Sen. Adam Lowe

Primary SR 108

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Memorials, Interns - Clarissa Gadsey -

Passed Apr 10, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 846

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, for purposes of a retired member of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system (TCRS), or a retiree of a local retirement fund, returning to work temporarily, authorizes the submission in an electronic format by the head of the employing entity, or the head's designee, certification to the retirement division of the member's name, period to be employed, number of days to be worked, compensation to be paid, and anticipated termination date, and a statement showing working hours and compensation for the retiree. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 36, Part 8.

Passed Mar 29, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 738

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Mental Illness - As introduced, lowers from one hour and 45 minutes to one hour and 30 minutes, the amount of time that the sheriff or transportation agent is required to remain at a hospital or treatment resource, which provides treatment for persons with mental illness or serious emotional disturbance, while a person transported to such facility by the sheriff or agent is evaluated for admission, after which the responsibility for the person turns over to the evaluating facility. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9, Chapter 8; Title 13, Chapter 26; Title 29, Chapter 20; Title 33; Title 37, Chapter 1; Title 55; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

Passed Mar 28, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 550

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

State Government - As introduced, authorizes a governmental entity to publish notices of public meetings on a secure website of the governmental body; authorizes a person to request an electronic or hard copy of an e-newsletter or notice published by the governmental body if the governmental body provides such documents electronically. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 44, Part 1.

Passed Mar 28, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 552

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Motor Vehicles - As enacted, enacts the "Sergeant Chris Jenkins Law." - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55.

Passed Mar 28, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 659

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, removes, as exclusions from the Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act, a firearm that cannot be carried and used by one person, a firearm that discharges two or more projectiles with one activation of the trigger or other firing device, a firearm that has a bore diameter greater than one and one-half inches and that uses smokeless powder as a propellant, and ammunition with a projectile that explodes after leaving the firearm; creates the criminal offense of disenfranchising another of the person's constitutional rights in violation of the Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act; prohibits an employee or elected or appointed official of a state or local government entity from enforcing a federal law in violation of the Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 54 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

Passed Mar 21, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 548

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Fireworks - As introduced, permits the sale of fireworks in a municipality or county unless the municipality or county passes an ordinance or law prohibiting the sale of fireworks in the municipality or county. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 104.

Passed Mar 20, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 1079

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Children - As introduced, removes an obsolete cross-reference to a statute that was repealed in 2010. - Amends TCA Title 71.

Passed Mar 15, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 557

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires an LEA to provide employees the opportunity to serve in a working group that annually collects, compiles, and submits a report of written suggestions received from the LEA's employees on how to improve the LEA to the LEA's director of schools and local board of education. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

Passed Mar 15, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 444

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows a student who did not test proficient in English language arts (ELA) on the Tennessee comprehensive assessment program test administered to the student in third grade, but who was promoted to fourth grade after attending a learning loss bridge camp, to be promoted to fifth grade if the student's parent or guardian mutually agrees with the LEA or public charter school in which the student is enrolled that the student has shown adequate growth in ELA based on the student's grades or performance on assessments administered to the student in fourth grade. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Passed Mar 15, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track