Sen. Brent Taylor

Primary SB 1281

Signed into law · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

School Transportation - As enacted, revises present law provisions relative to cameras on school buses and failing to stop upon approaching a school bus that has stopped on the highway. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.

Signed into law Apr 25, 2023 0 co-sponsors

Primary SB 146

Signed into law · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, deauthorizes the use of promissory notes secured by a first mortgage or a first deed of trust upon residential real property as collateral by banks in which public funds are invested or deposited by a governmental entity for investments or deposits above the insurance limitations provided by the FDIC. - Amends TCA Section 9-1-107.

Signed into law Apr 18, 2023 0 co-sponsors

Primary SB 218

Signed into law · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Sports - As enacted, moves administrative regulation of the Fantasy Sports Act from the office of the secretary of state to the sports wagering advisory council. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 39; Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 67.

Signed into law Apr 18, 2023 0 co-sponsors

Primary SB 928

Signed into law · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Real Property - As enacted, provides that the plane coordinate values for a point on the earth's surface used to express the geographic position or location of such point consist of two distances expressed in either International, instead of United States survey, feet and decimals of a foot or meters and decimals of a meter when using the Tennessee State Plane Coordinate System; removes a requirement when the values are expressed in United States survey feet that they be used as the standard foot for the Tennessee State Plane Coordinate System. - Amends TCA Section 66-6-102.

Signed into law Apr 18, 2023 0 co-sponsors

Primary SB 933

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Forfeiture of Assets - As introduced, clarifies that a motor vehicle used in the commission or flight from commission of the offense of drag racing is subject to civil asset forfeiture; designates the department of safety as the applicable agency for such forfeiture proceedings. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 5.

Passed Apr 17, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 1197

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, requires an insurer to provide the names of the beneficiaries of a decedent's life insurance policy, the benefit amount under the policy, and other information requested by a funeral director or funeral establishment that contacts the insurer on behalf of the decedent's family. - Amends TCA Title 35; Title 56 and Title 62, Chapter 5.

Passed Apr 10, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 307

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Anatomical Gifts - As introduced, requires the individual that signs the death certificate of a decedent, or an agent of the individual, to ask whether the family or other appropriate person wants to make an anatomical gift of the decedent's body or part; prohibits a procurement organization from contacting the family or other appropriate person if the family or other appropriate person refused to make an anatomical gift of the decedent's body or part. - Amends TCA Title 32; Title 63 and Title 68.

Passed Mar 22, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 772

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Education - As introduced, changes from July 1 to August 1 the date by which the department of education must submit its annual report on virtual education programs to the governor, the general assembly, and the state board of education. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Passed Mar 15, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 622

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Education, Dept. of - As introduced, removes the commissioner's authority to directly operate, or contract for the management of, a school or any grade configuration within a school in the achievement school district (ASD), and to assign a school or any grade configuration within a school to the ASD, on or after July 1, 2024; removes all schools from the ASD by July 1, 2024; removes all authority of, and requirements established for, the ASD on July 1, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Passed Mar 15, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 1527

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Election Laws - As introduced, requires a county election commission to publish notice of the procedure for voting by absentee ballot in a runoff election in a municipality either on the commission's website or in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality for at least five business days prior to the runoff election. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 3; Title 5, Chapter 1, Part 2 and Title 7.

Passed Mar 14, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track