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SB0270 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 37, Chapter 2, Part 4, relative to children.
Jack Johnson, Ferrell Haile, Dawn White
Last updated over 1 year ago
3 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, revises present law provisions governing adoption and foster care. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 37, Chapter 2, Part 4.
STATUS
Passed
SB0536 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 36, Chapter 1 and Title 37, Chapter 1, relative to children.
Ferrell Haile, J. Adam Lowe, Becky Duncan Massey
Last updated over 1 year ago
5 Co-Sponsors
As introduced, adds, for purposes of juvenile court proceedings and termination of parental rights proceedings, certain offenses to those that constitute severe child abuse if the act was committed toward the child or there was a knowing failure to protect the child from the commission of the act toward the child. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1 and Title 37, Chapter 1.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0743 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, Chapter 5, relative to individuals prohibited from employment with an educational entity.
Dawn White
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As enacted, clarifies that public charter schools and the state board of education are prohibited from employing individuals found by the department of children's services to have committed an act of child abuse in the same manner as other educational entities; clarifies that the state board is prohibited from granting, reactivating, or restoring an educator license or temporary teaching permit for such individuals; adds the state board and public charter schools to the list of educational entities to which the department is required to make certain disclosures when one of its employees is alleged to have committed an act of child abuse. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5.
STATUS
Passed
SB1215 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 16, Chapter 18, Part 3 and Title 40, relative to expunction.
Dawn White, Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated over 1 year ago
2 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, specifies that municipal court has jurisdiction over the expunction of a person's conviction for a violation of a municipal ordinance from the public records; specifies conditions for such expunction. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 18, Part 3 and Title 40.
STATUS
Passed
SB1229 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to higher education.
Dawn White
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, changes, from December 1 to December 15, the date by which the Tennessee higher education commission is required to submit the revised higher education funding formula and any projected tuition increases for the next academic year to the office of legislative budget analysis and the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Title 49.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1305 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to special education.
Paul E. Bailey, Dawn White
Last updated over 1 year ago
2 Co-Sponsors
As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Special Educator Scholarship Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0544 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 36 and Title 37, relative to the department of children's services.
Dawn White, Ferrell Haile, Rusty Crowe
Last updated over 1 year ago
4 Co-Sponsors
As introduced, requires the department to employ a guardian ad litem within each region of the state to advocate for each child who is in the custody of the department due to allegations of dependency and neglect and located within the region that the guardian ad litem serves; requires the guardians ad litem to review dependency and neglect cases of children who have been in the custody of the department for six months to determine whether termination of parental rights should be filed and, if so, file a petition within 30 days. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0367 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 7-51-2102, relative to energy sources.
Page Walley, J. Adam Lowe, Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated over 1 year ago
13 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, prohibits political subdivisions from prohibiting, based on the type or source of energy to be delivered to an individual customer, the sale or installation of an appliance utilized for cooking, space heating, water heating, or another end use. - Amends TCA Section 7-51-2102.
STATUS
Passed
SB0919 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 36, Chapter 1, relative to children.
Paul Rose, Dawn White
Last updated over 1 year ago
2 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, makes revisions to present law relative to termination of certain parental rights. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1.
STATUS
Passed
SB0617 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 37, relative to the department of children's services.
Raumesh A. Akbari, Page Walley, Heidi Campbell
Last updated over 1 year ago
6 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, requires the department to make chaplain services available on a regular basis to juveniles who are housed in a youth development center; prohibits the department from requiring a juvenile to attend or use chaplain services; requires the department to provide annual training to youth service officers on best practices for behavior management and conflict resolution in the context of supervision of juvenile justice youth; requires the department to house children 16 years of age or older separately from younger children, unless housing the children together is necessary for the safety and well-being of the younger children or to otherwise comply with law relative to the use of seclusion at juvenile detention facilities. - Amends TCA Title 37.
STATUS
Passed
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