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0801 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel As introduced, authorizes a faculty or staff member of a school to carry a concealed handgun on school grounds subject to certain conditions, including obtaining an enhanced handgun carry permit and completing annual training. SB1325
0802 Uniform Commercial Code As introduced, incorporates into the Uniform Commercial Code the amendments adopted by the Uniform Law Commission in 2022. SB0479
0803 Financial Institutions, Dept. of As introduced, removes a reference to a repealed provision of law that required state banks and certain securities broker-dealers to adhere to certain disclosure requirements of the federal deposit insurance corporation. SB1286
0804 Special License Plates As introduced, extends, from 30 days to 45 days, the time frame for an applicant who does not meet the requirements for a Tennessee Sheriff’s Association or Fraternal Order of Police license plate to surrender the plate to the county clerk. SB1593
0805 Attorney General and Reporter As introduced, authorizes the attorney general and reporter to investigate human trafficking offenses, organized crime offenses, and related criminal activity; authorizes the attorney general and reporter to prosecute such offenses either with consent of the district attorney general or after appointment as district attorney general pro tempore by the supreme court; requires the Tennessee bureau of investigation to provide assistance to the attorney general and reporter as needed. SB1802
0806 Marriage As introduced, prohibits marriage between first cousins. SB1917
0807 Guardians and Conservators As introduced, allows a court to charge the cost of an attorney ad litem in a guardianship or conservatorship proceeding against the property of the respondent, the petitioner, or any other party or partially to any one or more of them as determined in the court's discretion. SB1952
0808 Drugs, Prescription As introduced, increases from 50 to 100 the number of patients to whom a licensed nurse practitioner or physician assistant who is authorized to prescribe Schedule II or III drugs may prescribe buprenorphine products; increases from four to 10 the maximum number of licensed nurse practitioners or physician assistants who prescribe buprenorphine products that a physician may supervise or collaborate with at one time; makes other changes relative to the use of buprenorphine products. SB2019
0809 Motor Vehicles As introduced, changes, from August 1 of each year to before July 31 of each year, the date by which the name, address, and telephone number of the person designated to check a bus or vehicle for children at stops under the Tennessee Children with Disabilities Transportation Act must be sent to the appropriate LEA. SB2188
0810 Local Education Agencies As introduced, requires each local board of education and public charter school governing body to adopt a code of conduct for visitors for each school under the authority of the board or governing body that describes the types of acceptable behavior from visitors on school grounds. SB2202
0811 Criminal Procedure As introduced, expands the definition of "victim" for the purposes of restitution to include a reciprocal, as defined by current law, when the reciprocal has compensated a subscriber for loss incurred as a result of the offense to the extent that the reciprocal paid compensation to the subscriber. SB2243
0812 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities As introduced, requires the defined geographical limitation for purposes of exercising police power to be incorporated into an agreement relating to security provided by law enforcement officers for health and related facilities. SB2367
0813 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies As introduced, increases, from $50,000 to $100,000, the amount of the bond running to the state that every insurance company doing a workers' compensation business in this state must furnish to the commissioner of commerce and insurance; increases, from $100,000 to $200,000, the amount that such a company has on deposit with another state in which the company is organized and domiciled and from which a certificate of that state's commissioner of insurance may be accepted by the commissioner of commerce and insurance in lieu of the bond. SB2378
0814 Energy As introduced, authorizes mayors of certain local governments to enter into voluntary agreements for energy infrastructure improvements for clean or renewable energy; requires that agreements be approved either by resolution of the respective legislative bodies of such local governments or in accordance with statutory requirements. SB2424
0815 Education, Higher As introduced, establishes deadlines for public institutions of higher education to initiate and complete an investigation into a report filed by a student or employee alleging they have been penalized, discriminated against, or received adverse treatment due to their refusal to support or otherwise assent to a divisive concept, specific ideology, or political viewpoint; establishes financial penalties for institutions that fail to timely investigate such reports or fail to timely report the results of such investigations to the comptroller of the treasury; requires the comptroller to report institutions that frequently submit reports of such investigations to the education committees of the senate and house of representatives. SB2501
0816 County Government As introduced, requires a nonprofit organization that has entered into a contract or memorandum of understanding with the district attorney general to disclose the list of persons or entities that have donated to the nonprofit in the previous calendar year, upon written request from a member of the general assembly or passage of a resolution requesting the information by a county legislative body for a county within the judicial district. SB2561
0817 Election Laws As introduced, authorizes a county election commission to elect by majority vote to enter into the contract, lease, and option agreement with the coordinator of elections for the financing of the purchase of voting machines; clarifies that the county election commission selects the voting machines to be used in a county and is responsible for the destruction of the voting machines once the machines are deemed obsolete. SB2587
0818 Open Meetings As introduced, authorizes a governing body to provide a period of public comment for each item on an agenda for a public meeting or at the end of the agenda for comment collectively on matters germane to the items on the agenda. SB2813
0819 Parks, Natural Areas Preservation As introduced, authorizes the operation of a golf cart on gravel roads within the campgrounds of state parks in addition to paved roads if such gravel roads are marked suitable for a golf cart. SB2827
0820 Utilities, Utility Districts As introduced, deletes an obsolete provision requiring the public utility commission to report by 2011 to the speaker of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, the governor, the chair of the commerce and labor committee of the senate, and the chair of the commerce committee of the house of representatives regarding state-issued certificates of franchise authority under the Competitive Cable and Video Services Act. SB2834
0821 Correction, Dept. of As introduced, permits the department to file its annual report regarding the effectiveness of diversion of offenders from state correctional institutions electronically. SB2861
0822 Election Laws As introduced, increases the time allowed for an employee to take time off to vote on election day from three to four hours. SB0145
0823 Education, Higher As introduced, removes a provision that, in developing course equivalencies and awarding academic credits, required state institutions of higher education to submit such equivalencies to the Tennessee higher education commission (THEC) on or before December 15, 2018, detailing how academic credit toward the institution's respective credentials will be awarded. SB0709
0824 Pharmacy, Pharmacists As introduced, authorizes as part of the practice of pharmacy the prescribing of dietary fluoride supplements, certain immunization agents, opioid antagonists, and certain other drugs and products; makes various other changes to pharmacy practice. SB0869
0825 Sunset Laws As introduced, extends the commission on children and youth to June 30, 2028. SB1605
0826 Sunset Laws As introduced, extends the University of Tennessee, board of trustees, to June 30, 2028. SB1638
0827 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) As introduced, continues permanent rules filed with the secretary of state between January 1, 2023, and December 31, 2023, 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. SB1640
0828 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities As introduced, allows members of the council on autism spectrum disorder to receive reimbursement for travel expenses. SB1644
0829 Local Education Agencies As introduced, allows the parent or guardian of a student with a documented academic or behavioral delay to voluntarily retain the student in the student's current grade level; requires the LEA or public charter school in which such student is enrolled to retain the student in the student's current grade level at the request of the student's parent or guardian unless the student has already been retained in that grade level. SB1688
0830 Election Laws As introduced, requires each person, corporation, organization, partnership, or political party that seeks to provide training or conferences related to the administration of elections to county election commissions to be approved by the secretary of state prior to providing such training or conference. SB1706
0831 Health Care As introduced, requires a healthcare provider to provide to a patient or the patient’s authorized representative a full copy of the patient’s medical records within 10 working days of receipt of a written request by the patient or representative, instead of providing a full copy or a summary of the records; requires a healthcare provider to provide to a principal or an attorney in fact acting pursuant to a durable power of attorney for health care a full copy of the principal’s medical records within 10 working days of receipt of a written request by the principal or attorney in fact, instead of providing a full copy or a summary of the records. SB1766
0832 Local Education Agencies As introduced, requires a request made by a student to an employee of the student's LEA or public charter school for an accommodation to affirm the student's gender identity to be reported to a school administrator and to the student's parent; prohibits an employee of an LEA or public charter school from knowingly providing false or misleading information to a student's parent regarding the student's gender identity or intention to transition to a gender that differs from the student's sex at the time of birth; authorizes civil actions to be filed by parents and by the attorney general and reporter against a noncompliant LEA or public charter school. SB1810
0833 Garnishments and Executions As introduced, makes various revisions to provisions related to property that is exempt from execution, seizure, or attachment. SB1814
0834 Health, Dept. of As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Maternal Health Equity Advisory Committee Act." SB1832
0835 Consumer Protection As introduced, requires a business that makes an automatic renewal offer or continuous service offer to a consumer to obtain affirmative consent to the agreement containing the automatic renewal offer terms or continuous service offer terms no less than 60 days before the business charges the consumer's credit or debit card, or the consumer's account through a third party. SB1894
0836 School Transportation As introduced, clarifies, for purposes of obtaining a school bus endorsement on a driver license and for other purposes, that a school bus is a vehicle designed to transport 16 or more passengers, including the driver; makes other related revisions. SB1902
0837 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation As introduced, creates an Amber+ Alert system for the purpose of issuing alerts with respect to certain youth who are reported missing under unexplained or suspicious circumstances, reported missing and at risk of harm, or reported missing and developmentally disabled or cognitively impaired. SB1929
0838 DNA and Genetic Testing As introduced, adds testing for variants of the Apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) gene associated with increased risk of developing chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease to the conditions for which the department of health must develop screening programs. SB1930
0839 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel As introduced, allows all LEA and public charter school employees, instead of only teachers, to receive their full salary, or average pay, and full benefits in the event they sustain a personal injury as the result of a physical assault or other violent criminal act committed against them while they are acting in the course and scope of their employment. SB1943
0840 Food and Food Products As introduced, redefines "food service establishment" to exclude an establishment whose primary business is other than food service, that incidentally makes casual, occasional food sales for two days or less while an organized temporary event is being conducted less than one-quarter mile from the establishment, for the purposes of exempting such establishments from regulation by the department of health and local governments. SB1945
0841 Education As introduced, requires organizers of public school athletic events to accept cash as a form of payment for admission to the event or the purchase of concessions or other items for sale at the event; prohibits organizers of public school athletic events from charging a cash price that exceeds the price if paid by credit or debit card; designates a violation to be an unfair or deceptive act or practice in violation of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977. SB1998
0842 Holidays and Days of Special Observance As introduced, designates the calendar week that includes October 28 as the "Reverend Kelly Miller Smith, Sr. Week of Service." SB2006
0843 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel As introduced, authorizes the issuance of temporary teaching permits to teach physical education classes in elementary schools. SB2032
0844 Sexual Offenses As introduced, expands the offense of aggravated rape to include when the defendant commits rape knowing that the defendant is infected with HIV. SB2043
0845 Boats, Boating As introduced, requires rules of the fish and wildlife commission governing the numbering, safety equipment, and operation of vessels to be published in the newspaper at least 20 days, instead of 15 days, before the rules become effective. SB2046
0846 Controlled Substances As introduced, increases the limit on the amount of products containing ephedrine or pseudoephedrine base, or their salts, isomers, or salts of isomers that a pharmacy may sell or a person may purchase in a 30-day period from 5.76 grams to 7.2 grams; removes the limit on the amount of such products that may be purchased or sold within a one-year period. SB2048
0847 Military As introduced, authorizes the military department to administer a critical skills retention bonus program to be used to award retention bonuses of up to $10,000 to enlisted service members in the Tennessee national guard; entitles certain state employees who are members of a reserve component of the armed forces of the United States or the national guard to special leave with partial pay during a period in which the members have been called to active duty. SB2081
0848 Tennessee Higher Education Commission As introduced, creates a mechanism for the management and governance functions of a local governing board of trustees for a state university to be transferred and assumed by the commission in the event a state university board ceases to exist under the Tennessee Governmental Entity Review Law. SB2109
0849 Courts, Juvenile As introduced, allows the court to require the parent or guardian of a child adjudicated unruly in whole or in part for habitual and unlawful absence to provide additional information deemed necessary by the court for imposition of a disposition that adequately addresses the child's circumstances, educational barriers, and root causes of truancy. SB2127
0850 Wine & Wineries As introduced, requires the Tennessee wine and grape board to annually report by March 1 to certain committees of the general assembly each rule promulgated by the board and the rationale for each rule. SB2129
0851 Local Government, General As introduced, removes jurisdictional exceptions to prohibition on discrimination against first responders based upon residency with respect to employment; prohibits all local governments in this state from discriminating against first responders with respect to employment based on residence. SB2205
0852 Healthcare Liability As introduced, extends, from three business days to five business days, the time in which a provider must send a claimant's medical records to a requesting party after receipt of payment for the records. SB2253
0853 Purchasing and Procurement As introduced, authorizes the chief procurement officer to develop regulations, policies, procedures, templates, or other guidance related to the acquisition of information systems and software, in coordination with the division of strategic technology solutions and the information systems council. SB2270
0854 Drugs, Prescription As introduced, requires a pharmacy or other authorized dispensing person or entity to make all reasonable efforts to contact and notify a person of the lowest available cost of a prescription drug prior to the point of sale. SB2274
0855 Human Services, Dept. of As introduced, requires the commissioner to include in the annual block grant report information detailing the department's use of federal TANF funds in furtherance of the four purposes of the TANF program. SB2293
0856 Health, Dept. of As introduced, authorizes the department to contract with a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that maintains a principal office in this state and that is affiliated with a nonprofit membership organization composed of family physicians, family medicine residents, and medical students in this state for the nonprofit organization to administer some or all portions of the family medicine student loan repayment program. SB2296
0857 Health Care As introduced, changes certain requirements for healthcare providers who are not physicians to qualify to prescribe a buprenorphine product for the treatment of opioid use disorder, recovery, or medication-assisted treatment. SB2297
0858 Public Health As introduced, changes from March 1 to January 15 the date by which the bureau of TennCare must submit an annual report to the general assembly concerning aspects of quality and outcomes in perinatal care for the previous two years that includes a description of initiatives by managed care organizations to improve key performance indicators of perinatal care outcomes, and a determination of the effectiveness of managed care organizations' initiatives toward improving perinatal care outcomes to residents in each health region of the state. SB2299
0859 Taxes As introduced, adds hydrogen gas to the definition of alternative fuel for the purposes of fuel tax law; subjects hydrogen gas to the compressed natural gas tax; exempts hydrogen gas from the sales and use tax. SB2307
0860 Local Government, General As introduced, establishes the "Residential Infrastructure Development Act of 2024." SB2315
0861 Insurance, Health, Accident As introduced, establishes procedures for recoupment of overpayments made to a healthcare provider by certain health insurance entities. SB2328
0862 Children As introduced, revises the definition of a dependent and neglected child in juvenile court proceedings to provide that a child must be dependent and neglected at the time of the filing of the court petition and adds that dependency and neglect due to a condition of want or suffering may be due to the child's mental health or substance abuse issues. SB2349
0863 Local Education Agencies As introduced, allows certain schools in need of intervention to exit the school turnaround pilot program before the 2024-2025 school year. SB2366
0864 Local Education Agencies As introduced, adds local law enforcement officials to those who must be appointed to each district-wide school safety team; specifies that it is each district-wide school safety team and each building-level school safety team that is required to annually review the respective district-wide or building-level school safety plan. SB2406
0865 Alcoholic Beverage Commission As introduced, requires the commissioner to keep and maintain an electronic copy of each audit of a wholesaler for purposes of tax collection for not less than three years. SB2506
0866 Juvenile Offenders As introduced, permits a court to order a child who is adjudicated as a traffic violator, in addition to the child's parent or legal guardian, to pay a fine of not more than $50. SB2507
0867 Culture and Arts As introduced, requires, on or before January 1, 2025, the department of revenue to report to the finance, ways and means committees of both houses the total amount of moneys received under law relative to property tax in fiscal years 2023 and 2024 from the sales of tickets, fees, or other charges made for admission to performance venues in this state, and the revenue effect of exempting dues, fees, or other charges made on or for the admission of the public to television, film, radio, or theatrical presentations. SB2508
0868 Education, Higher As introduced, requires the Tennessee higher education commission and each governing board of a public institution of higher education in this state to revise certain rules and take certain actions with respect to institutional accreditation; specifies that a public institution of higher education in this state may bring a civil cause of action against an accrediting agency or association in certain circumstances. SB2528
0869 Bail, Bail Bonds As introduced, removes the defendant's financial condition as a consideration for the magistrate in determining the amount of bail necessary to reasonably assure the appearance of the defendant at trial and protect the safety of the public. SB2565
0870 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration As introduced, creates an offense for possessing or distributing a license plate flipper. SB2585
0871 Election Laws As introduced, requires a third-party voter registration organization to register and provide certain information to the coordinator of elections before engaging in a voter registration event or program; prohibits persons and organizations collecting voter registrations from taking certain actions with regard to the voter registrations and provides civil penalties for violations. SB2586
0872 Criminal Offenses As introduced, prohibits an entity supported in whole or in part by public funds from knowingly providing meeting spaces or other forums, including, but not limited to, electronic and print platforms, to a designated entity by which the designated entity may solicit material support, recruit new members, encourage violent action, or advocate divisive concepts; specifies a violation of the prohibition as a Class E felony, punishable only by a fine of up to $3,000. SB2610
0873 Naming and Designating As introduced, designates barbecue as an official state food. SB2648
0874 Criminal Offenses As introduced, creates a Class B misdemeanor that is committed when a person knowingly tampers with, removes, or vandalizes a monitoring device that the person is required to use as a condition of bond, probation, or parole; requires an entity monitoring such a device to notify the court with jurisdiction over the person's bond, board of parole, or probation officer upon becoming aware that there has been an attempt to either tamper with, disable, remove, or otherwise make the device ineffective. SB2654
0875 Schools, Charter As introduced, requires public charter schools to provide educators six work weeks of paid leave after the birth or stillbirth of the educator's child or after the educator's adoption of a newly placed minor child. SB2655
0876 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel As introduced, authorizes the issuance of temporary teaching permits for courses for which an end-of-course examination is required. SB2674
0877 Local Government, General As introduced, requires a political subdivision to provide a written attestation with the political subdivision's annual audit to the comptroller of the treasury certifying that the political subdivision has not sought or received a grant in intentional pursuit of certain prohibited policies. SB2743
0878 Child Custody and Support As introduced, requires the department of human services to notify the department of safety that a child support obligor whose commercial driver license was suspended or revoked for noncompliance with a child support order is in reasonable compliance with the order when the obligor submits documentation that the support is being withheld from the obligor's income received from an employment position requiring the operation of a commercial motor vehicle; requires the license to be reinstated. SB2774
0879 Tennessee Higher Education Commission As introduced, makes various changes to the fees collected by the commission from Tennessee SARA institutions pursuant to the State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement Act. SB2826
0880 Judicial Districts As introduced, creates one additional circuit court in the 23rd judicial district. SB2855
0881 Child Abuse As introduced, permits the second look commission to electronically submit the report detailing the commission's findings and recommendations from a review of an appropriate sampling of cases involving a second or subsequent incident of severe child abuse to the governor, the senate judiciary and health and welfare committees, and the house of representatives civil justice committee. SB2929
0882 Local Education Agencies As introduced, conditions the expulsion of a student for committing the zero tolerance offense of threatening mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity to threats of mass violence determined to be valid based on the results of a threat assessment; requires directors of schools and heads of public charter schools to report threats of mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity made by a student that are determined, based on the results of a threat assessment, to be valid. SB2931
0883 Local Education Agencies As introduced, authorizes a director of schools to delegate one or more of the duties assigned to the director by the local board of education to another administrator or employee of the LEA, if the board has adopted a policy authorizing the respective duty to be delegated to the respective individual. SB2932
0884 Local Education Agencies As introduced, revises certain enrollment, attendance, individualized education program, and resident requirements for certain education funding to follow a student who is admitted to a state-licensed or out-of-state mental health facility from the student's LEA to the facility. SB2933
0885 Criminal Offenses As introduced, increases the penalty from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class D felony for the offense of child endangerment by a parent or custodian of a child eight years of age or less if the parent or guardian knowingly exposes the child to, or knowingly fails to protect the child from, abuse or neglect resulting in physical injury or imminent danger to the child; increases the penalty from a Class D felony to a Class B felony for a person who negligently, by act or omission, engages in conduct that places a child eight years of age or less in imminent danger of death, bodily injury, or physical or mental impairment. HB1817
0886 Taxes, Sales As introduced, redefines "qualified data center" for purposes of sales and use taxes to include a data center that previously made a capital investment in excess of $100 million during an investment period not to exceed three years and creates at least 15 net new full-time employee jobs upon the data center being transferred to an affiliate pursuant to a corporate reorganization. HB2182
0887 Criminal Offenses As introduced, increases the penalty for the offense of threatening to commit an act of mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony. HB2198
0888 Juvenile Offenders As introduced, expands the delinquent acts that constitute a violent juvenile sexual offense for purposes of the sexual offender registry to include an adjudication of delinquency for an act that, if committed by an adult, constitutes the criminal offense of rape of a child if the victim is less than four years younger than the offender and the judge, taking into account the facts and circumstances surrounding the delinquent act, orders that the juvenile be required to register as a violent juvenile sexual offender, rather than only if the victim is at least four years younger than the offender. HB2279
0889 Alcoholic Beverages As introduced, authorizes a special occasion license to be issued in a jurisdiction wherein the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises has not been approved with written approval to hold an event by and in such jurisdiction that is signed by the executive officer or chair of the legislative body of such jurisdiction. HB2280
0890 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies As introduced, requires an applicant for an insurance producer license for title insurance to complete a pre-licensing course of study that consists of a minimum of 30 hours of course work. HB2281
0891 Health, Dept. of As introduced, adds the legislative librarian as a party to which the commissioner must submit an annual report on the work done by the commissioner in supervising dentists and dental equipment in the various state institutions, as well as in distributing literature throughout the state to inform the public on proper dental care. HB2378
0892 Search & Seizure As introduced, authorizes a law enforcement officer to execute a search warrant for medical records or a test to determine the alcohol or drug content, or both, of a person's blood anywhere in the state, rather than in the county in which the warrant was issued. HB2386
0893 Health Care As introduced, requires certain information to be included in a healthcare practitioner advertisement; adds certain activities to and exempts certain activities from the definition of the practice of medicine. HB2451
0894 State Government As introduced, adds a fire engine converted to a for-hire passenger vehicle as a type of entertainment transportation that may be regulated by a governmental entity. HB2642
0895 District Attorneys As introduced, requires each district attorney general to provide an annual report by March 1 to the governor and attorney general and reporter containing aggregate, non-personally identifying information on arrests, indictments, transfers, and dispositions in the previous calendar year; requires the attorney general and reporter to compile a statewide report summarizing the information provided by each district attorney general and submit the report to the governor, speaker of the house of representatives, and speaker of the senate for distribution to appropriate standing committees of the general assembly. HB2753
0896 Children As introduced, permits parents to request electronically a copy of the child's report card, notice of school attendance, names of teachers, class schedules, standardized test scores, and any other records customarily available to parents. HB2780
0897 Veterans As introduced, requires the commissioner of mental health and substance abuse services to report on or before February 1 of each year to the judiciary committee of the senate and the civil justice committee of the house of representatives on the status of veterans treatment court program grant funds. HB2865
0898 State Government As introduced, increases the number of days before a meeting, from 45 to 60, that electronic notice must be provided to a holder of a professional or occupational license, certification, or registration where a change in rules or fees is on the agenda of a meeting of the department of environment and conservation or any of its divisions. HB2873
0899 Children As introduced, creates the "Protecting Children from Social Media Act." HB1891
0900 Election Laws As introduced, requires the coordinator of elections to compare the statewide voter registration database with those of other relevant state agencies and county records when compiling information to distribute to the county elections commissions for purposes of purging voters who have moved; requires the coordinator of elections to compare the statewide voter registration database with the department of safety database to ensure non-United States citizens are not registered to vote in this state. HB0835

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