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| Chapter Number | Subject | Abstract | Bill Number |
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| 0300 | State Government | As enacted, requires governmental entities to provide a period of public comment for public meetings; authorizes the governmental entities to place reasonable restrictions on the period for public comment. | HB0448 |
| 0301 | Jails, Local Lock-ups | As enacted, requires a prisoner of a county workhouse or jail who is 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, to use an electronic monitoring device at all times when the prisoner is not on the grounds of the county workhouse or jail; requires the employer or person utilizing the prisoner for work to pay the costs of the electronic monitoring device. | HB0452 |
| 0302 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, revises the punishment for critical infrastructure vandalism. | HB0482 |
| 0303 | Game and Fish Laws | As enacted, deletes the requirement that proceeds from the sale of lifetime sportsman licenses be deposited into the lifetime sportsman endowment fund. | HB0537 |
| 0304 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor offense for the possession of a device, tool, machine, implement, or other item capable of programming a smart key or key fob with the intent to use it or allow it to be used to commit theft. | HB0548 |
| 0305 | Children's Services, Dept. of | As enacted, states that the goal of the department must be to act in the best interest of the child at all times and that goal must be reflected in any mission statement or motto established by the department. | HB0552 |
| 0306 | Sentencing | As enacted, adds as a factor the court may consider for the purpose of enhancing a defendant's sentence upon conviction of a criminal offense, consideration of whether the defendant committed the offense of aggravated assault or attempted first degree murder on grounds or premises defined as a healthcare facility. | HB0577 |
| 0307 | Education | As enacted, replaces Financial Literacy Week, the first full week of April, with Financial Literacy Month, the entire month of April; requires the financial literacy commission to study financial literacy in this state and report to the general assembly. | HB0644 |
| 0308 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, increases the classification for voluntary manslaughter from a Class C felony to a Class B felony. | HB0722 |
| 0309 | Local Government, General | As enacted, enacts the "Protecting Tennessee Businesses and Workers Act." | HB0774 |
| 0310 | Education, Curriculum | As enacted, requires, upon the request of the commission, each public elementary and middle school, or each LEA on behalf of the schools, to provide information to the commission or department of education about the financial literacy education provided to elementary and middle school students during the school year. | HB0782 |
| 0311 | Teachers, Principals and School Personnel | As enacted, creates a new pathway for honorably discharged veterans to receive an occupational teaching license. | HB0786 |
| 0312 | Codes | As enacted, makes changes to present law concerning residential and energy codes. | HB0799 |
| 0313 | Abortion | As enacted, makes various changes relative to abortion. | HB0883 |
| 0314 | Municipal Government | As enacted, authorizes a municipality to add the cost of remedying a condition on real property that endangers the health, safety, and welfare of other citizens to the property tax notice of the owner of the real property, if the owner fails or refuses to remedy the condition in a specified time period. | HB0903 |
| 0315 | Expunction | As enacted, makes various changes relative to expunction. | HB1000 |
| 0316 | Boards and Commissions | As enacted, requires an appointed member of a governing body for a state entity to serve in such capacity until the member's successor is duly appointed and qualified; authorizes the removal of such member by the member's appointing authority with or without cause; removes term limits for members of the advisory council on state procurement. | HB1004 |
| 0317 | Comptroller, State | As enacted, requires the comptroller of the treasury to compare a list of registered voters provided by the state coordinator of elections to the comptroller's geographic information system data to ensure that registered voters have been assigned to the correct congressional, state house, state senate, and county governing body districts. | HB1039 |
| 0318 | Criminal Procedure | As enacted, adds to the current list of advisory factors that a court must consider, but is not bound by, in determining whether to enhance a defendant's sentence whether the defendant committed an assaultive offense, criminal homicide, kidnapping, false imprisonment, robbery, or a sexual offense while engaged in the performance of official duties as a law enforcement officer. | HB1081 |
| 0319 | Arbitration | As enacted, makes various revisions to the "Uniform Arbitration Act." | HB1162 |
| 0320 | Economic and Community Development, Dept. of | As enacted, makes various changes relative to the Broadband Accessibility Grant Program. | HB1211 |
| 0321 | Education, Dept. of | As enacted, requires the department, in administering the individualized education account program, to develop and implement a process for notifying all parents of their children's potential eligibility for an individualized education account, instead of only ensuring lower-income families are so notified; requires the department to report whether the process increased student participation in the program to the education committee of the senate and the education administration committee of the house of representatives by January 31 of each year. | HB1261 |
| 0322 | Education, Dept. of | As enacted, requires the department to conduct a study of best practices in other states for the use of ninth grade "on-track" indicators in state accountability systems to prevent students from dropping out of high school, to submit a report of the outcomes of the study to legislative committees, and to publish the report on the department's website. | HB1295 |
| 0323 | Consumer Protection | As enacted, requires that if an entity requires on-site payment from a consumer for the parking of a motor vehicle on the entity's property, and the entity only accepts payment by use of a quick response (QR) code or a credit or debit card machine, then, in the event the QR code or the credit or debit card machine fails to operate correctly to process the payment transaction, the entity must either accept payment by cash, check, or credit or debit card or allow the consumer to leave the property without providing payment at the time. | HB1306 |
| 0324 | Consumer Protection | As enacted, enacts the "Genetic Information Privacy Act." | HB1310 |
| 0325 | 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. | HB1388 |
| 0326 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, generally requires by January 1, 2024, each law enforcement agency to develop and enforce a policy that prohibits an officer from using a drone or other substantially similar device as a weapon under any circumstances while in the exercise of the officer's official duties; requires a law enforcement agency to permit an officer qualified to operate a drone to utilize a drone or a substantially similar device for the purpose of remotely detonating a bomb or similar incendiary or explosive device. | HB1492 |
| 0327 | Education | As enacted, establishes a deaf mentor and parent advisor program to assist families in implementing bilingual and bicultural home-based programming for young children who are deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind at the Tennessee Schools for the Deaf and the West Tennessee School for the Deaf. | SB0004 |
| 0328 | Education | As enacted, expands the eligibility criteria for an education savings account to include students zoned to attend an LEA with at least three schools identified as priority schools in 2015, and at least three schools identified as being in the bottom 10 percent of schools in 2017. | SB0012 |
| 0329 | Fines and Penalties | As enacted, prohibits a court clerk, upon request by an individual on a payment or installment plan, from requiring the individual to pay outstanding court-assessed fines, fees, taxes, or costs arising from a criminal proceeding during the 180-day period following the individual's release from a term of imprisonment sentence of one year or more for a felony offense; excludes from this provision restitution owed to a victim and certain fines, fees, taxes, or costs that have been sent to a collection agency. | SB0013 |
| 0330 | Expunction | As enacted, authorizes the expunction of public records, without cost, of a person who has been charged with a felony or a misdemeanor if the charge is abated by death. | SB0019 |
| 0331 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the department of children's services to June 30, 2024; requires the department to submit quarterly reports to the chairs of the government operations committees to provide updates on the department's progress in addressing performance audit findings; requires the department to appear before the education, health, and general welfare joint evaluation committee no later than June 30, 2023, to present information included in the department's six-month follow-up report submitted to the comptroller of the treasury. | SB0037 |
| 0332 | Administrative Procedure (UAPA) | As enacted, continues permanent rules filed with the secretary of state between January 1, 2022, and December 31, 2022, that are in effect on the effective date of this act until repealed or amended by subsequent rule of the appropriate rulemaking agency or until otherwise superseded by legislative enactment. | SB0068 |
| 0333 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration | As enacted, provides that a commercial driver license issued with a hazardous materials endorsement expires on the date the hazardous materials endorsement authorization expires. | SB0079 |
| 0334 | Juvenile Offenders | As enacted, requires mental health evaluation and treatment for juveniles who commit aggravated animal cruelty under certain circumstances. | SB0183 |
| 0335 | Animal Cruelty and Abuse | As enacted, establishes standards for shelter that must be provided to dogs under animal cruelty laws. | SB0195 |
| 0336 | Driver Licenses | As enacted, requires proof of financial responsibility be maintained for the period of a driver license's suspension or revocation rather than for a period of three years in order for a person's registration to not be suspended or revoked when the commissioner of safety suspends or revokes the person's license by reason of a conviction; makes other revisions related to compliance with proof of financial responsibility requirements. | SB0259 |
| 0337 | Holidays and Days of Special Observance | As enacted, changes the designation of June 19, known as "Juneteenth," from a day of special observance to a legal holiday. | SB0269 |
| 0338 | Education, Dept. of | As enacted, revises various provisions of present law pertaining to the promotion of students from third grade. | SB0300 |
| 0339 | Education, Higher | As enacted, allows adjunct faculty to participate in the Brian Byrge Act by allowing them to enroll in one course consisting of no more than four credit hours or 120 clock hours, per term at the community college or Tennessee college of applied technology at which they are employed, without paying tuition charges or maintenance fees. | SB0301 |
| 0340 | Education, Dept. of | As enacted, requires the department to conduct a statewide needs analysis of preschool education in this state; requires the department to establish the Tennessee preschool task force to assist in developing a strategic plan for preschool education in this state and to provide recommendations on high-quality programming; requires, subject to available funding, the department to implement a pilot program to award grant funds to five LEAs to implement innovative and high-quality preschool programs in the 2023-2024 school year. | SB0355 |
| 0341 | Taxes | As enacted, revises present law relative to a taxpayer's duty to list fully such tangible personal property used, or held for use, in the taxpayer's business or profession on such schedule, place its correct value thereon, sign the schedule, and return it to the assessor on or before March 1 of each year; requires TACIR to monitor implementation and to periodically report its findings on collections and administration of the business personal property tax to the general assembly. | SB0384 |
| 0342 | Water Pollution | As enacted, makes revisions to the Water Quality Control Act. | SB0407 |
| 0343 | Local Education Agencies | As enacted, requires an LEA to pay a teacher their full salary, in addition to their full benefits, if the teacher is absent from assigned duties as the result of a personal injury caused by a physical assault or other violent criminal act committed against the teacher in the course of the teacher's employment activities, with certain limitations and exceptions. | SB0906 |
| 0344 | Education | As enacted, revises present law that relative to a local board of education keeping on file and available in each school library added or amended operating policies and a notice of each deleted operating policy; authorizes a person who holds an active industry license or credential relevant to a career and technical education course to provide instruction to students in the career and technical education course as long as the instruction is supervised at all times in the classroom by a licensed teacher who serves as the teacher of record for the course; holds such a person subject to investigation pursuant to law relative to investigating applicants for teaching positions. | SB0967 |
| 0345 | Utilities, Utility Districts | As enacted, increases maximum per diem allowable for commissioners of utility district board in Morgan and Roane Counties, from $300 to $500 per board meeting. | SB0986 |
| 0346 | Election Laws | As enacted, revises present law relative to procedures for voting at a polling place. | SB1007 |
| 0347 | 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. | SB1056 |
| 0348 | Insurance, Health, Accident | As enacted, changes a utility district board member's insurance compensation option from payment to reimbursement of payment for premiums paid for equivalent or similar medical insurance coverage and life insurance coverage by the member; allows a utility district board member to receive reimbursement of premiums paid for medical insurance coverage under medicare and any medicare supplement insurance policy. | SB1146 |
| 0349 | 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. | SB1223 |
| 0350 | Education | As enacted, revises present law concerning participation in school board meetings by electronic participation. | SB1268 |
| 0351 | Conservation | As enacted, authorizes expenditures from the 1986 wetland acquisition fund to acquire forest tracts within Cumberland County adjacent to Catoosa Wildlife Management Area known as the "Oakley Tract(s)," including lands adjacent thereto. | SB1307 |
| 0352 | Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies | As enacted, requires the commissioner of commerce and insurance to conduct a study on the implementation of the federal No Surprises Act and its implications for physicians and healthcare facilities in this state; revises present law concerning network adequacy. | SB1345 |
| 0353 | 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. | SB1443 |
| 0354 | Traffic Safety | As enacted, enacts the "Jabari Bailey Highway Safety Act," which requires drivers to change lanes or reduce speed upon approaching a stationary vehicle that has flashing hazard lights activated; increases fines for failing to change lanes or reduce speed upon approaching a stationary emergency, recovery, highway maintenance, solid waste, utility service, or other vehicle that has flashing lights activated. | HB0092 |
| 0355 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, makes changes to the requirements for applicants for server permits. | HB0160 |
| 0356 | Courts, Municipal | As enacted, specifies that municipal court has jurisdiction over the expunction of a person's conviction for a violation of a municipal ordinance from the public records; specifies conditions for such expunction. | HB0281 |
| 0357 | Professions and Occupations | As enacted, revises present law relative to security guards/officers. | HB0379 |
| 0358 | Probation and Parole | As enacted, states that the four years of qualifying full-time professional experience required to be a probation and parole officer may include experience in law enforcement. | HB0413 |
| 0359 | Victims' Rights | As enacted, revises present law relative to the criminal injuries compensation fund for victims of human trafficking offenses. | HB0555 |
| 0360 | 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. | HB0562 |
| 0361 | Adoption | As enacted, makes various revisions to present law relative to adoption. | HB0606 |
| 0362 | Bail, Bail Bonds | As enacted, revises present law relative to admission to bail. | HB0830 |
| 0363 | 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. | HB0855 |
| 0364 | Local Government, General | As enacted, prohibits as against public policy a metropolitan government ordinance, charter provision, or resolution that requires a supermajority vote of the local legislative body in order to make improvements to, renovations to, or the demolition and replacement of existing facilities owned by the metropolitan government when such facilities are to be used for substantially the same purpose as the use prior to any changes; requires that the voting requirement for such actions involving existing facilities must be the same voting requirement applicable to ordinances of the legislative body in general. | HB0864 |
| 0365 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, clarifies that a sheriff and sheriff's deputy are law enforcement officers for purposes of the criminal code; clarifies that a deputy jailer is a law enforcement officer only for the purposes of enhancement of a crime under the criminal code. | HB1013 |
| 0366 | Child Custody and Support | As enacted, revises present law relative to child support. | HB1225 |
| 0367 | 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. | HB0322 |
| 0368 | 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. | HB0027 |
| 0369 | 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. | HB0040 |
| 0370 | Taxes, Litigation | As enacted, clarifies that a county continues to have the authority to levy a local litigation tax on an adoption proceeding in chancery, circuit, or juvenile court, and that the exemption does not limit or repeal such authority. | HB0100 |
| 0371 | Parks, Natural Areas Preservation | As enacted, designates certain segments of Chickamauga Creek as Class I natural river areas. | HB0150 |
| 0372 | Health, Dept. of | As enacted, requires an annual training pay bonus supplement for eligible emergency medical services personnel in the amount of $800. | HB0155 |
| 0373 | 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. | HB0163 |
| 0374 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, authorizes certain establishments to sell alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption. | HB0191 |
| 0375 | Capital Punishment | As enacted, requires a sentence of death to be carried out within 30 business days of the conclusion of any appeals or post-conviction relief, if the jury unanimously determines that certain circumstances are met. | HB0289 |
| 0376 | Codes | As enacted, authorizes certain persons entering into employment as a municipal or county building, plumbing, mechanical, or electrical inspector with an exempt jurisdiction to perform certain services. | HB0296 |
| 0377 | Taxes | As enacted, makes various revisions to present tax law. | HB0323 |
| 0378 | 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. | HB0328 |
| 0379 | 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. | HB0355 |
| 0380 | Food and Food Products | As enacted, makes various changes to the Tennessee Meat and Poultry Inspection Act and establishes a state meat inspection program. | HB0394 |
| 0381 | Lottery, Scholarships and Programs | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Future Teacher Scholarship Act of 2023." | HB0432 |
| 0382 | Sports | As enacted, makes changes concerning youth sports safety. | HB0457 |
| 0383 | Boats, Boating | As enacted, revises various provisions of present law concerning the offense of boating under the influence. | HB0458 |
| 0384 | TennCare | As enacted, extends the nursing home annual assessment fee to June 30, 2024. | HB0493 |
| 0385 | Transportation, Dept. of | As enacted, requires the department to identify locations of state and local government roads in this state where injuries to bicyclists and pedestrians are elevated in comparison to the statewide average. | HB0685 |
| 0386 | 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. | HB0702 |
| 0387 | Public Employees | As enacted, makes changes to the present law relative to reemployment after retirement from public employment. | HB0706 |
| 0388 | Transportation, Dept. of | As enacted, makes revisions to law relative to traffic-control signals. | HB0766 |
| 0389 | Election Laws | As enacted, provides that a candidate's name may only be printed on the ballot if it is the name of a person whom the chair of a statewide political party has certified to be placed on the ballot for the office of president to the secretary of state; transfers responsibility for notifying county election commissions of candidate names that must appear on the ballot for each political party in the presidential preference primary from the secretary of state to the coordinator of elections; requires members of the state election commission to disclose any employment or the receipt of compensation, received for services related to elections. | HB0772 |
| 0390 | Fire Prevention and Investigation | As enacted, requires the state fire marshal to create a state fire permit that mobile food units may obtain annually to demonstrate fire safety and electrical code compliance to local governments; requires a local government to recognize the state fire permit in its jurisdiction; prohibits the local government from requiring a local fire permit if the mobile food unit holds a state fire permit. | HB0814 |
| 0391 | Election Laws | As enacted, prohibits members of local governing bodies to be elected through an election procedure that requires candidates to be nominated from a district and elected at large. | HB0817 |
| 0392 | Tennessee Bureau of Investigation | As enacted, requires the bureau to develop a request for certification form to be completed by the court and submitted to the bureau prior to entering an order of expunction, with a few exceptions; requires the bureau to determine and certify whether a submitted offense is eligible for expunction; prohibits entry of an order of expunction on or after January 1, 2024, unless a certificate of eligibility from the bureau is attached to the order of expunction. | HB0831 |
| 0393 | Adoption | As enacted, makes revisions to present law relative to termination of certain parental rights. | HB0854 |
| 0394 | 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. | HB0879 |
| 0395 | Health Care | As enacted, enacts the "Prior Authorization Fairness Act." | HB0885 |
| 0396 | 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. | HB0905 |
| 0397 | Election Laws | As enacted, authorizes Washington County to establish a convenient voting center pilot program. | HB0937 |
| 0398 | Annexation | As enacted, allows owners of real property used primarily for agricultural purposes who reside in a territory previously annexed by ordinance upon the initiative of the municipality to petition the municipality to deannex such property, if certain conditions are present. | HB0938 |
| 0399 | Teachers, Principals and School Personnel | As enacted, requires local education agencies (LEAs) to provide licensed employees of the LEA 6 paid workweeks after a birth or stillbirth of the employee's child or employee's adoption of a newly placed minor child. | HB0983 |
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