TN — 114S1 | Bill Commons

9,112 bills

HB 1348 — Education, Higher - As introduced, requires the commission to review and update the outcomes-based funding formula model at least once every five years to provide incentives for institutions that offer programs leading to job placement in high-demand fields in this state. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 49 and Title 62.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-03-26: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Higher Education Subcommittee of Education Committee
HB 221 — Obscenity and Pornography - As introduced, specifies that a commercial entity that knowingly possesses, promotes, purchases, produces, sells, sends, transports, or distributes obscene matter in violation of state law may be held civilly liable to an individual for nominal damages, actual damages, punitive damages, court costs, and reasonable attorney fees. - Amends TCA Title 28 and Title 39.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-03-26: Returned to the Clerk's Desk.
SB 887 — Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to publish the Tennessee investment in student achievement formula guide on the department's website. - Amends TCA Title 49.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-03-26: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
SB 9 — Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, removes the restriction on the direct employment of radiologists, pathologists, anesthesiologists, and emergency physicians by hospitals and certain healthcare facilities. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 63 and Title 68.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-03-26: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Health and Welfare Committee
SB 928 — Education - As introduced, requires the state board of education to authorize a student who is working toward completing a career and technical education elective focus to substitute up to four career and technical education course credits for the required chemistry course credit, computer science course credit, world language course credit, and Algebra II course credit necessary to earn a full diploma upon graduation from high school. - Amends TCA Title 49.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-03-26: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
HJR 122 — General Assembly, Directed Studies - Directs the Department of Health to conduct a comprehensive study to evaluate and make recommendations regarding anesthesia workforce and staffing across all facilities providing anesthesia services in Tennessee. -died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-03-26: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Health Subcommittee of Health Committee
HB 563 — Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, creates the Class C misdemeanor offense of storing a firearm or firearm ammunition in a motor vehicle while the person is not in the motor vehicle unless the firearm or firearm ammunition is kept from ordinary observation and locked within the trunk, utility or glove box, or a locked container securely affixed to the motor vehicle; requires the owner of a firearm to report the loss or theft of the firearm to law enforcement within 24 hours of the discovery of the loss or theft. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-03-26: Failed in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Judiciary Committee
SB 810 — Education, Higher - As introduced, changes the date, from October to November 1, by which a public institution of higher education that receives funds from the distribution of credit cards to students or any percentage from the use of cards bearing the college or university name or logo to report the amount of such funds or percentage that it received as well as how the funds were expended during the previous fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 49.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-03-26: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
SB 386 — Education - As introduced, enacts the "Early Behavioral Intervention and Reporting Act"; clarifies that public charter schools are required to have a threat assessment team in the same manner as required of local education agencies. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 37 and Title 49.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-03-26: Failed in Senate Education Committee
SB 1324 — Education, Higher - As introduced, changes the reporting requirements for the board of regents, each state university board, and the board of trustees of the University of Tennessee summarizing grievance activities of the previous year from annually to upon the request of the education committee of the senate or the committee of the house of representatives having jurisdiction over education. - Amends TCA Title 49.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-03-26: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
SB 1132 — School Vouchers - As introduced, increases the required assessments of students participating in the education savings account program or the individualized education account program to include all Tennessee comprehensive assessment program tests, Tennessee universal reading screeners or universal reading screeners approved by the state board of education, and the assessment administered to public school students in grade 11 that assesses student readiness for postsecondary education and approved by the commissioner of education. - Amends TCA Title 49.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-03-26: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
HB 509 — Physicians and Surgeons - As introduced, extends from 30 to 60 days the period of time following a change in the address listed on a physician's registration certificate within which a physician licensed by the board of medical examiners must notify the board of such change. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-03-26: Ref. to Health Committee - Government Operations for Review
HB 1049 — Health Care - As introduced, requires every year, instead of every other year, the commissioner of health, in consultation with the regulatory boards that license healthcare practitioners, to provide a letter no later than November 1 to the governor, the speaker of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, and legislative committees with subject matter jurisdiction over health that includes updated information on the impact and effects of the restrictions and limitations on treating patients with opioids. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 33; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-03-26: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Health Subcommittee of Health Committee
HJR 322 — Memorials, Death - Lena Josephine Belesteri Davis -enacted
Latest action 2025-03-26: Signed by Governor.
SB 709 — Education - As introduced, deletes a pilot program, which was established to improve parent-teacher engagement in any grade from kindergarten through grade two in public schools, that expired in 2021. - Amends TCA Title 49.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-03-26: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
SB 911 — Psychologists - As introduced, creates prescribing authority for certain psychologists if certain conditions and prerequisites are met. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-03-26: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Health and Welfare Committee
SB 636 — Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to submit a request to the United States department of education to amend this state's Every Student Succeeds Act plan to remove all end-of-course assessment requirements for students in grades nine through 12 and to allow the ACT, SAT, or another postsecondary readiness assessment approved by the commissioner to be annually administered to students in such grades and for student performance on such assessments to be used for student, school, and district accountability purposes. - Amends TCA Title 49.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-03-26: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
HJR 320 — Memorials, Retirement - Reverend Kenneth Hill -enacted
Latest action 2025-03-26: Signed by Governor.
HB 644 — Nurses, Nursing - As introduced, requires all hospitals licensed by the health facilities commission or by the department of mental health and substance abuse services to report annually to the department of health, on a form promulgated by the department, the number of advanced practice registered nurses who are working in the hospital for each month. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 33; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-03-26: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Health Subcommittee of Health Committee
HB 791 — Employees, Employers - As introduced, enacts the "Workers' Right to Live Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 29 and Title 50.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-03-26: Failed for lack of second in: Banking & Consumer Affairs Subcommittee
HB 420 — Consumer Protection - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Consumer Protection and Subscription Renewal Act," which prohibits a business from requiring submission of credit or debit card information, or other payment information for an automatic renewal offer or continuous service offer containing a free gift or trial; makes other changes related to automatic renewal offers and continuous service offers. - Amends TCA Title 45; Title 47; Title 56 and Title 65.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-03-26: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Banking and Consumer Affairs Subcommittee of Commerce Committee
SB 968 — Energy - As introduced, changes the administrative, reporting, oversight, and accountability of the state energy policy council from the state energy policy council to the department of economic and community development and the department of environment and conservation. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 204.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-03-26: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Energy, Ag., & Nat. Resources Committee
HJR 321 — Memorials, Recognition - Davis House Child Advocacy Center, 25th anniversary -enacted
Latest action 2025-03-26: Signed by Governor.
HB 316 — Consumer Protection - As introduced, reduces, from $100 billion to $50 billion, the amount of assets held by a state or national bank, savings and loan association, savings bank, credit union, industrial loan and thrift, or mortgage lender that are necessary to fall within the definition of a financial institution for purposes of the application of certain consumer protections. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 45; Title 47 and Title 56.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-03-26: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Banking and Consumer Affairs Subcommittee of Commerce Committee
HB 1190 — Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates a Class E felony that is committed when a person exercises control over a motor vehicle knowing that the person does not have the permission of the owner of the motor vehicle; creates a Class A misdemeanor of possessing a firearm that the person knows or reasonably should know has been stolen. - Amends TCA Title 39.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-03-26: Ref. to Judiciary Committee