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SR 171 Adopted 114
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Katie Kissell, Valedictorian, Halls High School -

Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
SR 170 Adopted 114
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Owen Pridmore, Valedictorian, Halls High School -

Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
SR 177 Adopted 114
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Anna Harchfield, Valedictorian, Tipton Christian Academy -

Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
SR 158 Adopted 114
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Lizzie Crowe, Salutatorian, Tipton Rosemark Academy -

Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
SR 172 Adopted 114
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Ashton Hardy, Valedictorian, Halls High School -

Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
SR 167 Adopted 114
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Haley Henderson, Valedictorian, Covington High School -

Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
SR 164 Adopted 114
Memorials, Academic Achievement - James Nguyen, Salutatorian, Arlington High School -

Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
SR 159 Adopted 114
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Olivia McCalla, Valedictorian, Tipton Rosemark Academy -

Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
SR 165 Adopted 114
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Anthony Tran, Valedictorian, Arlington High School -

Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
SR 162 Adopted 114
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Alexis Hale, Salutatorian, Munford High School -

Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
SJR 353 Adopted 114
Memorials, Personal Achievement - Dr. John Combs, 2025 Coordinated School Health Superintendent of the Year -

Apr 24, 2025: Signed by Governor.
SB 374 In committee 114
Children - As introduced, requires the department of children's services to study the need for a new juvenile detention facility to be constructed in the western grand division of this state that would serve the detention and treatment needs of juveniles in that grand division; requires the department to report its findings and recommendations to the judiciary committee of the senate and the committee having jurisdiction over criminal justice in the house of representatives on or before January 1, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 12; Title 16; Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.

Apr 21, 2025: Recommended for passage with amendment/s, refer to Senate Calendar Committee Ayes 9, Nays 1 PNV 1
SB 371 Became law 114
DNA and Genetic Testing - As enacted, requires collection of a biological specimen from certain convicted offenders to be collected within 30 days of sentencing to be used for DNA analysis; requires a law enforcement agency to submit a biological specimen from an offender who dies while incarcerated and was previously convicted of a qualifying offense. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 35, Part 3.

Apr 8, 2025: Pub. Ch. 63
SB 600 In committee 114
Criminal Procedure - As introduced, specifies that the administrative office of the courts may distribute to the courts electronically the discharge from conditions of release form that is required to be sent to law enforcement agencies by the court when a defendant upon whom conditions of release have been imposed is discharged or released from those conditions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 16; Title 18; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 55; Title 56; Title 62; Title 68 and Title 71.

Apr 1, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
SB 504 Passed Senate 114
Naming and Designating - As introduced, names the desk of house chamber seat number 60 as the “Legislative Desk of Representative John J. Deberry, Jr.”; directs the chief clerk of the house of representatives, or the chief clerk’s designee, to design and provide for the installation of a commemorative plaque on the side of the desk of house chamber seat number 60 to recognize the official name of such desk. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 1 and Title 4, Chapter 8.

Mar 31, 2025: Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.
SB 1252 In committee 114
Education - As introduced, makes various changes to the categories of individuals who are not required to use a preferred pronoun, and for whom a preferred pronoun can be disregarded, if the pronoun is inconsistent with the person's biological sex; makes various changes to the civil liability and adverse action protections as it relates to the use of, or the refusal to use, a pronoun or preferred pronoun. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Mar 26, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
SR 44 Adopted 114
Memorials, Personal Occasion - Zelma Hall, 108th birthday -

Mar 11, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
SB 1443 In committee 114
Mason - Subject to local approval, authorizes the town to appoint a town administrator; requires the town administrator to perform some of the duties previously performed by the mayor. - Amends Chapter 120 of the Private Acts of 1915; as amended and rewritten.

Mar 10, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, held on desk. Local Bill
SB 372 In committee 114
Health Care - As introduced, urges the human rights commission to study problems of discrimination against healthcare providers in this state because of their decision to decline to participate in a healthcare service on the basis of religious, moral, or ethical beliefs. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 20; Title 29; Title 39; Title 49; Title 50; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

Mar 5, 2025: Placed on Senate Commerce and Labor Committee calendar for 3/11/2025
SB 398 In committee 114
Boards and Commissions - As introduced, prohibits the exclusion of persons from membership on state regulatory and health related boards on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, and national origin; prohibits such boards from establishing or operating under race-based policies pertaining to their composition; creates a private cause of action against a board and its officers, employees, and agents for such practices. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21; Title 9; Title 62 and Title 63.

Feb 13, 2025: Withdrawn.
SB 4 In committee 114
Courts, Supreme Court of Tennessee - As introduced, requires the expenses of the Tennessee supreme court to include each year an amount sufficient to provide the chief justice with a security detail to transport and accompany the chief justice on all official state business. - Amends TCA Title 16 and Title 17.

Feb 13, 2025: Withdrawn.
SB 935 In committee 114
Abortion - As introduced, adds the chairs of the judiciary committee of the senate and the committee of the house of representatives with jurisdiction over criminal justice-related matters to whom the department of health shall submit a report of each abortion procedure and the disposition of the aborted fetus or aborted fetal tissue to no later than January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1 of each year. - Amends TCA Section 39-15-203.

Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
SB 1229 In committee 114
Sports - As introduced, changes from January 1 to March 1, the date by which each local education agency and public charter school is required to submit documentation to the department of education evidencing its compliance with the requirement to notify an association that regulates interscholastic athletics at the school in which the student is enrolled of a student's placement in foster care; removes the requirement that the department annually submit a report of this information to the education committees of the senate and house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 48 and Title 49.

Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
SB 395 In committee 114
Traffic Safety - As introduced, creates a Class B misdemeanor for failure to properly adjust headlights by a person or entity that installs tires on a passenger motor vehicle or truck that are larger in total diameter than the original equipment manufacturer's tires installed; creates a Class B misdemeanor for installing such tires so as to cause the bumper or frame to exceed the maximum heights established in present law. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 9.

Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Transportation and Safety Committee
SB 597 In committee 114
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.

Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Health and Welfare Committee
SB 598 In committee 114
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.

Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Energy, Ag., and Nat. Resources Committee
SB 570 In committee 114
Education, Higher - As introduced, deletes an obsolete requirement for the University of Memphis and certain other collaborators on the Memphis Research Consortium to provide a progress report to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 11; Title 12; Title 49; Title 58; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.

Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
SB 1126 In committee 114
Local Education Agencies - As introduced, makes various changes to the categories of individuals who are not required to use a preferred pronoun, and for whom a preferred pronoun be disregarded, if the pronoun is inconsistent with the person's biological sex; makes various changes to the civil liability and adverse action protections as it relates to the use of, or the refusal to use, a pronoun or preferred pronoun. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
SB 934 In committee 114
Education - As introduced, prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, disability, religion, or marital status against a student or an employee in a public institution of education; requires public institutions of education to treat harassment or discrimination against students or employees, or resulting from institutional policies or programs on their campuses, motivated by or including antisemitic intent in an identical manner to discrimination motivated by race; requires Title VI coordinators to be designated to monitor antisemitic discrimination and harassment at K-12 schools and institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
SB 378 In committee 114
State Government - As introduced, creates the "Tennessee Critical Infrastructure Act." - Amends TCA Title 4.

Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee