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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 2768: Sentencing - As introduced, reduces the percentage of sentence that a person convicted of first degree murder on or after July 1, 1995, and sentenced to life imprisonment is required to serve before becoming eligible for release from 100 percent of 60 years less sentence credits earned and retained to 60 percent of 60 years less sentence credits earned and retained; prohibits a defendant becoming eligible for parole before serving 25 years of the sentence, if the defendant was 25 years of age or younger at the time of the offense, or 30 years of the sentence, if the defendant was 26 years of age or older at the time of the offense. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 2 and Title 40.

Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Feb 5, 2024

SB 2722: Children - As introduced, deletes obsolete requirements for a joint report on juvenile justice data collection required to be submitted to the governor and the speakers of each house of the general assembly on or before January 1, 2019. - Amends TCA Title 37.

Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Feb 5, 2024

SB 2854: Education - As introduced, clarifies that it is the commissioner of safety with whom a copy of each local education agency's district-wide comprehensive safety plan and each building-level school safety plan, including all amendments to each such plan, must be filed no later than 30 days after its adoption. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 37; Title 49 and Title 68.

Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Feb 5, 2024

SB 2836: 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.

Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Feb 5, 2024

SB 2841: Human Rights Commission - As introduced, requires the commission to report to the governor and the general assembly concerning the commission's activities relative to Title VI no later than January 15 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 4.

Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Feb 5, 2024

SB 2842: Trusts - As introduced, defines "materially negative financial impact" and "service provider" for purposes of the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act; makes other revisions to the act. - Amends TCA Title 35, Chapter 10.

Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Feb 5, 2024

SB 2891: Consumer Protection - As introduced, removes an obsolete provision that applied penalties and remedies of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977 to a repealed part of the Code. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.

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

passed · Tennessee · Senate Feb 5, 2024

SB 2815: Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA) - As introduced, changes from November 1 to October 1 the deadline for the TISA review committee to submit its annual report. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Feb 5, 2024

SB 2852: Education, Curriculum - As introduced, specifies that authorization to provide nonsectarian, nonreligious academic study of the Bible extends to public charter schools; makes various changes to the approval process and notice requirements for such courses. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Feb 5, 2024

SB 2814: Law Enforcement - As introduced, authorizes a law enforcement officer who administers epinephrine in an emergency situation to file a record of the event with the appropriate local emergency medical services agency in an electronic format. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 38; Title 50; Title 56 and Title 63.

Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee

passed · Tennessee · Senate Feb 5, 2024

SB 2893: Labor and Workforce Development, Dept. of - As introduced, removes the requirement that, no later than December 31, 2021, the commissioner, or the commissioner's designee, submit to the U.S. secretary of labor and the administrator of the national office of apprenticeship, an application to recognize the Tennessee office of apprenticeship as a state apprenticeship agency pursuant to federal law. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 50.

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

passed · Tennessee · Senate Feb 5, 2024

SB 2873: Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, removes the condition that the department of transportation first authorize the installation of surveillance cameras on interstates and state highways before such cameras may be operated by law enforcement agencies; authorizes the operation of surveillance cameras by law enforcement agencies on such highways under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 38 and Title 55.

Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Transportation and Safety Committee