Sen. Brent Taylor

Primary SB 2587

Signed into law · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Election Laws - As enacted, requires the county election commission to select the voting machines to be purchased for use in the county and ensure the destruction of the voting machines when the machines are deemed obsolete; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 5.

Signed into law May 9, 2024 0 co-sponsors

Primary SB 2561

Signed into law · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Charitable Institutions - As enacted, requires, if a written request is made jointly by the speakers of the senate and the house of representatives, a nonprofit organization that has entered into a contract or memorandum of understanding with the district attorney general related to policies and strategies related to cash bail, unless such contract or memorandum of understanding is required by statute, to disclose to the speakers the list of persons or entities that have donated to the nonprofit organization in the previous calendar year. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

Signed into law May 9, 2024 0 co-sponsors

Primary SB 2186

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Courts, General Sessions - As enacted, specifies that in a county with more than one general sessions judge in which the judicial commissioners are supervised by the general sessions judges, the management and supervision of any judicial commissioners appointed pursuant to this section must rotate between the general sessions judges having criminal jurisdiction in the county on an annual basis. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 17 and Title 40.

Passed May 1, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 2591

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Planning, Public - As enacted, makes certain revisions to the "Neighborhood Preservation Act." - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 6.

Passed May 1, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 429

died · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Local Government, General - As introduced, expresses legislative intent that the persons appointed to a charter commission for the consolidation of the functions of the county and creation of a metropolitan government be representative of both incorporated and unincorporated areas of the county. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9 and Title 67.

died Apr 24, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SJR 1387

Signed into law · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Memorials, Recognition - Richard K. "Rick" James, Retailer of the Year -

Signed into law Apr 24, 2024 0 co-sponsors

Primary SJR 1489

Signed into law · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Memorials, Death - Officer Joseph McKinney, Memphis Police Department -

Signed into law Apr 24, 2024 0 co-sponsors

Primary SB 623

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Probation and Parole - As introduced, adds the criminal offenses of aggravated assault resulting in serious bodily injury to another or the death of another and aggravated assault involving the actual discharge of a firearm to those offenses that are not eligible for probated sentence, if the offenses were committed intentionally or knowingly. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

Passed Apr 19, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 837

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, enacts the "Pregnancy Resource Tax Credit Act," which authorizes business, excise, and franchise tax credits for businesses that make monetary contributions to eligible nonprofit organizations that provide certain pregnancy-related services. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4.

Passed Apr 19, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 2576

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Immigration - As enacted, requires, rather than authorizes, law enforcement agencies to communicate with the appropriate federal official regarding the immigration status of any individual, including reporting knowledge that a particular alien is not lawfully present in the United States or otherwise cooperate with the appropriate federal official in the identification, apprehension, detention, or removal of aliens not lawfully present in the United States. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 68.

Passed Apr 17, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track