Tennessee Bills

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Bill Title Introduced Latest Action↓
HB 2943 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, expands the application of certain indecent exposure offenses by including victims from 13 to 17 years of age; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 68.
Jan 31 2024 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 1023
May 31 2024
HB 2864 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Naming and Designating - As enacted, designates Memphis barbecue as an official state food. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.
Jan 31 2024 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 873
May 13 2024
HB 2839 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Garnishments and Executions - As enacted, makes various revisions to provisions related to property that is exempt from execution, seizure, or attachment. - Amends TCA Section 26-2-111.
Jan 31 2024 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 833
May 09 2024
HB 2863 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Motor Vehicles - As introduced, increases, from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony, the penalty for a second or subsequent offense of aggravated reckless driving; requires a person who commits a second or subsequent offense of aggravated reckless driving to attend a driver education course and to have their license suspended for at least six months; requires law enforcement to seize a person's vehicle and crush, destroy, or sell the vehicle upon a second or subsequent offense of aggravated reckless driving. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 55, Chapter 10.
Jan 31 2024 Rec. For Pass. If Am., Ref. To Finance, Ways, And Means Committee
Apr 10 2024
HB 2942 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, provides a working families' tax refund for state and local sales and use tax paid on or after January 1, 2024, by low-income taxpayers who are eligible for the federal earned income tax credit. - Amends TCA Title 67.
Jan 31 2024 Assigned To S/C Finance, Ways, And Means Subcommittee
Apr 10 2024
HB 2840 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
State Inmates - As introduced, increases the education good time sentence reduction credit from 60 days to 90 days. - Amends TCA Title 41.
Jan 31 2024 Taken Off Notice For Cal In S/C Criminal Justice Subcommittee Of Criminal Justice Committee
Apr 03 2024
HB 2838 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Motor Vehicles - As introduced, increases from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony the penalty for a second or subsequent offense of aggravated reckless driving; requires a person who commits a second or subsequent offense of aggravated reckless driving to attend a driver education course; requires law enforcement to seize a person's vehicle upon a second or subsequent offense of aggravated reckless driving. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 55, Chapter 10.
Jan 31 2024 Taken Off Notice For Cal In S/C Criminal Justice Subcommittee Of Criminal Justice Committee
Apr 03 2024
HB 2837 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Criminal Offenses - As introduced, requires a court to order the revocation of a person's driver license if the person is convicted of the offense of reckless endangerment involving the display of a firearm from within a motor vehicle and the person has a prior conviction for the same offense; requires a court to order the seizure and forfeiture of a person's motor vehicle used in the commission of the offense if the person is convicted of the offense of reckless endangerment involving the display of a firearm from within a motor vehicle and the person has two or more prior convictions for the same offense. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40, Chapter 33 and Title 55.
Jan 31 2024 Taken Off Notice For Cal In S/C Criminal Justice Subcommittee Of Criminal Justice Committee
Apr 03 2024
HB 1470 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Consumer Protection - As introduced, enacts the "Consumer Wheelchair Repair Bill of Rights Act." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.
Jan 31 2023 Returned To The Clerk's Desk.
Mar 19 2024
HB 1469 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, requires the department of transportation to proceed to initiate the development of a new bridge crossing the Mississippi River and connecting to Arkansas. - Amends TCA Title 54.
Jan 31 2023 Taken Off Notice For Cal In S/C Transportation Subcommittee Of Transportation Committee
Mar 13 2024
HB 2836 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Labor and Workforce Development, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "Solar Workforce Development Act," which requires the department to establish and support a program that creates and maintains incentives for individuals to seek green energy jobs, and for entities to create, expand, and offer green energy jobs. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 13, Chapter 19; Title 50; Title 59; Title 60; Title 65; Title 66, Chapter 9, Part 2; Title 68 and Title 69.
Jan 31 2024 Sponsor(S) Added.
Feb 07 2024
HB 1467 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Workers Compensation - As introduced, permits an injured employee to choose a treating physician in any specialty and makes various other changes related to the selection of treating physicians for injured workers under the Workers’ Compensation Law. - Amends TCA Title 50.
Jan 31 2023 Action Def. In S/C Banking & Consumer Affairs Subcommittee To Worker's Compensation Advisory Council
Feb 06 2024
HB 1462 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires each law enforcement agency to develop a policy by July 1, 2023, on the use of force that emphasizes the use of force only as a reasonable and proportional response when viewed in light of the crime a suspect is alleged to have committed. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 39.
Jan 31 2023 Taken Off Notice For Cal In S/C Public Service Subcommittee Of State Government Committee
Jan 23 2024
HB 1463 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As introduced, removes Columbus Day as a legal holiday; designates the first Monday after the Super Bowl as a legal holiday. - Amends TCA Section 15-1-101.
Jan 31 2023 Taken Off Notice For Cal In S/C Public Service Subcommittee Of State Government Committee
Jan 23 2024
HB 1461 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Election Laws - As introduced, adds the election for city mayors to the list of races required to be automatically audited by a county election commission selected to conduct an audit. - Amends TCA Title 2.
Jan 31 2023 Taken Off Notice For Cal In S/C Elections & Campaign Finance Subcommittee Of Local Government Committee
Mar 29 2023
HB 1464 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) - As introduced, requires agencies to provide reports of fires at food processing facilities and investigations of incidents of critical infrastructure vandalism to state fire marshal and TBI, respectively; requires state fire marshal and TBI to compile reports and make quarterly reports to the general assembly; authorizes commissioner of agriculture and TEMA, respectively, to promulgate by rule minimum security requirements for food processing facilities and critical infrastructure. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 53; Title 58 and Title 68, Chapter 102.
Jan 31 2023 Taken Off Notice For Cal In S/C Departments & Agencies Subcommittee Of State Government Committee
Mar 22 2023
HB 1465 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Safety, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "Critical Infrastructure Identification, Prioritization, and Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38; Title 39; Title 54; Title 58 and Title 65.
Jan 31 2023 Taken Off Notice For Cal In S/C Departments & Agencies Subcommittee Of State Government Committee
Mar 22 2023
HJR 137 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
General Assembly, Studies - Requests TACIR to examine the security of the state's water infrastructure. -
Jan 31 2023 Returned To The Clerk's Desk.
Mar 21 2023
HB 1468 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Banks and Financial Institutions - As introduced, prohibits a bank from releasing or providing the account balance or transaction activity of an account to a person without first obtaining the account holder's express permission, unless the disclosure is required under federal law. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47, Chapter 18.
Jan 31 2023 Taken Off Notice For Cal In S/C Banking & Consumer Affairs Subcommittee Of Commerce Committee
Mar 21 2023
HB 1466 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, redefines "minor" to mean a person less than 21 years of age for the purpose of determining the legal age to purchase or own a firearm, unless the person is a military service member or honorably discharged or retired veteran at which point the person may be 18 years of age or older to purchase or own a firearm; makes it a Class A misdemeanor for a minor to purchase or own a firearm or for a person to sell, loan, or gift a firearm to a person younger than 21 years of age if the person is not a military service member or veteran. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Jan 31 2023 Action Def. In S/C Civil Justice Subcommittee To 2024
Mar 21 2023

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