Tennessee Sen. Ed Jackson (R)

TN - Government Operations (Senate)

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1st Vice-chair

TN - Health and Welfare (Senate)

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Member

TN - State and Local Government (Senate)

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Member

TN - Calendar (Senate)

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Chair

TN - SB403 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, requires disclosure of certain information concerning contracts with wholesalers of alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - SB586 Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As introduced, reduces from 60 to 50 the number of days within which a court clerk is required to notify the TBI of a person's conviction for an animal abuse offense for purposes of placing the person on the animal abuser registry. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 1; Title 44; Title 47; Title 62; Title 63, Chapter 12; Title 68 and Title 70.

TN - SB1619 Madison County - Subject to local approval, replaces existing sheriff's civil service law with a new civil service law. - Amends Chapter 54 of the Private Acts of 1983; as amended.

TN - SB1865 Secretary of State - As introduced, requires the division of elections within the secretary of state's office to conduct random forensic audits of a selected number of counties and voting machine vendors after each statewide November general election, beginning in 2024. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 4.

TN - SB2261 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, increases, from one to two, the number of free plates for the Purple Heart and disabled veteran license plates issued to veterans with disabilities. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-256 and Section 55-4-257.

TN - SJR1429 Memorials, Death - Robbie Salter Wolfe

TN - SB1966 Medical Occupations - As enacted, creates new categories of emergency first responders to assist EMTs in responding to emergencies, driving ambulances, and engaging in limited medical interventions; requires such persons to become licensed EMTs within a certain period of time. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 68.

TN - SB2549 Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires a law enforcement officer conducting a traffic stop of a motor vehicle for certain traffic violations to ensure that the traffic stop occurs in a safe location. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 63, Part 1; Title 38 and Title 55.

TN - SB1182 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As introduced, designates June 12 as "Women Veterans' Day." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

TN - SB1809 Employees, Employers - As introduced, authorizes a volunteer rescue squad worker to respond to an emergency during the worker's regularly scheduled working hours without loss of pay, vacation time, sick leave, or earned overtime accumulation; authorizes such worker to take the worker's next shift off as a vacation or sick day without loss of pay under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Section 4-21-401; Section 50-1-307 and Section 50-1-309.

TN - SJR621 Memorials, Recognition - U.S. Army Infantry Officer Candidate Class of May 1968 Reunion

TN - SB211 Health Care - As introduced, clarifies that a rural health clinic may employ a dentist or optometrist if the employment relationship is evidenced by a written contract, job description, or documentation containing language that does not restrict the dentist or optometrist from exercising independent medical judgment in diagnosing and treating patients. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 5 and Title 63, Chapter 8.

TN - SB2235 Medical Occupations - As introduced, authorizes the commissioner of health and the commissioner of mental health and substance abuse services to allow certain rules to not be applied to certain healthcare professionals and students in order for those persons to operate outside of normal licensure requirements. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB2340 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As enacted, authorizes the TBI to contract with the FBI on certain background investigations; revises the background check procedure for child care agencies. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6; Title 68, Chapter 102 and Title 71.

TN - SB2557 Gambling - As introduced, recognizes a federally recognized Indian tribe residing on tribal trust lands within this state for purposes of obtaining a gaming license from the national Indian gaming commission to conduct bingo gaming operations on the tribal trust lands of the Indian tribe located within this state. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 12 and Title 66.

TN - SB2552 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, exempts spouses of law enforcement officials from the list of persons prohibited from obtaining a retail license to sell alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3.

TN - SB1184 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the punishment for reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon to a Class D felony if the offense occurred during a road rage incident. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 2.

TN - SB589 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to use a hair follicle test when testing a child for the presence of a controlled substance in the child's body. - Amends TCA Title 24; Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - SB2236 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, clarifies that the annual evaluation report to the general assembly on the adequacy of the departments birth defects registry may be submitted by electronic means. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB1187 Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, changes the compensation, from an amount not to exceed $1,000 annually to an amount not to exceed $200 monthly, for the board of directors of the Reelfoot Lake regional utility and planning district. - Amends TCA Chapter 222 of the Public Acts of 1983, and any other acts amendatory thereto.

TN - SB2550 Medical Occupations - As enacted, authorizes the commissioner of health and the commissioner of mental health and substance abuse services to allow certain rules to not be applied to certain healthcare professionals and students in order for those persons to operate outside of normal licensure requirements during a healthcare staffing crisis; requires certain notice to governor and speakers of the senate and house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB2555 Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires, beginning in 2024, the department to submit to the members of the general assembly, by February 15 of each year, a report of data collected related to the use of medication-assisted treatment for opiate addiction by department-funded providers in this state for the prior fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 33.

TN - SB2339 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As enacted, requires the Tennessee bureau of investigation to remove from the drug offender registry the name and other identifying information of persons upon receipt of notice of the death of such person; requires bureau officials to verify the person's death, by checking the social security death index, obtaining a copy of the offender's certificate of death, or obtaining court documentation, a law enforcement report, or any other credible documentation as determined by the bureau. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

TN - SB588 Gaming - As enacted, transfers all powers and duties regarding the Tennessee Sports Gaming Act to the sports wagering advisory council. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 14; Title 38; Title 39; Title 47; Title 49 and Title 67.

TN - SB2233 Child Abuse - As introduced, expands the definition of child abuse to include a person under the age of 18 witnessing the abuse of another child in the child's immediate family or household or domestic abuse of a member of the child's immediate family or household. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 37 and Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 4.

TN - SB400 Child Abuse - As introduced, provides for the release of records of domestic violence shelters, rape crisis centers, and human trafficking service providers to the department of children's services for the purpose of investigating known or suspected child abuse or neglect or child sexual abuse; requires the department of children's services to maintain confidentiality of the records received. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3.

TN - SB830 Public Health - As introduced, creates a task force to study and report on pre-term births and infant mortality as it relates to African-American mothers. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB1934 Cemeteries - As enacted, specifies that a trustee for an improvement care trust fund may establish a separate trust for each individual cemetery or cemetery company, or a master trust for multiple cemetery companies; specifies that a trustee for pre-need cemetery contracts may establish a separate trust fund for each contract, a single trust fund for all contracts written by an individual cemetery, or a single trust fund for all contracts written by multiple cemetery companies; makes other changes related to the establishment and management of an improvement care trust fund or a trust fund for a pre-need cemetery contract. - Amends TCA Title 35, Chapter 14 and Title 46, Chapter 1, Part 2.

TN - SB1810 Health Care - As introduced, permits advanced practice nurses and physician assistants who are prescribers at federally qualified health centers to arrange for chart review by and site visits with certain collaborating physicians by means of HIPAA-compliant electronic information systems. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 19 and Title 63, Chapter 7.

TN - SB1656 Gaming - As introduced, recognizes a federally recognized Indian tribe residing on tribal trust lands within this state for purposes of obtaining a gaming license from the national Indian gaming commission to conduct gaming operations on the tribal trust lands of the Indian tribe. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 12 and Title 66.

TN - SB1935 Secretary of State - As enacted, removes requirement that certain statements submitted by nonprofit organizations when filing annual event applications, charitable solicitations applications, and athlete agent applications with the secretary of state be sworn under penalty of perjury; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 17, Part 1; Title 48, Chapter 101, Part 5 and Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 21.

TN - SB2232 Foster Care - As enacted, requires, in cases involving child abuse or child neglect, the agency preparing a permanency plan and the court, in developing or approving a plan, to consider whether the allegations of abuse or neglect warrant supervision of any visitation between the child and the abusing or neglecting parent and whether it is in the best interest of the child that the plan require supervised visitation between the child and the abusing or neglecting parent. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Title 39.

TN - SB1964 DUI Offenses - As introduced, establishes a $150 fine for a person convicted of certain DUI offenses if the offense occurred in Perry County; requires any proceeds from the fine be used for the exclusive use of the county-operated ambulance service. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4.

TN - SB1936 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As enacted, removes requirement that an administrative judge or hearing officer make a motion prior to deciding a procedural question of law; removes similar requirement for such persons to direct parties or attorneys for parties to appear for a conference to consider matters relating to a contested case hearing; removes obsolete language regarding the manner in which parties may participate in hearings remotely and revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5, Part 3.

TN - SB2546 Expunction - As introduced, increases from two to three the number of misdemeanor offenses for which a person can have the criminal records expunged if one of the offenses was a Class C misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - SB1985 Municipal Government - As introduced, establishes a mechanism to fund scholarships for municipal financial officer candidates to receive certification and continuing education post-certification. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 56, Part 4 and Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 2.

TN - SB2553 Municipal Government - As enacted, deletes requirements for biennial audits of municipal governments in favor of annual audits supervised by the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 3; Title 6, Chapter 56 and Section 16-18-310.

TN - SB2651 Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, extends the deadline to hold a hearing on a dispute between the management of public property and the department concerning the provision of vending facilities by blind individuals from within 30 days of the appointment of an administrative law judge to within 45 days of the appointment of an administrative law judge. - Amends TCA Title 41 and Title 71, Chapter 4.

TN - SB2556 Opioids - As introduced, reduces various restrictions on the provision of opioid antagonists. - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 63, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 63, Chapter 10.

TN - SB2548 Jails, Local Lock-ups - As introduced, changes the requirement for public notice for the annual meeting of a county legislative body related to the county's work release program from at least 30 days prior to the meeting to at least 45 days prior. - Amends TCA Title 41, Chapter 2; Title 41, Chapter 3 and Title 41, Chapter 4.

TN - SB711 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, increases from 60 to 90 days the maximum first offense suspension period of a person's liquor by the drink license for authorizing the sale or use of an alcohol vaporizing device on the licensee's premises. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - SR25 Memorials, Interns - Shelley A. Mason

TN - SJR1196 Memorials, Recognition - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

TN - SB2234 Medical Occupations - As introduced, authorizes the commissioner of health and the commissioner of mental health and substance abuse services to allow certain rules to not be applied to certain healthcare professionals and students in order for those persons to operate outside of normal licensure requirements during a healthcare staffing crisis; requires certain notice to governor and speakers of the senate and house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SJR471 Memorials, Recognition - Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians

TN - SB2685 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, enacts "Roger's Law," which enhances the penalties for failing to exercise due care while driving when it results in serious bodily injury or death to another person. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55.

TN - SB610 Public Employees - As enacted, specifies that an employee of a county or municipality is not entitled to back pay if the employee is arrested and placed on administrative leave and then voluntarily separates from employment, even if the charges are dropped or the employee is found not guilty, or is terminated for reasons other than the arrest; requires that the records of the administrative actions be preserved. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5, Part 2 and Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 17.

TN - SJR1082 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Jodi Rump, Science and Social Studies Standards Recommendation Committee

TN - SJR491 Memorials, Recognition - Chelsea Jackson

TN - SB2048 Vital Records - As enacted, authorizes a medical examiner or attending or pronouncing physician in a hospital to file a death certificate; removes authority for a person acting as a funeral director who first assumes custody of the dead body to file a death certificate; removes requirement for an attending physician or medical examiner to give notice for delay in completing medical certification for the cause of death to a person acting as a funeral director. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - SB1965 Traffic Safety - As introduced, requires employees and contractors of the department of transportation and first responders to wear blaze orange vests with reflective tape when working on roads and highways; prohibits all other colored vests; requires the department of safety to provide training on proper interstate incident traffic control to each police officer in a department that contains in its jurisdiction an interstate highway. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 54; Title 55; Title 68, Chapter 102 and Title 68, Chapter 140.

TN - SJR692 Memorials, Death - Mia LaDonna Myles

TN - SJR1831 Memorials, Death - Harbert Alexander

TN - SB592 Chiropractors - As enacted, replaces one of the consumer member appointments to the board of chiropractic examiners with the appointment of a member who is a chiropractic X-ray technician or chiropractic therapy assistant certified in this state not less than two years. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 4.

TN - SB1866 Correction, Dept. of - As enacted, revises the manner in which the department may dispose of the unclaimed body of an inmate who dies in a penitentiary, including by way of cremation. - Amends TCA Title 41, Chapter 21.

TN - SB2554 Charitable Solicitations - As introduced, requires certain disclosures with respect to the manner in which nonprofit entities solicit funds and for what purpose, and the manner in which such funds are expended, including the percentage of contributions expended in this state. - Amends TCA Title 48.

TN - SB1676 Municipal Government - As introduced, deletes requirements for biennial audits of municipal governments in favor of annual audits supervised by the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 3; Title 6, Chapter 56 and Section 16-18-310.

TN - SB2558 Election Laws - As enacted, requires that, on and after January 1, 2024, each voting machine used by a county election commission produce a voter-verifiable paper audit trail, instead of being capable of producing a voter-verified paper audit trail. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - SB1912 Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires department's case managers to report a suspected violation of a court order to law enforcement in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Section 39-13-113.

TN - SB383 Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, redefines "seclusion" with regard to children in custody at juvenile detention facilities approved, certified, or licensed by the department of children's services, including youth development centers; enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - SB2047 Real Estate Agents and Brokers - As introduced, enacts the "Fuel Gas Detector Act"; requires the installation and maintenance of fuel gas detectors in rooms containing an appliance fueled by propane, natural gas, or any liquified petroleum gas for certain residential buildings. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 49; Title 66 and Title 68.

TN - SB2547 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As enacted, authorizes clerks of court, county clerks, registers of deeds, and county trustees to enter into agreements with a fingerprint vendor that is under contract with the Tennessee bureau of investigation for purposes of providing fingerprint capture services for fingerprint-based background checks permitted by law; enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6.

TN - SB382 Professions and Occupations - As enacted, allows members of the United States armed forces and honorably discharged veterans who receive certified occupational training as a member of the United States armed forces to receive equivalent credit toward certain occupational licenses relating to the training received. - Amends TCA Title 58; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB590 Correctional Programs - As enacted, authorizes TRICOR to sell goods manufactured by inmates to government entities, private nonprofit corporations, and charitable organizations in this state if the TRICOR board determines the sale is in the best interests of the state and does not unfairly compete with private sector businesses. - Amends TCA Section 41-22-116.

TN - SB591 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, authorizes a person or entity holding a retail package store license, liquor-by-the-drink license, or retail food store wine license to sell or transfer the person's or entity's inventory of alcoholic beverages or wine, as applicable, upon the sale or closure of the establishment to another licensee if certain requirements are met. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3, Part 2; Title 57, Chapter 3, Part 8 and Title 57, Chapter 4, Part 1.

TN - SB925 State Symbols - As introduced, designates the ladder as the official state tool. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - SB1180 Veterans - As introduced, changes, from 30 to 45, the number of days prior to the beginning of a new fiscal year that the Tennessee state veterans' homes board must submit the plan of operation for review and approval to the commissioner of veterans services, the commissioner of finance and administration, and the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 9; Title 38, Chapter 7; Title 58; Title 62, Chapter 5; Title 63; Title 68, Chapter 3, Part 5 and Title 68, Chapter 3, Part 2.

TN - SB537 Comptroller, State - As enacted, removes the filing requirement for municipal and utility district travel and expense reimbursement policies, and any amendments to the policies, and instead requires the policies and amendments be made available for review and audit by the comptroller or the comptroller's designee. - Amends TCA Section 6-54-903 and Section 7-82-309.

TN - SB1188 Taxes - As introduced, increases the number of days a person in the armed forces has to pay the occupational privilege tax from 180 days following the conclusion of hostilities in which such person is actually engaged outside the United States or 180 days after such person is transferred from the theater of such hostilities, whichever is sooner, to 240 days following conclusion or 240 days following transfer, whichever is sooner. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - SB1181 Election Laws - As introduced, requires new amendments or additions to political party rules to take effect 10 business days, instead of 10 days, after being filed with the secretary of state and the coordinator of elections. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - SJR71 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Candace Leigh Sanders, 2021 Curriculum Associates Extraordinary Educator

TN - SB1185 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, authorizes, from May 25, 2021, to July 1, 2023, law enforcement officers who have been retired for at least nine months from TCRS from any superseded system administered by the state, or from any local retirement fund to accept employment as a law enforcement officer without loss or suspension of retirement benefits if certain conditions met. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 7; Title 8, Chapter 25; Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35; Title 8, Chapter 36 and Title 8, Chapter 37.

TN - SB401 Jails, Local Lock-ups - As introduced, requires the contracts between a county and a private prison contractor to meet the requirements of the Private Prison Contracting Act of 1986 if the department of correction contracts with such county for the incarceration of state inmates. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 7; Title 9; Title 40 and Title 41.

TN - SR108 Memorials, Interns - Jordan Chaffin

TN - SB1003 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, provides that a person's use of force in self-defense is not justified if the person was engaged in conduct that would constitute a felony or Class A misdemeanor, rather than unlawful activity, at the time of the use of force. - Amends TCA Section 39-11-611.

TN - SB1189 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, enacts the "West Tennessee River Basin Flood Resiliency Fund Act"; authorizes county mayors to appoint a designee to serve in their place on the authority's board. - Amends TCA Title 64, Chapter 1, Part 11.

TN - SB611 Unclaimed Property - As enacted, changes the date used to determine when property held in a pension or retirement account is presumed abandoned; changes, from $50 to $25, the threshold value for property to be included in the report due to the treasurer under the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act; changes the exception to allow the treasurer to waive the claim requirement and deliver the property directly to a person. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 29.

TN - SB587 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As introduced, establishes when an agency's rule is exempt from the public hearing requirement; authorizes a person to file suit directly with chancery court to enjoin enforcement of a rule when the rule is not adopted in compliance with this act. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5.

TN - SB2231 Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires a law enforcement officer conducting a traffic stop of a motor vehicle for certain traffic violations to ensure that the traffic stop occurs in a safe location unless the officer determines it would not be in the interest of public safety. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 63, Part 1; Title 38 and Title 55.

TN - SB1186 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, authorizes concurrent or adjacent utility cooperatives to enter into written agreements allowing construction and maintenance of infrastructure to provide services outside of a cooperative's service area; creates a waiver for persons residing in an affected service area to request cooperatives to enter into a written agreement. - Amends TCA Title 65, Chapter 25.

TN - SB2551 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, authorizes issuance of a disabled veteran registration plate without payment of a fee to a veteran with a service-connected disability that is determined by the United States department of veterans affairs to be permanent and total due to individual unemployability. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-256.

TN - SB1910 Child Abuse - As enacted, requires a landlord or person in control of a residential rental property to provide a case manager from the department of children's services or a child protective investigation team with information on the address or location of a child who has been alleged to be abused or neglected and resides or is located on the residential rental property; grants immunity from liability for a cooperating landlord, except in cases of willful or wanton conduct or intentional wrongdoing. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39.

TN - SJR617 Memorials, Public Service - James Hal Wallace, Jr., State Election Commission

TN - SB1288 Historical Commission - As introduced, makes a violation of the heritage protection laws by a public official a Class C misdemeanor and holds such official personally liable for penalties and fines arising from such violation. - Amends TCA Section 4-1-412; Title 4, Chapter 8; and Title 4, Chapter 11.

TN - SB784 Driver Licenses - As enacted, requires that a Class H or hardship license issued to a minor holding a Class P license or instructional permit expires on the date the Class P license or instructional permit expires. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50.

TN - SJR994 Memorials, Death - Dr. Donald Ross Webb

TN - SB1183 State Employees - As enacted, provides 36 hours of yearly leave for a state employee who is a veteran with a service-connected disability of 30 percent or more to be used to attend appointments related to the service-connected disability. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 58.

TN - SB712 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, requires the department, in consultation with the commission, to promulgate rules regarding reports to be made, records to be kept, and other matters pertaining to the collection of the wholesale beer tax. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - SB402 State Employees - As introduced, restores longevity pay for employees of the executive branch in the service of the state hired after June 30, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 38.

TN - SB2842 Expunction - As introduced, increases from two to three the number of misdemeanor offenses for which a person can have the records expunged if all of the offenses were violations of title 70. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - SB1911 Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to convene a child protective investigation team when a report of severe child abuse is received; expands the role and procedures of a child protective team investigation to include cases involving severe child abuse. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39.

TN - HB1541 Explosives - As introduced, increases fine that may be assessed against persons who fail to give notice of blasting operations prior to conducting such operations; reduces maximum allowable peak particle velocity limits for blasting site distances; revises other provisions regarding blasting. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 105.

TN - SB2424 Disabled Persons - As introduced, makes various changes to the system established by the commissioner of human services for providing rehabilitation centers for persons with disabilities; changes the name of the advisory board for rehabilitation centers to the advisory board for community-based vocational rehabilitation services; extends the new board to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Section 4-29-243; Section 4-29-248 and Title 49, Chapter 11, Part 7.

TN - SB2148 State Symbols - As enacted, names "My Tennessee Mountain Home" by Dolly Parton as an official state song. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - SB2410 University of Tennessee - As enacted, establishes an institute of American civics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; requires the president of the University of Tennessee, in consultation with the governor, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives, to appoint 13 members to serve on a board of fellows for the institute; establishes procedure for appointment of a director for the institute. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

TN - SB2413 Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, specifies that the average caseloads of case managers must be calculated at least monthly. - Amends TCA Section 37-5-132.

TN - SB2042 Salaries and Benefits - As enacted, requires employers to pay employees no less than the minimum wage, regardless of the subminimum wage for an employee whose earning or productive capacity is impaired by age, physical, or mental deficiency or injury. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 50.

TN - SB1660 Corporations, Not for Profit - As enacted, holds the directors, trustees, or members of the governing body of a 501(c)(19) nonprofit corporation, association, or organization immune from suit arising from the conduct of the affairs of the corporation, association, or organization as long as the conduct at issue does not constitute willful, wanton, or gross negligence. - Amends TCA Title 48.

TN - SB766 Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, requires the juvenile court clerk and the department of mental health and substance abuse services to report certain juvenile justice information to the administrative office of the courts each month; deletes certain reporting to the council of juvenile and family court judges. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - SB2491 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, creates a waiver for the registration fee for a Class A or Class B motor vehicle upon the renewal of the motor vehicle's registration if the renewal occurs during the period of time beginning July 1, 2022, and ending June 30, 2023. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 8, Part 1; Title 55 and Title 67.

TN - SB2281 Abortion - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Abortion-Inducing Drug Risk Protocol Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB1821 Appropriations - As introduced, appropriates excess state tax revenues over-collected in fiscal year 20212022 to the department of transportation to be used for making grants in the amount of $2 million to each county highway department for the construction, repair, and improvement of county roads and bridges. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 54 and Title 67.

TN - SB1915 Interstate Compacts - As introduced, enacts the Interstate Compact Between the States of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee Creating the RegionSmart Development District and the RegionSmart Development Agency of the Greater Memphis Region. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 54 and Title 67.

TN - SB2038 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, designates a segment of Tazewell Pike in Knox County as the "SSG Ryan C. Knauss Memorial Highway." - Amends TCA Title 54.

TN - SB2771 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, requires a health benefit plan that provides coverage for imaging services for screening mammography to provide coverage to a patient for low-dose mammography according to specific guidelines, including a baseline mammogram for a woman 35 to 40 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.

TN - SB2650 Disabled Persons - As enacted, makes various changes to the system established by the commissioner of human services for providing rehabilitation centers for persons with disabilities; changes the name of the advisory board for rehabilitation centers to the advisory board for community-based vocational rehabilitation services; extends the new board to June 30, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49, Chapter 11, Part 7.

TN - SB2740 District Attorneys - As enacted, requires the district attorneys general conference to work with the Tennessee bureau of investigation, the department of children's services, the Tennessee Sheriffs' Association, the Tennessee Association of Chiefs of Police, and the Children's Advocacy Centers of Tennessee to develop recommendations on the creation of multidisciplinary teams to provide responses specific to child sex trafficking cases. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB2866 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, eliminates the criminal offenses of possession of a firearm or club with intent to go armed, possession of a deadly weapon other than a firearm with the intent to employ it during the commission of a dangerous offense, possession of a deadly weapon with the intent to employ it during the commission of any offense other than a dangerous offense, and possession of a weapon with intent to go armed in a park, playground, civic center, or other recreational building. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - SB1844 Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, specifies that a registered charitable organization providing food, housing, or shelter from adverse weather to the community is not liable for any loss, damages, injury, or death that results from providing such services unless the charitable organization's conduct constitutes gross negligence or willful and wanton misconduct. - Amends TCA Title 20; Title 29, Chapter 34 and Title 48.

TN - SB2739 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, requires the department of children's services and the department of human services to collaborate to provide recommendations to the general assembly on resources and services specific to persons from 18 to 24 years of age who have been victims of child sex trafficking. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 37; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 71.

TN - SB2448 Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, extends termination date from July 1, 2022, to July 1, 2023, for limitations on claims against a person for loss, damage, injury, or death arising from COVID-19. - Amends TCA Section 9-8-307; Title 14, Chapter 5; Title 29, Chapter 20 and Section 49-7-159.

TN - SB2162 Law Enforcement - As enacted, authorizes licensed health care facilities to establish policies pursuant to which a suitable number of persons may be employed or commissioned, or both, as police officers, public safety officers, and security officers by the facility; enacts other related provisions; authorizes a local governmental entity to contract with an entity working on the megasite of West Tennessee for the provision of security services at the megasite. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - SB2464 State Government - As enacted, adds to the Eligibility Verification for Entitlements Act that a public benefit does not include a professional or commercial license for purposes of the citizenship verification requirement; specifies that to be eligible for a professional or commercial license, an applicant must show that the applicant is either a United States citizen or authorized under federal law to work in the United States as verified by the SAVE program. - Amends TCA Title 4.

TN - SB2419 Building Commission, State - As enacted, increases the monetary threshold for purposes of defining "major maintenance" with respect to the repair or renovation of state buildings and structures; increases the monetary threshold of state lease agreements for purposes of having such lease agreements approved by the attorney general and reporter and the state building commission. - Amends TCA Section 4-15-107 and Section 12-2-115.

TN - SB2525 Natural Disasters - As introduced, establishes the Tennessee flood resilience and community preparedness task force. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 58; Title 68 and Title 69.

TN - SB2719 Sexual Offenders - As enacted, expands the uses of sex offender registration fees available to the registering agency to include the investigation of sexual offenses and the purchase of specialized equipment for use in the investigation of sexual offenses in addition to paying the administrative costs of the sexual offender registry. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2.

TN - SB1749 Health Care - As enacted, establishes a respite care pilot program for caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer's and related dementia. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.

TN - SB2480 Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Broadband Investment Maximization Act of 2022." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 65 and Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - SB2742 Law Enforcement - As enacted, adds "child abuse" to the requirement that the Jerry F. Agee Tennessee Law Enforcement Academy, the Tennessee peace officer standards and training commission, and the department of children's services work together in developing ways to inform and instruct appropriate local law enforcement personnel in the detection of child sexual abuse and in the proper action that should be taken in a suspected case of child sexual abuse and requires that certain guidelines be prepared that establish a standard procedure that may be followed by police agencies in the investigation of cases involving sexual abuse of children. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 38.

TN - SB2702 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, authorizes, from July 1, 2022, to July 1, 2025, retirees who have been retired for at least 60 days from TCRS or from a superseded system administered by the state, or from a local retirement fund, to accept re-employment as a kindergarten through twelfth grade teacher, substitute teacher, or school bus driver without loss or suspension of retirement benefits if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 36, Part 8.

TN - SB2204 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, requires an entity that contracts with the Megasite Authority of West Tennessee for a real estate interest in the megasite to report, or cause its contractor or contractors to report, certain information to the state building commission, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives regarding construction activity for material improvement to the project; authorizes a local governmental entity to enter into a contract with an entity working on the megasite for the provision of security services at the megasite. - Amends TCA Title 64, Chapter 9, Part 1.

TN - SB115 Driver Licenses - As enacted, disqualifies for life persons convicted of a human trafficking offense from obtaining a commercial driver license; requires lifetime suspension of commercial driver license for persons convicted of a human trafficking offense. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 3 and Title 55, Chapter 50.

TN - SB1057 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, extends the Memphis regional megasite authority to June 30, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 9 and Title 64, Chapter 6.

TN - SB754 Military - As enacted, establishes state employment protections for members of the national guard, state guard, and civil air patrol called to active state duty equivalent to the federal Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA) for members of the national guard called to federal active service. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 33.

TN - SB1993 Public Contracts - As enacted, prohibits a public entity from entering into a contract with a company unless the contract includes a written certification that the company is not currently engaged in, and will not for the duration of the contract engage in, a boycott of Israel; provides exemptions for contracts with a total value of less than $250,000 and contractors with fewer than 10 employees. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 12.

TN - SB2071 Human Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department of human services to submit a report to the general assembly no later than October 31, 2022, and annually thereafter with certain information regarding the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; prohibits the department from providing an exemption from the work requirement, as provided under federal law, to able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs) in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - SB1823 Employees, Employers - As enacted, requires certain employers with a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy to grant exemptions based on medical reason or religious reason; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 14.

TN - SB1805 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, establishes COVID-19 essential employee retirement service credit for members of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system and participants in the state's hybrid retirement plan. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 34 and Title 8, Chapter 36.

TN - SB2309 Foster Care - As enacted, requires each LEA to designate a foster care liaison to collaborate with the department of children's services to address educational barriers for students in foster care and to facilitate compliance with applicable state and federal laws; allows each LEA to appoint a building point of contact in each elementary, middle, and high school to coordinate with the foster care liaison. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 37 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB114 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to increase the hourly wage for direct care professionals employed at contracted agencies of the department for the home- and community-based waiver programs for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities, or any successor programs, such that on July 1, 2021, the hourly wage is at least $12.50 per hour. - Amends TCA Title 33.

TN - SB2315 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, prohibits a county LEA from operating a school within the geographic boundaries of a municipal LEA, except under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SR173 Memorials, Interns - Natalie Hope Clark

TN - SR148 Memorials, Recognition - National Medal of Honor Day, March 25, 2022

TN - SR195 Memorials, Recognition - Office of Geographic Information Systems

TN - SR191 Memorials, Recognition - Office of Legislative Information Systems

TN - SR184 Memorials, Recognition - Gallatin High School and Green Wave Caucus

TN - SR193 Memorials, Recognition - Fiscal Review Committee

TN - SR189 Memorials, Recognition - Office of Legislative Administration

TN - SR83 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee State Museum, 85th anniversary

TN - SR134 Memorials, Death - Dr. Donald Paul Pinkel

TN - SR149 Memorials, Death - Brent Renaud

TN - SR150 Memorials, Recognition - LeMoyne-Owen College, 160th anniversary

TN - SR194 Memorials, Recognition - Office of Facilities Management

TN - SR188 Memorials, Recognition - Senate employees

TN - SR203 Memorials, Recognition - Office of the Chief Clerk of the Senate

TN - SR196 Memorials, Interns - Jocelyn R. Little

TN - SR192 Memorials, Recognition - Office of Legislative Budget Analysis

TN - SR190 Memorials, Recognition - Office of Legal Services

TN - SR107 Memorials, Retirement - Cathy Cate

TN - SJR1627 Memorials, Interns - Ruhiya Mithani

TN - SJR1107 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Bethany Gibson, Salutatorian, Stone Memorial High School

TN - SJR474 Memorials, Interns - Natalie Shanklin

TN - SJR490 Memorials, Retirement - Jeff Smith

TN - SJR925 Memorials, Recognition - Lincoln Memorial University, 125th anniversary

TN - SJR1645 Memorials, Interns - Jailen Edwards

TN - SJR889 Memorials, Recognition - International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2022

TN - SJR1591 Memorials, Public Service - Paula Davis, TACIR

TN - SJR1193 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III, Kelley-Wyman Award, National Association of Attorneys General

TN - SJR1860 Memorials, Interns - Dawson Simmons

TN - SJR475 Memorials, Interns - Kenton Harvill

TN - SJR882 Memorials, Recognition - 100 years of Bible history in Hamilton County

TN - SJR513 Memorials, Retirement - Councilman Joe Swann

TN - SJR164 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Marcie Rudd, State Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission

TN - SJR1431 Memorials, Recognition - General Carl Wade Stiner, U.S. Army (retired), Defense Distinguished Service Medal

TN - SJR1106 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Lindell C. "Granny" Brumley, 100th birthday

TN - SJR1690 Memorials, Public Service - Senator Brenda Gilmore

TN - SJR1351 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges President Biden to ban all oil and gas imports from Russia.

TN - SJR890 Memorials, Recognition - Warden Mike Parris, Warden of the Year

TN - SJR976 Memorials, Recognition - Eric Mayberry, Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation president

TN - SJR367 Memorials, Recognition - Tim Sigler

TN - SJR1002 Memorials, Recognition - Jacob Armistead and Alec Jakalski, Scouts of the Year

TN - SJR815 Memorials, Death - Judge Barbara Haynes

TN - SJR366 Memorials, Death - Senator Jerry Cooper

TN - SJR641 Memorials, Death - Senator Thelma Harper

TN - SJR986 Memorials, Death - Mike "Boots" Ford

TN - SJR975 Memorials, Retirement - Jeff Aiken, Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation

TN - SJR381 Memorials, Recognition - Vietnam War veterans of the University of Tennessee at Martin chapter of Alpha Gamma Rho

TN - SJR1087 Memorials, Death - Marie Parks Alcorn

TN - SJR401 Memorials, Public Service - West Tennessee Drug Task Force's interdiction team, 2020 Team of the Year

TN - SJR566 Memorials, Retirement - George Morton Googe, 26th Judicial District Public Defender

TN - SJR774 Memorials, Retirement - Darlene Walker Schlicher

TN - SJR1827 Naming and Designating - Designates the late Nash as official dog of General Assembly.

TN - SJR820 Memorials, Retirement - David W. Purkey

TN - SJR657 Memorials, Recognition - Jim Shulman

TN - SJR476 Memorials, Death - Senator Ruth C. Montgomery

TN - SJR1804 Memorials, Public Service - Senator Mike Bell

TN - SJR1487 Memorials, Sports - Riverside High School girls' basketball team

TN - SJR880 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee State University Aristocrat of Bands, 75th anniversary

TN - SJR957 Memorials, Retirement - Roberts V. Weaver, Jr.

TN - SJR914 Memorials, Recognition - Houston Davis, Memphis District Trooper of the Year 2020 and 2021

TN - SJR816 Memorials, Recognition - Jacob Baggett

TN - SJR94 Memorials, Recognition - American Heart Association/National Wear Red Day, February 5, 2021

TN - SJR2 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes adding a provision establishing the right to work regardless of status of affiliation with any labor union or employee organization.

TN - SJR1147 Memorials, Congress - Urges disconnecting Russian banks from SWIFT, expelling Russian diplomats from U.S., and banning Russian imports.

TN - SJR1425 Memorials, Public Service - Senator Brian Kelsey

TN - SJR987 Memorials, Death - Dr. Donald Tarr

TN - SJR473 Memorials, Death - Herbert Jackson "Jackie" Pope

TN - SJR777 Memorials, Recognition - Ashley Hesseldahl-Harbin

TN - SJR418 Memorials, Death - Senator Curtis Person, Jr.

TN - SJR32 Memorials, Heroism - Medical Personnel in Tennessee

TN - SJR113 Memorials, Government Officials - Urges Tennessee Historical Commission to establish Community Remembrance Project to memorialize victims of lynching.

TN - SJR384 Memorials, Sports - Kane (Mayor Glenn Jacobs), induction into WWE Hall of Fame

TN - SJR1427 Memorials, Recognition - Janet Batchelor, 2021 Senate Employee of the Year

TN - SJR509 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Hallerin Hilton Hill, Tennessee Radio Hall of Fame

TN - SJR916 Memorials, Recognition - Silver Alert Awareness Month, May 2022

TN - SJR1365 Memorials, Death - Morgan Brown Ayres, Jr.

TN - SJR970 Memorials, Recognition - Arts in Education Week

TN - SJR1375 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Loretta Lynn, 90th birthday