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| Bill | Title | Status | Momentum | Last action | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HB 644 | Nurses, Nursing - As introduced, requires all hospitals licensed by the health facilities commission or by the department of mental health and substance abuse services to report annually to the department of health, on a form promulgated by the department, the number of advanced practice registered nurses who are working in the hospital for each month. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 33; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68. | In Committee | 30 | Mar 26, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 1058 | Livestock - As introduced, requires the commissioner of agriculture and the state veterinarian to receive prior approval from the joint government operations committee of the house of representatives and the senate to order vaccinations and tests for animals in this state; removes the requirement that an owner of a dead animal be liable for the sanitary disposition of the animal; clarifies indemnity procedures for a destroyed animal. - Amends TCA Title 44 and Title 58. | In Committee | 30 | Mar 26, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 409 | Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to make the standardized form for reporting student allergies to the school in which the student is enrolled publicly available on its website. - Amends TCA Title 49. | In Committee | 30 | Mar 26, 2025 | 2 |
| SB 270 | Education - As introduced, enacts the "Universal Pre-K Funding Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 51; Title 49 and Title 67. | In Committee | 30 | Mar 26, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 1348 | Education, Higher - As introduced, requires the commission to review and update the outcomes-based funding formula model at least once every five years to provide incentives for institutions that offer programs leading to job placement in high-demand fields in this state. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 49 and Title 62. | In Committee | 30 | Mar 26, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 386 | Education - As introduced, enacts 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 Title 16; Title 37 and Title 49. | In Committee | 30 | Mar 26, 2025 | 4 |
| SB 333 | Nurses, Nursing - As introduced, requires all hospitals licensed by the health facilities commission or by the department of mental health and substance abuse services to report annually to the department of health, on a form promulgated by the department, the number of advanced practice registered nurses who are working in the hospital for each month. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 33; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68. | In Committee | 30 | Mar 26, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 157 | Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to use student performance on career readiness assessments administered to high school seniors as part of the school grading system if the department uses student performance on postsecondary readiness assessments for such purpose; directs the department to only consider student performance on the assessment type for which the student achieved the highest score for school grading purposes, if the student was administered a postsecondary readiness assessment and a career readiness assessment. - Amends TCA Title 49. | In Committee | 30 | Mar 26, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 1397 | Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, requires the department to create and maintain an informational tool on the department's website that provides data related to the presence of facilities that are required to submit toxic release inventory data to the environmental protection agency. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 59; Title 60; Title 68 and Title 69. | In Committee | 30 | Mar 26, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 983 | Agriculture, Dept. of - As introduced, authorizes the commissioner to designate an existing organizational unit of the department as the office of rural prosperity and consolidate within that office some or all of the department's duties related to improving the well-being of rural communities in this state. - Amends TCA Section 1-3-105; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 13; Title 43; Title 44; Title 48; Title 49; Title 50; Title 61; Title 64; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 69. | In Committee | 30 | Mar 26, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 887 | Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to publish the Tennessee investment in student achievement formula guide on the department's website. - Amends TCA Title 49. | In Committee | 29 | Mar 26, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 1338 | Comptroller, State - As introduced, requires the office of research and education accountability in the office of the comptroller of the treasury to annually report information about the students participating in the education freedom scholarship program to the general assembly by October 30. - Amends Chapter __ of the Public Acts of 2025 (1st Ex. Sess. – SB 6001 / HB 6004); and TCA Title 49, Chapter 10, Part 14 and Title 49, Chapter 6. | In Committee | 29 | Mar 26, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 1340 | Education, Higher - As introduced, requires the commission to review and update the outcomes-based funding formula model at least once every five years to provide incentives for institutions that offer programs leading to job placement in high-demand fields in this state. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 49 and Title 62. | In Committee | 29 | Mar 26, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 295 | Education, Higher - As introduced, extends to the dependent children and spouses of veterans who sustained a permanent and total service-connected disability during a qualifying period of armed conflict the same waiver of all tuition and fees at public institutions of higher education being provided to the dependent children and spouses of veterans who were killed, died due to injuries received, or reported as prisoners of war or missing in action during a qualifying period of armed conflict. - Amends TCA Title 49. | In Committee | 29 | Mar 26, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 1327 | Education - As introduced, removes a provision that required the board of regents, the University of Tennessee, and the Tennessee Independent Colleges and Universities Association to provide a report by April 1, 2009, to the Tennessee higher education commission on the reasonable efforts their institutions have taken to attempt to deter infringement of copyrighted works over the school's computer and network resources. - Amends TCA Title 49. | In Committee | 29 | Mar 26, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 1378 | Education - As introduced, creates the division of early child care and education within the department of education. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49. | In Committee | 29 | Mar 26, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 1324 | Education, Higher - As introduced, changes the reporting requirements for the board of regents, each state university board, and the board of trustees of the University of Tennessee summarizing grievance activities of the previous year from annually to upon the request of the education committee of the senate or the committee of the house of representatives having jurisdiction over education. - Amends TCA Title 49. | In Committee | 29 | Mar 26, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 1249 | School Vouchers - As introduced, requires private schools that participate in the education savings account program or the individualized education account program to publish various items on the school's website; requires private schools that participate in either program to ensure educators hold a valid license to teach; requires students participating in either program to be administered various assessments. - Amends TCA Title 49. | In Committee | 29 | Mar 26, 2025 | 1 |
| HJR 122 | General Assembly, Directed Studies - Directs the Department of Health to conduct a comprehensive study to evaluate and make recommendations regarding anesthesia workforce and staffing across all facilities providing anesthesia services in Tennessee. - | In Committee | 29 | Mar 26, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 523 | Welfare - As introduced, requires the department of human services to develop and implement a five-year pilot program in which eligible households are awarded an annual supplemental income grant of $5,000 beginning in 2026. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 67, Chapter 4 and Title 71. | In Committee | 29 | Mar 26, 2025 | 1 |