Tennessee Bills

sponsored by Janice Bowling

Bill Title Introduced Latest Action↓
SB 2970 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Petersburg - Subject to local approval, adds duties and authorities of the chief of police and police officers of the town; restates that only a certified public accountant must be chosen by the board of mayor and aldermen to conduct an audit of the financial affairs of the town, removing the option of having the audit conducted by a public accountant. - Amends Chapter 272 of the Acts of 1901; as amended and rewritten.
Feb 23 2024 Comp. Became Pr. Ch. 40
Apr 03 2024
SB 2783 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Search & Seizure - As introduced, limits the situations in which a wildlife officer may enter private property without the owner's consent to those in which the officer has a warrant, there are exigent circumstances, the officer observed a crime taking place, or another protected class of action that permits an officer's entry onto private property without a warrant occurs. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 9 and Title 70.
Jan 31 2024 Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Judiciary Committee
Apr 02 2024
SB 2785 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Appeal and Review - As introduced, clarifies when a person, who has been sentenced to the punishment of death and the jury has determined that the sentence must be expedited, has concluded any appeal and exhausted all available methods of post-conviction relief; requires a person sentenced to the punishment of death to file any post-conviction appeal within 180 days of the original sentence and any unsuccessful direct appeal; requires the attorney general and reporter to notify the defendant and the defendant's attorney when two or more appeals may be filed simultaneously. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Chapter 375 of the Public Acts of 2023.
Jan 31 2024 Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Judiciary Committee
Apr 01 2024
SB 2786 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Election Laws - As introduced, requires county election commissions to include on the ballot for the November 2024 election a non-binding question related to the legalization of the sale, possession, and use of medical marijuana; requires the secretary of state to compile the results of the public policy opinion poll and forward the results to the members of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 2.
Jan 31 2024 Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate State And Local Government Committee
Mar 27 2024
SB 2781 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Criminal Offenses - As introduced, expands the offense of observation without consent to include a person or entity that adopts rules or enforces a policy or other work-related guidance for employees or contractors to promote or assist in the commission of observation without consent in a place where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy, including a restroom, locker room, dressing room, or shower, designated for multi-person, single-sex use; creates a civil action for invasion of privacy based on a violation of observation without consent. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-607.
Jan 31 2024 Deferred To Summer Study
Mar 27 2024
SB 2776 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Search & Seizure - As introduced, requires, subject to judicially recognized exceptions, all POST-certified officers to obtain a search warrant before entering private property that identifies the person or property that is the subject of the search. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.
Jan 31 2024 Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Judiciary Committee
Mar 26 2024
SJR 1101 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Memorials, Recognition - VIAM Manufacturing, Inc., 25th anniversary -
Mar 05 2024 Signed By Governor.
Mar 25 2024
SJR 1100 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Memorials, Death - George W. "Bill" Corley, Jr. -
Mar 05 2024 Signed By Governor.
Mar 25 2024
SB 1110 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Marriage - As introduced, enacts the "Marital Contract at Common Law Recording Act"; authorizes county clerks to accept and record a record of common law marriage between one man and one woman; limits the jurisdiction of circuit courts and chancery courts in cases involving the definition of common law marriage to the principles of common law marriage. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 10; Title 16; Title 36; Title 39; Title 67 and Title 68.
Jan 31 2023 Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Judiciary Committee
Mar 20 2024
SB 2772 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Dekalb County - Subject to local approval, authorizes the road supervisor rather than the county mayor to sign checks drawn on the county trustee for expenses associated with road work within the county. - Amends Chapter 511 of the Private Acts of 1945, as amended.
Jan 31 2024 Comp. Became Pr. Ch. 36
Mar 19 2024
SB 2777 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Child Abuse - As introduced, excludes a positive prenatal or newborn drug screening test result of cannabinoids from the definition of abuse of a child; excludes the exposure to cannabinoids that occurred in utero from the definition of severe child abuse. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39, Chapter 13.
Jan 31 2024 Failed In Senate Judiciary Committee
Mar 19 2024
SB 2980 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Tullahoma - Subject to local approval, clarifies that the election for the Board of Education aligns with the November general election; extends board members' terms from August, until a successor is elected and qualified; establishes a four-year term for board members; extends the terms of the three school board members elected on the first Thursday in August 2020 from the first Thursday in August 2024 to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November 2024, or until their successors are elected and qualified; extends the terms of the two school board members elected on the first Tuesday in August 2021 from the first Thursday in August 2025 to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November 2026, or until their successors are elected and qualified; extends the terms of the two school board members elected on the first Thursday in August 2022 from the first Thursday in August 2026 to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November 2026, or until their successors are elected and qualified. - Amends Chapter 553 of the Acts of 1903; as amended.
Mar 12 2024 Passed On Second Consideration, Held On Desk. Local Bill
Mar 18 2024
SB 2775 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
General Assembly - As introduced, enacts the "Restoring State Sovereignty Through Nullification Act," which establishes processes by which the general assembly may nullify an unconstitutional federal statute, regulation, agency order, or executive order. - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 4.
Jan 31 2024 Deferred To Summer Study
Mar 12 2024
SB 2784 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Game and Fish Laws - As introduced, requires payment of restitution to landowners by persons who commit hunting-related offenses on property where they do not have a legal right to be present; bases restitution amount on the type of animals involved in the offense; requires restitution to be fully paid before other penalties due to the state are paid. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 70.
Jan 31 2024 Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Energy, Ag., And Nat. Resources Committee
Mar 06 2024
SB 1105 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Professions and Occupations - As introduced, repeals the Soil Scientist Licensure Act of 2009. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 18, Part 2 and Section 62-36-114.
Jan 31 2023 Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Energy, Ag., And Nat. Resources Committee
Feb 21 2024
SB 1122 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Taxes - As introduced, eliminates the professional privilege tax for attorneys. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.
Jan 31 2023 Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate F,W&M Revenue Subcommittee
Feb 20 2024
SB 2768 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Sentencing - As introduced, reduces the percentage of sentence that a person convicted of first degree murder on or after July 1, 1995, and sentenced to life imprisonment is required to serve before becoming eligible for release from 100 percent of 60 years less sentence credits earned and retained to 60 percent of 60 years less sentence credits earned and retained; prohibits a defendant becoming eligible for parole before serving 25 years of the sentence, if the defendant was 25 years of age or younger at the time of the offense, or 30 years of the sentence, if the defendant was 26 years of age or older at the time of the offense. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 2 and Title 40.
Jan 31 2024 Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate Judiciary Committee
Feb 05 2024
SB 2780 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to create a separate marriage license application form and marriage license form that may be used by applicants if the bride is a female and the groom is a male; prohibits a county clerk from certifying and recording this marriage license form if the form was used to solemnize a marriage between persons other than a female bride and a male groom. - Amends TCA Title 18, Chapter 6; Title 36, Chapter 3 and Title 68, Chapter 3.
Jan 31 2024 Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate Judiciary Committee
Feb 05 2024
SJR 7101 (113th First Extraordinary Session (August 2023))
General Assembly, Adjournment - Adjourns sine die First Extraordinary Session of 113th General Assembly on August 22, 2023. -
Aug 22 2023 Held On Desk.
Aug 28 2023
SB 1111 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Public Health - As enacted, enacts the "Mature Minor Doctrine Clarification Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 14; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.
Jan 31 2023 Pub. Ch. 477
May 24 2023

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