Tennessee State House & Senate Legislation
Compilation of latest activity of the Tennessee Legislature.
Viewing newest bills introduced into the Tennessee Legislature.
House Bills
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Child Custody and Support - As introduced, requires a parent desiring to relocate more than 100 miles from the other parent or outside the state to send notice of the move to the other parent no later than 90 days, rather than 60 days, before the move. -
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Criminal Offenses - As introduced, prohibits convicted felons, probationers, and parolees from owning, harboring, keeping, residing with, or being in the company of dangerous, vicious, or wild animals; except when preapproved or preauthorized by a court o
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Animals and Animal Cruelty - As introduced, requires owners of dangerous, vicious, and wild animals to secure minimal liability insurance. - Amends TCA Title 44, Chapter 8.
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Highway Signs - As introduced, provides for erection of directional signs for Soulsville USA neighborhood and Stax Museum of American Soul Music on I-240 in Shelby County. -
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Professions and Occupations - As introduced, enhances penalty for persons who engage in or offer to engage in locksmithing services without a license. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 11.
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Students - As introduced, requires parents of truant students to attend counseling, mentoring, or parenting classes; requires truant students to receive counseling or mentoring; creates task force on truancy. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 30.
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Taxes, Inheritance Gift - As introduced, replaces current, variable Tennessee inheritance tax rate based on total estate amount with a single inheritance tax rate of 6.0 percent for all persons dying in 2011 or later. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 8, Par
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Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends Tennessee heritage conservation trust fund board of trustees, June 30, 2012. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 11, Chapter 7.
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Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, imposes mandatory minimum periods of commitment for certain juveniles adjudicated delinquent. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.
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Education - As introduced, requires the department of education to collect data on students who cannot prove lawful residence in the United States and to issue an annual report concerning the adverse impact of public school enrollment of such students and
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Traffic Safety - As introduced, requires approval of TDOT to place traffic surveillance camera on state highway based on engineering study paid by local government seeking use of such camera. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.
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Comptroller, State - As introduced, requires comptroller to conduct study of traffic surveillance cameras in the state and report to transportation committees by January 15, 2011. - Amends TCA Title 55.
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Palmer - As introduced, subject to local approval, amends the charter of Palmer to grant four-year terms of office to the town's mayor and two of the four aldermen receiving the most votes in the 2010 election; thereafter, all four aldermen shall have fou
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Traffic Safety - As introduced, requires certain motor vehicles or trailers transporting loads at night to mount strobe or LED light at back of projecting load. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 9, Part 4.
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Correctional Programs - As introduced, authorizes TRICOR to sell as surplus property equipment and raw materials no longer usable by TRICOR to businesses, government, non-profit organizations, or by auction to the public. - Amends TCA Title 41, Chapter 22
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Correctional Programs - As introduced, allows lease of land or facilities to be more than five years if such lease is entered into by TRICOR with a private party under a P.I.E. program or service program in connection with a contract for employment of inm
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Correctional Programs - As introduced, allows TRICOR to develop policies for sale of goods to inmates within custody of the department of correction. - Amends TCA Title 41, Chapter 22, Part 1.
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State Government - As introduced, prohibits state and local tax revenues being expended, directly or indirectly, for lobbying. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 9; Title 6, Chapter 56; Title 7, Chapter 1 and Title 9, Chapter 4.
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Highway Signs - As introduced, "SSG Carey Thomas Moore Memorial Bridge," S.R. 397 (Mack Hatcher Bypass) in Williamson County. -
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Naming and Designating - "American Indian Heritage Month," September 2010 -
Senate Bills
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Education - As introduced, requires state board of education to develop and adopt teacher code of ethics to be used in defining conduct unbecoming to a member of the teaching profession. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3 and Title 49, Chapter 5.
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Water Resources - As introduced, establishes standards for drawing samples to test water quality of the Pigeon River and requires such samples be used as the primary data for analysis of the river's water quality. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 3.
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Appropriations - As introduced, appropriates $100,000 from the solid waste management fund to department of environment and conservation for removal of tires and associated debris from Nolichucky River. -
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Solid Waste Disposal - As introduced, requires generators of mercury-added consumer products to remove such products from the stream of solid waste disposal. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 211.
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Alcoholic Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for the offense of boating under the influence of an intoxicant to approximate DUI penalties. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 55 and Title 69.
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Insurance, Motor Vehicles - As introduced, deletes the ability of any insured to reject uninsured motorist coverage thereby requiring every motor vehicle insurance policy to include uninsured motorist coverage. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 12.
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Public Health - As introduced, enacts the "Ice Cream Truck Worker Registration Act." - Amends TCA Title 40; Title 53; Title 55 and Title 68.
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Motor Vehicles - As introduced, requires insurance company to provide an insured notice concerning the status of the insured's wrecked or damaged passenger motor vehicle and an opportunity to choose whether to retain such vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 55, C
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Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the Tennessee medical laboratory board, June 30, 2013. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 68, Chapter 29.
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Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the Tennessee advisory committee for acupuncture, June 30, 2013. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 6, Part 10.
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Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the polysomnographic professional standards committee, June 30, 2012. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 31.
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Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the massage licensure board, June 30, 2012. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 18.
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Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends emergency medical services board, June 30, 2013. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 68, Chapter 140.
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Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends council of certified professional midwifery, June 30, 2011. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 29.
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Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the council for hearing instrument specialists, June 30, 2011. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 17.
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Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the committee for clinical perfusionists, June 30, 2013. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 28.
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Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the board of veterinary medical examiners, June 30, 2013. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 12.
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Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends board of respiratory care, June 30, 2013. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 27.
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Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends board of podiatric medical examiners, June 30, 2013. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 3.
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Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends board of pharmacy, June 30, 2013. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 10.


