Tennessee Sen. Mike Bell (R)

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TN - SB2439 Sexual Offenders - As introduced, clarifies that a sexual offender whose victim was a minor may not engage in community service or volunteer work that would cause the offender to be in contact with a minor while required to register with the sexual offender registry. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB1997 Controlled Substances - As enacted, adds tianeptine and any salt, sulfate, free acid, or other preparation of tianeptine, and any salt, sulfate, free acid, compound, derivative, precursor, or preparation thereof that is substantially chemically equivalent or identical with tianeptine, as a schedule II controlled substance; specifies that a violation of the offense of knowingly possessing or casually exchanging a controlled substance (unless the substance was obtained directly from, or pursuant to, a valid prescription or order of a practitioner while acting in the course of professional practice), will be a Class A misdemeanor with respect to a person knowingly possessing or casually exchanging, tianeptine and any salt, sulfate, free acid, or other preparation of tianeptine and any salt, sulfate, free acid, compound, derivative, precursor, or other preparation thereof that is substantially chemically equivalent or identical with tianeptine. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

TN - SB453 Victims' Rights - As introduced, creates the Tennessee witness relocation and protection program to be administered by the attorney general and reporter. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.

TN - SB2444 Local Government, General - As introduced, prohibits a local government from providing monetary assistance to an elective abortion provider. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9, Chapter 3 and Title 71.

TN - SB2282 Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, requires certain utilities to prepare and implement a cyber security plan to provide for the protection of the utility's facilities from unauthorized use, alteration, ransom, or destruction of electronic data and imposes certain requirements on the comptroller in regard to such plans; requires public utilities that provide electric, water, wastewater, or natural gas services to prepare and implement a cyber security plan and imposes certain requirements on the public utilities commission in regard to such plans. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 64; Title 65; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - SB2003 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires that the compensation of county school board members be included in the school district budget submitted to the county legislative body, rather than being fixed by the county legislative body; prohibits reducing a county school board members compensation from the prior year; limits the amount of compensation paid to a county school board member to be no more than the compensation fixed for members of the county legislative body. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1960 Taxes, Hotel Motel - As introduced, requires that one-third of the proceeds derived from the tourist accommodation tax imposed by Davidson County be used for tourism promotion activities exclusively by and through a competitively bid contract of the metropolitan government to an entity whose primary purpose and activities are the direct promotion of tourism for the county. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 4.

TN - SB2440 Human Rights - As introduced, prohibits the state from discriminating against, or granting preferential treatment to, an individual or group based on the individual's or group's race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of any aspect of public employment, public education, or public contracting. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12; Title 13 and Title 49.

TN - SB447 Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires secure detention facilities, correctional facilities, youth development centers, and other hardware secure facilities that contract with the department, that are housing juveniles to immediately report any security breach to the department and local law enforcement; requires the department to include information on escapes, attempted escapes, security breaches, or attempted security breaches in the previous calendar year in the department's annual report. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39.

TN - SB1381 Real Property - As enacted, requires a homeowners association to provide, upon written request of a member, a record of certain information in a vote to amend a declaration that prohibits or effectively prohibits the use of residential property as a long-term rental property; creates a vested right in an owner to use single-family residential property as long-term rental property if certain conditions exist; requires business entity owners of residential property to notify a homeowners association of certain information. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 27.

TN - SB2004 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, authorizes an LEA to use the ACT, ACT Aspire, or SAT suites of assessments, instead of state-mandated assessments, to test students in grades 9-12 in the subjects of math and English language arts. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB2929 Polk County - Subject to local approval, increases number of persons serving on the board of education from nine to 10 members. - Amends Chapter 118 of the Private Acts of 2002.

TN - SR93 General Assembly, Review Or Ratification of Rules - Ratifies and approves the amendments and revisions to the Tennessee Rules of Evidence, as promulgated and adopted by the Tennessee Supreme Court.

TN - SB2289 Health Care - As enacted, clarifies that an ambulance service that holds a valid and unencumbered license to operate in at least one county is not required to maintain a separate license or establish a base of operations in a county for which the ambulance service is not licensed in order to provide a secondary mental health transport to, from, or through that county. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33 and Title 68.

TN - SB2478 Judicial Districts - As enacted, requires that judges of the supreme court, court of appeals, chancery courts, circuit courts, criminal courts, and courts exercising the jurisdiction imposed in one or more of the chancery courts, circuit courts or criminal courts be in good standing with the board of responsibility not have been publicly censured by the board of professional responsibility or suspended or disbarred from the practice of law within the 10 years preceding the judge's term of office for engaging in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 16; Title 17 and Title 37.

TN - SB2443 Public Utility Commission - As enacted, authorizes the commission to, upon petition, designate a provider or reseller of domestic public cellular radio telephone service as an eligible telecommunications carrier pursuant to federal regulations for purposes of providing Lifeline service. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 65.

TN - SB2012 Litter Control - As enacted, includes as a form of littering for any commercial purposes, which is considered aggravated criminal littering, the act of knowingly placing, dropping, or throwing two or more tires on public or private property without permission and without immediately removing the tires; punishable as a Class A misdemeanor or Class E felony based on weight/volume and prior convictions, except that a first offense involving more than eight tires placed, dropped, or thrown for a commercial purpose will be a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 5; Title 55 and Title 68, Chapter 211.

TN - SB1994 Landlord and Tenant - As enacted, requires a tenant to execute a bond, post a cash deposit or irrevocable letter of credit from a financial institution, or provide personal sureties with security in the amount of one-year's rent in all instances in which the defendant appeals a judgment rendered in favor of the landlord instead of only applying when the landlord's action was brought due to the tenant's failure to pay rent. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 66.

TN - SB450 Real Property - As enacted, prohibits a homeowners' association from prohibiting the use of a sign posted to warn the public of health, safety, or dangerous natural conditions associated with water on the property in certain circumstances; clarifies date of application of prohibition on HOA prohibiting property owners from displaying flags. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 27.

TN - SB449 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires an LEA to allocate prorated daily per pupil state and local funding to an out-of-state residential mental health facility if a student of the LEA is admitted to the facility and certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SJR656 Memorials, Recognition - Victoria "Terrah" Shafer, 2021 Boys and Girls Clubs of Ocoee Region Youth of the Year

TN - SB2115 Human Rights - As introduced, removes allegations of discrimination based on creed as a basis for asserting an action for discriminatory employment practices in a human rights complaint. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21.

TN - SB671 Medical Occupations - As enacted, makes various changes to laws regulating physician assistants. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 38; Title 48; Title 49; Title 53; Title 55; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB1365 Corporations, For Profit - As introduced, requires certain for-profit corporations to report their contributions and donations to state and local governmental entities and election officials for purposes of facilitating and conducting elections in this state if such contributions and donations exceed a certain amount. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 9; Title 12; Title 20; Title 29; Title 39; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 58; Title 65; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - SJR327 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Wildlife Federation, 75th anniversary

TN - SB1361 Forfeiture of Assets - As enacted, revises provisions governing awards of attorney's fees in certain forfeiture actions. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33.

TN - SR20 General Assembly, Review Or Ratification of Rules - Ratifies and approves the amendments and revisions to the Tennessee Rules of Appellate Procedure as promulgated by the Supreme Court.

TN - SB2295 Medical Occupations - As enacted, makes various changes to the qualifications for certification as a medication aide by the board of nursing. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - SB2441 Education - As enacted, specifies that an adult high school may provide virtual instruction in accordance with the Virtual Public Schools Act; requires an adult high school that provides virtual instruction to satisfy the instructional time requirements established for adult high schools by the state board of education. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SJR608 Memorials, Recognition - Athanasios Halkias

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 - SJR1423 Memorials, Interns - Trent Heath

TN - SB2926 Bradley County - Subject to local approval, sets the minimum contract amount required by competitive bidding for general fund, board of education, and road department purchases at $25,000 or more. - Amends Chapter 313 of the Private Acts of 1951; as amended.

TN - SB868 Civil Procedure - As enacted, establishes process for three-judge panel hearing civil actions in which the complaint: challenges the constitutionality of a statute, executive order, or rule; includes a claim for declaratory judgment or injunctive relief; and is brought against the state, a state department or agency, or a state official acting in their official capacity. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 16; Title 17; Title 20; Title 27 and Title 29.

TN - SB1372 Victims' Rights - As introduced, establishes a study committee to study the traumatic effects on victims of criminal offenses that do not involve physical harm; allows a victim of a nonviolent crime to receive notification of the release from custody of an offender from a jail or detention facility prior to trial. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.

TN - SJR397 Memorials, Interns - William "Walker" Beasley

TN - SB2286 Law Enforcement - As introduced, prohibits a state or local law enforcement agency or law enforcement officer from obtaining, retaining, accessing, or using any face recognition system or any information obtained from a face recognition system; creates a private right of action that may be brought by a person who has been unlawfully subjected to face recognition technology or about whom information has been unlawfully obtained, retained, accessed, or used. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB2009 Public Health - As introduced, prohibits a place of entertainment that receives public funds of this state, or any political subdivision of this state, from compelling or taking an adverse action to compel a person to provide proof of vaccination for COVID-19. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21; Title 14; Title 58, Chapter 2 and Title 68.

TN - SB1376 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, clarifies that, except when dealing with an assignment of benefits to a healthcare provider, the rights, duties, or benefits provided by a policy of insurance may be assigned only as expressly provided by the terms of the policy of insurance or as otherwise expressly allowed by the insurer. - Amends TCA Section 56-7-102.

TN - SJR628 Memorials, Recognition - River Counties Association of Realtors, 60th anniversary

TN - SB1996 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, increases, from 30 days to 60 days, the initial period of time a temporary plate issued by a dealer is valid for a motor vehicle; increases the fee for such plate from $5.50 to $6.50. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - SB2667 Local Government, General - As introduced, upon veto by a county mayor of a resolution passed by a county legislative body, extends from 20 to 30 days the period of time by which the legislative body may override the veto by subsequent passage of the vetoed resolution by a majority vote of the legislative body. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 8.

TN - SB454 State Government - As introduced, sets venue for actions challenging the constitutionality of a state statute, executive order, or administrative rule or regulation in the county where the plaintiff resides or, if the plaintiff is not a resident of Tennessee, in Sumner County. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 10; Title 13; Title 20; Title 27 and Title 57.

TN - SB2013 Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As enacted, enacts "Joker's Law," which revises the offense of knowingly and unlawfully killing a police dog, fire dog, search and rescue dog, service animal, or police horse without the owner's effective consent; adds provisions regarding knowingly and unlawfully causing serious injury to such an animal; revises and enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Section 37-1-134 and Title 39, Chapter 14.

TN - SB616 Emergency Communications Districts - As introduced, requires emergency communications districts (ECDs) to utilize the direct dispatch method in response to emergency 911 calls and one of three methods in response to non-emergency calls; requires that all emergency 911 calls, with the exception of misrouted calls, be dispatched without being transferred; authorizes ECDs to transfer non-emergency calls at the discretion of the dispatcher via attended transfer. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 86.

TN - SB2000 DUI Offenses - As enacted, imposes certain requirements on a contract service provider, which is a private entity that enters into a written contract or agreement with a government entity of this state to provide supervision, counseling, or collection services for offenders using an electronic monitoring device, excluding ignition interlock providers. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 55 and Title 69.

TN - SB1362 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As introduced, clarifies that a cause of action brought by a person injured by criminal conduct that is a traffic offense that is classified as a Class B or C misdemeanor or a violation of a municipal ordinance must be commenced within one year of the cause of action, not within two years as authorized for causes of action based on other criminal conduct. - Amends TCA Title 28, Chapter 3; Title 55, Chapter 8 and Title 55, Chapter 9.

TN - SB1999 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, increases from 90 to 100 the number of days any governmental entity may store plate data collected or retained through the use of an automated license plate recognition system. - Amends TCA Title 10; Title 16; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 55 and Title 69.

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

TN - SB1992 Judges and Chancellors - As introduced, makes various changes to the board of judicial conduct, including expanding the board's jurisdiction to include administrative law judges, judicial commissioners, magistrates, referees, special masters, hearing officers, and worker's compensation judges. - Amends TCA Title 17, Chapter 5 and Title 50, Chapter 6, Part 2.

TN - SB2776 Medical Occupations - As introduced, authorizes the board of physician assistants to allow board members to participate in a meeting by, and the board to conduct a meeting through the use of, any means of remote communication; clarifies that a board member who participates in a meeting by remote communication is deemed to be physically present at the meeting. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 53; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB2669 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, changes the date by which the comptroller must submit a report to the general assembly regarding the Tennessee reconnect program from December 31 to December 1 for each year a report is prepared. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1675 Taxes, Hotel Motel - As introduced, requires that one-third of the proceeds derived from the tourist accommodation tax imposed by Davidson County be used for tourism promotion activities exclusively by and through a competitively bid contract of the metropolitan government to an entity whose primary purpose and activities are the direct promotion of tourism for the county. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 4.

TN - SR19 General Assembly, Review Or Ratification of Rules - Ratifies and approves the amendments and revisions to the Tennessee Rules of Civil Procedure as promulgated by the Supreme Court.

TN - SB1674 School Vouchers - As introduced, extends eligibility for an education savings account to students zoned to attend a school in an LEA that, at any time during the three-year period immediately preceding September 1, 2025, or thereafter, did not offer students 180 days of in-person learning each school year due to COVID-19 or that voluntarily imposed a mask mandate in response to COVID-19 and that voluntarily refused to allow parents and guardians to opt their students out of the mask mandate. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-2602(3).

TN - SB615 Health Care - As enacted, establishes certain requirements and procedures to be followed when a patient who is an inpatient at a healthcare facility, or seeking services from emergency department, expresses to a healthcare provider a recent threat or attempt at suicide or infliction of bodily harm to themselves. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB2296 Civil Procedure - As introduced, specifies that a verified complaint alleging loss, damage, injury, or death arising from a COVID-19 infection must include the date and location of the defendant's alleged gross negligence or willful misconduct. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 8, Part 3; Title 14; Title 29, Chapter 34; Title 29, Chapter 20 and Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - SJR1422 Memorials, Retirement - Dr. Harley Knowles

TN - SB488 Disabled Persons - As enacted, prohibits certain healthcare providers and entities from discriminating against qualified persons for receipt of transplantations or anatomical gifts based solely on disability; prohibits insurers that offer plans covering transplantations from denying coverage solely on disability. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB2008 Sentencing - As enacted, authorizes a member of the clergy who has been preparing a condemned person for death, rather than a priest or minister of the gospel, to witness the person's execution. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB2001 Expunction - As enacted, revises the eligibility requirements for a person to qualify as an "eligible petitioner" for purposes of petitioning for expunction of public records concerning a conviction for a felony or misdemeanor committed prior to November 1, 1989. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.

TN - SJR803 Memorials, Recognition - "Bleeding Disorders Awareness Month" in Tennessee, March 2022

TN - SB2117 Public Records - As enacted, requires that proprietary information submitted by commercial operators to the department of environment and conservation regarding the operators' commercial or financial information be treated as confidential and not be open for inspection by members of the public; effective until July 1, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5.

TN - SB618 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, clarifies that the assignment of benefits statute does not prohibit a policy of insurance from providing reimbursement to an insured for expenses the insured incurred when the insured remitted payment directly to a healthcare provider or healthcare facility for provided covered healthcare services. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 63.

TN - SJR49 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges Congress to propose to the states for ratification an amendment stating that the United States Supreme Court shall be composed of nine justices.

TN - SB2005 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, authorizes a retired TCRS member to cancel the member's designated beneficiary for any reason one time, and to name a new beneficiary. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35; Title 8, Chapter 36 and Title 8, Chapter 37.

TN - SB626 Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As enacted, authorizes the registry of election finance to retain counsel to pursue the collection of unpaid civil penalties assessed by the registry, in lieu of petitioning the attorney general and reporter; states that venue for such suits is the residence of the defendant. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10.

TN - SB2288 Sentencing - As enacted, allows a court to revoke a defendant's probation and suspension of sentence for a misdemeanor offense based upon one instance of a technical violation or violations; specifies that the court may revoke the defendant's probation and suspension of sentence in full or in part, and may sentence the defendant to a sentence of probation for the remainder of the unexpired term; adds "contacting the defendant's victim in violation of a condition of probation or parole" as an act that may result in revocation of probation or parole. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 35.

TN - SB452 Forfeiture of Assets - As introduced, adds information to be provided by the department of safety in a report detailing seizures for the previous calendar year and provided to the speakers of the senate and the house of representatives and the chairs of the appropriate committees; requires that an affidavit in support of a forfeiture warrant include information as to whether criminal charges have been filed against the owner of the property or the person in possession of the property at the time of seizure. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33.

TN - SB2775 Medical Occupations - As introduced, authorizes the board of physician assistants to notify by electronic communication the board of medical examiners, board of osteopathic examination, or board of podiatry of a disciplinary action issued against a licensee; authorizes the board of physician assistants to notify by electronic communication the licensing board of the primary collaborating physician of record when a disciplinary action is issued for a violation involving the prescribing, dispensing, or issuing of controlled substances by a physician assistant. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 63, Chapter 19, Part 1.

TN - SB458 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As enacted, removes the requirement that a home school student must be enrolled as a home school student for a full year to be eligible for certain state lottery scholarships; adds those who complete six credit hours of dual enrollment courses to be eligible for the Tennessee HOPE scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - SB2290 Education, Higher - As enacted, prohibits a public institution of higher education from taking certain actions with regard to divisive concepts and the ideologies or political viewpoints of students and employees; enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - SB2002 Landlord and Tenant - As enacted, specifies that for purposes of postponement of trial in forcible entry and detainer proceedings, the term "civil court" includes diversionary courts created for special civil proceedings. - Amends TCA Section 29-18-118.

TN - SB2287 Bail, Bail Bonds - As introduced, creates a rebuttable presumption that bail in the amount of at least $100,000 is necessary to reasonably assure the appearance of the defendant in court when the defendant is charged with the manufacture, delivery, or sale of a controlled substance or possession with intent to manufacture, deliver, or sell a controlled substance and the controlled substance involved is alleged to be fentanyl. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4 and Title 40.

TN - SB457 Law Enforcement - As enacted, requires, in jurisdictions that conduct citizen police academies or similar programs, that members of a community oversight board complete the local police force's citizen academy course or program; establishes timeframe for completion and provides that noncompliant member will lose voting privileges until requirement is met. - Amends TCA Title 38.

TN - SB1995 Students - As enacted, specifies that a discipline policy or code of conduct adopted by a local board of education or charter school governing body may authorize a teacher to withhold a student's phone from the student for the duration of the instructional time if the student's phone is a distraction to the class or student. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB2291 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, lowers the age requirement to obtain an enhanced or concealed handgun carry permit or lawfully carry a handgun in public from 21 to 18 years of age; states that the statutory authorization to transport or store a firearm or firearm ammunition in a motor vehicle under certain circumstances does not apply to a person under 21 years of age in a parking area that is owned, operated, or while in use by any school, unless the person is at least 18 years of age and meets certain military qualifications. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - SB1360 Education - As enacted, extends, beginning with the 2021-2022 school year, the counties within which each LEA must implement a program of family life education from counties with a pregnancy rate of 19.5 pregnancies for every 1,000 females ages 15 to 17 to all counties; requires a curriculum on sex education or human sexuality that is implemented by an LEA as a part of a human growth and development program be in conformance with the curriculum guidelines established for family life programs. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 13.

TN - SB2118 Game and Fish Laws - As enacted, transfers assets held in the wildlife management endowment fund to a newly created lifetime sportsman endowment fund, which will be an irrevocable trust for the exclusive benefit of lifetime sportsman license holders; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 70.

TN - SB1791 Bail, Bail Bonds - As introduced, makes various changes to the requirements for bail, including stating that a defendant is entitled to a bail hearing to address any conditions of release within 48 hours of arrest or being held to answer for any bailable offense. - Amends TCA Title 16 and Title 40.

TN - SB1554 Business and Commerce - As introduced, removes provision that describes a report by the department of commerce and insurance due on or before January 1, 2014, to the commerce and labor committee of the senate and the business and utilities committee of the house of representatives concerning the department's findings and recommendations concerning the Tennessee works pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12; Title 43; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 50; Title 61; Title 66 and Title 67.

TN - SB2280 Forfeiture of Assets - As introduced, adds information to be provided by the department of safety in the department's annual report detailing seizures for the previous calendar year and provided to the speakers of the senate and the house of representatives and the chairs of the appropriate committees. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33.

TN - SB1363 Redistricting, Legislative - As introduced, requires the establishment of a three-judge panel to adjudicate cases challenging state legislative or congressional districts. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3; Title 2; Title 3; Title 16; Title 17; Title 20; Title 27 and Title 29.

TN - SB2010 Judges and Chancellors - As enacted, authorizes a judicial candidate to personally solicit and accept campaign contributions. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 17.

TN - SB456 Law Enforcement - As introduced, prohibits law enforcement from entering private property for the purpose of engaging in surveillance or setting up surveillance equipment to search for and collect evidence or obtain information or other data unless the officer has obtained a search warrant or a judicially recognized exception to the warrant requirement exists.

TN - SB444 Bail, Bail Bonds - As introduced, states that forfeiture of bail shall not become final in a court located within an area that has been declared by the governor to be in a state of emergency until 180 days after the expiration of the declaration. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 11.

TN - SR90 General Assembly, Review Or Ratification of Rules - Ratifies and approves the amendments and revisions to the Tennessee Rules of Criminal Procedure, as promulgated and adopted by the Tennessee Supreme Court.

TN - SB1620 Cleveland - Subject to local approval, expands, from 30 to 60 days, the time period in which vacancies on the city council or the office of mayor must be filled by the remaining council members. - Amends Chapter 307 of the Acts of 1903; as amended and rewritten.

TN - SB619 Safety, Dept. of - As enacted, authorizes members of the general assembly to request, in writing, the department to provide a copy of a crash report concerning fatal accidents that occurred in the member's district; specifies that a crash report that is subject to an ongoing investigation or court order requiring the information be kept confidential is not subject to released under this bill. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - SB2283 Education, Higher - As introduced, prohibits employees of, and courses of instruction or units of study at, public institutions of higher education from compelling or addressing certain tenets; creates a cause of action and loss of state funding for violations. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 49.

TN - SB2668 Solid Waste Disposal - As introduced, increases, from 30 to 45 days, the time after notice and an opportunity for a public hearing that a county legislative body or municipal governing body has to approve or disapprove a proposed new construction for solid waste disposal or processing by a landfill. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 68.

TN - SJR1528 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Directs the District Attorney General of the Tenth Judicial District to bring a quo warranto action against Troy Weathers and Rodney Dillard for forfeiting elected office as members of the Bradley County Board of Education.

TN - SB448 Evidence - As enacted, requires a law enforcement agency that discovers potentially exculpatory evidence to report that evidence; enacts the "Post-Conviction Fingerprint Analysis Act of 2021." - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 30.

TN - SR91 General Assembly, Review Or Ratification of Rules - Ratifies and approves the amendments and revisions to the Tennessee Rules of Civil Procedure, as promulgated and adopted by the Tennessee Supreme Court.

TN - SB2015 Homestead Exemptions - As enacted, increases the amount that must be held as homestead from the sale of real estate that is so situated that homestead cannot be set apart from $5,000 to $35,000. - Amends TCA Title 26, Chapter 2, Part 3 and Title 30, Chapter 2, Part 2.

TN - SR92 General Assembly, Review Or Ratification of Rules - Ratifies and approves the amendments and revisions to the Tennessee Rules of Appellate Procedure, as promulgated and adopted by the Tennessee Supreme Court.

TN - SB624 Victims' Rights - As introduced, prohibits disclosure of certain information by an advocate in regard to a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, or human trafficking in a judicial, legislative, or administrative proceeding unless the victim gives express written consent. - Amends TCA Title 24; Title 36 and Title 39.

TN - SB1378 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates the Class A felony of aggravated human trafficking; revises other provisions in regard to trafficking, involuntary servitude, and prostitution offenses. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 71.

TN - SB2114 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, requires expedited hearings and appeals in contested child custody cases involving unmarried parties if a paternity test by an accredited laboratory is known to exist or has been requested of or by the court. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - SB2774 Human Rights Commission - As enacted, vacates and reconstitutes the membership of the Tennessee human rights commission effective September 1, 2022, and makes other changes concerning the commission. - Amends TCA Title 4; Section 8-50-103 and Section 68-1-113.

TN - SB2284 Judges and Chancellors - As enacted, makes various changes to the board of judicial conduct. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 3; Title 17, Chapter 5 and Title 50, Chapter 6, Part 2.

TN - SB2292 Obscenity and Pornography - As enacted, redefines "obscene" to include material that has educational value; makes various changes to the internet acceptable use policy LEAs are required to adopt; enacts requirements governing providers of digital and online resources; enacts and revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17 and Title 49, Chapter 1.

TN - SB446 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, expands the definition of "eligible postsecondary institution" to include certain private postsecondary institutions for purposes of the Tennessee HOPE scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - SJR1826 Memorials, Recognition - Madison Fischer, 2022 Boys & Girls Club Ocoee Region Youth of the Year

TN - SB2011 Judicial Districts - As enacted, establishes an advisory task force to recommend a proposed statewide judicial redistricting plan. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 16; Title 17 and Title 18.

TN - SB2060 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, broadens the eligibility for Tennessee reconnect grant to students admitted to a teacher education program operated by an in-state postsecondary institution who agree to teach in a public school system and meet certain other qualifications. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB627 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates the Class A misdemeanor of communicating a threat to commit an act of mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity; creates the Class B misdemeanor of knowing failure to report a threat of mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 37 and Title 39, Chapter 16, Part 5.

TN - SB2014 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for the offense of aggravated burglary, from a Class C felony to a Class B felony, if the burglary is of an occupied habitation; increases the penalty for especially aggravated burglary, from a Class B felony to a Class A felony, if the burglary is of a habitation. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB2007 Education - As introduced, changes, from 10 days to 30 days, the period of time after an order of assignment is issued for a student's parent, guardian, legal custodian, guardian ad litem, or attorney to apply to the respective local board of education for a hearing as to the reasonableness of the assignment and to request the student's transfer to another school. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1369 Tort Liability and Reform - As introduced, adds delaying or modifying the schedule or performance of any dental procedure to the meaning of "arising from COVID-19" as used in the Tennessee COVID-19 Recovery Act. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 8, Part 3; Title 29, Chapter 34; Title 29, Chapter 20 and Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - SB1366 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, requires a court to include written findings of fact and conclusions of law to support a custody arrangement or parenting plan, unless both parents have agreed; revises provisions governing kinship foster care program; revises certain provisions regarding abandonment for purposes of termination of parental rights. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - SB2294 County Government - As enacted, authorizes a county to pay to an employee up to 15 percent of the total premium that would have otherwise been paid by the county on behalf of the employee who opts out of the coverage provided by the county. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27.

TN - SB629 Workers Compensation - As enacted, removes liability of a general contractor, intermediate contractor, or subcontractor for workers' compensation to a construction services provider for injuries occurring during the time period of December 9, 2019, through September 9, 2021, if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6, Part 9.

TN - SB1380 Law Enforcement - As enacted, requires law enforcement agencies to develop certain policies regarding the use of force; prohibits magistrates from issuing no-knock warrants; establishes certain reporting requirements. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB2285 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As enacted, provides that in interpreting a state statute or rule, a court presiding over the appeal of a judgment in a contested case must not defer to a state agency's interpretation of the statute or rule and must interpret the statute or rule de novo; after applying all customary tools of interpretation, the court must resolve any remaining ambiguity against increased agency authority. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 20.

TN - SB1371 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, requires the magistrate to provide a victim who participates in a global positioning monitoring system with the emergency assistance number, in addition to the number for a local law enforcement agency. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 55.

TN - SB1035 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As enacted, enacts the "Jim Coley Protection for Rape Survivors Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Section 10-7-504; Title 29; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 63.

TN - SB1377 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes LEAs to purchase technology using state school funds for textbooks and instructional materials in a school year immediately following a textbook adoption cycle in which the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission did not list or recommend career and technical education textbooks or instructional materials; authorizes LEAs to use any remainder of such funds after the purchase of career and technical education textbooks or instructional materials to purchase technology. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB622 Probation and Parole - As enacted, clarifies that when a person is serving two or more probationary sentences and the person's probation is revoked on one sentence, then the person must receive credit for time served as a result of that revocation against any other concurrent probationary sentence that is subsequently revoked in any jurisdiction in this state. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.

TN - SB1194 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the commissioner to submit the commissioner's strategic plan for the department, and any proposed amendments to, or deviations from, the department's strategic plan, to the state board of education for approval. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 1; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 8 and Title 49.

TN - SB557 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Firearm Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 39.

TN - SJR135 Naming and Designating - "Kidney Disease Awareness Month," March 2021 and "World Kidney Day," March 11, 2021

TN - SB459 Landlord and Tenant - As enacted, authorizes property managers to testify against tenants in the same manner as landlords or owners of rental property. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 16; Title 29 and Title 66.

TN - SB455 Schools, Charter - As introduced, changes the time in which a parent representative must be appointed to the governing body of a charter school from within six months of the school's opening date to within 90 days of the school's opening date. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.

TN - SB621 Orders of Protection - As enacted, permits service of ex parte orders of protection for up to one year from issuance; creates a lifetime order of protection that can be issued to a victim of certain felony offenses to prohibit the offender from coming about or communicating with the victim. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 15, Part 9; Title 36 and Title 39, Chapter 13.

TN - SB969 Education, Higher - As introduced, clarifies that a free speech policy adopted by a public institution of higher education must not impede a student's ability to express political viewpoints, and that a student's expression is free from discrimination or retaliation based on content or viewpoint. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1036 Textbooks - As enacted, requires the department of education to develop a proposed rubric to assist the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission in reviewing and scoring textbooks and instructional materials proposed for adoption and submit the proposed rubric to the commission for approval; enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 22.

TN - SB1368 Public Health - As enacted, prohibits a county board of health or county department of health from prohibiting or regulating agriculture except as otherwise authorized by law. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 2, Part 6.

TN - SB476 Child Abuse - As enacted, makes it a Class A misdemeanor for a person to attempt to access or obtain confidential information from the department of children's services regarding alleged child abuse or neglect that the person knows is in violation of state or federal laws and regulations regarding confidentiality. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - SB460 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, clarifies that the mounting or placement of a trailer hitch ball in front of a registration plate will not be considered when making a determination whether the registration plate is clearly visible. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - SB1034 Textbooks - As enacted, enacts the "Textbook Transparency Act," which revises provisions governing textbooks and instructional materials. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 22.

TN - SB15 Public Health - As introduced, specifies that the county mayor has the authority to establish and implement health policies that affect the entire county during a county-wide health emergency; directs the county health director, health officer, and board of health to provide advice to the mayor to develop the policies; applies only in Shelby, Davidson, Knox, Hamilton, Sullivan, and Madison counties. - Amends TCA Title 5 and Title 68, Chapter 2, Part 6.

TN - SB918 Education - As enacted, revises provisions governing textbooks and instructional materials; authorizes the Tennessee public charter school commission to require a charter school authorized by the commission upon appeal to delay opening for up to one school year through the charter agreement; requires that learning loss bridge camps be available to students enrolled in a state-authorized public charter school, located within the geographic boundaries of the LEA; revises other various education-related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

TN - SB1375 Election Laws - As enacted, revises provisions governing qualification of additional candidates in a primary election or nonpartisan general election after the qualifying deadline due to death, withdrawal, or disqualification of a qualified candidate leaving no candidates for nomination or office. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 3; Title 4; Title 16; Title 17; Title 27 and Title 29.

TN - SJR27 Memorials, Recognition - "Bleeding Disorders Awareness Month" in Tennessee, March 2021

TN - SB612 Emergency Communications Districts - As introduced, requires emergency communications districts (ECDs) to utilize the direct dispatch method in response to emergency 911 calls and one of three methods in response to non-emergency calls; requires that all emergency 911 calls, with the exception of misrouted calls, be dispatched without being transferred; authorizes ECDs to transfer non-emergency calls at the discretion of the dispatcher via attended transfer; adds emergency call takers and public safety dispatchers and emergency services personnel to definition of first responder for certain purposes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 29; Title 39; Title 58 and Title 63.

TN - SB1370 Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, states that there is no cause of action for wrongful birth based on a claim that a person would not or should not have been born or for wrongful life based on a claim that a person would or should have been aborted. - Amends TCA Title 20 and Title 29.

TN - SB1367 Education - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Accommodations for All Children Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB617 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates the first Friday in October of each year as "Tennessee Manufacturing Day" as a day of special observance. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

TN - SB1379 Child Custody and Support - As introduced, extends the time within which a party may request a rehearing of the determination of a child support magistrate from five days to 10 days; requires child support magistrates to be paid a salary equal to 75 percent of the salary paid to a circuit court judge. - Amends TCA Section 8-23-103 and Title 36.

TN - SB1374 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, requires the annual report of the Greater Nashville regional council to be submitted on or before February 1 each year. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 42 and Title 64.

TN - SB445 Adoption - As introduced, authorizes a court to waive the home study required for adoption if the child has already resided in the adoptive parent's home for six consecutive months pursuant to a court order and the adoption is in the best interest of the child. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - SB620 Transportation, Dept. of - As introduced, requires commissioner to annually transmit a report to transportation and safety committee of the senate and transportation committee of the house of representatives, on or before February 15, showing a list of the 10 oldest on-going road and bridge projects and steps taken to complete them from previous year, including projected completion dates. - Amends TCA Title 54.

TN - SB633 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, enacts the "Deputy Jason Scott Public Safety Act," which makes it a criminal offense for a witness of a medical emergency to fail to immediately notify emergency services. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 39.

TN - SB614 County Government - As enacted, provides each member of a board created pursuant to the Interlocal Cooperation Act for the purpose of providing service to two or more counties with up to $300 per month compensation, the exact amount of which will be determined by resolution of such board; authorizes the board to provide certain other benefits. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 16 and Title 12, Chapter 9.

TN - SB451 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, expands the offense of aggravated rioting to include rioting by a person who travels from outside the state with intent to commit a criminal offense and participating in a riot in exchange for compensation; increases the mandatory minimum sentence for aggravated rioting to 60 days if the person commits more than one aggravating circumstance. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB628 Sentencing - As enacted, requires that a person convicted of facilitation of rape of a child or aggravated rape of a child be sentenced to community supervision for life and to serve 100 percent of the sentence imposed before becoming eligible for release, with no more than 15 percent in sentence reduction credits. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB623 Education - As enacted, deletes several obsolete provisions and makes various substantive changes to education laws; establishes parameters for the teaching of certain concepts related to race and sex. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

TN - SB2016 Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, limits the liability of a person or entity that contracts with the department of children's services to provide foster care services to children in the department's custody in the same manner that the department's liability is limited from civil actions or claims filed by the children and families who are the intended or actual recipients of those services; specifies that a claim against the contractor arising from the contractor's provision of foster care continuum services to children in the department's custody must be filed with a court of competent jurisdiction and will not be heard by the claims commission. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 29 and Title 37.

TN - SB2666 Education, Higher - As enacted, requires each institution governed by the board of regents, a state university board, or the board of trustees for the University of Tennessee to make the grievance procedure for the institution's support staff employees available on its website. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

TN - SB2778 Education - As introduced, revises student eligibility criteria for an education savings account; establishes the 2024-2025 fiscal year as the fiscal year in which the cost differential factor must be eliminated from the basic education program. - Amends TCA Section 49-3-307(a)(4) and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 26.

TN - SB631 Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As enacted, revises provisions governing statewide building construction safety standards. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 120.

TN - SB2103 DUI Offenses - As enacted, enacts "Ethan's, Hailey's, and Bentley's Law," which requires a sentencing court to order a defendant who has been convicted of vehicular homicide or aggravated vehicular homicide due to intoxication and in which the victim of the offense was the parent of a minor child to pay restitution in the form of child maintenance to each of the victim's children until each child reaches 18 years of age and has graduated from high school. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.

TN - SJR1424 Memorials, Recognition - Walker Beasley

TN - SB1373 Sentencing - As enacted, classifies the offense of reckless endangerment by discharging a firearm from within a motor vehicle as a Class C felony. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.

TN - SB2293 Tort Liability and Reform - As introduced, changes the number of equal annual installment payments a government entity may make to pay an approved claim from no more than 10 to no more than eight. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 20; Title 24; Title 25; Title 26; Title 27; Title 28; Title 29; Title 33; Title 34; Title 35; Title 36; Title 37; Title 49; Title 50; Title 63 and Title 66.

TN - SB2442 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, establishes qualifications necessary to receive an occupational teaching license. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SJR79 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Linda Cash, State Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission

TN - SB300 Education - As introduced, specifies that the department of education must submit the early grades reading report to the general assembly by January 15 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB625 Taxes - As introduced, permits the court in a tax collection proceeding to enter on the tax books a copy of the court order. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - SR12 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Lowell Russell, Tennessee Peace Officers Standards and Training (POST) Commission

TN - SJR1767 Memorials, Recognition - The Tennessee Conservationist, 85th anniversary

TN - SB2006 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires an LEA's policy on the inspection of school instructional materials by parents and legal guardians of students enrolled in the LEA to allow a student's parent or legal guardian to check out from the student's school one set of the instructional materials used in the student's classroom for a period of no less than 48 hours to allow the parent or legal guardian time to inspect the materials. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1998 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, requires that the Tennessee bureau of investigation's annual report on narcotics investigations be presented to the criminal justice committee of the house of representatives and the judiciary committee of the senate by March 1 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.

TN - SB2116 Real Property - As introduced, provides a method for a property owner to seek just compensation for a diminution of value of the property caused by the enactment or enforcement of land use regulations on the property. - Amends TCA Title 29.

TN - SB1364 County Government - As enacted, authorizes a county to regulate junkyards located within the county's boundaries as long as the rules or regulations are at least as stringent as those promulgated pursuant to the authority contained in the Junkyard Control Act. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 1 and Title 54, Chapter 20, Part 1.

TN - SB1792 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, revises the penalties for continuous sexual abuse of a child to clarify circumstances under which the offense is a Class A, Class B, or Class C felony; adds to the list of offenses that warrant the Class A felony, trafficking for a commercial sex act if the victim is a minor and promoting prostitution if the victim is a minor. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 53 and Title 55.

TN - SJR819 Naming and Designating - March 2022, "Kidney Disease Awareness Month" and March 10, 2022,"World Kidney Day"

TN - SB2777 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, specifies that a teacher or other employee of a public school or LEA is not required to refer to a student using the student's preferred pronoun if the pronoun does not align with the student's biological sex; insulates a teacher or other employee of a public school or LEA from civil liability and adverse employment action for referring to a student using the pronoun aligned with the student's biological sex instead of the student's preferred pronoun. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB2665 Appeal and Review - As introduced, increases from one to two the number of copies of a petition for post-conviction relief that the clerk of the trial court must mail to the attorney general and reporter. - Amends TCA Title 29; 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 - SB613 Sexual Offenders - As introduced, prohibits a registered sexual offender whose victim was a minor from participating in activities associated with Halloween; establishes a curfew for such sexual offenders from 6:00 p.m. on October 31 until 4:00 a.m. on November 1. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2.

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

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 - 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 - SB2663 Education - As introduced, requires LEAs to offer high school students high school credit for a course in which the student is not enrolled but for which the student has satisfied the course requirements through an examination. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - SB1730 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the Tennessee emergency medical services board to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 68, Chapter 140, Part 3.

TN - SB717 Sentencing - As enacted, enumerates certain sexual offenses for which there will be no release eligibility. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 9; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 55.

TN - SB9 Education, Higher - As enacted, increases from $1,000 to $1,250 the amount awarded each semester to a full-time student receiving the middle college scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - SB765 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, creates an exception to the offense of unlawful carrying of a firearm, if a person meets age requirements, lawfully possesses the handgun, and is in a place that the person is lawfully present; revises other firearm statutes. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 1; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 40, Chapter 35.

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 - 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 - 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 - SR95 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dave S. Clark, TBI nominating commission

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 - 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 - 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 - SJR1349 Memorials, Recognition - Carol Eller "Candy" Stooksbury

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 - SJR195 Memorials, Retirement - Judge Daniel R. Swafford

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

TN - SJR1690 Memorials, Public Service - Senator Brenda Gilmore

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 - SJR1350 Memorials, Recognition - K-9 Barnabas

TN - SJR815 Memorials, Death - Judge Barbara Haynes

TN - SJR366 Memorials, Death - Senator Jerry Cooper

TN - SJR641 Memorials, Death - Senator Thelma Harper

TN - SJR997 Memorials, Recognition - Buddy's Bar-b-q, 50th anniversary

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

TN - SJR1833 Memorials, Recognition - Officer Nicholas Scott Galinger and Ethan and Hailey Galinger

TN - SJR820 Memorials, Retirement - David W. Purkey

TN - SJR1408 Memorials, Retirement - Coach Garrick Hall

TN - SJR169 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Allen Carter, University of Tennessee Knoxville Advisory Board

TN - SJR657 Memorials, Recognition - Jim Shulman

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

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

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

TN - SJR816 Memorials, Recognition - Jacob Baggett

TN - SJR26 Memorials, Death - Jim Adams

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

TN - SJR43 Memorials, Death - Robert Joseph "Bob" Griffin

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 - SJR34 Memorials, Retirement - Judge Daniel R. Swafford

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 - 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 - SJR1348 Memorials, Retirement - Steve Bivens

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