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| Bill | Title | Status | Momentum | Last action | Docs |
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| SB 1402 | Historical Commission - As introduced, provides for the purchase of the James K. Polk Home in Columbia by the commission; authorizes the commission to contract with a nonprofit corporation for the improvement, maintenance, and operation of the property for the benefit of the citizens of this state and the general public. - Amends TCA Title 4. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 1222 | 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 | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 309 | Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As introduced, changes from March 1 to February 15 the date by which the executive director of the commission must file an annual report concerning rules promulgated during the prior year with the appropriate standing committees of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 57. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 628 | Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, requires the department of economic and community development to submit an annual report to certain legislative committees that includes the names of the municipalities involved in the creation of an authority in the prior calendar year, the amount of land acquired and improved, specific details about the financing of the project, and any other information the department deems relevant. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49 and Title 64. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 597 | Health Care - As introduced, requires, by January 15 of each year, the commissioner of health to annually report to legislative committees on the progress of its statewide strategy for the provision of adult emergency oral health care, utilizing public and private sector resources. - Amends TCA Title 68. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 1124 | Consumer Protection - As introduced, requires a company offering to sell or install a solar energy system to provide written proof that the utility serving the area where the system is to be installed has a net metering program or otherwise offers net metering credits to an owner or user of a system before the company enters into an agreement to sell or install the system; designates a violation as an unfair or deceptive act or practice pursuant to the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 13; Title 47; Title 65 and Title 66. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 806 | Remedies and Special Proceedings - As introduced, requires that the trial for an unlawful detainer action be held no later than 14 days from the date the plaintiff filed the unlawful detainer motion; limits the scope of a hearing for an unlawful detainer motion based on nonpayment of rent to facts and issues related to nonpayment of rent; makes other changes related to judicial proceedings for unlawful detainer. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 66. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 692 | Public Health - As introduced, requires the attorney general to report to the speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives certain information regarding violations of the prohibition against using medical procedures to enable a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor's sex or to treat purported discomfort or distress from discordance between the minor's sex and asserted identity. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 14; Title 28; Title 29; Title 33; Title 34; Title 36; Title 37; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 50; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 594 | Criminal Procedure - As introduced, restores the right of suffrage for persons convicted of an infamous crime after expiration of the sentence imposed for the infamous crime; removes requirement that the person pay restitution and court costs and be current in all child support obligations before having the person's right of suffrage restored; permits a person to have the right of suffrage restored without having the person's full rights of citizenship restored. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 40. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 1358 | State Employees - As introduced, increases, from three days to three months, the amount of paid leave provided to the officers and employees of the various agencies, boards, and departments of state government in the event of the death of such officers' or employees' children or stepchildren. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 423 | Employees, Employers - As introduced, increases, from two to three, the number of conspicuous places in which an employer is required to post and maintain notices setting forth the regular pay day established by the employer. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 39; Title 49; Title 50 and Title 62. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 976 | Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, urges the department of agriculture to study the effects of the sale and distribution of smokeless nicotine products and other alternative nicotine products to persons under 21; encourages the department to make recommendations to the legislature with regard to reducing such sales and distribution. - Amends TCA Title 1; Title 4; Title 39; Title 43; Title 47; Title 49; Title 62; Title 63; Title 67 and Title 68. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 562 | Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, regulates retail vapor product stores and makes various changes to provisions regarding youth access to tobacco, smoking hemp, and vapor products. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 15 and Title 43, Chapter 27, Part 2. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 1341 | Aircraft and Airports - As introduced, increases, 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 expenditures to be made to the governing bodies of its constituent public agencies. - Amends TCA Title 42. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 781 | Motor Vehicles - As introduced, increases, to the extent permissible under federal law, the maximum gross vehicle weight of a vehicle with an axle group of three axles that can be operated on the public highways of this state to 85,000 pounds. - Amends TCA Title 55. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 511 | Insurance, Liability - As introduced, requires the board of claims to review, consider, and approve insurance policies recommended by the board that are designed to pay liability claims against the state or its agencies and employees; defines "state agency" for purposes of such policies. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 9 and Title 56. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 360 | Zoning - As introduced, prohibits the construction of correctional facilities, hospitals, and nursing homes in areas designated as 100-year flood plains; applies to all applications for construction permits submitted on or after July 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 13. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 1397 | Lobbying, Lobbyists - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Foreign Adversary and Chinese Military Company Disclosure and Accountability Act." - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 6; Title 4; Title 39, Chapter 16, Part 5 and Title 58, Chapter 2. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 878 | Agriculture, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to make its annual reports regarding operation of the Tennessee Agricultural Museum and the museum's board available in a publicly accessible location on the department's website within one month from the date the governor approves the reports. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11; Title 43; Title 44; Title 53; Title 57; Title 62; Title 63; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68; Title 69 and Title 70. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 913 | State Universities - As introduced, expands the list of those who are prohibited from serving on a state university board to include those who hold the position of a member of a governing body for another institution of higher education, not just public institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |