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Rep. Andrew Farmer Receives Plaque for Signing U.S. Term Limits Pledge U.S. Term Limits
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Memorials, Interns
Victoria Marie Grigsby
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Constitutional Amendments
Proposes an amendment to Article IV, Section 1, of the Constitution of Tennessee, to specify that only citizens of the United States may vote in state, county, or municipal elections.
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Memorials, Professional Achievement
Brittany Ramsey, Sevier County School System Grades 9-12 Teacher of the Year
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Memorials, Professional Achievement
Dr. Hans Ballew, Sevier County School System Supervisor of the Year
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Memorials, Professional Achievement
Dr. Mitchell Whaley, Sevier County School System Principal of the Year
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Memorials, Professional Achievement
Stephanie Carr, Sevier County School System PreK-4 Teacher of the Year
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Memorials, Professional Achievement
Brooke White, Sevier County School System Grades 5-8 Teacher of the Year
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Memorials, Interns
Alexis Bartlett
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Memorials, Professional Achievement
Lani O'Connor, Jefferson County Schools District Level and Jefferson County High School Teacher of the Year
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Memorials, Professional Achievement
Pam Oakes, Jefferson County Schools District Level Teacher of the Year and Piedmont Elementary School Teacher of the Year
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Memorials, Professional Achievement
Leslie Vines, Jefferson County Schools District Level and Jefferson Elementary School Teacher of the Year
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Memorials, Professional Achievement
Dr. John Robinette, Sevier County School System Supervisor of the Year
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Memorials, Professional Achievement
Dr. Amy Case, Sevier County School System Principal of the Year
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Memorials, Professional Achievement
Dustin Helton, 2024-2025 Sevier County Schools Grades 9-12 Teacher of the Year
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Memorials, Professional Achievement
Misti DeGroot, Sevier County School System Grades 5-8 Teacher of the Year
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Memorials, Professional Achievement
Lindsay Whitted, Sevier County School System Grades Pre-K-4 Teacher of the Year
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Memorials, Recognition
Judge Norma McGee Ogle, Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals
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Children
As introduced, revises various provisions regarding children, including requiring a parent educational seminar in certain juvenile cases. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.
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Real Property
As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Real Estate Consumer Fraud Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 23; Title 39; Title 45; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 56; Title 62 and Title 66.
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Tort Liability and Reform
As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Child Care Hosting Safe Harbor Act." - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 71, Chapter 3.
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County Officers
As enacted, revises present law relative to constables. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 10 and Title 38, Chapter 8.
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Clerks, Court
As enacted, revises present law concerning court clerks' fees. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 18; Title 55 and Title 67.
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Public Defenders
As enacted, creates five additional assistant district public defender positions effective July 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14 and Title 9, Chapter 4.
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Education
As introduced, deletes obsolete pilot program to improve parent-teacher engagement that terminated at the end of the 2020-2021 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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JUDICIAL DISTRICTS
As introduced, requires the advisory task force to review composition of judicial districts to submit its findings and recommendations by January 15, 2027, rather than January 1, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 16.
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Taxes
As introduced, adds to the definition of a "qualified public use facility" as used in the Local Tourism Development Zone Business Tax Act a mixed-use development containing a performance venue with a seating capacity of at least 2,500; authorizes a municipality or public authority that has financed a qualified public use facility within a tourism development zone and that qualifies …
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Real Property
As introduced, increases from three to five business days the minimum notice period a buyer engaging in wholesaling real property must provide to the seller regarding the effective date of an assignment of the buyer's interest. - Amends TCA Title 66.
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Judges and Chancellors
As introduced, increases base salaries for trial and appellate level judges and supreme court justices effective September 1, 2030; revises compensation and other requirements for general sessions judges on or after September 1, 2030. - Amends TCA Section 8-23-103; Title 16 and Title 67.
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Welfare
As introduced, requires the commissioner of human services to provide to the commissioner of correction an application for food assistance to be used by inmates in state correctional institutions prior to release; requires the application to contain an option for the inmate to indicate a denial to apply for food assistance and reasons for doing so; requires the commissioner of …
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COURTS
As introduced, enacts the "Parental Rights Protection Act," which requires an expedited hearing if a bond condition imposed affects parental contact, custody, or visitation with a minor child to ensure the bond condition meets requirements of the Families' Rights and Responsibilities Act. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 8 and Title 40, Chapter 11.
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Drugs, Prescription
As introduced, requires the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) to conduct a study that assesses the operational readiness of state and local governmental entities to support a medical marijuana program and submit a report on the study by November 1, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 24; Title 29; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; …
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Remedies and Special Proceedings
As introduced, removes the right of a cause of action for any affected person who seeks declaratory and injunctive relief in any action brought regarding the legality or constitutionality of a state governmental action. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3 and Title 49.
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Taxes, Real Property
As introduced, redefines "movable structure" for purposes of classification and assessment of property so that a mobile home or other movable structure that is used as a residence or apartment must be used permanently as such instead of temporarily or permanently. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.
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Children's Services, Dept. of
As introduced, requires the commissioner to develop and implement a statewide, outcomes-based, county-level quality assurance program no later than July 1, 2027; directs the commissioner to send reports to the general assembly detailing the department's progress toward implementing the program at the end of each fiscal year quarter until the program is fully implemented. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter …
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COURTS
As introduced, effective September 1, 2030, divides counties into five, instead of seven, different classes by population for the purpose of determining the compensation of general sessions and juvenile judges; revises provisions setting minimum salary requirements for general sessions and juvenile judges; establishes a county litigation tax on each civil, criminal, juvenile, and traffic case initiated in a general sessions …
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SENTENCING
As introduced, states that there is a rebuttable presumption that a defendant convicted of aggravated assault is not a favorable candidate for probation if the offense involved the use or display of a firearm during the commission of the offense. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 35.
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Adoption
As enacted, allows petitioners to include all children in one adoption petition if the petitioners are seeking to adopt more than one child at the same time, unless the court issues a written order finding that it is in the best interest of the children that separate petitions be filed; specifies that the clerk of court must charge only one …
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Education, Dept. of
As introduced, requires the department to allocate to each local education agency sufficient funds for the LEA to employ one full-time licensed professional school counselor at each high school in the LEA that enrolls at least 600 students in grades 10 through 12; requires each LEA to employ one full-time licensed professional school counselor at each high school for which …
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Highways, Roads and Bridges
As enacted, lifts certain restrictions on temporary borrow pits used to source material for a road work construction project performed in a FEMA-certified county under a contract for construction work entered into with the state that is part of a state or local Hurricane Helene recovery effort. - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 1.
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Real Property
As enacted, revises present law relative to advertising the sale of land to foreclose a deed of trust, mortgage, or other lien securing the payment of money or other thing of value or under judicial orders or process. - Amends TCA Title 35.
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LABOR
As introduced, permits state governmental entities and local health departments to submit annual reports to the general assembly electronically regarding compliance with the Eligibility Verification for Entitlements Act. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 50 and Title 57.
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Education
As introduced, requires LEAs to screen all students for dyslexia and use the Orton-Gillingham method to teach students who exhibit characteristics of dyslexia; adds training in the Orton-Gillingham method to in-service training subjects for educators. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Tort Liability and Reform
As introduced, increases the amount of medical, hospital, or doctor bills that are presumed in a civil action to have been necessary and reasonable if the bills are itemized in the complaint or civil warrant with an attached copy of the bills attached as an exhibit to the complaint or civil warrant, from a total of $4,000 to a total …
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Welfare
As introduced, requires the department of human services to annually identify federal waivers it deems necessary to alleviate federal regulatory limitations that inhibit the department's ability to timely review and approve applications and deliver benefits for the food assistance program and to submit, no later than October 31 of each year, as applicable, applications for such waivers; requires the department …
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Education, Curriculum
As introduced, requires local education agencies and public charter schools to provide age-appropriate instruction to students on how to access, utilize, and critically evaluate various artificial intelligence tools within the curriculum taught by the educator; requires the department of education to issue guidance on how to implement the required instruction; requires the department to provide a professional development program in …
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Guardians and Conservators
As introduced, requires a hearing on a petitioner for the appointment of a guardian or conservator to be held within 90 days, rather than 60 days, from the date of service on the respondent or the date a guardian ad litem was appointed. - Amends TCA Title 24; Title 25; Title 26; Title 27; Title 28; Title 29; Title 30; …
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Child Custody and Support
As enacted, requires the court to consider any failure to pay child support, rather than failure for a period of three years or more, when making a child custody determination; clarifies that the court may preclude or limit any provisions of a parenting plan if the court finds that a parent has failed to pay child support. - Amends TCA …
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Opioids
As enacted, adds Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC, Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc., Indivior Inc., Viatris Inc., and Purdue Pharma L.P. to the list of companies that may be released by the attorney general and reporter for pending or future claims regarding opioids. - Amends TCA Title 20 and Title 33.
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Criminal Offenses
As introduced, lessens, from 90 calendar days to 60 calendar days, the time within which a clerk of court must notify the health facilities commission of a conviction for certain offenses committed against elderly or vulnerable adults for inclusion on the registry of persons who have abused, neglected, misappropriated, or exploited the property of vulnerable individuals. - Amends TCA Title …
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Notary Public
As introduced, adds that a person must complete a course of instruction and pass an examination to qualify to be commissioned as an online notary public; clarifies that an application to be commissioned as an online notary public requires a certification that the applicant has reviewed, understands, and will comply with the applicable rules and requirements promulgated by the secretary …
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Secretary Of State
As introduced, establishes a complaint process with the secretary of state for any person who contends that the person’s name or address was included on a document filed with the secretary of state without the person’s consent. - Amends TCA Title 48.