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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 Feb 5, 2024

SB 2617: Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, increases from 10 percent to 15 percent, the minimum number of qualified voters who voted in the last gubernatorial election that is required to file a petition calling for a referendum on the question of whether a privilege tax should be imposed on businesses making sales in a tourism development zone; requires the petition to be filed within 45 days, rather than 30 days, of final approval of an ordinance authorizing the privilege tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 30.

Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Feb 5, 2024

SB 2795: Election Laws - As introduced, prohibits a candidate from attempting to qualify for and be nominated or elected to more than one federal or state public office, if the primary or general elections for such offices are held during the same year. - Amends TCA Title 2.

Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Feb 5, 2024

SB 1568: Handgun Permits - As introduced, removes the authority to issue and receive concealed handgun carry permits; authorizes a person who holds a concealed handgun carry permit on June 30, 2023, to apply to convert the permit to an enhanced handgun carry permit. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504; Section 33-6-413; Section 38-8-116; Section 39-16-702; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Section 70-2-104.

Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Feb 5, 2024

SB 1565: Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates an offense for a person to possess or manufacture an ammunition feeding device that has capacity to accept more than 10 rounds, except for certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 39.

Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Feb 5, 2024

SB 1570: Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, creates an offense for a person to possess or manufacture an ammunition feeding device that has capacity to accept more than 10 rounds, except for certain circumstances; requires, subject to certain exemptions, that a sale or transfer of a firearm be done through a federally licensed gun dealer; creates a Class B misdemeanor for sales or transfers that are not conducted through a gun dealer; allows a court to issue an extreme risk protection order upon a finding that a person poses a risk of causing bodily injury to the person or others if allowed to purchase or possess a firearm; makes other changes related to firearms. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 10; Title 13; Title 16; Title 29; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 47; Title 49; Title 50; Title 55; Title 58; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 70.

Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Feb 5, 2024

SB 1567: Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, requires, subject to certain exemptions, that a sale or transfer of a firearm be done through a federally licensed gun dealer; creates a Class B misdemeanor offense for sales or transfers that are not conducted through a gun dealer. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 54; Section 38-3-119 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Feb 5, 2024

SB 1566: Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, creates the Class E felony offense of purchasing, selling, possessing, or using a part, component, device, or attachment designed to accelerate the fire of a semi-automatic rifle and makes any semi-automatic rifle that includes an accelerated fire part, component, or device a prohibited weapon. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 54; Section 38-3-119 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Feb 5, 2024

SB 1819: Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, increases from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class C felony the offenses of unlawful purchase by or unlawful sale to a person who is prohibited by state or federal law from owning, possessing, or purchasing a firearm; prohibits the purchase or sale of ammunition by or to such a person; prohibits the transfer or sale of a firearm or ammunition to a person receiving treatment at a treatment resource for mental illness or serious emotional disturbance and not just when the person is receiving inpatient treatment. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

Recalled from Senate Judiciary Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Feb 5, 2024

SB 1818: Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, creates a Class D felony offense for a person to unlawfully possess a firearm, or firearm ammunition, while under indictment for a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term of one year or more. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

Recalled from Senate Judiciary Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Feb 5, 2024

SB 2512: Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, specifies the required notice for a public meeting related to the approval of a payment in lieu of tax agreement of the board of directors of an industrial development corporation that must be published on the website of the corporation or the governing body of the municipality. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13 and Title 48.

Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Feb 5, 2024

SB 2531: Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for use or possession of drug paraphernalia from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony if the drug paraphernalia used or possessed is a pill press device or pieces of a pill press device. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Feb 5, 2024

SB 2532: Housing - As introduced, deletes the prohibition on local governments enacting a law that would place requirements regarding inclusionary, affordable, or below market value housing when entitlements, variances, or any other form of permit or authorization is sought from the local government; deletes the prohibition on a local governmental unit from conditioning development entitlements through amendment to the zoning map on the allocation of existing or newly constructed private residential or commercial rental units to be sold or rented at below market rates. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 35.

Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee