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| Chapter Number | Subject | Abstract | Bill Number |
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| 0200 | Drugs, Prescription | As enacted, makes various changes to the prescription drug donation repository program operated by the department of health. | SB0675 |
| 0201 | Health Care | As enacted, exempts a patient receiving an initial behavioral health evaluation via telehealth from the requirement that a patient have an in-person encounter with a healthcare services provider, the healthcare services provider's practice group, or the healthcare system within 16 months prior to an interactive visit in order to establish a provider-patient relationship for purposes of telehealth; allows a physician assistant who is authorized to prescribe drugs and who provides services solely via telehealth to arrange for chart review by a collaborating physician via HIPAA-compliant electronic means. | SB0721 |
| 0202 | Local Government, General | As enacted, authorizes local governments to use tax revenue received from the Tennessee Sports Gaming Act to be used for emergency services as well as for local infrastructure projects. | SB0791 |
| 0203 | Health, Dept. of | As enacted, authorizes the department to disclose de-identified data that is collected from records maintained by ambulance service and invalid vehicle operators licensed or permitted by the department, including for the purpose of providing opioid overdose response and resources throughout this state. | SB0799 |
| 0204 | Election Laws | As enacted, allows a candidate to demand and receive a list of all voters who changed their residential address at the polling place; requires a recount to include the verification of any address of residence changed at the polling place. | SB0854 |
| 0205 | Real Property | As enacted, requires a board of directors for a unit owners' association to either update a reserve study or conduct a reserve study if certain conditions are met. | SB0863 |
| 0206 | Schools, Charter | As enacted, revises various provisions relative to charter schools. | SB0980 |
| 0207 | County Officers | As enacted, makes various changes to law relative to county officials. | SB1034 |
| 0208 | Professions and Occupations | As enacted, makes revisions to the law relative to reinstating certificates of registration for professional master barbers, barber instructors, and technicians, and licenses of cosmetologists, manicurists, aestheticians, and natural hair stylists. | SB1247 |
| 0209 | Sexual Offenses | As enacted, expands the definition of "sexual activity," as used in the offense of soliciting sexual exploitation of a minor, to include exhibition of the female breast, genitals, buttocks, anus, or pubic or rectal area of any person that can be reasonably construed as being for the purpose of the sexual arousal or gratification of the defendant or another. | SB1347 |
| 0210 | School Transportation | As enacted, allows school bus drivers to use a portable electronic device for navigation of the school bus and for accurately accounting for students at bus pick-up and drop-off locations through use of the device's global positioning system if no hands are used to hold the device or to enter data into the device while the school bus is in motion; the device is mounted on the school bus's windshield, dashboard, or center console area; and the driver views only data related to the navigation of the bus. | SB1434 |
| 0211 | Physicians and Surgeons | As enacted, revises the law relative to the board of medical examiners issuing a temporary license of limited duration to certain international medical school graduates. | SB1451 |
| 0212 | Sexual Offenses | As enacted, enacts the "Sexual Assault Response Team Act." |
SB0022 |
| 0213 | Open Meetings | As enacted, requires a legislative body for a municipal, metropolitan, or county government to make available to the public, at no charge and at least 48 hours prior to a meeting, the agenda for the upcoming meeting in a place accessible to the public; authorizes such body to deliberate or act upon matters not listed on the agenda if the body follows its bylaws or properly adopted rules and procedures and complies with all other applicable state laws. | SB0027 |
| 0214 | Barbers and/or Cosmetologists | As enacted, creates an eyelash specialist license; authorizes the establishment of eyelash services shops in accordance with requirements for other licensed shops; authorizes schools to offer courses of instruction that consist of 50 percent of the hours needed for an eyelash specialist license to be obtained from apprenticing; requires certain rule promulgation by the board of cosmetology and barber examiners. | SB0093 |
| 0215 | Consumer Protection | As enacted, requires a financing company doing business in this state to provide on its mailed or emailed statements to a consumer a conspicuously displayed telephone number that a consumer may contact for service; specifies that failure to provide a conspicuously displayed telephone number as required is an unfair or deceptive act or practice under the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977. | SB0130 |
| 0216 | Public Employees | As enacted, makes various changes to present law pertaining to leave for state employees. | SB0276 |
| 0217 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, enacts "Dillard's Law," which allows the surviving parent or guardian of a child whose parent was a victim of vehicular homicide to convert a restitution order for child maintenance payments to a civil judgment at any time rather than following conclusion of the defendant's sentence. | SB0442 |
| 0218 | Firearms and Ammunition | As enacted, allows persons who are not otherwise prohibited by law from possessing a handgun to carry a handgun while hunting under certain circumstances, rather than only persons with a handgun carry permit. | SB0494 |
| 0219 | Adoption | As enacted, adds to the grounds upon which initiation of termination of parental or guardianship rights may be based that the parent has been confined in a correctional or detention facility of any type, by order of the court as a result of one or more criminal acts, under a sentence of six or more years, and one or more other grounds in current law exists. | SB0537 |
| 0220 | Consumer Protection | As enacted, enacts the "Booting Consumer Protection Act." | SB0649 |
| 0221 | Health Care | As enacted, makes changes to law relative to the Alzheimer's and dementia respite care program. | SB0678 |
| 0222 | Education | As enacted, clarifies that public charter schools and the state board of education are prohibited from employing individuals found by the department of children's services to have committed an act of child abuse in the same manner as other educational entities; clarifies that the state board is prohibited from granting, reactivating, or restoring an educator license or temporary teaching permit for such individuals; adds the state board and public charter schools to the list of educational entities to which the department is required to make certain disclosures when one of its employees is alleged to have committed an act of child abuse. | SB0743 |
| 0223 | Public Contracts | As enacted, prohibits a state agency, local agency, or law enforcement agency from purchasing or acquiring a drone or other covered telecommunications equipment or service produced by a manufacturer banned under the federal National Defense Authorization Act of 2019. | SB0776 |
| 0224 | Utilities, Utility Districts | As enacted, increases the membership of the executive committee for the underground utility damage enforcement board from three to five members by adding two additional board members to the committee. | SB0782 |
| 0225 | Utilities, Utility Districts | As enacted, clarifies that commissioners for utility districts created pursuant to the Utility District Law of 1937 in Franklin and Marion counties are not prohibited from serving more than two consecutive terms. | SB1102 |
| 0226 | 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. | SB1320 |
| 0227 | Lottery, Scholarships and Programs | As enacted, allows an eligible independent postsecondary institution and certain private, nonprofit technical schools to charge dual enrollment students tuition or fees in an amount that exceeds the amount of the student's dual enrollment grant. | SB1408 |
| 0228 | State Symbols | As enacted, establishes the phrase "Send Me." as an additional state motto. | HB0047 |
| 0229 | Motor Vehicles | As enacted, revises law relative to garagekeeper's or towing firm's liens, unclaimed or abandoned vehicles and notification of owners and lienholders, and motor vehicle storage. | HB0087 |
| 0230 | County Government | As enacted, authorizes members of a county records commission who do not receive a fixed annual salary from the state or the county to receive an increased per diem rate of up to $150 for each day of actual meeting instead of the current rate of $25. | HB0099 |
| 0231 | Secretary of State | As enacted, extends the period of reduced fees payable to the secretary of state relating to nonprofit charitable gaming and the solicitation of charitable funds. | HB0145 |
| 0232 | TennCare | As enacted, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment Act of 2023." | HB0152 |
| 0233 | Regional Authorities and Special Districts | As enacted, increases the compensation for members of the board of directors of the Tellico Reservoir Development Agency to $300 per meeting and $225 for meetings of committees of the board; increases the threshold at which sealed bids are required for purchases and contracts. | HB0288 |
| 0234 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration | As enacted, allows county clerks to increase the fees for the service of handling mail orders of plates and decals in an amount not to exceed an applicable United States postal service price increase in a given year. | HB0356 |
| 0235 | Boats, Boating | As enacted, limits the fish and wildlife commission's authority to regulate only certain paddlecraft rental operations; revises the reporting requirement for paddlecraft rental operations; designates records provided to TWRA by a paddlecraft rental outfitter confidential and not to be open for inspection by members of the public. | HB0407 |
| 0236 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, revises the definitions of "wine" and "beer" with regard to law relative to traffic in intoxicating liquors and regulating the sale of wine in retail stores. | HB0411 |
| 0237 | District Attorneys | As enacted, requires district attorneys general to designate one assistant district attorney general as the lead prosecutor in cases involving crimes committed against children; requires the Tennessee bureau of investigation to provide annual training to assistant district attorneys designated as lead prosecutors in crimes committed against children. | HB0554 |
| 0238 | Children | As enacted, creates a criminal offense of a foster parent from a kinship placement knowingly allowing a child in the foster parent's care to visit with the child's parent if the foster parent has knowledge of a current court order prohibiting the parent from visiting with the child, with a first violation being a Class C misdemeanor punishable by a fine only and a second or subsequent violation being a Class B misdemeanor. | HB0752 |
| 0239 | County Clerks | As enacted, removes certain duties of county clerks regarding revenue. | HB0763 |
| 0240 | Local Government, General | As enacted, prohibits local governments from dismissing, disciplining, fining, or penalizing a jailer or corrections officer employed by a local government, or denying employment to a person applying to be a jailer or corrections officer, based on where the jailer or corrections officer or applicant resides. | HB0910 |
| 0241 | Courts, Juvenile | As enacted, rewrites the provisions for requests for review of a juvenile court case heard by a magistrate by changing the right from a de novo hearing by the juvenile court judge to a review by the juvenile court judge with a presumption of correctness as to the magistrate's order; makes other relevant revisions. | HB1186 |
| 0242 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, broadens the offense of desecration of a venerable object by changing the culpable mental state from intentionally to recklessly or knowingly desecrating a place of worship or burial or a state or national flag. | HB1193 |
| 0243 | 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. | HB1198 |
| 0244 | Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies | As enacted, makes revisions to the Tennessee Right to Shop Act. | HB1213 |
| 0245 | Taxes, Real Property | As enacted, provides that whenever Cumberland County acquires property at a tax sale, a non-governmental entity holding a vested and duly recorded contractual right to the payment of fees or assessments secured by such property retains such right; provides that Cumberland County is liable for the payment of such fees and assessments if the county makes actual use of the property purchased at the tax sale. | HB1216 |
| 0246 | DNA and Genetic Testing | As enacted, prohibits a life insurance provider from canceling a life insurance policy based on genetic information, from requesting or requiring genetic testing as a condition of insurability, and from accessing the genetic data of an individual without consent. | HB1309 |
| 0247 | State Symbols | As enacted, designates "Copperhead Road" by Steve Earle as an official state song. | HB1437 |
| 0248 | Animal Control | As enacted, authorizes persons residing on property that adjoins the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to take, attempt to take, or harm a bear that enters on the person's property if certain criteria is met. | HB1453 |
| 0249 | Tennessee Bureau of Investigation | As enacted, requires the bureau to provide quarterly updates to legislative committees on its efforts to hire and train employees within the forensic services division and the average amount of time taken to perform forensic analysis on evidence in cases involving sexual offenses; requires the bureau, by January 1, 2025, to submit a report to legislative committees detailing any additional resources and personnel that would be required in order to perform forensic analysis on such evidence within 60 days of receipt from a law enforcement agency. | SB0014 |
| 0250 | Special License Plates | As enacted, reorganizes provisions regarding new specialty earmarked license plates; removes outdated provisions, including the obsolete street rod specialty plate; adds new specialty earmarked license plates. | SB0142 |
| 0251 | Highways, Roads and Bridges | As enacted, makes various revisions to law relative to designating bridges, highways, and roads. | SB0144 |
| 0252 | Health, Dept. of | As enacted, authorizes the division of health related boards to hire a medical consultant. | SB0221 |
| 0253 | Adoption | As enacted, makes various changes in regard to maintaining and securing documents in certain parental rights proceedings and the grounds for termination of parental rights. | SB0264 |
| 0254 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities | As enacted, revises law relative to the total number of beds in private for-profit and private not-for-profit intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities (ICF/1ID). | SB0267 |
| 0255 | Capital Punishment | As enacted, establishes the procedure for the administrative office of the courts to issue payment to an expert who makes a court-ordered determination of intellectual disability in a person who has been sentenced to death prior to May 11, 2021. | SB0284 |
| 0256 | Public Health | As enacted, applies on a statewide basis, rather than only in Nashville, Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Memphis, the distance parameter for the prohibition on needle and hypodermic syringe exchange programs being operated within 1,000 feet of a school or public park; removes the distance parameter of 2,000 feet that presently applies on a statewide basis outside those four cities; provided, however, that such a program established in Kingsport must not conduct an exchange within 2,000 feet of a school or public park. | SB0292 |
| 0257 | Education | As enacted, extends the benefits and opportunities provided to children of active duty members of the uniformed services in the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children to school-aged children in the household of a member of any reserve component of the armed forces of the United States, including members of the Tennessee army and air national guard who are enrolled in any of the grades K-12. | SB0317 |
| 0258 | Health Care | As enacted, revises law requiring the governor to appoint three members to the medical cannabis commission, such that at least one member must be a patient who has been diagnosed with a qualifying medical disease or condition and who can establish the diagnosis for purposes of appointment to and service on the commission with a valid letter of attestation. | SB0329 |
| 0259 | Assessors | As enacted, makes various changes to law relative to emergency response, including requiring certain information be provided to the assessor of property. | SB0397 |
| 0260 | Bail, Bail Bonds | As enacted, requires the court to place a defendant for whom a bench warrant is issued due to failure to appear on a felony or a Class A or Class B misdemeanor that is violent or sexual in nature as determined by the court, or who is charged with a failure to appear on any available state or federal list or database as a fugitive from justice, without limitation, within 10 days of the defendant's failure to appear; states that a surety is not liable for any undertaking if the defendant has not been placed in such a database within the time required by law. | SB0418 |
| 0261 | State Symbols | As enacted, requests the governor to submit a new design of the great seal of the state of Tennessee by July 1, 2025, that incorporates the language "In God We Trust." | SB0420 |
| 0262 | Election Laws | As enacted, makes changes to law relative to convenient voting centers, including authorizing Henry County to establish a convenient voting center pilot program. | SB0477 |
| 0263 | Adoption | As enacted, makes various changes to adoption law. | SB0528 |
| 0264 | 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. | SB0611 |
| 0265 | Public Health | As enacted, vacates and reconstitutes the Tennessee emergency medical services board, as of July 1, 2023. | SB0669 |
| 0266 | Child Custody and Support | As enacted, enacts "Abrial's Law, the Keeping Children Safe from Family Violence Act," which makes various changes to child custody law. | SB0722 |
| 0267 | Teachers, Principals and School Personnel | As enacted, revises various provisions regarding the automatic revocation of educator licenses. | SB0744 |
| 0268 | Education, Higher | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Higher Education Freedom of Expression and Transparency Act." | SB0817 |
| 0269 | 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. | SB0838 |
| 0270 | Controlled Substances | As enacted, protects a person's statement regarding the use or possession of marijuana to certain licensed health providers that was made in the course or scope of the person's medical care for the purpose of obtaining medical advice on possible adverse effects of marijuana use in combination with other medications or medical treatment from being admissible as evidence in any criminal trial, hearing, or proceeding in which the person is a defendant; authorizes the person to expressly waive such protection. | SB0859 |
| 0271 | Taxes, Real Property | As enacted, makes changes to property tax relief under the Property Tax Freeze Act. | SB0871 |
| 0272 | Taxes, Privilege | As enacted, extends provisions related to the allocation of revenue from the surcharge or tax on the lease or rental of passenger motor vehicles as it pertains to costs related to an arena facility for a National Basketball Association (NBA) member professional basketball team until June 30, 2059. | SB0935 |
| 0273 | Judges and Chancellors | As enacted, requires the board of judicial conduct to provide a complainant with a copy of the hearing panel's findings and judgment and the board's formal finding of fact and opinion and any sanction imposed; allows a complainant to appeal the board's decision to the Tennessee supreme court. | SB0944 |
| 0274 | Utilities, Utility Districts | As enacted, makes changes to the Underground Utility Damage Prevention Act. | SB0952 |
| 0275 | Education | As enacted, requires, prior to the administration of corporal punishment against a student, the student's teacher or school principal to make certain documentation in the student's educational record; prohibits corporal punishment against a student found to have a disability unless authorized in accordance with law. | SB0972 |
| 0276 | Utilities, Utility Districts | As enacted, revises provisions relating to contracts executed for purchases, services, and leases by the president of a municipal energy authority or the superintendent of a municipal electric plant. | SB0975 |
| 0277 | Domestic Violence | As enacted, revises present law definitions relative to abuse. | SB0979 |
| 0278 | Obscenity and Pornography | As enacted, makes it a Class E felony for a book publisher, distributor, or seller to knowingly sell or distribute obscene matter to a public school serving any of the grades K-12; adds additional fines for a violation. | SB1059 |
| 0279 | Education | As enacted, authorizes a director of schools, or a director's designee, to not assign a student in grades 7-12 who has been suspended for more than 10 days or expelled from the regular school program for an offense of violence or threatened violence, or an offense that threatened the safety of persons attending or assigned to the student's school, to an alternative school or alternative program if the director or designee determines that assigning the student to the alternative school or program may endanger the safety of the students or staff of the alternative school or program. | SB1069 |
| 0280 | Education | As enacted, authorizes, upon a request of a director of schools or the director of a public charter school, the commissioner of education to issue an endorsement exemption to a teacher, in accordance with state board rules, to teach a physical education class required by law to elementary school students. | SB1070 |
| 0281 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, adds that to be eligible for a professional license or permit issued by the alcoholic beverage commission, an applicant may show that the applicant has a valid J-1 or F-1 student visa. | SB1143 |
| 0282 | Victims' Rights | As enacted, prohibits disclosure of certain information by an advocate in regard to a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, or human trafficking in a judicial, legislative, or administrative proceeding unless the victim gives express written consent. | SB1205 |
| 0283 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, requires certain persons convicted of rape, when the victim is 13-17, or incest, when the victim is a minor, to be punished as a Range II offender; allows the sentence imposed, if appropriate, to be within Range III but in no case lower than Range II. | SB1219 |
| 0284 | Teachers, Principals and School Personnel | As enacted, authorizes the commissioner of education to grant an individual pursuing clinical experience in an educator preparation program (EPP) who meets certain requirements a temporary permit to teach in a teaching position in which an LEA or public charter school is unable to secure a qualified teacher with a valid license for the type and kind of school in which a vacancy exists. | SB1221 |
| 0285 | 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. | SB1237 |
| 0286 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, adds to the offense of custodial interference, a parent or other family member who harbors or hides a child within or outside this state, knowing that the child has been placed in the custody of the department of children's services pursuant to a protective custody order or an emergency custody order entered by a court; states that it is not a defense that the person harboring or hiding the child has not been served with an actual copy of a protective custody order or emergency custody order. | SB1319 |
| 0287 | Traffic Safety | As enacted, requires a motor vehicle or trailer transporting a load of logs or pulpwood that protrudes at least four feet beyond the end of the body or bed of the vehicle or trailer to have certain items securely affixed to the end of the projecting load while the vehicle or trailer is loaded with the protruding logs or pulpwood. | SB1357 |
| 0288 | General Assembly | As enacted, adds certain exceptions to the prohibition that members of the general assembly may not bid on, sell, or offer for sale any service to a state entity or have a financial interest in the bid, sale, or offer for sale of any service to a state entity. | SB1391 |
| 0289 | Education, Higher | As enacted, authorizes a state university and the University of Tennessee system to coordinate with a two-year institution governed by the board of regents for the two-year institution to provide remedial or developmental courses or coursework, regardless of whether the university offers remedial or developmental courses or coursework at present. | HB0029 |
| 0290 | Schools, Charter | As enacted, revises the requirement for automatic revocation of a public charter school agreement to apply only if certain conditions exist; prohibits the 2022 and 2023 priority school list from being considered as one of the priority school cycles required for automatic revocation of a public charter school agreement. | HB0036 |
| 0291 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, authorizes the City of McEwen and cities in Henry, Benton, Lewis, Grainger, and Hardeman counties to hold a referendum to authorize the manufacture, receipt, sale, storage, transportation, distribution, and possession of alcoholic beverages within the territorial limits of the respective city. | HB0044 |
| 0292 | Children's Services, Dept. of | As enacted, allows the department to disclose information about a case to the public if all parties involved in the case, including the child, are deceased and all identifying personal information of the parties is redacted. | HB0091 |
| 0293 | Adoption | As enacted, authorizes a court to waive certain waiting periods and expedite certain proceedings relative to the adoption of children abandoned or voluntarily left at a facility or in a newborn safety device if certain conditions are met. | HB0164 |
| 0294 | Civil Procedure | As enacted, authorizes a plaintiff in certain civil actions filed against an owner and operator of an uninsured motor vehicle, where comparative fault is or becomes an issue, to amend the complaint to add certain persons as defendants or institute a separate action against such persons within a certain time following the filing of the first answer or first amended answer alleging such person's fault if such actions would otherwise be barred by the statute of limitations and other criteria is met. | HB0187 |
| 0295 | Courts, General Sessions | As enacted, specifies that in general sessions court cases involving an order granting possession of real property, a writ of possession must issue by operation of law if no appeal is taken within the 10-day appellate period. | HB0249 |
| 0296 | Schools, Home | As enacted, removes the requirement that a parent-teacher of a home school student provide proof of the student's immunizations and receipt of health services or examinations required by law generally for children in this state to the local education agency; exempts home school students from the immunization requirements applicable to students attending a school, nursery school, kindergarten, preschool, or child care facility; authorizes an LEA, in situations where a home school student participates in an LEA-sponsored interscholastic or extracurricular activity or event, to request and receive proof that the student received a health service or examination that is required for the LEA's students to participate in the activity or event. | HB0252 |
| 0297 | Estates | As enacted, enacts "The Small Estate Probate Act," makes various changes to "The Small Estate Affidavit Limited Letter of Authority Act" and replaces that act. | HB0337 |
| 0298 | Estates | As enacted, allows a copy of a will, portions of a will, or letters of administration to be sent to beneficiaries and residuary distributees by electronic mail in addition to first class mail or personal delivery. | HB0338 |
| 0299 | Education | As enacted, requires a student to be considered in violation of a zero tolerance offense and be expelled for not less than one calendar year, except that a director of schools may modify such expulsion on a case-by-case basis, for threatening mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity. | HB0340 |
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