Sen. Raumesh Akbari

Primary SB 2441

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Fire Prevention and Investigation - As introduced, authorizes a fire department to respond to a fire or an emergency in the jurisdiction or service area of another fire department upon providing notice prior to arrival. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 102.

Passed Feb 1, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 2446

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, authorizes a local government to require a private employer to pay an hourly wage in excess of the minimum hourly wage set by state or federal law. - Amends TCA Title 12 and Title 50, Chapter 2.

Passed Feb 1, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 2470

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Human Rights - As introduced, allows employers and public institutions of higher education in this state to establish, maintain, and implement policies, practices, and requirements designed to safeguard employees, applicants for employment, students, faculty, and staff from discrimination based on race, creed, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, or gender identity, which may be developed and administered through an office of diversity, equity, and inclusion. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49 and Title 50.

Passed Feb 1, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 2474

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Courts - As introduced, requires the clerk of each court to compile a monthly report of all criminal fines and fees assessed by the court in the previous month and submit the report to the administrative office of the courts; requires the administrative office of the courts to create and maintain a statewide database and searchable public website that compiles the reports received by the office from the court clerks. - Amends TCA Title 16 and Title 18.

Passed Feb 1, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 2434

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Traffic Safety - As introduced, prohibits a person from parking a vehicle upon a road, street, or highway in a residential district in such a manner or under such conditions as to leave available less than 12 feet of an unobstructed width of the roadway opposite the parked vehicle for the free passage of other vehicles. - Amends TCA Title 55.

Passed Feb 1, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 2466

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Professions and Occupations - As introduced, adds as a condition for allowing the board to be able to charge a fee for reviewing and approving prelicensing general contractor education courses that the fee amount is listed on the board's website. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 50; Title 62; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 70.

Passed Feb 1, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 2473

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, makes students who graduate from an out-of-state high school eligible for the Tennessee HOPE scholarship if at least one of the student's parents resides in this state and has resided in this state no less than 10 years; requires the board of regents and each state university board to consider such students residents of this state. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Passed Feb 1, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 2464

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Labor and Workforce Development, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "Solar Workforce Development Act," which requires the department to establish and support a program that creates and maintains incentives for individuals to seek green energy jobs, and for entities to create, expand, and offer green energy jobs. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 13, Chapter 19; Title 50; Title 59; Title 60; Title 65; Title 66, Chapter 9, Part 2; Title 68 and Title 69.

Passed Feb 1, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 2472

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Education - As introduced, requires the department to provide to the general assembly a list that identifies each LEA that received an infrastructure stipend, along with the amount of the infrastructure stipend received, beginning with infrastructure stipends awarded on or after July 1, 2022, no later than December 31, 2024, and by each December 31 thereafter until January 1, 2030. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Passed Feb 1, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 2469

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Criminal Procedure - As introduced, changes from 20 days to 15 days the notice of a hearing on a petition for restoration of rights of citizenship that must be given to the district attorney general of the county in which the petitioner currently resides and the district attorney general of the county in which the petitioner was convicted in order that, if deemed advisable, each may resist. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 11; Title 2, Chapter 19; Title 2, Chapter 2; Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 40, Chapter 20 and Title 40, Chapter 29.

Passed Feb 1, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track