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SJR1033 - A RESOLUTION to recognize the month of April 2024 as "Child Abuse Awareness Month."
Dawn White
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Child Abuse Awareness Month, April 2024
STATUS
Introduced
SB0757 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8; Title 10; Title 16; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55, relative to criminal justice.
Edward S. Jackson, Ferrell Haile, Joseph Hensley
Last updated 4 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, generally requires, when a person is arrested, booked, or confined in the jail of a county or municipality, the arresting law enforcement agency and the keeper of a jail to collaborate to verify the citizenship status of the person and the sheriff to report the status of those who are not lawfully present, or whose status cannot be determined, to the district attorneys general conference. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 10; Title 16; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.
STATUS
Passed
SB0135 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to education.
John Stevens, Janince Bowling, Dawn White
Last updated 4 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, makes revisions to the "Tennessee Public Charter Schools Act of 2002." - Amends TCA Title 49.
STATUS
Passed
SB2066 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 68, Chapter 120 and Title 71, Chapter 3, relative to carbon monoxide alarms.
Paul E. Bailey, Charlane Oliver, Heidi Campbell
Last updated 5 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, requires each child care agency in this state to have installed in each room of the child care agency where care is provided to children a carbon monoxide alarm that is listed according to the International Building Code and International Fire Code for the purpose of carbon monoxide detection; provides that a violation is a Class C misdemeanor and that each day on which a violation continues constitutes a separate offense. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 120 and Title 71, Chapter 3.
STATUS
Passed
SJR0904 - A RESOLUTION to propose an amendment to Article I, Section 26 of the Constitution of Tennessee, relative to the right to keep and bear arms.
John Stevens, Paul E. Bailey, Art Swann
Last updated 6 months ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Proposes an amendment to Article I, Section 26 of the Constitution of Tennessee to remove the provision that authorizes the legislature to regulate the wearing of arms with a view to prevent crime and to state that citizens have a right to keep, bear, and wear arms for their defense, and not just for common defense.
STATUS
Engrossed
SR0280 - A RESOLUTION to commend and congratulate Cheri Doane upon being named Ms. Tennessee Senior America 2023.
Richard M. Briggs, Becky Duncan Massey, Randy McNally
Last updated 6 months ago
31 Co-Sponsors
Cheri Doane, Ms. Tennessee Senior America 2023
STATUS
Passed
SB1822 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3, relative to official state books.
Paul Rose, Janince Bowling, Paul E. Bailey
Last updated 5 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
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.
STATUS
Passed
SB2586 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 2, relative to voter registration.
Brent Taylor, Edward S. Jackson, Dawn White
Last updated 4 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
SB2929 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 37; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71, relative to children.
Bill Powers, Paul Rose, Dawn White
Last updated 4 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, requires the department of children's services, county medical examiners, chief medical examiners, and facilities that perform autopsies to establish policies and procedures for the prioritization of the completion of final autopsy reports for fatalities of certain children. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
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 5 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
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Senator from Tennessee district SD-013
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Tennessee Senate
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