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| Bill | Title | Status | Momentum | Last action | Docs |
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| SB 598 | Public Utilities - As introduced, extends from January 1 to February 1, the deadline for local governments that have adopted local legislation related to wind energy facility siting to submit an annual report. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 65 and Title 68. | 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 573 | Health Care - As introduced, requires LEAs and public charter schools to provide free feminine hygiene products in all women's and girl's bathrooms and locker rooms used by students in grades four through 12 in certain schools; requires a public health campaign dedicated to encouraging individuals and nonprofit organizations to contribute or drop off feminine hygiene products to eligible schools. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 63; Title 67 and Title 68. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 716 | Health Care - As introduced, 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 net program, must annually report to the general assembly on data relating to access to care and safety net adequacy related issues. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 791 | Civil Procedure - As introduced, specifies that an unauthorized alien does not have standing to commence or appear as a plaintiff in certain civil actions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 16; Title 20; Title 28 and Title 29. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 1320 | Education - As introduced, removes an obsolete provision requiring a report be provided by July 1, 2024, from the department of education, after working in partnership with the state board and the Tennessee higher education commission, to legislative committees regarding implementation of legislation concerning student literacy. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 49; Title 8 and Title 49. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 1319 | Safety, Dept. of - As introduced, requires, by February 1 of each year, the department to submit a report to the governor, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives that provides the number of individuals for whom a court enhanced their statutory penalty because either the conviction is for the commission of a violent crime and the defendant was an illegal alien or the conviction involved the use or display of a deadly weapon and the defendant was an illegal alien. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 55. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 618 | General Assembly - As introduced, requires the speakers of the senate and house of representatives to determine an equivalent number of legislative conferences, or number of legislative conference days, for which a member of the senate or house of representatives is entitled to attend for purposes of receiving expense and mileage allowances. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 1. | 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 1043 | Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - As introduced, designates the new swimming pool at Henry Horton State Park as the "Riley Gaines Aquatic Center." - | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 1220 | Employees, Employers - As introduced, enacts the "Workers' Right to Live Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 29 and Title 50. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 786 | Psychologists - As introduced, requires that test materials and test data from psychological or neuropsychological testing be kept secure to avoid compromising the validity of the testing; makes other changes related to security of psychological or neuropsychological test materials and test data. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 11. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 1100 | 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 | 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 828 | Health Care - As introduced, requires a person who collects blood donations for the purpose of providing blood for blood transfusions to require a blood donor to disclose if the donor has received a COVID-19 vaccination; permits a person in need of a blood transfusion in a nonemergent situation to request blood based on the blood donor's COVID-19 vaccination status. - Amends TCA Title 68. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 969 | Game and Fish Laws - As introduced, extends from January 1 to 15, the deadline by which the wildlife resources agency must submit to legislative committees with subject matter jurisdiction over natural resources a written report containing the estimated acreage managed by the agency that has been closed to recreational hunting and fishing during the previous fiscal year and the reasons for the closures; the estimated acreage managed by the agency that was opened to recreational hunting and fishing to compensate for the acreage that was so closed; and the estimated acreage of new public hunting and fishing lands added. - Amends TCA Title 70. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 1107 | Attorneys at Law - As introduced, specifies that an attorney who, while acting in the capacity of counsel for a client or an identifiable prospective client, engages in conduct that constitutes the offense of perjury, aggravated perjury, subornation of perjury, tampering with or fabricating evidence, destruction or tampering with governmental records, or coercion or persuasion of a witness is not immune from prosecution. - Amends TCA Title 23, Chapter 3; Title 27 and Title 39. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 1188 | Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, expands eligibility for a helping heroes grant to include veterans who have received any medal authorized by congress for the armed forces of the United States that is awarded for combat or heroism; allows eligible veterans to receive a helping heroes grant in pursuit of a certificate at an eligible postsecondary institution. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 307 | Local Government, General - As introduced, authorizes a local government having a population of 100,000 or more and having centralized purchasing with a full-time purchasing agent to use any project delivery method that the local government determines most effectively meets the needs of the local government for the construction of local projects or additions to existing buildings. - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 3, Part 12. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 1356 | TennCare - As introduced, directs the governor to seek a new TennCare waiver within 180 days of the effective date of this act to provide medical assistance coverage for individuals whose gross annual income is equal to or less than 138 percent of the federal poverty level; clarifies that the amendment takes effect upon federal approval. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5. | In Committee | 27 | Feb 12, 2025 | 1 |