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SB0533 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 8; Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 9 and Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 8, relative to sick leave banks.
Ferrell Haile, Rusty Crowe, J. Adam Lowe
Last updated over 1 year ago
13 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, authorizes the grant of sick leave from a sick leave bank to a state employee to care for a sick minor child of the employee. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 8; Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 9 and Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 8.
STATUS
Passed
SB0761 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 37; Title 39; Title 63 and Title 68, relative to reproductive health.
London P. Lamar, Raumesh A. Akbari, Heidi Campbell
Last updated over 1 year ago
5 Co-Sponsors
As introduced, deletes obsolete provision requiring the commissioner, in consultation with the perinatal advisory committee, to deliver a report to the health committee of the house of representatives and the health and welfare committee of the senate by January 15, 2018, concerning births involving neonatal abstinence syndrome and opioid use by women of childbearing age. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39; Title 63 and Title 68.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0501 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5, relative to victims of sexual offenses.
Bo Watson, Raumesh A. Akbari, Paul E. Bailey
Last updated over 1 year ago
33 Co-Sponsors
As introduced, specifies that certain sexual offenses committed against minor victims of a certain age apply based on the age of the victim at the time of the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB0813 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8, Chapter 14 and Title 8, Chapter 7, relative to compensation of certain public employees.
Todd Gardenhire, Ferrell Haile, Paul E. Bailey
Last updated over 1 year ago
19 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, increases the pay schedule for certain assistant district attorneys general, assistant district public defenders, district investigators, and criminal investigators. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14 and Title 8, Chapter 7.
STATUS
Passed
SB0750 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 49; Title 37, Chapter 5, Part 5; Title 49 and Title 71, Chapter 3, relative to early learning.
Becky Duncan Massey, Ferrell Haile, Charlane Oliver
Last updated over 1 year ago
10 Co-Sponsors
As introduced, requires the department to create and implement a promising futures program to provide scholarships to children who are not school age to assist them in developing early language and literacy skills in a high-quality early care and learning program; redirects, from the lottery for education account to an account administered by the department to provide funding for the promising futures scholarship program, a certain percentage of the privilege tax collected from sports wagering licensees for certain fiscal years. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 49; Title 37, Chapter 5, Part 5; Title 49 and Title 71, Chapter 3.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0959 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 5, Chapter 5 and Title 6, relative to governing bodies of local governments.
London P. Lamar
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, prohibits a person in Montgomery, Williamson, Rutherford, Hamilton, Knox, Davidson, or Shelby County from holding office as a county commissioner and as a city council member of a municipality located in whole or in part within such respective county or that shares a coterminous or contiguous boundary with such respective county. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 5 and Title 6.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0717 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 29 and Title 66, relative to landlord obligations.
Charlane Oliver, Heidi Campbell, Sara Kyle
Last updated over 1 year ago
5 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, requires a landlord to provide 60 days' notice of termination of tenancy for the purpose of eviction of a residential tenant of certain facilities for older persons if the tenant has paid the tenant's rent due and is not in arrears on rent payments, and the termination and eviction are to allow for new property development. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 66.
STATUS
Passed
SB0962 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 10; Title 7; Title 8; Title 65 and Title 68, Chapter 204, relative to energy.
London P. Lamar, Heidi Campbell
Last updated over 1 year ago
2 Co-Sponsors
As introduced, directs TACIR to study the reliability of the power grid on which this state relies for electricity, including assessing the grid's reliability in extreme weather scenarios, examining precautions taken by municipal utilities, electric cooperatives, and other similar entities to mitigate the potential impact of extreme weather scenarios, and determining whether municipal utilities, electric cooperatives, and other similar entities have the capability of doing an annual assessment of the grid's reliability in extreme weather scenarios. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 10; Title 7; Title 8; Title 65 and Title 68, Chapter 204.
STATUS
Introduced
SJR0180 - A RESOLUTION to honor and commend Woodcuts Gallery and Framing on the occasion of its thirty-fifth anniversary.
Rusty Crowe, Charlane Oliver, Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated over 1 year ago
32 Co-Sponsors
Woodcuts Gallery and Framing, 35th anniversary
STATUS
Passed
SJR0124 - A RESOLUTION to honor the memory of Tyre D. Nichols of Memphis.
London P. Lamar, Raumesh A. Akbari, Sara Kyle
Last updated over 1 year ago
33 Co-Sponsors
Tyre D. Nichols
STATUS
Passed
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Senator from Tennessee district SD-033
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London P. Lamar is the Secretary of State in Mississippi. He was elected in 2019. Previously he was a businessman and accountant. Lamar serves on several state boards and commissions including the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning and the Mississippi Home Corporation Board. He also serves on the Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission and the Mississippi Coordinating Council for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems.read less
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