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

failed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 12, 2024

SJR 902: Constitutional Amendments - Proposes adding a provision establishing right to food to provide all individuals with a right to food, including the right to save and exchange seeds and the right to grow, raise, harvest, produce, and consume the food of their own choosing for their own nourishment, sustenance, bodily health, and well-being. -

Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee

failed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 12, 2024

SB 2232: Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, requires a utility to obtain written consent from the owner of residential or commercial property for which the utility provides services before the utility installs a smart meter for the property; requires a utility to obtain written confirmation from the owner of the property that the owner consents to the continued presence and use of the smart meter if a smart meter is already present. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 65 and Title 68.

Failed in Senate State and Local Government Committee

failed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 12, 2024

SB 1804: Health Care - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Contraceptive Freedom Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

Failed in Senate Commerce and Labor Committee / no second

failed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 12, 2024

SB 1697: Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, defines "firearm hold agreement" as a private transaction between a licensed federal firearms dealer and a firearm owner under which the dealer takes possession of the owner’s firearm at the owner's request, holds the firearm for an agreed period of time, and then returns the firearm; states that a person does not have a cause of action against a licensed federal firearms dealer for any act or omission arising from a firearm hold agreement and resulting in personal injury or death of any natural person unless the action was the result of unlawful conduct by the licensed federal firearms dealer. - Amends TCA Title 39.

Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee

failed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 12, 2024

SB 2042: Consumer Protection - As introduced, requires a commercial entity that knowingly publishes or distributes on the internet material harmful to minors to provide internet or cellular service subscribers the opportunity to request that the commercial entity block website access through the subscriber's internet or cellular service subscription. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6 and Title 47, Chapter 18.

Failed in Senate Commerce and Labor Committee / no motion

failed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 12, 2024

SB 2225: General Assembly - As introduced, declares that no circuit, chancery, or other court has subject matter jurisdiction over any legal action, challenging any rule, regulation, or procedure of the senate or house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 16.

Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee

failed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 12, 2024

SB 2646: Employees, Employers - As introduced, increases the hourly minimum wage to $20.00, or the federal minimum wage established pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, whichever rate is greater. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 23; Title 12, Chapter 4, Part 4 and Title 50, Chapter 2.

Failed in Senate Commerce and Labor Committee / no second

failed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 12, 2024

SB 2396: Health Care - As introduced, requires gender clinics accepting funds from this state to perform gender transition procedures to also perform detransition procedures; requires insurance entities providing coverage of gender transition procedures to also cover detransition procedures; requires certain gender clinics and insurance entities to report information regarding detransition procedures to the department of health. - Amends TCA Title 1; Title 4; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

Failed in Senate Commerce and Labor Committee / no motion

failed · Tennessee · House Mar 12, 2024

HB 34: Landlord and Tenant - As introduced, requires residential landlords in Shelby County to register with the county or with the respective jurisdiction in Shelby County in which the dwelling units are located. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 28.

Failed in s/c Business & Utilities Subcommittee of Commerce Committee

failed · Tennessee · House Mar 12, 2024

HB 350: Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires a municipality or county to follow the statutory procedure for taking certain disciplinary actions against a police officer if the officer is under investigation for matters that are likely to lead to an indication of untrustworthiness that requires the disclosure of the officer's behavior to defense counsel in a criminal proceeding during which the officer's testimony is required. - Amends TCA Title 38.

Failed in s/c Public Service Subcommittee of State Government Committee

failed · Tennessee · House Mar 12, 2024

HB 1067: Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, requires a municipal utility system or metropolitan electric plant that established a program before January 1, 2021, for purposes of accepting and distributing excess receipts for bona fide charitable purposes, and that operates the program on an opt-out basis, to begin operating the program on an opt-in basis by January 1, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 34; Title 7, Chapter 52 and Title 65.

Failed in s/c Business & Utilities Subcommittee of Commerce Committee

died · Tennessee · House Mar 12, 2024

HB 1473: Law Enforcement - As introduced, decreases the time within which a hearing concerning a punitive employment action against a law enforcement officer must be set following a request for such hearing from 14 days to 10 days. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 38; Title 41; Title 49, Chapter 7 and Title 50.

Taken off notice for cal in s/c Public Service Subcommittee of State Government Committee