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passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2024

SB 780: Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, exempts the first $15,000 of the purchase price of an automobile from the sales tax if the purchaser is a member of the Tennessee air or army national guard. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/23/2024

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2024

SB 640: Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, eliminates the professional privilege tax for attorneys. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.

Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/23/2024

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2024

SB 750: Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to create and implement a promising futures program to provide scholarships to children who are not school age to assist them in developing early language and literacy skills in a high-quality early care and learning program; redirects, from the lottery for education account to an account administered by the department to provide funding for the promising futures scholarship program, a certain percentage of the privilege tax collected from sports wagering licensees for certain fiscal years. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 49; Title 37, Chapter 5, Part 5; Title 49 and Title 71, Chapter 3.

Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/23/2024

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2024

SB 999: Local Education Agencies - As introduced, enacts the "Rural Schools Innovation Act"; requires the department of education to establish a two-year pilot program for rural districts to partner together to expand access to high-quality, robust college and career pathways. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/23/2024

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2024

SB 705: Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, repeals the professional privilege tax for tax years that begin on and after June 1, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.

Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/23/2024

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2024

SB 992: Military - As introduced, establishes that full-time state employees who are members of a reserve component of the armed forces of the United States, including the Tennessee army and air national guard, shall continue to accrue annual and sick leave the employee would ordinarily accrue during any period of absence from the employee's respective duties for military service. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 33 and Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 8.

Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/23/2024

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2024

SB 968: Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, expands eligibility for the Tennessee reconnect grant to include students who completed high school or obtained a GED® or HiSET® diploma during the 2019-2020 or 2020-2021 school year, and who are at least 21 years of age by January 1 of the academic year in which they enroll in an eligible program of study. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/23/2024

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2024

SB 831: Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, extends annuity and insurance death benefits to the estate and surviving family members of a commissioned reserve law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty; immunizes such officers from tort liability under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 8 and Title 29.

Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/23/2024

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2024

SB 1053: Economic and Community Development - As introduced, enacts the "Workers Need Child Care Act"; establishes the child care infrastructure fund from which the department of economic and community development disperses grants to nonprofit entities for establishing new licensed child care agencies in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 37 and Title 71.

Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/23/2024

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2024

SB 981: Taxes - As introduced, exempts from franchise and excise taxes, a community development entity or sub-community development entity that is certified by the United States department of the treasury's community development financial institutions fund, and that has received an allocation of the federal new markets tax credits or federal sub-new markets tax credits from a community development entity that are used to fund a qualified low-income community investment in a Tennessee facility or operations of a business or nonprofit entity where the qualified low-income community investment expands the Tennessee-based operations of the business or nonprofit entity. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 21.

Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/23/2024

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2024

SB 1002: County Government - As introduced, creates a supplemental pay incentive program for county correctional officers who receive 40 hours or more of in-service training per calendar year. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8, Part 1 and Title 41.

Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/23/2024

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2024

SB 1282: Welfare - As introduced, adds the government operations committees of both houses to the list of legislative committees to receive annual reports from the commission on aging and disability concerning funding sources used to support the health, safety, and welfare of older adults in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 39; Title 68 and Title 71.

Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/23/2024