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passed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 26, 2024

SB 1667: County Government - As enacted, specifies that the county mayor is not a member of the county commission for purposes of compliance with the Open Meetings Act. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 6, Part 1 and Title 8, Chapter 44.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 580

passed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 26, 2024

SB 1768: Election Laws - As enacted, disqualifies an administrator of elections from serving as administrator if the administrator qualifies as a candidate for public office; requires the administrator to be recused from official duties at least 30 days prior to an election in which an immediate family member of the administrator is on the ballot; clarifies that an administrator who is recused from official duties does not receive compensation during the recusal. - Amends TCA Title 2.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 579

passed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 26, 2024

SB 1743: Public Contracts - As enacted, changes, from three years to five years, the time period for which a person awarded a state contract, change order, or contract modification must retain all books and records of cost or pricing data submitted to the state with regard to the agreement; changes, from three years to five years, the time period for which a contractor or subcontractor under a state-awarded contract must retain all books and records pertaining to the agreement; requires all state procurement contracts executed after July 1, 2024, to include a provision detailing the records retention requirement. - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 3, Part 6.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 576

passed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 26, 2024

SB 1701: Education, State Board of - As enacted, clarifies that pleas of guilt and nolo contendere to certain criminal offenses subject an educator to automatic revocation of an educator license by the state board; specifies that criminal offenses committed in another jurisdiction that are equivalent to those that if committed in this state subject an educator to automatic revocation of an educator license similarly subject an educator to automatic revocation of an educator license by the state board. - Amends TCA Section 49-5-417.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 577

passed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 26, 2024

SB 1776: Budget Procedures - As enacted, requires all requests for amendments to county budgets by county departments and other entities to be approved by the department or entity seeking the amendment prior to being submitted to the county legislative body for consideration; applies only to counties that have adopted the Local Option Budgeting Law of 1993. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 12 and Title 9.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 572

passed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 26, 2024

SB 2096: Trade Regulation - As enacted, defines and adds "voice" as a protected personal right; adds commercial availability of a sound recording or audiovisual work in which the individual's name, voice, likeness, or image is readily identifiable to considerations for determining whether non-use has occurred; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 1 and Title 47.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 588

passed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 26, 2024

SB 2071: Foster Care - As enacted, expands the eligibility for reimbursement as a relative caregiver by removing the income limitations and including a relative caregiver who meets the eligibility requirements and has been awarded custody by an order of any court. - Amends TCA Section 37-1-102 and Section 37-2-422.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 574

passed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 26, 2024

SB 2013: Auctions and Auctioneers - As enacted, clarifies that a public automobile auction means a person that offers motor vehicles for sale to the highest bidder, where buyers are members of the public, by a motor vehicle dealer licensed to sell used motor vehicles that holds a public auto auction license and uses the services of a public automobile auctioneer licensed by the commission. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 17 and Title 62, Chapter 19.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 585

passed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 26, 2024

SB 1836: Election Laws - As enacted, requires LEAs and public charter schools of a county to be closed for instruction on presidential primary election days if the county election commission uses such schools as a polling place. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 3, Part 1.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 573

passed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 26, 2024

SB 1947: Education, State Board of - As enacted, requires the board, in collaboration with the department of education and the Tennessee higher education commission, to identify math courses that may be substituted for Algebra II for purposes of satisfying high school graduation requirements and to submit a report to the education committees by January 31, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 583

passed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 26, 2024

SB 1957: Veterinarians - As enacted, establishes a process for a licensed veterinarian to report suspected animal cruelty in violation of certain criminal laws and testify in a judicial or administrative proceeding concerning the care of the animal without being subject to criminal or civil liability. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 43; Title 44; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 584

passed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 26, 2024

SB 2637: Civil Procedure - As introduced, increases time for a lienor to commence a proceeding or file the lienor's claim in a creditors' or foreclosure proceeding after service of a written demand by the owner, the owner's agent, or a prime contractor of the real property to which the lien is attached to from within 60 days to within 75 days after service. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 13; Title 20; Title 21; Title 26; Title 29; Title 35; Title 43; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 56; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 71.

Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee