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SB1095 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 10; Title 65; Title 67 and Title 68, relative to communications service.
Janince Bowling
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, specifies that the Tennessee public utility commission shall deem an applicant to have satisfied all requirements necessary for approval of a state-issued certificate of franchise authority if the applicant has provided fiber-to-the-premises to at least 1,000 customers for a period of at least one year prior to the application. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 10; Title 65; Title 67 and Title 68.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1096 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 54, Chapter 21, relative to outdoor advertising.
Janince Bowling
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, changes the definition of "visible" in the Outdoor Advertising Control Act of 2020 to "capable of being seen and comprehended without visual aid by a person traveling the posted speed limit on the main traveled way of the highway"; authorizes the commissioner of transportation to issue vegetation control permits to owners of outdoor advertising device permits to remove, block cut, or trim vegetation located on the right-of-way, without regard to whether it is adjacent to the device, if the vegetation prevents clear visibility for a certain distance to occupants of vehicles using the main traveled ways of the controlled systems. - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 21.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1289 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 62, Chapter 32, Part 3, relative to alarm systems.
Paul E. Bailey, Janince Bowling
Last updated over 1 year ago
2 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, generally prohibits a municipality or county from adopting or enforcing an ordinance, order, or regulation that requires a permit or fee for the installation or use of a battery-charged security fence that is in addition to an alarm system permit issued by the municipality or county; imposes installation or operational requirements for a battery-charged security fence that are inconsistent with current requirements in law for a battery-charged security fence in this bill; or prohibits the installation or use of a battery-charged security fence. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 32, Part 3.
STATUS
Passed
SB0976 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 55, relative to motorscooters.
Bill Powers, Janince Bowling, Paul Rose
Last updated over 1 year ago
3 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, replaces the term "motor-driven cycle" with "motorscooter" for various purposes related to the operation of such vehicles, including issuance of operator licenses, the rules of the road, and required safety and lighting equipment. - Amends TCA Title 55.
STATUS
Passed
SB1114 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 68, relative to anatomical gifts.
Janince Bowling
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, requires a procurement organization, or such organization's designee, that contacts an individual following the death of the decedent for purposes of allowing the individual to make an anatomical gift to explain to the individual that the individual can designate the decedent's whole body or a part; the process of making an anatomical gift and the condition the decedent's body will be in after the completion of the process; and that at the completion of the process, the decedent's body may be in a condition that necessitates cremation of the remains. - Amends TCA Title 68.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1177 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to education.
Art Swann, Becky Duncan Massey, Bill Powers
Last updated 6 months ago
17 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, requires, beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, each LEA and public charter school to have fifth grade students complete one semester of Tennessee history in the first semester of the students' fifth grade year. - Amends TCA Title 49.
STATUS
Passed
SB1093 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 33; Title 68 and Title 71, relative to certificates of need.
Janince Bowling
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, removes the requirement to obtain a certificate of need to establish or relocate certain healthcare facilities or initiate certain healthcare services, except for the initiation of services for a burn unit or organ transplantation. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 68 and Title 71.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0856 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 9; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 102, relative to firefighters.
Paul E. Bailey, Richard M. Briggs, Becky Duncan Massey
Last updated over 1 year ago
33 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, enacts the "James 'Dustin' Samples Act." - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 9; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 102.
STATUS
Passed
SB1090 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8; Title 14; Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1; Title 37; Title 49; Title 50 and Title 68, relative to immunizations.
Janince Bowling
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, prohibits the state or a political subdivision of the state from requiring an immunization unless exemptions are provided for persons who file signed, written statements affirming that the immunization conflicts with their religious tenets and practices; makes certain other changes related to immunizations. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 14; Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1; Title 37; Title 49; Title 50 and Title 68.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1281 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 55, Chapter 8, relative to school buses.
Brent Taylor, Becky Duncan Massey, Richard M. Briggs
Last updated over 1 year ago
6 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, revises present law provisions relative to cameras on school buses and failing to stop upon approaching a school bus that has stopped on the highway. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
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Senator from Tennessee district SD-016
COMMITTEES
Tennessee Senate
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Janince Bowling is from Big Stone Gap, Virginia. She received her undergraduate degree from Emory and Henry College. She went on to earn her Master of Public Administration from the University of Virginia. Bowling has served on the Virginia Coalfield Economic Development Authority and Virginia Tourism Authority boards.read less
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Tennessee Senate from Tennessee
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