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passed · Tennessee · Senate May 1, 2024

SB 2222: Criminal Offenses - As enacted, establishes that it is unlawful for a person to intentionally initiate or circulate a report of a past, present, or impending active shooter and hostage situation, knowing that the report is false or baseless if certain information is known at the time. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 794

passed · Tennessee · Senate May 1, 2024

SB 2093: Public Records - As enacted, establishes the official policy for the maintenance of records by the department of tourist development. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 22 and Title 10, Chapter 7.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 740

passed · Tennessee · Senate May 1, 2024

SB 2591: Planning, Public - As enacted, makes certain revisions to the "Neighborhood Preservation Act." - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 6.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 796

passed · Tennessee · Senate May 1, 2024

SB 1983: Eminent Domain - As enacted, establishes generally that a condemner bears the burden of proving by a preponderance of the evidence certain facts relative to public use; grants the property owner a right to have a court of competent jurisdiction determine if the taking is necessary to accomplish the public use. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 17.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 748

passed · Tennessee · Senate May 1, 2024

SB 2011: Opioids - As enacted, authorizes TennCare to adopt or amend a state preferred drug list (PDL) without rulemaking; requires TennCare to ensure that reimbursement is provided to a healthcare provider who provides a non-opioid treatment to a recipient under the medical assistance program; requires TennCare to ensure that a hospital that provides services to a recipient is reimbursed under the medical assistance program for medically necessary non-opioid treatment; prohibits a managed care organization or other health insurance issuer from denying coverage of a non-opioid prescription drug in favor of an opioid prescription drug when a healthcare prescriber, instead of a licensed physician, prescribes a non-opioid medication for the treatment of acute or chronic pain. - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 762

passed · Tennessee · Senate May 1, 2024

SB 2148: Consumer Protection - As enacted, requires financial institutions and insurers to make determinations about the provision or denial of services based on certain analysis; prohibits financial institutions and insurers from denying or canceling services to a person, or otherwise discriminating against a person, based upon certain factors, including the person's political opinions, speech, or affiliations, or religious beliefs, religious exercise, or religious affiliations. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 45; Title 47 and Title 56.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 746

passed · Tennessee · Senate May 1, 2024

SB 1874: Health Care - As enacted, clarifies, for the purposes of regulation of health and related facilities, what constitutes "home health services." - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 741

passed · Tennessee · Senate May 1, 2024

SB 2495: Probation and Parole - As enacted, requires a probation officer to set required in-person meetings at times and locations that reasonably accommodate the work schedule of the probationer; authorizes the probation officer to utilize a technology portal for communication with the probationer in place of an in-person meeting upon approval from the department of correction. - Amends TCA Title 40.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 760

passed · Tennessee · Senate May 1, 2024

SB 2482: Health Care - As enacted, enacts the "Cassie Wright Act," which makes changes to law relative to a parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian having access to certain medical information of their unemancipated minor. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 66 and Title 68.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 761

passed · Tennessee · Senate May 1, 2024

SB 1060: Education - As enacted, revises various provisions of present law pertaining to the "Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022" and the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 782

passed · Tennessee · Senate May 1, 2024

SB 1915: Professions and Occupations - As enacted, generally prohibits certain licensing boards for professions, including medical professions, from using a vague term in their consideration and their notice or decision for denying a license due to a prior criminal prosecution unless an explanation is provided of how the prior conviction directly relates to the applicable profession, if such prior conviction serves as a basis for the licensing authority's consideration and notice or decision. - Amends TCA Title 62 and Title 63.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 788

passed both · Tennessee · Senate May 1, 2024

SJR 1629: General Assembly, Adjournment - Adjourns 113th General Assembly sine die on April 25, 2024. -

Signed by H. Speaker