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SB2590 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 63, relative to osteopathic physicians.
Brent Taylor
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As enacted, authorizes the board of osteopathic examination to issue advisory private letter rulings upon request to affected licensees regarding matters within the board's primary jurisdiction; provides that such rulings only affect the licensee making the inquiry and have no precedential value for another inquiry or future contested case that might come before the board. - Amends TCA Title 63.
STATUS
Passed
SB2576 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 7, Chapter 68, relative to communication with federal officials regarding immigration status.
Brent Taylor, Paul Rose, Randy McNally
Last updated 7 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
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.
STATUS
Passed
SB2580 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 54, relative to funds for road projects.
Brent Taylor
Last updated 10 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, requires the department to award money from the state highway fund to local public agencies in exchange for federal aid obligation authority allocated to local public agency road projects, if allowed by federal law and rules. - Amends TCA Title 54.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2586 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 2, relative to voter registration.
Brent Taylor, Edward S. Jackson, Dawn White
Last updated 6 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, requires a person collecting a voter registration form submitted by an applicant during a voter registration drive to, within 15 calendar days of receipt of the form, deliver or mail the form to the county election commission in which the applicant resides; prohibits a person from providing a voter registration application upon which any information about an applicant has been filled in before it is provided to the applicant, and allowing an individual convicted of certain offenses to collect or handle a voter registration application; prohibits a person collecting voter registrations from altering the voter registration form of any person without the person's consent. - Amends TCA Title 2.
STATUS
Passed
SB2579 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 11, Chapter 14, Part 4; Title 66; Title 68 and Title 69, relative to water resources.
Brent Taylor
Last updated 10 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, clarifies that an ephemeral wet weather conveyance is not a stream under the Water Quality Control Act; defines "isolated wetlands" and clarifies that isolated wetlands are not waters under the act; prohibits requiring a permit or other authorization under the act for impacts to isolated wetlands; makes other related changes to the act. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11, Chapter 14, Part 4; Title 66; Title 68 and Title 69.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2572 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40, relative to certain local regulations
Brent Taylor, Paul Rose, Jack Johnson
Last updated 7 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, prohibits a local governmental entity or official from adopting or enacting a resolution, ordinance, or policy that prohibits or limits the ability of a law enforcement agency to conduct traffic stops based on observation of or reasonable suspicion that the operator or a passenger in a vehicle has violated a local ordinance or state or federal law. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.
STATUS
Passed
SB2566 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39 and Title 40, relative to conditions of bail.
Brent Taylor, Paul Rose, Jack Johnson
Last updated 5 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, requires any conditions of release imposed on certain felony defendants to include a requirement that the defendant submit to pretrial monitoring to ensure compliance with the conditions; requires the court to order bail to be forfeited and an arrest warrant issued if the defendant does not comply with conditions of release; limits, to criminal or circuit court judges, those who may release a defendant who has been arrested for failure to comply with the conditions of release. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
STATUS
Passed
SB2560 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 45 and Title 47, Chapter 18, relative to financial services.
Brent Taylor
Last updated 10 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, enacts the "Equality in Financial Services Act." - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47, Chapter 18.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2589 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 38 and Title 40, relative to expunction.
Brent Taylor, J. Adam Lowe
Last updated 6 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, authorizes the TBI to notify the district attorney general for the judicial district in which a person petitions a court for expunction if the petitioner has been granted a prior expunction; clarifies what constitutes public records for the purpose of expunction; authorizes a court entering an order of expunction to release a copy of the order to the petitioner. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 40.
STATUS
Passed
SB2558 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 29 and Title 37, relative to civil liability.
Brent Taylor
Last updated 10 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, increases from $10,000 to $15,000 the amount a parent or guardian is financially responsible for their child who maliciously or willfully caused personal injury to a person or destroyed property, real, personal, or mixed, belonging to a municipal corporation, county, town, village, school district, department of this state, persons, or religious organizations and lives with the parent or guardian at the time of the act. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 37.
STATUS
Introduced
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Senator from Tennessee district SD-031
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