TN — 114S1 | Bill Commons

9,112 bills

SB 352 — Public Officials - As introduced, requires the chief executive officer of a state agency or department to ensure that its policies, practices, and procedures relating to the recruitment, hiring, advancement, and retention of qualified individuals with disabilities are posted on the respective agency or department website. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12; Title 13; Title 14; Title 41; Title 52; Title 58; Title 66 and Title 67.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB 692 — Public Health - As introduced, requires the attorney general to report to the speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives certain information regarding violations of the prohibition against using medical procedures to enable a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor's sex or to treat purported discomfort or distress from discordance between the minor's sex and asserted identity. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 14; Title 28; Title 29; Title 33; Title 34; Title 36; Title 37; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 50; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
SB 800 — Tort Liability and Reform - As introduced, increases the amount of medical, hospital, or doctor bills that are presumed in a civil action to have been necessary and reasonable if the bills are itemized in the complaint or civil warrant with an attached copy of the bills attached as an exhibit to the complaint or civil warrant, from a total of $4,000 to a total of $25,000. - Amends TCA Title 20, Chapter 1; Title 24, Chapter 5; Title 55, Chapter 12 and Title 56, Chapter 7.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
SB 969 — Game and Fish Laws - As introduced, extends from January 1 to 15, the deadline by which the wildlife resources agency must submit to legislative committees with subject matter jurisdiction over natural resources a written report containing the estimated acreage managed by the agency that has been closed to recreational hunting and fishing during the previous fiscal year and the reasons for the closures; the estimated acreage managed by the agency that was opened to recreational hunting and fishing to compensate for the acreage that was so closed; and the estimated acreage of new public hunting and fishing lands added. - Amends TCA Title 70.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Energy, Ag., and Nat. Resources Committee
SB 355 — State Government - As introduced, requires the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations to file its biennial report of its recommendations and findings with respect to intergovernmental relations with the governor. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 41; Title 52; Title 57 and Title 58.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
HB 1347 — Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, adds legislative librarian to the list the department of mental health and substance abuse services must submit its quarterly report to on the implementation and impact of available suitable accommodations, including the number and length of any delayed admissions, in state-owned or -operated hospitals or treatment resources. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 16; Title 17; Title 18; Title 20; Title 21; Title 24; Title 29; Title 30; Title 32; Title 33; Title 34; Title 36; Title 37; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
SB 356 — State Employees - As introduced, requires each appointing authority of a state department or agency to electronically report to the commissioner of human resources the job performance evaluations for the employees in the appointing authority's department or state agency. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 50.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB 1345 — Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As introduced, restricts the prohibition on holding an interest in or being employed by a distillery, wholesale dealer, or retail dealer, or holding an alcoholic beverage license in this state, only to family members of voting members of the commission. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 1.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB 516 — Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to annually report by December 1 of each year to legislative committees with jurisdiction over the subject matter pertaining to health concerning the effectiveness of the drug testing program for TANF applicants. - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 68 and Title 71.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Health and Welfare Committee
SB 984 — Real Property - As introduced, enacts the "Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act." - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 30; Title 31; Title 32; Title 35; Title 55; Title 66 and Title 67.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
SB 1262 — Consumer Protection - As introduced, prohibits sending by mail a fake check or an image of a fake check, for the purpose of advertising. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
HB 1185 — Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, requires the annual written report submitted to legislative committees with subject matter jurisdiction over criminal matters regarding activities of narcotics investigations by the bureau and the assistant director of the narcotics investigation division be submitted by March 1 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 27; Title 29; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 53, Chapter 11 and Title 55.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
HB 1333 — Safety, Dept. of - As introduced, requires, by February 1 of each year, the department to submit a report to the governor, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives that provides the number of individuals for whom a court enhanced their statutory penalty because either the conviction is for the commission of a violent crime and the defendant was an illegal alien or the conviction involved the use or display of a deadly weapon and the defendant was an illegal alien. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 55.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
SB 1109 — Children - As introduced, deletes obsolete language regarding initial reports submitted by zero to three court programs and safe baby courts to the department of children's services, the department of mental health and substance abuse services, the administrative office of the courts, and the council of juvenile and family court judges. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
SB 1320 — Education - As introduced, removes an obsolete provision requiring a report be provided by July 1, 2024, from the department of education, after working in partnership with the state board and the Tennessee higher education commission, to legislative committees regarding implementation of legislation concerning student literacy. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 49; Title 8 and Title 49.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
SB 1250 — TennCare - As introduced, increases from 60 to 75 days the period after the close of each fiscal year within which the department of finance and administration must submit a report to the governor and members of the general assembly that includes an account of the operations and expenditures of all funds under the Medical Assistance Act of 1968, statistics by county about all medical assistance within the state, rules promulgated to carry out the Act, and other information the department deems advisable. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 71.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB 1046 — Civil Procedure - As introduced, specifies that an unauthorized alien does not have standing to commence or appear as a plaintiff in any civil action in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 16; Title 20; Title 28 and Title 29.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
SB 1066 — Education, State Board of - As introduced, requires the state board to publish the curriculum implemented for the statewide drug abuse resistance education (DARE) program on the state board's website. - Amends TCA Title 49.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
SB 313 — Local Education Agencies - As introduced, excludes materials obtained by an individual teacher that are made available in the teacher's classroom to students assigned to the teacher's class from having to be identified in a list of library collection materials posted on the school's website; requires each local board of education and public charter school governing body to adopt a policy for developing and reviewing classroom libraries. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
SB 423 — Employees, Employers - As introduced, increases, from two to three, the number of conspicuous places in which an employer is required to post and maintain notices setting forth the regular pay day established by the employer. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 39; Title 49; Title 50 and Title 62.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB 347 — Election Laws - As introduced, revises the definition of "signature" for purposes of certain election-related documents, including absentee ballot and voter registration forms, and petitions for nomination, referendum, or another purpose; revises requirements for signing such petitions. - Amends TCA Title 2.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB 922 — Health, Dept. of - As introduced, directs the commissioner to conduct a study on creating new or streamlining existing pathways to careers as primary care providers in this state for individuals who have medical training as noncommissioned officers in the armed forces of the United States; requires the commissioner to conduct the study using existing department resources; requires the commissioner to deliver findings and recommendations from the study to the chief clerk of the senate, chief clerk of the house of representatives, and the legislative librarian no later than December 31, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Health and Welfare Committee
SB 369 — Purchasing and Procurement - As introduced, requires local governments to obtain, when possible, three written quotations for purchases costing less than the threshold established pursuant to law but more than 40 percent of such threshold, or some lower amount as may be established by the governing body of the local government. - Amends TCA Section 5-14-204; Section 5-14-205 and Section 6-56-305.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
HB 1124 — Education - As introduced, requires LEAs to screen all students for dyslexia and use the Orton-Gillingham method to teach students who exhibit characteristics of dyslexia; adds training in the Orton-Gillingham method to in-service training subjects for educators. - Amends TCA Title 49.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Sponsor(s) Added.
SB 511 — Insurance, Liability - As introduced, requires the board of claims to review, consider, and approve insurance policies recommended by the board that are designed to pay liability claims against the state or its agencies and employees; defines "state agency" for purposes of such policies. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 9 and Title 56.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee