Bill Commons

TN SB 1241

enacted

Child Abuse - As enacted, expands the definition of child abuse to include a person under the age of 18 witnessing either the abuse of another child in the person's immediate family or household or domestic abuse of a member of the person's immediate family or household; specifies that reunification between a parent and a child placed in foster care due to abuse must not occur unless the parent has complied with the parent's statement of responsibilities in the permanency plan and the child has received mental health counseling. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Title 39.

Tennessee · 114S1 · upper

Follow this bill’s action updates (Atom)

Subscribe in a feed reader. The feed covers recorded actions from the last 30 days; Bill Commons may record an action after it happened at the legislature.

Quick answers

Did TN SB 1241 pass?

Yes. TN SB 1241 has been enacted into law. Latest recorded action (2025-05-13): Pub. Ch. 398

What is TN SB 1241 about?

TN SB 1241 is a bill in the 114S1 titled “Child Abuse - As enacted, expands the definition of child abuse to include a person under the age of 18 witnessing either the abuse of another child in the person's immediate family or household or domestic abuse of a member of the person's immediate family or household; specifies that reunification between a parent and a child placed in foster care due to abuse must not occur unless the parent has complied with the parent's statement of responsibilities in the permanency plan and the child has received mental health counseling. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Title 39.”.

Who sponsors TN SB 1241?

Jackson is the primary sponsor of TN SB 1241.

Introduced
2025-02-10
Latest action
2025-05-13 — Pub. Ch. 398
Bill type
bill
Last updated
—

Subjects

Sponsors

  • Jacksonprimary

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

Newest first

  1. 2025-05-13

    Pub. Ch. 398

  2. 2025-05-13

    Effective date(s) 05/05/2025

  3. 2025-05-05

    Signed by Governor.

    executive-signature

  4. 2025-04-23

    Transmitted to Governor for action.

    executive-receipt

  5. 2025-04-22

    Enrolled and ready for signatures

    enrolled

  6. 2025-04-22

    Signed by Senate Speaker

    passage

  7. 2025-04-22

    Signed by H. Speaker

    passage

  8. 2025-04-16

    Subst. for comp. HB.

    substitution

  9. 2025-04-16

    Am. withdrawn. (Amendment 1 - HA0335)

    amendment-withdrawal

  10. 2025-04-16

    Passed H., Ayes 94, Nays 0, PNV 1

    passage

  11. 2025-04-15

    Senate adopted Amendment (Amendment 1 - SA0359)

  12. 2025-04-15

    Passed Senate as amended, Ayes 31, Nays 0

    passage

  13. 2025-04-15

    Engrossed; ready for transmission to House

    receipt

  14. 2025-04-15

    Sponsor(s) Added.

    sponsorship

  15. 2025-04-14

    Placed on Senate Regular Calendar for 4/15/2025

  16. 2025-04-11

    Placed on Senate Regular Calendar for 4/15/2025

  17. 2025-04-01

    Recommended for passage with amendment/s, refer to Senate Calendar Committee Ayes 8, Nays 0 PNV 0

  18. 2025-03-31

    Action deferred in Senate Judiciary Committee to 4/1/2025

  19. 2025-03-31

    Placed on Senate Judiciary Committee calendar for 4/1/2025

  20. 2025-03-26

    Placed on Senate Judiciary Committee calendar for 3/31/2025

  21. 2025-02-12

    Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee

    referral-committee

  22. 2025-02-10

    Introduced, Passed on First Consideration

    introduction

  23. 2025-02-06

    Filed for introduction

    filing

Versions

Documents

Votes

  • SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE: Recommended for passage with amendment/s, refer to Senate Calendar Committee Ayes 8, Nays 0 PNV 0 4/1/2025 Passed (2)

    2025-04-01 · pass · 8-0

  • FLOOR VOTE: as Amended Third Consideration 4/15/2025 Passed (1)

    2025-04-15 · pass · 31-0

  • FLOOR VOTE: REGULAR CALENDAR PASSAGE ON THIRD CONSIDERATION 4/16/2025 Passed (1)

    2025-04-16 · pass · 94-0

    Member-level votes (1)
    • Fritts: not voting

Related bills

Official source

https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default?BillNumber=SB1241&ga=114

Attribution

Data from openstates_bulk_csv, retrieved 2026-07-24T05:32:51.339172Z

Inspect retained evidence for changes recorded after evidence tracking began:

Source and document changesStatus and relationship changes

Session-wide evidence can include changes to other bills:

Bulk imports for this sessionSession dates and activity

Use this data

Every field on this page is available from the free public API — no key or licence required. Fetch this bill as JSON: GET /api/v1/bills?jurisdiction=TN&identifier=SB 1241. See the API docs or the MCP server for AI assistants.

Known limitations

  • Sponsor party and chamber affiliation are not yet captured by this API.
  • Committee referrals are not yet captured.
  • Some documents have no extracted text yet, so version comparison may be limited.

See the methodology page for data sources and limitations.