Support Employee of the Year

TN - SB367 Local Government, General - As enacted, prohibits political subdivisions from prohibiting, based on the type or source of energy to be delivered to an individual customer, the sale or installation of an appliance utilized for cooking, space heating, water heating, or another end use. - Amends TCA Section 7-51-2102.

TN - SB559 Zoning - As enacted, states that property owners should expect that a permit application will be judged on the law in effect at the time of application; declares that the general assembly rejects the pending ordinance doctrine, as described by the Tennessee supreme court in its May 14, 2007, opinion in the case of Harding Academy v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, as contrary to the public policy interests of property owners in this state. - Amends TCA Title 27 and Title 29.

TN - SJR427 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Yvonne Souza, J.W. Wiseman Elementary School Support Employee of the Year

TN - SJR380 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jan Cornwell, Westmoreland Elementary School Teacher of the Year

TN - SJR406 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Andrew Martin, Hendersonville High School Teacher of the Year,

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

TN - SJR442 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Regina Perry, Westmoreland High School Support Employee of the Year

TN - SB635 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows registered voters of any county, instead of only Madison County, who reside within the geographic boundaries of an LEA to file a petition with the county election commission demanding the recall of a member of the LEA's local board of education. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49.

TN - SJR556 Memorials, Recognition - Jasmine Carson

TN - SB207 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, increases, from $27,000 to $50,000, the maximum market value on which property tax relief is calculated for elderly, low-income homeowners. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.

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 - HJR61 Memorials, Recognition - Union University, 200th anniversary

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 - SB533 State Employees - As enacted, authorizes the grant of sick leave from a sick leave bank to a state employee to care for a sick minor child of the employee. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 8; Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 9 and Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 8.

TN - 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 - 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 - SJR376 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Daniel Musick, Knox Doss Middle School at Drakes Creek Teacher of the Year

TN - SJR424 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Dianne Schneider, Madison Creek Elementary School Support Employee of the Year

TN - SJR404 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Michele Summers, Merrol Hyde Magnet School Teacher of the Year

TN - SJR378 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Kimberly H. Wade, Hawkins Middle School Teacher of the Year

TN - SJR402 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Chandra Merryman, R.T. Fisher High School Teacher of the Year

TN - SJR448 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Tracy Dove, Hendersonville High School Support Employee of the Year

TN - SJR414 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Amy Bierman, Dr. William Burrus Elementary School Support Employee of the Year

TN - SJR467 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Teresa Jones, Union STEM Elementary School Support Employee of the Year

TN - SJR388 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Twila Walker, H.B. Williams Elementary School Teacher of the Year

TN - SB971 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, requires, upon the request of the commission, each public elementary and middle school, or each LEA on behalf of the schools, to provide information to the commission or department of education about the financial literacy education provided to elementary and middle school students during the school year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 17.

TN - SB300 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, revises various provisions of present law pertaining to the promotion of students from third grade. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SJR440 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Rhonda Jernigan, Sumner County Schools Central Office Support Employee of the Year

TN - SJR430 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Larry Moore, Howard Elementary School Support Employee of the Year

TN - SJR465 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Cindy Wheeler, Walton Ferry Elementary School Support Employee of the Year

TN - SB346 Election Laws - As enacted, requires each high school to inform each high school senior that upon reaching the age of 18 the student may be eligible to vote and provide information from the secretary of state about voter eligibility and how to register to vote. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 49.

TN - SJR439 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Rosy Anderson, Sumner County Schools Transportation Support Employee of the Year

TN - SJR459 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Darla Oglesby, Knox Doss Middle School at Drakes Creek Support Employee of the Year

TN - SJR451 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Elaine Lowe, White House Middle School Support Employee of the Year

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 - SJR415 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Kristin Jeffs, Clyde Riggs Elementary School Support Employee of the Year

TN - SJR410 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Heidi Sons, Sumner County Schools' Dr. Jennifer V. Brown Instructional Coaching Award

TN - SB881 Schools, Charter - As enacted, revises the requirement for automatic revocation of a public charter school agreement to apply only if certain conditions exist; prohibits the 2022 and 2023 priority school list from being considered as one of the priority school cycles required for automatic revocation of a public charter school agreement. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.

TN - SJR443 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Karen Hankins, Station Camp High School Support Employee of the Year

TN - SB528 Adoption - As enacted, makes various changes to adoption law. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Title 68, Chapter 3, Part 3.

TN - SJR394 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Marissa Wells, Bethpage Elementary School Teacher of the Year

TN - SJR462 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Lisa Brinkley, Ellis Middle School Support Employee of the Year

TN - SJR456 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Paula Cherry, Portland West Middle School Support Employee of the Year

TN - SJR397 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Meredith Baker, Oakmont Elementary School Teacher of the Year

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

TN - SB681 Local Government, General - As enacted, enacts the "Protecting Tennessee Businesses and Workers Act." - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 50.

TN - SJR418 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Frederick McDonald, Beech Elementary School Support Employee of the Year

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 - SJR278 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Alexia Poe, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, advisory board

TN - HJR52 Memorials, Sports - Merrol Hyde Magnet School girls' soccer team, TSSAA Division I, Class A state champions

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

TN - SJR408 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Adam Cripps, Sumner County Schools Principal of the Year

TN - SB414 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, restores the requirement that a retired member's new employer pay to TCRS during each period of reemployment the greater of a payment equal to the amount the employer would have contributed to the retirement system had the retired member been a member of the retirement system during the period of reemployment; or an amount equal to 5 percent of the retired member's pay rate for reemployment in a position covered by the retirement system without the loss or suspension of the retired member's TCRS benefits. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49.

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 - SJR444 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Phyllis Bennett, R.T. Fisher High School Support Employee of the Year

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 - SB596 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 - SB1458 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, requires local education agencies (LEAs) to provide licensed employees of the LEA 6 paid workweeks after a birth or stillbirth of the employee's child or employee's adoption of a newly placed minor child. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 49.

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 - SJR405 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Erin Stratakis, Liberty Creek High School Teacher of the Year

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - SB544 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to employ a guardian ad litem within each region of the state to advocate for each child who is in the custody of the department due to allegations of dependency and neglect and located within the region that the guardian ad litem serves; requires the guardians ad litem to review dependency and neglect cases of children who have been in the custody of the department for six months to determine whether termination of parental rights should be filed and, if so, file a petition within 30 days. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - SB419 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 - SJR392 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Miranda Rogers, Dr. William Burrus Elementary School Teacher of the Year

TN - SB12 Education - As enacted, expands the eligibility criteria for an education savings account to include students zoned to attend an LEA with at least three schools identified as priority schools in 2015, and at least three schools identified as being in the bottom 10 percent of schools in 2017. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SJR436 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Brooke Martindale, Jack Anderson Elementary School Teacher of the Year

TN - SJR431 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Deanna Rhoades, H.B. Williams Elementary School Support Employee of the Year

TN - SB1144 Election Laws - As introduced, requires each voter to declare a political party affiliation or that the voter is unaffiliated with a political party on voter registration; authorizes political parties to allow unaffiliated voters to vote in that political party's primary. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - SJR419 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Peter Buchanan, White House High School Teacher of the Year

TN - SJR367 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Nicole Craddock, Sumner County High School Teacher of the Year and Gallatin High School Teacher of the Year

TN - SJR428 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Horace Williams, Jack Anderson Elementary School Support Employee of the Year

TN - SJR445 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Bill Anglemyer, Sumner County Schools and Portland High School Support Employee of the Year

TN - SJR426 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Kimberly Skelton, Lakeside Park Elementary School Support Employee of the Year

TN - SJR390 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jillianne Myers, Sumner County Grades K-4 Teacher of the Year and George Whitten Elementary School Teacher of the Year

TN - SB460 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, makes changes relative to the coverage of complex rehabilitation technology (CRT) by health insurance entities and managed care organizations. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - 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 - SJR435 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Kim Bennett, J.W. Wiseman Elementary School Teacher of the Year

TN - SB532 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 - SJR386 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Mary Scruggs, Portland Gateview Elementary School Teacher of the Year

TN - SJR371 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Brittany Johnson, Station Camp Middle School Teacher of the Year

TN - SJR379 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jill Swanson, Ellis Middle School Teacher of the Year

TN - SJR381 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Crystal Connally, Watt Hardison Elementary School Teacher of the Year

TN - SJR43 Memorials, Death - Dr. Jarrett Bryant Millsaps, Sr.

TN - SJR374 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Chasity Gregory, Portland East Middle School Teacher of the Year

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 - SJR469 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Tammi Calvert, Portland Gateview Elementary School Support Employee of the Year

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 - SJR398 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Sarah Borders, North Sumner Elementary School Teacher of the Year

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 - SB1220 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Future Teacher Scholarship Act of 2023." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SJR420 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Rachel Hester, Westmoreland High School Teacher of the Year

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 - SJR425 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Kevin Murray, Liberty Creek Elementary School Support Employee of the Year

TN - SJR450 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Donna Dyer, Beech High School Support Employee of the Year

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 - SJR391 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Julia Munday, Gene Brown Elementary School Teacher of the Year

TN - SJR370 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Patricia Szymanski, Sumner County Grades 5-8 Teacher of the Year and T.W. Hunter Middle School Teacher of the Year

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 - SJR413 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Donna Holland, Gene Brown Elementary School Support Employee of the Year

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 - SJR422 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Peggy Gigax, Sumner County Schools and Nannie Berry Elementary School Support Employee of the Year

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 - SJR368 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Angie Frye, White House Middle School Teacher of the Year

TN - SJR411 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Shalamar Workings, Guild Elementary School Support Employee of the Year

TN - SB1231 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes a local board of education to contract with a private college or university accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to maintain a training school for grades pre-kindergarten through 12 to provide practice teaching experience for teachers in training. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SJR369 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jacquelyn Fowler, Westmoreland Middle School Teacher of the Year

TN - SJR421 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Emily Edmison, Beech High School Teacher of the Year

TN - SJR395 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Julianna Bennett, Benny Bills Elementary School Teacher of the Year

TN - SB1538 Gallatin - Subject to local approval, requires the city council to appoint a city judge, who replaces the city recorder as the officer presiding over the city court; removes requirement that city recorder be elected and instead be appointed by city council; authorizes city officials to hold appointive office while serving as city official; updates the titles of certain department heads. - Amends Chapter 67 of the Private Acts of 1953; as amended.

TN - SJR393 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Lori Vanderpool, Clyde Riggs Elementary School Teacher of the Year

TN - SJR471 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Sammy Handshoe, North Sumner Elementary School Support Employee of the Year

TN - SB1440 Statutes and Codification - As enacted, adds "sex" as a defined term for statutory construction purposes. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 8.

TN - SJR446 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Windy Robinson, Merrol Hyde Magnet School Support Employee of the Year

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 - 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 - 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 - SJR466 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Alexis Gentry, Vena Stuart Elementary School Support Employee of the Year

TN - SB871 Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, makes changes to property tax relief under the Property Tax Freeze Act. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.

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

TN - SJR470 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jacqueline English, Oakmont Elementary School Support Employee of the Year

TN - SJR385 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Stacy Stover, Station Camp Elementary School Teacher of the Year

TN - SJR382 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Alison Harris, Walton Ferry Elementary School Teacher of the Year

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 - SJR412 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Mary Stoller, George Whitten Elementary School Support Employee of the Year

TN - SJR387 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Skyler Richardson, Howard Elementary School Teacher of the Year

TN - SJR400 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Angel Drennan, Millersville Elementary School Teacher of the Year

TN - SJR429 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Sheryl Godsey, Indian Lake Elementary School Support Employee of the Year

TN - SJR455 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Ralph Barksdale, Rucker-Stewart Middle School Support Employee of the Year

TN - SJR437 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Susan James, Indian Lake Elementary School Teacher of the Year

TN - SJR124 Memorials, Death - Tyre D. Nichols

TN - SB249 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires LEAs to conduct summer learning camps and after-school learning mini-camps annually instead of only in the summers immediately following the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school years; revises the definition of "priority student" to allow additional "at-risk" children and students entering certain grade levels to participate in after-school learning mini-camps, learning loss bridge camps, and summer learning camps. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 15.

TN - SJR449 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Katherine Cartwright, Gallatin High School Support Employee of the Year

TN - SJR401 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Kristina Young, Station Camp High School Teacher of the Year

TN - SB439 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, removes the condition that the department of transportation first authorize the installation of surveillance cameras on interstates and state highways before such cameras may be operated by law enforcement agencies; authorizes the operation of surveillance cameras by law enforcement agencies on such highways under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 38 and Title 55.

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 - SJR383 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Kari Petty, Vena Stuart Elementary School Teacher of the Year

TN - SJR389 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Curtis Cathcart, Guild Elementary School Teacher of the Year

TN - SJR460 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Christie Gilbert, Joe Shafer Middle School Support Employee of the Year

TN - HJR56 Memorials, Death - Patricia Hutchins Brown

TN - SJR396 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Cassie Venable, Beech Elementary School Teacher of the Year

TN - SJR384 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Stacy Porter, Union STEM Elementary School Teacher of the Year

TN - SJR441 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Lisa Stewart, White House High School Support Employee of the Year

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 - SJR453 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Frank Omiyale, T.W. Hunter Middle School Support Employee of the Year

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

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 - SJR438 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Chuck Jones, Sumner County Schools Support Services Support Employee of the Year

TN - SJR377 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Tina Tuttle, Joe Shafer Middle School Teacher of the Year

TN - SJR447 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Kavonya Keeler, Liberty Creek High School Support Employee of the Year

TN - SJR175 Memorials, Retirement - Doug Varnado, Community Church in Hendersonville

TN - SJR373 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Kimberly Baughn, Portland West Middle School Teacher of the Year

TN - SJR372 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Grace Lynne Fleming, Rucker-Stewart Middle School Teacher of the Year

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

TN - SJR631 Memorials, Retirement - Guy Randall Jones

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 - SJR463 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Bobby Bell, Westmoreland Elementary School Support Employee of the Year

TN - SB1221 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, authorizes the commissioner of education to grant an individual pursuing clinical experience in an educator preparation program (EPP) who meets certain requirements a temporary permit to teach in a teaching position in which an LEA or public charter school is unable to secure a qualified teacher with a valid license for the type and kind of school in which a vacancy exists. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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 - SJR375 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Johnna Hutchison, Liberty Creek Middle School Teacher of the Year

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

TN - SJR409 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Dr. Lauren Wilson, Sumner County Schools Assistant Principal of the Year

TN - SJR464 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Crystal Rogers, Watt Hardison Elementary School Support Employee of the Year

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 - SJR454 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Ellen Bailey, Station Camp Middle School Support Employee of the Year

TN - SJR417 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Cathy Brashear, Benny Bills Elementary School Support Employee of the Year

TN - SJR399 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Ellie Campbell, Nannie Berry Elementary School Teacher of the Year

TN - SB972 Education - As enacted, requires, prior to the administration of corporal punishment against a student, the student's teacher or school principal to make certain documentation in the student's educational record; prohibits corporal punishment against a student found to have a disability unless authorized in accordance with law. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SJR407 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Katie Brown, Sumner County Schools Supervisor of the Year

TN - SJR416 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Regina Dickinson, Bethpage Elementary School Support Employee of the Year

TN - SJR433 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Amy McAllister, Liberty Creek Elementary School Teacher of the Year

TN - SJR458 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Kavonya Keeler, Liberty Creek Middle School Support Employee of the Year

TN - SJR452 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Debbie Brown, Westmoreland Middle School Support Employee of the Year

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

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 - 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 - SJR432 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Kim Startup, Madison Creek Elementary School Teacher of the Year

TN - SJR423 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jennifer Johnson, Millersville Elementary School Support Employee of the Year

TN - SJR434 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Amanda Chapman, Lakeside Park Elementary School Teacher of the Year

TN - SJR277 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Tom Smith, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, advisory board

TN - SJR403 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Brenda Barnes-Uhls, Portland High School Teacher of the Year

TN - SJR468 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Brynn Curtis, Station Camp Elementary School Support Employee of the Year

TN - SJR457 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Donna Krantz, Portland East Middle School Support Employee of the Year