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| Chapter Number | Subject | Abstract | Bill Number |
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| 0100 | Motor Vehicles | As enacted, replaces the term "motor-driven cycle" with "motorscooter" for various purposes related to the operation of such vehicles, including issuance of operator licenses, the rules of the road, and required safety and lighting equipment. | SB0976 |
| 0101 | TennCare | As enacted, extends the ground ambulance service annual assessment to June 30, 2024; makes certain changes to the methodology used to calculate the assessment. | SB0984 |
| 0102 | 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. | SB1174 |
| 0103 | Elder Abuse | As enacted, requires that court clerks notify the health facilities commission, instead of the department of health, when an offender is to be placed on the registry of persons who have been determined to have abused, neglected, misappropriated, or exploited the property of vulnerable individuals; requires that such notice is given within 90 days of conviction of the offense. | SB1225 |
| 0104 | Insurance, Health, Accident | As enacted, authorizes an insurer that offers a health benefit plan to deliver notices and documents related to health, vision, and dental coverage electronically to its insureds with consent. | SB1297 |
| 0105 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the department of safety to June 30, 2027. | SB0043 |
| 0106 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the Tennessee public charter school commission to June 30, 2026. | SB0064 |
| 0107 | 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. | SB0072 |
| 0108 | Campaigns and Campaign Finance | As enacted, makes various changes to campaign finance laws. | SB0160 |
| 0109 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, authorizes the city of Moscow and other municipalities with a population between 570 and 699 persons that employ a full-time police department to hold a referendum on the question of whether to authorize package stores and liquor-by-the-drink in their respective jurisdictions. | SB0184 |
| 0110 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration | As enacted, increases from 24 months to 36 months the period for which vehicle registrations by businesses that register at least 15,000 vehicles annually and that are engaged in the rental of motor vehicles, trucks, and trailers may be issued; specifies that the fees must be in an amount to offset the revenue that would otherwise be generated by 12-month registration fees. | SB0212 |
| 0111 | Local Education Agencies | As enacted, specifies that an LEA that has established a virtual school may enter into an agreement with an LEA that has not established a virtual school for the LEA's virtual school to provide remote instruction to students enrolled in either LEA who have been suspended or expelled from the regular school program. | SB0225 |
| 0112 | Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of | As enacted, permits the commissioner to require submission of a set of fingerprints by an investment adviser representative applicant; updates when registration as an issuer-dealer becomes effective after submission of an application; and makes other various changes regarding the regulation of financial services. | SB0238 |
| 0113 | Public Contracts | As enacted, prohibits a party from protesting a solicitation for a public contract if the party cancels the solicitation; revises bonding requirements for submitting a protest or an appeal of a decision to a protest to the chief procurement officer or protest committee; establishes certain restrictions on the contractual terms of public contracts. | SB0252 |
| 0114 | Education | As enacted, updates the terms "general education development credential," "high school equivalency test," and variations of the terms to "high school equivalency credential." | SB0255 |
| 0115 | Financial Institutions, Dept. of | As enacted, enacts the "Money Transmission Modernization Act." | SB0268 |
| 0116 | 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. | SB0328 |
| 0117 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration | As enacted, authorizes issuance of a license plate in the emergency category to emergency communication dispatchers. | SB0366 |
| 0118 | Judges and Chancellors | As enacted, removes provisions that allow parties in certain civil cases to agree to employ a retired or former judge to hear the case and provide for the process and manner of trial. | SB0483 |
| 0119 | Traffic Safety | As enacted, authorizes the legislative body of a municipality to establish the fine for speeding within a residential zone within its jurisdictional boundaries at $200. | SB0505 |
| 0120 | Tennessee Fish & Wildlife Commission | As enacted, adds to qualifications for appointment to the commission that commissioners be well informed on boating operation, regulation, and safety. | SB0549 |
| 0121 | Regional Authorities and Special Districts | As enacted, expands the types of projects that may be funded under the Tourism Development Authority Act; clarifies the sources of revenue to fund such projects; excludes ad valorem real property taxes from such sources of revenue that are available to fund projects under the Act. | SB0555 |
| 0122 | Education | As enacted, changes, from the state board of education to local boards of education, the entity responsible for requiring certain examinations of school bus drivers, for requiring certain reports, and for revoking the certificates of school bus drivers found to be unfit; expands the types of convictions for which a school bus driver's certificate must be revoked; revises various provisions to change, from the state board of education to the department of safety, the entity responsible for adopting specifications for school buses. | SB0579 |
| 0123 | Health Care | As enacted, requires hospitals that have a certification from a department-approved, nationally recognized certifying body recognizing the hospital as capable of providing neuroendovascular treatment to report data quarterly consistent with nationally recognized stroke consensus measures on the treatment of individuals with confirmed stroke to the East Tennessee State University College of Public Health. | SB0614 |
| 0124 | Civil Procedure | As enacted, permits the use of a person's full social security number; taxpayer identification number; birth date; name, if the person is a minor; or financial account number in court filings regarding parenting plans. | SB0618 |
| 0125 | Audiologists and Speech Pathologists | As enacted, clarifies the emergency medical backup requirement for speech language pathologists using endoscopes so that the procedure may be performed when a physician is on the premises or is remotely available regardless of whether the procedure is performed in a community or institutional setting. | SB0701 |
| 0126 | Consumer Protection | As enacted, extends the prohibitions, requirements, and penalties that apply to telephone solicitations to text message solicitations. | SB0868 |
| 0127 | Education | As enacted, changes from urges to requires the standards recommendation committee to include certain academic standards regarding the civil rights movement in the committee's final recommendation of academic standards in the subject of social studies for students in grades nine through 12. | SB0872 |
| 0128 | Industrial Development | As enacted, removes the requirement that members of the board of directors for an industrial development corporation be qualified electors of and taxpayers in the county or city that created the corporation. | SB0926 |
| 0129 | Real Property | As enacted, provides that the plane coordinate values for a point on the earth's surface used to express the geographic position or location of such point consist of two distances expressed in either International, instead of United States survey, feet and decimals of a foot or meters and decimals of a meter when using the Tennessee State Plane Coordinate System; removes a requirement when the values are expressed in United States survey feet that they be used as the standard foot for the Tennessee State Plane Coordinate System. | SB0928 |
| 0130 | Local Education Agencies | As enacted, increases, from one-half unit to one unit, the amount of elective credit a student may receive for completing a released time course if the student's local board of education has adopted a policy to allow credit to be awarded to students for work completed in a released time course. | SB0987 |
| 0131 | Wine & Wineries | As enacted, authorizes wineries, farm wineries, and manufacturers of alcoholic beverages to distill and fortify wine and blend the distilled or fortified wine with their products. | SB0988 |
| 0132 | Pensions and Retirement Benefits | As enacted, revises the methods by which a local government employer wishing to participate in TCRS must pay the estimated increased pension liability created by a benefit improvement; requires the state to pay the estimated increased pension liability resulting from a benefit improvement affecting general employees or employees at institutions of higher education participating in the retirement system by amortizing the unfunded accrued liability over a period of time not to exceed 10 years from the date that the benefit improvement is established. | SB0990 |
| 0133 | Consumer Protection | As enacted, specifies that it is an unfair or deceptive act to issue or deliver a home service contract to a consumer in this state that does not specify the merchandise and services to be provided, and any applicable limitations, exceptions, or exclusions of the contract. | SB1005 |
| 0134 | Attorney General and Reporter | As enacted, specifies that when, in the judgment of the speaker of the house of representatives and the speaker of the senate, the interest of the state requires additional counsel to the attorney general and reporter, the speakers shall retain additional counsel to prosecute an action against the federal government on behalf of the state if the representation does not include payment of a fixed or contingent fee to any such additional counsel or otherwise increase state expenditures. | HB0038 |
| 0135 | 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. | HB0174 |
| 0136 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission to June 30, 2027. | HB0221 |
| 0137 | Expunction | As enacted, authorizes the expunction of public records regarding a motor vehicle operator's refusal to submit to breath and blood tests to determine alcohol or drug content of a motor vehicle operator's blood under certain circumstances. | HB0412 |
| 0138 | Law Enforcement | As enacted, if the Tennessee highway patrol is assigned a protective detail, authorizes a Tennessee highway patrolman and an officer of a local law enforcement agency to utilize their respective agency's vehicle or emergency equipment for purposes of conducting the protective detail. | HB0522 |
| 0139 | 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. | HB0557 |
| 0140 | Tort Liability and Reform | As enacted, clarifies that, in regard to a charitable organization's limitation of tort liability, providing shelter from adverse weather includes, but is not limited to, allowing persons to enter the premises for purposes of temporary shelter from severe storms. | HB1080 |
| 0141 | Lottery, Charitable | As enacted, allows a 501(c)(3) foundation connected to a chamber of commerce that has been in continuous and active existence in this state for at least 10 successive years in the county to hold an annual event. | SB1203 |
| 0142 | 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. | SB0172 |
| 0143 | Sports | As enacted, moves administrative regulation of the Fantasy Sports Act from the office of the secretary of state to the sports wagering advisory council. | SB0218 |
| 0144 | Local Education Agencies | As enacted, requires LEAs to conduct summer learning camps and after-school learning mini-camps annually instead of only in the summers immediately following the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school years; revises the definition of "priority student" to allow additional "at-risk" children and students entering certain grade levels to participate in after-school learning mini-camps, learning loss bridge camps, and summer learning camps. | SB0249 |
| 0145 | Workers Compensation | As enacted, makes various changes to the Workers' Compensation Law. | SB0263 |
| 0146 | Governor | As enacted, removes the requirement that the nonprofit partner of the governor's office of faith-based and community initiatives use its own revenues to cover the cost of the nonprofit partner's activities; removes the prohibition on a state employee benefitting from the nonprofit partner's activities; prohibits a state employee from receiving compensation from funds received by the nonprofit partner; removes the statement of the general assembly's intent that the state not realize any increased cost as a result of such office. | SB0279 |
| 0147 | Witnesses | As enacted, requires the department of correction to advance or reimburse witness expenses necessary to the prosecution of certain criminal cases; requires the county to seek to recover from a convicted defendant who is declared not to be indigent, the costs of the advance or reimbursement of witness expenses made by the department of correction. | SB0476 |
| 0148 | Consumer Protection | As enacted, prohibits an individual or entity from selling, offering for sale, or providing an air ambulance membership agreement to an individual who is enrolled in TennCare Medicaid; requires an individual or entity that provides an air ambulance membership agreement to an individual who subsequently enrolls in TennCare Medicaid to provide the enrollee with a pro-rated refund of consideration paid for the membership; adds other related prohibitions, requirements, and penalties. | SB0504 |
| 0149 | Firearms and Ammunition | As enacted, expands employees allowed to carry a handgun on property owned, operated, or controlled by a public institution of higher education to include retired law enforcement officers who retired in good standing with 20 years of service and are employed on a part-time basis by a public institution of higher education. | SB0515 |
| 0150 | Physicians and Surgeons | As enacted, enacts the "Topical Medical Waste Reduction Act of 2023," which establishes certain regulations of facility-provided medications. | SB0523 |
| 0151 | 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. | SB0533 |
| 0152 | Education, Higher | As enacted, prohibits a public postsecondary institution that provides internet access to students, faculty, staff, or the general public from allowing an individual to access a social media platform using the institution's network if the platform is owned or hosted by a company based in the People's Republic of China; grants certain exemptions for law enforcement activities; investigatory functions; and audit, compliance, or legal functions of the institution. | SB0834 |
| 0153 | Teachers, Principals and School Personnel | As enacted, adds the director of schools as a person to whom a principal must report the principal's direct knowledge of an offense of assault and battery or vandalism committed by a student on school property endangering the life, health, or safety of others; expands the educator's bill of rights to include the educator's right to report an offense of assault and battery or vandalism committed by a student on school property and the educator's right to receive benefits if the educator is a teacher who is absent from their assigned duties due to injuries caused by a criminal act committed against the teacher in the course of the teacher's employment activities. | SB1155 |
| 0154 | Energy | As enacted, requires a political subdivision that imposes requirements or expectations related to the type of clean or renewable energy used by a public utility in an ordinance, resolution, or other regulation to include certain sources of energy as permissible sources of clean or renewable energy. | HB0946 |
| 0155 | 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. | HB0005 |
| 0156 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the department of health to June 30, 2027. | SB0040 |
| 0157 | Public Records | As enacted, clarifies that a person requesting public records is not entitled to special or more expeditious access to records under this part due to the person's occupation or association with a specific profession. | SB0086 |
| 0158 | Workers Compensation | As enacted, enacts the "Garrison-Jordan Survivor Benefits Act." | SB0097 |
| 0159 | Transportation, Dept. of | As enacted, enacts the "Transportation Modernization Act of 2023." | SB0273 |
| 0160 | Consumer Protection | As enacted, enacts the "Real Property Records Integrity Act." | SB0368 |
| 0161 | Local Education Agencies | As enacted, deletes the provision repealing the "Virtual Public Schools Act" on June 30, 2023. | SB0382 |
| 0162 | Insurance, Health, Accident | As enacted, permanently reenacts the "Proton Therapy Access Act," which was repealed on January 1, 2023. | SB0401 |
| 0163 | Municipal Government | As enacted, authorizes the board of commissioners of a city chartered under the city manager-commission general law charter to call for a special election to fill a vacancy on the board. | SB0424 |
| 0164 | Motor Vehicles | As enacted, clarifies that excessive or unusual noise or annoying smoke can be used to determine whether a muffler is in good working order and in constant operation as required by law; exempts farm tractors or implements of husbandry from this law; adds a defense to prosecution if certain evidence is provided. | SB0434 |
| 0165 | Local Education Agencies | As enacted, enacts the "Access and Opportunity Act." | SB0443 |
| 0166 | Trusts | As enacted, makes various changes to present law on trusts. | SB0492 |
| 0167 | State Symbols | As enacted, designates "The Tennessee in Me" by Debbie Mathis Watts as an official state song. | SB0511 |
| 0168 | Local Government, General | As enacted, prohibits local governments from expending funds for the purposes of assisting a person in obtaining a criminal abortion. | SB0600 |
| 0169 | Environment and Conservation, Department of | As enacted, adds to the bill of rights for permit applicants under the Water Quality Control Act that permit applicants have the right to have their construction stormwater permit applications considered based on the activities described in the permit application and conditions that exist at the time the permit application is under consideration, rather than possible future conditions unrelated to the activities for which the permit is sought as identified in the application. | SB0628 |
| 0170 | Water Pollution | As enacted, requires the department of environment and conservation to exempt from compensatory mitigation an amount of wetland equal in size to the area for which mitigation would not be required if the permit applicant qualified for coverage under a general permit, if the only factor that disqualifies an applicant for an aquatic resource alteration permit for wetland impacts from having the activities for which a permit is sought covered under a general permit is the size of the wetland that the permit will apply to. | SB0629 |
| 0171 | School Vouchers | As enacted, expands student eligibility for an education savings account (ESA) to include students who were not enrolled, and who did not attend, a Tennessee public school for the one full school year immediately preceding the school year for which the student receives an ESA, but who were enrolled in, and who attended, a Tennessee public school in the 2019-2020, 2020-2021, or 2021-2022 school year, and to include students who are not eligible, for the first time, to enroll in a Tennessee school, but who were eligible, for the first time, to enroll in a Tennessee school in the 2019-2020, 2020-2021, or 2021-2022 school year. | SB0638 |
| 0172 | Motor Vehicles | As enacted, authorizes the sale or purchase of previously titled antique or unique motor vehicles without a motor vehicle dealer license through auction formats that meet certain criteria. | SB0746 |
| 0173 | Medical Occupations | As enacted, authorizes the board of examiners in psychology to designate as a health service provider in this state, a person who has held a valid license or certificate to practice psychology in another state under certain conditions. | SB0953 |
| 0174 | Traffic Safety | As enacted, authorizes three- or four-wheel all-terrain vehicles or three- or four-wheel off-highway vehicles to be operated on certain roads in Fentress County. | SB1006 |
| 0175 | Historical Sites and Preservation | As enacted, removes authorization for the chief executive of a city or county, with the approval of the local legislative body, to fill a vacancy or remove an appointed member on a historic zoning commission. | SB1132 |
| 0176 | Remedies and Special Proceedings | As enacted, revises present law provisions relative to persons who are eligible for compensation for criminal injuries. | SB1195 |
| 0177 | 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. | SB1212 |
| 0178 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, clarifies which jurisdictions are eligible to hold a referendum to authorize the sale of wine in retail food stores. | SB1214 |
| 0179 | 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. | SB1281 |
| 0180 | Driver Licenses | As enacted, authorizes a minor who is issued a motorcycle learner's permit and who has completed a certified motorcycle education course approved by the department of safety to operate a motorcycle without limitations on the distance from the minor's home if the minor is accompanied by, and under the direct supervision of, a parent or legal guardian who is also operating a motorcycle and who holds a valid motorcycle operator's license. | SB1437 |
| 0181 | Education, Dept. of | As enacted, establishes the amount of an occupational educator scholarship awarded by the department to prospective educators seeking a Tennessee occupational teaching license as the cost of tuition and mandatory fees at the postsecondary institution attended less all other gift aid, which must be credited first to the eligible prospective educator's tuition and mandatory fees. | SB1438 |
| 0182 | Attorney General and Reporter | As enacted, grants the attorney general and reporter, in cases where a defendant has been sentenced to death and is seeking collateral or direct review of a conviction or sentence, exclusive control over the state's defense of the request for review and reimbursement for expenses incurred in connection with such matter. | HB1002 |
| 0183 | County Boundaries | As enacted, establishes a new boundary line between Shelby County and Fayette County. | SB0125 |
| 0184 | Taxes, Ad Valorem | As enacted, removes the authority of the state board of equalization to create an assessment appeals commission to hear and act upon complaints and appeals regarding the assessment, classification, and value of property for purposes of taxation. | SB0148 |
| 0185 | Marriage | As enacted, creates a class C misdemeanor for certain local public officers who charge a fee or demand compensation for solemnizing a marriage. | SB0217 |
| 0186 | Game and Fish Laws | As enacted, deletes requirement that the Tennessee Fish and Wildlife Commission file proclamations establishing hunting and fishing seasons with the county clerks for the counties affected and instead requires such proclamations be made available on the Tennessee wildlife resources agency website. | SB0236 |
| 0187 | Children | As enacted, revises present law provisions governing adoption and foster care. | SB0270 |
| 0188 | Opioids | As enacted, permanently extends the present law, which is set to terminate on July 1, 2023, that establishes limitations on the prescription of opioids and authorizes the promulgation of rules related to the calculation of those limitations and makes other changes relative to opioids. | SB0277 |
| 0189 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, establishes the Class B misdemeanor of parentage fraud. | SB0331 |
| 0190 | Education, Higher | As enacted, expands the Save Tennessee Students Act to require public institutions of higher education that issue new student identification cards to students enrolled in the institution to include certain contact information for crisis and suicide prevention resources on the cards; requires the institutions to post certain contact information for crisis and suicide prevention resources in a conspicuous place on each campus operated by the institution. | SB0350 |
| 0191 | Treasurer, State | As enacted, permits the state treasurer to sell a security immediately after the treasurer takes custody of the security if the records of the holder do not reflect the identity of the person entitled to the security; makes other related revisions. | SB0358 |
| 0192 | Education, State Board of | As enacted, extends, from six years to eight years, the minimum period of time from the last adoption within which the board is required to ensure that the standards review and development committees and advisory teams review the standards for English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies; extends, from 73 months to 97 months, the maximum term of a contract made by the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission with a publisher. | SB0421 |
| 0193 | Highways, Roads and Bridges | As enacted, removes the condition that the department of transportation first authorize the installation of surveillance cameras on interstates and state highways before such cameras may be operated by law enforcement agencies; authorizes the operation of surveillance cameras by law enforcement agencies on such highways under certain circumstances. | SB0439 |
| 0194 | Disabled Persons | As enacted, authorizes an employee of a public accommodation to ask for certain information about a dog guide in training; specifies that an individual utilizing a service animal or training a service animal in training is liable for damages to the same extent that an individual whose pet causes damages to a public accommodation is; makes other related changes to service animals and service animals in training. | SB0451 |
| 0195 | Parks, Natural Areas Preservation | As enacted, designates a segment of the Duck River in Maury County as a Class II scenic river; requires permitting of certain water resource projects in Class II scenic river areas, subject to rules promulgated by the commissioner of environment and conservation. | SB0464 |
| 0196 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities | As enacted, authorizes a hospital, or an affiliated entity of the hospital, to employ an emergency physician to treat patients at a satellite emergency department, or a physician to treat patients at a primary care clinic or urgent care clinic, which is located in this state, if certain conditions are met. | SB0560 |
| 0197 | Children's Services, Dept. of | As enacted, adds district attorneys general to those the department must release confidential information to upon presentation of an appropriate court order. | SB0610 |
| 0198 | Children's Services, Dept. of | As enacted, requires the department to conduct an assessment of the home to determine whether the child will receive proper care and supervision, including a visit to the home, prior to the department notifying a court in writing of its intention to place a child at home on a trial home visit. | SB0656 |
| 0199 | 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. | SB0672 |
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