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

passed · Tennessee · Senate May 1, 2024

SB 1868: Education, Higher - As enacted, enacts the "Laken Riley Act of 2024," which generally prohibits a public institution of higher education from prohibiting adults lawfully present on the institution's property from carrying a non-lethal weapon for purposes of self-defense; allows certain exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 49.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 791

passed · Tennessee · Senate May 1, 2024

SB 1903: Food and Food Products - As enacted, defines food that contains a vaccine or vaccine material as a drug for purposes of the Tennessee Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 53.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 742

passed · Tennessee · Senate May 1, 2024

SB 2186: Courts, General Sessions - As enacted, specifies that in a county with more than one general sessions judge in which the judicial commissioners are supervised by the general sessions judges, the management and supervision of any judicial commissioners appointed pursuant to this section must rotate between the general sessions judges having criminal jurisdiction in the county on an annual basis. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 17 and Title 40.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 786

passed · Tennessee · Senate May 1, 2024

SB 2410: Criminal Offenses - As enacted, establishes an offense for a person, on behalf of a debt collector or inbound telemarketer service, to knowingly cause a caller identification service to transmit misleading or inaccurate caller identification information to a subscriber with the intent to defraud or cause harm to another person or to wrongfully obtain anything of value, rather than with the intent to induce the subscriber to answer. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 47, Chapter 18.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 758

passed · Tennessee · Senate May 1, 2024

SB 1723: Election Laws - As enacted, enacts the "Uniform Faithful Presidential Electors Act." - Amends TCA Title 2.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 787

passed · Tennessee · Senate May 1, 2024

SB 2030: Real Property - As enacted, specifies that documents provided through a website with the primary function of providing certificates, registrations, licenses, or similar documents for assistance animals in exchange for payment of a fee are not reliable documentation in seeking an exemption to a prohibition on animals in rental property. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 66.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 754

passed · Tennessee · Senate May 1, 2024

SB 2017: Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As enacted, requires causes of action for unpaid wages for hours worked, overtime, minimum wage, salary, bonuses, commissions, or other compensation owed to an employee or independent contractor, including ones for breach of contract, unjust enrichment, or quantum merit for unpaid wages for hours worked, overtime, minimum wage, salary, bonuses, commissions, or other compensation, to be commenced within three years from the accruing of the cause of action. - Amends TCA Title 28.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 747

passed · Tennessee · Senate May 1, 2024

SB 1673: Mental Illness - As enacted, requires a qualified mental health professional or behavior analyst to warn or protect an identified victim or group of people when the professional or analyst determines that a service recipient has communicated an intent for actual threat of bodily harm; requires the professional or behavior analyst to report such threat; provides immunity from civil, criminal, and regulatory liability for a professional or analyst who takes reasonable action to warn or protect identified victims or groups and to report such threat. - Amends TCA Section 33-3-206.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 783

passed · Tennessee · Senate May 1, 2024

SB 1646: Liens - As enacted, adds former public officials to the list of officials who may contest liens on real property believed to lack any legal basis. - Amends TCA Section 47-9-513 and Title 66, Chapter 21, Part 1.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 744

passed · Tennessee · Senate May 1, 2024

SB 1708: Schools, Private - As enacted, clarifies that a private school serving students in any of the grades pre-K through 12 is authorized to adopt a handgun carry policy for the private school's property. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13; Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 50.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 738

passed · Tennessee · Senate May 1, 2024

SB 1905: Orders of Protection - As enacted, clarifies that an order of protection for domestic abuse remains in effect during an appeal from a final ruling on the order of protection by a general sessions court or by an official authorized to issue such an order unless the order expires by operation of law. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 751

passed · Tennessee · Senate May 1, 2024

SB 1837: Revenue, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to, on or before June 30, 2026, procure an electronic lien and title system to be used throughout the state; clarifies that "electronic lien and title system" means a program that allows the exchange of lien and title information with lienholders and is used to create, save, alter, and transfer titles to property. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 19; Title 8, Chapter 13; Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 12; Title 47, Chapter 9; Title 55; Title 66 and Title 69, Chapter 9.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 745