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0601 Holidays and Days of Special Observance As enacted, designates June 6 as a day of special observance for D-Day. SB1860
0602 Law Enforcement As enacted, authorizes a POST-certified law enforcement officer, rather than a full-time, salaried police officer, to detain a person based on a reasonable belief that the person's motor vehicle does not comply with state law regarding tinted motor vehicle windows. SB1864
0603 State Symbols As enacted, designates "Tennessee, Tennessee" by Wayne Jerrolds as an official state song. SB1910
0604 Emergency Communications Districts As enacted, changes the years, from 2010, 2011, and 2012 to 2021, 2022, and 2023, that the emergency communications board must use to calculate the average of total recurring annual revenue the district received from certain sources for purposes of determining the base amount of funding to distribute to an emergency communications district each year. SB1975
0605 Pensions and Retirement Benefits As enacted, for purposes of the retirement system determining whether a certain payment is includable as earnable compensation, excludes from the definition of "earnable compensation" compensation paid to a member from an eligible deferred compensation plan under federal law; makes other revisions to laws governing deferred compensation plans. SB2251
0606 Boards and Commissions As enacted, clarifies that the executive directors of the board of pharmacy and the board of nursing are employees of the department of health, under the supervision and control of the division of health related boards. SB2276
0607 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities, Dept. of As enacted, requires the department to issue grants, subject to appropriations, to support the installation of powered, height-adjustable, adult-sized changing tables in single occupancy family restrooms in privately and municipally owned buildings open to the public across this state; authorizes the commissioner to create and convene an ad hoc committee to advise and assist with grant applications. SB2484
0608 Marriage As enacted, requires only marriage license applicants under the age of 18 to provide the name and address of the applicant's parents, guardian, or next of kin. SB2581
0609 Human Services, Dept. of As enacted, adds services to the list of purchases that may be made for use in a business enterprise program for the blind without taking bids for the purchases, advertising bids for such purchases, or complying with other state law on purchasing on behalf of state government; changes from the director of services for the blind to the commissioner of human services or the commissioner's designee, the person authorized to make such purchases; designates the purchase of software for use in inmate commissary facilities as remaining subject to state procurement practices. SB2920
0610 Sunset Laws As enacted, requires the state university board for Tennessee State University to be vacated and reconstituted; extends the termination date for the Tennessee State University, board of trustees to June 30, 2026. SB1596
0611 Children's Services, Dept. of As enacted, requires the commissioner to notify the committing court at least 15 days prior to the proposed discharge of a delinquent child who was committed to the custody of the department for an indefinite time. HB0619
0612 Bail, Bail Bonds As enacted, revises various provisions regarding pretrial release of a defendant charged with a criminal offense to require the magistrate to give first consideration to ensuring the safety of the community when determining whether to impose conditions of release or require a deposit of bail. HB1642
0613 Children As enacted, specifies that a juvenile court proceeding may be commenced by the taking of a child into custody or the removal of custody from a parent or legal guardian; requires the juvenile court in a dependency and neglect proceeding to determine whether a parent, guardian, relative, or caregiver of the child cannot be excluded as a perpetrator of severe child abuse against the child; prohibits a juvenile court from returning a child victim of severe child abuse to the custody of a person who cannot be excluded as the perpetrator unless certain circumstances are met; makes various other changes. HB1676
0614 Solid Waste Disposal As enacted, expands the permitted uses for money received by a county for each tire sold in the county to include removal of illegally disposed waste tires from public or private property; authorizes the department of environment and conservation to provide funds to a local government for the investigation and clean-up of unpermitted waste tire disposal sites; makes other related changes. HB1689
0615 Charitable Institutions As enacted, revises certain fees payable to the secretary of state by certain charitable organizations; increases from $500,000 to $1,000,000 the amount of gross revenue received during a fiscal year to trigger certain reporting requirements; assesses a late fee per month on certain financial reports that are not timely filed. HB1708
0616 Judicial Officers As enacted, requires, upon request of the county legislative body, the judicial commissioners to submit any relevant information to the county legislative body at least seven days before the public hearing. HB1717
0617 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the state election commission to June 30, 2032. HB1770
0618 Attorney General and Reporter As enacted, changes the reporting month from January to March for when the attorney general and reporter must report information about orders for wiretapping and electronic surveillance to the administrative office of the United States courts, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives. HB1822
0619 Education, Higher As enacted, prohibits a public institution of higher learning that holds personal information of students from sharing the personal information with a third party, unless the third party agrees in writing that the personal information will only be used for the purpose for which information is originally provided to the third party and will not be sold to or shared with any other entity. HB1837
0620 Victims' Rights As enacted, expands the ways in which applicants may apply for the home address confidentiality program to include moving to a new address unknown to the offender and not previously identified in a public record. HB1858
0621 TennCare As enacted, prohibits certain individuals from being considered ineligible to receive payment for providing TennCare medicaid-reimbursed home- and community-based long-term care services to an individual eligible to receive such services on the basis that the individual providing care and the individual receiving care reside in the same home. HB1939
0622 Tennessee Higher Education Commission As enacted, authorizes the commission to designate VETS campuses that strive to increase enrollment, continuation, and graduation rates of veterans, and that meet certain qualification criteria established by the commission, as VETS Bravo campuses; establishes reporting requirements for VETS Bravo campuses. HB2102
0623 Labor As enacted, clarifies that under this state's law relative to wage regulations, the term "work" has the same meaning as interpreted by the United States supreme court for purposes of the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947; makes additional changes relative to wage regulations. HB2110
0624 Political Parties As enacted, moves the period during which a political party must meet to elect at-large delegates and alternates for the party convention from between the second Tuesday in February and the first Tuesday in March to between the first Thursday in April and the first Thursday in May. HB2121
0625 Local Education Agencies As enacted, enacts the "Smart Heart Act"; establishes various requirements for automatic external defibrillators in schools and response protocols for cardiac-related medical emergencies. HB2251
0626 Conservation As enacted, requires that appointees to the fish and wildlife commission participate in activities regulated by the commission; requires the commission and wildlife resource agency to encourage hunting, angling, and trapping as preferred methods of wildlife management and conservation within this state; clarifies the fish and wildlife commission's authority over the taking of game and fish. HB2263
0627 Criminal Offenses As enacted, adds using, altering, encrypting, ransoming, destroying, or otherwise rendering unavailable without authorization, electronic data, electronic devices, or network providers of critical infrastructure or of a farm to the offense of committing critical infrastructure vandalism. HB2265
0628 Utilities, Utility Districts As enacted, makes revisions to the Underground Utility Damage Prevention Act, such as amending requirements for emergency excavations and the imposition of civil penalties. HB2286
0629 Education As enacted, requires the principal or head of a school that maintains an opioid antagonist at the school to ensure that the opioid antagonist is stored in accordance with manufacturer instructions; prohibits a school from prohibiting a student, employee, or visitor from possessing an opioid antagonist while the person is on school property or attending a school-sponsored activity held at a location that is not school property. HB2311
0630 Guardians and Conservators As enacted, permits a physician, psychologist, or senior psychological examiner who performs an examination on the respondent in a conservatorship proceeding to submit a report to the court that has been declared under penalty of perjury, rather than a sworn report. HB2710
0631 Local Government, General As enacted, prohibits a local governmental entity or official from adopting or enacting a resolution, ordinance, or policy that prohibits or limits the ability of a law enforcement agency to conduct traffic stops based on observation of or reasonable suspicion that the operator or a passenger in a vehicle has violated a local ordinance or state or federal law. HB1931
0632 Orders of Protection As enacted, expands the eligibility for filing a petition to obtain a lifetime order of protection to include victims of aggravated stalking, especially aggravated stalking, and felony harassment. HB1645
0633 TennCare As enacted, extends the ground ambulance service annual assessment to June 30, 2025. HB2022
0634 Public Contracts As enacted, requires certain information to be made available to each respondent for solicitation of a contract upon request; revises provisions relating to informal solicitations and small purchases; revises provisions relating to protests by aggrieved respondents to solicitations. HB2090
0635 Juvenile Offenders As enacted, allows a juvenile court to transfer a child, who is 15 or older, to be tried as an adult in criminal court for the offense of organized retail crime, theft of a firearm, or an attempt to commit such offense; revises law with regard to confinement of a child in a local juvenile detention facility, a juvenile detention facility. or an adult detention facility. HB2126
0636 Criminal Offenses As enacted, replaces references to "poisonous snakes" with "venomous snakes"; defines "venomous." HB2880
0637 County Officers As enacted, deletes provisions that exempt persons in Fentress County from meeting certain qualifications to qualify for election or appointment to the office of constable. SB2316
0638 Children As enacted, deletes the statutory provision that repeals the Tennessee Zero to Three Court Initiative on January 1, 2025. SB1585
0639 Local Education Agencies As enacted, removes the requirement that LEAs administer a pretest to students participating in an after-school learning mini-camp, learning loss bridge camp, or summer learning camp; deletes various reporting, funding, and accountability provisions regarding such pretests. SB1663
0640 Insurance, Liability As enacted, expands the conditions under which certain contracts between a taxpayer and tax preparation service company are not considered contracts of insurance to include circumstances when the tax preparation service company obtains a contractual liability insurance policy or posts a bond. SB1698
0641 Civil Emergencies As enacted, clarifies that an "occurrence," for purposes of the Mutual Aid and Emergency and Disaster Assistance Agreement Act of 2004, includes events that result in bodily injury or property damage; specifies the government officials through which mutual aid may be requested under the Act. SB1939
0642 State Employees As enacted, permits employees of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of state government to complete Tennessee foster parent training and in-service training during the course of their employment without having to use paid sick, annual, or compensatory time up to a certain amount of time. SB1941
0643 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies As enacted, makes various changes to the "Revised Tennessee Captive Insurance Act." SB2024
0644 Statutes of Limitations and Repose As enacted, enacts "Danielle's Law," which extends the statute of limitations for injuries to a person, who is 18 or older, relating to sexual assault to three years or five years depending on if law enforcement was notified of the assault. SB2060
0645 Real Property As enacted, authorizes a member of a homeowners' association for a neighborhood in Williamson County with at least 300 single family residential homes and two or more gates restricting ingress and egress to the neighborhood to request a report from the board of directors for the homeowners' association regarding criminal activity in the gated subdivision; requires the board to compile the report and make it available to each household in the subdivision. SB2153
0646 Naming and Designating As enacted, designates "Under a Tennessee Moon" by Kelly Lang as an official state song. SB2262
0647 County Clerks As enacted, requires a person seeking to qualify for election to the office of county clerk to be a qualified voter of the county and a resident of the county for one year prior to the date of the qualifying deadline for running as a candidate for county clerk. SB2284
0648 Vital Records As enacted, increases from 48 hours to two business days the time by which a physician in charge of a patient who dies or a medical examiner must determine the cause of death and complete and sign a medical certification of death. SB2398
0649 District Attorneys As enacted, adds the short title "The Gabby Act" to Chapter 237 of the Public Acts of 2023, which requires district attorneys general to designate one assistant district attorney general as the lead prosecutor in cases involving crimes committed against children and requires the Tennessee bureau of investigation to provide annual training to assistant district attorneys designated as lead prosecutors in crimes committed against children. SB2514
0650 Surveyors As enacted, requires that each year of progressive practical experience required of an applicant to qualify as a registered land surveyor be spent under the direct supervision of a practicing professional land surveyor rather than just part of the time an applicant receives such experience; adds requirement that certain applicants be certified as a professional land surveyor in training (PLSIT) as part of the application to qualify as a registered land surveyor. SB2584
0651 Medical Occupations As enacted, authorizes the board of osteopathic examination to issue advisory private letter rulings upon request to affected licensees regarding matters within the board's primary jurisdiction; provides that such rulings only affect the licensee making the inquiry and have no precedential value for another inquiry or future contested case that might come before the board. SB2590
0652 Children's Services, Dept. of As enacted, require the department to file a petition of termination of adoptive parent's parental rights with a juvenile court, within 90 days of the juvenile courts finding that there has been substantial noncompliance by a parent or guardian with the statement of responsibilities in a permanency plan. SB2660
0653 Human Rights As enacted, requires adult cabarets and adult-oriented establishments to post a notice on the inside and outside of each bathroom door and door used by customers or patrons to enter or exit the facility that provides the contact information for the Tennessee Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline established and maintained by the Tennessee bureau of investigation. SB2663
0654 Taxes, Personal Property As enacted, deletes the July 1, 2024, repeal date for the statutory provision authorizing county trustees to proceed against taxpayers delinquent in the payment of tangible personal property taxes by retaining an agent to collect the delinquent tangible personal property taxes. SB2778
0655 Abuse As enacted, makes changes to the present law regarding adult protection relevant to confidentiality of information, reports, and proceedings. SB0163
0656 Mental Illness As enacted, requires, in cases where a person is ordered into emergency or nonemergency admission to involuntary commitment and is to be released, the chief officer of the releasing facility to notify, by electronic means, local law enforcement prior to such release. SB1681
0657 Day Care As enacted, requires, as early as practicable prior to permanent closure, a child care center to provide notice of the permanent closure to the parents or guardians of each enrolled child. SB1759
0658 Schools, Home As enacted, requires, if a public school offers students the opportunity to participate in interscholastic athletic competition without the school being a member of an organization or an association that regulates interscholastic athletic competition, the LEA to permit participation in interscholastic athletics at such school by certain home school students who are zoned to attend the school. SB1979
0659 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, expands postsecondary academic programs in fermentation authorizing students to taste alcoholic beverages as part of the program. SB2021
0660 Taxes, Gasoline, Petroleum Products As enacted, requires that a grant awarded to a marina from the portion of gasoline tax revenues apportioned to the wildlife resources fund for public and environmental infrastructure at marinas be based on the amount of gasoline sold at the marina receiving the grant. SB2324
0661 Purchasing and Procurement As enacted, authorizes a county, municipality, metropolitan government, utility district, local education agency, or other local governmental entity to purchase gasoline or diesel fuel in the open market without public advertisement or competitive bidding when purchasing such products in bulk amounts would otherwise exceed applicable bid limits; authorizes such purchases from the department of general services' contract, where available. SB2432
0662 Utilities, Utility Districts As enacted, in cases where gas companies must repair the streets, lanes, alleys, pavements, and sidewalks of any town, city, or village, after laying pipes and extending conductors, with the least possible delay, prohibits a city, county, or metropolitan government from requiring the repair of pavement or sidewalk in excess of 200 percent of the surface area disturbed during the inspection, installation, or connection to such pipes or natural gas mains or conductors. SB2497
0663 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the state board of education to June 30, 2030. HB1769
0664 Contractors As enacted, authorizes the state board for licensing contractors, without cause, to require a financial statement of a licensure applicant that is reviewed or audited and attested to by a licensed public accountant or certified public accountant if the board has reason to believe it is in the best interest of the public safety and welfare. HB1903
0665 Recreational Areas As enacted, requires a campground owner to post in a high traffic area on the campground, or distribute to registered guests or visitors, a written policy on campground curfew, alcohol use, tobacco use, and pets; authorizes an owner to eject a person and notify local law enforcement under certain conditions; provides that a person who remains on a campground after having been asked to leave by the owner for certain violations commits criminal trespass and may be removed by the owner or a law enforcement officer; grants removed persons certain refunds. HB1918
0666 Workers Compensation As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Self-Insurers' Guaranty Association Act" to provide a mechanism for the payment of selfinsured workers' compensation claims to avoid excessive delay in payment and to avoid financial loss to claimants because of the insolvency of a .self-insured employer, and to provide an association to assess the cost of the protection among self-insured employers doing business in this state; makes related changes. HB2306
0667 Highways, Roads and Bridges As enacted, requires the department of transportation to erect and maintain directional signs for Milligan University at the I-81 / I-26 interchange, Exit 57A, in the City of Kingsport in Sullivan County. SB0078
0668 Regional Authorities and Special Districts As enacted, makes changes to the law relative to the South Central Tennessee Railroad Authority, including establishing that three or more of the counties of Dickson, Hickman, Lewis, Perry, and Wayne and the cities of Dickson, Centerville, and Hohenwald are authorized by a vote of two-thirds of their respective governing bodies to become members of the authority. SB1062
0669 Financial Institutions, Dept. of As enacted, authorizes banks chartered by the state, and certain savings institutions charted by the state, with the approval of the commissioner of financial institutions, to generally sell or transfer all, or substantially all, of their assets and liabilities to certain financial entities under certain conditions. SB1293
0670 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, revises present law relative to the revocation or suspension of permits or licenses for intoxicating liquors. SB1327
0671 Sentencing As enacted, enacts "Ledford's Law," which requires the terms and conditions of parole for a prisoner convicted of vehicular homicide or aggravated vehicular homicide to specifically include that the prisoner, upon release is prohibited from possessing or consuming alcohol or a controlled substance for which the prisoner does not have a valid prescription for the duration of any period of parole; makes related changes. SB1583
0672 Taxes, Privilege As enacted, authorizes persons who are 65 or older to file professional privilege tax documents and payment in paper form in lieu of any required electronic form; permits the commissioner of revenue to require that the paper filing or payment be accompanied by a manual handling fee. SB1591
0673 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Tennessee board of court reporting to June 30, 2025. SB1633
0674 TennCare As enacted, directs the bureau to amend existing or promulgate new rules by December 31, 2024, to allow for the reimbursement of qualifying remote ultrasound procedures and remote fetal nonstress tests utilizing established CPT codes for such procedures when the patient is in a residence or other off-site location that is separate from the patient's provider and the same standard of care is met. SB1674
0675 Safety As enacted, requires the department of safety to create de-escalation training for teachers, administrators, and other school personnel; requires LEAs and public charter schools to ensure that the LEA's or public charter school's teachers, administrators, and other school personnel annually receive the de-escalation training. SB1721
0676 Education, Dept. of As enacted, requires the department, using existing resources, to develop a conflict resolution program that may be adopted and implemented by LEAs and public charter schools to assist students in any of the grades K-12 in developing the skills necessary for nonviolent conflict resolution. SB1726
0677 Adoption As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Foster and Adoptive Parent Protection Act," which generally prohibits the department of children's services from requiring a current or prospective adoptive or foster parent to affirm, accept, or support any government policy regarding sexual orientation or gender identity that conflicts with the parent's sincerely held religious or moral beliefs; makes related changes. SB1738
0678 Mental Illness As enacted, by May 31, 2025 and by each May 31 thereafter, requires the department of health to publish an annual report stating the total number of attempted suicides and completed suicides that have occurred in this state in the previous calendar year; requires the department to submit the report electronically to all members of the general assembly within seven calendar days of the publication. SB1787
0679 Transportation, Dept. of As enacted, requires the department, on or before January 1, 2025, and on or before January 1 of each subsequent year, to submit a report on the department's progress on passenger and freight rail and public transportation efforts at the state and federal levels to the transportation committee of the house of representatives and the transportation and safety committee of the senate, the chief clerk of each house of the general assembly, and the legislative librarian. SB1807
0680 Health, Dept. of As enacted, requires the department to investigate reports of the amount of diagnoses of cancer and Parkinson's disease based on data currently available to the department in Maury County and Lawrence County; requires the department to submit a report to legislative committees no later than July 1, 2025. SB1843
0681 Milk, Dairy Products As enacted, enacts the "Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act," which authorizes each local board of education and public charter school governing body to establish policies for its public schools to offer students whole milk options through bulk milk dispensers. SB1914
0682 Criminal Offenses As enacted, states that, as used in the offense of stalking, harassment must be committed by the defendant with reckless disregard for whether the victim will suffer emotional distress as a result of the conduct and the victim does suffer emotional distress as a result of the conduct. SB1953
0683 Judicial Officers As enacted, establishes that in Knox County one magistrate judge must be appointed by a majority of the county's general sessions judges and the length of their term is decided by a majority of the county's general sessions judges; specifies the magistrates' duties as issuing arrest warrants and setting bonds. SB1994
0684 Health, Dept. of As enacted, prohibits the department from permitting a corporation to receive in-kind contributions paid for by federal grant funds through the federal Public Health Service Act. SB2016
0685 Courts, Juvenile As enacted, requires the administrative office of the courts to submit a report, by October 1 of each year, listing each juvenile court, if any, that is not in compliance with quality statewide data collection requirements, including the dates of noncompliance and steps that could be taken to bring the court into compliance; requires the report to be submitted to the juvenile court judges of the courts that are not in compliance and the chairs of the judiciary committee of the senate and the civil justice committee of the house of representatives. SB2059
0686 Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) As enacted, enacts the "Resilient Tennessee Revolving Loan Fund Act." SB2082
0687 Military As enacted, expands the types of duty that qualify a member of the national guard, state guard, or civil air patrol who is also a state employee for employment protections; specifies a calculation to determine the amount of monetary benefits for a national guard member who is injured or killed in the line of duty based on the member's average salary. SB2083
0688 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Disability and Aging Act of 2024." SB2098
0689 Election Laws As enacted, enacts the "Print Disability Absentee Voting Act," which prescribes a process by which a person with a print disability may apply for and receive an absentee ballot and vote by mailing in the absentee ballot. SB2118
0690 Bonds and Undertakings, Regulation of As enacted, under certain conditions, exempts the issuance of general obligation refunding bonds that will repay a public building authority loan from the requirement that a plan of refunding be submitted for review to the comptroller of the treasury. SB2130
0691 Real Property As enacted, makes changes to the law relative to homeowners' associations. SB2150
0692 Water Authorities As enacted, authorizes the governing body of an incorporated city or town to approve a project or request of its board of waterworks and/or sewerage commissioners by passage of a proper ordinance or resolution. SB2162
0693 Education, Curriculum As enacted, specifies that only middle school students enrolled in the lowest grade level at a middle school are required to take one course in computer science; authorizes the board to promulgate rules to effectuate the act. SB2214
0694 Uniform Commercial Code As enacted, defines "central bank digital currency," and revises the definitions of "money" and "deposit account," for purposes of the Uniform Commercial Code. SB2219
0695 Trusts As enacted, makes various changes to present law on trusts, estates, and partnerships. SB2256
0696 Codes As enacted, removes the requirement that the state building commission set a ratio for water closets at publicly and privately owned facilities where the public congregates, including certain football stadiums in Davidson County. SB2311
0697 Firefighters As enacted, removes the requirement that length of service awards for volunteer firefighters are awarded on a first come, first served basis; requires a portion of the appropriated funds in each fiscal year to be used to pay expenses incurred for the administration of the length of service award program. SB2331
0698 Driver Education As enacted, requires an applicant who has satisfactorily completed a driver education and training course offered for Class D vehicles by nonpublic schools in categories 1, 2, or 3 as recognized by the state board of education, a public school, a public institution of higher learning, or a commercial driver training school and who resides 30 or more miles from a driver services center to be allowed to complete online any classroom training that is required as a prerequisite to obtaining a Class H or hardship license. SB2356
0699 Children's Services, Dept. of As enacted, prohibits the department from requiring an immunization as a condition of adopting or overseeing a child in foster care if an individual or member of an individual's household objects to immunization on the basis of religious or moral convictions. SB2359
0700 Professions and Occupations As enacted, authorizes the board for professional counselors, marital and family therapists, and clinical pastoral therapists to enter into a reciprocal agreement with any other state that licenses marital and family therapists. SB2399

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