SB 1186
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Children - As introduced, authorizes a juvenile court to order a child who is accused of being delinquent or unruly and released prior to a hearing to wear a global positioning monitoring system device; if the court issues such an order, requires the entity operating the global positioning monitoring system to notify the probation officer or other entity ordered to take charge of the child if the child violates the instructions issued by the court upon release; requires students who are expelled for committing a zero tolerance offense for threatening mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity to undergo counseling and a mental health evaluation before returning to school. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39; Title 40, Chapter 11 and Title 49.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Judiciary Committee
Apr 08 2025
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SB 662
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Mental Illness - As introduced, establishes a rebuttable presumption that a person poses an imminent substantial likelihood of serious harm and needs emergency detention and examination if the person was charged with one of certain criminal offenses and ordered by the criminal, circuit, or general sessions court to undergo an evaluation to determine whether the person is incompetent to stand trial or the person's mental capacity at the time of the commission of the crime; requires clear and convincing evidence to rebut the presumption. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 40 and Title 52.
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Jan 31 2025 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Judiciary Committee
Apr 08 2025
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SB 1184
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Domestic Violence - As introduced, requires a person who is convicted of domestic assault or subject to an order of protection to dispossess any firearm in the person's possession by transferring the firearm to a law enforcement agency and to provide the court with an affidavit of dispossession of firearms and a receipt from the law enforcement agency. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 39 and Title 40.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Judiciary Committee
Apr 08 2025
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SB 1187
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Bail, Bail Bonds - As introduced, makes various changes to criminal law, including requiring defendants accused of certain offenses to be subject to a global positioning monitoring system as condition of bail. - Amends TCA Title 10; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Chapter 969 of the Public Acts of 2024 and Chapter 1033 of the Public Acts of 2024.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Judiciary Committee
Apr 02 2025
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SB 337
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Taxes, Sales - As introduced, authorizes certain counties to levy a local option sales tax at the rate of 3.75 percent, instead of a maximum of 2.75 percent, if the revenue from the increase in such tax is used by the county exclusively for the construction of a new county jail or to retire debt, including principal and interest and related expenses, on such construction. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 7.
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Jan 27 2025 |
Recommended For Passage, Refer To Senate Finance, Ways, And Means Committee
Apr 02 2025
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SB 1422
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires law enforcement agencies to investigate for the presence of workplace bullying concurrent with investigations of crimes of violence in the workplace; requires law enforcement agencies to report findings to the TBI; requires the TBI to annually submit a report to legislative committees concerning workplace bullying and violence. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 50.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Failed In Senate Judiciary Committee
Apr 01 2025
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SB 1349
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Expunction - As introduced, requires a clerk of a court with criminal jurisdiction to automatically remove and destroy all public records of a conviction for a Class E felony or misdemeanor that is eligible for expunction, one year after the person has completed any sentence imposed by the court. - Amends TCA Title 10; Title 18 and Title 40.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Judiciary Committee
Mar 31 2025
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SB 1348
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, deletes the exception to the criminal offense of unlawfully carrying a firearm with intent to go armed for persons who lawfully possess a handgun, are in a place where the person is lawfully present, and are at least 21 years old or 18 years old with certain military service. - Amends TCA Title 39.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Judiciary Committee
Mar 31 2025
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SJR 216
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Memorials, Recognition - State Government Affairs Council, 50th anniversary -
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Mar 07 2025 |
Signed By Governor.
Mar 31 2025
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SB 1177
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Expunction - As introduced, authorizes court clerks in certain counties to implement an automatic expunction processing program that initiates processing the expunction of public records without petition by the person, certification of eligibility from the TBI, or court order in certain limited circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Judiciary Committee
Mar 31 2025
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SB 1351
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, requires the bureau to maintain with each investigative case file copies of all original investigative materials, including audio and video files, recordings, transcripts, documents, reports, paperwork, and other print or digital media generated by the bureau and germane to the investigation by the bureau. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5 and Title 38, Chapter 6.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Judiciary Committee
Mar 31 2025
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SB 1353
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
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.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Judiciary Committee
Mar 31 2025
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SB 1327
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education - As introduced, removes a provision that required the board of regents, the University of Tennessee, and the Tennessee Independent Colleges and Universities Association to provide a report by April 1, 2009, to the Tennessee higher education commission on the reasonable efforts their institutions have taken to attempt to deter infringement of copyrighted works over the school's computer and network resources. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Education Committee
Mar 26 2025
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SB 1419
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education, Higher - As introduced, requires institutions of higher education to conduct various programs for intercollegiate athletes covering name, image, and likeness; authorizes institutions of higher education to collect talent fees; makes various other changes to intercollegiate athletes' name, image, and likeness authorizations and requirements. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Education Committee
Mar 26 2025
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SB 501
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
TennCare - As introduced, authorizes the governor to expand medicaid eligibility solely for the purpose of providing treatment for a patient with a diagnosis of sickle cell disease in accordance with the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and to negotiate with the centers for medicare and medicaid services with respect to the terms of such expansion. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71, Chapter 5.
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Jan 29 2025 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Health And Welfare Committee
Mar 26 2025
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SB 1180
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
School Vouchers - As introduced, requires private schools that enroll recipients of an education freedom scholarship, students participating in the individualized education account program, or students participating in the education savings account program to conduct background checks prior to employing a teacher or person who will have direct contact with school children or access to school grounds when children are present. - Amends Chapter __ of the Public Acts of 2025 (1st Ex. Sess. – SB 6001 / HB 6004); and TCA Title 49, Chapter 10, Part 14 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 26.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Education Committee
Mar 26 2025
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SB 1357
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, increases, from $7.25 to $20, the minimum hourly wage for employees within this state. - Amends TCA Section 8-23-203; Title 12 and Title 50, Chapter 2.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Commerce And Labor Committee
Mar 25 2025
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SB 579
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Employees, Employers - As introduced, allows for eligible employees to be absent 12 weeks from work following a living organ donation surgery; prohibits insurers from denying coverage or varying any term or condition of a life insurance policy, disability insurance policy, or long-term care insurance policy based solely on the person's status as a living organ donor; requires the department of health to create living organ donor informational material and make such material available on the department's website. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 50; Title 56 and Title 68.
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Jan 30 2025 |
Failed In Senate Commerce And Labor Committee
Mar 25 2025
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SB 1190
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Employees, Employers - As introduced, increases the hourly minimum wage to $20.00, or the federal minimum wage established pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, whichever rate is greater. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 23; Title 12, Chapter 4, Part 4 and Title 50, Chapter 2.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Commerce And Labor Committee
Mar 25 2025
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SB 589
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, expands the definition of a health benefit plan; requires a health benefit plan that amends, renews, or delivers a policy of coverage on or after January 1, 2026, and that provides coverage for prescription contraceptives, to provide coverage for a 12-month refill of contraceptives obtained at one time by an insured person. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 71.
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Jan 30 2025 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Commerce And Labor Committee
Mar 25 2025
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