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SB0656 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 36 and Title 37, relative to children.
Edward S. Jackson, Ferrell Haile
Last updated over 1 year ago
2 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, requires the department to conduct an assessment of the home to determine whether the child will receive proper care and supervision, including a visit to the home, prior to the department notifying a court in writing of its intention to place a child at home on a trial home visit. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.
STATUS
Passed
SJR0152 - A RESOLUTION to honor the memory of Whit Samuel Goins of LaFollette.
Ken Yager, Raumesh A. Akbari, Paul E. Bailey
Last updated over 1 year ago
33 Co-Sponsors
Whit Samuel Goins
STATUS
Passed
SB0551 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8, Chapter 44, Part 1, relative to public meetings.
J. Adam Lowe, Edward S. Jackson
Last updated over 1 year ago
2 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, requires governmental entities to provide a period of public comment for public meetings; authorizes the governmental entities to place reasonable restrictions on the period for public comment. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 44, Part 1.
STATUS
Passed
SB0654 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8, Chapter 7; Title 16, Chapter 2 and Title 38, Chapter 6, relative to crimes against children.
Edward S. Jackson, Brent Taylor, Page Walley
Last updated over 1 year ago
3 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, requires district attorneys general to designate one assistant district attorney general as the lead prosecutor in cases involving crimes committed against children; requires the Tennessee bureau of investigation to provide annual training to assistant district attorneys designated as lead prosecutors in crimes committed against children. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 7; Title 16, Chapter 2 and Title 38, Chapter 6.
STATUS
Passed
SB0858 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 33; Title 68 and Title 71, relative to the regulation of healthcare facilities.
Shane Reeves, Edward S. Jackson
Last updated over 1 year ago
2 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, establishes regulations regarding the licensing and regulating of certain medically related facilities. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 68 and Title 71.
STATUS
Passed
SJR0160 - A RESOLUTION relative to training for the adult blind in Tennessee.
Becky Duncan Massey, Heidi Campbell, Richard M. Briggs
Last updated 8 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Expresses commitment to quality rehabilitation services for persons who are blind and urges the Department of Human Services to collaborate with the National Federation of the Blind of Tennessee to develop a plan for establishing a facility that provides comprehensive on-site, facility-based vocational rehabilitation services that allow the individual who is blind to be totally immersed in the training experience.
STATUS
Passed
SB0562 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 41, relative to persons convicted of a criminal offense.
Edward S. Jackson, Brent Taylor, Paul Rose
Last updated over 1 year ago
3 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, requires a prisoner of a county workhouse or jail who is released from custody on work release or otherwise allowed to leave the grounds of the county workhouse or jail for employment or to perform work in the community, whether paid or unpaid, to use an electronic monitoring device at all times when the prisoner is not on the grounds of the county workhouse or jail; requires the employer or person utilizing the prisoner for work to pay the costs of the electronic monitoring device. - Amends TCA Title 41.
STATUS
Passed
SB0526 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 2 and Title 6, relative to local elections.
Frank S. Niceley, Edward S. Jackson
Last updated over 1 year ago
2 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, prohibits members of local governing bodies to be elected through an election procedure that requires candidates to be nominated from a district and elected at large. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 6.
STATUS
Passed
SB1056 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39 and Title 40, relative to criminal offenses.
Edward S. Jackson, Paul Rose, Brent Taylor
Last updated over 1 year ago
3 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor for a warden or chief administrative officer employed by a penal institution, who knows that certain offenses have occurred within the institution, to fail to report such offenses to the district attorney general for the judicial district in which the institution is located and the district attorney general who prosecuted the offense for which the offender is incarcerated within five business days of becoming aware of the offense being committed; authorizes the court to order sentences to run consecutively if the court finds by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant was incarcerated at the time of the offense and is convicted of an offense that is reportable by a warden or chief administrator. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
STATUS
Passed
SB0722 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 36 and Title 37, relative to children.
Becky Duncan Massey, Rusty Crowe, Shane Reeves
Last updated over 1 year ago
9 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, enacts "Abrial’s Law, the Keeping Children Safe from Family Violence Act," which makes various changes to child custody law. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.
STATUS
Passed
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