Tennessee Bills

sponsored by Adam Lowe

Bill Title Introduced Latest Action↓
SB 2133 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Business and Commerce - As enacted, declares that an intrastate commercial good that is produced in this state and that remains within the borders of this state is generally not subject to federal law or federal regulation under the authority of congress to regulate interstate commerce. - Amends TCA Title 4.
Jan 29 2024 Pub. Ch. 1040
May 31 2024
SB 2204 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Recreational Areas - As enacted, makes revisions to the law relative to the Ocoee River; adds "Class IV Olympic river areas" to the types of river areas included in the state scenic rivers system; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11; Title 65, Chapter 15 and Title 70, Chapter 7.
Jan 30 2024 Pub. Ch. 1044
May 31 2024
SB 2963 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Athens - Subject to local approval, sets a term limit of three terms for members of the city council; specifies the emergency management powers of the mayor; changes references from "councilman" to "councilperson". - Amends Chapter 455 of the Private Acts of 1953; as amended.
Feb 20 2024 Comp. Became Pr. Ch. 60
May 13 2024
SB 2129 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Wine & Wineries - As enacted, makes changes to the law relative to intoxicating liquors. - Amends TCA Title 57.
Jan 29 2024 Pub. Ch. 850
May 13 2024
SB 2127 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Courts, Juvenile - As enacted, clarifies, with regard to a teen court having the authority to conduct proceedings and to receive evidence and hear testimony related to the dispositional stage, that such authority includes the authority to request detailed documentation signed by a licensed physician regarding absenteeism in truancy matters. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 49.
Jan 29 2024 Pub. Ch. 849
May 13 2024
SB 2229 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, requires a violation of the law regarding criminal offenses and penalties for drugs or a conspiracy to violate such law to be punished as second degree murder if the substance involved is fentanyl or carfentanyl, or any analogue or derivative thereof, either alone or in combination with any substance scheduled as a controlled substance by the Tennessee Drug Control Act of 1989, including controlled substance analogues, and the violation resulted in the death of another person. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
Jan 30 2024 Pub. Ch. 957
May 13 2024
SB 1688 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Education - As enacted, authorizes a parent or guardian of a student enrolled in grades K-2 to elect to retain the parent's or guardian's student in the student's current grade level if the student has a documented academic or behavioral delay and the parent or guardian believes that retention may benefit the student. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Jan 09 2024 Pub. Ch. 829
May 09 2024
SB 2243 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Criminal Procedure - As enacted, expands the definition of "victim" for the purposes of restitution to include a reciprocal, as defined by current law, when the reciprocal has compensated a subscriber for loss incurred as a result of the offense to the extent that the reciprocal paid compensation to the subscriber. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 35, Part 3.
Jan 30 2024 Pub. Ch. 811
May 09 2024
SB 1887 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes bullying and cyber-bullying offenses subject to the same penalties as harassment; requires an officer to make a report of bullying and notify a parent or guardian when victim is a minor. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 49.
Jan 23 2024 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 797
May 01 2024
SB 2222 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, establishes that it is unlawful for a person to intentionally initiate or circulate a report of a past, present, or impending active shooter and hostage situation, knowing that the report is false or baseless if certain information is known at the time. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.
Jan 30 2024 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 794
May 01 2024
SB 1723 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Election Laws - As enacted, enacts the "Uniform Faithful Presidential Electors Act." - Amends TCA Title 2.
Jan 10 2024 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 787
May 01 2024
SJR 1389 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Memorials, Recognition - Mayfield Dairy, 100th anniversary -
Apr 04 2024 Signed By Governor.
Apr 24 2024
SB 1754 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Controlled Substances - As introduced, makes various changes to criminal offenses involving fentanyl; increases the penalty one classification for criminal offenses involving fentanyl if the defendant crossed county lines in the course of the criminal offense; requires certain drug offenses to be punished as second degree murder if the substance involved is a Schedule I or II controlled substance and the offense resulted in the death of another person; creates a new criminal offense of aggravated assault on a first responder by exposing the first responder to fentanyl. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.
Jan 11 2024 Placed On Senate Finance, Ways, And Means Committee Calendar For 4/23/2024
Apr 19 2024
SB 2282 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Medical Occupations - As introduced, requires the department of health to reimburse an applicant's first attempt fee for taking the NREMT examination, a condition for an initial EMT or paramedic license to be issued, so long as the applicant has current or pending employment as an EMT, and has made a formal written request to the department. - Amends TCA Title 68.
Jan 30 2024 Placed On Senate Finance, Ways, And Means Committee Calendar For 4/23/2024
Apr 19 2024
SB 1350 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
County Officers - As introduced, requires as a qualification for office that a constable be certified by a qualified healthcare provider as being free from any mental impairment that would affect the constable's ability to perform an essential function of the job with or without reasonable accommodation; requires a constable with law enforcement powers to successfully complete a training program that is equivalent to or superior to the training or continuing training required for a law enforcement officer under standards established by the peace officer standards and training commission. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 10; Title 38 and Title 39.
Feb 01 2023 Placed On Senate Finance, Ways, And Means Committee Calendar For 4/23/2024
Apr 19 2024
SJR 1274 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Memorials, Recognition - Elijah Pierce, Boys and Girls Club Youth of the Year Ocoee Region -
Mar 27 2024 Signed By Governor.
Apr 19 2024
SB 207 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, increases, from $27,000 to $50,000, the maximum market value on which property tax relief is calculated for elderly, low-income homeowners. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.
Jan 18 2023 Placed On Senate Finance, Ways, And Means Committee Calendar For 4/23/2024
Apr 19 2024
SB 2130 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Bonds and Undertakings, Regulation of - As enacted, under certain conditions, exempts the issuance of general obligation refunding bonds that will repay a public building authority loan from the requirement that a plan of refunding be submitted for review to the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Section 9-21-911.
Jan 29 2024 Pub. Ch. 690
Apr 17 2024
SB 2497 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, in cases where gas companies must repair the streets, lanes, alleys, pavements, and sidewalks of any town, city, or village, after laying pipes and extending conductors, with the least possible delay, prohibits a city, county, or metropolitan government from requiring the repair of pavement or sidewalk in excess of 200 percent of the surface area disturbed during the inspection, installation, or connection to such pipes or natural gas mains or conductors. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 54 and Title 65.
Jan 30 2024 Pub. Ch. 662
Apr 17 2024
SB 1583 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Sentencing - As enacted, enacts "Ledford's Law," which requires the terms and conditions of parole for a prisoner convicted of vehicular homicide or aggravated vehicular homicide to specifically include that the prisoner, upon release, is prohibited from possessing or consuming alcohol or a controlled substance for which the prisoner does not have a valid prescription for the duration of any period of parole; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
Dec 12 2023 Pub. Ch. 671
Apr 17 2024

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