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| Bill | Title | Status | Momentum | Last action | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HJR 77 | Memorials, Recognition - TVA-affiliated distributors - | Passed First Chamber | 53 | Feb 10, 2025 | 1 |
| HJR 61 | General Assembly, Recess & Reconvene - Recesses 2025 regular session of 114th General Assembly on January 27, 2025, and reconvenes on February 3, 2025. - | Passed First Chamber | 52 | Feb 10, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 428 | TennCare - As introduced, requires TennCare to provide eligible covered enrollees with continuous glucose monitoring; establishes criteria for eligibility. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 71. | In Committee | 29 | Feb 10, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 714 | Taxes, Sales - As introduced, requires the commissioner of revenue to establish a sales tax remittance schedule that allows dealers making sales to reasonably offset the burden of transaction fees associated with the collection of sales tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6. | In Committee | 28 | Feb 10, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 677 | 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 | 28 | Feb 10, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 814 | Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, authorizes a county legislative body to elect not to permit persons within the county to lawfully carry a handgun without a handgun carry permit by passage of a resolution; requires a county that has passed such a resolution to provide notice to persons present within the county by posting notice of the resolution in conspicuous public locations throughout the county. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13. | In Committee | 28 | Feb 10, 2025 | 2 |
| HB 617 | Education - As introduced, designates October as "Fentanyl Poisoning Awareness Month" in all public schools; requires local education agencies and public charter schools to provide age-appropriate, research-based instruction related to fentanyl abuse prevention and drug poisoning awareness to students in grades six through 12. - Amends TCA Title 15 and Title 49. | In Committee | 28 | Feb 10, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 828 | Health, Dept. of - As introduced, directs the commissioner to conduct a study on creating new or streamlining existing pathways to careers as primary care providers in this state for individuals who have medical training as noncommissioned officers in the armed forces of the United States; requires the commissioner to conduct the study using existing department resources; requires the commissioner to deliver findings and recommendations from the study to the chief clerk of the senate, chief clerk of the house of representatives, and the legislative librarian no later than December 31, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68. | In Committee | 28 | Feb 10, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 707 | Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows a third grade student who achieves a performance level rating of "approaching" on the English language arts portion of the student's most recent Tennessee comprehensive assessment program test, and who has earned an overall letter grade of A or B in the student's third grade ELA class, to be promoted to fourth grade if promotion is recommended by a majority of the categories of participants in a conference convened by the student's LEA or public charter school; requires a student promoted to fourth grade through such process to receive tutoring services for the entirety of the student's fourth grade year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6. | In Committee | 28 | Feb 10, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 720 | Sentencing - As introduced, reduces the percentage of sentence that a person convicted of first degree murder on or after July 1, 1995, and sentenced to life imprisonment is required to serve before becoming eligible for release from 100 percent of 60 years less sentence credits earned and retained to 60 percent of 60 years less sentence credits earned and retained; prohibits a defendant becoming eligible for parole before serving 25 years of the sentence, if the defendant was 25 years of age or younger at the time of the offense, or 30 years of the sentence, if the defendant was 26 years of age or older at the time of the offense. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 2 and Title 40. | In Committee | 28 | Feb 10, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 827 | Employees, Employers - As introduced, requires an employer that terminates the employment of an employee who the employer knows to be pregnant and who is covered under an employer-sponsored health benefit plan to continue to provide coverage under the plan until the employee’s pregnancy ends. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27; Title 50; Title 56 and Title 71. | In Committee | 28 | Feb 10, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 872 | Health Care - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Medical Cannabis Act," which establishes a medical cannabis program to be administered by the Tennessee medical cannabis program commission. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38, Chapter 3; Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 43; Title 50; Title 53; Title 63; Title 67 and Title 68. | In Committee | 28 | Feb 10, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 812 | 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 | 28 | Feb 10, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 937 | Election Laws - As introduced, establishes automatic restoration of voting rights for people who complete their sentence, including any parole or probationary period. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 40 and Title 41. | In Committee | 28 | Feb 10, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 879 | Business and Commerce - As introduced, prohibits an individual without a valid transportation network license from accepting or transporting a prearranged ride originating in this state; requires the department of commerce and insurance to issue transportation network licenses to eligible individuals; limits the issuance of transportation network licenses to residents of this state and residents of certain out-of-state counties adjacent to this state. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 65, Chapter 15, Part 3. | In Committee | 28 | Feb 10, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 697 | Education - As introduced, authorizes virtual schools to administer TCAP tests to their students in a virtual setting if certain requirements are met. - Amends TCA Title 49. | In Committee | 28 | Feb 10, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 680 | Employees, Employers - As introduced, prohibits an agricultural employer from retaliating against an agricultural employee who asserts a protected right or based on the agricultural employee's immigration status; creates related protections and penalties related to agricultural employees. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 43; Title 50 and Title 68. | In Committee | 28 | Feb 10, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 838 | 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 | 28 | Feb 10, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 643 | Dentists and Dentistry - As introduced, requires the commissioner of health to create programs designed to enhance access to dental services in rural and underserved areas subject to the approval of the commissioner of finance and administration. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 5 and Title 68. | In Committee | 28 | Feb 10, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 881 | Water Pollution - As introduced, removes requirement that installers of subsurface sewage disposal systems pay a renewal fee as a condition to renewing a septic system installer license; maintains initial permit and fee requirement for such installers. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 221. | In Committee | 28 | Feb 10, 2025 | 1 |