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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 6, 2024

SB 2115: Boats, Boating - As introduced, increases from 12 to 16 the minimum age for operating a personal watercraft without direct adult supervision; requires persons operating personal watercraft to maintain financial responsibility in same amounts applicable to motor vehicles. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 9.

Failed in Senate Energy, Ag., and Nat. Resources Committee

failed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 6, 2024

SB 2267: Child Abuse - As introduced, requires a school to comply with the obligation to report suspected child abuse or neglect in order for the school to qualify as a school in which a student may be enrolled to satisfy school attendance requirements; specifies that certain training and reporting requirements apply to nonpublic schools; prohibits persons who knowingly fail to comply, or who knowingly prevent compliance, with the obligation to report suspected child abuse or neglect from serving as a teacher or in any position requiring proximity to children in certain settings; adds nonpublic schools to the entities required to investigate persons applying for or holding a position requiring proximity to school children. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 49.

Failed in Senate Education Committee / no second

failed · Tennessee · House Mar 6, 2024

HB 2013: Political Parties - As introduced, requires statewide political party candidates to be nominated for elective public office by primary election rather than under the rules of the party or by primary election, with limited exceptions for certain offices. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 13.

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

failed · Tennessee · House Mar 6, 2024

HB 2501: Election Laws - As introduced, requires political communications to contain a disclaimer if the communication was generated in whole or in part by synthetic media using artificial intelligence algorithms. - Amends TCA Title 2.

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

failed · Tennessee · House Mar 6, 2024

HB 2499: Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As introduced, prohibits a state or local contractor or grantee from, during the period between the execution of the contract or award of the grant through the completion of the contract or grant period, directly or indirectly making a contribution, or promising expressly or impliedly to make a contribution, to a political campaign committee or a candidate or person for a political purpose or use, or knowingly soliciting a contribution from any person on behalf of a political campaign committee or a candidate or person for a political purpose or use. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10.

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

failed · Tennessee · House Mar 6, 2024

HB 2770: Municipal Government - As introduced, requires municipalities statewide to adopt an ordinance to align their municipal elections with the August or November general election beginning in 2026. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 6 and Title 7.

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

failed · Tennessee · House Mar 6, 2024

HB 2798: Consumer Protection - As introduced, prohibits a person selling or offering for sale goods or services at retail, and who employs at least six employees, from requiring a buyer to pay using credit for in-person transactions; requires a person selling or offering for sale goods or services at retail to accept legal tender when offered by the buyer as payment; violations treated as a prohibited practice under the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 47, Chapter 18.

Sponsor(s) Added.

died · Tennessee · House Mar 6, 2024

HB 132: Revenue, Dept. of - As introduced, removes the requirement for the commissioner to provide a report to the general assembly that details the work of the state board of equalization. - Amends TCA Title 67.

Sponsor change.

failed · Tennessee · House Mar 6, 2024

HB 2725: Housing - As introduced, deletes the prohibition on local governments enacting a law that would place requirements regarding inclusionary, affordable, or below market value housing when entitlements, variances, or any other form of permit or authorization is sought from the local government; deletes the prohibition on a local governmental unit from conditioning development entitlements through amendment to the zoning map on the allocation of existing or newly constructed private residential or commercial rental units to be sold or rented at below market rates. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 35.

Failed for lack of motion in: Property & Planning Subcommittee

failed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 5, 2024

SB 1077: Children and Youth, Commission on - As introduced, creates the children's program outcome recovery team, to be organized by the Tennessee commission on children and youth, to review cases of children and families being served by the department of children's services; requires the children's program outcome recovery team to report the previous year's findings and recommendations for improving the department of children's services to the governor and the members of the general assembly by January 15 each year. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 37.

Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee

failed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 5, 2024

SB 2353: Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, directs the department to establish by January 1, 2025, a publicly accessible website that contains information about the performance of child care agencies, including violations by the agency, injuries or deaths occurring at the agency, date of the agency's last inspection, and other relevant information. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37; Title 49 and Title 71.

Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee

failed · Tennessee · House Mar 5, 2024

HB 1256: Election Laws - As introduced, removes the permanent deprivation of the right of suffrage upon conviction of certain infamous crimes; changes the revocation of a person's voting rights pursuant to a conviction for an infamous crime to a temporary suspension of voting rights for the period of confinement, probation, or parole; automatically restores a person's voting rights upon release from confinement, probation, or parole. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 40.

Failed in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee