Home › Tennessee › Bills

Bills

Tennessee Bills

Track legislation and stay informed about the bills that matter to you.

State Legislature US Congress

All 46,882 Active 613 In committee 15,301 Passed 6,763 Signed 22,173 Failed 3,369

failed · Tennessee · House Apr 3, 2019

HB 1418: Privacy, Confidentiality - As introduced, creates Class A misdemeanor of inserting a radio frequency identification device into an individual without the consent of the individual; prohibits certain persons and entities from requiring an individual to have a radio frequency identification device attached to, or implanted into, the individual in order to engage in employment with the persons or entities, or to enter a school or a school's grounds. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 49 and Title 50.

Failed in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Judiciary

failed · Tennessee · House Apr 2, 2019

HB 414: Public Contracts - As introduced, requires counties and cities to compile data regarding the counties' and cities' purchases from and contracts with businesses owned by women and by minorities; requires such data to be available to the public upon request. - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 3 and Title 12, Chapter 4.

Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee

failed · Tennessee · House Apr 2, 2019

HB 739: State Universities - As introduced, changes, from within the first year of service to within the first six months of service, the time in which a state university board member appointed or selected on or after July 1, 2019, must attend an orientation administered by the Tennessee higher education commission. - Amends TCA Section 49-8-201.

Failed in s/c Higher Education Subcommittee of Education

failed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 2, 2019

SB 1144: Sheriffs - As introduced, reduces the time period, from 30 to 15 days, in which a sheriff must report to the county legislative body and to the department of correction the name of any prisoner who escapes while serving on a work detail and indicate whether the work detail on which the prisoner was serving was supervised or unsupervised. - Amends TCA Title 41.

Failed in s/c Corrections Subcommittee of State Committee

failed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 2, 2019

SB 865: Domestic Violence - As introduced, requires a handgun carry permit holder convicted of domestic assault to surrender the permit to the court within 48 hours of conviction to be forwarded to the department of safety for revocation. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee

failed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 2, 2019

SB 607: Public Contracts - As introduced, requires counties and cities to compile data regarding the counties' and cities' purchases from and contracts with businesses owned by women and by minorities; requires such data to be available to the public upon request. - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 3 and Title 12, Chapter 4.

Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee

failed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 2, 2019

SB 829: Election Laws - As introduced, extends the time before an election, from 45 days prior to 50 days prior, that a county election commission must publish in a newspaper of general circulation a notice advising elderly voters and voters with a disability that if such voters' polling places are inaccessible, such voters have the right to vote early by absentee ballot or at the election commission office on election day. - Amends TCA Title 2.

Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee

failed · Tennessee · House Apr 2, 2019

HB 1443: Sheriffs - As introduced, reduces the time period, from 30 to 15 days, in which a sheriff must report to the county legislative body and to the department of correction the name of any prisoner who escapes while serving on a work detail and indicate whether the work detail on which the prisoner was serving was supervised or unsupervised. - Amends TCA Title 41.

Failed in s/c Corrections Subcommittee of State Committee

failed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 2, 2019

SB 601: State Universities - As introduced, changes, from within the first year of service to within the first six months of service, the time in which a state university board member appointed or selected on or after July 1, 2019, must attend an orientation administered by the Tennessee higher education commission. - Amends TCA Section 49-8-201.

Failed in s/c Higher Education Subcommittee of Education

failed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 2, 2019

SB 617: Traffic Safety - As introduced, enacts the "Buffering Undo Regulatory Non-Compliance (BURN) Act," which requires local authorities to file certified copies of notices of violation or citations based solely upon evidence obtained from an unmanned traffic enforcement camera with the municipal court or county court. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.

Motion to Reconsider Failed.

failed · Tennessee · House Apr 2, 2019

HB 1057: Election Laws - As introduced, extends the time before an election, from 45 days prior to 50 days prior, that a county election commission must publish in a newspaper of general circulation a notice advising elderly voters and voters with a disability that if such voters' polling places are inaccessible, such voters have the right to vote early by absentee ballot or at the election commission office on election day. - Amends TCA Title 2.

Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee

failed · Tennessee · House Apr 2, 2019

HB 1447: Domestic Violence - As introduced, requires a handgun carry permit holder convicted of domestic assault to surrender the permit to the court within 48 hours of conviction to be forwarded to the department of safety for revocation. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee