Sen. Joey Hensley

Primary SB 820

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Local Government, General - As introduced, increases from four to six, the minimum number of regular meetings of the county legislative body each year; provides that, until otherwise set by ordinance by the board of commissioners in a city under a city manager-commission charter, regular meetings of the board must be held on the first and third Tuesdays, instead of Thursdays, of each month. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6 and Title 67.

Passed Mar 28, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 1044

Failed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to publish the annual permit fee schedule to operate an organized camp on the department's website. - Amends TCA Title 11; Title 49; Title 68 and Title 70.

Failed Mar 28, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 136

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Election Laws - As introduced, requires reports of deaths in relation to maintaining voter registration lists to include the date of the death; requires the coordinator of elections to prepare a report for the general assembly regarding deaths of registered voters. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 2, Part 1.

Passed Mar 28, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 405

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Political Parties - As introduced, requires state and local elections for public office to be partisan elections; requires judges who are required by this state's constitution to be reelected at retention elections to declare a bona fide membership with a political party or independent status at least 30 days prior to a retention election. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 16; Title 17 and Title 49.

Passed Mar 28, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 821

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Election Laws - As introduced, requires the coordinator of elections to take certain actions regarding paper ballots; authorizes, beginning with the 2024 election cycle, county election commissions to use hand-marked paper ballots; authorizes certification of results to be based on a hand count. - Amends TCA Title 2.

Passed Mar 28, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 1061

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Obscenity and Pornography - As introduced, removes the educational justification of a person possessing obscene material if the person is at a school building, bus, school campus, grounds, recreational area, athletic field, or other property owned, used, or operated by a local education agency. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 9 and Title 49.

Passed Mar 22, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 1390

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, allows a child to be committed to the custody of the department of children's services if the child is adjudicated delinquent for an offense that would constitute a misdemeanor if committed by an adult and the child has previously been adjudicated delinquent for another listed offense; requires an officer to make efforts to contact a child's parent or guardian when issuing the child a misdemeanor citation in lieu of continued custody, if the officer deems it appropriate. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39.

Passed Mar 22, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 712

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Education - As introduced, requires a student to be seven years of age or older on or before August 15 or test proficient in the kindergarten academic standards based on a first-grade entry assessment before the student may be promoted to the first grade; requires the department of education to create, and local education agencies and public charter schools to administer, a first-grade entry assessment. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Passed Mar 22, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 602

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Expunction - As introduced, adds the offense of illegal registration or voting to those Class D felony offenses that are eligible for expunction. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 40.

Passed Mar 22, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 603

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Education, Higher - As introduced, prohibits public institutions of higher education offering certain medical and health-related degree or certificate programs, and state contractors, from requiring diversity, equity, and inclusion training and education for purposes of the issuance of a degree, or the approval of a state contract or grant, as applicable. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 12; Title 49 and Title 63.

Passed Mar 22, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track