Tennessee Sen. Jon Lundberg (R)

TN - Commerce and Labor (Senate)

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2nd Vice-chair

TN - Education (Senate)

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1st Vice-chair

TN - Finance, Ways and Means (Senate)

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Member

TN - Judiciary (Senate)

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Member

TN - SB2481 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates a Class C misdemeanor for a person who has not attained 21 years of age to consume or possess vapor products on public school property that serves any of the grades kindergarten through 12. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 49.

TN - SB2250 Students - As introduced, requires LEAs to allow nonresident students to enroll in a school in which spaces are available. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2369 Education - As enacted, requires LEAs to conduct remote learning drills; requires that teacher training programs provide instruction on strategies for virtual instruction to candidates seeking a license to teach or a license to serve as an instructional leader. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2246 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, enacts the "Gabby Act." - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 17; Title 25; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB507 Workers Compensation - As introduced, requires the workers' compensation bureau, instead of the employee misclassification advisory task force, to make recommendations to the general assembly regarding programs and services to be funded from the employee misclassification education and enforcement fund. - Amends TCA Title 50.

TN - SB867 Children - As enacted, enacts "Eli's Law," which creates a presumption that any child born to a parent, from whose custody a child has previously been removed for being dependent or neglected and the child who was previously removed is in the custody of the department of children's services, may be dependent or neglected and that it is in the best interest of both children that the child's birth be brought to the court's attention; enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - SJR1614 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Dr. Brian Cinnamon, Kingsport City Schools Supervisor of the Year

TN - SB2017 Education - As enacted, extends the authorization for state colleges and universities under the board of regents or a state university board to contract with a board of education to provide for the teaching of the children of public school age in the training school to allow such a contract with any county or city board of education instead of only the local board in the county or city in which the institution is located. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1907 Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, authorizes a municipality to waive, compromise, remit, prorate, apportion, or release property taxes, penalty, interest, or court costs when the municipality purchases land at a delinquent tax sale for municipal taxes. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 25 and Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 28.

TN - SJR1615 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Melissa Rivers, Kingsport City Schools Grades PreK-4 Teacher of the Year

TN - SJR1260 Memorials, Recognition - Food City

TN - SB1195 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, exempts judges and chancellors who are prohibited from practicing law from the professional privilege tax assessed to persons licensed as attorneys. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.

TN - SB862 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, directs TACIR to conduct a study regarding the use and effectiveness of sales tax holidays as temporary tax relief. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 10 and Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - SB498 Gaming - As introduced, requires secretary of state to provide an applicant to conduct an annual charitable gaming event with written notice by certified mail upon exclusion of the event application from the omnibus list of approved applications. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 17.

TN - SB2242 Wills - As enacted, creates a presumption of suspicious circumstances if a holographic will is written within 30 days prior to a testator's death by suicide and places the burden of presenting evidence that the testator had the capacity to execute the will on the proponent of the will. - Amends TCA Title 32.

TN - SB1783 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, extends from 15 to 21 days the time by which the alcoholic beverages commission must conduct a hearing based on a person's claim to contraband seized by the commission. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - SJR1613 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Dr. Kyle Loudermilk, Kingsport City Schools Principal of the Year

TN - SB1826 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, increases, from 35 to 40 years, the maximum time period during which a certain portion of state sales taxes are allocated and distributed to a municipality or industrial development corporation that finances development of an extraordinary retail or tourism facility project in a certified border region retail tourism development district; extends, from 15 to 20 years, the end date of the investment period during which cost of an economic development project in a certified district may be incurred. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 40.

TN - SB1779 Paternity - As enacted, removes the five-year statute of limitations for challenging a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity on the basis of fraud, duress, or mistake of fact; specifies, in regard to the provision whereby a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity signed by a child's mother and biological father constitutes a legal finding of paternity on the individual named as the father of the child in the acknowledgment, that the finding applies when the acknowledgement is signed by an unwed father. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 7; Title 36 and Title 68.

TN - SB861 Tort Liability and Reform - As introduced, sets certain limits on economic damages recoverable under the governmental tort liability act. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 20.

TN - SB1782 County Officers - As enacted, requires a court with jurisdiction over a criminal case in which an elected constable is indicted or formally charged with a misdemeanor involving gambling or moral turpitude or a felony to place the constable on administrative leave until the conclusion of the criminal prosecution; if constable is convicted of a misdemeanor involving gambling or moral turpitude or a felony, requires the clerk to mail a certified copy of the conviction to the attorney general and the appropriate district attorney general, county attorney, and city attorney to determine whether ouster proceedings should be brought. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 10; Title 8, Chapter 47 and Title 16.

TN - SB500 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, revises dealer's deduction for accounting for and remitting sales tax for items sold during the period of time beginning July 1, 2022, and ending June 30, 2023. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 5.

TN - SB2271 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, adds the education instruction committee of the house of representatives as a recipient of the department's report regarding each LEA's compliance with the requirement to notify an association that regulates interscholastic athletics on a student's placement in foster care for purposes of eligibility to participate in athletics. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1020 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 4, Chapter 3, Part 20; Title 29, Chapter 17; Title 29, Chapter 16 and Title 58, Chapter 2.

TN - SB2020 Education - As introduced, deletes an obsolete requirement that certain chief law enforcement officers submit a report by September 1, 2021, concerning school security deficiencies and recommendations for security improvement of schools. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1787 Taxes - As introduced, extends the current sales tax exemption on motor vehicles purchased by members of the armed forces to Tennessee national guard military technicians and members of the Tennessee national guard who are on part-time duty; applies to one vehicle purchased during a five-year period. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-303.

TN - SB512 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, authorizes qualifying retailers in the restaurant and other eating places industry or the mobile food services industry, and other retail businesses that have lost at least 25 percent in revenue, to temporarily deduct up to $50,000 of net taxable sales from their monthly state sales tax return and retain the resulting state sales tax revenue. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - SB2482 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, authorizes the Tennessee wine and grape board to electronically submit its annual report on the wine and viticulture industry, and the current and future activities of the board. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - SB172 Paternity - As introduced, increases from 60 days to 180 days the time period within which a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity can be rescinded; removes the five-year statute of limitations for challenging a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity on the basis of fraud, duress, or mistake of fact. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 7; Title 36 and Title 68.

TN - SB328 Election Laws - As introduced, authorizes the county election commission to appoint as an emergency registrar, the licensed physician attending a hospitalized person when the person requests an emergency ballot; allows such appointment when the hospital administrator is absent. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 3.

TN - SJR97 Memorials, Recognition - Evelyn Cook, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - SJR1616 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Lisa Bratton, Kingsport City Schools Grades 5-8 Teacher of the Year

TN - SB1808 Education - As introduced, removes the restriction that state colleges or universities may only contract with a local school board within the county or city in which the state college or university is located to operate a training school for pre-kindergarten through grade 12. - Amends TCA Section 49-8-105.

TN - SB2021 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the commissioner to notify each LEA when the office of research and education accountability publishes a report germane to kindergarten through grade 12 education. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB329 Local Government, General - As introduced, expresses legislative intent that the persons appointed to a charter commission for the consolidation of the functions of the county and creation of a metropolitan government be representative of both incorporated and unincorporated areas of the county. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9 and Title 67.

TN - SB2243 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the Class C misdemeanor of restraining a dog with a chain, cord, tether, cable, or similar device while a disaster is imminent or occurring; states that a person is not subject to prosecution for a violation unless the person has previously received a warning citation for a violation. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 44, Chapter 17.

TN - SB177 Beer - As enacted, revises provisions governing self-distribution by certain beer manufacturers. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 5.

TN - SB2019 Education, Higher - As enacted, revises various provisions governing the Tennessee student assistance corporation (TSAC) and financial aid. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB499 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 4, Chapter 3, Part 20; Title 29, Chapter 17; Title 29, Chapter 16 and Title 58, Chapter 2.

TN - SR176 Memorials, Interns - Taylor Franklin

TN - SB331 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, expands the offense of unlawful photography to include a photograph taken without an individual's consent and the focus of the photograph is the intimate area of the individual or would offend or embarrass an ordinary person and the photograph was taken for the purpose of sexual arousal of the defendant. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 6.

TN - SB1781 Expunction - As enacted, permits a person to have the person's criminal records expunged if the person has been convicted of one or more criminal offenses other than the offense for which the person is seeking expunction; clarifies that a person is only eligible for expunction of criminal records once; requires that the person not have been convicted of a criminal offense that is ineligible for expunction, including federal offenses and offenses in other states, that occurred prior to the offense for which the person is seeking expunction. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.

TN - SB171 Highway Signs - As enacted, authorizes the department of transportation to install appropriate signs along a state highway for the Doe Mountain recreational area. - Amends TCA Title 11; Title 54 and Title 55.

TN - SJR222 Memorials, Recognition - Stacy Greer, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - SB1786 Sexual Offenders - As enacted, prohibits a sexual offender, violent sexual offender, or a violent juvenile sexual offender, whose victim was a minor, from knowingly renting or offering for rent a swimming pool, hot tub, or other body of water to be used for swimming that is located on property owned or leased by the offender or otherwise under the control of the offender; creates defense for violation of certain existing restrictions that the offender was the parent of the minor in the offender's presence. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - SB311 Libraries - As enacted, makes various changes to the state and regional library systems. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 1, Part 1; Title 10, Chapter 3 and Title 10, Chapter 5, Part 1.

TN - SB1842 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, clarifies that the offense of burglary includes entering a building other than a habitation, or any portion of the building, not open to the public and committing or attempting to commit a felony, theft, or assault, while the same behavior in a habitation is aggravated burglary. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - SB630 Textbooks - As enacted, revises various provisions governing textbooks and instructional materials; prohibits public school teachers and principals from using or permitting the use of textbooks and instructional materials created to align exclusively with the Common Core State Standards or that are marketed or otherwise identified as Common Core textbooks or materials. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-2203 and Section 49-6-2206.

TN - SB1778 Animal Control - As introduced, prohibits counties and municipalities from adopting, enacting, or enforcing a rule, regulation, resolution, or ordinance relating to a specific breed of domesticated animal. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 44 and Title 56.

TN - SB265 Probation and Parole - As introduced, provides that if a prisoner is granted parole based on the requirement that the prisoner complete a pre-release program, class, coursework, or other activity, and the program, class, coursework, or activity cannot be commenced at no fault of the prisoner within one month of parole, the board must immediately release the prisoner under GPS monitoring pending completion of an eligible community-based program based on a risk and needs assessment. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 28.

TN - SB504 Financial Responsibility Law - As enacted, increases from $15,000 to $25,000 the minimum amount of insurance coverage for property damage in any one accident that is required for a split-limit motor vehicle insurance policy to qualify as proof of financial security under the financial responsibility law for policies issued or renewed after December 31, 2022. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 56.

TN - SB1908 Public Health - As enacted, increases the number of EMT/AEMT training centers operated by ambulance services that may be operated from 15 to 30; authorizes EMT/AEMT training centers to provide online or virtual didactic instruction to the same extent such instruction may be provided by accredited EMS education institutions; makes other related changes; urges ambulance services operating EMT/AEMT training centers and the Tennessee board of regents to develop partnerships as practicable to increase the capacity of this state to prepare EMTs, AEMTs, and paramedics. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - SB169 Finance and Administration, Dept. of - As introduced, makes proprietary information provided to the division of benefits administration for the purposes of administering group insurance plans for public officers and employees confidential. - Amends TCA Title 8.

TN - SB2798 Unemployment Compensation - As introduced, changes the date by which the commissioner of labor and workforce development must make a report to the general assembly concerning the condition of the unemployment trust fund from February 1 each year to February 15. - Amends TCA Title 50.

TN - SB170 Taxes, Excise - As enacted, revises provisions governing certain excise tax credits. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20.

TN - SB787 Industrial Development - As enacted, requires each member of a board of directors of an industrial development corporation to complete a conflict-of-interest statement; requires the Tennessee Ethics Commission to post on its website a sample conflict of interest statement. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53.

TN - SB1943 Professions and Occupations - As enacted, allows the massage licensure board to issue a temporary license to certain persons from other states or U.S. territories; establishes requirements for persons granted such a temporary license. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 18.

TN - SB2370 Education, Higher - As enacted, requires, by the 2023-2024 school year, each state college of applied technology to establish partnerships with each LEA that is located in the county in which the main campus of the state college of applied technology is located to provide early postsecondary opportunities for students enrolled in a high school in the LEA; encourages the board of regents to expand the presence of state colleges of applied technology in each county within this state to provide greater early post-secondary opportunities for students enrolled in a high school in an LEA. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB176 Nurses, Nursing - As introduced, makes various changes to the licensing of and prescribing authority for advanced practice registered nurses. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 49; Title 53; Title 55; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB178 Corporations, Not for Profit - As introduced, extends the deadline by which the secretary of state must submit a list to the commissioner of revenue of all new corporations licensed or authorized to operate in this state during the preceding month from the fifteenth of each month to the twentieth of each month. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 34; Title 37; Title 39; Title 40; Title 48 and Title 50.

TN - SJR582 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jackilyn Heller, Kingsport City Schools Grades Pre-K-4 Teacher of the Year

TN - SB2843 Education, Higher - As enacted, revises various provisions of the Tennessee Higher Education Authorization Act of 2016, which governs proprietary higher education institutions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - SB1780 Employees, Employers - As enacted, lowers the threshold for private employers having to verify work authorization status of new hires through E-Verify from those with 50 or more employees to those with 35 or more employees; requires the office of employment verification assistance to offer, at no charge, E-Verify sign ups and work authorization status checks for employers with less than 35 employees; protects employers acting upon false results generated by E-Verify; prohibits certain wrongful or retaliatory discharge or discrimination actions; prohibits certain rehires. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12; Title 39; Title 50 and Title 67.

TN - SB2270 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, authorizes a special occasion licensee to designate an area in which liquor-by-the-drink licensees may sell alcoholic beverages and beer to patrons who may consume the alcoholic beverages and beer anywhere in the designated area; authorizes a festival operator licensee to provide a list of the liquor-by-the-drink licensees that will sell alcoholic beverages and beer to patrons in the designated area of the festival. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - SB2251 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, revises various alcohol-related provisions, including authorizing persons who hold certain alcohol licenses to choose the expiration date of their licenses and revising provisions relating to caterers. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - SB327 Children - As enacted, enacts "Evelyn Boswell's Law," regarding the reporting of missing and endangered children. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 38 and Title 39.

TN - SB503 Medical Occupations - As enacted, authorizes, for the purposes of providing services in a school setting pursuant to a child's individualized education program (IEP), certain licensed healthcare providers licensed to refer or order services within their scope of practice as part of a child's IEP. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 63.

TN - SB970 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, states that aggravated burglary and especially aggravated burglary are crimes committed against the person; moves the burglary offenses to the chapter that includes offenses against persons. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 49.

TN - SB2681 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, increases the time in which the department of revenue has to make annual adjustments to the sales and use tax revenues collected by a development district from 90 days to 100 days from the end of a fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 40.

TN - SB510 Public Records - As introduced, declares that personally identifying information of a person participating in a government-sponsored property alert service or program is confidential; defines "property alert service or program" as an online service that electronically alerts a participant when a document is filed and indexed in the register of deed's office that references the participant's name or address. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5.

TN - SB2249 Education - As introduced, requires the director of legislative budget analysis to report to the speaker of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the education committees of the senate and house of representatives if the commissioner of education fails to provide the director with the revised BEP funding formula for the ensuing fiscal year by January 1.

TN - SB2269 Beer - As enacted, revises provisions governing the authority for certain manufacturers of beer to self-distribute the manufacturer's beer. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 5.

TN - SB1776 Students - As enacted, includes students who fulfill the requirements of the Tennessee work ethic distinction program to receive recognition as a Tennessee Tri-Star scholar. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 60.

TN - SJR98 Memorials, Recognition - Stacy Greer, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - SB1882 Animal Control - As introduced, exempts a certified animal control agency administering vaccinations and microchip implants by or under the responsible supervision of a licensed veterinarian as a part of a community outreach program from premises permit requirements for premises where a licensed veterinarian practices or where the practice of veterinary medicine occurs. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 12, Part 1.

TN - SB865 Remedies and Special Proceedings - As introduced, requires the courts of this state to maintain a list of all persons deemed to be an abusive civil action plaintiff and the period of time any prefiling restrictions are in effect; requires the court to direct the clerk to distribute to the courts of each judicial district in this state a copy of any order imposing prefiling restrictions upon a person found to be an abusive civil action plaintiff. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 41.

TN - SB2039 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, urges the department of transportation to report to the finance, ways and means committees and transportation committees the amount of state funds expended over the previous 10 fiscal years for maintenance of locks and dams on navigable rivers within this state, and the estimated amount of state funds necessary to properly maintain such locks and dams over the next 10 fiscal years. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9 and Title 69.

TN - SB1788 Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As introduced, establishes standards for shelter that must be provided to dogs under present animal cruelty laws, including requirements for ventilation, size, and the ability to retain body heat. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 2.

TN - SJR586 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Dr. Chris Hampton, Kingsport City Schools Principal of the Year

TN - SJR808 Memorials, Recognition - Kingsport Farmers Market, Best Farmers Market in East Tennessee

TN - SJR727 Memorials, Recognition - Ed Jordan

TN - SJR1405 Memorials, Recognition - Jeff Stinson

TN - SB509 Marriage - As enacted, permits notaries public to solemnize marriages. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 16 and Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 3.

TN - SJR1585 Memorials, Recognition - Kingsport Chamber of Commerce, 75th anniversary

TN - SJR247 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Kenneth C. Hill, Tennessee Public Utility Commission

TN - SB863 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, revises eligibility requirements for the general assembly merit scholarship for students who complete high school in a Tennessee home school program or who graduate from an ineligible Tennessee high school. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - SB679 Taxes - As enacted, provides for the allocation of certain revenue from state and local sales taxes to pay for the capital and operation expenses associated with a motor sports facility. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 3 and Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1777 Paternity - As introduced, clarifies that a party to a civil or criminal proceeding in which the paternity of a child is at issue may voluntarily seek a genetic test from an accredited laboratory before a court issues an order requiring the genetic test. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 7; Title 36 and Title 68.

TN - SB505 Courts, General Sessions - As enacted, authorizes Johnson County to employ a full-time general sessions judge and prohibit the judge from practicing law or accepting other employment upon adoption of a resolution by a two-thirds majority vote of the county legislative body. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 15.

TN - SB502 Health Care - As introduced, expands definition of pet to include nondomesticated animals for the purpose of authorizing insurers to offer group or individual policies or contracts that provide benefits for hospital and medical services for those animals. - Amends TCA Title 10; Title 47; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SJR584 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Dr. Andy Irvin, Kingsport City Schools Grades 9-12 Teacher of the Year

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

TN - SJR863 Memorials, Recognition - Bloomingdale Ruritan Club, 65th anniversary

TN - SJR583 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Mona Fulkerson, Kingsport City Schools Grades 5-8 Teacher of the Year

TN - SJR1864 Memorials, Death - Carol Martin "Bill" Gatton

TN - SR129 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges the University of Tennessee Board of Trustees to require the collection of an objective metric of postsecondary readiness assessment scores as a part of their application process.

TN - SJR1617 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Amanda Blackburn, Kingsport City Schools Grades 9-12 Teacher of the Year

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

TN - SB1841 Probation and Parole - As introduced, deletes the authority for the board of parole to determine when an inmate will begin service of the inmate's consecutive sentence, including allowing the inmate to begin custodial parole on any date on or after the custodial parole eligibility date. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 20, Part 1.

TN - SB164 Children - As enacted, authorizes a Parents' Day Out or similar program operated by a religious institution or organization to provide 12-hour per week child care services in whatever block of time desired. - Amends TCA Title 49 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 - SB1785 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, expands the offenses of aggravated assault and assault against a first responder to include an assault involving the use or display of any article used or fashioned to lead the victim to reasonably believe it to be a deadly weapon. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB166 Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As enacted, revises offense of aggravated cruelty to animals. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 2.

TN - SR29 Memorials, Interns - Paige Ashley Sawyers

TN - SB864 Industrial Development - As introduced, authorizes municipalities in counties recognized by the department of economic and community development as tier 3 or tier 4 counties to provide incentives that promote the development of single-family housing through contributions to industrial development corporations. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 54 and Title 7, Chapter 53.

TN - SB532 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires the Tennessee higher education commission to comply with the policies of the state building commission concerning capital projects affecting public institutions of higher education in this state. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB165 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, converts special purpose boat dealer plates to boat transport plates; authorizes persons or businesses that transport boats for hire to be issued special purpose boat transport plates in addition to manufacturers and dealers of boats. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4, Part 2.

TN - SB266 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, removes the prohibition on retail sales of alcoholic beverages and wine on Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Easter. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - SB497 Taxes - As introduced, extends the expiration date of the authorization for a metropolitan government to levy a privilege tax on the ticket price for admission to events at a municipal auditorium from January 1 to March 1 following the maturity and redemption of the indebtedness for the auditorium. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 3, Part 2.

TN - SB173 Personal Property - As introduced, clarifies that the Tennessee Self-Service Storage Facility Act applies to transportable storage structures or containers. - Amends TCA Title 47 and Title 66.

TN - SJR50 Memorials, Death - Daniel L. Herman

TN - SB698 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, changes the date TSAC must annually report its findings on the Tennessee Promise scholarship program from March 15 to March 30. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - SB326 District Attorneys - As introduced, authorizes prior service as a criminal investigator for a law enforcement agency to be used for creditable service calculation for persons employed as assistant district attorneys general. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 7.

TN - SB330 Local Government, General - As introduced, requires that the notice sent to a taxpayer by an equalization board established by a modified city manager-council regarding the board's final decision on the taxpayer's appeal of a tax assessment, be sent within five business days instead of five calendar days; requires that any complaint challenging the legality of an appointment made by the county legislative body be filed with the chancery court of the county within 10 business days instead of 10 calendar days of the date of the appointment. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 12 and Title 67.

TN - SB866 Civil Procedure - As introduced, requires a court-appointed attorney to review all pro se civil action pleadings to determine whether the action is meritorious; requires all pro se litigants in civil actions to post a security bond of up to $100,000; requires that payment of the security bond be made from the state general fund if the plaintiff is proceeding without representation and in forma pauperis; requires dismissal of the civil action pleading with prejudice if the reviewing court-appointed attorney determines the action is without merit or if the plaintiff is unable to pay the security bond. - Amends TCA Title 20 and Title 29, Chapter 41.

TN - SB2018 Schools, Charter - As introduced, reduces the amount of time, from 60 days to no later than 30 days before the application process, by which a prospective charter school sponsor must submit a letter of intent of its plan to submit an application to operate a charter school. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.

TN - SB174 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the commissioner to obtain approval from the state board of education before making any changes to the performance goals and measures for schools and LEAs; requires the commissioner to convene a working group to obtain stakeholder input on any proposed change to the performance goals and measures before seeking approval from the state board. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1.

TN - SB781 Redistricting, Congressional - As enacted, establishes the state's congressional districts. - Amends TCA Section 2-16-103.

TN - SB496 Comptroller, State - As introduced, requires the comptroller to review the state's K-12 finances for the 2018-2019 school year and report the findings by January 1, 2022. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SJR99 Memorials, Recognition - "National Supermarket Employee Day," February 22, 2021

TN - SB556 Telecommunications - As introduced, requires the department of economic and community development to transmit any report made on the status of grants under the broadband accessibility grant program no later than December 31 in the applicable year; adds the legislative librarian as a recipient of such report. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 12; Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 65.

TN - SB325 Planning, Public - As introduced, requires that the recommendations submitted by a regional historic zoning commission to a county or municipal legislative body regarding the creation of a historic district or zone identify the statutory criteria or criterion met by the proposed historic zone or district. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12; Title 13; Title 66 and Title 67.

TN - SB699 Public Records - As enacted, requires that captured plate data from automatic license plate reader systems be treated as confidential and not be open for inspection by members of the public; schedules provision to expire July 1, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5.

TN - SB678 Historical Sites and Preservation - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Historic Revitalization Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 11, Part 1; Title 4, Chapter 17; Title 56, Chapter 4; Title 66 and Title 67.

TN - SB555 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, clarifies that the term "crime of violence" in regard to weapons offenses includes aggravated rape of a child rather than especially aggravated rape of a child. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 16; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49 and Title 70.

TN - SB2479 Architects, Engineers and Designers - As enacted, creates licensure requirements for the regulation of landscape architects. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 2.

TN - SB2916 Bristol - Subject to local approval, moves the election date for council from the third Tuesday in May to the first Tuesday in November; requires the budget and tax rate to be adopted by ordinance rather than resolution; authorizes the council to designate the location of its meetings by resolution; authorizes the recorder to levy a 5 percent penalty on delinquent taxes; changes gender specific terms for council members to gender neutral terms; makes other revisions to the charter. - Amends Chapter 84 of the Private Acts of 1991; as amended.

TN - SB175 Banks and Financial Institutions - As enacted, changes, from six months to 12 months, the permitted holding period by a bank for non-real-property acquired in satisfaction of a loan. - Amends TCA Title 45.

TN - SB1784 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, creates a Tennessee state library coordinator position within the department; establishes the duties of the Tennessee state library coordinator. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB168 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, raises from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony certain animal cruelty offenses involving a cock; requires a fine of not less than $1,000 nor more than $2,500 for the offense of being a spectator at a cock fight. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 2.

TN - SB501 Education, Higher - As enacted, ends the BEST college savings program that permitted tuition units to be purchased under a tuition contract; provides for the use, refund, or rollover to another college savings plan of all funds remaining under any tuition contract. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - SB2022 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, changes from October 1 to October 15 the date by which the department is required to submit its annual report regarding the physical education programs and activity for each LEA to the education committees pursuant to the Connie Hall Givens Coordinated School Health Improvement Act. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

TN - SB1843 Controlled Substances - As introduced, requires employers of healthcare prescribers to report to the TBI and local law enforcement authorities, as well as the department of health, prescribers that acquire or attempt to acquire controlled substances by misrepresentation, fraud, forgery, deception, or subterfuge. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 10; Title 53, Chapter 11 and Title 63.

TN - SJR1258 Memorials, Sports - Max Norman, Class AA individual state wrestling champion

TN - SB1019 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, requires the Tennessee higher education commission to create a model program of equitable access to course materials to provide required course materials to Tennessee Promise scholarship students at no cost; requires THEC to select a vendor for the program through an RFP. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 7.

TN - SB780 Redistricting, Legislative - As enacted, establishes state senate districts. - Amends TCA Section 3-1-102.

TN - SJR1259 Memorials, Recognition - Food City 300 NASCAR Xfinity Series Race at Bristol Motor Speedway, 30th anniversary

TN - SB2247 Textbooks - As enacted, expands the membership of the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission; requires the commission to issue guidance for LEAs and public charter schools to use when reviewing materials in a library collection; creates other duties in regard to library collections. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 49 and Chapter 264 of the Acts of 1909.

TN - SB167 Guardians and Conservators - As enacted, requires that petitions for appointment of a conservator include results of searches of the proposed conservator in the department of health's registry of persons who have abused, neglected, or misappropriated the property of vulnerable persons and the national sex offender registry. - Amends TCA Title 34.

TN - SB511 Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, requires registration with the department to operate as a commercial dog breeder; creates inspection requirements for commercial dog breeders; creates Class A misdemeanor offense for a person to knowingly operate as a commercial dog breeder without being registered. - Amends TCA Title 62.

TN - SB788 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires each LEA to have an open enrollment period in which a parent or guardian of a student may seek to transfer the parent's or guardian's student to a school in the LEA that the student is not zoned to attend. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1402 Unemployment Compensation - As enacted, revises provisions governing benefits formula under the Tennessee Employment Security Law. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 50 and Title 56.

TN - SB264 Day Care - As introduced, creates an exemption from licensure for certain in-home childcare operations that obtain a waiver from each child's parent or legal guardian. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 3.

TN - SJR585 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Vickie Johnston, Kingsport City Schools Supervisor of the Year

TN - SB506 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, changes, from June 1 to July 1, the date by which an insurer or insurance group must submit its disclosure to the commissioner as required under the Corporate Governance Annual Disclosure Act. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - SB508 Open Meetings - As introduced, authorizes board members of utility districts and water, wastewater, and natural gas utility authorities to participate in board meetings by electronic or other means of communication. - Amends TCA Section 8-44-108.

TN - HR202 Memorials, Recognition - Tally Bevis, 2021 Miss Tennessee

TN - HJR385 Memorials, Recognition - Cassie Lewis, 2020-2021 FFA State Reporter

TN - HJR912 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Deshawn Ewing, Marshall County Grades K-4 and Marshall Elementary School Teacher of the Year

TN - HJR197 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Seo Yoon Yang, Valedictorian, Signal Mountain Middle-High School

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 - 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 - SB2531 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As enacted, removes the geographic or programmatic considerations when THEC adopts a dual admissions policy in which a person who satisfies the admissions requirements of a two-year institution governed by the board of regents and a public university while pursuing a degree program within a transfer pathway program of study is authorized to be admitted to both such institutions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7 and Title 49, Chapter 8.

TN - SB2602 Railroads - As enacted, requires TACIR to prepare a report surveying projects initiated over the past 10 years involving the initiation of new state-sponsored Amtrak intercity passenger rail. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 10; Title 4, Chapter 23; Title 7; Title 9; Title 54; Title 55; Title 64 and Title 65.

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 - SB2508 Education - As enacted, urges the standards recommendation committee to include certain academic standards regarding the civil rights movement in the committee's final recommendation of academic standards in the subject of social studies for students in grades nine through 12. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2745 Bail, Bail Bonds - As introduced, requires the clerk of each court of record with criminal jurisdiction to provide the administrative office of the courts with a list of professional bondsmen or other sureties approved and qualified as solvent to write bonds by the courts within the county; specifies that a bail hearing addressing conditions of release must be conducted within 48 hours of arrest; makes various other changes regarding bail hearings and continuing education requirements relative to bail and bounty hunters. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 1, Part 3; Title 16, Chapter 15; Title 40, Chapter 11 and Title 40, Chapter 1.

TN - SB1857 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, exempts certain sales of gold, silver, platinum, and palladium coins and bullion from the sales and use tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - SB281 Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, prohibits juvenile courts from placing certain juveniles on judicial diversion; imposes certain other restrictions on juveniles adjudicated delinquent for certain acts. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5 and Title 40, Chapter 39.

TN - SB2797 General Assembly, Directed Studies - As enacted, directs TACIR to perform a study of the overall effect of utility scale solar energy development in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5; Title 6; Title 13; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - SB2401 State Universities - As enacted, creates the Tennessee Center for Nursing Advancement within East Tennessee State University to address issues of nursing workforce needs and makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 8, Part 5; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB2486 Education, Higher - As enacted, authorizes the governing board for each public institution of higher education to classify a veteran or military-affiliated individual as a Tennessee resident for tuition purposes if the veteran or military-affliated individual is enrolled in the institution and resides outside of this state. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 13.

TN - SB2248 Sentencing - As enacted, requires that a person convicted of certain offenses serve 100 percent of the sentence imposed; requires that a person convicted of certain other offenses serve 85 percent of the sentence imposed before becoming eligible for release; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB2034 Cooperatives - As introduced, authorizes a rural electric and community services cooperative to provide its services outside the service area of its electric system if consent is obtained from municipal electric systems or electric cooperative systems in whose service area the cooperative will provide the services; removes prohibition of such cooperative or joint venture of such cooperatives from providing alarm systems. - Amends TCA Title 65.

TN - SR173 Memorials, Interns - Natalie Hope Clark

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

TN - SR183 Naming and Designating - Designates Nash Lundberg as official dog of Tennessee Senate.

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 - SR84 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Emily Reynolds, Board of Regents

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 - SJR991 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - David A. Golden, Registry of Election Finance

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 - SJR848 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - John Tickle, University of Tennessee, Knoxville advisory board

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

TN - SJR513 Memorials, Retirement - Councilman Joe Swann

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 - SJR851 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Joelle Phillips, Board of Directors of the Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation

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

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

TN - SJR980 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Katharine M. Hickie, State Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission

TN - SJR367 Memorials, Recognition - Tim Sigler

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

TN - SJR1111 Memorials, Death - James J. "Jim" Powell

TN - SJR859 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Charles E. Allen, Jr., East Tennessee State University board of trustees

TN - SJR815 Memorials, Death - Judge Barbara Haynes

TN - SJR366 Memorials, Death - Senator Jerry Cooper

TN - SJR978 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Warren Wells, State Board of Education

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 - SJR491 Memorials, Recognition - Chelsea Jackson

TN - SJR774 Memorials, Retirement - Darlene Walker Schlicher

TN - SJR1831 Memorials, Death - Harbert Alexander

TN - SJR820 Memorials, Retirement - David W. Purkey

TN - SJR1113 Memorials, Recognition - Steve Johnson

TN - SJR1804 Memorials, Public Service - Senator Mike Bell

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

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

TN - SJR843 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Jamie Woodson, Public Charter School Commission

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 - SJR33 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Dr. Claude O. Pressnell, Jr.

TN - SJR32 Memorials, Heroism - Medical Personnel in Tennessee

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

TN - SJR1502 Memorials, Recognition - ETSU President Dr. Brian Noland