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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 2725: Criminal Offenses - As introduced, removes the killing of another committed in the perpetration of or attempt to perpetrate certain crimes from the elements of first degree murder; deletes the offense of criminal responsibility for conduct of another; deletes the offense of criminal responsibility for the facilitation of a felony. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 11; Title 39, Chapter 12; Title 39, Chapter 13; Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 40, Chapter 24; Title 40, Chapter 35 and Title 40, Chapter 39.

Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Feb 5, 2024

SB 2598: Education - As introduced, changes, from October 1 to November 1, the deadline for child care programs to submit an annual report to the commissioner of education. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Feb 5, 2024

SB 2542: Eminent Domain - As introduced, requires the commissioner of finance and administration to report the total amount of state funds paid to acquire property through eminent domain in the 2023-2024 fiscal year to the chairs of the finance, ways and means committees and the office of legislative budget analysis by January 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 29, Chapter 17; Title 29, Chapter 16; Title 54, Chapter 21 and Title 65, Chapter 27.

Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Feb 5, 2024

SB 2817: Courts, Juvenile - As introduced, requires a court that makes mental health adjudications regarding children to enter a standing and continuing order instructing the juvenile court clerk to collect and report certain information regarding children who have been adjudicated as a mental defective or judicially committed to a mental institution within three business days for the purposes of complying with federal law. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 33; Title 34; Title 37; Title 38 and Title 39.

Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Feb 5, 2024

SB 2823: Tort Liability and Reform - As introduced, reduces from 60 to 45 days the period by which a governmental entity or employee may answer or respond to a claim, action, or suit brought under the Tennessee Governmental Tort Liability Act; reduces from 60 to 45 days the period by which such a claim, action, or suit is deemed denied if at the end of such period the governmental entity or its insurer fails to approve or deny the claim. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 20; Title 28; Title 29 and Title 66.

Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Feb 5, 2024

SB 2890: Boats, Boating - As introduced, clarifies that rowboats and sculls are nonmotorized vessels whose commercial operations are subject to regulation by the fish and wildlife commission. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 11; Title 69, Chapter 9 and Title 70.

Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Energy, Ag., and Nat. Resources Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Feb 5, 2024

SB 2558: Tort Liability and Reform - As introduced, increases from $10,000 to $15,000 the amount a parent or guardian is financially responsible for their child who maliciously or willfully caused personal injury to a person or destroyed property, real, personal, or mixed, belonging to a municipal corporation, county, town, village, school district, department of this state, persons, or religious organizations and lives with the parent or guardian at the time of the act. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 37.

Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Feb 5, 2024

SB 2592: Education - As introduced, increases the amount of time both parents or a guardian have to make a written application for a hearing challenging a local school board's order placing a student in a certain public school from within 10 days after an assignment order to within 15 days after an assignment order. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Feb 5, 2024

SB 2552: Health Care - As introduced, requires the department of health to publish on its website information on the possibility of reversing the effects of a chemical abortion in any language that is the primary language spoken by 0.5 percent or more of this state's population, rather than 2 percent or more. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15; Title 63 and Title 68.

Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Feb 5, 2024

SB 2717: State Government - As introduced, authorizes the chief procurement officer's designee to execute a contract for goods or services entered into by an executive branch state agency. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12 and Title 71.

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

passed · Tennessee · Senate Feb 5, 2024

SB 2533: Public Defenders - As introduced, authorizes the district public defender of the third judicial district three additional assistant public defender positions and one additional district investigator position, effective July 1, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14, Part 1.

Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Feb 5, 2024

SB 2611: Business and Commerce - As introduced, requires corporations registered with the secretary of state to submit certain information to the secretary of state; requires corporations that are publicly held domestic or foreign corporations with their principal executive offices located in this state to provide the secretary of state with information regarding diversity of board members and officers; requires the secretary of state to publish certain information regarding such diversity. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 12; Title 48 and Title 67.

Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee