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Representative Sherrell,
43rd Representative District
Bills Sponsored
Bills Co-Sponsored
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19 bill(s) sponsored in the 113th General Assembly.
Bill Number
Composite Abstract
Last Action
Date
HB0401
Education
- As introduced, establishes a school safety technology fund as a special account within the general fund to provide local education agencies with the funding necessary to purchase a technology platform designed to assist schools in performing routine checks of school building doors to ensure that the doors are locked.
Assigned to s/c K-12 Subcommittee
2/1/2023
HB0530
TennCare
- As introduced, requires the bureau to reimburse air-based ambulance service providers, along with ground-based ambulance service providers, at a rate of no less than 67.5 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers.
Assigned to s/c Insurance Subcommittee
2/1/2023
HB0531
Pensions and Retirement Benefits
- As introduced, allows TCRS members to establish retirement credit for military service in active federal duty in the armed forces of the United States under certain circumstances.
Assigned to s/c Public Service Subcommittee
2/1/2023
HB0863
Election Laws
- As introduced, authorizes Warren County to participate in a pilot project utilizing convenient voting centers.
Assigned to s/c Elections & Campaign Finance Subcommittee
2/7/2023
HB1076
Comptroller, State
- As introduced, deletes antiquated language that required the office of research and education accountability in the office of the comptroller to submit a report by November 1, 2019, to the education committees of the senate and house of representatives regarding the formation and operation of community schools.
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
2/2/2023
HB1124
Open Meetings
- As introduced, requires a governing body to provide members of the public the opportunity to comment at a meeting of the governing body if the meeting is open to the public pursuant to the Open Meetings Law and if members of the public give proper notice to the governing body.
Assigned to s/c Public Service Subcommittee
2/7/2023
HB1125
Charitable Solicitations
- As introduced, increases from seven to 14 days the period within which an applicant for a charitable solicitation registration may request a hearing following receipt of notification that the applicant has not satisfied the registration requirements.
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Departments & Agencies Subcommittee of State Government Committee
3/15/2023
HB1126
Victims' Rights
- As enacted, requires judge to order payment of restitution by owner who is convicted of allowing their dog to run loose and the dog causes bodily injury or death to another person, or damages another person's property.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 226
5/4/2023
HB1152
Education
- As introduced, changes, from 30 to 45, the number of days prior to a local education agency's adoption of a district-wide school safety plan or building-level school safety plan that a summary of the plan must be made available for public comment.
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
2/2/2023
HB1153
Naming and Designating
- As enacted, designates the National Guard Armory to be constructed in Warren County as the "Major General Terry Max Haston National Guard Armory".
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 478
5/24/2023
HB1260
Game and Fish Laws
- As introduced, establishes requirements and limitations for the use of a trotline to kill, catch, or take fish or other aquatic life.
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Departments & Agencies Subcommittee of State Government Committee
3/1/2023
HB1372
Highway Signs
- As introduced, renames the portion of the road known as "Rep. John Lewis Way" in Davidson County located between Dr. Martin L. King Jr. Blvd and James Robertson Parkway as "President Donald Trump Boulevard"; requires the alteration of governmental addresses; and removes protections for named streets from the Tennessee Heritage Protection Act of 2016.
Withdrawn.
3/6/2023
HB1528
Internet and e-Commerce
- As introduced, enacts the "Social Media Accountable Censorship Act"; creates a cause of action for adult social media website users whose speech is censored, subject to certain exceptions.
Assigned to s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee
2/7/2023
HB1555
White County
- Subject to local approval, establishes that general sessions court has concurrent jurisdiction with chancery and circuit courts relating to cases of adoption, pursuant to general law.
Pr. Ch. 15
5/24/2023
HB1996
Purchasing and Procurement
- As introduced, changes from October 1 to October 15 the date by which the chief procurement officer must annually report to the speaker of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the governor on the status of the federal Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010, the Iran Divestment Act of 2014, and any rules or regulations adopted thereunder.
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
1/25/2024
HB2458
Scholarships and Financial Aid
- As introduced, establishes a physician assistant student loan repayment grant program to incentivize physician assistants to provide health services in health resource shortage areas.
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Health Subcommittee of Health Committee
3/26/2024
HB2616
Education
- As introduced, requires agreements and obligations of local education agencies (LEAs) relative to school-based health-related services to be fair, reasonable, and suitable to the objectives of the LEA with respect to the school-based health-related services.
Assigned to s/c K-12 Subcommittee
3/13/2024
HB2636
Public Records
- As introduced, reduces, from three months to two months, the time for a records custodian to file a written report with the office of open records counsel regarding the filing of a petition to enjoin a person from making records requests if the person is making public records requests to disrupt government operations.
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
2/5/2024
HB2994
Viola
- Subject to local approval, reduces the number of aldermen from five to two; deletes an obsolete provision regarding work houses.
Pr. Ch. 61
5/13/2024
208 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
HB0009
Obscenity and Pornography
- As enacted, creates an offense for a person who engages in an adult cabaret performance on public property or in a location where the adult cabaret performance could be viewed by a person who is not an adult.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 2
3/22/2023
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
HB0030
Local Government, General
- As introduced, requires a person to obtain a valid entertainer permit from the adult-oriented establishment board, in those jurisdictions with a board, prior to performing adult cabaret entertainment for compensation; prohibits public, private, and commercial establishments from allowing persons under the age of 18 to attend a performance featuring adult cabaret entertainment.
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration
3/9/2023
HB0040
Real Property
- As enacted, prohibits certain foreign ownership of real property in this state by nonresident aliens and foreign entities if certain conditions are met.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
5/18/2023
HB0048
Local Government, General
- As enacted, caps at 20 the number of members that may be elected to the governing body of a metropolitan or municipal government.
Effective date(s) 03/09/2023
3/23/2023
HB0064
Human Services, Dept. of
- As enacted, increases, from three to four years, the duration of Tennessee opportunity pilot programs for which temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) program funds must be dedicated; extends, from 12 to 18 months, the length of time following the end of each federal fiscal year by which the department must spend all unobligated TANF program funds; makes other related revisions.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 51
3/28/2023
HB0066
Health Care
- As enacted, authorizes the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities to provide home health services to outpatients through its administration of the Tennessee Early Intervention System and the home- and community-based services provided through such system.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 24
3/23/2023
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
HB0077
DUI Offenses
- As enacted, requires that any ignition interlock device that is installed on or after January 1, 2024, employ global positioning system (GPS) technology that will geotag the motor vehicle's location whenever an initial startup test, a random retest, or a skipped test occurs, or when circumvention of the device is detected.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 20
3/23/2023
HB0080
Water Pollution
- As enacted, specifies that underground injection activities authorized by rule are not subject to the general five-year term limit for discharge permits under the Water Quality Control Act of 1977.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 85
4/18/2023
HB0088
Driver Licenses
- As enacted, requires the department of safety to waive the knowledge test, and accept alternative requirements, for active duty and honorably discharged service members and members of the national guard or the armed forces reserves applying for temporary commercial learner's permits; identifies certain alternative requirements, which include operating a commercial motor vehicle in the military in combination with a good driving record.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 422
5/24/2023
HB0114
Sentencing
- As enacted, allows a court to sentence a defendant convicted of two or more criminal offenses to consecutive sentences if the defendant is sentenced for criminal offenses involving more than one victim and the court finds that a separate consecutive sentence for each offense is in the interest of justice.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 481
5/24/2023
HB0128
Statutes of Limitations and Repose
- As enacted, increases the statute of limitation for prosecution of official misconduct and destruction of and tampering with governmental records to six years from the date of the offense.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 22
3/23/2023
HB0138
Highways, Roads and Bridges
- As enacted, makes various revisions to law relative to designating bridges, highways, and roads.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 251
5/3/2023
HB0144
Criminal Offenses
- As enacted, changes from 25 to 17 the number of days of incarceration a person convicted of a second offense of driving under the influence of an intoxicant must serve before the person can participate in a substance abuse treatment program; requires a person charged with or convicted of a third or subsequent offense of driving under the influence of an intoxicant involving the use of alcohol to wear a transdermal alcohol monitoring device for a 90-day period of continuous sobriety.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 116
4/18/2023
HB0155
Health, Dept. of
- As enacted, requires an annual training pay bonus supplement for eligible emergency medical services personnel in the amount of $800.
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 01/01/2024
5/18/2023
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
HB0170
Zoning
- As enacted, states that property owners should expect that a permit application will be judged on the law in effect at the time of application; declares that the general assembly rejects the pending ordinance doctrine, as described by the Tennessee supreme court in its May 14, 2007, opinion in the case of Harding Academy v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, as contrary to the public policy interests of property owners in this state.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 453
5/24/2023
HB0239
Statutes and Codification
- As enacted, adds "sex" as a defined term for statutory construction purposes.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 486
5/24/2023
HB0243
Taxes, Exemption and Credits
- As introduced, exempts the retail sale of food and food ingredients from the sales tax if sold to a person who is 70 years of age or older during the period beginning July 1, 2023, and ending September 30, 2023.
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
4/17/2024
HB0248
Criminal Offenses
- As enacted, requires a person convicted of domestic assault involving strangulation to serve a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 days incarceration; enhances offenses involving strangulation or attempted strangulation based on certain circumstances.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 440
5/24/2023
HB0282
Pharmacy, Pharmacists
- As enacted, clarifies what constitutes the "practice of pharmacy"; makes related changes.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 824
5/9/2024
HB0290
Criminal Procedure
- As introduced, removes the requirement for a defendant to pay a fee of $100 to the Tennessee bureau of investigation upon the defendant's request for diversion.
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
4/18/2023
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
HB0319
Environment and Conservation, Department of
- As enacted, establishes a "brownfield redevelopment area fund" to be used by the department to administer a brownfield redevelopment area grant program; creates a franchise and excise tax credit equal to the remediation costs for a brownfield property for a qualified development project in a tier 3 or tier 4 enhancement county; makes other related revisions.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 86
4/18/2023
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
HB0329
Teachers, Principals and School Personnel
- As enacted, generally increases the base salaries in the state salary schedule for teachers formulated by the commissioner of education; prohibits an LEA from deducting dues from the wages of the LEA's employees for a professional employees' organization.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 437
5/24/2023
HB0345
Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration
- As introduced, permits registration plates to be renewed every 24 months instead of 12 months.
Failed in Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
4/11/2023
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
HB0430
Juvenile Offenders
- As enacted, makes revisions to the law relevant to juvenile courts and proceedings.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1007
5/29/2024
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
HB0482
Criminal Offenses
- As enacted, revises the punishment for critical infrastructure vandalism.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
5/3/2023
HB0484
Criminal Offenses
- As introduced, increases the penalty for the offense of possession of a used, detached catalytic converter by an unauthorized person from a Class A misdemeanor punishable only by fine to a Class E felony.
Returned to the Clerk's Desk.
4/17/2024
HB0487
Utilities, Utility Districts
- As enacted, excludes streaming video content from the definition of "cable service," and streaming content and direct-to-home satellite services from the definition of "video service," for purposes of the Competitive Cable and Video Services Act.
Effective date(s) 03/21/2023
3/28/2023
HB0495
Physicians and Surgeons
- As enacted, enacts the "Topical Medical Waste Reduction Act of 2023," which establishes certain regulations of facility-provided medications.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 150
4/18/2023
HB0500
Appropriations
- As introduced, appropriates $20 million to the legislature for the purchase or construction of a building or other facility accessible to the Cordell Hull Building.
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
4/18/2023
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
HB0587
DUI Offenses
- As enacted, lowers the threshold for enhancing the minimum sentence of a person convicted of driving under the influence of an intoxicant, from a blood alcohol concentration of 0.20 percent or more to a blood alcohol concentration of 0.15 percent or more.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1011
5/31/2024
HB0628
Health Care
- As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Wellness Law."
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 924
5/13/2024
HB0661
Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration
- As enacted, authorizes licensed physical therapists to issue certified statements of disability in same manner as physicians for a person's application for a disabled registration plate, decal, or placard.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 89
4/18/2023
HB0701
Sexual Offenses
- As enacted, adds offenses of continuous sexual abuse of a child committed on or after July 1, 2024, to the list of qualifying criminal misconduct that is sentenced to community supervision for life in addition to any other statutorily imposed punishment.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
3/15/2024
HB0702
Controlled Substances
- As enacted, enacts the "One Pill Will Kill Act," which adds fentanyl, carfentanil, remifentanil, alfentanil, and thiafentanil to what constitutes a qualifying controlled substance for purposes of certain felony offenses.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
5/19/2023
HB0704
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation
- As enacted, expands the duties of the medicaid fraud control unit of the Tennessee bureau of investigation to include investigation of complaints of abuse, neglect and financial exploitation of medicaid recipients in any setting; allows the director of the Tennessee bureau of investigation to create new divisions within the bureau as necessary.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 88
4/18/2023
HB0705
Expunction
- As enacted, requires a court ordering the expunction of a person's public records of a criminal offense as a result of successful completion of a diversion program to include the person's state control number in the expunction order submitted to the Tennessee bureau of investigation.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 43
3/23/2023
HB0722
Criminal Offenses
- As enacted, increases the classification for voluntary manslaughter from a Class C felony to a Class B felony.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
5/3/2023
HB0726
General Assembly
- As introduced, enacts the "Restoring State Sovereignty Through Nullification Act," which establishes processes by which the general assembly may nullify an unconstitutional federal statute, regulation, agency order, or executive order.
Taken off notice for cal. in State Government Committee
3/22/2023
HB0727
Local Education Agencies
- As enacted, requires a student's parent or legal guardian, or the student if the student has reached the age of majority, to provide certain consent before the student may engage in certain activities at school.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 353
5/17/2023
HB0789
Taxes, Sales
- As introduced, increases, over a five-year period, from 4.6030 percent to 5.0909 percent, the share of state sales and use tax revenue appropriated to municipalities; reduces, over a five-year period, from 29.0141 percent to 28.5262 percent, the share of state sales and use tax revenue deposited to the state general fund.
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
4/18/2023
HB0794
DUI Offenses
- As enacted, revises present law provisions relative to the electronic monitoring indigency fund.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 464
5/24/2023
HB0806
Criminal Offenses
- As enacted, makes revisions to the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act of 1989, including expanding the definition of racketeering activity.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 487
5/24/2023
HB0830
Bail, Bail Bonds
- As enacted, revises present law relative to admission to bail.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
5/18/2023
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
HB0854
Adoption
- As enacted, makes revisions to present law relative to termination of certain parental rights.
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023
5/19/2023
HB0855
Adoption
- As enacted, changes the time period during which the Tennessee putative father registry must have been consulted prior to the filing of a petition to terminate parental rights from 10 days to 10 working days; requires the appointment of a guardian ad litem in an adoption involving a mentally disabled child when the child is 14 years of age or older at any time before the granting of the petition rather than at any age.
Effective date(s) 05/05/2023
5/18/2023
HB0879
Regional Authorities and Special Districts
- As enacted, authorizes a housing authority-related entity participating in a mixed-finance project to form a self-insurance pooling arrangement, if the housing authority with which the entity is related has formed partnerships, limited liability companies, or other entities in which an authority, or an entity affiliated with the authority, is a general partner, managing member, or otherwise participates in the activities of the entity.
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023
5/19/2023
HB0905
Judges and Chancellors
- As enacted, adds one additional criminal court judge in the thirteenth judicial district, one additional circuit court judge in the nineteenth judicial district, and one additional circuit court judge in the twenty-second judicial district.
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023
5/19/2023
HB0962
Local Education Agencies
- As enacted, authorizes an LEA to award a high school student credit for a course offered by the LEA's high school if the student attains a qualifying score on the course's final examination without requiring the student to enroll in the course.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 269
5/3/2023
HB0976
Firefighters
- As enacted, enacts the "James 'Dustin' Samples Act."
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 465
5/24/2023
HB1008
Criminal Offenses
- As enacted, specifies that a course of conduct for purposes of stalking includes one instance of placing an electronic tracking device on a person or in or on a person's property, unless the electronic tracking device is placed by or at the direction of a law enforcement officer.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 349
5/17/2023
HB1016
Education
- As enacted, makes various changes to the present law relative to the offense of communicating a threat concerning a school employee.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
5/13/2024
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
HB1031
Boards and Commissions
- As enacted, creates the inmate disciplinary oversight board for the purpose of granting or denying sentence credits for good institutional behavior and determining whether sentence credits previously awarded should be removed for commission of certain disciplinary offenses.
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 01/01/2024
5/19/2023
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
HB1075
Lottery, Scholarships and Programs
- As introduced, expands eligibility for a dual enrollment grant to include students who are sophomores in high school and admitted to an eligible postsecondary institution as a dual enrollment student.
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
4/18/2023
HB1106
Juvenile Offenders
- As enacted, allows a juvenile court to transfer a juvenile 16 years of age or older to a criminal court of competent jurisdiction to be tried as an adult for committing the offense of escape from a youth development center approved, certified, or licensed by the department of children's services.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 264
5/3/2023
HB1158
Firearms and Ammunition
- As introduced, lowers the age requirement to obtain an enhanced or concealed handgun carry permit or lawfully carry a handgun in public from 21 to 18 years of age; states that the statutory authorization to transport or store a firearm or firearm ammunition in a motor vehicle under certain circumstances does not apply to a person under 21 years of age in a parking area that is owned, operated, or while in use by any school, unless the person is at least 18 years of age and meets certain military qualifications.
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee of Civil Justice Committee
2/21/2023
HB1163
Health Care
- As enacted, enacts the "Healthcare Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act."
Effective date(s) 03/07/2024
3/15/2024
HB1173
Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies
- As introduced, requires an insurer to provide the names of the beneficiaries of a decedent's life insurance policy, the benefit amount under the policy, and other information requested by a funeral director or funeral establishment that contacts the insurer on behalf of the decedent's family.
Failed in s/c Insurance Subcommittee of Insurance Committee
3/21/2023
HB1187
Taxes, Sales
- As introduced, reduces, from 29.0141 percent to 28.5262 percent, the share of state sales and use tax revenue deposited to the state general fund; increases, from 4.6030 percent to 5.0909 percent, the share appropriated to municipalities.
Returned to the Clerk's Desk.
4/17/2024
HB1189
Remedies and Special Proceedings
- As enacted, limits the circumstances under which a qualified civil liability action may be brought against certain manufacturers, dealers, and sellers of firearms and related products.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
5/24/2023
HB1195
Therapists, Physical and Occupational
- As enacted, allows the practice of physical therapy to be under the written or oral referral of a nurse practitioner or physician assistant; removes certain minimum education requirements to engage in the independent practice of physical therapy.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 107
4/18/2023
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
HB1242
Criminal Offenses
- As enacted, makes it a Class A misdemeanor to knowingly possess xylazine; makes it a Class C felony to knowingly manufacture, deliver, or sell xylazine, or to knowingly possess xylazine with intent to manufacture, deliver, or sell xylazine; provides exceptions for veterinarians.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
5/24/2023
HB1245
Criminal Procedure
- As introduced, allows for a sentence of death to be carried out by electrocution as an alternative to lethal injection if the commissioner of correction certifies to the governor that the department is unable to adhere to the lethal injection protocol required to carry out the sentence of death.
Returned to the Clerk's Desk.
4/17/2024
HB1248
Elder Abuse
- As enacted, authorizes a financial service provider, or an officer or employee of the provider, that has reasonable cause to suspect that an elderly or vulnerable adult is the victim or target of financial exploitation, to convey the suspicion to the TBI's elder financial reporting mechanism; requires the TBI to create an elder financial exploitation reporting mechanism that accepts reports from financial institutions.
Effective date(s) 05/21/2024, 10/01/2024
5/28/2024
HB1259
Real Property
- As enacted, enacts anti-squatter laws.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1009
5/29/2024
HB1269
Teachers, Principals and School Personnel
- As enacted, specifies that a teacher or other employee of a public school or LEA is not required to refer to a student using the student's preferred pronoun if the pronoun is not consistent with the student's biological sex; insulates a teacher or other employee of a public school or LEA from civil liability and adverse employment action for referring to a student using the pronoun that is consistent with the student's biological sex.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 448
5/24/2023
HB1280
Elder Abuse
- As enacted, expands the offense of aggravated stalking to include a person who commits stalking against a victim who is at least 65 or older.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
5/24/2023
HB1286
Public Funds and Financing
- As enacted, requires the department of treasury investment division staff to invest, reinvest, manage, and select investment options for program assets for financial reasons, excluding environmental, social, and governance interests that may not be material to the financial analysis of the investment, for the exclusive benefit of the beneficiaries of the programs while maximizing long-term shareholder value; makes other changes concerning the authority of the state treasurer.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 471
5/24/2023
HB1319
Flags
- As introduced, requires the United States flag and the official state flag to be displayed continuously on property owned, operated, or controlled by this state or a political subdivision of this state, including educational institutions and public school buildings; restricts the display of flags other than the United States flag and the official state flag on said property to only those periods of time for which an entity represented by the flag is meeting or performing an authorized function on the property, with certain exceptions.
Re-refer to S. Cal Comm
4/23/2024
HB1346
Real Property
- As enacted, prohibits this state and its political subdivisions from adopting or implementing policy recommendations that deliberately or inadvertently infringe or restrict private property rights without due process, as may be required by policy recommendations originating in, or traceable to, "Agenda 21," adopted by the United Nations in 1992 at its Conference on Environment and Development, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the U.N.'s proposal to reach net zero emissions by 2050, or any other international law or ancillary plan of action that contravenes the constitution of the United States or the constitution of this state.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 479
5/24/2023
HB1366
Correction, Dept. of
- As enacted, requires the department to provide an inmate who is discharged from imprisonment for a felony offense and who intends to reside in this state with certain documentation to assist the inmate in obtaining post-release employment and to coordinate with the department of safety to provide a photo identification license if the inmate does not have a current photo identification license or driver license.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 461
5/24/2023
HB1376
Education, Higher
- As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Higher Education Freedom of Expression and Transparency Act."
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 268
5/3/2023
HB1380
Public Health
- As enacted, enacts the "Mature Minor Doctrine Clarification Act."
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 477
5/24/2023
HB1388
Health, Dept. of
- As enacted, terminates the radiologic imaging and radiation therapy board of examiners; authorizes the board of medical examiners, to establish and issue limited and full X-ray certifications.
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023
5/3/2023
HB1431
Public Employees
- As enacted, increases the pay schedule for certain assistant district attorneys general, assistant district public defenders, district investigators, and criminal investigators.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 460
5/24/2023
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
HB1475
Criminal Offenses
- As introduced, increases the mandatory period of confinement for the felony offense of evading arrest from 30 days to 90 days; increases the mandatory period of confinement for the felony offense of evading arrest from 60 days to 120 days if the offense creates a risk of death or injury to innocent bystanders, pursuing law enforcement officers, or other third parties; removes unlawful attempted arrest as a defense to the felony offense of evading arrest.
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
4/18/2023
HB1482
Bonding, Surety and Professional
- As enacted, allows the Tennessee Association of Professional Bail Agents to provide or contract for one or more virtual classes for agents; increases the maximum amount the association may charge for eight hours of continuing education; prohibits a person from attending such continuing education classes if the person has been convicted in any state of certain offenses.
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 01/01/2025
5/17/2023
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
HB1622
Law Enforcement
- As introduced, requires an annual training pay bonus supplement for eligible campus police officers and public safety officers in the amount of $800.
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
4/17/2024
HB1623
Traffic Safety
- As enacted, authorizes a county or municipality to hire employees or appoint volunteers to direct traffic within a school zone if certain conditions are met; establishes a Class C misdemeanor for a motor vehicle operator who knowingly ignores a regulatory or warning sign for the dropping off or picking up of students.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 948
5/13/2024
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
HB1635
Hotels and Restaurants
- As enacted, prohibits emotional support animals that are not trained, or being trained, to perform tasks or work for a person with a disability from indoor areas of food service establishments.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 566
3/26/2024
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
HB1658
Criminal Offenses
- As enacted, establishes a Class E felony for a person who commits assault against a participant in judicial proceedings while on the premises of a building in which judicial proceedings occur; makes revisions to law regarding wiretapping and electronic surveillance.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1045
6/6/2024
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
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
HB1687
Emergency Communications Districts
- As enacted, authorizes a nurse practitioner or physician assistant to perform the mandatory physical examination of a public safety dispatcher or emergency call taker if the physical examination is included in the written protocol developed by the supervising physician and nurse practitioner or physician assistant.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
3/19/2024
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
HB1731
Consumer Protection
- As enacted, enacts the "Modernization of Towing, Immobilization, and Oversight Normalization (MOTION) Act."
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1017
5/31/2024
HB1805
Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration
- As enacted, enacts the "Ethan Wade Walls Act," which authorizes proration of the registration fee for freight motor vehicles operated for commercial purposes upon the death of an eligible operator of the freight motor vehicle; requires submission of certain documentation prior to issuance of a refund for the unused portion of the registration fee paid.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 963
5/13/2024
HB1817
Criminal Offenses
- As enacted, increases the penalty from a Class D felony to a Class B felony for a person who negligently, by act or omission, engages in conduct that places a child eight years of age or less in imminent danger of death, bodily injury, or physical or mental impairment.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
5/13/2024
HB1858
Victims' Rights
- As enacted, expands the ways in which applicants may apply for the home address confidentiality program to include moving to a new address unknown to the offender and not previously identified in a public record.
Effective date(s) 03/27/2024
4/3/2024
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
HB1881
Criminal Offenses
- As enacted, enacts the "Back the Blue Act," which increases the penalty for assault against a law enforcement officer from a Class A misdemeanor with a mandatory minimum 30-day sentence and $5,000 fine to a Class E felony with a mandatory minimum 60-day sentence and $10,000 fine.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
5/28/2024
HB1883
Hospitals and Health Care Facilities
- As enacted, establishes that generally an attorney or an agent designated to make healthcare decisions under a durable power of attorney for health care has a right to in-person visitation with the principal at a hospital where the principal is located to evaluate the principal's condition.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 766
5/1/2024
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
HB1917
Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA)
- As introduced, revises the weighted allocations generated by a student for purposes of the TISA based on the number of students who are members of the LEA in which the student resides.
Taken off notice for cal. in Education Administration
3/27/2024
HB1918
Recreational Areas
- As enacted, requires a campground owner to post in a high traffic area on the campground, or distribute to registered guests or visitors, a written policy on campground curfew, alcohol use, tobacco use, and pets; authorizes an owner to eject a person and notify local law enforcement under certain conditions; provides that a person who remains on a campground after having been asked to leave by the owner for certain violations commits criminal trespass and may be removed by the owner or a law enforcement officer; grants removed persons certain refunds.
Pub. Ch. 665
4/17/2024
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
HB1944
Traffic Safety
- As enacted, makes it a Class B misdemeanor offense for a person to operate a passenger motor vehicle on a street, road, or highway in this state if, by alteration of the suspension, frame, or chassis, the height of the vehicle's front fender is four or more inches greater than the height of the rear fender.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
3/19/2024
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
HB1990
Disabled Persons
- As enacted, replaces references in the Disabled Drivers Law of 1975 to persons "who are permanently and totally confined to a wheelchair" with references to persons "who use a wheelchair because of a permanent incapacity for ambulation".
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 555
3/19/2024
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
HB2002
Judicial Districts
- As enacted, creates one additional circuit court in the 4th judicial district, creates one additional trial court in the 19th judicial district; eliminates part VII of the circuit court in the 13th judicial district; and eliminates part IX of the criminal court in the 13th judicial district.
Effective date(s) 05/21/2024
5/28/2024
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
HB2035
Firearms and Ammunition
- As enacted, preempts the entire field of legislation regarding extreme risk protection orders to the exclusion of all county, city, town, municipality, or metropolitan government law, ordinances, resolutions, enactments, or regulation.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1062
6/3/2024
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
HB2062
Traffic Safety
- As enacted, enacts the "Jacob (Jake) T. Barnhardt Act," which creates a street racing task force to study and determine best practices for curbing illegal street racing in this state.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1058
6/3/2024
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
HB2067
Children's Services, Dept. of
- As introduced, requires that a newborn safety device be installed in each county in this state.
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
4/17/2024
HB2076
Insurance, Health, Accident
- As enacted, establishes procedures for recoupment of overpayments made to a healthcare provider by certain health insurance entities.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 861
5/13/2024
HB2082
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation
- As introduced, requires the TBI to submit a report on the amount of money collected for background checks associated with firearm sales in excess of the costs associated with conducting the background checks to the criminal justice committee of the house of representatives and the judiciary committee of the senate by March 1, rather than February 1, of each year.
Held in Committee
4/23/2024
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
HB2091
Trade Regulation
- As enacted, defines and adds "voice" as a protected personal right; adds commercial availability of a sound recording or audiovisual work in which the individual's name, voice, likeness, or image is readily identifiable to considerations for determining whether non-use has occurred; makes other related changes.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
3/26/2024
HB2100
Consumer Protection
- As enacted, requires financial institutions and insurers to make determinations about the provision or denial of services based on certain analysis; prohibits financial institutions and insurers from denying or canceling services to a person, or otherwise discriminating against a person, based upon certain factors, including the person's political opinions, speech, or affiliations, or religious beliefs, religious exercise, or religious affiliations.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
5/1/2024
HB2110
Labor
- As enacted, clarifies that under this state's law relative to wage regulations, the term "work" has the same meaning as interpreted by the United States supreme court for purposes of the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947; makes additional changes relative to wage regulations.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
4/3/2024
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
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
HB2125
Holidays and Days of Special Observance
- As enacted, designates November as "Christian Heritage Month."
Effective date(s) 04/22/2024
5/1/2024
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
HB2145
Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration
- As enacted, creates an offense for possessing or distributing a license plate flipper.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 870
5/13/2024
HB2158
Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA)
- As enacted, makes changes to the law relative to TISA funding for school nurses or school health services.
Effective date(s) 05/03/2024
5/13/2024
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
HB2169
Adoption
- As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Foster and Adoptive Parent Protection Act," which generally prohibits the department of children's services from requiring a current or prospective adoptive or foster parent to affirm, accept, or support any government policy regarding sexual orientation or gender identity that conflicts with the parent's sincerely held religious or moral beliefs; makes related changes.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 677
4/17/2024
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
HB2206
Law Enforcement
- As enacted, authorizes the import or export of human remains by law enforcement agencies for the purpose of human remains detection training if certain conditions are met.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1054
6/3/2024
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
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
HB2261
Hospitals and Health Care Facilities
- As enacted, defines a home for the aged that houses three or fewer nonrelated persons as a tier 1 home for the aged that is subject to licensure and regulation by the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities; defines a home for the aged that houses four or more nonrelated persons as a tier 2 home for the aged that is subject to licensure and regulation by the health facilities commission; makes other related changes to the meaning of a home for the aged.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
5/28/2024
HB2265
Criminal Offenses
- As enacted, adds using, altering, encrypting, ransoming, destroying, or otherwise rendering unavailable without authorization, electronic data, electronic devices, or network providers of critical infrastructure or of a farm to the offense of committing critical infrastructure vandalism.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
4/3/2024
HB2293
Election Laws
- As enacted, enacts the "Print Disability Absentee Voting Act," which prescribes a process by which a person with a print disability may apply for and receive an absentee ballot and vote by mailing in the absentee ballot.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 689
4/17/2024
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
HB2318
Medical Occupations
- As enacted, makes revisions to the law relative to physician assistants and nurses.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1042
5/31/2024
HB2321
Hospitals and Health Care Facilities
- As enacted, increases the amount of personal needs allowance from $50 to $70 for long-term nursing home residents.
Effective date(s) 05/21/2024
5/29/2024
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
HB2348
Criminal Offenses
- As enacted, establishes a Class E felony for an entity that is supported in whole or in part by public funds to knowingly provide meeting spaces or other forums, including electronic and print platforms, to certain groups or organizations for the purpose of soliciting material support, recruiting new members, or encouraging violent action.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 872
5/13/2024
HB2358
Pharmacy, Pharmacists
- As enacted, authorizes the board of pharmacy to register any mechanical or electronic systems that operate solely on the premises of a hematology or oncology clinic in this state and that perform the storage, control, and dispensing of commercially available drug products pursuant to a valid patient-specific prescription, as part of the operations of a licensed pharmacy; makes related changes.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 935
5/13/2024
HB2386
Search & Seizure
- As enacted, authorizes a law enforcement officer to execute a search warrant for medical records or a test to determine the alcohol or drug content, or both, of a person's blood anywhere in the state, rather than in the county in which the warrant was issued; makes related changes.
Effective date(s) 05/01/2024
5/13/2024
HB2434
Tort Liability and Reform
- As enacted, declares a private entity to be not civilly liable in a class action resulting from a cybersecurity event unless the cybersecurity event was caused by willful and wanton misconduct or gross negligence on the part of the private entity.
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
HB2451
Health Care
- As enacted, enacts the "Healthcare Provider Advertising Law."
Effective date(s) 05/01/2024
5/13/2024
HB2460
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.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 811
5/9/2024
HB2475
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.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 849
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
HB2584
Environment and Conservation, Department of
- As enacted, prohibits the department from charging a permit application fee to a local government entity for a general aquatic resource alteration permit for emergency infrastructure repair, or a general aquatic resource alteration permit for maintenance activities, necessary to replace or otherwise maintain a culvert.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 930
5/13/2024
HB2611
Criminal Procedure
- As enacted, enacts "The District Attorney General Second Opinion Act," which authorizes, in any investigation involving a human trafficking offense, an organized crime offense, or an offense classified as a Class A or B felony, in which a district attorney general declines prosecution, an investigating state or local law enforcement agency to report and submit evidence of the offense to the district attorney general for another judicial district in which jurisdiction and venue over the offense are proper.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 805
5/9/2024
HB2619
Correction, Dept. of
- As enacted, generally prohibits the department from using state funds to administer hormone replacement therapy to state inmates incarcerated in a state penitentiary or a county jail or workhouse, or for sex reassignment surgery for state inmates incarcerated in a state penitentiary or a county jail or workhouse.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 821
5/9/2024
HB2644
Adoption
- As enacted, makes various changes to present law on adoption and foster parents.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
5/29/2024
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
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
HB2795
General Assembly
- As introduced, enacts the "Restoring State Sovereignty Through Nullification Act," which establishes processes by which the general assembly may nullify an unconstitutional federal statute, regulation, agency order, or executive order.
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Public Service Subcommittee of State Government Committee
3/12/2024
HB2803
Treasurer, State
- As introduced, allows the state treasurer to enter into an agreement with an entity to carry out certain activities in order to serve as a facility to securely produce, store, process, and ship bullion products for the state's depository.
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
4/17/2024
HB2808
Jails, Local Lock-ups
- As enacted, generally makes the state liable and responsible for paying the expenses for HIV medication for inmates committed to a county jail or workhouse who previously received prescription medication to treat HIV or AIDS through a state department, agency, or program, including TennCare.
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
5/29/2024
HB2809
Firearms and Ammunition
- As enacted, expands the definition of a law enforcement officer to include retired law enforcement officers who are carrying a firearm pursuant to certain state laws for purposes of when a law enforcement officer may carry a firearm.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1065
6/3/2024
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
HB2878
Air Pollution
- As introduced, specifies that for purposes of air quality control, all equipment used in the process of producing nonmetallic materials contained within an aggregate processing facility or asphalt plant, including crushers, screens, conveyors, and feeders, is considered one air contaminant source.
Re-ref. to Calendar & Rules Committee
4/8/2024
HB2882
Education, Curriculum
- As enacted, requires, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, each local education agency and public charter school to provide students with age-appropriate and grade-appropriate instruction on firearm safety.
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
HB2921
Insurance, Health, Accident
- As enacted, requires TennCare health benefit plans to provide coverage and reimbursement for mental health services and treatment to the same extent that the plans provide coverage and reimbursement for the treatment of alcoholism and drug dependence; makes related changes to insurance law relative to mental health and alcoholism or drug dependency.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 949
5/13/2024
HB2940
TennCare
- As enacted, enacts the "TennCare for Working Individuals with Disabilities Act."
Effective date(s) 05/21/2024
5/29/2024
HB2973
Appropriations
- As enacted, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2023, and July 1, 2024.
Effective date(s) 05/15/2024, 07/01/2024
5/20/2024
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
HB7003
Orders of Protection
- As introduced, expands the eligibility for filing a petition to obtain a lifetime order of protection to include victims of aggravated stalking and especially aggravated stalking.
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
HB7008
Mental Illness
- As introduced, requires a qualified mental health professional or behavior analyst to take certain steps to warn or protect an identified victim or group of people when the professional determines that a service recipient has made an actual threat of bodily harm or has an intention to commit such harm; provides immunity from civil, criminal, and regulatory liability for a professional who takes reasonable action to provide such warning or protection.
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration
8/29/2023
3 resolutions(s) sponsored in the 113th General Assembly.
Bill Number
Composite Abstract
Last Action
Date
HJR0641
Memorials, Recognition
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Signed by Governor.
5/9/2023
HJR0850
Memorials, Heroism
- J. D. Wooten
Signed by Governor.
2/14/2024
HR0099
General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position
- Urges governor to take action to ensure medical freedom of the Tennessee Army and Air National Guard.
Assigned to s/c Departments & Agencies Subcommittee
2/7/2024
79 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
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
HJR0118
Naming and Designating
- Designates October 2023 as "Spina Bifida Month,"
Received from House, refer to Senate State & Local Government Committee
3/13/2023
HJR0131
General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position
- Addresses and establishes the declared public policy of the State of Tennessee relative to the right of the citizens and those within the boundaries of this State to keep, bear, and wear arms.
Signed by Governor.
4/22/2024
HJR0133
Memorials, Recognition
- Tennessee pregnancy centers
Signed by Governor.
3/2/2023
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
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
HJR0537
Memorials, Recognition
- Brian Marsh, 2023 President of the Tennessee Road Builders Association
Signed by Governor.
5/3/2023
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
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
HJR0775
Memorials, Recognition
- Beacon Center, 20th anniversary
Signed by Governor.
2/12/2024
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
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
HJR0830
Memorials, Recognition
- Tennessee Rifle
Signed by Governor.
4/22/2024
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
HJR1095
Memorials, Public Service
- Representative Bryan Richey
Ref. Calendar & Rules Committee
3/21/2024
HJR1096
Memorials, Public Service
- Representative Curtis Johnson
Signed by Governor.
4/9/2024
HJR1097
Memorials, Public Service
- Representative Sam Whitson
Signed by Governor.
4/9/2024
HJR1098
Memorials, Public Service
- Representative John Holsclaw
Signed by Governor.
4/9/2024
HJR1099
Memorials, Public Service
- Representative Dale Carr
Withdrawn.
3/21/2024
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
HJR1359
General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position
- States that neither World Health Organization, United Nations, nor the World Economic Forum shall have any jurisdiction or power within the State of Tennessee.
Ref. to Delayed Bills Committee
4/11/2024
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
SJR0159
Memorials, Recognition
- Tennessee Credit Unions, 100 years
Signed by Governor.
3/30/2023
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
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
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
SJR1179
Memorials, Academic Achievement
- Alivia Jones, Salutatorian, White County High School
Signed by Governor.
4/9/2024
SJR1180
Memorials, Academic Achievement
- Hannah Austin, Valedictorian, White County High School
Signed by Governor.
4/9/2024