TN — 114S1 | Bill Commons

9,112 bills

SB 813 — Criminal Offenses - As introduced, reduces from a Class C felony to a Class B misdemeanor the offense of criminal exposure of another to HIV; creates a Class C felony for the criminal exposure of another to HIV if a person transmitted HIV to another person. - Amends TCA Title 39.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
SB 716 — Health Care - As introduced, extends from January 15 to March 1, the date by which the commissioner of health, in consultation with the department of finance and administration and any other state agency involved in the administration of the safety net program, must annually report to the general assembly on data relating to access to care and safety net adequacy related issues. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 63; 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 1107 — Attorneys at Law - As introduced, specifies that an attorney who, while acting in the capacity of counsel for a client or an identifiable prospective client, engages in conduct that constitutes the offense of perjury, aggravated perjury, subornation of perjury, tampering with or fabricating evidence, destruction or tampering with governmental records, or coercion or persuasion of a witness is not immune from prosecution. - Amends TCA Title 23, Chapter 3; Title 27 and Title 39.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
SB 567 — Election Laws - As introduced, makes certain election documents available for public inspection after an election. - 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 838 — State Government - As introduced, requires the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) to conduct a study and propose several steps to protect Tennessee's financial security and soundness and ensure state sovereignty and resiliency. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 12; Title 45 and Title 47.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB 1212 — Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, enacts the "Speak UP, Tennessee Scholarship Act"; requires the Tennessee student assistance corporation to establish by rules a program that provides scholarships for students in grade 12 and at public institutions of higher education in this state who demonstrate artistic excellence in spoken word poetry through a competitive, performance-based selection process to pursue higher education to further develop their literary and performance skills. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4 and Title 49, Chapter 7.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
SB 463 — Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, enacts the "Freedom to Grow Our Tennessee Families Act." - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 71.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
HB 1363 — Sentencing - As introduced, permits a person who is serving a sentence of incarceration of eight years or more for an offense committed prior to January 1, 2026, and who is a victim of domestic abuse subjected to substantial physical, sexual, or psychological abuse inflicted by a member of the same family or household as the person to submit to the sentencing court, a request to apply for resentencing. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: P2C, ref. to Judiciary Committee
HB 1331 — Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) - As introduced, authorizes the suspension of certain requirements for purposes of obtaining unemployment benefits during emergencies; authorizes the agency to assist local governments and local emergency management agencies with recovery from disasters and emergencies on public property. - Amends TCA Section 50-7-302 and Section 58-2-106.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: P2C, ref. to State & Local Government Committee - Government Operations for Review
SB 986 — Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, requires half the revenue collected from recordation taxes be returned to the county in which the real property is located on a recurring basis; applies to transfers of real property on or after July 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-409.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB 828 — Health Care - As introduced, requires a person who collects blood donations for the purpose of providing blood for blood transfusions to require a blood donor to disclose if the donor has received a COVID-19 vaccination; permits a person in need of a blood transfusion in a nonemergent situation to request blood based on the blood donor's COVID-19 vaccination status. - Amends TCA Title 68.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Health and Welfare Committee
SB 594 — Criminal Procedure - As introduced, restores the right of suffrage for persons convicted of an infamous crime after expiration of the sentence imposed for the infamous crime; removes requirement that the person pay restitution and court costs and be current in all child support obligations before having the person's right of suffrage restored; permits a person to have the right of suffrage restored without having the person's full rights of citizenship restored. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 40.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
HB 1152 — Schools, Home - As introduced, eliminates various requirements for parents conducting a home school if the parent provides a normed curriculum to their child at home; prohibits this state from regulating, overseeing, or otherwise imposing requirements on a home school parent or student unless the home school parent or student is participating in a state program or applies for and receives state funds. - Amends TCA Title 49.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: P2C, ref. to Education Committee
SB 315 — Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "Workers Need Child Care Act"; establishes the child care infrastructure fund from which the department disperses grants to nonprofit entities for establishing new licensed child care agencies in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 37 and Title 71.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Health and Welfare Committee
SJR 86 — Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article VI, Section 14, of the Tennessee Constitution to authorize municipalities to impose a civil penalty for a violation of a municipal ordinance not to exceed an amount prescribed by the general assembly. -died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
SB 972 — Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires an LEA or public charter school to install, maintain, and use, subject to parental request and approval, a video camera surveillance system in each special education classroom operated by the LEA or public charter school to continuously monitor students, teachers, and staff in special education classrooms while special education or related services are being provided to students. - Amends TCA Title 49.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
SB 570 — Education, Higher - As introduced, deletes an obsolete requirement for the University of Memphis and certain other collaborators on the Memphis Research Consortium to provide a progress report to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 11; Title 12; Title 49; Title 58; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
SB 1220 — 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 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
HB 1260 — Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, requires the department of finance and administration, in collaboration with the department of health and the bureau of TennCare, to apply for federal approval to import prescription drugs from Canada. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 33; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: P2C, ref. to Health Committee- Government Operations for Review
SB 383 — Courts - As introduced, specifies that certain actions for declaratory judgments or injunctive relief regarding the legality or constitutionality of a governmental action must be brought in state court and that the privileges and immunities afforded to this state, state entities, and state officials under state or federal law are not waived for purposes of such actions. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3 and Title 27, Chapter 1.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
SB 1322 — Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) - As introduced, requires TEMA to annually submit by February 1 of each year, a report to the governor, speaker of the senate, and speaker of the house of representatives detailing recovery efforts engaged in by the agency during the prior calendar year and recommendations on how to improve the efficiency of future recovery efforts. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 2; Title 50, Chapter 7, Part 3; Title 58, Chapter 8; Title 58, Chapter 2 and Title 67, Chapter 5.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB 446 — Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, requires TACIR to study overall road safety and submit its recommendations to the chair of the committee in the house of representatives with jurisdiction over transportation matters, the chair of the transportation and safety committee of the senate, and the legislative librarian on or before January 15, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 54 and Title 55.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Transportation and Safety Committee
SB 1361 — Economic and Community Development - As introduced, extends, from December 1 to January 1, the date by which the office of business enterprise in the department of economic and community development must submit to the general assembly its annual report on advisements to the commissioner regarding disadvantaged businesses and the number of or amount of community block grants received by disadvantaged businesses. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 67.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB 1067 — Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires each local education agency (LEA) to publish the character education curriculum on the LEA's website. - Amends TCA Title 49.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
SB 1370 — State Government - As introduced, increases membership of the information systems council by adding a state employee with experience in the field of cybersecurity, to be appointed by the governor. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee