Sen. Janice Bowling

Primary SB 2970

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Petersburg - Subject to local approval, adds duties and authorities of the chief of police and police officers of the town; restates that only a certified public accountant must be chosen by the board of mayor and aldermen to conduct an audit of the financial affairs of the town, removing the option of having the audit conducted by a public accountant. - Amends Chapter 272 of the Acts of 1901; as amended and rewritten.

Passed Apr 3, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 2783

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Search & Seizure - As introduced, limits the situations in which a wildlife officer may enter private property without the owner's consent to those in which the officer has a warrant, there are exigent circumstances, the officer observed a crime taking place, or another protected class of action that permits an officer's entry onto private property without a warrant occurs. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 9 and Title 70.

Passed Apr 2, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 2785

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Appeal and Review - As introduced, clarifies when a person, who has been sentenced to the punishment of death and the jury has determined that the sentence must be expedited, has concluded any appeal and exhausted all available methods of post-conviction relief; requires a person sentenced to the punishment of death to file any post-conviction appeal within 180 days of the original sentence and any unsuccessful direct appeal; requires the attorney general and reporter to notify the defendant and the defendant's attorney when two or more appeals may be filed simultaneously. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Chapter 375 of the Public Acts of 2023.

Passed Apr 1, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 2786

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Election Laws - As introduced, requires county election commissions to include on the ballot for the November 2024 election a non-binding question related to the legalization of the sale, possession, and use of medical marijuana; requires the secretary of state to compile the results of the public policy opinion poll and forward the results to the members of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 2.

Passed Mar 27, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 2781

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, expands the offense of observation without consent to include a person or entity that adopts rules or enforces a policy or other work-related guidance for employees or contractors to promote or assist in the commission of observation without consent in a place where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy, including a restroom, locker room, dressing room, or shower, designated for multi-person, single-sex use; creates a civil action for invasion of privacy based on a violation of observation without consent. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-607.

Passed Mar 27, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 2776

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Search & Seizure - As introduced, requires, subject to judicially recognized exceptions, all POST-certified officers to obtain a search warrant before entering private property that identifies the person or property that is the subject of the search. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

Passed Mar 26, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SJR 1100

Signed into law · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Memorials, Death - George W. "Bill" Corley, Jr. -

Signed into law Mar 25, 2024 0 co-sponsors

Primary SJR 1101

Signed into law · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Memorials, Recognition - VIAM Manufacturing, Inc., 25th anniversary -

Signed into law Mar 25, 2024 0 co-sponsors

Primary SB 1110

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Marriage - As introduced, enacts the "Marital Contract at Common Law Recording Act"; authorizes county clerks to accept and record a record of common law marriage between one man and one woman; limits the jurisdiction of circuit courts and chancery courts in cases involving the definition of common law marriage to the principles of common law marriage. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 10; Title 16; Title 36; Title 39; Title 67 and Title 68.

Passed Mar 20, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 2777

Failed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Child Abuse - As introduced, excludes a positive prenatal or newborn drug screening test result of cannabinoids from the definition of abuse of a child; excludes the exposure to cannabinoids that occurred in utero from the definition of severe child abuse. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39, Chapter 13.

Failed Mar 19, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track