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SB1582 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 47; Title 55, Chapter 24 and Title 56, relative to motor vehicle warranties.
J. Adam Lowe
Last updated 11 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, requires a company providing an extended warranty for a motor vehicle to have an extended warranty reimbursement policy; requires the company to provide a list and schedule of the required maintenance for the motor vehicle that must be followed by the warranty holder to maintain the extended warranty; creates related enforcement mechanisms and penalties. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 55, Chapter 24 and Title 56.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0451 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8; Title 39; Title 44 and Title 62, Chapter 7, Part 1, relative to service animals.
J. Adam Lowe
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As enacted, authorizes an employee of a public accommodation to ask for certain information about a dog guide in training; specifies that an individual utilizing a service animal or training a service animal in training is liable for damages to the same extent that an individual whose pet causes damages to a public accommodation is; makes other related changes to service animals and service animals in training. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 39; Title 44 and Title 62, Chapter 7, Part 1.
STATUS
Passed
SB0445 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 37 and Title 49, Chapter 6, relative to student attendance.
J. Adam Lowe
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, increases the penalty, from a Class C misdemeanor to a Class B misdemeanor, for educational neglect of a child who is in poor academic standing; requires a petition filed with a juvenile court alleging educational neglect to state whether the child is in poor academic standing, - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
STATUS
Failed
SB0442 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55, relative to restitution.
J. Adam Lowe, John Stevens, Janince Bowling
Last updated over 1 year ago
5 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, enacts "Dillard's Law," which allows the surviving parent or guardian of a child whose parent was a victim of vehicular homicide to convert a restitution order for child maintenance payments to a civil judgment at any time rather than following conclusion of the defendant's sentence. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.
STATUS
Passed
SB0208 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to school meals.
J. Adam Lowe, Heidi Campbell, Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated almost 2 years ago
3 Co-Sponsors
As introduced, requires each local school board to establish a school lunch program and a school breakfast program that provides a free breakfast and lunch to each student enrolled in a school under the board's jurisdiction; requires the state to reimburse each LEA the cost of providing a free breakfast and lunch to each student enrolled in the LEA after all available federal funds have been applied. - Amends TCA Title 49.
STATUS
Introduced
SJR7148 - A RESOLUTION to honor the memory of Benjamin Matthew Kredich of Knoxville.
Becky Duncan Massey, Richard M. Briggs, Randy McNally
Last updated about 1 year ago
33 Co-Sponsors
Benjamin Matthew Kredich
STATUS
Engrossed
SB0301 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-7-158, relative to the Brian Byrge Act.
Jon C. Lundberg, J. Adam Lowe
Last updated over 1 year ago
2 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, allows adjunct faculty to participate in the Brian Byrge Act by allowing them to enroll in one course consisting of no more than four credit hours or 120 clock hours, per term at the community college or Tennessee college of applied technology at which they are employed, without paying tuition charges or maintenance fees. - Amends TCA Section 49-7-158.
STATUS
Passed
SB0851 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 6, Chapter 51, relative to municipal boundaries.
Bo Watson, Rusty Crowe, J. Adam Lowe
Last updated over 1 year ago
4 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, allows owners of real property used primarily for agricultural purposes who reside in a territory previously annexed by ordinance upon the initiative of the municipality to petition the municipality to deannex such property, if certain conditions are present. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51.
STATUS
Passed
SB1688 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to student retention.
J. Adam Lowe
Last updated 6 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As enacted, authorizes a parent or guardian of a student enrolled in grades K-2 to elect to retain the parent's or guardian's student in the student's current grade level if the student has a documented academic or behavioral delay and the parent or guardian believes that retention may benefit the student. - Amends TCA Title 49.
STATUS
Passed
SJR0533 - A RESOLUTION to commemorate Women Veterans Appreciation Day, June 12, 2023.
Becky Duncan Massey, Raumesh A. Akbari, Janince Bowling
Last updated over 1 year ago
33 Co-Sponsors
Women Veterans Appreciation Day
STATUS
Passed
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