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passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2024

SB 2540: Energy - As introduced, directs the department of economic and community development to develop a program for the installation and operation of combustion turbine power plants to increase the state's electric generation capacity. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 12; Title 60; Title 64; Title 65; Title 67 and Title 68.

Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/23/2024

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2024

SB 2612: Historical Sites and Preservation - As introduced, enacts the "African American Cultural and Historical Grant Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 13.

Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/23/2024

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2024

SB 2624: Law Enforcement - As introduced, authorizes a state or local law enforcement agency, at the direction of the executive officer with authority over such agency or the commissioner of safety, to provide aid and assistance to another state or a law enforcement agency of another state during an emergency. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 8; Title 38; Title 58 and Title 68.

Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/23/2024

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2024

SB 2327: Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, requires high school students to complete the eighth grade and be admitted to an eligible postsecondary institution as a dual enrollment student to qualify for a dual enrollment grant. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/23/2024

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2024

SB 2341: Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, adds the MidSouth development district to the list of development districts to which this state intends to assist financially; specifies an overall state funding level for the nine development districts; changes the calculation for how much funding each development district will receive. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 14, Part 1.

Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/23/2024

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2024

SB 2462: Finance and Administration, Dept. of - As introduced, directs the department to promulgate rules to establish a grant program for first-time home buyers. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 10; Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 47 and Title 66.

Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/23/2024

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2024

SB 2509: Education, Dept. of - As introduced, extends the school turnaround pilot program beyond the 2024-2025 school year; increases, from five to 15, the number of schools in need of intervention that may participate in the school turnaround pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 37.

Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/23/2024

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2024

SB 2773: Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires an annual training pay bonus supplement for eligible campus police officers and public safety officers in the amount of $800. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38 and Section 49-7-118.

Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/23/2024

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2024

SB 2694: Taxes, Excise - As introduced, retroactively allows employers to take a deduction from net earnings for state excise tax filing purposes, in the amount of expenses, including wages and compensation, associated with their employee retention credit allowable on their federal payroll tax return. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 21.

Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/23/2024

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2024

SB 2670: Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, allows a Tennessee HOPE scholarship student or a nontraditional Tennessee HOPE scholarship student who earned the student's first baccalaureate degree between July 1, 2022, and July 1, 2023, in less than five years from the date of the student's initial enrollment at any postsecondary institution to continue to receive the scholarship upon resuming the student's education at an eligible postsecondary institution in pursuit of an advanced degree if the student continues to meet all other applicable eligibility requirements. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/23/2024

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2024

SB 2405: Expunction - As introduced, deletes the offense of aggravated prostitution; requires the public records of a person charged with a misdemeanor or a felony offense that has been repealed to be removed and destroyed without cost upon petition by the person. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/23/2024

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2024

SB 2765: Education - As introduced, enacts the "Protecting Tennessee Schools and Events Act"; subject to appropriations, requires the department of education to contract for the provision of walk-through metal detectors to LEAs. - Amends TCA Title 12 and Title 49.

Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/23/2024