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All 46,882 Active 14,572 In committee 13,959 Passed 6,763 Signed 22,173 Failed 3,369

failed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 22, 2022

SB 2507: Correction, Dept. of - As introduced, requires youth development centers and jails to reduce the cost of telephone services to inmates in effect on July 1, 2022, by 50 percent by July 1, 2025; requires correctional facilities to reduce the cost of telephone services to inmates in effect on July 1, 2022, by 50 percent by July 1, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 41.

Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee

failed · Tennessee · House Mar 22, 2022

HB 1947: Prisons and Reformatory Institutions - As introduced, requires correctional institutions to provide access to support people for certain pregnant prisoners or detainees during prenatal care and postpartum appointments, labor, and delivery. - Amends TCA Title 41.

Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee

died · Tennessee · House Mar 22, 2022

HB 1450: Local Government, General - As introduced, authorizes each municipality, county, or metropolitan government to impose a public safety surcharge for purposes of providing public safety services; specifies the manner by which the surcharge must be approved by the local government and the purposes for which the surcharge must be used. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51.

Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee

failed · Tennessee · House Mar 22, 2022

HB 2874: Museums - As introduced, transfers the custody and care of the bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest held in the Tennessee State Museum to the Sons of Confederate Veterans. -

Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee

failed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 22, 2022

SB 2470: Museums - As introduced, transfers the custody and care of the bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest held in the Tennessee State Museum to the Sons of Confederate Veterans. -

Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee

died · Tennessee · House Mar 22, 2022

HB 1439: Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, establishes that when cities or towns revert real property within municipal boundaries to an unincorporated status, such action does not require a municipal utility to cease providing electrical service, water service, sanitary sewer service, natural gas service, other utility services, or street lighting in the territory excluded from the municipality's corporate limits. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7, Chapter 34; Title 7, Chapter 36; Title 7, Chapter 52; Title 9 and Title 65.

Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee

failed · Tennessee · House Mar 22, 2022

HB 2257: Remedies and Special Proceedings - As introduced, authorizes an applicant who files a petition for a name change and who reasonably believes that publication of the petition would result in harassment, embarrassment, or abuse of the applicant to file the petition under seal and use a pseudonym for publication purposes. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 8.

Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee

failed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 22, 2022

SB 2521: Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, revises various provisions governing the prohibition or restriction of weapons at meetings or on property owned by a private or government entity, including eliminating the prohibitions a local government can place on possession of a handgun in certain locations such as libraries, child care agencies, buildings containing a law enforcement agency, and facilities that administer a Head Start program; removes the limitation of the concealed carry restriction to only persons with an enhanced handgun carry permit; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 39.

Failed for lack of second in: Civil Justice Subcommittee

failed · Tennessee · House Mar 22, 2022

HJR 742: Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to the Constitution of Tennessee to establish a medical cannabis program. -

Failed in s/c Health Subcommittee of Health Committee

failed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 22, 2022

SB 2066: Remedies and Special Proceedings - As introduced, authorizes an applicant who files a petition for a name change and who reasonably believes that publication of the petition would result in harassment, embarrassment, or abuse of the applicant to file the petition under seal and use a pseudonym for publication purposes. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 8.

Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee

failed · Tennessee · House Mar 22, 2022

HB 2521: Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, revises various provisions governing the prohibition or restriction of weapons at meetings or on property owned by a private or government entity, including eliminating the prohibitions a local government can place on possession of a handgun in certain locations such as libraries, child care agencies, buildings containing a law enforcement agency, and facilities that administer a Head Start program; removes the limitation of the concealed carry restriction to only persons with an enhanced handgun carry permit; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 39.

Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee

died · Tennessee · Senate Mar 22, 2022

SB 1204: Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, establishes that when cities or towns revert real property within municipal boundaries to an unincorporated status, such action does not require a municipal utility to cease providing electrical service, water service, sanitary sewer service, natural gas service, other utility services, or street lighting in the territory excluded from the municipality's corporate limits. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7, Chapter 34; Title 7, Chapter 36; Title 7, Chapter 52; Title 9 and Title 65.

Taken off notice for cal. in Commerce Committee