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All 46,882 Active 14,572 In committee 13,959 Passed 6,763 Signed 22,173 Failed 3,369

passed · Tennessee · House Apr 23, 2024

HB 1605: Flags - As introduced, prohibits LEAs and public charter schools from displaying in public schools flags other than the official United States flag and the official Tennessee state flag. - Amends TCA Section 5-5-114; Section 6-54-144 and Title 49.

Senate substituted House Bill for companion Senate Bill.

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 22, 2024

SB 2734: Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As enacted, changes prerequisites for emergency detention and admission to a treatment facility from "immediate" substantial likelihood of serious harm to "imminent" substantial likelihood of serious harm. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 33; Title 41 and Title 68.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 725

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 22, 2024

SB 2964: Pikeville - Subject to local approval, increases the monthly salary for the members of the board of aldermen from $150 to $500 a month. - Amends Chapter 574 of the Private Acts of 1939; as amended.

Comp. became Pr. Ch. 52

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 22, 2024

SB 1536: Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, makes applicable to Coffee County, present law that provides that whenever Hardeman County or Cumberland County acquires property at a tax sale, a nongovernmental entity holding a vested and duly recorded contractual right to the payment of fees or assessments secured by such property retains such right; makes applicable to Coffee County, present law that limits such nongovernmental entity to only enforce such contractual rights against the applicable county through the exercise of its lien rights; provided, however, that the applicable county is liable for the payment of the fees and assessments if the county makes actual use of the property. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 20 and Title 67, Chapter 5.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 717

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 22, 2024

SB 1588: Massage Therapy - As enacted, increases from 500 to 650 the minimum number of curriculum hours that an applicant for licensure in massage must have completed at a board-approved institution for massage, bodywork, or somatic therapy in order to be eligible for licensure under the Massage Licensure Act of 1995. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 18.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 718

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 22, 2024

SB 1822: State Symbols - As enacted, designates as official state books: "Farewell Address to the American People" by George Washington; "The Papers of Andrew Jackson"; "Democracy in America" by Alexis de Tocqueville; "All the King's Men" by Robert Penn Warren; "A Death in the Family" by James Agee; "Roots" by Alex Haley; "The Civil War: A Narrative" by Shelby Foote; "American Lion" by Jon Meacham; "Coat of Many Colors" by Dolly Parton; and "Aitken Bible"; requires the secretary of state to list the books in the Tennessee Blue Book. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 720

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 22, 2024

SB 2106: Education - As enacted, requires the state department of education to submit the U.S department of education's interpretations and directives on the implementation of department rules providing guidance to this state to the chairs of certain legislative committees; requires such information to be submitted to each member of the joint government operations rule review committee prior to each rule review meeting. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 722

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 22, 2024

SB 2245: Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As enacted, authorizes the county administrator of elections to email assessment letters to candidates and political campaign committees for local public office when the administrator discovers that a campaign finance report has not been filed by the candidate or political campaign committee. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 723

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 22, 2024

SB 2365: Education - As enacted, increases from a Class C misdemeanor to a Class B misdemeanor the penalty for a student's parent, guardian, or legal custodian failing to report an adjudication that the student committed certain delinquent acts to the school principal; specifies that a school principal shall ask a student's parent, guardian, or legal custodian whether there has been any such adjudication. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 721

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 22, 2024

SB 2877: Evidence - As introduced, directs the Tennessee advisory committee on intergovernmental relations (TACIR), with the assistance of the Tennessee bureau of investigation, the district attorneys general conference, and the department of safety, to study the feasibility of a Shelby County crime lab and the impact of such a crime lab on public health, safety, education, housing, and the economy for citizens and visitors of Shelby County, the city of Memphis, this state, and the Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi tri-state region; requires TACIR to submit a report of the study findings to the general assembly by January 14, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 38.

Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.

passed · Tennessee · House Apr 22, 2024

HR 157: Memorials, Interns - Mariham Mousa -

Adopted, Ayes 95, Nays 0, PNV 2

passed · Tennessee · House Apr 22, 2024

HR 158: Memorials, Recognition - Lewis Wohlman, 2024 SOAR Technical College Staff Member of the Year -

Adopted, Ayes 95, Nays 0, PNV 2