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Representative Alexander,
7th Representative District
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27 bill(s) sponsored in the 113th General Assembly.
Bill Number
Composite Abstract
Last Action
Date
HB0141
Highways, Roads and Bridges
- As enacted, requires the department of transportation to erect and maintain directional signs for Milligan University at the I-81/I-26 interchange, Exit 57A, in the City of Kingsport in Sullivan County.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 667
4/17/2024
HB0174
Pensions and Retirement Benefits
- As enacted, allows a person returning to service on other than a full-time basis in a position covered by the optional retirement program for higher education institutions to take or continue taking distributions from the optional retirement program during the period of reemployment under certain conditions.
Effective date(s) 04/06/2023
4/18/2023
HB0355
Insurance, Health, Accident
- As enacted, requires that a health benefit plan that provides coverage for a screening mammogram must provide coverage for diagnostic imaging and supplemental breast screening without imposing a cost-sharing requirement on the patient.
Effective date(s) 08/09/2023
6/2/2023
HB0936
Human Services, Dept. of
- As introduced, requires the commissioner to study the challenges facing child care centers in hiring and maintaining adequate staff; the effects of inflationary pressures on child care staff wages and benefits and the impact of those effects on staff recruitment and retention; and statutory or regulatory changes that may assist child care centers in this state with recruiting qualified staff; requires the commissioner to compile and deliver to the general assembly a report of findings on or before December 31, 2023.
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
2/2/2023
HB0937
Election Laws
- As enacted, authorizes Washington County to establish a convenient voting center pilot program.
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023
5/19/2023
HB0938
Annexation
- As enacted, allows owners of real property used primarily for agricultural purposes who reside in a territory previously annexed by ordinance upon the initiative of the municipality to petition the municipality to deannex such property, if certain conditions are present.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
5/19/2023
HB0939
Funeral Directors and Embalmers
- As introduced, reduces from 180 days to 90 days, the amount of time in which an operator of a crematory facility must wait from the date of cremation before interring, entombing, or inurning unclaimed cremated human remains.
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
2/2/2023
HB0940
Child Custody and Support
- As enacted, enacts "Abrial’s Law, the Keeping Children Safe from Family Violence Act," which makes various changes to child custody law.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 266
5/3/2023
HB0941
Criminal Procedure
- As introduced, includes as an eligible petitioner for purposes of judicial diversion of criminal offenses, a person seeking deferral of proceedings for aggravated neglect of an elderly or vulnerable adult or aggravated abuse of an elderly or vulnerable adult, if the person is a healthcare provider who committed such an offense in the course of the provider's official duties.
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
3/21/2023
HB0942
Dentists and Dentistry
- As enacted, enacts the "Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact."
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 446
5/24/2023
HB0943
Utilities, Utility Districts
- As introduced, requires franchise holders, and certificated providers, that provide broadband service to file on or before July 1, 2023, and by July 1 of the two subsequent years thereafter, a map or other information with the appropriate regulatory entity indicating the specific locations where the provider offered broadband service that is capable of delivering download speeds of at least 100 Mbps and upload speeds of at least 20 Mbps.
Assigned to s/c Business & Utilities Subcommittee
2/7/2023
HB0944
Domestic Violence
- As enacted, revises present law definitions relative to abuse.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 277
5/3/2023
HB0945
Criminal Offenses
- As enacted, expands the criminal offenses of assault and aggravated assault against a first responder or nurse who is discharging or attempting to discharge official duties to include healthcare providers and increases the penalty for assault against those persons from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class D felony.
Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee
2/7/2023
HB1695
Autopsies
- As enacted, clarifies that the reports of county medical examiners and autopsy reports of minors whose manner of death is listed as a homicide are generally not public documents; authorizes such reports to be released or inspected if certain conditions are met.
Effective date(s) 05/03/2024
5/13/2024
HB1811
Funeral Directors and Embalmers
- As enacted, authorizes sellers of pre-need funeral contracts to keep the interest that accrues on the contract after payment is made for the merchandise and services set forth in the contracts.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 707
4/17/2024
HB1812
Teachers, Principals and School Personnel
- As enacted, allows all LEA and public charter school employees, instead of only teachers, to receive their full salary, or average pay, and full benefits in the event they sustain a personal injury as the result of a physical assault or other violent criminal act committed against them while they are acting in the course and scope of their employment.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 839
5/9/2024
HB2081
Health Care
- As enacted, allows unlicensed persons who have completed a competency-based training program, and who are employed by certain personal support service agencies licensed under law relative to mental health, substance abuse, and intellectual and developmental disabilities, to administer certain medications to individuals who are incapable of self-administration in the individual's home; prohibits administration of certain medications by unlicensed persons.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 730
4/29/2024
HB2172
Criminal Offenses
- As introduced, increases the penalties for threatening to commit an act of mass violence on school property and failing to report a threat to commit an act of mass violence on school property; requires, rather than permits, a court to order a defendant charged with threatening to commit an act of mass violence to undergo a mental health evaluation as a condition of pretrial release.
Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee
1/31/2024
HB2173
Professions and Occupations
- As enacted, revises provisions related to the special account in the general fund known as the "pre-need funeral account"; makes related changes.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 959
5/13/2024
HB2174
Food and Food Products
- As enacted, prohibits a local government from adopting or enforcing a resolution, ordinance, policy, or regulation that regulates, prohibits, or restricts the sale of food by certain establishments, including the location and hours of operation of the sale of food by such establishments.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 840
5/9/2024
HB2213
Insurance, Health, Accident
- As introduced, prohibits health carriers, health benefit plans, or utilization review organizations from using step therapy protocols as a basis to restrict, delay, or deny coverage for a prescription drug or drug regimen for the treatment of cancer and associated conditions if certain criteria are met.
Assigned to s/c Insurance Subcommittee
1/31/2024
HB2445
TennCare
- As introduced, enacts "Emma's Bill," which requires that when making a determination of medical necessity, the bureau shall take into consideration the patient's overall condition and use such overall condition as a factor to determine the level of funding and what medical items and services the patient receives, even if such determination does not result in the least costly course of diagnosis or treatment.
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
4/17/2024
HB2446
Drugs, Prescription
- As introduced, extends from 10 to 14 days the period following receipt of notice from the board of pharmacy within which an owner or person in possession of drugs or devices that have been deemed misbranded or adulterated must request a show cause hearing before the board on the applicability of the adulterated drug or device statute.
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
2/1/2024
HB2758
Local Education Agencies
- As introduced, requires LEAs and public charter schools to prohibit students from displaying, using, or accessing an electronic device during instructional time unless the electronic device is authorized, or provided to the student, by the LEA or public charter school for instructional purposes; requires local boards of education and public charter school governing bodies to develop and adopt a policy to implement the prohibition.
Failed in Education Administration
3/20/2024
HB2759
Medical Occupations
- As introduced, authorizes the Tennessee emergency medical services board to authorize five additional EMT/AEMT training centers operated by ambulance services licensed in this state if the board makes a specific finding that additional training centers are in the best interest of this state and approves the additional training centers by a two-thirds vote of the entire membership of the board.
Assigned to s/c Health Subcommittee
2/7/2024
HB2760
Children
- As enacted, adds to the factors considered by a court when making child custody determinations evidence of physical or emotional abuse to the child or to any other person; requires judges involved in child custody proceedings to complete training that is provided by certain persons with experience in assisting survivors of domestic violence, child abuse, or child sexual abuse, and that relies on evidence-based research by recognized experts; prohibits ordering certain reunification treatment.
Effective date(s) 04/23/2024
5/1/2024
HB2910
Economic and Community Development, Dept. of
- As introduced, requires the department to include information on which unserved locations have received or are in the process of receiving broadband service since the last update to the broadband accessibility map.
Def. to Summer Study in Commerce Committee
4/9/2024
163 bill(s) co-sponsored in the 113th General Assembly.
Bill Number
Composite Abstract
Last Action
Date
HB0001
Public Health
- As enacted, prohibits a healthcare provider from performing on a minor or administering to a minor a medical procedure if the performance or administration of the procedure is for the purpose of enabling a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1
3/22/2023
HB0003
Criminal Offenses
- As introduced, expands the offenses of assault against a first responder or nurse and aggravated assault against a first responder or nurse to apply to assaults committed against all healthcare professionals.
Action def. in Criminal Justice Committee to first Enhancement Calendar for 2024
3/28/2023
HB0005
Criminal Offenses
- As enacted, requires that a person convicted of especially aggravated kidnapping, aggravated rape, or rape be sentenced from within at least Range II for the offense.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
4/25/2023
HB0017
Holidays and Days of Special Observance
- As enacted, designates the month of May as "Silver Alert Awareness Month."
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 36
3/23/2023
HB0027
Scholarships and Financial Aid
- As enacted, allows a student who earns the student's first baccalaureate degree in less than the projected completion time to continue to receive the Tennessee HOPE scholarship in pursuit of an advanced degree.
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 07/01/2023
5/18/2023
HB0028
Annexation
- As introduced, deletes requirement that municipalities adopt a comprehensive growth plan and have an approved urban growth boundary prior to annexing unincorporated territory.
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
4/17/2024
HB0062
Children's Services, Dept. of
- As enacted, makes changes to the compensation of teachers in the special school district.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 84
4/18/2023
HB0075
Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation
- As enacted, authorizes the responding law enforcement officer or the district attorney general's office to extend criminal immunity to persons who are experiencing a subsequent drug overdose and who are seeking medical assistance.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 41
3/23/2023
HB0090
Local Government, General
- As enacted, prohibits local governments from expending funds for the purposes of assisting a person in obtaining a criminal abortion.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 168
4/25/2023
HB0092
Traffic Safety
- As enacted, enacts the "Jabari Bailey Highway Safety Act," which requires drivers to change lanes or reduce speed upon approaching a stationary vehicle that has flashing hazard lights activated; increases fines for failing to change lanes or reduce speed upon approaching a stationary emergency, recovery, highway maintenance, solid waste, utility service, or other vehicle that has flashing lights activated.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
5/18/2023
HB0115
Secretary of State
- As enacted, requires the Secretary of State to establish and implement a program designated as the Tennessee Businesses Against Trafficking program to engage participating corporations and other private entities in voluntary efforts to identify, prevent, and combat human trafficking.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 177
4/25/2023
HB0135
Pensions and Retirement Benefits
- As introduced, extends mandatory retirement provision imposed on certain public safety officers to commissioned special agents of the department of revenue and commissioned members of the department of environment and conservation; requires such persons to also receive, in addition to the retirement service allowance, a supplemental bridge allowance.
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
4/18/2023
HB0159
Criminal Offenses
- As enacted, exempts from the offense of possessing or carrying a weapon on school property the possession or carrying of a pocket knife by a nonstudent adult on election day if the knife remains concealed at all times while the adult is on school property for the sole purpose of voting in an election for which the school is the adult's designated polling place.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 142
4/27/2023
HB0163
Adoption
- As enacted, revises the definition of abandonment for purposes of termination of parental rights to include circumstances where the parent or guardian fails to visit or support the child for a period of three consecutive months if the child is less than four years of age.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
5/18/2023
HB0164
Adoption
- As enacted, authorizes a court to waive certain waiting periods and expedite certain proceedings relative to the adoption of children abandoned or voluntarily left at a facility or in a newborn safety device if certain conditions are met.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
5/2/2023
HB0242
Anatomical Gifts
- As introduced, requires the individual that signs the death certificate of a decedent, or an agent of the individual, to ask whether the family or other appropriate person wants to make an anatomical gift of the decedent's body or part; prohibits a procurement organization from contacting the family or other appropriate person if the family or other appropriate person refused to make an anatomical gift of the decedent's body or part.
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Health Subcommittee of Health Committee
1/30/2024
HB0257
Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration
- As enacted, clarifies that an owner or lessee of a motor vehicle who is the parent, legal guardian, or conservator of a person who has an intellectual or developmental disability or medical condition, who may be operating the owner's or lessee's vehicle, and who needs assistance in communicating specific needs to law enforcement and first responders, may apply for a designation of such person's need in the Tennessee Vehicle Title and Registration System (VTRS) database.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 521
3/19/2024
HB0289
Capital Punishment
- As enacted, requires a sentence of death to be carried out within 30 business days of the conclusion of any appeals or post-conviction relief, if the jury unanimously determines that certain circumstances are met.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
5/18/2023
HB0306
Schools, Private
- As enacted, limits the ability of a student enrolled in a private school to participate in an interscholastic athletic activity or event, to such activity or event where membership in the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association is required, in accordance with the student's immutable biological sex as determined by anatomy and genetics existing at the time of birth.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 285
5/4/2023
HB0312
Adoption
- As enacted, makes various changes in regard to maintaining and securing documents in certain parental rights proceedings and the grounds for termination of parental rights.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 253
5/3/2023
HB0318
Children
- As enacted, revises present law provisions governing adoption and foster care.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 187
5/3/2023
HB0321
Transportation, Dept. of
- As enacted, enacts the "Transportation Modernization Act of 2023."
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 159
4/25/2023
HB0322
Education
- As enacted, revises various provisions of present law relative to safety in elementary and secondary education and the Schools Against Violence in Education Act.
Effective date(s) 05/10/2023, 07/01/2023
5/18/2023
HB0323
Taxes
- As enacted, makes various revisions to present tax law.
Effective date(s) 05/05/2023, 04/01/2024, 01/01/2024, 07/01/2024, 01/01/2025
5/19/2023
HB0324
Public Employees
- As enacted, makes various changes to present law pertaining to leave for state employees.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 216
5/3/2023
HB0328
Public Funds and Financing
- As enacted, renames the "Tennessee Local Development Authority Act" to be the "Tennessee Local Development Authority Public Safety Protection Act of 2023" and makes various changes to its existing provisions.
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023
5/19/2023
HB0349
Business and Commerce
- As enacted, revises the types of entities that may serve as registered agents for certain corporations, companies, and partnerships; requires a registered agent to maintain a business office at the location of the agent's registered office.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 102
4/18/2023
HB0394
Food and Food Products
- As enacted, makes various changes to the Tennessee Meat and Poultry Inspection Act and establishes a state meat inspection program.
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023
6/2/2023
HB0465
Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration
- As enacted, enacts the "Representative Darren Jernigan Act," which requires, beginning on January 1, 2025, and each year thereafter, the department of revenue to verify that the owner of each disabled parking placard has not died; requires the department to promptly invalidate a disabled parking placard if the recipient of the placard is found to be deceased.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 726
4/29/2024
HB0521
Professions and Occupations
- As enacted, creates the professional music therapist advisory committee of the board of examiners in psychology to regulate the practice of music therapy.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1010
5/31/2024
HB0551
Adoption
- As enacted, makes various changes to adoption law.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 263
5/3/2023
HB0552
Children's Services, Dept. of
- As enacted, states that the goal of the department must be to act in the best interest of the child at all times and that goal must be reflected in any mission statement or motto established by the department.
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023
5/3/2023
HB0555
Victims' Rights
- As enacted, revises present law relative to the criminal injuries compensation fund for victims of human trafficking offenses.
Effective date(s) 05/05/2023
5/18/2023
HB0557
Evidence
- As enacted, expands the admissibility of a forensic interview to include statements made by a child under 18 years of age rather than under 13 years of age; expands admissible forensic interviews from statements made by a child describing sexual contact performed with or on the child by another to statements describing sexual or physically violent contact performed with or on the child by another or performed by a person with or on another and witnessed by the child; makes other changes relevant to forensic interviews.
Effective date(s) 04/06/2023
4/18/2023
HB0562
Military
- As enacted, clarifies that compensation for members of the national guard must accrue upon them being ordered to active state service and the payment of compensation to members must use this state's established weekly pay cycle as needed to effectuate compensation.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
5/18/2023
HB0662
Education
- As enacted, revises present law that relative to a local board of education keeping on file and available in each school library added or amended operating policies and a notice of each deleted operating policy; authorizes a person who holds an active industry license or credential relevant to a career and technical education course to provide instruction to students in the career and technical education course as long as the instruction is supervised at all times in the classroom by a licensed teacher who serves as the teacher of record for the course; holds such a person subject to investigation pursuant to law relative to investigating applicants for teaching positions.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 344
5/17/2023
HB0663
Education
- As enacted, makes changes to the "Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022."
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 472
5/24/2023
HB0667
Drugs, Prescription
- As enacted, makes various changes to the prescription drug donation repository program operated by the department of health.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 200
5/3/2023
HB0689
Bail, Bail Bonds
- As enacted, requires an officer to provide an alleged victim of certain criminal offenses with a document notifying the victim of the global positioning monitoring system used as a condition of bail.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
5/28/2024
HB0752
Children
- As enacted, creates a criminal offense of a foster parent from a kinship placement knowingly allowing a child in the foster parent's care to visit with the child's parent if the foster parent has knowledge of a current court order prohibiting the parent from visiting with the child, with a first violation being a Class C misdemeanor punishable by a fine only and a second or subsequent violation being a Class B misdemeanor.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
5/3/2023
HB0771
State Symbols
- As enacted, requests the governor to submit a new design of the great seal of the state of Tennessee by July 1, 2025, that incorporates the language "In God We Trust."
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 261
5/3/2023
HB0776
Taxes, Sales
- As enacted, makes revisions to the "Border Region Retail Tourism Development District Act" and the "Regional Retail Tourism Development District Act."
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1006
5/29/2024
HB0785
Education, Dept. of
- As introduced, requires the department to create and implement a promising futures program to provide scholarships to children who are not school age to assist them in developing early language and literacy skills in a high-quality early care and learning program; redirects, from the lottery for education account to an account administered by the department to provide funding for the promising futures scholarship program, a certain percentage of the privilege tax collected from sports wagering licensees for certain fiscal years.
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
4/17/2024
HB0814
Fire Prevention and Investigation
- As enacted, requires the state fire marshal to create a state fire permit that mobile food units may obtain annually to demonstrate fire safety and electrical code compliance to local governments; requires a local government to recognize the state fire permit in its jurisdiction; prohibits the local government from requiring a local fire permit if the mobile food unit holds a state fire permit.
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023
5/19/2023
HB0818
School Transportation
- As enacted, revises present law provisions relative to cameras on school buses and failing to stop upon approaching a school bus that has stopped on the highway.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 179
4/25/2023
HB0835
Election Laws
- As enacted, requires the coordinator of elections to compare the statewide voter registration database with the department of safety database to ensure non-United States citizens are not registered to vote in this state.
Effective date(s) 05/03/2024
5/13/2024
HB0882
Election Laws
- As enacted, allows a candidate to demand and receive a list of all voters who changed their residential address at the polling place; requires a recount to include the verification of any address of residence changed at the polling place.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 204
5/3/2023
HB0883
Abortion
- As enacted, makes various changes relative to abortion.
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023
5/3/2023
HB0908
Forfeiture of Assets
- As introduced, clarifies that a motor vehicle used in the commission or flight from commission of the offense of drag racing is subject to civil asset forfeiture; designates the department of safety as the applicable agency for such forfeiture proceedings.
Failed in Criminal Justice Committee
1/30/2024
HB0949
Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies
- As enacted, prohibits a dental benefit plan from containing restrictions on methods of payment from the dental benefit plan or its vendors to the dentist in which the only acceptable payment method is a credit card payment; makes other changes to dental benefit plans.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 589
4/3/2024
HB0976
Firefighters
- As enacted, enacts the "James 'Dustin' Samples Act."
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 465
5/24/2023
HB0988
Landlord and Tenant
- As enacted, requires a landlord to provide 60 days' notice of termination of tenancy for the purpose of eviction of a residential tenant of certain facilities for older persons if the tenant has paid the tenant's rent due and is not in arrears on rent payments, and the termination and eviction are to allow for new property development.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
5/19/2023
HB0996
Education
- As enacted, clarifies that instruction in topics related to sexual activity are generally not age-appropriate for students in grades K-5 and must generally not be taught to students in grades K-5 as part of a family life curriculum; clarifies that such prohibition does not prohibit an LEA or public charter school from providing instruction to students in K-5 on the detection, intervention, prevention, and treatment of child sexual abuse and human trafficking in which the victim is a child.
Effective date(s) 05/21/2024
5/28/2024
HB1025
Historical Sites and Preservation
- As enacted, creates the Tennessee monuments and memorials commission, which is required to study, hear, and resolve petitions for waiver under the Tennessee heritage protection act.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 434
5/24/2023
HB1051
Mental Illness
- As enacted, authorizes certain licensed advanced practice nurses and physician assistants to execute a certificate of need if a person is admitted and detained by a hospital or treatment resource for emergency diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment; makes other revisions to the execution of certificates of need.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 199
5/3/2023
HB1072
Veterans Services, Dept. of
- As enacted, requires the department to establish an honor guard grant program to provide grants to veteran service organizations to offset expenses incurred by the organization and members of the organization's honor guard in providing military funeral honors for qualifying Tennessee veterans.
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 01/01/2024
5/19/2023
HB1074
Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies
- As introduced, requires reimbursement payments from insurers to chiropractors for services rendered to be based on the same methodology for the calculation of payments to medical doctors for the provision of services.
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration
4/23/2024
HB1105
Children's Services, Dept. of
- As introduced, changes from January 15 to February 15 of each year the date by which the department must evaluate the success of programs for at risk adolescents and report findings and recommendations to the judiciary committee of the senate and the civil justice committee of the house of representatives.
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
2/2/2023
HB1151
State Employees
- As enacted, authorizes the grant of sick leave from a sick leave bank to a state employee to care for a sick minor child of the employee.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 151
4/18/2023
HB1182
Consumer Protection
- As enacted, enacts the "Real Property Records Integrity Act."
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 160
4/25/2023
HB1194
Health Care
- As enacted, makes changes to law relative to the Alzheimer's and dementia respite care program.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 221
5/3/2023
HB1198
Alcohol Offenses, Motor Vehicles
- As enacted, enacts the "Silas Gable Flatt Law," which creates an offense of knowingly providing a motor vehicle to another person who the provider of the vehicle knows or should know is under the influence of an intoxicant or whose driver license has been suspended or revoked under certain circumstances, punishable as a Class A misdemeanor.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
5/3/2023
HB1259
Real Property
- As enacted, enacts anti-squatter laws.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1009
5/29/2024
HB1296
Birth Control
- As introduced, requires the department of health to provide voluntary reversible long-acting contraception to women at no charge.
Assigned to s/c Population Health Subcommittee
2/7/2023
HB1306
Consumer Protection
- As enacted, requires that if an entity requires on-site payment from a consumer for the parking of a motor vehicle on the entity's property, and the entity only accepts payment by use of a quick response (QR) code or a credit or debit card machine, then, in the event the QR code or the credit or debit card machine fails to operate correctly to process the payment transaction, the entity must either accept payment by cash, check, or credit or debit card or allow the consumer to leave the property without providing payment at the time.
Effective date(s) 01/01/2023
5/3/2023
HB1342
Economic and Community Development
- As enacted, places certain restrictions on employers seeking to receive economic development incentives.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
5/17/2023
HB1367
Attorney General and Reporter
- As enacted, adds additional companies to the statewide opioid settlement agreement for which the attorney general and reporter has the authority to release pending or future claims.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 429
5/24/2023
HB1375
Historical Commission
- As enacted, vacates and reconstitutes the commission; makes other changes relative to the commission.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 764
5/1/2024
HB1429
Health Care
- As enacted, enacts "Quinnlee's Law."
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 99
4/18/2023
HB1444
Motor Vehicles
- As enacted, makes changes to present law relative to criminal offenses involving motor vehicles.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
5/17/2023
HB1459
Criminal Offenses
- As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor for a warden or chief administrative officer employed by a penal institution, who knows that certain offenses have occurred within the institution, to fail to report such offenses to the district attorney general for the judicial district in which the institution is located and the district attorney general who prosecuted the offense for which the offender is incarcerated within five business days of becoming aware of the offense being committed; authorizes the court to order sentences to run consecutively if the court finds by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant was incarcerated at the time of the offense and is convicted of an offense that is reportable by a warden or chief administrator.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 347
5/24/2023
HB1484
Prisons and Reformatory Institutions
- As enacted, revises present law relative to medical care of prisoners.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 469
5/24/2023
HB1503
Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies
- As enacted, requires the commissioner of commerce and insurance to conduct a study on the implementation of the federal No Surprises Act and its implications for physicians and healthcare facilities in this state; revises present law concerning network adequacy.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 352
5/17/2023
HB1554
Salaries and Benefits
- As introduced, establishes a program under which a state employee may receive up to six weeks of paid leave if the employee becomes a foster parent of a minor child.
Re-ref. to Calendar and Rules Committee
4/1/2024
HB1602
Juvenile Offenders
- As enacted, requires a video or audio recording to be made of any interrogation of a child who has been taken into custody on suspicion that the child committed a delinquent act or unruly conduct unless a technical issue with the equipment or exigent circumstances prevent the recording.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 565
3/26/2024
HB1614
Consumer Protection
- As enacted, enacts the "Protect Tennessee Minors Act"; requires an individual or commercial entity that publishes or distributes in this state a website that contains a substantial portion of material harmful to minors to perform reasonable age-verification methods to verify the age of individuals attempting to access the material; specifies that a violation of age-verification or data retention requirements is a Class C felony.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1021
5/31/2024
HB1628
Criminal Offenses
- As enacted, enacts "Dr. Benjamin Mauck Act," which creates new criminal offenses of assault within a healthcare facility and aggravated assault within a healthcare facility.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 928
5/13/2024
HB1640
Mental Illness
- As enacted, enacts "Jillian's Law," which makes various changes relative to being adjudicated as a mental defective or judicially committed to a mental institution, including requiring a person judicially committed to remain committed until the competency of the person to stand trial is restored or, if competency is unable to be restored but the person no longer meets the standard, until the court with criminal jurisdiction over the charges approves a mandatory outpatient treatment plan that accounts for the safety of the community.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
5/1/2024
HB1642
Bail, Bail Bonds
- As enacted, revises various provisions regarding pretrial release of a defendant charged with a criminal offense to require the magistrate to give first consideration to ensuring the safety of the community when determining whether to impose conditions of release or require a deposit of bail.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
4/3/2024
HB1644
Education
- As enacted, requires each LEA, public charter school, private school, and church-related school to develop a procedure to determine the cause of a fire alarm activation, including the potential of an active shooter event; requires each LEA to coordinate with appropriate safety teams to incorporate the procedure; specifies that the procedure must be implemented no later than January 1, 2025.
Effective date(s) 03/12/2024
3/19/2024
HB1645
Orders of Protection
- As enacted, expands the eligibility for filing a petition to obtain a lifetime order of protection to include victims of aggravated stalking, especially aggravated stalking, and felony harassment.
Effective date(s) 04/02/2024
4/8/2024
HB1648
Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration
- As enacted, authorizes, upon request, the department of revenue to issue lien-free salvage certificates of title to a salvage pool operator under certain circumstances.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
3/15/2024
HB1659
Public Officials
- As enacted, raises the base salary from $156,024 to $205,328 for district attorneys general and district public defenders.
Effective date(s) 05/21/2024
5/28/2024
HB1663
Sentencing
- As introduced, authorizes the death penalty as a punishment for rape of a child, aggravated rape of a child, or especially aggravated rape of a child.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 951
5/13/2024
HB1676
Children
- As enacted, specifies that a juvenile court proceeding may be commenced by the taking of a child into custody or the removal of custody from a parent or legal guardian; requires the juvenile court in a dependency and neglect proceeding to determine whether a parent, guardian, relative, or caregiver of the child cannot be excluded as a perpetrator of severe child abuse against the child; prohibits a juvenile court from returning a child victim of severe child abuse to the custody of a person who cannot be excluded as the perpetrator unless certain circumstances are met; makes various other changes.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
4/3/2024
HB1680
Elder Abuse
- As enacted, expands the Tennessee Adult Protection Act's definition of abuse or neglect to include certain situations when an adult is unable to maintain the adult's own health or welfare.
Effective date(s) 02/28/2024
3/19/2024
HB1697
Local Education Agencies
- As enacted, removes the requirement that LEAs administer a pretest to students participating in an after-school learning mini-camp, learning loss bridge camp, or summer learning camp; deletes various reporting, funding, and accountability provisions regarding such pretests.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 639
4/8/2024
HB1719
Bail, Bail Bonds
- As enacted, prohibits a magistrate from considering a defendant's ability to pay when determining the amount of bail necessary to reasonably assure the appearance of the defendant while at the same time protecting the safety of the public.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 869
5/13/2024
HB1727
Criminal Offenses
- As enacted, specifies that a parent or guardian who knowingly leaves their child under the care or supervision of a person who is required to register as a sexual offender commits a Class A misdemeanor.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 952
5/13/2024
HB1731
Consumer Protection
- As enacted, enacts the "Modernization of Towing, Immobilization, and Oversight Normalization (MOTION) Act."
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1017
5/31/2024
HB1859
Professions and Occupations
- As enacted, generally prohibits certain licensing boards for professions, including medical professions, from using a vague term in their consideration and their notice or decision for denying a license due to a prior criminal prosecution unless an explanation is provided of how the prior conviction directly relates to the applicable profession, if such prior conviction serves as a basis for the licensing authority's consideration and notice or decision.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
5/1/2024
HB1872
Criminal Offenses
- As enacted, authorizes a court to enhance the statutory penalty, up to imprisonment for life without the possibility of parole, for a conviction under certain circumstances involving illegal aliens or crimes occurring on school property while students or other children are present; makes revisions to law relative to bail.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1063
6/3/2024
HB1891
Children
- As enacted, creates the "Protecting Children from Social Media Act."
Effective date(s) 01/01/2025
5/13/2024
HB1895
Abortion
- As enacted, creates the criminal offense of abortion trafficking of a minor; provides for a civil action against a person committing the offense of abortion trafficking of a minor if certain conditions are met.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1032
5/31/2024
HB1901
Uniform Commercial Code
- As enacted, defines "central bank digital currency," and revises the definitions of "money" and "deposit account," for purposes of the Uniform Commercial Code.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 694
4/17/2024
HB1909
Education, Higher
- As enacted, enacts the "Laken Riley Act of 2024," which generally prohibits a public institution of higher education from prohibiting adults lawfully present on the institution's property from carrying a non-lethal weapon for purposes of self-defense; allows certain exceptions.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
5/1/2024
HB1916
Anatomical Gifts
- As introduced, creates a process by which an individual or terminal patient can refuse to make an anatomical gift that cannot be amended by another person; requires a procurement organization to follow certain procedures for contacting a decedent's family member or other authorized person.
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Health Subcommittee of Health Committee
2/27/2024
HB1922
Children
- As enacted, makes changes to the procedure for surrendering custody of an unwanted infant without criminal liability.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 728
4/29/2024
HB1950
Holidays and Days of Special Observance
- As enacted, designates June 6 as a day of special observance for D-Day.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 601
4/3/2024
HB1969
Day Care
- As enacted, requires each child care agency in this state to have installed in each room of the child care agency where care is provided to children a carbon monoxide alarm that is listed according to the International Building Code and International Fire Code for the purpose of carbon monoxide detection; provides that a violation is a Class C misdemeanor and that each day on which a violation continues constitutes a separate offense.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 733
5/1/2024
HB1998
TennCare
- As introduced, requires the bureau to reimburse certain public or private ground-based ambulance services that bill for transports at a rate not less than 67.5 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers for emergency services and 100 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers for nonemergency services.
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
4/17/2024
HB2003
Guardians and Conservators
- As enacted, makes revisions to present law relevant to an attorney ad litem.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 807
5/9/2024
HB2031
Criminal Offenses
- As enacted, authorizes a person who suffers loss or injury as a result of a defendant intentionally obstructing a highway, street, or other place used for the passage of vehicles or conveyances to bring a cause of action against such person to recover compensatory damages from the loss or injury.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 958
5/13/2024
HB2038
Energy
- As introduced, directs the department of economic and community development to develop a program for the installation and operation of combustion turbine power plants to increase the state's electric generation capacity.
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
4/17/2024
HB2044
Taxes, Exemption and Credits
- As introduced, exempts from the state sales and use tax the retail sale of food and food ingredients that are voucher-eligible under the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
4/17/2024
HB2054
Real Property
- As enacted, increases from 1,500 to 3,000, for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, the amount of acreage of land permitted to be placed within any one taxing jurisdiction under the Agricultural, Forest and Open Space Land Act.
Effective date(s) 05/21/2024
5/28/2024
HB2060
Drugs, Prescription
- As enacted, makes changes to the law relative to prescribing buprenorphine products.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 808
5/9/2024
HB2063
Environmental Preservation
- As enacted, prohibits the intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances, or apparatus within the borders of this state into the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 709
4/17/2024
HB2068
Criminal Offenses
- As introduced, raises from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony certain animal cruelty offenses involving a cock; requires a fine of not less than $1,000 nor more than $2,500 for the offense of being a spectator at a cock fight.
Held on desk.
4/25/2024
HB2088
Military
- As enacted, authorizes the military department to administer a critical skills retention bonus program to be used to award retention bonuses of up to $10,000 to enlisted service members in the Tennessee national guard; entitles certain state employees who are members of a reserve component of the armed forces of the United States or the national guard to special leave with partial pay during a period in which the members have been called to active duty.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 847
5/13/2024
HB2089
Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities
- As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Disability and Aging Act of 2024."
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 688
4/17/2024
HB2103
Boats, Boating
- As enacted, authorizes the establishment of a special temporary, slow no wake zone, if such zone is necessary because of an immediate danger to the public health, environment, safety, or welfare, and the nature of the necessity is such that an emergency rule cannot immediately be sought.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 845
5/13/2024
HB2117
Local Government, General
- As enacted, requires a political subdivision to provide a written attestation with the political subdivision's annual audit to the comptroller of the treasury certifying that the political subdivision has not sought or received a grant in intentional pursuit of certain prohibited policies.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 877
5/13/2024
HB2118
Energy
- As enacted, vacates and reconstitutes the state energy policy council.
Effective date(s) 05/21/2024
5/28/2024
HB2124
Immigration
- As enacted, requires, rather than authorizes, law enforcement agencies to communicate with the appropriate federal official regarding the immigration status of any individual, including reporting knowledge that a particular alien is not lawfully present in the United States or otherwise cooperate with the appropriate federal official in the identification, apprehension, detention, or removal of aliens not lawfully present in the United States.
Pub. Ch. 716
4/17/2024
HB2126
Juvenile Offenders
- As enacted, allows a juvenile court to transfer a child, who is 15 or older, to be tried as an adult in criminal court for the offense of organized retail crime, theft of a firearm, or an attempt to commit such offense; revises law with regard to confinement of a child in a local juvenile detention facility, a juvenile detention facility, or an adult detention facility.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
4/8/2024
HB2165
Local Education Agencies
- As enacted, requires a request made by a student to an employee of the student's LEA or public charter school for an accommodation to affirm the student's gender identity to be reported to a school administrator and to the student's parent; prohibits an employee of an LEA or public charter school from knowingly providing false or misleading information to a student's parent regarding the student's gender identity or intention to transition to a gender that differs from the student's sex at the time of birth; authorizes civil actions to be filed by parents and by the attorney general and reporter against a noncompliant LEA or public charter school.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 832
5/9/2024
HB2190
Governor
- As enacted, authorizes the governor to deploy up to a brigade-sized force to Texas to assist in repelling the invasion at the southern border of the United States during fiscal year 2024-2025.
Effective date(s) 05/21/2024
5/28/2024
HB2198
Criminal Offenses
- As enacted, increases the penalty for the offense of threatening to commit an act of mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
5/13/2024
HB2216
Statutes of Limitations and Repose
- As enacted, enacts "Danielle's Law," which extends the statute of limitations for injuries to a person, who is 18 or older, relating to sexual assault to three years or five years depending on if law enforcement was notified of the assault.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 644
4/8/2024
HB2226
Health Care
- As enacted, adds to the composition of the Tennessee maternal mortality review and prevention team four members appointed by the commissioner of health who are from community-based organizations.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 834
5/9/2024
HB2251
Local Education Agencies
- As enacted, enacts the "Smart Heart Act"; establishes various requirements for automatic external defibrillators in schools and response protocols for cardiac-related medical emergencies.
Effective date(s) 03/27/2024, 07/01/2024
4/3/2024
HB2301
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.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 957
5/13/2024
HB2304
Safety, Dept. of
- As introduced, requires the department to provide written and electronic notice to the employing company of a person appointed and commissioned as a state facility protection officer to provide facility security when the department no longer requires the service of such person.
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration
4/10/2024
HB2310
Public Health
- As enacted, creates a civil cause of action against any person who intentionally recruits, harbors, or transports an unemancipated minor within this state for the purpose of receiving a prohibited medical procedure, regardless of where the medical procedure is to be procured.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1064
6/3/2024
HB2320
Debtor Creditor Relations
- As enacted, requires, in an action on consumer debt filed in a general sessions court, the plaintiff to include certain information with a civil warrant or any other leading process used to initiate the action; requires, prior to an award of a default judgment, the plaintiff to present to the court documentation sufficient to demonstrate the authority of the plaintiff to collect the debt and certain agreements or records to demonstrate the existence of the consumer debt.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
5/13/2024
HB2323
Criminal Offenses
- As enacted, enacts the "Chris Wright Act," which increases the penalty for a third or subsequent domestic assault conviction from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony; upgrades the offense classification for certain qualifying misdemeanor offenses to a Class E felony upon a defendant's conviction for a sixth or subsequent qualifying misdemeanor.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
5/29/2024
HB2326
Education
- As enacted, requires a student's LEA or public charter school to convene a conference attended by the student's guardian, ELA teacher, and school principal if the student is promoted to fourth grade and does not show adequate growth in order to determine if the student should be promoted to fifth grade with required tutoring or retained in the fourth grade.
Effective date(s) 05/21/2024
5/29/2024
HB2426
County Government
- As enacted, makes changes to the "County Powers Relief Act."
Effective date(s) 05/21/2024
5/29/2024
HB2444
Jails, Local Lock-ups
- As enacted, allows a prisoner of a county workhouse or jail to be released from custody on work release or otherwise allowed to leave the grounds of the county workhouse or jail for employment or to perform work in the community, whether paid or unpaid, without using an electronic monitoring device if the judge of the sentencing court and the sheriff of the county where the jail or workhouse is located approve the prisoner's release in writing.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1052
6/3/2024
HB2464
Teachers, Principals and School Personnel
- As enacted, requires local boards of education to include school safety training in the training requirements for substitute teachers; clarifies that LEAs are prohibited from hiring a substitute teacher whose license in another state is revoked; makes other changes concerning LEA policies for substitute teachers.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 735
5/1/2024
HB2472
Local Education Agencies
- As enacted, requires LEAs and public charter schools to advise an employee who is assaulted by a student of the employee's rights as a result of the assault; requires, instead of authorizes, the suspension of a student who commits an assault against an employee of the LEA or public charter school in which the student is enrolled from attendance at school and from attendance at all school-sponsored events for at least one calendar year.
Effective date(s) 05/03/2024
5/13/2024
HB2480
Milk, Dairy Products
- As enacted, enacts the "Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act," which authorizes each local board of education and public charter school governing body to establish policies for its public schools to offer students whole milk options through bulk milk dispensers.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 681
4/17/2024
HB2497
Juvenile Offenders
- As enacted, requires a child who has been admitted to a juvenile detention facility, prior to being adjudicated for an alleged delinquent act, to be allowed at least one telephone call with the child's parent, guardian, or legal custodian and one 30-minute in-person visit with the child's parent, guardian, or legal custodian within 24 hours after the child is admitted to the juvenile detention facility.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
5/29/2024
HB2553
Real Property
- As enacted, makes changes to law regarding restrictions on land purchases by sanctioned aliens or foreign entities.
Effective date(s) 05/21/2024, 01/01/2025
5/29/2024
HB2635
Insurance, Health, Accident
- As enacted, requires a health benefit plan that amends, renews, or delivers a policy of coverage on or after July 1, 2024, 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, unless the insured requests a smaller supply or the prescriber instructs that the insured must receive a smaller supply.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 732
5/1/2024
HB2650
Health Care
- As enacted, makes revisions to law relative to the health facilities commission; makes related changes.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 932
5/13/2024
HB2676
Tennessee Higher Education Commission
- As introduced, abolishes the governing board of directors for the Tennessee student assistance corporation and designates the corporation as a division of the commission; revises certain duties and powers of the commission; vacates and reconstitutes the commission on July 1, 2024.
Re-refer to S. Cal Comm
4/10/2024
HB2682
Pensions and Retirement Benefits
- As enacted, authorizes, until June 30, 2026, a retired member of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system, or of a local retirement fund, to be reemployed in a position covered by the retirement system without the loss or suspension of the member's retirement benefits if the member meets certain criteria; authorizes, until June 30, 2026, a law enforcement agency to employ a retired member for a full-time school resource officer position if certain criteria are met.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
5/13/2024
HB2683
Pensions and Retirement Benefits
- As enacted, makes revisions to law relative to hazardous duty supplemental benefits; makes related benefits revisions.
Effective date(s) 01/01/2025
5/13/2024
HB2690
Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities, Dept. of
- As enacted, requires the department to issue grants, subject to appropriations, to support the installation of powered, height-adjustable, adult-sized changing tables in single occupancy family restrooms in privately and municipally owned buildings open to the public across this state; authorizes the commissioner to create and convene an ad hoc committee to advise and assist with grant applications.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 607
4/3/2024
HB2692
Domestic Violence
- As enacted, enacts "The Debbie and Marie Domestic Violence Protection Act," which makes revisions to law related to global positioning monitoring system devices, including requiring the court to order an offender to wear such a device under certain circumstances unless the court finds the offender no longer poses a threat to the alleged victim or public safety, requiring a cellular device application or electronic receptor device provided to the victim to be capable of notifying the victim if the offender is within a prescribed proximity of the victim's cellular device or electronic receptor device, and making other revisions.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1033
5/31/2024
HB2712
Culture and Arts
- As enacted, requires the Tennessee film, entertainment and music commission, or a subcontracted nonprofit organization, to provide grants to eligible live music and performance venues, performers, and promoters to be used to support live music performances, performers, promoters, and the operational, promotional, or capital expenditures of live music and performance venues.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 867
5/13/2024
HB2716
General Assembly
- As introduced, prohibits a local legislative body from electing a member, who was expelled for disorderly behavior, to fill a vacancy in the general assembly that was created because of the member's expulsion.
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration
2/29/2024
HB2743
Education, Higher
- As enacted, requires each institution of higher education in this state to classify a student who is the spouse or dependent child of a service member as an in-state student for tuition purposes if certain criteria are met.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1057
6/3/2024
HB2762
Consumer Protection
- As enacted, enacts the "Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act."
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 773
5/1/2024
HB2773
Health Care
- As enacted, enacts the "Cassie Wright Act," which makes changes to law relative to a parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian having access to certain medical information of their unemancipated minor.
Effective date(s) 04/22/2024
5/1/2024
HB2774
Immigration
- As enacted, requires the review of executive branch agency policies and spending as it relates to illegal immigration; requires a report to be compiled and delivered to the governor and the speakers of the senate and house of representatives regarding such review.
Effective date(s) 05/21/2024
5/29/2024
HB2814
Criminal Offenses
- As enacted, raises the penalty for the offense of drag racing from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
5/29/2024
HB2845
DUI Offenses
- As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Prevention of Drunk Driving Act."
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 961
5/13/2024
HB2865
Veterans
- As enacted, makes changes to the law relevant to applications for veterans treatment court program grant funds.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
5/13/2024
HB2889
Corporations, For Profit
- As introduced, authorizes the registered agent of a foreign corporation to resign the agency appointment by filing information with the secretary of state in an electronic format deemed suitable by the secretary of state.
Rec. for pass; ref to Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
4/8/2024
HB2940
TennCare
- As enacted, enacts the "TennCare for Working Individuals with Disabilities Act."
Effective date(s) 05/21/2024
5/29/2024
HB2954
Insurance, Health, Accident
- As enacted, enacts the "Prostate-Specific Antigen Screening for High-risk Insured Men Act" or the "PSA Screening for HIM Act."
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
5/29/2024
HB2961
Evidence
- As introduced, directs the Tennessee advisory committee on intergovernmental relations (TACIR), with the assistance of the Tennessee bureau of investigation, the district attorneys general conference, and the department of safety, to study the feasibility of a Shelby County crime lab and the impact of such a crime lab on public health, safety, education, housing, and the economy for citizens and visitors of Shelby County, the city of Memphis, this state, and the Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi tri-state region; requires TACIR to submit a report of the study findings to the general assembly by January 14, 2025.
Placed on s/c cal Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee for 4/16/2024
4/10/2024
HB7002
Safety
- As introduced, requires each LEA, public charter school, private school, and church-related school to develop a policy to direct how students, teachers, substitute teachers, and staff are to respond when a fire alarm is activated on school premises outside of a scheduled fire drill to protect students, teachers, substitute teachers, and staff in the event the fire alarm was activated due to the presence of an active shooter on school premises.
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration
8/28/2023
HB7004
Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of
- As introduced, requires the court or chief officer of a mental health facility that orders the release of a person from the mental health facility to notify the law enforcement agency that transported the person to the mental health facility of the person's release.
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration
8/28/2023
HB7007
Autopsies
- As introduced, specifies that reports of county medical examiners and autopsy reports of victims of violent crime who are minors are not public documents; allows a parent or legal guardian of a minor victim of a violent crime to consent to the release of the report of the county medical examiner or autopsy report of the minor victim if the parent or legal guardian is not a suspect in the circumstances of the minor's death.
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration
8/28/2023
HB7013
Clerks, Court
- As enacted, changes from 30 days to 72 hours the time frame within which a clerk of the circuit or general sessions court must notify the TBI of the final disposition of criminal proceedings against a person after final disposition of such proceedings; requires the clerk to notify the TBI of the final disposition of such proceedings by electronic submission; requires the clerk of the municipal court, when exercising concurrent general sessions court jurisdiction, to notify the TBI by electronic submission of the final disposition of such proceedings against a person no later than 72 hours after final disposition of such proceedings.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 2
12/27/2023
HB7015
Criminal Procedure
- As introduced, expands, from certain violent offenses to any felony offense, the offenses for which a person who has been arrested is required to have a biological specimen taken for the purpose of DNA analysis to determine identification characteristics specific to the person if probable cause exists for the arrest.
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
8/22/2023
HB7027
Mental Illness
- As introduced, requires the state to pay the cost of a court-ordered mental health evaluation and treatment for criminal defendants who have been charged with a misdemeanor and are believed to be incompetent to stand trial or for whom there is a question about mental capacity at the time of the offense.
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration
8/28/2023
HB7032
Insurance, Health, Accident
- As introduced, requires health insurance carriers, including TennCare providers, to provide mental health services and treatment to the same extent that the carriers and providers provide alcoholism and drug dependence services and treatment.
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration
8/29/2023
HB7073
Juvenile Offenders
- As introduced, requires a juvenile court to impose a blended sentence on a child adjudicated delinquent for certain offenses; defines blended sentencing as a combination of any disposition otherwise provided for juveniles and a period of an adult disposition to be served after the child turns 19 and which ends on or before the child's 24th birthday; requires the juvenile court to hold a transfer hearing if a juvenile offender is 16 or more but less than 18 at the time of the alleged conduct and is alleged to have committed certain offenses; requires the juvenile court to transfer the juvenile to adult criminal court for disposition as if the juvenile were an adult if the court makes certain findings; provides for an automatic de novo review by the criminal court of a juvenile court's decision denying a transfer to adult criminal court.
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration
8/29/2023
2 resolutions(s) sponsored in the 113th General Assembly.
Bill Number
Composite Abstract
Last Action
Date
HJR1048
Memorials, Recognition
- Day of Mourning
Signed by Governor.
4/4/2024
HJR1154
Memorials, Recognition
- Dr. William B. Greer
Signed by Governor.
4/12/2024
89 resolutions(s) co-sponsored in the 113th General Assembly.
Bill Number
Composite Abstract
Last Action
Date
HJR0027
General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position
- Expresses strong support for completion of the southern border wall and urges Congress to immediately take action to fund the construction.
Signed by Governor.
5/4/2023
HJR0038
Constitutional Amendments
- Proposes an amendment to Article I, Section 26 of the Constitution of Tennessee to remove the provision that authorizes the legislature to regulate the wearing of arms with a view to prevent crime and to clarify that citizens have a right to keep and bear arms for their defense, and not just for common defense.
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
4/10/2024
HJR0058
General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position
- Encourages the federal government to provide free health care for all honorably discharged veterans.
Signed by Governor.
4/10/2023
HJR0072
Memorials, Death
- Dr. Charles A. Champion
Signed by Governor.
2/15/2023
HJR0084
Memorials, Sports
- Arion Carter, Gatorade Tennessee Football Player of the Year
Signed by Governor.
2/15/2023
HJR0094
Constitutional Amendments
- Proposes an amendment to Article I, Section 35 of the Constitution of Tennessee to expand the rights of victims of crimes.
Signed by Senate Speaker
2/26/2024
HJR0096
Memorials, Recognition
- Music Therapy Week
Signed by Governor.
3/19/2024
HJR0099
General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment
- Ron Ramsey, East Tennessee State University Board of Trustees
H. subst. & concurred in SJR 132
3/23/2023
HJR0100
General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment
- Melissa Steagall-Jones, East Tennessee State University Board of Trustees
H. subst. & concurred in SJR 133
3/20/2023
HJR0118
Naming and Designating
- Designates October 2023 as "Spina Bifida Month,"
Received from House, refer to Senate State & Local Government Committee
3/13/2023
HJR0165
Memorials, Death
- Mary Elizabeth Cotter
Signed by Governor.
2/24/2023
HJR0275
Memorials, Death
- Colonel (Ret.) Patrick "Rage" Ragan
Signed by Governor.
3/17/2023
HJR0288
Memorials, Heroism
- Officer Tina Shaw
Signed by Governor.
3/17/2023
HJR0301
Memorials, Recognition
- Montford Point Marines
Signed by Governor.
3/8/2023
HJR0319
Memorials, Recognition
- West Tennessee Healthcare Dyersburg Hospital cardiac catheterization laboratory
Signed by Governor.
3/16/2023
HJR0355
Memorials, Death
- Officer Geoffrey "Bernard" Redd
Signed by Governor.
3/21/2023
HJR0465
Memorials, Recognition
- Reverend Dr. J. Lawrence Turner
Signed by Governor.
4/11/2023
HJR0503
Memorials, Recognition
- Metropolitan Nashville Police Department Chief John Drake and commanding officers
Signed by Governor.
4/20/2023
HJR0504
Memorials, Heroism
- Metropolitan Nashville Police Department Officers and State and federal law enforcement officials
Signed by Governor.
4/20/2023
HJR0506
Memorials, Recognition
- Julius Rosenwald, the Rosenwald Schools
Signed by Governor.
4/13/2023
HJR0521
Memorials, Recognition
- Nashville Fire Department and Nashville Department of Emergency Communications 911
Signed by Governor.
4/25/2023
HJR0522
Memorials, Recognition
- Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Signed by Governor.
5/4/2023
HJR0523
Memorials, Death
- Evelyn Marie Dieckhaus
Signed by Governor.
4/26/2023
HJR0524
Memorials, Death
- Hallie Scruggs
Signed by Governor.
4/26/2023
HJR0525
Memorials, Death
- William Kinney
Signed by Governor.
4/26/2023
HJR0526
Memorials, Death
- Dr. Katherine Koonce
Signed by Governor.
4/26/2023
HJR0527
Memorials, Death
- Cynthia Broyles Peak
Signed by Governor.
4/26/2023
HJR0528
Memorials, Death
- Michael "Mike" Hill
Signed by Governor.
4/26/2023
HJR0576
Memorials, Academic Achievement
- Karla Yanely Pacheco, Salutatorian, Raleigh Egypt High School
Signed by Governor.
5/4/2023
HJR0577
Memorials, Academic Achievement
- Maria Fernanda Arredondo, Valedictorian, Raleigh-Egypt High School
Signed by Governor.
5/4/2023
HJR0578
Memorials, Academic Achievement
- Zoey Zakyia Carruth, Salutatorian, Cordova High School
Signed by Governor.
5/4/2023
HJR0579
Memorials, Academic Achievement
- Ashton Rose Ramirez, Valedictorian, Cordova High School
Signed by Governor.
5/4/2023
HJR0580
Memorials, Academic Achievement
- Petra Rayo Jimenez, Valedictorian, Kingsbury High School
Signed by Governor.
5/4/2023
HJR0581
Memorials, Academic Achievement
- Kierra Thrill, Salutatorian, Kingsbury High School
Signed by Governor.
5/4/2023
HJR0663
Memorials, Recognition
- Native Plant Month
Received from House, refer to Senate Energy, Ag., and Natural Resources Committee
1/9/2024
HJR0685
Constitutional Amendments
- Proposes an amendment to Article VII, Section 1 of the Constitution of Tennessee to specify the duties of the sheriff, trustee, register, county clerk, and assessor of property.
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
3/27/2024
HJR0688
General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position
- Affirms support for Israel and condemns Hamas.
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Public Service Subcommittee of State Government Committee
1/30/2024
HJR0715
Memorials, Recognition
- Native Plant Month
Signed by Governor.
2/28/2024
HJR0733
Naming and Designating
- Designates August 1 as "Gold Star Children's Day."
Signed by Governor.
3/19/2024
HJR0751
General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment
- Jeremy Nagoshiner, Heritage Conservation Trust Fund Board
H. subst. & concurred in SJR 841
2/12/2024
HJR0765
General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment
- Krissi McInturff, State Board of Education
H. subst. & concurred in SJR 827
2/12/2024
HJR0772
General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment
- Tony Treadway, East Tennessee State University Board of Trustees
H. subst. & concurred in SJR 824
2/12/2024
HJR0778
Naming and Designating
- Designates February 24 as "SCN2A Awareness Day."
Signed by Governor.
4/4/2024
HJR0784
Memorials, Death
- James B. "Jim" Spears
Signed by Governor.
2/12/2024
HJR0791
Memorials, Death
- John Patten Guerry
Signed by Governor.
2/12/2024
HJR0798
Memorials, Government Officials
- Urges Governor Lee to work with neighboring states and law enforcement officials to identify and prosecute child and human traffickers.
Signed by Governor.
4/4/2024
HJR0801
Memorials, Congress
- Urges the federal government to do all within its power to secure the U.S. border.
Signed by Governor.
4/18/2024
HJR0803
General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position
- Designates the period of July 1, 2024, through July 31, 2024, as a time of prayer and fasting in Tennessee and seeks God’s hand of mercy healing on Tennessee.
Signed by Governor.
4/16/2024
HJR0808
Memorials, Death
- Representative Frank Buck
Signed by Governor.
2/21/2024
HJR0810
Memorials, Government Officials
- Urges Governor Lee to deploy Tennessee National Guard to support Texas in its efforts to secure border.
Received from House, refer to Senate State & Local Government Committee
3/21/2024
HJR0811
General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position
- Recognizes the benefits of chess in education and correctional systems.
Received from House, refer to Senate Education Committee
3/11/2024
HJR0825
Memorials, Death
- Renfro Blackburn "Buddy" Baird III
Signed by Governor.
2/14/2024
HJR0963
Memorials, Recognition
- Tennesseans for opposing and condemning neo-Nazism
Signed by Governor.
3/11/2024
HJR1006
Memorials, Death
- Rep. Don Ridgeway
Signed by Governor.
3/13/2024
HJR1009
Memorials, Recognition
- A Soldier's Child Foundation
Signed by Governor.
3/26/2024
HJR1027
Memorials, Death
- Jillian Ludwig
Signed by Governor.
5/3/2024
HJR1050
Memorials, Sports
- Pickett County Lady Bobcats, Class A state champions
Signed by Governor.
4/4/2024
HJR1128
Memorials, Public Service
- Representative Dale Carr
Signed by Governor.
4/9/2024
HJR1142
Memorials, Recognition
- First anniversary of the Covenant School shooting
Signed by Governor.
4/10/2024
HJR1316
Memorials, Recognition
- Chattanooga Coca-Cola, 125th anniversary
Signed by Governor.
4/22/2024
HJR1504
Memorials, Retirement
- Kim McCaster Cox
Signed by Governor.
5/9/2024
HJR7014
Memorials, Recognition
- Bev Johnson
Signed by Governor.
9/7/2023
HJR7023
Memorials, Death
- Representative Bill Beck
Signed by Governor.
9/7/2023
HJR7037
Memorials, Recognition
- Larry Taylor, Congressional Medal of Honor
Signed by Governor.
9/7/2023
HJR7053
Memorials, Recognition
- Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services and Quinco Community Mental Health Centers
Signed by Governor.
9/8/2023
HR0088
Memorials, Government Officials
- Requests that a memorial plaque be affixed in the House chamber to the desk of the late Representative Barbara Cooper.
Signed by H. Speaker
4/20/2023
HR0155
Memorials, Retirement
- Master Sergeant Robert D. Davis, Jr., United States Air Force
Signed by H. Speaker
4/18/2024
SJR0124
Memorials, Death
- Tyre D. Nichols
Signed by Governor.
1/31/2023
SJR0128
Memorials, Death
- Clara Louise Macklin
Signed by Governor.
2/10/2023
SJR0132
General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment
- Ron Ramsey, East Tennessee State University Board of Trustees
Signed by Governor.
3/30/2023
SJR0133
General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment
- Melissa Steagall-Jones, East Tennessee State University Board of Trustees
Signed by Governor.
3/23/2023
SJR0159
Memorials, Recognition
- Tennessee Credit Unions, 100 years
Signed by Governor.
3/30/2023
SJR0174
Memorials, Recognition
- Danube Institute
Signed by Governor.
5/2/2023
SJR0179
Memorials, Recognition
- Tennessee State University Aristocrat of Bands
Signed by Governor.
2/14/2023
SJR0210
Memorials, Recognition
- Lt. Governor Randy McNally
Signed by Governor.
2/17/2023
SJR0240
Memorials, Death
- Major General Gary L. Harrell
Signed by Governor.
3/16/2023
SJR0288
General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position
- Recognizes Tennessee as a Technology First state.
Assigned to s/c Health Subcommittee
1/10/2024
SJR0355
Memorials, Sports
- Hampton High School boys' basketball team, TSSAA Division I, Class 1A state champions
Signed by Governor.
4/4/2023
SJR0361
Memorials, Recognition
- Paige Clark, Miss Tennessee Volunteer 2023
Signed by Governor.
4/10/2023
SJR0533
Memorials, Recognition
- Women Veterans Appreciation Day
Signed by Governor.
4/25/2023
SJR0534
Memorials, Recognition
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park Honoring Our Veterans Day
Signed by Governor.
4/25/2023
SJR0556
Memorials, Recognition
- Jasmine Carson
Signed by Governor.
5/2/2023
SJR0824
General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment
- Tony Treadway, East Tennessee State University Board of Trustees
Signed by Governor.
2/14/2024
SJR0827
General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment
- Krissi McInturff, State Board of Education
Signed by Governor.
2/14/2024
SJR0841
General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment
- Jeremy Nagoshiner, Heritage Conservation Trust Fund Board
Signed by Governor.
2/14/2024
SJR0869
Memorials, Death
- Brenda Louise Smith Allred
Signed by Governor.
2/5/2024
SJR0870
General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position
- Expresses support for State of Israel and condemns recent attacks on Israel.
Signed by Governor.
4/9/2024
SJR0919
Constitutional Amendments
- Proposes an amendment to Article I, Section 15 of the Constitution of Tennessee to remove the right to bail for the following offenses when the proof is evident or the presumption great: act of terrorism; second degree murder; aggravated rape of a child; aggravated rape; grave torture; and any other offense, as of November 3, 2026, for which a defendant, if convicted, could not be released prior to the expiration of at least 85 percent of the entire sentence imposed.
Signed by H. Speaker
4/26/2024
SJR1085
Memorials, Death
- Pat Halloran
Signed by Governor.
3/22/2024