Tennessee Sen. Paul Bailey (R)

TN - Fiscal Review

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Member

TN - Commerce and Labor (Senate)

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Chair

TN - Transportation and Safety (Senate)

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Member

TN - SB2910 Credit and Debit Cards - As introduced, prohibits certain financial entities from assigning a merchant code to or otherwise classifying a merchant that is a seller of firearms or ammunition separately from a general merchandise retailer or sporting goods retailer; authorizes the department of financial institutions to assess a civil penalty of no more than $10,000 for a violation, or to bring an action to enjoin a violation of the prohibition. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 45 and Title 47.

TN - SJR1514 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Adeleine Moore, Salutatorian, Cookeville High School

TN - SB2938 Van Buren County - Subject to local approval, repeals the private purchasing act for Van Buren County that requires the County to solicit sealed bids for purchases and contracts in excess of $2,500, thereby bringing the County under the general law purchasing authority for counties (The County Purchasing Law of 1957), which authorizes a county to approve purchases and contracts of up to $10,000 without bid solicitation.

TN - SJR1482 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Daniel Austin, State FFA Star in Agriculture

TN - SB1325 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, authorizes a faculty or staff member of a school to carry a concealed handgun on school grounds subject to certain conditions, including obtaining an enhanced handgun carry permit and completing annual training. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 8.

TN - SR117 Memorials, Retirement - Police Chief Douglas Lamar Goff, Sparta Police Department

TN - SB1351 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, removes the provision that transferred the duties required of the Tennessee industrial development authority as of June 30, 1981, relative to the outstanding loan guarantees and commitments made by the authority, to the department of economic and community development. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 67.

TN - SJR488 Memorials, Recognition - Cumberland County Fair, 2022 Champion of Champions Fair

TN - SB2896 State Employees - As introduced, classifies as state employees for purposes of defense and other related provisions, soil and water conservation district board of supervisors, employees, officers, and agents, and persons designated by a soil and water conservation district as participants in volunteer programs authorized by such districts. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 42 and Title 9, Chapter 8.

TN - SJR1180 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Hannah Austin, Valedictorian, White County High School

TN - SB1330 Lottery, Charitable - As introduced, exempts a school foundation or a school support organization that is a nonprofit organization and is seeking to operate an annual nonprofit gaming event for the benefit of the organization from submitting an annual event application each year; instead, the application is renewed each year; requires the one-time application to be updated for any changes of information; waives subsequent application fees for such nonprofit organization. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 17 and Title 49.

TN - SJR1526 Memorials, Death - David N. Brady

TN - SJR928 Memorials, Recognition - Ken Hall, Tennessee Disaster Response Team

TN - SJR1524 Memorials, Retirement - Assistant Commissioner Gary Farley

TN - SB1303 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As enacted, revises present law relative to tuition reimbursement for national guardsmen. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - SB1287 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, removes a reference to a repealed provision of law that established an exception to the prohibition of managed health insurance issuers contacting or employing an agent to directly contact a patient of a physician's practice in an effort to change a referral for services to another provider if the managed health insurance issuer has contracted with the physician directly. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 10; Title 33; Title 45; Title 47; Title 49; Title 50; Title 53; Title 55; Title 56; Title 62; Title 63; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB1335 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, reconstitutes boards of directors for sports authorities in certain counties having a metropolitan form of government. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6 and Title 7, Chapter 67.

TN - SB2971 Algood - Subject to local approval, authorizes the city to lease real, mixed, and personal property inside or outside of the city. - Amends Chapter 78 of the Private Acts of 2014.

TN - SB1313 Health Care - As introduced, limits what can be included in calculating the permissible costs that may be charged for copying and mailing a patient's medical records. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Section 63-2-102.

TN - SB1322 Handgun Permits - As introduced, requires the department of safety to issue permits with the designation "Enhanced Handgun Carry Permit" on the front of the permit; requires the department to issue replacement permits for any permit that contains the designation "Handgun Carry Permit" upon renewal or upon the permit holder's request. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - SJR1511 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kayson Sullivan, Valedictorian, Van Buren County High School

TN - SJR1626 Memorials, Recognition - Sherry Thurman

TN - SB1309 Animal Control - As enacted, authorizes persons residing on property that adjoins the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to take, attempt to take, or harm a bear that enters on the person's property if certain criteria is met. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 70.

TN - SB1286 Financial Institutions, Dept. of - As introduced, removes a reference to a repealed provision of law that required state banks and certain securities broker-dealers to adhere to certain disclosure requirements of the federal deposit insurance corporation. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 45; Title 47 and Title 48.

TN - SB1334 Housing - As introduced, authorizes the Tennessee housing development agency to establish secure campsites to assist those with short-term housing needs for up to two years; revises provisions relating to outpatient mental health treatment programs. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 23, Part 1 and Title 33.

TN - SB2925 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, authorizes the commissioners of economic and community development and revenue to electronically submit their report of their findings and recommendations regarding franchise tax credits, excise tax credits, and sales and use tax credits available to certain businesses that is due every four years to the governor, the speakers of both houses, the finance, ways and means committees of both houses, and the office of legislative budget analysis. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 11; Title 12; Title 43 and Title 67.

TN - SB1510 Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, provides that whenever Cumberland County acquires property at a tax sale, a non-governmental entity holding a vested and duly recorded contractual right to the payment of fees or assessments secured by such property retains such right; provides that Cumberland County is liable for the payment of such fees and assessments if the county makes actual use of the property purchased at the tax sale. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 20 and Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - SJR1517 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Allison Clark, Salutatorian, Monterey High School

TN - SJR1496 Memorials, Interns - Grace Sloan

TN - SB1571 Pleasant Hill - Subject to local approval, authorizes purchasing limits for which competitive bids are not required be set by ordinance pursuant to state law requirements. - to amend.

TN - SB2920 Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, adds services to the list of purchases that may be made for use in a business enterprise program for the blind without taking bids for the purchases, advertising bids for such purchases, or complying with other state law on purchasing on behalf of state government; changes from the director of services for the blind to the commissioner of human services or the commissioner's designee, the person authorized to make such purchases; designates the purchase of software for use in inmate commissary facilities as remaining subject to state procurement practices. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 4.

TN - SB1294 DNA and Genetic Testing - As enacted, prohibits a life insurance provider from canceling a life insurance policy based on genetic information, from requesting or requiring genetic testing as a condition of insurability, and from accessing the genetic data of an individual without consent. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 27.

TN - SJR1509 Memorials, Recognition - Baxter Police Chief Danny Holmes

TN - SB2894 Appropriations - As introduced, authorizes direct and continuing appropriations by airport authorities for the issuance of debt that is not a liability of the state and the payment of debt service thereon. - Amends TCA Title 9.

TN - SJR1521 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Carrie Houston, Salutatorian, Stone Memorial High School

TN - SB2899 Real Property - As introduced, updates requirements regarding public notice for a foreclosure sale of real property, including a requirement that public notice be posted on the secretary of state's website. - Amends TCA Title 35.

TN - SJR1513 Memorials, Academic Achievement - John Curtis Brewer, Valedictorian, Van Buren County High School

TN - SJR1510 Memorials, Retirement - Police Chief Michael Head, Gainesboro Police Department

TN - SB1332 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, extends, from 20 days to 30 days after the date the division of property assessments publishes notice of the availability of the proposed use value schedule in a newspaper, the deadline by which a petition must be filed by owners of agricultural, forest, or open space land to convene a hearing of the state board of equalization. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 10.

TN - SJR1188 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Mary Frances Bullock Carter, 100th birthday

TN - SJR1525 Memorials, Retirement - Rhedona Rose

TN - SJR1518 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Barbara Grace Gee, Valedictorian, Cumberland County High School

TN - SJR1630 Memorials, Death - Rebecca Foster

TN - SJR1520 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Rachel Houston, Valedictorian, Stone Memorial High School

TN - SJR1516 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Belinda Juan-Gaspar, Valedictorian, Monterey High School

TN - SJR1558 Memorials, Personal Occasion - John Stafford, 102nd birthday

TN - SJR1178 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Elijah Morgan "E.M." Dudney

TN - SB1295 Consumer Protection - As enacted, enacts the "Genetic Information Privacy Act." - Amends TCA Title 47.

TN - SB1307 Conservation - As enacted, authorizes expenditures from the 1986 wetland acquisition fund to acquire forest tracts within Cumberland County adjacent to Catoosa Wildlife Management Area known as the "Oakley Tract(s)," including lands adjacent thereto. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 14, Part 4 and Title 67, Chapter 4.

TN - SB2927 Real Property - As introduced, prohibits certain Chinese entities from directly or indirectly owning, having a controlling interest in, acquiring by purchase, grant, devise, or descent an interest, or holding by lease, contract, or usufruct an interest in, except a de minimus indirect interest, real property in this state or real property within 10 miles of a military installation; requires divestment within two years of any such interest unlawfully held; requires certain property owners to register with the secretary of state; provides civil penalties for violations. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 2.

TN - SJR489 Memorials, Recognition - Putnam County Agricultural and Industrial Fair, Premier Fair in Tennessee

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

TN - SB2924 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, aligns local school board elections with the August primary and November general elections. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 49, Chapter 2.

TN - SB1324 Real Property - As introduced, updates requirements regarding public notice for a foreclosure sale of real property, including a requirement that public notice be posted on the secretary of state's website. - Amends TCA Title 35.

TN - SJR1512 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Cade Simmons, Valedictorian, Van Buren County High School

TN - SB1539 Putnam County - Subject to local approval, establishes that general sessions court has concurrent jurisdiction with chancery and circuit courts relating to cases of adoption, pursuant to general law.

TN - SJR1515 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Pranith Reddy, Valedictorian, Cookeville High School

TN - SB2909 Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to compile and maintain a list of employers that are self-insured for purposes of workers' compensation; requires the list to be published on the department's website in a publicly accessible location. - Amends TCA Title 12; Title 48; Title 50 and Title 56.

TN - SJR1522 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Darcy Leann Hickey, Valedictorian, Upperman High School

TN - SB1300 Telecommunications - As introduced, removes a requirement that the comptroller report to the general assembly, not later than January 31, 2008, with recommendations regarding whether the pilot project that authorized certain municipal electric systems to provide services beyond their service area with certain limitations should be continued or expanded to other systems. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 9; Title 12; Title 13; Title 35, Chapter 8, Part 1; Section 37-10-204; Section 38-6-121; Title 39; Title 40, Chapter 6, Part 3; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 54; Title 55; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB2907 Economic and Community Development, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to include information on which unserved locations have received or are in the process of receiving broadband service since the last update to the broadband accessibility map. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 7 and Title 65.

TN - SJR1417 Memorials, Sports - Bobby McWilliams, 2024 BCAT Class 3A Coach of the Year

TN - SB1302 Education - As introduced, extends the deadline for appointing a member to the Tennessee council for career and technical education to fill a vacancy created by the death or resignation of a member, or by other cause, from 15 days to 30 days after the vacancy occurs. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SJR517 Memorials, Sports - Algood Middle School girls' soccer team

TN - SB1291 Consumer Protection - As introduced, increases, from three to five days, the number of days a consumer reporting agency has to place a security freeze on a consumer report after receiving the written or electronic request from the Tennessee consumer. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12; Title 43; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 50; Title 61; Title 66 and Title 67.

TN - SB2911 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, prohibits the purchase or possession of a firearm by a person under 25 years of age if the person was previously adjudicated delinquent for an act that, if committed by an adult, would have constituted one or more certain offenses; allows the Tennessee bureau of investigation access to juvenile court records for the limited purpose of performing a background check prior to the purchase or transfer of a firearm to determine whether a person has been adjudicated as a mental defective or committed to a mental health institution at 16 years of age or older, as required by federal law, or is prohibited from purchasing a firearm because of an adjudication as delinquent. - Amends TCA Title 18; Title 37 and Title 39.

TN - SB2923 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, each local education agency and public charter school to provide students with age-appropriate and grade-appropriate instruction on firearm safety. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB2921 TennCare - As introduced, requires the bureau to reimburse a public or private air ambulance service that bills for transports and has a base of operations in this state that provides a covered emergency or nonemergency service to a TennCare recipient at a rate not less than 67.5 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB1297 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, authorizes an insurer that offers a health benefit plan to deliver notices and documents related to health, vision, and dental coverage electronically to its insureds with consent. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - SJR1523 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Emma Mayree Upton, Salutatorian, Upperman High School

TN - SB1318 Alcohol Offenses, Motor Vehicles - As enacted, enacts the "Silas Gable Flatt Law," which creates an offense of knowingly providing a motor vehicle to another person who the provider of the vehicle knows or should know is under the influence of an intoxicant or whose driver license has been suspended or revoked under certain circumstances, punishable as a Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55, Chapter 10.

TN - SB2913 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, authorizes a court to waive the costs to a petitioner who files a petition for restoration of the full rights of citizenship. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 19 and Title 40, Chapter 29.

TN - SB1540 White County - Subject to local approval, establishes that general sessions court has concurrent jurisdiction with chancery and circuit courts relating to cases of adoption, pursuant to general law.

TN - SB1323 Law Enforcement - As introduced, authorizes the Tennessee bureau of investigation to electronically file its annual use of force report to the chair of the judiciary committee of the senate and the chair of the criminal justice committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 24; Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35; Title 8, Chapter 36; Title 8, Chapter 37; Title 38, Chapter 8, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 140.

TN - SB2917 Aircraft and Airports - As introduced, increases from 10 calendar days to 10 business days, the number of days before a public hearing on an ordinance or resolution creating a regional airport authority by which notice of the public hearing must be given. - Amends TCA Title 42, Chapter 3 and Title 42, Chapter 4.

TN - SJR1519 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Isabella ReyAnne Cross, Salutatorian, Cumberland County High School

TN - SB2912 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, removes the offense of possessing a weapon in a building that prohibits or restricts weapons; allows a person with an enhanced handgun carry permit to carry a handgun into a business that prohibits or restricts weapons; removes penalties for violations of certain firearms provisions. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - SB1289 Business and Commerce - As enacted, generally prohibits a municipality or county from adopting or enforcing an ordinance, order, or regulation that requires a permit or fee for the installation or use of a battery-charged security fence that is in addition to an alarm system permit issued by the municipality or county; imposes installation or operational requirements for a battery-charged security fence that are inconsistent with current requirements in law for a battery-charged security fence in this bill; or prohibits the installation or use of a battery-charged security fence. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 32, Part 3.

TN - SB1301 Workers Compensation - As introduced, extends the permitted occurrence date, from June 30, 2023, to June 30, 2025, for an injury underlying a workers' compensation case in which the court of workers' compensation claims is authorized to award reasonable attorneys' fees and costs if an employer wrongfully denies a claim or fails to timely initiate a benefit to which the employee or a dependent is entitled for the injury. - Amends TCA Section 50-6-226.

TN - SB1290 Labor and Workforce Development, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the commissioner to ensure that a listing is made available to the public on the department of labor and workforce development's public website of apprenticeship programs that are mandated by state or federal law due to the program sponsor receiving funds or resources from the state or federal government and that are approved by the office of apprenticeship; requires the listing to be updated no less than twice annually. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 50; Title 62 and Title 67.

TN - SB1314 Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, prohibits a healthcare prescriber from issuing a prescription for a dual-purpose prescription medication for diabetes to a person in this state if the person does not have a diagnosis of diabetes; defines a dual-purpose prescription medication for diabetes as a prescription drug that has a listed indication for diabetes and may also be used for purposes of weight loss in persons who do not have a diagnosis of diabetes. - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB1317 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, includes as an eligible petitioner for purposes of judicial diversion of criminal offenses, a person seeking deferral of proceedings for aggravated neglect of an elderly or vulnerable adult or aggravated abuse of an elderly or vulnerable adult, if the person is a healthcare provider who committed such an offense in the course of the provider's official duties. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 71, Chapter 6.

TN - SB2918 Recreational Areas - As introduced, requires a campground owner to post in a high traffic area on the campground or distribute to registered guests or visitors a written policy on campground curfew, alcohol use, tobacco use, and pets; authorizes a campground owner to eject a person from the campground and notify the appropriate local law enforcement authorities of any person in response to certain actions by the person; classifies remaining on a campground after having been asked to leave by a campground owner as criminal trespass. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 55; Title 62, Chapter 7; Title 66; Title 68, Chapter 110 and Title 68, Chapter 14.

TN - SB1311 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, changes the date, from March 19 to March 18, 1991, of authorization for an insurance company affiliate to be considered eligible for a tax credit based on the affiliate's reinsurance agreement with an insurance company, in which the tax imposed on gross premiums is allocated from the ceding company to the reinsuring company and allows the reinsuring company to use the premium tax liability as a tax credit. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 67.

TN - SB1306 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires an LEA or public charter school to adopt and implement a retention policy for third grade students who are not proficient in English language arts (ELA), rather than requiring the LEA to retain a third grade student who does not achieve a certain performance level rating on the ELA portion of the student's most recent Tennessee comprehensive assessment program test; establishes parental notice requirements for LEAs and public charter schools that recommend a third grade student for retention; removes the authority of the state board of education to establish an appeal process for certain students identified for retention. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB2902 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, requires the board of trustees for the retirement system to include a certification of the amount of normal contributions, accumulated liability contribution, and cost of living contribution required from an employer for state judges and attorneys general in the board's annual report showing the fiscal transactions of the retirement system. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 24; Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35; Title 8, Chapter 36 and Title 8, Chapter 37.

TN - SB1319 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, adds to the offense of custodial interference, a parent or other family member who harbors or hides a child within or outside this state, knowing that the child has been placed in the custody of the department of children's services pursuant to a protective custody order or an emergency custody order entered by a court; states that it is not a defense that the person harboring or hiding the child has not been served with an actual copy of a protective custody order or emergency custody order. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 6 and Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 3.

TN - SB1329 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates the second Monday in April of each year as "Tennessee Lineworker Appreciation Day." - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 15.

TN - SB2066 Day Care - As introduced, requires installation of carbon monoxide alarms in each room of a child care agency where care is provided to a child; requires the alarms to meet certain national certification standards and be installed in accordance with national fire safety recommendations or manufacturer instructions; establishes dates by which the alarms must be installed in new and existing child care agencies. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 120 and Title 71, Chapter 3.

TN - SJR345 Memorials, Sports - Upperman High School baseball team, 2022 TSSAA State Champions

TN - SJR1368 Memorials, Sports - Celeste Reed, Class 3A Miss Basketball

TN - SB1378 Banks and Financial Institutions - As introduced, increases, from $1.00 to $5.00, the threshold before which a borrower is entitled to a refund or refund credit of the precomputed interest charge for a loan that is precomputed that the borrower prepays in full. - Amends TCA Title 45, Chapter 12; Title 45, Chapter 18; Title 45, Chapter 5 and Title 45, Chapter 7.

TN - SJR491 Memorials, Recognition - Sparta Police Chief Jeffrey McCarrick

TN - SB2906 Contractors - As introduced, removes references to repealed provisions of law that provided an additional definition of contractor, and additional penalties, in relation to unlawful representation as a licensed contractor. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12; Title 13; Title 42; Title 43; Title 44; Title 45; Title 46; Title 47; Title 48; Title 50; Title 53; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 61; Title 62; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB2916 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, changes from 60 days to 75 days prior to the beginning of the fiscal year the time in which the president of the metropolitan airport authority must submit the annual operating budget to the board for approval. - Amends TCA Title 42, Chapter 3 and Title 42, Chapter 4.

TN - SB1337 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, revises law relative to garagekeeper's or towing firm's liens, unclaimed or abandoned vehicles and notification of owners and lienholders, and motor vehicle storage. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 47; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 65 and Title 66.

TN - SJR716 Memorials, Recognition - Wes Shanks

TN - SJR1367 Memorials, Death - Eddie Howard Gaw II

TN - SJR717 Memorials, Death - Ernest "Ernie" Martin Cheek

TN - SJR1369 Memorials, Personal Occasion - James "Jim" Herschel Boehms, 100th birthday

TN - SB2895 Annexation - As introduced, specifies circumstances in which a referendum will not be required to effectuate annexation of territory; removes repealer provision for exceptions to the referendum requirement. - Amends TCA Section 6-51-104.

TN - SB1298 Safety - As introduced, enacts the "Rescue Squad Recognition Act," which establishes a process by which the state fire marshal may issue a three-year certificate of recognition to a newly established rescue squad. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 68.

TN - SB2926 Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As introduced, deletes a redundant definition in law relative to intoxicating liquors that defines the commission. - Amends TCA Title 57 and Title 67.

TN - SJR927 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Joe Moore, FFA Lifetime Achievement Award

TN - SB1299 Consumer Protection - As introduced, requires a social media platform to provide certain information about its content and data management, business practices, and acceptable use policy; prohibits a social media platform from censoring the expression of a user who resides in this state based on viewpoint or geographic location; imposes other related requirements and prohibitions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 47 and Title 65.

TN - SB1312 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, removes the prohibition on employment of radiologists, anesthesiologists, pathologists, and emergency physicians by hospitals and hospital affiliates. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB1698 Insurance, Liability - As introduced, expands the conditions under which certain contracts between a taxpayer and tax preparation service company are not considered contracts of insurance to include circumstances when the tax preparation service company obtains a contractual liability insurance policy or posts a bond. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - SJR516 Memorials, Personal Occasion - H. Glenn McDonald, 90th birthday

TN - SB1316 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for the offense of possession of a used, detached catalytic converter by an unauthorized person from a Class A misdemeanor punishable only by fine to a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 55 and Title 62.

TN - SB1296 Surveyors - As introduced, expands notice requirement for land surveyors conducting boundary surveys by requiring them to notify all adjoining landowners of the survey rather than just when the surveyor discovers or reasonably should have discovered discrepancies between the deed descriptions of the adjoining owners. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 18, Part 1.

TN - SB856 Firefighters - As enacted, enacts the "James 'Dustin' Samples Act." - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 9; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 102.

TN - SB1304 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, increases the time period by which a local education agency must make a district-wide and building-level school safety plan available for public comment, from 30 to 45 days, prior to the adoption of the proposed plan. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 62, Chapter 35.

TN - SB2915 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, authorizes proration of the registration fee for freight motor vehicles operated for commercial purposes upon the death of an eligible operator of the freight motor vehicle; requires submission of certain documentation prior to issuance of a refund for the unused portion of the registration fee paid. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - SJR514 Memorials, Recognition - Mullins Vision Associates, 100th Anniversary

TN - SB2904 Public Records - As introduced, reduces, from three months to two months, the time for a records custodian to file a written report with the office of open records counsel regarding the filing of a petition to enjoin a person from making records requests if the person is making public records requests to disrupt government operations. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7 and Title 39.

TN - SB1504 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, changes from February 1 to February 15 the date by which the Tennessee bureau of investigation must report excess money collected pursuant to background check fees charged to gun dealers. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 10; Title 16; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 45; Title 49; Title 50; Title 55; Title 58; Title 62; Title 67 and Title 70.

TN - SB1321 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, requires the administrative office of the courts to conduct a study, within existing resources, of the number of individuals convicted under offenses for carrying or possessing weapons with the intent to go armed and the penalties assessed for the convictions, and submit a report of the study's findings to the chairs of the senate judiciary committee and the criminal justice committee of the house of representatives by January 15, 2024. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504; Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49 and Title 70.

TN - SB2945 Gordonsville - Subject to local approval, deletes a provision prohibiting the compensation of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen from being increased during their terms of office. - Amends Chapter 99 of the Private Acts of 2000.

TN - SJR588 Memorials, Sports - Malaki Dowell

TN - SB2919 Physicians and Surgeons - As introduced, requires a hospital that employs a physician to maintain a copy of an agreement specifying restrictions on physician referral decisions in its medical records department during the course of the physician's employment. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB1331 Open Meetings - As introduced, requires a governing body to provide members of the public the opportunity to comment at a meeting of the governing body if the meeting is open to the public pursuant to the Open Meetings Law and if members of the public give proper notice to the governing body. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 44 and Title 49.

TN - SJR801 Memorials, Recognition - Sam Gibbons

TN - SB2898 State Government - As introduced, adds a fire engine converted to a for-hire passenger vehicle as a type of entertainment transportation that may be regulated by a governmental entity. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 57; Title 65; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - SB1333 Public Contracts - As introduced, removes insurance from the definition of "goods" as it relates to public purchasing. - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 3.

TN - SB1288 Workers Compensation - As introduced, extends from December 31 to January 1, the date by which the bureau of workers' compensation must produce its annual report listing the name of each covered employer that failed, during the preceding state fiscal year, to provide workers' compensation coverage or qualify as a self-insured employer as required by law. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 56.

TN - SJR515 Memorials, Recognition - Angela Chesebro, Cookeville Police Department Communications Operator, Ken Owen Memorial Award

TN - SB1310 Taxes, Business - As introduced, eliminates the business tax for tax periods that begin on or after January 1, 2024. - Amends TCA Section 7-52-606; Section 38-1-201; Section 39-17-1806; Section 50-6-904; Section 58-2-205; Section 58-2-204; Section 62-44-102 and Title 67.

TN - SB1328 Charitable Solicitations - As introduced, increases from seven to 14 days the period within which an applicant for a charitable solicitation registration may request a hearing following receipt of notification that the applicant has not satisfied the registration requirements. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 101, Part 5.

TN - SJR487 Memorials, Recognition - Dodson Branch Elementary School, 2022 Reward School

TN - SB2914 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, changes from January 15 to January 1, the beginning date of each year at which time the department of transportation may reduce the maximum weight of vehicle loads if necessary to protect the streets, roads, highways, or other public thoroughfares from unnecessary injury or damage. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 47; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 65; Title 66 and Title 67.

TN - SB1293 Financial Institutions, Dept. of - As introduced, extends from 30 to 45 days, the time in which the commissioner has to approve a proposed state banks application for a certificate of authority. - Amends TCA Title 45.

TN - SB1320 Victims' Rights - As enacted, requires judge to order payment of restitution by owner who is convicted of allowing their dog to run loose and the dog causes bodily injury or death to another person, or damages another person's property. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 39 and Title 44.

TN - SB2922 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to include in its training curriculum for emergency medical services personnel materials concerning child abuse and neglect. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 63 and Title 68, Chapter 140.

TN - SJR595 Memorials, Recognition - Major Richard Lynch, White County Sheriff's Office

TN - SB1305 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Special Educator Scholarship Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1283 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, requires that a broadband ready communitys ordinance or policy for reviewing applications must contain a provision that all applications related to the project be either approved or denied within 30 calendar days, rather than 30 business days, after the applications are submitted. - Amends TCA Title 4.

TN - SB2905 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, requires notice of any sports authority board of directors meeting to be posted on the authority's website. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7, Chapter 67 and Title 9.

TN - SJR1272 Memorials, Personal Achievement - J. Walker Bruce, Eagle Scout

TN - SJR1179 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Alivia Jones, Salutatorian, White County High School

TN - SB2908 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, authorizes a funeral director or funeral establishment providing funeral services for a deceased person insured or believed to be insured under a contract of life insurance to request certain information about the life insurance contract. - Amends TCA Title 35; Title 56 and Title 62, Chapter 5.

TN - SB1292 Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, increases the base salary of certain categories of preferred service employees of the department. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 47; Title 48; Title 56 and Title 68.

TN - SB2901 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, reduces from 60 to 30 days the waiting period before a law enforcement officer who is a member of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system may be reemployed after the officer's effective date of retirement. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 36, Part 8.

TN - SB1336 Public Contracts - As introduced, requires the state procurement commission to strive to ensure that at least 5 percent of procurement contracts are awarded to veteran-owned businesses. - Amends TCA Title 12.

TN - SB1308 Game and Fish Laws - As introduced, establishes requirements and limitations for the use of a trotline to kill, catch, or take fish or other aquatic life. - Amends TCA Section 39-14-206 and Title 70.

TN - SJR802 Memorials, Recognition - Ross Elzie Williams

TN - SB1191 Health, Dept. of - As enacted, terminates the radiologic imaging and radiation therapy board of examiners; authorizes the board of medical examiners, to establish and issue limited and full X-ray certifications. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 6.

TN - SJR1190 Memorials, Recognition - Baxter Police Officer Allen Cool, Officer of the Year

TN - SB1509 Police - As introduced, authorizes certain nonprofit property owners associations to employ and commission police officers. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 38.

TN - SB1315 TennCare - As introduced, requires the bureau to reimburse air-based ambulance service providers, along with ground-based ambulance service providers, at a rate of no less than 67.5 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SJR490 Memorials, Retirement - Sparta Police Chief Doug Goff

TN - SJR1189 Memorials, Public Service - Lillian Hartgrove

TN - SJR1273 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Evan G'Fellers, Eagle Scout

TN - SJR593 Memorials, Recognition - Upper Cumberland Regional Airport, Airport of the Year

TN - SB2903 Election Laws - As introduced, creates a process for the majority and minority party caucuses of the general assembly to nominate candidates for United States senator. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 13.

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

TN - SB2897 County Officers - As introduced, increases the annual continuing education requirement for county commissioners from seven to eight hours; requires that the training be obtained by CTAS meetings; extends a $600 stipend to county commissioners for completion of annual training requirements. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 5 and Title 7.

TN - SB2900 Tennessee Housing Development Agency - As introduced, reduces the number of members of the board of directors of the agency required to approve the operation of the financial assistance programs under the Tennessee Housing Development Agency Act from nine to eight. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53; Title 13; Title 48, Chapter 101, Part 3; Title 56 and Title 67.

TN - SB1338 Economic and Community Development, Dept. of - As enacted, makes various changes relative to the Broadband Accessibility Grant Program. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 7; Title 65 and Title 67.

TN - SB1327 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, requires a beer wholesaler to keep each original bill of sale or a digital duplicate from the sale of beer to a beer retailer for three years rather than two years; requires the beer retailer to keep a duplicate of the bill of sale for three years rather than two years. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 57 and Title 68.

TN - HB411 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, revises the definitions of "wine" and "beer" with regard to law relative to traffic in intoxicating liquors and regulating the sale of wine in retail stores. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3 and Title 57, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1025 Historical Sites and Preservation - As enacted, creates the Tennessee monuments and memorials commission, which is required to study, hear, and resolve petitions for waiver under the Tennessee heritage protection act. - Amends TCA Section 4-1-412.

TN - HB905 Judges and Chancellors - As enacted, adds one additional criminal court judge in the thirteenth judicial district, one additional circuit court judge in the nineteenth judicial district, and one additional circuit court judge in the twenty-second judicial district. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.

TN - HB9 Obscenity and Pornography - As enacted, creates an offense for a person who engages in an adult cabaret performance on public property or in a location where the adult cabaret performance could be viewed by a person who is not an adult. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 14.

TN - HB1 Public Health - As enacted, prohibits a healthcare provider from performing on a minor or administering to a minor a medical procedure if the performance or administration of the procedure is for the purpose of enabling a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minors sex. - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 29; Title 33; Title 34; Title 36; Title 37; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB483 Local Government, General - As enacted, prohibits political subdivisions from prohibiting, based on the type or source of energy to be delivered to an individual customer, the sale or installation of an appliance utilized for cooking, space heating, water heating, or another end use. - Amends TCA Section 7-51-2102.

TN - HB17 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates the month of May as "Silver Alert Awareness Month." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

TN - HB155 Health, Dept. of - As enacted, requires an annual training pay bonus supplement for eligible emergency medical services personnel in the amount of $800. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 140, Part 3.

TN - HB1346 Real Property - As enacted, prohibits this state and its political subdivisions from adopting or implementing policy recommendations that deliberately or inadvertently infringe or restrict private property rights without due process, as may be required by policy recommendations originating in, or traceable to, "Agenda 21," adopted by the United Nations in 1992 at its Conference on Environment and Development, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the U.N.'s proposal to reach net zero emissions by 2050, or any other international law or ancillary plan of action that contravenes the constitution of the United States or the constitution of this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 66 and Title 68.

TN - HB76 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, eliminates the disabled license plate fee for a parent or guardian of an individual who is permanently and totally confined to a wheelchair and who does not own or operate a vehicle; discontinues the honorary consular cultural plate. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 21, Part 1 and Title 55, Chapter 4, Part 2.

TN - HB1187 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, reduces, from 29.0141 percent to 28.5262 percent, the share of state sales and use tax revenue deposited to the state general fund; increases, from 4.6030 percent to 5.0909 percent, the share appropriated to municipalities. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-103.

TN - HB1445 Education, Higher - As enacted, prohibits a public postsecondary institution that provides internet access to students, faculty, staff, or the general public from allowing an individual to access a social media platform using the institution's network if the platform is owned or hosted by a company based in the People's Republic of China; grants certain exemptions for law enforcement activities; investigatory functions; and audit, compliance, or legal functions of the institution. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1286 Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, requires the department of treasury investment division staff to invest, reinvest, manage, and select investment options for program assets for financial reasons, excluding environmental, social, and governance interests that may not be material to the financial analysis of the investment, for the exclusive benefit of the beneficiaries of the programs while maximizing long-term shareholder value; makes other changes concerning the authority of the state treasurer. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4.

TN - HB430 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, allows a juvenile court to impose a blended sentence on a child 16 years of age or older for a juvenile offense that would be a Class A, B, or C felony if committed by an adult; defines blended sentencing as a combination of any disposition otherwise provided for juveniles and a period of adult probation to be served after the child turns 18 years of age and which ends on or before the child's twenty-fifth birthday. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1153 Naming and Designating - As enacted, designates the National Guard Armory to be constructed in Warren County as the "Major General Terry Max Haston National Guard Armory".

TN - HB659 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, specifies that certain sexual offenses committed against minor victims of a certain age apply based on the age of the victim at the time of the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5.

TN - HB1431 Public Employees - As enacted, increases the pay schedule for certain assistant district attorneys general, assistant district public defenders, district investigators, and criminal investigators. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14 and Title 8, Chapter 7.

TN - HB584 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, authorizes a hospital, or an affiliated entity of the hospital, to employ an emergency physician to treat patients at a satellite emergency department, or a physician to treat patients at a primary care clinic or urgent care clinic, which is located in this state, if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - HB610 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, authorizes a credit against premium taxes in the amount of the charges, expenses, and fees paid by insurance companies for certain examinations performed by the commissioner of commerce and insurance. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 4, Part 2.

TN - HB727 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires a student's parent or legal guardian, or the student if the student has reached the age of majority, to provide certain consent before the student may engage in certain activities at school. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 68.

TN - HB431 Aircraft and Airports - As enacted, changes the present law that imposes and remits a tax on a person's purchase, use, consumption, or storage of aviation fuel that is used in the operation of an aircraft of a certificated or licensed air carrier with a transportation hub within this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 42 and Title 67.

TN - HB38 Attorney General and Reporter - As enacted, specifies that when, in the judgment of the speaker of the house of representatives and the speaker of the senate, the interest of the state requires additional counsel to the attorney general and reporter, the speakers shall retain additional counsel to prosecute an action against the federal government on behalf of the state if the representation does not include payment of a fixed or contingent fee to any such additional counsel or otherwise increase state expenditures. - Amends TCA Section 8-6-106.

TN - HB801 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, permanently reenacts the "Proton Therapy Access Act," which was repealed on January 1, 2023. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 23.

TN - HB493 TennCare - As enacted, extends the nursing home annual assessment fee to June 30, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 10.

TN - HB321 Transportation, Dept. of - As enacted, enacts the "Transportation Modernization Act of 2023." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2; Section 12-2-112; Title 54 and Title 55.

TN - HB562 Military - As enacted, clarifies that compensation for members of the national guard must accrue upon them being ordered to active state service and the payment of compensation to members must use this state's established weekly pay cycle as needed to effectuate compensation. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 1.

TN - HB1388 Health, Dept. of - As enacted, terminates the radiologic imaging and radiation therapy board of examiners; authorizes the board of medical examiners, to establish and issue limited and full X-ray certifications. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 6.

TN - HJR288 Memorials, Heroism - Officer Tina Shaw

TN - HJR525 Memorials, Death - William Kinney

TN - HJR503 Memorials, Recognition - Metropolitan Nashville Police Department Chief John Drake and commanding officers

TN - HJR526 Memorials, Death - Dr. Katherine Koonce

TN - HJR40 Memorials, Recognition - Arnold's Country Kitchen

TN - HJR126 Memorials, Recognition - Alzheimer's Tennessee, 40th anniversary

TN - HJR355 Memorials, Death - Officer Geoffrey "Bernard" Redd

TN - HJR524 Memorials, Death - Hallie Scruggs

TN - HJR535 Memorials, Death - Chief Justice William M. "Mickey" Barker

TN - HJR221 Memorials, Recognition - Bozo's Hot Pit Bar-B-Que, 100th anniversary

TN - HJR121 Memorials, Death - William Keith McCord

TN - HJR273 Memorials, Death - Chief Warrant Officer Three Danny Randolph and Chief Warrant Officer Three Daniel Wadham, Tennessee Army National Guard

TN - HJR527 Memorials, Death - Cynthia Broyles Peak

TN - HJR504 Memorials, Heroism - Metropolitan Nashville Police Department Officers and State and federal law enforcement officials

TN - HJR384 Memorials, Death - Paul Theodore Dunn III

TN - HJR523 Memorials, Death - Evelyn Marie Dieckhaus

TN - HJR133 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee pregnancy centers

TN - HJR275 Memorials, Death - Colonel (Ret.) Patrick "Rage" Ragan

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

TN - HJR521 Memorials, Recognition - Nashville Fire Department and Nashville Department of Emergency Communications 911

TN - HJR235 Memorials, Recognition - International HPV Awareness Day

TN - HJR528 Memorials, Death - Michael "Mike" Hill

TN - SB1 Public Health - As enacted, prohibits a healthcare provider from performing on a minor or administering to a minor a medical procedure if the performance or administration of the procedure is for the purpose of enabling a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minors sex. - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 29; Title 33; Title 34; Title 36; Title 37; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

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

TN - SB401 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, permanently reenacts the "Proton Therapy Access Act," which was repealed on January 1, 2023. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 23.

TN - SB3 Obscenity and Pornography - As enacted, creates an offense for a person who engages in an adult cabaret performance on public property or in a location where the adult cabaret performance could be viewed by a person who is not an adult. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 14.

TN - SR2 Memorials, Death - Lisa Marie Presley

TN - SJR21 Memorials, Recognition - University of Tennessee College of Health Professions, 50th anniversary

TN - SJR18 Memorials, Retirement - Dan E. Pomeroy

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

TN - SJR2 Memorials, Death - Detective Matthew Walker Blansett

TN - SJR124 Memorials, Death - Tyre D. Nichols

TN - SJR58 Memorials, Death - Andrew Jackson York

TN - SJR1 Memorials, Death - Loretta Lynn

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

TN - SJR17 Memorials, Retirement - Jim Hoobler