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passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 3, 2024

SB 1745: Education, Higher - As enacted, prohibits a public institution of higher learning that holds personal information of students from sharing the personal information with a third party, unless the third party agrees in writing that the personal information will only be used for the purpose for which information is originally provided to the third party and will not be sold to or shared with any other entity. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7 and Title 49.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 619

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 3, 2024

SB 2070: Children - As enacted, specifies that a juvenile court proceeding may be commenced by the taking of a child into custody or the removal of custody from a parent or legal guardian; requires the juvenile court in a dependency and neglect proceeding to determine whether a parent, guardian, relative, or caregiver of the child cannot be excluded as a perpetrator of severe child abuse against the child; prohibits a juvenile court from returning a child victim of severe child abuse to the custody of a person who cannot be excluded as the perpetrator unless certain circumstances are met; makes various other changes. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1; Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 37, Chapter 2, Part 4.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 613

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 3, 2024

SB 2027: Labor - As enacted, clarifies that under this state's law relative to wage regulations, the term "work" has the same meaning as interpreted by the United States supreme court for purposes of the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947; makes additional changes relative to wage regulations. - Amends TCA Title 50.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 623

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 3, 2024

SB 1960: Political Parties - As enacted, moves the period during which a political party must meet to elect at-large delegates and alternates for the party convention from between the second Tuesday in February and the first Tuesday in March to between the first Thursday in April and the first Thursday in May. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 13.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 624

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 3, 2024

SB 2656: Attorney General and Reporter - As enacted, changes the reporting month from January to March for when the attorney general and reporter must report information about orders for wiretapping and electronic surveillance to the administrative office of the United States courts, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Section 40-6-308.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 618

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 3, 2024

SB 2260: Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, makes revisions to the Underground Utility Damage Prevention Act, such as amending requirements for emergency excavations and the imposition of civil penalties. - Amends TCA Title 65, Chapter 31.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 628

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 3, 2024

SB 2089: Solid Waste Disposal - As enacted, expands the permitted uses for money received by a county for each tire sold in the county to include removal of illegally disposed waste tires from public or private property; authorizes the department of environment and conservation to provide funds to a local government for the investigation and clean-up of unpermitted waste tire disposal sites; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-1610 and Title 68, Chapter 211.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 614

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 3, 2024

SB 2572: Local Government, General - As enacted, prohibits a local governmental entity or official from adopting or enacting a resolution, ordinance, or policy that prohibits or limits the ability of a law enforcement agency to conduct traffic stops based on observation of or reasonable suspicion that the operator or a passenger in a vehicle has violated a local ordinance or state or federal law. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 631

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 3, 2024

SB 2141: Education - As enacted, requires the principal or head of a school that maintains an opioid antagonist at the school to ensure that the opioid antagonist is stored in accordance with manufacturer instructions; prohibits a school from prohibiting a student, employee, or visitor from possessing an opioid antagonist while the person is on school property or attending a school-sponsored activity held at a location that is not school property. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 629

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 3, 2024

SB 2938: Van Buren County - Subject to local approval, repeals the private purchasing act for Van Buren County that requires the County to solicit sealed bids for purchases and contracts in excess of $2,500, thereby bringing the County under the general law purchasing authority for counties (The County Purchasing Law of 1957), which authorizes a county to approve purchases and contracts of up to $10,000 without bid solicitation. -

Comp. became Pr. Ch. 38

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 3, 2024

SB 2966: Humboldt - Subject to local approval, enacts the Humboldt Utilities Authority Act to create and empower the Humboldt Utilities Authority. - Amends Chapter 61 of the Private Acts of 2001.

Comp. became Pr. Ch. 41

passed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 3, 2024

SB 2175: Local Education Agencies - As enacted, enacts the "Smart Heart Act"; establishes various requirements for automatic external defibrillators in schools and response protocols for cardiac-related medical emergencies. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 625