Tennessee Senate
Brent Taylor
Republican. Senate, district 31.
Emailsen.brent.taylor@capitol.tn.gov
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officialBills they sponsored
125 bills sponsored this session
changes from April 1 to April 30, the date by which a county legislative body must submit to the judges of the general sessions criminal court of the county and the chairs of the legislative committees having jurisdictioSB 2429 · this session · introduced Feb 3, 2026
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary CommitteeFirefighters - As enacted, extends the period for the estate of an emergency responder killed in the line of duty from three years from the date of death to the later of such date or the date of a final order of a court,SB 2212 · this session · introduced Feb 3, 2026
Signed by Governor.requires the state to elect to participate in the federal tax credit established under federal law for individuals who make qualified contributions to scholarship granting organizations. - Amends TCA Title 49SB 2195 · this session · introduced Feb 3, 2026
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committeerequires the governor to approve all eligible workforce training programs for the purposes of federal workforce Pell grants and coordinate approval of eligible workforce training programs with other state and federal worSB 2193 · this session · introduced Feb 3, 2026
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026Public Utility Commission - As enacted, requires, for an electric utility providing services outside the corporate limits of the home municipality, expansion of the utility board to provide representation on the board foSB 2102 · this session · introduced Feb 3, 2026
Signed by Governor.authorizes the commission to electronically provide to the general assembly its annual report of all matters relating to the commissioner's office for the preceding year, including practical workings of companies under iSB 2059 · this session · introduced Feb 3, 2026
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committeeadds to the list of certain offenses required to be served at 100 percent of the sentence imposed by the court undiminished by any sentence reduction credits, the attempt, conspiracy, or solicitation to commit those offeSB 1929 · this session · introduced Feb 3, 2026
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026authorizes an owner or person in legal possession of drugs or devices deemed adulterated to request a show cause hearing electronically, rather than strictly in writing. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 53; Title 56; Title 6SB 2437 · this session · introduced Feb 2, 2026
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor CommitteeLaw Enforcement - As enacted, establishes a Tennessee safe initiative task force, which is administratively attached to the Tennessee bureau of investigation. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 38 and Title 39. Companion bill hSB 2405 · this session · introduced Feb 2, 2026
Sponsor(s) Added.Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes various changes relative to the offense of organized retail crime. - Amends TCA Title 18; Title 38, Chapter 6, Part 1 and Title 39. SB2265 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 112SB 2265 · this session · introduced Feb 2, 2026
Signed by Governor.School Transportation - As enacted, requires a local education agency that installs cameras on the exterior of school buses for the purpose of recording images of motor vehicles that fail to stop upon approaching a schooSB 2258 · this session · introduced Feb 2, 2026
Sponsor(s) Added.Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, requires the bureau of TennCare to biannually publish two comprehensive statewide data reports on the use of psychotropic medications and the psychotropic medications' associated costs wSB 2255 · this session · introduced Feb 2, 2026
Signed by Governor.Public Utilities - As enacted, requires a utility to provide material that is required for construction of utility infrastructure for the customer's or approved contractor's use at the same price as the utility paid for SB 2213 · this session · introduced Feb 2, 2026
Signed by Governor.authorizes the attorney general to establish a do not call registry; places certain restrictions upon telephone solicitations and robocallers; authorizes the attorney general to enforce restrictions and sets monetary amoSB 2209 · this session · introduced Feb 2, 2026
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committeerequires that a reduction of the allocations and distributions of certain tax and other revenues to counties and municipalities due to a population loss based on the revised populations certified by the department of ecoSB 2200 · this session · introduced Feb 2, 2026
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Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, authorizes a political subdivision to enter into a cost-sharing agreement with a developer for the development of certain public infrastructure. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; TSB 2191 · this session · introduced Feb 2, 2026
Companion House Bill substitutedBusiness and Commerce - As enacted, revises law relative to commercial litigation financiers and litigation financing contracts. - Amends TCA Title 47. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 1005 by the SSB 2101 · this session · introduced Feb 2, 2026
Sponsor(s) Added.Sewage - As enacted, clarifies that a utility system providing waste water service must provide a connection if certain criteria is met. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 35; Title 7, Chapter 82 and Title 68, Chapter 221. SBSB 2057 · this session · introduced Feb 2, 2026
Signed by Governor.requires healthcare provider regulatory authorities to report quarterly to the department of health the number and type of disciplinary actions taken against a healthcare provider for knowingly performing or offering to SB 2045 · this session · introduced Feb 2, 2026
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Health and Welfare Committeeadds "a victim" to the definition of an individual involved in the judicial process for purposes of the criminal offense of harming or threatening to harm an individual involved in the judicial process; makes various othSB 1928 · this session · introduced Feb 2, 2026
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026increases, from 24 hours to 48 hours, the time that a state bank has to report to the commissioner of financial institutions any change in chief executive officers. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title SB 2134 · this session · introduced Jan 23, 2026
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committeecreates the criminal offense of intentionally communicating a threat of harm to a public official or a member of the public official's immediate family; punishes a violation as a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 39SB 2127 · this session · introduced Jan 23, 2026
Withdrawn.increases, from fewer than 90 days to fewer than 95 days, the time that a firework exhibitor licensee has after expiration of the exhibitor's license to renew the license and have it retroactive to the date the old licenSB 2104 · this session · introduced Jan 22, 2026
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committeedeletes an obsolete provision staggering the effective date of the prohibition on printing more than five digits of a credit or debit card number or the expiration date on the receipt retained by the merchant or the receSB 2103 · this session · introduced Jan 22, 2026
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committeeenacts the "Supporting Troopers though Advanced Retirement (STAR) Act"; authorizes current state troopers to elect to participate in an alternative defined benefit retirement plan that offers enhanced benefits; authorizeSB 2058 · this session · introduced Jan 22, 2026
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committeecreates an additional criminal court in the thirtieth judicial district to be designated as part IX; requires the governor to appoint a criminal court judge to serve until the person's successor is elected at the August SB 2056 · this session · introduced Jan 22, 2026
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committeedirects the department to conduct a study on health concerns of, and identifying obstacles for receiving better care for, persons whose biological sex is female; requires the department to submit a report to the members SB 2044 · this session · introduced Jan 22, 2026
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committeeprohibits the county legislative body of a county with a charter form of government from adopting a budget that reduces the budget for the sheriff below the budgeted amount for the previous fiscal year unless the reductiSB 2043 · this session · introduced Jan 22, 2026
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committeeauthorizes the commissioner of revenue to issue a certificate of exemption to a taxpayer who qualifies for the sales and use tax exemption on qualified building materials used in the construction, expansion, or renovatioSB 2042 · this session · introduced Jan 22, 2026
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026Real Property - As enacted, requires a description of real property contained within a deed of conveyance of a property not previously described in a recorded instrument to be prepared by a registered land surveyor, or bSB 1985 · this session · introduced Jan 22, 2026
Sponsor(s) Added.requires TACIR to study and prepare a report on pay equity for assistant district attorneys general in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 8, Chapter 7SB 1984 · this session · introduced Jan 22, 2026
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, revises standards for the length of the redemption period for a property subject to a tax sale based on whether the period of delinquency is three years or less or is more than three yeSB 1983 · this session · introduced Jan 22, 2026
Signed by Governor.states that there is a rebuttable presumption that a defendant convicted of aggravated assault is not a favorable candidate for probation if the offense involved the use or display of a firearm during the commission of tSB 1982 · this session · introduced Jan 22, 2026
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026adds certain definitions concerning precious metals; makes precious metal coins legal tender; prohibits a person from compelling another to accept precious metal coins as legal tender. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 1SB 1827 · this session · introduced Jan 22, 2026
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026prohibits a person from qualifying as a candidate in a primary election for federal office who holds dual citizenship or is not a natural-born citizen of the United States. - Amends TCA Title 2SB 1825 · this session · introduced Jan 22, 2026
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committeeprohibits a city or county collecting official from requiring a taxpayer to pay the full tax due for an assessment for which an appeal is pending before the county or state boards of equalization. - Amends TCA Title 67, SB 1706 · this session · introduced Jan 22, 2026
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government CommitteeImmigration - As enacted, requires a memorandum of understanding entered between certain law enforcement agencies and federal officials concerning enforcement of federal immigration laws to include a requirement that theSB 1486 · this session · introduced Jan 22, 2026
Sponsor(s) Added.Courts, Municipal - As enacted, prohibits a municipality from remediating a property maintenance violation if the cost may negatively impact the municipality's financial position, or if the cost is budgetarily prohibitivSB 1473 · this session · introduced Jan 22, 2026
Signed by Governor.Computers and Electronic Processing - As enacted, generally prohibits a municipality or electric utility to pay or absorb the cost of electrical infrastructure incurred to serve a data center; makes related changes. - AmSB 2128 · this session · introduced Jan 21, 2026
Sponsor(s) Added.Criminal Offenses - As enacted, requires a person convicted of second degree murder by knowingly killing another to be sentenced as no lower than a Range II offender. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-210 and Title 40. CompanioSB 1930 · this session · introduced Jan 21, 2026
Sponsor(s) Added.urges the department of revenue to study the amount of revenue derived during the previous five fiscal years from the sales tax imposed on retail sales of non-prepared food, and from the general sales tax imposed on retaSB 2135 · this session · introduced Jan 20, 2026
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026requires a written notice of the intended seizure of personal property given by the county trustee, deputy trustee, or delinquent tax attorney that is mailed to the taxpayer's last known address be provided by certified,SB 2129 · this session · introduced Jan 20, 2026
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committeerequires the comptroller of the treasury to submit a report, on or before December 31, 2026, to the governor, the speaker of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, the chair of the state and local goverSB 2126 · this session · introduced Jan 20, 2026
Failed in Senate Commerce and Labor Committee (no second)Open Meetings - As enacted, authorizes emergency communications district boards of directors to participate in board meetings electronically under the open meetings law. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 86, Part 3 and TitleSB 1826 · this session · introduced Jan 20, 2026
Signed by Governor.requires that a deed of conveyance of real property be prepared by an attorney licensed to practice in this state, a title insurance agent licensed in this state, the owner of the real property being transferred, or a peSB 1707 · this session · introduced Jan 20, 2026
Sponsor(s) Added.authorizes the seizure and impoundment of a motor vehicle used in drag racing, based on probable cause, for a maximum of 72 hours; authorizes owner of motor vehicle to contest seizure in administrative or judicial hearinSB 1913 · this session · introduced Jan 15, 2026
Sponsor(s) Added.Motor Vehicles - As enacted, adds certain language comprehension requirements for certain driver licenses; requires documentation as a U.S. citizen or lawfully permitted in the U.S. for certain vehicle registrations; reqSB 1889 · this session · introduced Jan 15, 2026
Sponsor(s) Added.enacts the "Tennessee Civics Education Act," which requires persons seeking the first issuance of a practitioner teacher license or practitioner occupational teacher license to achieve a passing score on a United States SB 1709 · this session · introduced Jan 14, 2026
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026creates a cause of action through which a victim can recover from a person, other than a professional bondsman or person with a bailable interest, who posts bail for a defendant and the defendant is subsequently convicteSB 1484 · this session · introduced Jan 8, 2026
Withdrawn.Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts "The Memphis Safe Task Force Accountability Act." - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 7 and Title 39. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 943 by the Secretary of StateSB 1467 · this session · introduced Jan 8, 2026
Sponsor(s) Added.clarifies that the name and address required pursuant to the receipt of a deed of conveyance of real property may be used as the basis for obtaining service of process upon either party as an agent thereof, for failure tSB 1485 · this session · introduced Dec 16, 2025
Withdrawn.requires each county to create a county ethics commission. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 6 and Title 5SB 2257 · this session · introduced Nov 24, 2025
Recommended for passage with amendment/s, refer to Senate Calendar Committee Ayes 6, Nays 2 PNV 0Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, makes various changes related to entities seeking to secure the release of a defendant. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 941 by theSB 1708 · this session · introduced Nov 10, 2025
Sponsor(s) Added.requires, instead of allows, a city or county collecting official to accept the disputed portion of property tax under appeal if the taxpayer pays the full tax due before the delinquency date. - Amends TCA Title 67, ChapSB 1472 · this session · introduced Nov 4, 2025
Withdrawn.restates the criminal offense of drag racing as street drag racing; expands the offense to include acts committed on commercial property; authorizes a vehicle used in the commission of the offense or to flee after commisSB 1474 · this session · introduced Oct 28, 2025
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026authorizes recall elections for elected members of a local legislative body, city and county mayors, sheriffs, trustees, registers, clerks, assessors of property, and members of a school board. - Amends TCA Title 2; TitlSB 1466 · this session · introduced Oct 21, 2025
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committeecreates a law enforcement officer recruitment fund and grant program administered by the department for the purpose of assisting eligible law enforcement agencies in officer recruitment. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; TiSB 1476 · this session · introduced Sep 16, 2025
Withdrawn.increases the penalty for aggravated cruelty to animals from a Class E felony to a Class D felony; adds aggravated cruelty to animals as an offense for which a juvenile may be classified as a serious youthful offender. -SB 1475 · this session · introduced Sep 16, 2025
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026Germantown - Subject to local approval, makes the office of mayor a full-time position, with the salary of the office to be set by ordinance. - Amends Chapter 87 of the Private Acts of 1985. Companion bill has been assigSB 1439 · this session · introduced Feb 26, 2025
Companion House Bill substitutedincreases, from 30 days to 30 business days, the amount of time before the start of a fiscal year that a joint board composed of public agencies overseeing a county or municipal airport has to submit its total expenditurSB 1341 · this session · introduced Feb 6, 2025
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Transportation and Safety CommitteeLocal Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes a local legislative body for a county that has adopted a charter form of government to require elections for the county board of education to be held at the same time andSB 1336 · this session · introduced Feb 6, 2025
Sponsor(s) Added.Courts - As enacted, enacts the "Violent Criminal Court Act." - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 10; Title 16; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 55. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter NumbeSB 846 · this session · introduced Feb 6, 2025
Sponsor(s) Added.Infectious Diseases - As enacted, deletes all references to the world health organization; requires a pandemic to be declared by the federal centers for disease and prevention control, rather than the world health organiSB 669 · this session · introduced Feb 6, 2025
Signed by Governor.Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, redefines "local government" to include a water, wastewater, or energy authority for purposes of the present law applicable to bonds and notes issued by local governments; makes oSB 191 · this session · introduced Feb 6, 2025
Signed by Governor.extends the time within which each district attorney general must submit a funding report to the district attorneys general conference from 90 days after the end of the fiscal year to 120 days after the end of the fiscalSB 854 · this session · introduced Feb 5, 2025
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committeeenacts the "Tennessee Healthcare Quality and Access Act of 2025." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 34; Title 42; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68; Title 71 and Chapter 985 of the Public Acts of 2024SB 853 · this session · introduced Feb 5, 2025
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committeeincreases, from 30 to 45, the number of days a sheriff has to provide the department of safety with any information that is within the knowledge of the sheriff concerning an applicant's truthfulness on an application forSB 222 · this session · introduced Feb 5, 2025
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026specifies that a person using force intended or likely to cause death or serious bodily injury from within the person's residence or dwelling is presumed to have acted in self-defense when that force is used against an iSB 859 · this session · introduced Feb 4, 2025
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committeerequires the attorney general to annually report by January 15 of each year to the governor, speaker of the senate, and speaker of the house of representatives the number of injunctions brought against persons who commitSB 858 · this session · introduced Feb 4, 2025
Recommended for passage, refer to Senate Calendar CommitteeHousing - As enacted, authorizes any county having made loans in excess of the amount of funds in the initial capitalization of the loan fund pool for the county to terminate its participation in the homebuyers' revolvinSB 857 · this session · introduced Feb 4, 2025
Signed by Governor.Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, allows a magistrate to consider hearsay evidence when determining whether a defendant should be released on bail pending trial and the amount of bail necessary to reasonably assure the appeSB 856 · this session · introduced Feb 4, 2025
Signed by Governor.Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, establishes a process for a municipality that operates a sewerage system outside of its corporate boundaries and has imposed a moratorium on new sewer connections outside of itsSB 855 · this session · introduced Feb 4, 2025
Signed by Governor.Courts, Juvenile - As enacted, requires a juvenile court conducting a child custody, detention, or adjudicatory proceeding to conduct the proceeding in a dedicated courtroom provided by the county that is closest in proxSB 718 · this session · introduced Feb 4, 2025
Signed by Governor.Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, clarifies that prior to the acquisition of assets of a natural gas utility regulated by the Tennessee public utility commission by a new owner or any other change in control of SB 717 · this session · introduced Feb 4, 2025
Signed by Governor.extends from January 15 to March 1, the date by which the commissioner of health, in consultation with the department of finance and administration and any other state agency involved in the administration of the safety SB 716 · this session · introduced Feb 4, 2025
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Health and Welfare CommitteeEmployees, Employers - As enacted, clarifies that the general assembly preempts and occupies the entire field of regulating the terms and conditions of employment; prohibits local governments from adopting or enforcing aSB 674 · this session · introduced Feb 4, 2025
Signed by Governor.Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, allows a charitable organization that provides housing to a person whom the charitable organization knows is unlawfully present in the United States to be held liable for a loss, dSB 227 · this session · introduced Feb 4, 2025
Signed by Governor.adds William R. Moore College of Technology as an eligible institution for receipt of the Wilder-Naifeh reconnect grant and Wilder-Naifeh technical skills grant; specifies that the amount of the scholarship for such studSB 719 · this session · introduced Feb 3, 2025
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026Cemeteries - As enacted, changes the way that the fair market value of an improvement care trust fund is calculated for certain purposes; clarifies that the fee that a cemetery company charges for the memorial care of a SB 715 · this session · introduced Feb 3, 2025
Signed by Governor.Education - As enacted, requires an educational oversight board tobe created for an LEA that meets certain criteria and is established to annually conduct a comprehensive needs assessment of the LEA to determine the factSB 714 · this session · introduced Feb 3, 2025
Signed by Governor.Education - As enacted, requires each public senior high school to provide official recruiting representatives of the armed forces of this state and the United States access to the high school at least once a month durinSB 713 · this session · introduced Feb 3, 2025
Signed by Governor.Comptroller, State - As enacted, prohibits an LEA or public charter school from using public funds to initiate or maintain any civil action or proceeding against this state or an agency or officer of this state to challeSB 712 · this session · introduced Feb 3, 2025
Signed by Governor.Health Care - As enacted, revises law relative to gender clinics and related services. - Amends TCA Title 1; Title 4; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter NSB 676 · this session · introduced Feb 3, 2025
Sponsor(s) Added.enacts the "Comprehensive Assault Crime Intervention Act." - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40SB 673 · this session · introduced Feb 3, 2025
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026increases the penalty for obstruction of a highway, street, sidewalk, railway, waterway, elevator, aisle, hallway, or other place used for the passage of persons or vehicles from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felonySB 672 · this session · introduced Feb 3, 2025
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Finance, Ways & Means Committeerequires the attorney general and reporter, at the request of a member of the general assembly, to investigate an ordinance, regulation, order, or other official action adopted or taken by the chief executive officer or SB 675 · this session · introduced Jan 31, 2025
Withdrawn.requires the department to submit an annual report regarding the number of applications filed pursuant to the Water Quality Control Act; requires the department to include information on the mechanism of compensatory mitSB 665 · this session · introduced Jan 30, 2025
Withdrawn.Water Pollution - As enacted, expands from wetlands to all areas that an aquatic resource alteration permit may apply to the areas for which the department of environment and conservation is required to exempt from compeSB 664 · this session · introduced Jan 30, 2025
Sponsor(s) Added.Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, makes revisions to present law relative to utilities. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 13, Chapter 7; Title 65 and Title 68. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 49SB 1139 · this session · introduced Jan 29, 2025
Sponsor(s) Added.Sewage - As enacted, prohibits a municipal sewer system or utility district that has operated a sewerage system outside of the corporate boundaries of the city or town for 25 years or more from ceasing operation of the sSB 1138 · this session · introduced Jan 29, 2025
Signed by Governor.Criminal Offenses - As enacted, increases from a Class E felony to a Class D felony the offense of burglary of a conveyance. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 930 SB 671 · this session · introduced Jan 29, 2025
Sponsor(s) Added.Water Pollution - As enacted, requires the division of water resources in the department of environment and conservation, in collaboration with U.S. army corps of engineers, as necessary, to annually report information cSB 670 · this session · introduced Jan 29, 2025
Signed by Governor.increases the time a person may be absent from work to vote, from three hours to four hours. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 8SB 667 · this session · introduced Jan 29, 2025
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committeerequires the executive director of the health facilities commission to submit a report no later than July 1, rather than February 1, of each year to the governor, the chief clerk of the house of representatives, and the SB 666 · this session · introduced Jan 29, 2025
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committeeprohibits the registry of election finance from charging a member of the public more than the registry's actual costs when providing a copy of a report regarding a required disclosure statement filed with the registry. -SB 627 · this session · introduced Jan 29, 2025
Recommended for passage with amendment/s, refer to Senate Calendar Committee Ayes 6, Nays 2 PNV 0enacts the "Early Behavioral Intervention and Reporting Act"; clarifies that public charter schools are required to have a threat assessment team in the same manner as required of local education agencies. - Amends TCA TSB 386 · this session · introduced Jan 29, 2025
Failed in Senate Education CommitteeMotor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, enacts the "Law Enforcement’s Safer Tennessee Electronic Registration (LESTER) Act," which clarifies that law enforcement is required to accept a digital copy of vehSB 228 · this session · introduced Jan 29, 2025
Signed by Governor.creates the commercial development board; with respect to new commercial property developed by private entities in certain taxing jurisdictions, authorizes the private entities to enter into agreements for payments in liSB 220 · this session · introduced Jan 29, 2025
Recommended for passage, refer to Senate State and Local Government CommitteeDistrict Attorneys - As enacted, authorizes the attorney general to conduct a study of a district attorney general's disposition of charges and other ancillary matters within the 30th judicial district; authorizes the atSB 443 · this session · introduced Jan 28, 2025
Sponsor(s) Added.requires the department, on a monthly basis, to analyze electronic benefit card data to identify food assistance recipients who have made purchases out of state for 90 consecutive days or more, send written notice to theSB 385 · this session · introduced Jan 28, 2025
Withdrawn.Taxes, Hotel Motel - As enacted, requires a hotel operator to remit the hotel tax to the municipality when a person has maintained occupancy for 30 continuous days and to cease collecting the tax from the person for the SB 384 · this session · introduced Jan 28, 2025
Signed by Governor.prohibits local governments from adopting or enforcing an ordinance, resolution, regulation, code, requirement, or policy that creates a program under which an individual is issued an unconditional cash payment on a reguSB 382 · this session · introduced Jan 28, 2025
Withdrawn.specifies that certain actions for declaratory judgments or injunctive relief regarding the legality or constitutionality of a governmental action must be brought in state court and that the privileges and immunities affSB 383 · this session · introduced Jan 27, 2025
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary CommitteeCriminal Offenses - As enacted, clarifies that a school employee does not commit the criminal offense of falsifying educational and academic documents for altering, creating, or duplicating the grade of a student in an eSB 273 · this session · introduced Jan 27, 2025
Signed by Governor.requires a court or magistrate to impose global positioning monitoring as a condition of release for a defendant accused of certain offenses, unless the court or magistrate enters written findings that the defendant doesSB 388 · this session · introduced Jan 24, 2025
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committeerequires county and city attorneys to consult with and advise elected county and city officials, the officials' deputies, and the officials' employees as to the proper application and enforcement of federal and state lawSB 351 · this session · introduced Jan 23, 2025
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates the offense of human smuggling; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 39. SB0392 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 424 by the Secretary of StateSB 392 · this session · introduced Jan 22, 2025
Signed by Governor.requires the offices of sheriff, register, county clerk, assessor of property, and trustee in a county that has adopted a charter form of government to independently develop the budget for such office and submit the budgSB 275 · this session · introduced Jan 22, 2025
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.County Government - As enacted, declares that the offices of sheriff, register, county clerk, assessor of property, and trustee are the constitutional officers of a county that has adopted a charter form of government; sSB 274 · this session · introduced Jan 22, 2025
Signed by Governor.requires a law enforcement agency to release calls for emergency assistance services at rental homes and apartment complexes to qualified nonprofit organizations for the purpose of distributing the calls to rental properSB 236 · this session · introduced Jan 22, 2025
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committeerequires the chief officer of an inpatient mental health treatment resource to notify the committing court if a patient who was involuntarily committed for mental health treatment becomes eligible for discharge; permits SB 241 · this session · introduced Jan 16, 2025
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary CommitteeCriminal Offenses - As enacted, expands the offense of organized retail crime to include certain acts, including knowingly using an online marketplace or social media platform to coordinate a meeting with one or more perSB 240 · this session · introduced Jan 16, 2025
Sponsor(s) Added.Transportation, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to develop and implement a policy regarding the removal of personal property used for camping from the shoulder, berm, or right-of-way of highways under its SB 217 · this session · introduced Jan 16, 2025
Signed by Governor.raises from $3,000 to $4,000, the maximum fine that a jury may impose for the offense of conveyance by general warranty deed with knowledge of existing liens. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 39; Title 62 and Title 66SB 216 · this session · introduced Jan 16, 2025
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committeecreates a Class C felony of reckless endangerment involving community terrorism, which is committed against a population within a geographic territory by members of a criminal gang or within 1,000 feet of a school or parSB 389 · this session · introduced Jan 15, 2025
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary CommitteeDeath - As enacted, removes the limitation that a death must have been anticipated for a registered nurse to make the actual determination and pronouncement of death if a deceased was a patient or resident at a nursing hSB 668 · this session · introduced Jan 14, 2025
Signed by Governor.authorizes local governments to adopt a process by which local elected officials may be removed from office in a recall election. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 8, Chapter 47 and Title 49, Chapter 2SB 387 · this session · introduced Jan 9, 2025
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government CommitteeBail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, specifies that venue for prosecution of the offense of knowingly violating a condition of release is generally the county in which the conduct constituting the violation of a condition of rSB 238 · this session · introduced Jan 8, 2025
Sponsor(s) Added.requires a juvenile 16 years of age or older accused of a delinquent act to be transferred from juvenile court to criminal court to be tried as an adult if the juvenile has a prior adjudication of delinquency for any offSB 237 · this session · introduced Jan 8, 2025
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary CommitteeAthletic Trainers - As enacted, authorizes athletic trainers to use dry needling to carry out the practice of prevention, recognition, evaluation, management, disposition, treatment, or rehabilitation of athletic injurieSB 224 · this session · introduced Jan 6, 2025
Sponsor(s) Added.General Assembly, Directed Studies - As enacted, requires TACIR to study the availability of housing and other treatment facilities for juvenile offenders who have been adjudicated delinquent and committed to the departmSB 239 · this session · introduced Dec 17, 2024
Signed by Governor.requires a juvenile court, upon finding a child has committed a third or subsequent delinquent act, to enter an order of restitution against the parent, legal custodian, or guardian who had custody of the child at the tiSB 219 · this session · introduced Dec 17, 2024
Failed in Senate Judiciary CommitteeChiropractors - As enacted, requires certain insurers to reimburse chiropractic physicians at the same rate as physicians for the same services. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7 and Title 63. Companion bill has been assiSB 225 · this session · introduced Dec 11, 2024
Sponsor(s) Added.Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, permits a court to use juvenile court records, including the disposition and evidence, in pretrial reports used to set bond for certain criminal offenses; requires the magistrate to consiSB 221 · this session · introduced Dec 11, 2024
Signed by Governor.Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, establishes a presumption that a defendant should not be released on the defendant’s personal recognizance if the defendant is charged with a felony offense that involved the use or displaySB 218 · this session · introduced Dec 11, 2024
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