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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 6, 2024

SB 1974: Food and Food Products - As introduced, prohibits the manufacture, sale, or delivery, holding, or offering for sale of any livestock carcass, part of any livestock carcass, or meat food product that was derived or prepared from livestock that received an mRNA vaccine or vaccine material unless the product labeling contains a conspicuous notification, in a type size of not less than 10 point font, that the product was derived or prepared from livestock that received an mRNA vaccine or vaccine material. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 53.

Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Energy, Ag., and Nat. Resources Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 6, 2024

SB 2242: Driver Licenses - As introduced, exempts minors from fees for hardship licenses; exempts persons over 18 from fees for issuance and renewal of noncommercial licenses upon submission of documentation showing the person's income falls below the federal poverty level. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50.

Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Transportation and Safety Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 6, 2024

SB 2107: Libraries - As introduced, requires the removal of sexually explicit material from the libraries of public schools; creates a process for evaluating library materials for sexually explicit material in public schools. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Deferred to Summer Study

passed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 6, 2024

SB 2173: Libraries - As introduced, enacts the "Restricted Access by Minors to Obscene Library Materials Act." - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 1 and Title 10, Chapter 3.

Deferred to Summer Study

passed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 6, 2024

SB 2580: Transportation, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to award money from the state highway fund to local public agencies in exchange for federal aid obligation authority allocated to local public agency road projects, if allowed by federal law and rules. - Amends TCA Title 54.

Deferred to Summer Study

passed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 6, 2024

SB 2247: Solid Waste Disposal - As introduced, creates exception to the state regulation of biosolids by authorizing the legislative body of Polk County to regulate such activities. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 68, Chapter 211; Title 68, Chapter 221 and Title 69.

Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Energy, Ag., and Nat. Resources Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 6, 2024

SB 2357: Animal Control - As introduced, increases from $25 to $40, the deposit amount that an agency cannot accept less than from a new owner adopting a cat or dog that has not been spayed or neutered, and to ensure that the spaying or neutering occurs, the agency permits the owner to receive a refund of the deposit upon providing confirmation of the spaying or neutering. - Amends TCA Title 44 and Title 63.

Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Energy, Ag., and Nat. Resources Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 6, 2024

SB 2376: Water Pollution - As introduced, removes requirement that installers of subsurface sewage disposal systems pay a renewal fee as a condition to renewing a septic system installer license. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 221.

Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Energy, Ag., and Nat. Resources Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 6, 2024

SB 2723: Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, requires the department to compile and publish data on the department's website data regarding the geographic location, duration, and severity of floods and landslides in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 5; Title 58; Title 64, Chapter 3; Title 68 and Title 69.

Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Energy, Ag., and Nat. Resources Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 6, 2024

SB 2846: Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Healthcare Quality and Access Act of 2024"; makes various changes to certificates of need for healthcare facilities. - Amends TCA Title 68.

Sponsor(s) Added.

passed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 6, 2024

SB 2651: Water - As introduced, increases the time, from 30 to 35 days, that a person has to request a hearing on an order from the commissioner of environment and conservation alleging a violation related to withdrawing water without a valid registration before the commissioner's order becomes final. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 11; Title 12; Title 21; Title 28; Title 29; Title 35; Title 43; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 59; Title 60; Title 61; Title 62; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68; Title 69 and Title 70.

Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Energy, Ag., and Nat. Resources Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 6, 2024

SB 2784: Game and Fish Laws - As introduced, requires payment of restitution to landowners by persons who commit hunting-related offenses on property where they do not have a legal right to be present; bases restitution amount on the type of animals involved in the offense; requires restitution to be fully paid before other penalties due to the state are paid. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 70.

Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Energy, Ag., and Nat. Resources Committee