TN — 114S1 | Bill Commons

9,112 bills

SB 151 — Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires each local board of education and governing body of a public charter school to display the Ten Commandments, the first sentence of the second paragraph of the preamble to the Declaration of Independence, and the preamble to the United States Constitution in a prominent location in each school building. - Amends TCA Title 49.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-01-27: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
SB 183 — Veterans - As introduced, declares certain actions by a person advising, assisting, or consulting on veterans' benefits matters for compensation to be an unfair or deceptive act or practice affecting trade or commerce and to be subject to the penalties and remedies as provided in the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 58, Chapter 3.withdrawn
Latest action 2025-01-23: Recalled from Clerk's Desk
SJR 29 — General Assembly, Recess & Reconvene - Recesses the General Assembly from January 16, 2025, until January 27, 2025. -enacted
Latest action 2025-01-17: Enrolled and ready for signatures
SJR 8 — Memorials, Sports - University of Tennessee baseball team, 2024 NCAA Men's College World Series Champions -enacted
Latest action 2025-01-17: Enrolled and ready for signatures
HB 3 — Courts, Supreme Court of Tennessee - As introduced, requires the expenses of the Tennessee supreme court to include each year an amount sufficient to provide the chief justice with a security detail to transport and accompany the chief justice on all official state business. - Amends TCA Title 16 and Title 17.withdrawn
Latest action 2025-01-16: Withdrawn.
SB 126 — 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 2025-01-16: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State & Local Government Committee
SB 142 — Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires each local school board to establish a school lunch program and a school breakfast program that provide a free breakfast and lunch to each student enrolled in a school under the board's jurisdiction; requires the state to reimburse each LEA for the cost of providing a free breakfast and lunch to each student enrolled in the LEA after all available federal funds have been applied. - Amends TCA Title 49.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-01-16: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
SB 132 — Energy - As introduced, establishes a regulatory framework for solar energy facilities in this state. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7, Chapter 51 and Title 65, Chapter 17.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-01-16: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Energy, Ag., & Natural Resources Committee
SB 140 — Public Officials - As introduced, creates a recall process for members of a municipal legislative body and of a city or county school board. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 49.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-01-16: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State & Local Government Committee
SB 143 — Health Care - As introduced, requires the department of health to provide free diapers for new mothers and working parents of children less than two years old; requires LEAs and public charter schools to provide free feminine hygiene products in all women's and girl's bathrooms and locker rooms used by students in grades four through 12 in certain schools; requires public health campaigns dedicated to both purposes. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 63; Title 67 and Title 68.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-01-16: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
SB 139 — Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires hospitals that accept medicaid to inquire about a person's citizenship status and submit a quarterly report to the department on the number of hospital admissions and emergency department visits by persons lawfully and not lawfully present in the United States; requires the department to submit an annual report to the governor, speaker of the senate, and speaker of the house of representatives regarding the impact of uncompensated care for persons not lawfully present in the United States and other related information. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 68 and Title 71.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-01-16: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Health & Welfare Committee
HB 153 — Mobile Homes and Manufactured Buildings - As introduced, requires the department of transportation to submit a brief written summary to the committee of the house of representatives with jurisdiction over transportation matters and the transportation and safety committee of the senate no later than March 15, 2026, and March 15 of each subsequent year, concerning placards issued to transporters of manufactured homes pursuant to this section, including data on unsafe and erratic driving reported to the department using the telephone number that appears on the placards. - Amends TCA Title 55; Title 62; Title 67 and Title 68.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-01-16: P2C held on desk pending appointment of Standing Committees
SB 135 — Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, allows a student to possess and self-administer rescue seizure medication at school or at a school-related activity or event. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 50, Part 16.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-01-16: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
HB 147 — Tourism - As introduced, requires a tourism development authority to file its annual audit and report with the members of the general assembly who represent the municipality that granted permission to the authority to organize; authorizes the audit and report to be filed electronically. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 67.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-01-16: P2C held on desk pending appointment of Standing Committees
SB 20 — Medical Occupations - As introduced, creates an exemption from the requirement that an applicant for licensure as a professional counselor must have completed a graduate course of study of at least 60 credit hours if the applicant has a valid, unencumbered license as a professional counselor issued by another state, territory, or federal district of the United States and the board for professional counselors, marital and family therapists and clinical pastoral therapists judges as acceptable the licensing requirements of that other state, territory, or federal district. - Amends TCA Title 63.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-01-15: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Health and Welfare Committee
HB 118 — Revenue, Dept. of - As introduced, extends from 2030 to 2031, the time period in which the department is to submit annual reports to the general assembly regarding sales taxes the department collects on all electronic nicotine delivery devices. - Amends TCA Title 67.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-01-15: P2C held on desk, pending appointment of Standing Committees
SB 25 — Children - As introduced, clarifies that a child's parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian may access and review all health and medical records of the child, including those records related to treatments available to unemancipated minors without parental consent; allows an employee of a local education agency to provide bandages, gauze, or ice packs for the treatment of minor cuts, scrapes, bumps, and bruises. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-01-15: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
SB 3 — Abortion - As introduced, clarifies that the term "abortion," as defined for the offense of criminal abortion, does not include the use of contraceptives, including any device, medication, biological product, or procedure that is generally intended for use in the prevention of pregnancy, whether specifically intended to prevent pregnancy or for other health needs, or the disposal of embryos resulting from fertility treatments, including healthcare services, procedures, testing, medications, treatments, or products. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39; Title 63 and Title 68.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-01-15: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
SB 121 — Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires public charter schools to adopt an internet acceptable use policy in the same manner required for LEAs; prohibits LEAs and public charter schools from tracking or monitoring a person's use of a personal electronic device on school property, except for instances in which a student uses such device during a test. - Amends TCA Title 49.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-01-15: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
SB 6 — Immigration - As introduced, requires a law enforcement agency in custody of an individual unlawfully present in the United States to request an immigration detainer and detain such individual for the maximum period as specified in the detainer; requires such agency to transport such individuals not taken into federal custody to a sanctuary city; requires department of revenue to request reimbursement for costs of detention and transportation of illegal aliens and to withhold federal petroleum taxes collected in this state if such reimbursement is not received. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 38; Title 39; Title 55 and Title 67.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-01-15: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
HB 74 — Criminal Offenses - As introduced, establishes mandatory minimum penalties of 48 hours in jail and a $500 fine for a person convicted of knowingly selling or distributing a product containing a hemp-derived cannabinoid to a person who is under 21 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 43, Chapter 27 and Title 49, Chapter 6.withdrawn
Latest action 2025-01-15: P2C held on desk, pending appointment of Standing Committees
SB 5 — Driver Licenses - As introduced, requires the department of safety to redesign driver licenses, instruction permits, intermediate driver licenses, and photo identification cards issued to lawful permanent residents of the United States, and temporary driver licenses and permits and temporary photo identification licenses issued to qualified noncitizens, so that the licenses and permits may be easily distinguished from driver and photo identification licenses issued to residents of this state who are United States citizens. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-01-15: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Transportation and Safety Committee
SB 12 — Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, changes the reimbursement amount for property tax relief for disabled veteran homeowners; increases the reimbursement amount from payment on the first $175,000 of the full market value of the home to payment on the first $200,000 of the full market value. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-01-15: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
HJR 6 — Memorials, Retirement - Ralph Schulz -withdrawn
Latest action 2025-01-15: Objected to on Consent Calendar.
SB 29 — Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for civil rights intimidation from a Class D felony to a Class C felony if the victim of the offense was a minor or was selected by the defendant based on the victim’s status as a minister, preacher, pastor, priest, rabbi, or other spiritual leader of a religious belief who has been ordained or otherwise designated in conformity with the customs of a church, temple, or other religious group or organization. - Amends TCA Title 39.died on adjournment
Latest action 2025-01-15: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee