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passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2024

SB 1835: Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony for a person who commits child abuse by knowingly treating a child under 18 in such a manner as to inflict injury. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.

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

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2024

SB 1904: Taxes - As introduced, authorizes business, excise, and franchise tax credits equal to unreimbursed TennCare costs for eligible healthcare providers that provide healthcare services to TennCare recipients; allows a refund to be issued in lieu of a tax credit on the condition that the refund be used to make a charitable contribution. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4.

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

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2024

SB 1813: Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, provides a working families' tax refund for state and local sales and use tax paid on or after January 1, 2024, by low-income taxpayers who are eligible for the federal earned income tax credit. - Amends TCA Title 67.

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

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2024

SB 1725: Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, expands eligibility for property tax relief to a veteran who acquired a service-connected disability that is determined by the United States department of veterans affairs to be permanent and total due to individual unemployability. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-704.

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

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2024

SB 1647: Education, Higher - As introduced, provides a 25 percent discount on the tuition charged by a state institution of higher education to the child of an active or retired member of the Tennessee army national guard or the Tennessee air national guard. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

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

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2024

SB 1944: Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, repeals the professional privilege tax for tax years that begin on and after June 1, 2025. - 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 1799: Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, expands the sales tax exemption on motor vehicles sold to a member of the Tennessee national guard or military reserve who has been called into active military service to include those who are deployed under orders to a duty station in another state or another country and not just to those deployed to a combat zone. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Section 67-6-303.

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

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2024

SB 1977: Education, Higher - As introduced, establishes the hunger-free campus grant program; provides grants to higher education institutions to address student hunger. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2024

SB 1996: Traffic Safety - As introduced, requires the department of transportation to establish and administer a student pedestrian protection grant program; under certain conditions, authorizes grants to be awarded to local governments for designing, constructing, and repairing sidewalk infrastructure around public schools. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49; Title 54 and Title 55.

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

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2024

SB 1901: Local Education Agencies - As introduced, authorizes LEAs and public charter schools to reimburse teachers for child care expenses paid by the teacher each month for the teacher's dependent child to receive child care services through certain child care programs certified by the department of education or child care agencies licensed by the department of human services; requires, subject to appropriation, this state to reimburse LEAs and public charter schools a portion of any such monthly reimbursement amount paid by the LEA or public charter school. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2024

SB 2157: District Attorneys - As introduced, adds an additional assistant district attorney general position and criminal investigator position in each judicial district that includes a state correctional facility. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 16 and Title 41.

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

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2024

SB 1912: Criminal Offenses - As introduced, expands the offense of unlawful exposure to include the distribution, with the intent to cause emotional distress, of an image of the intimate parts of another identifiable person or an image of an identifiable person engaged in sexually explicit conduct and the image was created or modified by means of a computer software program, artificial intelligence application, or other digital editing tools. - Amends TCA Title 39.

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