SB 468
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Medical Occupations - As enacted, removes certain limitations placed on a person trying to meet the educational requirement for licensure as a polysomnographic technologist by presenting proof of successful completion of an accredited sleep technologist educational program (A-STEP) that is accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. - Amends TCA Title 63.
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Jan 25 2023 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 736
May 01 2024
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SB 1822
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
State Symbols - As enacted, designates as official state books: "Farewell Address to the American People" by George Washington; "The Papers of Andrew Jackson"; "Democracy in America" by Alexis de Tocqueville; "All the King's Men" by Robert Penn Warren; "A Death in the Family" by James Agee; "Roots" by Alex Haley; "The Civil War: A Narrative" by Shelby Foote; "American Lion" by Jon Meacham; "Coat of Many Colors" by Dolly Parton; and "Aitken Bible"; requires the secretary of state to list the books in the Tennessee Blue Book. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.
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Jan 23 2024 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 720
Apr 22 2024
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SB 472
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Driver Licenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for driving upon a highway without a valid driver license for the vehicle being driven from a Class C misdemeanor to a Class B misdemeanor for a first offense and a Class A misdemeanor for a second or subsequent offense committed within 10 years of a prior offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55.
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Jan 25 2023 |
Placed On Senate Finance, Ways, And Means Committee Calendar For 4/23/2024
Apr 19 2024
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SB 2978
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Gates - Subject to local approval, removes authority of the board of mayor and aldermen to elect a town marshal or marshals; removes authority of a member of the board to serve as city recorder; repeals residency requirement for a person to be elected as city recorder. - Amends Chapter 286 of the Private Acts of 1943; as amended.
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Mar 12 2024 |
Pr. Ch. 46
Apr 17 2024
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SB 1738
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Adoption - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Foster and Adoptive Parent Protection Act," which generally prohibits the department of children's services from requiring a current or prospective adoptive or foster parent to affirm, accept, or support any government policy regarding sexual orientation or gender identity that conflicts with the parent's sincerely held religious or moral beliefs; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 37.
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Jan 10 2024 |
Pub. Ch. 677
Apr 17 2024
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SB 2041
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Obscenity and Pornography - As introduced, specifies that a person or entity that produces, sells, sends, or distributes obscene matter in violation of state law may be held civilly liable for damages to an injured party. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 9.
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Jan 25 2024 |
Sponsor(S) Added.
Apr 11 2024
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SB 1699
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Orders of Protection - As enacted, expands the eligibility for filing a petition to obtain a lifetime order of protection to include victims of aggravated stalking, especially aggravated stalking, and felony harassment. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39.
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Jan 09 2024 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 632
Apr 08 2024
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SB 2040
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, adds using, altering, encrypting, ransoming, destroying, or otherwise rendering unavailable without authorization, electronic data, electronic devices, or network providers of critical infrastructure or of a farm to the offense of committing critical infrastructure vandalism. - Amends TCA Title 39.
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Jan 25 2024 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 627
Apr 03 2024
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SB 2039
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Conservation - As enacted, requires that appointees to the fish and wildlife commission participate in activities regulated by the commission; requires the commission and wildlife resource agency to encourage hunting, angling, and trapping as preferred methods of wildlife management and conservation within this state; clarifies the fish and wildlife commission's authority over the taking of game and fish. - Amends TCA Title 70.
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Jan 25 2024 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 626
Apr 03 2024
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SB 1545
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, establishes a program under which a state employee may receive up to six weeks of paid leave if the employee becomes a foster parent of a minor child. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 8; Title 16 and Title 50.
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Mar 06 2023 |
Subst. For Comp. Hb.
Apr 01 2024
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SB 1909
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Cemeteries - As introduced, creates a process by which a grave space will be considered abandoned and revert to the cemetery company that owns or controls the cemetery land or property on which the grave space is located if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 26; Title 35; Title 46 and Title 62, Chapter 5.
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Jan 23 2024 |
Sponsor(S) Added.
Mar 28 2024
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SB 2227
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Guardians and Conservators - As enacted, allows the clerk of court to waive an in-person oath by a fiduciary if the fiduciary files with the clerk a written fiduciary oath that contains certain language and is sworn or affirmed by the fiduciary in the presence of a notary public or signed and dated under penalty of perjury; specifies certain language that a fiduciary oath must contain under various circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 34, Chapter 1.
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Jan 30 2024 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 582
Mar 26 2024
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SB 2479
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Criminal Offenses - As introduced, requires each district attorney general to file a quarterly report with the administrative office of the courts that includes information regarding criminal proceedings within the judicial district; requires the administrative office of the courts to compile the reports into a quarterly criminal justice report; requires each law enforcement agency to file a quarterly report with the Tennessee bureau of investigation regarding law enforcement outcomes within the jurisdiction; requires the Tennessee bureau of investigation to compile the reports into a quarterly law enforcement activity report. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.
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Jan 30 2024 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Judiciary Committee
Mar 26 2024
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SB 1736
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, authorizes licensed chiropractic physicians to issue certified statements of disability in the same manner as physicians for a person's application for a disabled registration plate, decal, or placard. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 21.
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Jan 10 2024 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 519
Mar 19 2024
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SB 2798
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Open Meetings - As introduced, creates more specific notice requirements for governmental bodies holding public meetings to be used in addition to and not in lieu of other notices required by law. - Amends TCA Section 8-44-103.
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Feb 01 2024 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate State And Local Government Committee
Mar 19 2024
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SB 1744
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Comptroller, State - As enacted, modifies the course work required to receive a certified municipal finance officer (CMFO) designation; requires examinations, including test questions, administered by MTAS and CTAS to be designated as a municipal or county finance officer, respectively, to be confidential. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 56, Part 4 and Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5.
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Jan 10 2024 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 539
Mar 19 2024
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SB 2228
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Guardians and Conservators - As enacted, establishes a process for the transfer of a guardianship or conservatorship matter from the court appointing the guardian or conservator to a court in another county of this state. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 21, Part 4 and Title 34, Chapter 8.
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Jan 30 2024 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 542
Mar 19 2024
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SB 1940
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Adoption - As introduced, creates the state foster care and adoption review board. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 36.
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Jan 24 2024 |
Recalled From Senate Government Operations Committee
Mar 13 2024
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SB 2480
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Health Care - As introduced, prohibits an ambulance service that has exclusive rights to provide emergency services within a county, municipality, or geographic area from charging rates that are unreasonable, excessive, or based on rates charged by entities that classify individuals as in-network or out-of-network for services provided for calls received by an emergency dispatch center operated by such county, municipality, or geographical area that has given the exclusive rights to the ambulance service. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 7; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
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Jan 30 2024 |
Recalled From Senate Commerce & Labor Committee
Mar 13 2024
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SB 2042
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Consumer Protection - As introduced, requires a commercial entity that knowingly publishes or distributes on the internet material harmful to minors to provide internet or cellular service subscribers the opportunity to request that the commercial entity block website access through the subscriber's internet or cellular service subscription. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6 and Title 47, Chapter 18.
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Jan 25 2024 |
Failed In Senate Commerce And Labor Committee / No Motion
Mar 12 2024
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