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State Legislature US Congress

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

failed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 20, 2024

SB 1990: Education, Higher - As introduced, requires this state to match the federal funds appropriated to Tennessee State University at a rate that is two times the rate required by the federal government for receipt of the funds. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 49.

Failed in Senate Education Committee

failed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 20, 2024

SB 1892: Education - As introduced, requires the department of education to contract with the TCAP test provider to offer students who receive language assistance services in the classroom the same language assistance services during the administration of a TCAP test. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Failed in Senate Education Committee

failed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 20, 2024

SB 2418: Law Enforcement - As introduced, opens eligibility for being employed as a police officer to persons discharged from the armed forces of the United States to those with an entry-level separation, medical discharge, or a separation for the convenience of the government. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8.

Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee

failed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 20, 2024

SB 2868: Election Laws - As introduced, creates a process for the majority and minority party caucuses of the general assembly to nominate candidates for United States senator; provides that such process becomes operable for each respective senatorial seat when the respective incumbent declines to run for re-election, loses a re-election bid, or a vacancy is created in the office. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 13.

Failed in Senate State and Local Government Committee

failed · Tennessee · House Mar 20, 2024

HB 2187: Election Laws - As introduced, authorizes the county election commission to designate restroom facilities in each building in which the election is held that are for the use of workers or volunteers working for a campaign with certain limitations on access. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 7.

Failed in s/c Elections & Campaign Finance Subcommittee of Local Government Committee

failed · Tennessee · House Mar 20, 2024

HB 2758: Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires LEAs and public charter schools to prohibit students from displaying, using, or accessing an electronic device during instructional time unless the electronic device is authorized, or provided to the student, by the LEA or public charter school for instructional purposes; requires local boards of education and public charter school governing bodies to develop and adopt a policy to implement the prohibition. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Failed in Education Administration

failed · Tennessee · House Mar 20, 2024

HB 2654: Election Laws - As introduced, requires county election commissions to include on the ballot for the November 2024 election a non-binding question related to the legalization of the sale, possession, and use of medical marijuana; requires the secretary of state to compile the results of the public policy opinion poll and forward the results to the members of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 2.

Failed in s/c Elections & Campaign Finance Subcommittee of Local Government Committee

failed · Tennessee · House Mar 20, 2024

HB 2634: Election Laws - As introduced, removes the requirement that a registered voter be a bona fide member of, affiliated with, or declare allegiance to a political party in order to vote in a political party's primary election; removes the requirement that the officer of elections at each polling place post a sign stating that it is a crime to vote in a political party's primary election without being a bona fide member of, or affiliated with, that political party, or to declare allegiance to that party without the intent to affiliate with that party. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 7.

Failed in s/c Elections & Campaign Finance Subcommittee of Local Government Committee

failed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 19, 2024

SB 1907: Children - As introduced, creates the "Municipalities' Access To Childcare" ("MATCH") fund that, for three years, provides local governmental entities a dollar-for-dollar state match on funding projects that will expand the number of early childhood care and education quality slots for families with children 31 months or younger, regardless of income; gives priority to local governmental entities located in counties identified as distressed or child care deserts. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 10; Title 9; Title 37; Title 49; Title 67 and Title 71.

Failed in Senate Health & Welfare Committee

failed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 19, 2024

SB 2777: Child Abuse - As introduced, excludes a positive prenatal or newborn drug screening test result of cannabinoids from the definition of abuse of a child; excludes the exposure to cannabinoids that occurred in utero from the definition of severe child abuse. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39, Chapter 13.

Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee

failed · Tennessee · House Mar 19, 2024

HB 1626: Abortion - As introduced, enacts the "Fundamental Right to Reproductive Health Care Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 20; Title 37; Title 39; Title 49; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

Sponsor(s) Added.

died · Tennessee · House Mar 19, 2024

HB 2045: Adoption - As introduced, creates the state foster care and adoption review board. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 36.

Taken off notice for cal in s/c Children & Family Affairs Subcommittee of Civil Justice Committee