Sen. Paul Rose

Primary SB 2306

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates November as "Christian Heritage Month." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1.

Passed May 1, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 1822

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

State Symbols - As enacted, designates as official state books: "Farewell Address to the American People" by George Washington; "The Papers of Andrew Jackson"; "Democracy in America" by Alexis de Tocqueville; "All the King's Men" by Robert Penn Warren; "A Death in the Family" by James Agee; "Roots" by Alex Haley; "The Civil War: A Narrative" by Shelby Foote; "American Lion" by Jon Meacham; "Coat of Many Colors" by Dolly Parton; and "Aitken Bible"; requires the secretary of state to list the books in the Tennessee Blue Book. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

Passed Apr 22, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 472

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Driver Licenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for driving upon a highway without a valid driver license for the vehicle being driven from a Class C misdemeanor to a Class B misdemeanor for a first offense and a Class A misdemeanor for a second or subsequent offense committed within 10 years of a prior offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55.

Passed Apr 19, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 1738

Signed into law · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Adoption - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Foster and Adoptive Parent Protection Act," which generally prohibits the department of children's services from requiring a current or prospective adoptive or foster parent to affirm, accept, or support any government policy regarding sexual orientation or gender identity that conflicts with the parent's sincerely held religious or moral beliefs; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 37.

Signed into law Apr 17, 2024 0 co-sponsors

Primary SB 2978

Signed into law · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Gates - Subject to local approval, removes authority of the board of mayor and aldermen to elect a town marshal or marshals; removes authority of a member of the board to serve as city recorder; repeals residency requirement for a person to be elected as city recorder. - Amends Chapter 286 of the Private Acts of 1943; as amended.

Signed into law Apr 17, 2024 0 co-sponsors

Primary SB 2041

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Obscenity and Pornography - As introduced, specifies that a person or entity that produces, sells, sends, or distributes obscene matter in violation of state law may be held civilly liable for damages to an injured party. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 9.

Passed Apr 11, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 1699

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Orders of Protection - As enacted, expands the eligibility for filing a petition to obtain a lifetime order of protection to include victims of aggravated stalking, especially aggravated stalking, and felony harassment. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39.

Passed Apr 8, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 2039

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Conservation - As enacted, requires that appointees to the fish and wildlife commission participate in activities regulated by the commission; requires the commission and wildlife resource agency to encourage hunting, angling, and trapping as preferred methods of wildlife management and conservation within this state; clarifies the fish and wildlife commission's authority over the taking of game and fish. - Amends TCA Title 70.

Passed Apr 3, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 2040

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Criminal Offenses - As enacted, adds using, altering, encrypting, ransoming, destroying, or otherwise rendering unavailable without authorization, electronic data, electronic devices, or network providers of critical infrastructure or of a farm to the offense of committing critical infrastructure vandalism. - Amends TCA Title 39.

Passed Apr 3, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 1545

died · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, establishes a program under which a state employee may receive up to six weeks of paid leave if the employee becomes a foster parent of a minor child. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 8; Title 16 and Title 50.

died Apr 1, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track