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SB 344 Became law 114
Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires at least one full-time employee at each school under the jurisdiction of an LEA or public charter school to annually receive training in seizure safety and first aid. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 50 and Title 71.

May 2, 2025: Pub. Ch. 165
SB 1178 Became law 114
Disability and Aging, Dept. Of - As enacted, directs the commissioner and the director of TennCare to develop guidelines for service providers for hiring qualified family members as a family caregiver; specifies that the department and the bureau of TennCare shall not prohibit qualified individuals from employment as a family caregiver at a service provider agency based on certain listed criteria. - Amends TCA Title 52 and Title 71.

Apr 30, 2025: Pub. Ch. 182
SB 582 In committee 114
Education - As enacted, requires the department of education to establish enrollment deadlines for voluntary pre-kindergarten programs so that at-risk students who will be four years old by August 15 must be enrolled by the beginning of the school year and students who are four-year-olds who do not have a disability or who meet the qualifications for enrollment at three years of age must be enrolled by August 30. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Apr 28, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 192
SR 152 Adopted 114
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Atleana Murrell, Salutatorian, Middle College High School -

Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
SR 243 Adopted 114
Memorials, Recognition - Kenneth Whalum III -

Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
SR 242 Adopted 114
Memorials, Sports - Taquez Butler, Class 4A Mr. Basketball -

Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
SR 244 Adopted 114
Memorials, Recognition - Kameron Whalum -

Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
SR 151 Adopted 114
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jerry Lin, Valedictorian, Millington Central High School -

Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
SR 154 Adopted 114
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kaden Lee Gritzmaker, Salutatorian, Fairley High School -

Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
SR 149 Adopted 114
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kimberly Maldonado, Valedictorian, Whitehaven High School -

Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
SR 147 Adopted 114
Memorials, Academic Achievement - London Dyson, Valedictorian, Memphis Academy of Science and Engineering -

Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
SR 153 Adopted 114
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Layla Abudallah, Valedictorian, Middle College High School -

Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
SR 150 Adopted 114
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Cortia Hibbler, Salutatorian, Millington Central High School -

Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
SR 148 Adopted 114
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Brenia Knox, Salutatorian, Whitehaven High School -

Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
SR 245 Adopted 114
Memorials, Recognition - Kortland Whalum -

Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
SR 155 Adopted 114
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jamarcus Olden, Valedictorian, Fairley High School -

Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
SR 146 Adopted 114
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Akeelah Phillips, Salutatorian, Memphis Academy of Science and Engineering -

Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
SJR 398 Adopted 114
Memorials, Interns - Taylor Hollands -

Apr 24, 2025: Signed by Governor.
SJR 397 Adopted 114
Memorials, Death - Sondra Denise Keys-Wade -

Apr 24, 2025: Signed by Governor.
SB 1168 Passed Senate 114
Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, requires the office of research and education accountability (OREA), in the office of the comptroller of the treasury, to study and make recommendations for the implementation of an incentive program for educators who have 15 or more years' experience in education; requires OREA to report its findings and recommendations for implementation of the incentive program by December 31, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49.

Apr 16, 2025: Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.
SJR 308 Adopted 114
Memorials, Recognition - 2024 Do the Write Thing Challenge National Ambassadors -

Apr 10, 2025: Signed by Governor.
SJR 17 Adopted 114
Memorials, Death - President Jimmy Carter -

Apr 10, 2025: Signed by Governor.
SJR 325 Adopted 114
Memorials, Death - Ava May Christopher -

Apr 10, 2025: Signed by Governor.
SB 1176 In committee 114
Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, permits the largest municipality in Shelby, Davidson, Knox, or Hamilton county to regulate the manner of storage of firearms, firearm ammunition, and firearm accessories by ordinance, resolution, policy, rule, or other enactment. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

Apr 8, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
SB 1184 In committee 114
Domestic Violence - As introduced, requires a person who is convicted of domestic assault or subject to an order of protection to dispossess any firearm in the person's possession by transferring the firearm to a law enforcement agency and to provide the court with an affidavit of dispossession of firearms and a receipt from the law enforcement agency. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 39 and Title 40.

Apr 8, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
SB 337 In committee 114
Taxes, Sales - As introduced, authorizes certain counties to levy a local option sales tax at the rate of 3.75 percent, instead of a maximum of 2.75 percent, if the revenue from the increase in such tax is used by the county exclusively for the construction of a new county jail or to retire debt, including principal and interest and related expenses, on such construction. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 7.

Apr 2, 2025: Recommended for passage, refer to Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
SB 1422 In committee 114
Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires law enforcement agencies to investigate for the presence of workplace bullying concurrent with investigations of crimes of violence in the workplace; requires law enforcement agencies to report findings to the TBI; requires the TBI to annually submit a report to legislative committees concerning workplace bullying and violence. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 50.

Apr 1, 2025: Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee
SB 1348 In committee 114
Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, deletes the exception to the criminal offense of unlawfully carrying a firearm with intent to go armed for persons who lawfully possess a handgun, are in a place where the person is lawfully present, and are at least 21 years old or 18 years old with certain military service. - Amends TCA Title 39.

Mar 31, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
SB 1349 In committee 114
Expunction - As introduced, requires a clerk of a court with criminal jurisdiction to automatically remove and destroy all public records of a conviction for a Class E felony or misdemeanor that is eligible for expunction, one year after the person has completed any sentence imposed by the court. - Amends TCA Title 10; Title 18 and Title 40.

Mar 31, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
SB 1177 In committee 114
Expunction - As introduced, authorizes court clerks in certain counties to implement an automatic expunction processing program that initiates processing the expunction of public records without petition by the person, certification of eligibility from the TBI, or court order in certain limited circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.

Mar 31, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
SJR 216 Adopted 114
Memorials, Recognition - State Government Affairs Council, 50th anniversary -

Mar 31, 2025: Signed by Governor.
SB 1419 In committee 114
Education, Higher - As introduced, requires institutions of higher education to conduct various programs for intercollegiate athletes covering name, image, and likeness; authorizes institutions of higher education to collect talent fees; makes various other changes to intercollegiate athletes' name, image, and likeness authorizations and requirements. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

Mar 26, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
SB 501 In committee 114
TennCare - As introduced, authorizes the governor to expand medicaid eligibility solely for the purpose of providing treatment for a patient with a diagnosis of sickle cell disease in accordance with the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and to negotiate with the centers for medicare and medicaid services with respect to the terms of such expansion. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71, Chapter 5.

Mar 26, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Health and Welfare Committee
SB 1327 In committee 114
Education - As introduced, removes a provision that required the board of regents, the University of Tennessee, and the Tennessee Independent Colleges and Universities Association to provide a report by April 1, 2009, to the Tennessee higher education commission on the reasonable efforts their institutions have taken to attempt to deter infringement of copyrighted works over the school's computer and network resources. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Mar 26, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
SB 1180 In committee 114
School Vouchers - As introduced, requires private schools that enroll recipients of an education freedom scholarship, students participating in the individualized education account program, or students participating in the education savings account program to conduct background checks prior to employing a teacher or person who will have direct contact with school children or access to school grounds when children are present. - Amends Chapter __ of the Public Acts of 2025 (1st Ex. Sess. – SB 6001 / HB 6004); and TCA Title 49, Chapter 10, Part 14 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 26.

Mar 26, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
SR 56 Adopted 114
Memorials, Personal Occasion - Patricia Pryor Degrafinreid, 70th birthday -

Mar 25, 2025: Enrolled and ready for signatures
SB 1190 In committee 114
Employees, Employers - As introduced, increases the hourly minimum wage to $20.00, or the federal minimum wage established pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, whichever rate is greater. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 23; Title 12, Chapter 4, Part 4 and Title 50, Chapter 2.

Mar 25, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB 1357 In committee 114
Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, increases, from $7.25 to $20, the minimum hourly wage for employees within this state. - Amends TCA Section 8-23-203; Title 12 and Title 50, Chapter 2.

Mar 25, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB 1161 In committee 114
Students - As introduced, prohibits local education agencies and public charter schools from suspending or expelling a student enrolled in any of the grades pre-K-2 unless the student's behavior endangers the physical safety of others; authorizes local education agencies and public charter schools to suspend such a student for such behavior for no more than three days if certain measures are taken before the student is suspended. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Mar 19, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
SB 834 In committee 114
Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, requires the commission, in consultation with the department of finance and administration, to submit a report to the general assembly of the state appropriations made to each land grant institution in this state from 1987 to 2020, on a per pupil basis, by December 31, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 49.

Mar 19, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
SB 588 In committee 114
Education, Higher - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee for Tampons Act," which requires public institutions of higher education to provide feminine hygiene products in all women's and girl's bathrooms and locker rooms. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

Mar 19, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
SB 1192 In committee 114
Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, requires the department of transportation to study the development of a new bridge crossing the Mississippi River and connecting to Arkansas. - Amends TCA Title 54.

Mar 19, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Transportation and Safety Committee
SB 1355 In committee 114
Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "Guaranteed Basic Income Act" or the "Protection Against Automation Act," which requires the department to develop and implement a program in which eligible residents are awarded an annual guaranteed basic income grant beginning in 2026. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 67, Chapter 4 and Title 71.

Mar 19, 2025: Placed on Senate Health and Welfare Committee calendar for 3/26/2025
SB 583 In committee 114
Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to award grants to local education agencies that operate or authorize at least one public school located in a county with a county juvenile offense rate that is at least 10 percent higher than the statewide juvenile offense rate to enable such LEAs to provide after school programs for students in grades K-12. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 49.

Mar 19, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
SB 1179 In committee 114
Economic and Community Development - As introduced, enacts the "Hollyssee Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3 and Title 64.

Mar 19, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Government Operations Committee
SR 35 Adopted 114
Memorials, Recognition - Kameron Whalum -

Mar 13, 2025: Adopted, Ayes 32, Nays 0
SR 38 Adopted 114
Memorials, Recognition - Kevin Whalum -

Mar 13, 2025: Adopted, Ayes 32, Nays 0
SR 41 Adopted 114
Memorials, Recognition - Kyle Whalum -

Mar 13, 2025: Adopted, Ayes 32, Nays 0
SJR 207 Adopted 114
Memorials, Recognition - Peer Power, 20th anniversary -

Mar 13, 2025: Signed by Governor.
SR 34 Adopted 114
Memorials, Recognition - Kenneth Whalum III -

Mar 13, 2025: Adopted, Ayes 32, Nays 0