Sen. Ferrell Haile

Primary SB 1538

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Gallatin - Subject to local approval, requires the city council to appoint a city judge, who replaces the city recorder as the officer presiding over the city court; removes requirement that city recorder be elected and instead be appointed by city council; authorizes city officials to hold appointive office while serving as city official; updates the titles of certain department heads. - Amends Chapter 67 of the Private Acts of 1953; as amended.

Passed Apr 18, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 328

Signed into law · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Criminal Offenses - As enacted, changes from 25 to 17 the number of days of incarceration a person convicted of a second offense of driving under the influence of an intoxicant must serve before the person can participate in a substance abuse treatment program; requires a person charged with or convicted of a third or subsequent offense of driving under the influence of an intoxicant involving the use of alcohol to wear a transdermal alcohol monitoring device for a 90-day period of continuous sobriety. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.

Signed into law Apr 18, 2023 0 co-sponsors

Primary SB 419

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Evidence - As enacted, expands the admissibility of a forensic interview to include statements made by a child under 18 years of age rather than under 13 years of age; expands admissible forensic interviews from statements made by a child describing sexual contact performed with or on the child by another to statements describing sexual or physically violent contact performed with or on the child by another or performed by a person with or on another and witnessed by the child; makes other changes relevant to forensic interviews. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 7 and Title 37.

Passed Apr 18, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 786

Signed into law · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Agriculture - As enacted, requires an amendment to the articles of incorporation of an agricultural or horticultural marketing cooperative association to change the name of the association or its principal place of business to be adopted if the appropriate notice of the meeting of the board of directors was given; changes the requirements for notice for a meeting held after failure to gain a quorum to vote on a proposed amendment; makes additional changes related to voting on amendments to an association's articles of incorporation. - Amends TCA Title 43.

Signed into law Apr 18, 2023 0 co-sponsors

Primary SB 366

Signed into law · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, authorizes issuance of a license plate in the emergency category to emergency communication dispatchers. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

Signed into law Apr 18, 2023 0 co-sponsors

Primary SB 1222

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, authorizes a juvenile court to order a child who has requested the expunction of the child's juvenile court records to undergo a mental health evaluation and use the evaluation results to assist in determining whether expunction would serve the best interest of the child and the community. - Amends TCA Title 37.

Passed Apr 18, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SJR 630

died · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Memorials, Recognition - Gallatin Rotary, 100th anniversary -

died Apr 14, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SJR 62

Signed into law · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Naming and Designating - Designates February 22, 2023 as "Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Awareness Day" in Tennessee. -

Signed into law Apr 10, 2023 0 co-sponsors

Primary SJR 34

Failed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article II, Section 31 of the Constitution of Tennessee authorizing the governing body or state official charged with carrying out the purpose or objectives of a fund or trust that is administered or invested by the Treasury and that contains state funds, in whole or in part, to adopt, with approval of the Treasurer and the Comptroller of the Treasury, an investment policy to authorize all or part of such fund or trust to be invested such that the state would become an owner, in whole or in part, of any bank or a stockholder with others in any association, company, or corporation. -

Failed Apr 6, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SJR 334

Signed into law · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Memorials, Recognition - Dean William C. Koch, Jr., and Nashville School of Law -

Signed into law Apr 4, 2023 0 co-sponsors