SB0605 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to tenure.
Tennessee - 113th General AssemblyIntroduced by
Joseph Hensley
Last updated over 1 year ago1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, requires the board of regents and each state university board to post on their respective websites the tenure policy or policies for faculty at their respective institutions. - Amends TCA Title 49.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0328 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55, relative to criminal offenses.
Tennessee - 113th General AssemblyIntroduced by
Ferrell Haile, Ken Yager
Last updated over 1 year ago2 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, changes from 25 to 17 the number of days of incarceration a person convicted of a second offense of driving under the influence of an intoxicant must serve before the person can participate in a substance abuse treatment program; requires a person charged with or convicted of a third or subsequent offense of driving under the influence of an intoxicant involving the use of alcohol to wear a transdermal alcohol monitoring device for a 90-day period of continuous sobriety. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.
STATUS
Passed
SB0868 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 65, Chapter 4, relative to text message solicitations.
Tennessee - 113th General AssemblyIntroduced by
Shane Reeves, Dawn White
Last updated over 1 year ago2 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, extends the prohibitions, requirements, and penalties that apply to telephone solicitations to text message solicitations. - Amends TCA Title 65, Chapter 4.
STATUS
Passed
SB0861 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 7; Title 9; Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68, relative to higher education.
Tennessee - 113th General AssemblyIntroduced by
Shane Reeves
Last updated over 1 year ago1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, requires Tennessee State University and Middle Tennessee State University to submit a report by February 1, 2024, in an electronic format to the chairs of the education committee of the senate and the education administration committee of the house of representatives that details the research and methods developed by the universities addressing how to use materials in solid waste as raw materials to create jobs, business, and compost. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 9; Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1047 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 37, relative to juvenile justice.
Tennessee - 113th General AssemblyIntroduced by
Jeff Yarbro
Last updated over 1 year ago1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, requires the administrative office of the courts to provide the Tennessee commission on children and youth with access to juvenile justice data; requires the Tennessee commission on children and youth to prepare an annual report related to such data to be submitted to the governor and the members of the general assembly; authorizes the administrative office of the courts to maintain juvenile justice records for the sole purpose of conducting statistical research related to outcomes of justice-involved juveniles. - Amends TCA Title 37.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0834 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to higher education.
Tennessee - 113th General AssemblyIntroduced by
Jon C. Lundberg, Paul E. Bailey, Janince Bowling
Last updated over 1 year ago7 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, prohibits a public postsecondary institution that provides internet access to students, faculty, staff, or the general public from allowing an individual to access a social media platform using the institution's network if the platform is owned or hosted by a company based in the People's Republic of China; grants certain exemptions for law enforcement activities; investigatory functions; and audit, compliance, or legal functions of the institution. - Amends TCA Title 49.
STATUS
Passed
SB0866 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71, relative to beds.
Tennessee - 113th General AssemblyIntroduced by
Shane Reeves
Last updated over 1 year ago1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, requires the call button to each bed in a general patient area in a nursing home to be easily reachable to, and useable by, a patient. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0701 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 63, Chapter 17, Part 1, relative to the practice of speech language pathology.
Tennessee - 113th General AssemblyIntroduced by
Rusty Crowe
Last updated over 1 year ago1 Co-Sponsor
As enacted, clarifies the emergency medical backup requirement for speech language pathologists using endoscopes so that the procedure may be performed when a physician is on the premises or is remotely available regardless of whether the procedure is performed in a community or institutional setting. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 17, Part 1.
STATUS
Passed
SB1016 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 71, Chapter 5, relative to medicaid.
Tennessee - 113th General AssemblyIntroduced by
Heidi Campbell
Last updated over 1 year ago1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, removes the statutory provision that currently prohibits the governor from making a decision or obligating the state with regard to the expansion of optional enrollment in the medicaid program pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act unless the governor is authorized to do so by joint resolution of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0504 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 56 and Title 71, relative to air ambulance memberships.
Tennessee - 113th General AssemblyIntroduced by
Bill Powers
Last updated over 1 year ago1 Co-Sponsor
As enacted, prohibits an individual or entity from selling, offering for sale, or providing an air ambulance membership agreement to an individual who is enrolled in TennCare Medicaid; requires an individual or entity that provides an air ambulance membership agreement to an individual who subsequently enrolls in TennCare Medicaid to provide the enrollee with a pro-rated refund of consideration paid for the membership; adds other related prohibitions, requirements, and penalties. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 56 and Title 71.
STATUS
Passed
SB0920 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6, relative to student retention.
Tennessee - 113th General AssemblyIntroduced by
Paul Rose
Last updated over 1 year ago1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, allows a third grade student who is not proficient in English language arts (ELA) based on the student's achieving a performance level rating of "approaching" on the ELA portion of the student's most recent Tennessee comprehensive assessment program test to be promoted to the next grade level if the student has demonstrated growth above the national norm on a universal reading screener and has demonstrated growth in standards mastery based on the student's scores on a state-adopted benchmark assessment. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0961 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to family life curriculum.
Tennessee - 113th General AssemblyIntroduced by
London P. Lamar
Last updated over 1 year ago1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, requires the department of education to make available to LEAs on its website the guidelines developed by the state board of education, with the assistance of the department, for appropriate kindergarten through grade 12 instruction on adoption, what adoption is, and the benefits of adoption. - Amends TCA Title 49.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0973 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to open enrollment.
Tennessee - 113th General AssemblyIntroduced by
Bill Powers
Last updated over 1 year ago1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, requires LEAs to allow nonresident students to enroll in a school in which spaces are available. - Amends TCA Title 49.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0892 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, Chapter 5, relative to educator licensure.
Tennessee - 113th General AssemblyIntroduced by
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated over 1 year ago1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, expands the exemption from an assessment to advance or renew a teaching license to include a public school teacher who, at the time of the application of an initial license, possessed an active teaching license in another state and has taught for more than 10 years. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0941 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41, relative to sentencing.
Tennessee - 113th General AssemblyIntroduced by
Charlane Oliver
Last updated over 1 year ago1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, directs TACIR to conduct a study comparing the length of sentences imposed on individuals currently incarcerated with current sentencing guidelines, and identify any disparities between sentences imposed for similar offenses; requires TACIR to submit a report to members of the general assembly by January 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.
STATUS
Introduced