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| Bill | Title | Status | Momentum | Last action | Docs |
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| HB 1374 | Tickets, Admission - As introduced, prohibits a third-party reseller from selling or offering for sale a speculative ticket; requires the division of consumer affairs in the attorney general's office to enforce the prohibition and assess a penalty of $5,000 per violation. - Amends TCA Title 47. | In Committee | 28 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 1313 | Employees, Employers - As introduced, changes the maximum penalty amount from $7,000 for each violation by an employer of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1972, and from $70,000 for each willful and repeated violation of the act, to the maximum penalty allowed by the federal occupational safety and health administration. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 3, Part 4. | In Committee | 28 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 1294 | Correction, Dept. of - As introduced, prohibits the department from denying the dissemination or availability of books and materials donated by book vendors to state inmates, with certain exceptions for depictions of nudity and sexually explicit material. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 40 and Title 41. | In Committee | 28 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 1223 | Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) to conduct an evaluation examining the frequency at which health insurers deny healthcare claims or reimbursements for policyholders and healthcare providers and an evaluation of related data for the past five calendar years; requires TACIR to report its findings to the appropriate standing committees of the general assembly by January 15, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 10 and Title 56. | In Committee | 28 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 1234 | Local Education Agencies - As introduced, excludes materials obtained by an individual teacher that are made available in the teacher's classroom to students assigned to the teacher's class from having to be identified in a list of library collection materials posted on the school's website; requires each local board of education and public charter school governing body to adopt a policy for developing and reviewing classroom libraries. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6. | In Committee | 28 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 1277 | Local Education Agencies - As introduced, authorizes recall elections in all counties for members of local boards of education. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 49, Chapter 2. | In Committee | 28 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 1298 | Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, enacts the "Speak UP, Tennessee Scholarship Act"; requires the Tennessee student assistance corporation to establish by rules a program that provides scholarships for students in grade 12 and at public institutions of higher education in this state who demonstrate artistic excellence in spoken word poetry through a competitive, performance-based selection process to pursue higher education to further develop their literary and performance skills. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4 and Title 49, Chapter 7. | In Committee | 28 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 1167 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, requires the dissolution and reconstitution, upon appointments by the governor, of the board of directors of any hospital that is part of a certificate of public advantage. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68. | In Committee | 28 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 999 | Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, removes an obsolete requirement for the commissioner to conduct a study of this state's insurance laws to determine what impediments, if any, exist under the laws or policies that may be deterrents for insurance companies in this state to underwrite policies of insurance to insure a person who has used force that is justified, including deadly force, in protecting such person's self or property, and to report the results of the study to the general assembly no later than March 1, 2012. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 387 | Public Officials - As introduced, 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 2. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 1158 | General Assembly - As introduced, entitles a member of the general assembly to expense and mileage allowances for a Saturday or Sunday during a regular or special session if the member is arriving on such day to attend, or in anticipation of attending, a meeting germane to the business of the general assembly for the regular or special session. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 1. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 1217 | Correction, Dept. of - As introduced, adds the availability of services relating to housing as an issue that must be addressed in the orientation that the department is required to conduct before an inmate is released from confinement. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 491 | Criminal Procedure - As introduced, specifies that for purposes of carrying out a sentence of death, lethal injection protocol may include the use of pharmaceutical fentanyl. - Amends TCA Title 40. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 917 | Tickets, Admission - As introduced, prohibits a third-party reseller from selling or offering for sale a speculative ticket; requires the division of consumer affairs in the attorney general's office to enforce the prohibition and assess a penalty of $5,000 per violation. - Amends TCA Title 47. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 413 | Zoning - As introduced, prescribes a process by which a local zoning authority may notify a state department, agency, or officer of a local zoning violation by a business resulting in the revocation or suspension of a license, permit, or certificate of a business in violation of a local zoning ordinance, resolution, or law; prescribes the process for reinstatement or appeal, including the assessment of a reinstatement fee. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13, Chapter 7; Title 62 and Title 68. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 1094 | Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, enacts the "Suicide Prevention Act of 2025," requiring the Tennessee bureau of investigation to establish a program in which a person may enroll to voluntarily waive the right to purchase firearms. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 1200 | Veterans Services, Dept. of - As introduced, allocates 1 percent of the revenue from sports gaming in this state to the department to be used to support veterans services in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49; Title 58; Title 68 and Title 71. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 355 | State Government - As introduced, requires the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations to file its biennial report of its recommendations and findings with respect to intergovernmental relations with the governor. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 41; Title 52; Title 57 and Title 58. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 1337 | Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, requires the annual written report submitted to legislative committees with subject matter jurisdiction over criminal matters regarding activities of narcotics investigations by the bureau and the assistant director of the narcotics investigation division be submitted by March 1 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 27; Title 29; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 53, Chapter 11 and Title 55. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 1136 | Safety, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to provide a person with a free photo identification license at each location where the department issues a driver license or photo identification license if the person signs an affidavit stating that the person does not have a valid government issued photo identification. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 8 and Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |