TN — 114S1 | Bill Commons

9,112 bills

HB 1223 — Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) to conduct an evaluation examining the frequency at which health insurers deny healthcare claims or reimbursements for policyholders and healthcare providers and an evaluation of related data for the past five calendar years; requires TACIR to report its findings to the appropriate standing committees of the general assembly by January 15, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 10 and Title 56.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: P2C, ref. to Insurance Committee
SB 786 — Psychologists - As introduced, requires that test materials and test data from psychological or neuropsychological testing be kept secure to avoid compromising the validity of the testing; makes other changes related to security of psychological or neuropsychological test materials and test data. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 11.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Health and Welfare Committee
SB 1207 — Lobbying, Lobbyists - As introduced, requires each lobbyist to include and maintain in the lobbyist's registration statement filed with the Tennessee ethics commission the identification of each bill and legislative measure for which the lobbyist is receiving compensation to oppose or support. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 6.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB 971 — Jails, Local Lock-ups - As introduced, exempts a prisoner of a county workhouse or jail who is released from custody on work release from wearing an electronic monitoring device if the prisoner was convicted of a non-violent crime and the sheriff has determined that the prisoner poses a low risk to the public and for escape. - Amends TCA Title 41, Chapter 2.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB 630 — Election Laws - As introduced, requires a candidate's name on a nominating petition to match the candidate's name as it appears on the candidate's voter registration record; prohibits the use of nicknames, abbreviations, and variations in spelling of candidates' names on ballots. - 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 388 — Bail, Bail Bonds - As introduced, requires a court or magistrate to impose global positioning monitoring as a condition of release for a defendant accused of certain offenses, unless the court or magistrate enters written findings that the defendant does not pose a threat to the victim or public safety; requires the administrative office of the courts to compile an annual report of the number of defendants subject to such an order. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 55; Chapter 969 of the Public Acts of 2024 and Chapter 1033 of the Public Acts of 2024.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
SB 1121 — Schools, Charter - As introduced, deletes antiquated language regarding the state board of education being an authorizer for public charter schools which expired at 11:59 p.m. on June 30, 2021. - Amends Chapter __ of the Public Acts of 2025 (1st Ex. Sess. – SB 6001 / HB 6004); and TCA Title 8 and Title 49.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
SB 316 — TennCare - As introduced, removes the requirement that the governor receive authorization by the general assembly prior to making any decision or obligating the state with regard to the expansion of optional enrollment in the medical assistance program. - Amends TCA Title 71.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Health and Welfare Committee
SB 611 — Education - As introduced, designates October as "Fentanyl Poisoning Awareness Month" in all public schools; requires local education agencies and public charter schools to provide age-appropriate, research-based instruction related to fentanyl abuse prevention and drug poisoning awareness to students in grades six through 12. - Amends TCA Title 15 and Title 49.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
SB 431 — Assessors - As introduced, requires assessors of property to correct an assessment of property for any real property destroyed, demolished, or substantially damaged by disaster between September 1 and December 31 of any year by prorating the assessment for that portion of the year and applying it to the subsequent tax year. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 6.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB 1157 — Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, allows a retirement allowance increase equal to the percentage increase in the consumer price index if there is an over-collection of state tax revenue; requires this allowance increase to be used instead of the allowance increase in present law, which cannot exceed 3 percent. - Amends TCA Section 8-36-701.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB 122 — 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.withdrawn
Latest action 2025-02-12: Withdrawn.
SB 338 — State Symbols - As introduced, designates "Tennessee" by Arrested Development as an official state song. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB 1124 — Consumer Protection - As introduced, requires a company offering to sell or install a solar energy system to provide written proof that the utility serving the area where the system is to be installed has a net metering program or otherwise offers net metering credits to an owner or user of a system before the company enters into an agreement to sell or install the system; designates a violation as an unfair or deceptive act or practice pursuant to the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 13; Title 47; Title 65 and Title 66.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
HB 1294 — Correction, Dept. of - As introduced, prohibits the department from denying the dissemination or availability of books and materials donated by book vendors to state inmates, with certain exceptions for depictions of nudity and sexually explicit material. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 40 and Title 41.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: P2C, ref. to State & Local Government Committee
SB 309 — Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As introduced, changes from March 1 to February 15 the date by which the executive director of the commission must file an annual report concerning rules promulgated during the prior year with the appropriate standing committees of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 57.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
HB 1145 — Business Organizations - As introduced, changes, from January 1 to January 15, the beginning of the time frame during which a domestic professional corporation or foreign professional corporation authorized to transact business in this state must deliver for filing to each licensing authority having jurisdiction over a professional service described in the corporation's charter an annual statement of qualification. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 47; Title 48; Title 62 and Title 63.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
SB 998 — Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, increases, from 30 to 35 days, the time that an insurance company has to remove a person as an officer or director of the company after receipt of an order from the commissioner of commerce and insurance to do so. - 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 663 — Consumer Protection - As introduced, authorizes a consumer to designate an authorized agent who may opt the consumer out of the processing of the consumer’s personal data; requires a controller to comply with an opt-out request from an authorized agent if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB 345 — Abortion - As introduced, specifies that the offense of criminal abortion does not include an abortion that was necessary due to a medical emergency affecting the physical or mental health of the pregnant person or performed on a patient whose pregnancy was the result of rape or incest. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15; Title 63 and Title 68.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
SB 597 — Health Care - As introduced, requires, by January 15 of each year, the commissioner of health to annually report to legislative committees on the progress of its statewide strategy for the provision of adult emergency oral health care, utilizing public and private sector resources. - Amends TCA Title 68.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-12: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Health and Welfare Committee
HB 986 — Real Property - As introduced, abolishes various estates and reversion interests in land. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 1.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-11: Assigned to s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee
HB 1068 — Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, creates in the department of human services a community grant advisory board for the purpose of administering the community-based organizations grant program to financially support eligible nonprofit organizations that serve communities in the areas of education, public health, housing, social issues, and economic and workforce development. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 67 and Title 71.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-11: Assigned to s/c Health Subcommittee
HB 966 — Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, creates two special accounts in the state treasury, the K-12 lottery capital outlay special account and the early learning program account, for excess lottery funds; requires the comptroller of the treasury to develop and administer a program to provide grants from such accounts to local education agencies to be used for capital outlay projects for K-12 educational facilities and for new or existing pre-K programs. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 51; Title 8, Chapter 4; Title 9 and Title 49.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-11: Assigned to s/c K-12 Subcommittee
HB 1033 — Civil Procedure - As introduced, creates an affirmative defense that may be utilized by a covered entity that is the subject of a data breach, if the covered entity’s cybersecurity program meets certain criteria at the time the breach occurs. - Amends TCA Title 20; Title 29 and Title 47, Chapter 18.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-02-11: Assigned to s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee