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SB2210 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to education.
Bill Powers
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, changes from 30 to 45 the number of days a principal or director of schools must provide notice to the commissioner of education of an intent to withdraw from an approved alternative program for innovative educational programs. - Amends TCA Title 49.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2214 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, Chapter 6, relative to computer science education.
Bill Powers
Last updated 5 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As enacted, specifies that only middle school students enrolled in the lowest grade level at a middle school are required to take one course in computer science; authorizes the board to promulgate rules to effectuate the act. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
STATUS
Passed
SB2212 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 2, Chapter 6, relative to absentee voting.
Bill Powers, Heidi Campbell, Rusty Crowe
Last updated 8 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
As introduced, authorizes the county election commission of Montgomery County to research and test methods, systems, and technologies that would allow members and employees of the United States armed forces and their dependents who are registered to vote in the county but are stationed outside the territorial limits of the United States to vote by means other than, or in addition to, mail. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 6.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2713 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49, relative to higher education.
Jon C. Lundberg, Bill Powers, Jack Johnson
Last updated 8 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
As introduced, abolishes the governing board of directors for the Tennessee student assistance corporation and designates the corporation as a division of the commission; revises certain duties and powers of the commission; vacates and reconstitutes the commission on July 1, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2221 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to criminal offenses.
Bill Powers, Dawn White, John Stevens
Last updated 4 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, establishes a Class E felony for a person who commits assault against a participant in judicial proceedings while on the premises of a building in which judicial proceedings occur; makes revisions to law regarding wiretapping and electronic surveillance. - Amends TCA Title 39.
STATUS
Passed
SB2429 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 62, Chapter 6, relative to licensing of contractors.
Bill Powers, Janince Bowling
Last updated 5 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, authorizes the state board for licensing contractors, without cause, to require a financial statement of a licensure applicant that is reviewed or audited and attested to by a licensed public accountant or certified public accountant if the board has reason to believe it is in the best interest of the public safety and welfare. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 6.
STATUS
Passed
SB2428 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 5; Title 6; Title 12; Title 58 and Title 68, relative to county fire services.
Bill Powers, Janince Bowling
Last updated 5 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, authorizes a county that has entered into a written mutual aid agreement with each municipality within the county relating to the provisions of fire services in the context of state military affairs, emergencies, and civil defense law, to fund up to 50 percent of the cost to provide fire services to unincorporated portions of the county using county general funds. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 12; Title 58 and Title 68.
STATUS
Passed
SB2218 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 66; Section 67-4-409 and Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 10, relative to the Agricultural, Forest and Open Space Land Act of 1976.
Bill Powers
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, requires the payment of greenbelt rollback taxes in full at closing when greenbelt property is sold. - Amends TCA Title 66; Section 67-4-409 and Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 10.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2430 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 68-120-101, relative to to building regulations.
Bill Powers
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, prohibits a local government from limiting or prohibiting the use or installation of products that meet the national codes and standards or materials that meet the national codes and standards for single-family or multi-family housing or commercial construction under four stories; deletes provision declaring that a denial of a waiver by a local governmental entity pertaining to construction materials does not constitute a prohibition of those construction materials. - Amends TCA Section 68-120-101.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1783 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 49; Title 49, Chapter 4 and Title 49, Chapter 7, relative to Tennessee Promise scholarship students.
Jon C. Lundberg, Becky Duncan Massey, Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated 8 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
As introduced, reallocates 5 percent of the privilege tax collected from licensees that offer sports wagering in this state from the lottery for education account to a new Tennessee Promise completion grant special account created to assist the commission in awarding completion grants to certain Tennessee Promise scholarship students; makes the four-year pilot program established by the commission to award completion grants to certain Tennessee Promise scholarship students permanent. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 49; Title 49, Chapter 4 and Title 49, Chapter 7.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
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Senator from Tennessee district SD-022
COMMITTEES
Tennessee Senate
BIRTH
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