Sen. Joey Hensley

Primary SB 407

Signed into law · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Water Pollution - As enacted, makes revisions to the Water Quality Control Act. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 3, Part 1.

Signed into law May 17, 2023 0 co-sponsors

Primary SB 1069

Signed into law · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Education - As enacted, authorizes a director of schools, or a director's designee, to not assign a student in grades 7-12 who has been suspended for more than 10 days or expelled from the regular school program for an offense of violence or threatened violence, or an offense that threatened the safety of persons attending or assigned to the student's school, to an alternative school or alternative program if the director or designee determines that assigning the student to the alternative school or program may endanger the safety of the students or staff of the alternative school or program. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Signed into law May 4, 2023 0 co-sponsors

Primary SB 1059

Signed into law · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Obscenity and Pornography - As enacted, makes it a Class E felony for a book publisher, distributor, or seller to knowingly sell or distribute obscene matter to a public school serving any of the grades K-12; adds additional fines for a violation. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 9.

Signed into law May 4, 2023 0 co-sponsors

Primary SB 1237

Signed into law · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Schools, Private - As enacted, limits the ability of a student enrolled in a private school to participate in an interscholastic athletic activity or event, to such activity or event where membership in the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association is required, in accordance with the student's immutable biological sex as determined by anatomy and genetics existing at the time of birth. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 50.

Signed into law May 4, 2023 0 co-sponsors

Primary SB 1070

Signed into law · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Education - As enacted, authorizes, upon a request of a director of schools or the director of a public charter school, the commissioner of education to issue an endorsement exemption to a teacher, in accordance with state board rules, to teach a physical education class required by law to elementary school students. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Signed into law May 4, 2023 0 co-sponsors

Primary SB 817

Signed into law · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Education, Higher - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Higher Education Freedom of Expression and Transparency Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7 and Title 49, Chapter 8.

Signed into law May 3, 2023 0 co-sponsors

Primary SB 1068

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Expunction - As enacted, makes various changes relative to expunction. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 39 and Title 40.

Passed May 3, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 464

Signed into law · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - As enacted, designates a segment of the Duck River in Maury County as a Class II scenic river; requires permitting of certain water resource projects in Class II scenic river areas, subject to rules promulgated by the commissioner of environment and conservation. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 13; Title 64, Chapter 1, Part 6 and Title 68, Chapter 211.

Signed into law May 3, 2023 0 co-sponsors

Primary SB 724

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, creates a new pathway for honorably discharged veterans to receive an occupational teaching license. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5.

Passed May 3, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 644

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Schools, Home - As enacted, removes the requirement that a parent-teacher of a home school student provide proof of the student's immunizations and receipt of health services or examinations required by law generally for children in this state to the local education agency; exempts home school students from the immunization requirements applicable to students attending a school, nursery school, kindergarten, preschool, or child care facility; authorizes an LEA, in situations where a home school student participates in an LEA-sponsored interscholastic or extracurricular activity or event, to request and receive proof that the student received a health service or examination that is required for the LEA's students to participate in the activity or event. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 68.

Passed May 2, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track