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• SB 728 Became law 114
  Motor Vehicles - As enacted, authorizes utility terrain vehicles to operate on county roads and state highways throughout the state, subject to certain restrictions. - Amends TCA Title 55.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 255
• SB 170 In committee 114
  Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, requires suspension of a minor's driving privileges or ability to obtain a driver license for a period of one year as part of the disposition if a minor is adjudicated delinquent for an act that would constitute the offense of harassment by bullying or cyber-bullying. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 7.
  Apr 28, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 292
• SB 179 In committee 114
  Election Laws - As enacted, defines "district," for purposes of municipal elections, to mean a district, region, precinct, sector, territory, ward, or other geographical area prescribed for the purposes of nominating and electing candidates. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 6, Chapter 53.
  Apr 28, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 187
• SR 122 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - 100th anniversary of the Education Act of Tennessee -
  Apr 10, 2025: Adopted, Ayes 31, Nays 0
• SB 146 In committee 114
  Education - As enacted, specifies that in an educational neglect case a subpoena may be issued for a student's attendance record, including all previous school years that the student attended a public school, in accordance with relevant privacy laws. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 49.
  Apr 4, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 133
• SB 780 In committee 114
  Driver Licenses - As enacted, authorizes an honorably discharged member of the national guard to receive "veteran" designation on driver license; specifies documentation that must be provided to receive such designation. - Amends TCA Section 55-50-354.
  Apr 4, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 148
• SB 318 Passed Senate 114
  Anatomical Gifts - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Genomic Security and End Organ Harvesting Act." - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 68.
  Apr 4, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 96
• SB 349 In committee 114
  Law Enforcement - As introduced, specifies that a commissioned reserve deputy sheriff or commissioned reserve or auxiliary police officer receiving compensation for services as a guard, patrol, or watchperson under a contract with a private business that is properly licensed by the state is exempt from the private protective services licensing and regulation requirements. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 62, Chapter 35.
  Apr 2, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
• SJR 219 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Death - Lewis Theodore Gobble -
  Mar 31, 2025: Signed by H. Speaker
• SJR 42 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - "Arts in Education Week," March 2-8, 2025 -
  Mar 25, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• SB 779 In committee 114
  Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, requires the department to make the catalog of materials on source reduction and recycling created by the department available on the department's website. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 68, Chapter 211.
  Mar 19, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Energy, Ag., & Nat. Resources Committee
• SB 342 In committee 114
  Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires school board members to be elected at the same election beginning in 2028. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Mar 19, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
• SB 723 In committee 114
  Consumer Protection - As introduced, makes it a violation of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977 for a weather-related company to conduct certain weather modification activities. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 68, Chapter 201.
  Mar 7, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce & Labor Committee
• SB 447 In committee 114
  Boats, Boating - As introduced, prohibits certain activities, such as fishing, near public boat launches, docks, boats, and marinas so as to interfere with the use of such facilities. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 102, Part 6; Title 69 and Title 70.
  Feb 25, 2025: Recalled from Senate Energy, Ag., & Natural Resources Committee
• SB 724 In committee 114
  Public Employees - As introduced, provides a five-day grace period for assistant district attorneys general and criminal investigators to submit expense accounts. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 7.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
• SB 726 In committee 114
  Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As introduced, requires the commission to submit its biennial report on underage drinking, drunk driving, and other harmful uses of alcohol to the governor in addition to members of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 57.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 910 In committee 114
  Education, Dept. of - As introduced, changes a department's reporting requirement, regarding local education agencies' and public charter schools' compliance with notice to an association that regulates interscholastic athletics of a student's placement in foster care who is seeking to participate in interscholastic athletics, from annually to upon the request of the education committee of the senate or the committee of the house of representatives having jurisdiction over education. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
• SB 340 In committee 114
  Zoning - As introduced, specifies that a privately owned property built after 1899 that is located in a tourism development zone is not subject to the authority of a historic zoning commission or a historic zoning law, rule, review guideline, or regulation, with respect to certain aspects of a project. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 7, Part 4.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 122 In committee 114
  Schools, Home - As introduced, eliminates various requirements for parents conducting a home school if the parent provides a normed curriculum to their child at home; prohibits this state from regulating, overseeing, or otherwise imposing requirements on a home school parent or student unless the home school parent or student is participating in a state program or applies for and receives state funds. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Feb 12, 2025: Withdrawn.
• SB 913 In committee 114
  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.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
• SB 339 In committee 114
  Zoning - As introduced, extends the terms of members of historic zoning commissions from five years to six years. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 7, Part 4.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 1226 In committee 114
  State Government - As introduced, requires each state department and agency to post to the department's or agency's website the report provided annually to the general assembly that describes the department's or agency's progress in achieving economic efficiency. - Amends TCA Title 4.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 725 In committee 114
  Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - As introduced, removes the two-mile buffer between class II scenic rivers and new and expanded landfill sites. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 13 and Title 68.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Energy, Ag., and Nat. Resources Committee
• SB 730 In committee 114
  Public Records - As introduced, authorizes records custodians to charge a fee to view records if the records requested reasonably require more than one hour of an employee's time to collect for inspection by the requestor; specifies that the hourly rate for inspection be set in proportion to the rate of pay of the employee who is collecting the records. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 197 In committee 114
  Medical Occupations - As introduced, deletes transitional language pertaining to the appointment and length of terms of members of the former board of medical examiners’ committee on physician assistants who were transferred to the new board of physician assistants in 2021, with the longest remaining term expiring in 2024; removes language limiting former committee members to a maximum of two consecutive four-year terms on the new board, inclusive of time as a member of the former committee. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 63.
  Feb 10, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 1251 Introduced 114
  Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the report on drug overdoses by a student enrolled in grades K-12 to be reported to the public school officials within seven business days of the diagnosis or treatment of such a student. - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 29; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 53; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Feb 7, 2025: Sponsor change.
• SB 123 In committee 114
  Political Parties - As introduced, prescribes a process by which a person must declare a statewide political party or recognized minor party affiliation before voting in a primary election; designates unaffiliated registered voters as independents who have not affiliated with a political party prior to the primary election in August of 2026. - Amends TCA Title 2.
  Feb 4, 2025: Withdrawn.
• SB 140 In committee 114
  Public Officials - As introduced, creates a recall process for members of a municipal legislative body and of a city or county school board. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 49.
  Jan 16, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State & Local Government Committee
• SB 139 In committee 114
  Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires hospitals that accept medicaid to inquire about a person's citizenship status and submit a quarterly report to the department on the number of hospital admissions and emergency department visits by persons lawfully and not lawfully present in the United States; requires the department to submit an annual report to the governor, speaker of the senate, and speaker of the house of representatives regarding the impact of uncompensated care for persons not lawfully present in the United States and other related information. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Jan 16, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Health & Welfare Committee
• SB 121 In committee 114
  Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires public charter schools to adopt an internet acceptable use policy in the same manner required for LEAs; prohibits LEAs and public charter schools from tracking or monitoring a person's use of a personal electronic device on school property, except for instances in which a student uses such device during a test. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Jan 15, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
• SB 120 In committee 114
  Criminal Offenses - As introduced, expands the Class C felony offense of aggravated assault against a first responder to include knowingly possessing fentanyl, carfentanil, remifentanil, alfentanil, thiafentanil, or a fentanyl analogue in a manner that would be reasonably foreseen to expose a first responder to the substance while the first responder is discharging or attempting to discharge the first responder's official duties and the first responder is exposed resulting in the serious bodily injury or death of the first responder. - Amends TCA Title 39.
  Jan 15, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee