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All 46,882 Active 15,109 In committee 14,466 Passed 6,752 Signed 22,203 Failed 2,813

passed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 20, 2024

SB 2174: Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, changes, from 30 days to 30 business days, the amount of time a municipal or county official has to forward a copy of the form signed by a building permit applicant to the county official or employee who has been designated by the county legislative body to collect the tax when a building permit is issued under the County Powers Relief Act. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 29.

Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 20, 2024

SB 2371: Education - As introduced, requires the office of early learning to submit its annual report on pre-kindergarten programs by November 1. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 20, 2024

SB 2787: Education - As introduced, requires the department of education to study the school choice programs available in other states and to submit a report of the department's findings at the conclusion of the study to the governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the speaker of the senate no later than January 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Recommended for passage with amendment/s, refer to Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee Ayes 7, Nays 1 PNV 0

passed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 20, 2024

SB 2699: Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As introduced, requires a person with a court-ordered fiduciary responsibility toward a person who lacks capacity and a person holding a valid power of attorney for a person who lacks capacity to bring an action within the statute of limitations; clarifies an incapacitated person who regained capacity can still bring a suit; clarifies an agent or conservator is not shielded from liability if the agent or conservator commits a tort against the incapacitated person. - Amends TCA Title 28.

Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 20, 2024

SB 2465: Education - As introduced, requires each local school board to establish programs for free school lunch and free school breakfast for students regardless of income eligibility; requires the state to reimburse each LEA the cost of providing a free breakfast and lunch to each student enrolled in the LEA after all available private funding and federal funds have been applied. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 20, 2024

SB 2596: Education - As introduced, changes from November 1 to November 15 of each year, the deadline for LEAs to provide feedback and recommendations regarding TISA to the department of education and the comptroller. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Deferred to Summer Study

passed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 20, 2024

SB 2544: Public Contracts - As introduced, prescribes certain contractual and reporting requirements to protect the integrity of financial transactions in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12; Title 45 and Title 47.

Deferred to Summer Study

passed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 20, 2024

SB 2788: Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, allows law enforcement officers, whether on-duty or off-duty, retired law enforcement officers, active duty and retired members of the armed forces of the United States, whether in discharge of official duties or not, and enhanced handgun carry permit holders, except in certain circumstances, to possess or carry, whether openly or concealed, with or without the intent to go armed, a handgun in any Pre-K-12 public school building or bus, school campus, grounds, recreation area, athletic field, or any other property owned, operated, or while in use by any public board of education or Pre-K-12 school. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 49.

Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 20, 2024

SB 2930: Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, provides a 25 percent tuition discount to a full-time certified teacher employed in a public school in this state for courses taken at a public institution of higher education in this state that are related to the person's employment as a teacher. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 20, 2024

SB 2673: Education - As introduced, reduces, from 90 to 60, the number of days following the issuance of a temporary certificate that the department of education has to determine whether an applicant to operate a child care program has complied with all regulations governing the classification of the child care program for which the application was made. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Deferred to Summer Study

passed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 20, 2024

SB 2894: Appropriations - As introduced, authorizes direct and continuing appropriations by airport authorities for the issuance of debt that is not a liability of the state and the payment of debt service thereon. - Amends TCA Title 9.

Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Finance, Ways & Means Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 20, 2024

SB 2809: Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires LEAs and public charter schools to prohibit students from displaying, using, or accessing an electronic device during instructional time unless the electronic device is authorized, or provided to the student, by the LEA or public charter school for instructional purposes; requires local boards of education and public charter school governing bodies to develop and adopt a policy to implement the prohibition. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee