SB 2121
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Local Education Agencies - As introduced, makes various changes to the Voluntary Pre-K for Tennessee Act of 2005; requires, instead of authorizes, an LEA to provide a pre-kindergarten program that is open to any child who is four years of age on or before August 15 and who resides within the geographic area served by the LEA; removes the requirement for a community pre-k advisory council; requires this state to fund 100 percent of the costs required for an LEA to provide a pre-kindergarten program. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 51 and Title 49.
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Jan 29 2024 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Education Committee
Mar 20 2024
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SB 2122
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows an LEA or public charter school to elect not to receive a letter grade for one or more of its schools by notifying the commissioner of education, in writing, of its decision to opt out of such requirements; allows, instead of requires, an LEA or public charter school to retain certain students in fourth grade if the student's LEA or public charter school determines that retention may benefit the student. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Jan 29 2024 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Education Committee
Mar 20 2024
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SB 2234
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Attorney General and Reporter - As introduced, authorizes the electronic submission of the report the attorney general and reporter is required to submit quarterly regarding the compromise and settlement, in the amount of $25,000 or less, of civil litigation to which the state may be a party. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 6; Title 4, Chapter 15; Title 4, Chapter 18; Title 4, Chapter 21; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 15; Title 4, Chapter 49; Title 4, Chapter 5; Title 4, Chapter 56; Title 8, Chapter 6; Title 9; Title 12, Chapter 1, Part 2; Title 17, Chapter 3, Part 1; Title 20, Chapter 13; Title 23; Title 29; Title 31, Chapter 6; Title 35, Chapter 9; Title 37, Chapter 5; Title 39, Chapter 2, Part 2; Title 40; Title 41; Title 47, Chapter 16; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 48; Title 49; Title 53, Chapter 11; Title 54; Title 56; Title 58; Title 66, Chapter 2; Title 67; Title 68, Chapter 221; Title 68, Chapter 33; Title 68, Chapter 211; Title 68, Chapter 213 and Title 71.
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Jan 30 2024 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Judiciary Committee
Mar 20 2024
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SB 1961
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, beginning on January 1, 2025, and on January 1 of each subsequent year, requires the base payment for TANF eligible families to be increased to reflect the effect of inflation based upon the percentage of change between the two preceding calendar years. - Amends TCA Title 71.
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Jan 24 2024 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Health And Welfare Committee
Mar 19 2024
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SB 1649
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Finance and Administration, Dept. of - As introduced, creates the Tennessee violence intervention program within the department's office of criminal justice programs to invest in evidence-based violence reduction initiatives. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.
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Jan 08 2024 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Judiciary Committee
Mar 18 2024
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SB 2191
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, imposes an additional 15-percent tax on the retail sale of firearms; requires revenue from the firearms tax to be deposited into the K-12 mental health counselor fund to be administered by the department of education and used exclusively to provide school counselors in elementary and secondary public schools and public charter schools in this state and for mental health assessments and services for students pursuant to a school counselor's referral. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13; Title 49, Chapter 5; Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 67.
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Jan 30 2024 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Judiciary Committee
Mar 18 2024
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SB 1808
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Driver Licenses - As introduced, authorizes the department of safety to issue a driver privilege card or permit that confers the same privileges as a driver license to a person who is not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident of the United States. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3.
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Jan 23 2024 |
Failed In Senate Transportation And Safety Committee
Mar 13 2024
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SB 1788
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Students - As introduced, prohibits the use of corporal punishment against students; deletes various provisions relative to the use of corporal punishment. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37; Title 39; Title 41 and Title 49.
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Jan 22 2024 |
Failed In Senate Education Committee / No Second
Mar 13 2024
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SB 1656
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, requires the department of education to allocate to each local education agency sufficient funds for the LEA to employ one full-time licensed professional school counselor position for every 250 student members of the LEA or one full-time position for each LEA and public charter school within the LEA, whichever is greater; requires each LEA and public charter school to employ a licensed professional school counselor for each position funded. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Jan 08 2024 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Education Committee
Mar 13 2024
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SB 2712
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Economic and Community Development - As introduced, authorizes economic incentive programs for persons with disabilities to submit electronically their list of existing employment incentive programs promoting the hiring of disabled individuals to the commissioner of revenue for approval, on or before July 1 each year. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 7; Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 21.
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Jan 31 2024 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Commerce And Labor Committee
Mar 12 2024
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SB 1651
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
General Assembly, Directed Studies - As introduced, requires TACIR to conduct a study on approaches to the regulation of artificial intelligence and submit a report of such study, including recommended legislative approaches, to the speakers of each house and the legislative librarian no later than January 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 47.
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Jan 08 2024 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Commerce & Labor Committee
Mar 12 2024
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SJR 1080
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Memorials, Death - Jillian Ludwig -
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Feb 28 2024 |
Objected To On Consent Calendar.
Mar 11 2024
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SB 726
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Environmental Preservation - As introduced, changes from March 31 to February 1, the date by which each region must submit its annual report to the commissioner of environment and conservation for the immediately preceding calendar year that includes data on collection, recycling, transportation, disposal, public costs, and other information deemed relevant to solid waste planning and management. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 69.
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Jan 27 2023 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Energy, Ag., And Nat. Resources Committee
Mar 06 2024
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SB 573
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Recycling - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Waste Reduction and Recycling Act"; requires sellers, distributors, and importers of certain packaging materials to take certain actions to reduce the amount of packaging material that becomes litter. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 67 and Title 68.
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Jan 25 2023 |
Sponsor(S) Added.
Mar 06 2024
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SB 1879
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, requires the department to collect and publish on its website in map format data concerning landslides and floods. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 5; Title 58; Title 64, Chapter 3; Title 68 and Title 69.
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Jan 23 2024 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Energy, Ag., And Nat. Resources Committee
Mar 06 2024
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SB 1650
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, requires approval by the governing body of each local government in which a proposed user fee facility is located prior to development of the facility; removes authority of the department of transportation to expend funds from the transportation modernization fund to develop a user fee facility. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2; Section 12-2-112; Title 54 and Title 55.
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Jan 08 2024 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Transportation And Safety Committee
Mar 06 2024
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SB 1876
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Game and Fish Laws - As introduced, creates a Class B misdemeanor that is committed when a person knowingly hunts, kills, traps, ensnares, destroys, or attempts to destroy, or has in the person's possession a sandhill crane. - Amends TCA Title 70.
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Jan 23 2024 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Energy, Ag., And Nat. Resources Committee
Mar 06 2024
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SB 1654
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the Class A misdemeanor of knowingly giving, selling, lending, delivering, or otherwise transferring a firearm to a person when the transferor knows or reasonably should know that the person receiving the firearm is prohibited from purchasing or possessing a firearm under state or federal law. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
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Jan 08 2024 |
Failed In Senate Judiciary Committee
Feb 27 2024
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SR 177
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Memorials, Recognition - Kidizenship -
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Feb 08 2024 |
Adopted, Ayes 33, Nays 0
Feb 22 2024
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SB 1522
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Taxes - As introduced, eliminates the 4 percent state sales tax on food for human consumption; increases the tax on cigarettes from three cents per cigarette to 8.35 cents per cigarette; increases the tax on other tobacco products from 6.6 percent to 17 percent of the wholesale cost price. - Amends TCA Title 67.
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Feb 02 2023 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate F,W&M Revenue Subcommittee
Feb 20 2024
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