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| Chapter Number | Subject | Abstract | Bill Number |
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| 0500 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the Occupational Therapy Licensure Compact to June 30, 2026. | SB1618 |
| 0501 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the professional art therapist advisory committee of the board of examiners in psychology to June 30, 2026. | SB1619 |
| 0502 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the public records commission to June 30, 2032. | SB1620 |
| 0503 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the real estate appraiser commission to June 30, 2030. | SB1621 |
| 0504 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the Tennessee real estate commission to June 30, 2030. | SB1622 |
| 0505 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the regional transportation authority of Middle Tennessee to June 30, 2032. | SB1623 |
| 0506 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the state funding board to June 30, 2032. | SB1629 |
| 0507 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the Tennessee auctioneer commission to June 30, 2030. | SB1632 |
| 0508 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the Tennessee central economic authority to June 30, 2030. | SB1634 |
| 0509 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Development Compact to June 30, 2032. | SB1636 |
| 0510 | Real Property | As enacted, specifies that a seller of residential property is required to disclose the presence of a known sinkhole on the property prior to entering into a contract with a buyer regardless of whether the sinkhole is indicated through the contour lines on the property's recorded plat map. | HB0623 |
| 0511 | Marriage | As enacted, clarifies that a person is not required to solemnize a marriage. | HB0878 |
| 0512 | 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. | HB1680 |
| 0513 | Public Funds and Financing | As enacted, standardizes the thresholds for competitive sealed bids for counties, municipalities, utility districts, local education agencies, and other local governmental entities. | HB0284 |
| 0514 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the advisory council on state procurement to June 30, 2028. | HB1740 |
| 0515 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the standards committee, department of children's services to June 30, 2030. | HB1768 |
| 0516 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the state procurement commission to June 30, 2028. | HB1773 |
| 0517 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the state protest committee to June 30, 2028; removes requirement that the chief procurement officer send minutes of protest proceedings to the state protest committee and comptroller. | HB1774 |
| 0518 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the board of control of the Tennessee corrections institute to June 30, 2029. | HB1778 |
| 0519 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration | As enacted, authorizes licensed chiropractic physicians to issue certified statements of disability in the same manner as physicians for a person's application for a disabled registration plate, decal, or placard. | HB1796 |
| 0520 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration | As enacted, permits an owner or lessee of a motorcycle to receive a disabled decal to affix to a new specialty earmarked, cultural, or other special purpose plate that is authorized for motorcycles. | HB1806 |
| 0521 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration | As enacted, clarifies that an owner or lessee of a motor vehicle who is the parent, legal guardian, or conservator of a person who has an intellectual or developmental disability or medical condition, who may be operating the owner's or lessee's vehicle, and who needs assistance in communicating specific needs to law enforcement and first responders, may apply for a designation of such person's need in the Tennessee Vehicle Title and Registration System (VTRS) database. | SB0107 |
| 0522 | Motor Vehicles | As enacted, removes the limitation that ATVs and off-highway vehicles may be operated on a certain segment of State Route 62 and State Route 330 within the Town of Oliver Springs in Anderson County only two weekends per year. | SB1131 |
| 0523 | Education | As enacted, requires, beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, each LEA and public charter school to have fifth grade students complete one semester of Tennessee history in the first semester of the students' fifth grade year. | SB1177 |
| 0524 | Law Enforcement | As enacted, deletes the July 1, 2024, termination date for Chapter 462 of the Public Acts of 2021, allowing a law enforcement agency to continue to use a drone to search for and collect evidence or obtain information with the consent of a private property owner, in case of a natural emergency, or to investigate a crime that is occurring or has occurred. | SB1645 |
| 0525 | 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. | HB0701 |
| 0526 | Health Care | As enacted, enacts the "Healthcare Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act." | HB1163 |
| 0527 | Health Care | As enacted, requires the Tennessee peace officer standards and training (POST) commission to adopt guidelines and materials instructing law enforcement officers on the best practices for recognizing and responding to a medical crisis involving a person under arrest or under the care or supervision of the law enforcement officer. | HB1170 |
| 0528 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration | As enacted, authorizes, upon request, the department of revenue to issue lien-free salvage certificates of title to a salvage pool operator under certain circumstances. | HB1648 |
| 0529 | 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. | HB1687 |
| 0530 | Driver Licenses | As enacted, deletes the provision authorizing a municipality or county to pass an ordinance or resolution permitting a person charged with violating certain traffic ordinances or statutes to deposit the person's driver license with the court in lieu of bail. | HB1688 |
| 0531 | TennCare | As enacted, requires compliance with federal law regarding third-party liability. | HB1691 |
| 0532 | Workers Compensation | As enacted, requires an employer to report to the bureau of workers’ compensation each accident that results in a work-related death or personal injury within 14 calendar days of the date the employer is notified of the accident or has knowledge of the accident, whichever is earlier, instead of reporting accidents at different intervals based upon the nature of the injury and whether the injured employee is able to return within seven days of the accident; and makes other changes relative to workers’ compensation. | HB1694 |
| 0533 | Charitable Solicitations | As enacted, revises various provisions regarding the regulation of charitable solicitations in this state. | HB1707 |
| 0534 | State Government | As enacted, prohibits a state entity from submitting payment with an entity that has engaged in a cybersecurity incident on an information technology system by encrypting data and then subsequently offering to decrypt that data in exchange for a ransom payment; requires a state entity experiencing a ransom request in connection with a cybersecurity incident to immediately notify and consult with the technology and innovation division of the TBI. | HB1733 |
| 0535 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the child care agency licensing board of review to June 30, 2030. | HB1745 |
| 0536 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the trial court vacancy commission to June 30, 2030. | HB1780 |
| 0537 | Education | As enacted, replaces the uniform accounting policy manual for local school systems with an internal school funds manual; removes the requirement that the commissioner of finance and administration approve the manual so that only the comptroller of the treasury's approval is required. | HB1785 |
| 0538 | Public Funds and Financing | As enacted, specifies that the ratings services that grade potential investments for idle funds of local governments be nationally recognized statistical rating organizations as identified by the United States securities and exchange commission. | HB1787 |
| 0539 | Comptroller, State | As enacted, modifies the course work required to receive a certified municipal finance officer (CMFO) designation; requires examinations, including test questions, administered by MTAS and CTAS to be designated as a municipal or county finance officer, respectively, to be confidential. | HB1790 |
| 0540 | Scholarships and Financial Aid | As enacted, clarifies when a student must be enrolled in an eligible postsecondary program to be eligible to receive a Tennessee Promise scholarship. | HB1803 |
| 0541 | 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. | HB1944 |
| 0542 | Guardians and Conservators | As enacted, establishes a process for the transfer of a guardianship or conservatorship matter from the court appointing the guardian or conservator to a court in another county of this state. | HB1994 |
| 0543 | Education | As enacted, increases from three to six the maximum number of credits a student may earn in a work-based learning program in one school year; reduces from 10 to 5 hours per week, the amount of time of supervised work experience required for each additional credit earned; removes minimum of hours per week required for two additional credits. | HB2059 |
| 0544 | Pensions and Retirement Benefits | As enacted, under certain conditions, authorizes a member of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system who has been elected or appointed as a member of a city or county board on or after January 1, 2012, and who simultaneously holds that position and another position with a different employer as a retirement system member, to continue service in the elected or appointed board member position while receiving a retirement allowance. | HB2588 |
| 0545 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, adds aggravated prostitution convictions as eligible for expunction if certain requirements are met; removes such offense as "a sexual offense" or "violent sexual offense" for which a person is required to register on sexual offender registries; authorizes a prior offender who is required to register because the offender was convicted of such offense that was committed prior to July 1, 2024, to file a request for termination of registration requirements with the TBI headquarters. | SB0181 |
| 0546 | State Symbols | As enacted, designates hot slaw as an official state food. | SB1573 |
| 0547 | State Symbols | As enacted, designates Cleveland, Tennessee, as the hot slaw capital of this state. | SB1574 |
| 0548 | School Transportation | As enacted, requires each LEA to post a conspicuous notice on all school buses in operation in the LEA notifying others that no person shall enter onto school buses except those authorized by law; requires the training standards for school bus drivers established by the departments of education and safety to include procedures concerning persons improperly on school buses; requires student transportation management training for transportation supervisors appointed by local LEAs, charter schools, and charter management organizations to include procedures concerning persons improperly on school buses. | SB1680 |
| 0549 | Education, State Board of | As enacted, requires the public high school in which the public high school student member of the state board of education is enrolled to count the student as present for time the student spends performing the student's duties as a member of the state board of education. | SB1691 |
| 0550 | Education | As enacted, requires the board of trustees of the University of Tennessee, the board of regents, each local governing board of trustees of a state university, each local board of education, and the governing body of each public charter school to adopt a policy regarding the use of artificial intelligence technology by students, faculty, and staff for instructional and assignment purposes. | SB1711 |
| 0551 | Education | As enacted, enacts the "Mathematics Supports Act." | SB1712 |
| 0552 | Public Records | As enacted, requires proposals received in response to a solicitation for goods or services, and related records, including evaluations and memoranda, to be available for public inspection only after the completion of the evaluation of the same by the state. | SB1742 |
| 0553 | Statutes and Codification | As enacted, codifies the Acts of the 2023 regular and extraordinary sessions. | SB1749 |
| 0554 | Clerks, Court | As enacted, requires clerks of circuit court, criminal court, general sessions courts, other special courts created by law, and municipal courts exercising concurrent general sessions jurisdiction, to notify the Tennessee bureau of investigation of the final disposition in criminal proceedings within three business days of the disposition, rather than 72 hours. | SB1842 |
| 0555 | 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". | SB1976 |
| 0556 | Financial Institutions, Dept. of | As enacted, changes how the department calculates annual assessments for trust companies, including differentiating between public and private trust companies; changes the threshold at which a bank may obtain an evaluation in lieu of an appraisal for real property acquired by the bank. | SB2072 |
| 0557 | Health, Dept. of | As enacted, transfers certain duties and authority regarding data reported by health facilities from the executive director of the health facilities commission to the department; requires licensed birthing centers to report claims data on discharges to the department at least quarterly; removes requirement that an owner of a hospital that closes must submit to the department a report of the statistical particulars relative to the hospital's patients for the fiscal year. | SB2074 |
| 0558 | Vocational Training and Rehabilitation | As enacted, terminates the statewide advisory board for community-based vocational rehabilitation services with no wind down period; maintains the existing authority and responsibilities of local advisory boards. | SB2077 |
| 0559 | Child Abuse | As enacted, allows the district attorneys general conference, the administrative office of the courts, the Tennessee chapter of children's advocacy centers, the department of children's services, and law enforcement agencies to enter into data sharing agreements that allow for the sharing of information necessary to ensure compliance with statutory reporting requirements; specifies that data shared pursuant to an agreement retains its confidential status consistent with current law. | SB1586 |
| 0560 | Election Laws | As enacted, requires a qualified voter to request an absentee ballot not later than 10 days before an election rather than not later than seven days before an election; requires a voter seeking to be placed on the permanent absentee voting register to file a physician's statement and application for ballot not later than 10 days before an election rather than not later than seven days before an election. | SB1967 |
| 0561 | Dentists and Dentistry | As enacted, generally prohibits a licensed dentist from allowing, under general supervision, more than three dental hygienists to work at any one time; authorizes a dentist to supervise, under direct supervision, no more than 10 dental hygienists while the dentist and each hygienist are providing dental services on a volunteer basis through a nonprofit provider of free mobile clinics; authorizes a dentist to supervise, under general supervision, no more than five dental hygienists if the dentist and dental hygienists work for the department of health, a county or metropolitan health department, or an entity that participates in the state safety net program for the uninsured. | SB2075 |
| 0562 | State Government | As enacted, authorizes ex officio members of the Tennessee commission for the United States semiquincentennial commission to appoint designees to serve on the commission; transfers the administrative attachment for the commission from the department of tourist development to the Tennessee State Museum. | SB2092 |
| 0563 | Safety | 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. | HB1644 |
| 0564 | General Services, Dept. of | As enacted, removes the annual reporting requirements associated with acquiring, owning, and leasing motor vehicles purchased by the commissioner for use as state vehicles; removes the requirement that information collected by the commissioner regarding energy-efficient and alternative fuel motor vehicles be shared on the department's website. | SB2073 |
| 0565 | Juvenile Offenders | As enacted, requires a video or audio recording to be made of any interrogation of a child who has been taken into custody on suspicion that the child committed a delinquent act or unruly conduct unless a technical issue with the equipment or exigent circumstances prevent the recording. | SB1577 |
| 0566 | 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. | SB1595 |
| 0567 | Labor | As enacted, extends the Go Build Tennessee Act by changing the repeal date from July 1, 2024, to July 1, 2029. | SB1666 |
| 0568 | Opioids | As enacted, adds The Kroger Co. to the list of companies that are released by the attorney general and reporter for pending or future claims regarding opioids. | SB1677 |
| 0569 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration | As enacted, requires official vintage license plates that are issued and registered by the state in lieu of the standard antique motor vehicle registration plate to be displayed on antique motor vehicles when they are being operated on public roads and highways or are stationary; allows holders of standard antique motor vehicle registration plates to display unofficial, unregistered vintage license plates only when the vehicle is stationary; requires such holders to display the standard plate while the vehicle is being operated on public roads and highways. | SB2002 |
| 0570 | Human Services, Dept. of | As enacted, implements penalties for certain offenses for beneficiaries of the temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) program and food stamp program; removes an exemption from the TANF work requirement; removes the requirement that the TANF maximum payment standard must not increase when a caregiver relative becomes pregnant while receiving assistance. | SB2078 |
| 0571 | Local Education Agencies | As enacted, revises the instruction required as part of a family life curriculum; requires the Tennessee joint task force on children's justice and child sexual abuse, in consultation with the children's services advisory council, to annually recommend certain age-appropriate curricula to the department of education; revises the information that LEAs and public charter schools must annually provide to the department of children's services. | SB2582 |
| 0572 | Budget Procedures | As enacted, requires all requests for amendments to county budgets by county departments and other entities to be approved by the department or entity seeking the amendment prior to being submitted to the county legislative body for consideration; applies only to counties that have adopted the Local Option Budgeting Law of 1993. | HB1647 |
| 0573 | Election Laws | As enacted, requires LEAs and public charter schools of a county to be closed for instruction on presidential primary election days if the county election commission uses such schools as a polling place. | HB1649 |
| 0574 | Foster Care | As enacted, expands the eligibility for reimbursement as a relative caregiver by removing the income limitations and including a relative caregiver who meets the eligibility requirements and has been awarded custody by an order of any court. | HB1675 |
| 0575 | Controlled Substances | As enacted, removes obsolete references to federal law that pertain to the prescription of certain controlled substances. | HB1683 |
| 0576 | Public Contracts | As enacted, changes, from three years to five years, the time period for which a person awarded a state contract, change order, or contract modification must retain all books and records of cost or pricing data submitted to the state with regard to the agreement; changes, from three years to five years, the time period for which a contractor or subcontractor under a state-awarded contract must retain all books and records pertaining to the agreement; requires all state procurement contracts executed after July 1, 2024, to include a provision detailing the records retention requirement. | HB1788 |
| 0577 | Education, State Board of | As enacted, clarifies that pleas of guilt and nolo contendere to certain criminal offenses subject an educator to automatic revocation of an educator license by the state board; specifies that criminal offenses committed in another jurisdiction that are equivalent to those that if committed in this state subject an educator to automatic revocation of an educator license similarly subject an educator to automatic revocation of an educator license by the state board. | HB1789 |
| 0578 | Parks, Natural Areas Preservation | As enacted, expands the definition of "park operations" to include certain park facilities used in connection with fee-based recreational activities or intended to be revenue-generating; clarifies that the definition includes other boat rental facilities in addition to marinas. | HB1888 |
| 0579 | Election Laws | As enacted, disqualifies an administrator of elections from serving as administrator if the administrator qualifies as a candidate for public office; requires the administrator to be recused from official duties at least 30 days prior to an election in which an immediate family member of the administrator is on the ballot; clarifies that an administrator who is recused from official duties does not receive compensation during the recusal. | HB1897 |
| 0580 | County Government | As enacted, specifies that the county mayor is not a member of the county commission for purposes of compliance with the Open Meetings Act. | HB1921 |
| 0581 | Board of Regents | As enacted, requires a Tennessee college of applied technology (TCAT) to reserve an enrollment slot for each dual enrollment student in the term immediately following the last term in which the student was enrolled in the TCAT as a dual enrollment student if space is available for the student at the TCAT in the program in which the student was previously enrolled. | HB1923 |
| 0582 | Guardians and Conservators | As enacted, allows the clerk of court to waive an in-person oath by a fiduciary if the fiduciary files with the clerk a written fiduciary oath that contains certain language and is sworn or affirmed by the fiduciary in the presence of a notary public or signed and dated under penalty of perjury; specifies certain language that a fiduciary oath must contain under various circumstances. | HB1993 |
| 0583 | Education, State Board of | As enacted, requires the board, in collaboration with the department of education and the Tennessee higher education commission, to identify math courses that may be substituted for Algebra II for purposes of satisfying high school graduation requirements and to submit a report to the education committees by January 31, 2025. | HB2058 |
| 0584 | Veterinarians | As enacted, establishes a process for a licensed veterinarian to report suspected animal cruelty in violation of certain criminal laws and testify in a judicial or administrative proceeding concerning the care of the animal without being subject to criminal or civil liability. | HB2079 |
| 0585 | Auctions and Auctioneers | As enacted, clarifies that a public automobile auction means a person that offers motor vehicles for sale to the highest bidder, where buyers are members of the public, by a motor vehicle dealer licensed to sell used motor vehicles that holds a public auto auction license and uses the services of a public automobile auctioneer licensed by the commission. | HB2268 |
| 0586 | Licenses | As enacted, establishes qualifications for a person to receive a professional counselor license through a reciprocal agreement that this state has entered into on or before January 1, 2024. | HB2666 |
| 0587 | Charitable Institutions | As enacted, establishes a five-day period after the effective date of this act during which a nonprofit organization may apply to operate a charitable gaming event during the annual period beginning July 1, 2023, until June 30, 2024, and beginning July 1, 2024, and ending June 30, 2025. | HB1651 |
| 0588 | 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. | HB2091 |
| 0589 | Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies | As enacted, prohibits a dental benefit plan from containing restrictions on methods of payment from the dental benefit plan or its vendors to the dentist in which the only acceptable payment method is a credit card payment; makes other changes to dental benefit plans. | SB0677 |
| 0590 | 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 held in Hamilton County that meet certain criteria. | SB2001 |
| 0591 | Children's Services, Dept. of | As enacted, requires the permanency plan for any child in foster care for six months or longer as a result of abuse or neglect, that includes as a permanency goal the return of the child to the parent, to also include a requirement that the parent complete trauma-informed education before the child is returned to the parent; makes related changes. | SB0613 |
| 0592 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the department of children's services to June 30, 2026; requires the department to submit quarterly written reports to the government operations committees during 2024 and 2025 to provide updates on the department's progress in addressing the findings set forth in the December 2022 performance audit report. | SB1608 |
| 0593 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the department of correction to June 30, 2027; requires the department to report back to the government operations committee by December 31, 2024, to update the committee on its progress in addressing the findings set forth in the December 2023 performance audit report. | SB1609 |
| 0594 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the department of finance and administration to June 30, 2028. | SB1610 |
| 0595 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the department of labor and workforce development to June 30, 2026. | SB1612 |
| 0596 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the department of transportation to June 30, 2028; requires the department to report back to the government operations committee by December 31, 2024, to update the committee on its progress in addressing the findings and observations set forth in the December 2023 performance audit report. | SB1613 |
| 0597 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the health facilities commission to June 30, 2026. | SB1614 |
| 0598 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the sports wagering council to June 30, 2028. | SB1624 |
| 0599 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, places the Tennessee monuments and memorials commission in the sunset law with a scheduled termination date of June 30, 2025. | SB1639 |
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