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• SB 32 In committee 114
  Taxes - As introduced, allows a taxpayer to annually elect to take a bonus depreciation deduction of 40 percent of the cost of assets purchased on or after January 1, 2026, during the tax year in which the assets were purchased when calculating net earnings or net losses for excise tax purposes; allows the taxpayer to take the federal depreciation percentage if it exceeds 40 percent. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20.
  Apr 22, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Finance, Ways & Means Committee
• SB 167 In committee 114
  Treasurer, State - As introduced, allows the state treasurer to enter into an agreement with an entity to carry out certain activities in order to serve as a facility to securely produce, store, process, and ship bullion products for the state's depository. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4.
  Apr 22, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Finance, Ways & Means Committee
• SB 603 In committee 114
  Education, Higher - As introduced, requires the Tennessee student assistance corporation to submit an annual report, by July 31 each year, to legislative committees having jurisdiction over postsecondary education detailing, for each of the five immediately preceding academic years for which the corporation awarded scholarships, the amount appropriated by the general assembly for the scholarship program, the total number of scholarship applications received by the corporation, the total number of scholarship recipients, and the average scholarship award amount. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Apr 21, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Finance, Ways & Means Committee
• SR 140 In committee 114
  Memorials, Retirement - Lanny Selby, Sparta Fire Department -
  Apr 15, 2025: Recalled from Senate Calendar Committee
• SR 144 In committee 114
  Memorials, Sports - Upperman Bees, TSSAA Division I, Class 3A state champions -
  Apr 15, 2025: Recalled from Senate Calendar Committee
• SJR 298 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - Cumberland Medical Center, 75th anniversary -
  Apr 10, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• SJR 323 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Abby Heady, Valedictorian, White County High School -
  Apr 10, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• SJR 299 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Retirement - J.T. King, Sparta Police Department -
  Apr 10, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• SJR 297 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - White County Fair, 2025 Class A Division State Champion Fair -
  Apr 10, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• SJR 300 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Sports - Stone Memorial Middle School Lady Panthers, Class AA state champions -
  Apr 10, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• SJR 324 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Sam Dicus, Salutatorian, White County High School -
  Apr 10, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• SB 292 In committee 114
  Real Property - As enacted, creates a legal process through which a person may request the immediate removal of an unlawful occupant of the person's commercial real property by filing a complaint with the sheriff for the county in which the property is located. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 66.
  Apr 4, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 90
• SB 790 In committee 114
  Law Enforcement Training Academy - As enacted, requires the peace officer standards and training commission to issue a certificate of compliance to a person appointed as a private special deputy on or after January 1, 2026, if the person meets the qualifications for employment as a police officer and satisfactorily completes an approved recruit training program; requires annual in-service training sessions to retain such certification. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 38 and Title 49.
  Apr 4, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 105
• SB 914 In committee 114
  Handgun Permits - As introduced, extends the time, from 30 to 45 days, within which a person whose handgun carry permit has been suspended or revoked may petition the chancery court for judicial review of the department of safety's final determination. - Amends TCA Title 39.
  Apr 1, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
• SB 441 In committee 114
  Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, specifies that a person does not commit an offense if the person possesses or carries a firearm into an area that is posted if, upon the request of an individual authorized to control access to the property, the person immediately leaves the property or stores the firearm in a personal vehicle in accordance with state law. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
  Apr 1, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
• SR 62 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - Cassie Kessler, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award -
  Mar 27, 2025: Adopted, Ayes 29, Nays 0
• SR 60 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - John Conrad, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award -
  Mar 27, 2025: Adopted, Ayes 29, Nays 0
• SR 63 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - Karly Anderson, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award -
  Mar 27, 2025: Adopted, Ayes 29, Nays 0
• SR 61 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - Emily Griffis, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award -
  Mar 27, 2025: Adopted, Ayes 29, Nays 0
• SB 793 In committee 114
  Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the commissioner to report to the chairs of legislative committees having jurisdiction over health-related matters on the standards and policies for assisted reproductive technology in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 36; Title 63 and Title 68.
  Mar 26, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Health and Welfare Committee
• SB 9 In committee 114
  Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, removes the restriction on the direct employment of radiologists, pathologists, anesthesiologists, and emergency physicians by hospitals and certain healthcare facilities. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 63 and Title 68.
  Mar 26, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Health and Welfare Committee
• SR 55 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - Debbie Hamby, Cumberland Medical Center -
  Mar 25, 2025: Enrolled and ready for signatures
• SR 54 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Personal Occasion - Lillian Dagner, 100th birthday -
  Mar 25, 2025: Enrolled and ready for signatures
• SB 243 In committee 114
  Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates a Class E felony for altering or defacing a permanent distinguishing number on a firearm and selling, purchasing, or possessing such a firearm with a mandatory minimum sentence of 180 days incarceration. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 1; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 40.
  Mar 25, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Finance, Ways & Means Committee
• SB 285 In committee 114
  Real Property - As introduced, changes from a preponderance of the evidence to clear and convincing evidence the burden of proof for a debtor to prove that property sold at a foreclosure sale for an amount materially less than the fair market value in order to rebut the presumption that the foreclosure sale price of the property was equal to the fair market value at the time of sale. - Amends TCA Title 35.
  Mar 24, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
• SB 512 Became law 114
  Consumer Protection - As enacted, prohibits persons from selling, offering for sale, or offering a free sample of counterfeit lighters and unsafe lighters. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 47.
  Mar 21, 2025: Pub. Ch. 20
• SB 514 In committee 114
  Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires local education agencies and public charter schools to provide age-appropriate instruction to students on how to access, utilize, and critically evaluate various artificial intelligence tools within the curriculum taught by the educator; requires the department of education to issue guidance on how to implement the required instruction; requires the department to provide a professional development program in artificial intelligence education for educators, subject to available funding. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Mar 19, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
• SB 410 In committee 114
  Financial Institutions, Dept. of - As introduced, increases, from November 1 to December 31 to October 15 to December 31, the time frame during which a licensee under the Money Transmission Modernization Act must pay the annual nonrefundable supervision fee and submit its annual renewal report to the department. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 45 and Title 67, Chapter 6.
  Mar 18, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 792 In committee 114
  Criminal Offenses - As introduced, requires the district attorneys general conference to compile a yearly report detailing convictions made pursuant to the Terrorism Prevention and Response Act of 2002 during the previous year; requires the report to be provided to the general assembly no later than January 15 each year. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 10; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 55 and Title 58.
  Mar 7, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
• SB 796 In committee 114
  Boards and Commissions - As introduced, vacates and reconstitutes the Tennessee board of water quality, oil and gas effective July 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 69, Chapter 3.
  Mar 6, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Government Operations Committee
• SJR 49 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Death - Randall Earl Heady -
  Mar 4, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• SB 31 In committee 114
  Motor Vehicles - As introduced, changes from January 15 to January 1, the beginning date of each year at which time the department of transportation may reduce the maximum weight of vehicle loads if necessary to protect the streets, roads, highways, or other public thoroughfares from unnecessary injury or damage. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 47; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 65; Title 66 and Title 67.
  Feb 18, 2025: Recalled from Senate State & Local Government Committee
• SR 3 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Professional Achievement - Robert Glenn Officer, Most Excellent Great Chief of The Grand Council of Knight Masons -
  Feb 13, 2025: Adopted, Ayes 31, Nays 0
• SB 1000 In committee 114
  Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, removes an obsolete reference to the length of the validity for an insurance producer license issued on or after January 1, 2007; changes, from March 1 to March 15, the date that a business entity license under the Tennessee Insurance Producer Licensing Act of 2002 expires biennially. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 791 In committee 114
  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.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
• SB 1001 In committee 114
  Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, removes an obsolete reference to January 1, 2010, as the date by which group health plans and health insurance issuers were required to begin providing electronic health insurance claims data for state residents to the commissioner of commerce and insurance or a designated entity authorized by the commissioner each month. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 768 In committee 114
  Business Organizations - As introduced, changes, from January 1 to January 15, the beginning of the time frame during which a domestic professional corporation or foreign professional corporation authorized to transact business in this state must deliver for filing to each licensing authority having jurisdiction over a professional service described in the corporation's charter an annual statement of qualification. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 47; Title 48; Title 62 and Title 63.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 999 In committee 114
  Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, removes an obsolete requirement for the commissioner to conduct a study of this state's insurance laws to determine what impediments, if any, exist under the laws or policies that may be deterrents for insurance companies in this state to underwrite policies of insurance to insure a person who has used force that is justified, including deadly force, in protecting such person's self or property, and to report the results of the study to the general assembly no later than March 1, 2012. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 996 In committee 114
  Criminal Procedure - As introduced, creates an exception to the requirement that a petitioner pay the costs of a petition to restore the person's citizenship rights if the court finds that the petitioner is indigent. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 22; Title 36; Title 39 and Title 40.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
• SB 513 In committee 114
  Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, extends, from June 30, 2025, to June 30, 2028, the authorization for an emergency medical service employee who has been retired for at least 60 days from TCRS to accept employment as an emergency medical services employee without loss or suspension of retirement benefits if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 36, Part 8 and Title 68, Chapter 140, Part 3.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 998 In committee 114
  Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, increases, from 30 to 35 days, the time that an insurance company has to remove a person as an officer or director of the company after receipt of an order from the commissioner of commerce and insurance to do so. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 71.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 605 In committee 114
  Real Property - As introduced, extends from 10 to 20 days, the time within which a non-contracting spouse must serve the prime contractor with written notice of that spouse's objection to a contract for improving real property after learning of the contract when the contract is made with a husband or a wife who is not separated and living apart from that person's spouse, and the property is owned by the other spouse or by both spouses, in order to avoid the other spouse being deemed the agent of the objecting spouse. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 11.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 767 In committee 114
  Economic and Community Development, Dept. of - As introduced, requires that a broadband ready community’s ordinance or policy for reviewing applications must contain a provision that all applications related to the project be either approved or denied within 30 calendar days, rather than 30 business days, after the applications are submitted. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 13; Title 65 and Title 67.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 287 In committee 114
  Telecommunications - As introduced, removes a requirement that the comptroller report to the general assembly, not later than January 31, 2008, with recommendations regarding whether the pilot project that authorized certain municipal electric systems to provide services beyond their service area with certain limitations should be continued or expanded to other systems. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 9; Title 12; Title 13; Title 35, Chapter 8, Part 1; Section 37-10-204; Section 38-6-121; Title 39; Title 40, Chapter 6, Part 3; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 54; Title 55; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Feb 10, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 607 Introduced 114
  Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, deletes the offense of unlawful carrying of a firearm or club with the intent to go armed; lowers the age requirement to obtain an enhanced or concealed handgun carry permit from 21 to 18 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.
  Feb 4, 2025: Withdrawn.
• SB 169 In committee 114
  Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, clarifies that the notification provided by a retiree's new employer to the retirement system concerning the reemployment of the retiree as a law enforcement officer must be provided in writing. - Amends TCA Title 8.
  Jan 27, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee