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Pensions and Retirement Benefits
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Pensions and Retirement Benefits
Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, authorizes, until June 30, 2026, a retired member of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system, or of a local retirement fund, to be reemployed in a position covered by the retirement system without the loss or suspension of the member's retirement benefits if the member meets certain criteria; authorizes, until June 30, 2026, a law enforcement agency to employ a retired member for a full-time school resource officer position if certain criteria are met. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 36, Part 8.
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Local Education Agencies
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Dept. ofIntellectual & Developmental Disabilities
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Animal Cruelty and Abuse
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Rep. Clay Doggett Receives Plaque for Signing U.S. Term Limits Pledge U.S. Term Limits
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Memorials, Recognition
Richland High School Raiders cheerleading team
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Memorials, Recognition
Coach Chad Hall, 500th career win
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Memorials, Sports
Richland High School Lady Raiders basketball team, Diviision I, Class A State Champions
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Memorials, Recognition
Major Wayne Sellers, Tennessee Highway Patrol
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Memorials, Recognition
Clara Parker
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Memorials, Recognition
Benjamin and Lauren Neale, Rural Small Business of the Year
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Memorials, Recognition
Heather Ayres, Giles County Rehab Unit
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Memorials, Recognition
Bertha Mae Dees, posthumous winner of 2024 Governor's Volunteer Stars Award
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General Assembly, Directed Studies
Urges the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture to complete a comprehensive economic study about the effect of Bradford pear trees on agriculture and forestry in the State.
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Public Defenders
As introduced, creates five additional social worker positions in the public defender system. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14 and Title 9, Chapter 4.
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Holidays And Days Of Special Observance
As introduced, designates October 11 of each year to be observed as "General Pulaski Memorial Day." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.
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School Transportation
As introduced, extends the use of service of a conventional and Class D school bus from 200,000 miles to 230,000 miles. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 55.
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Bail, Bail Bonds
As enacted, makes various changes regarding global positioning monitoring and the pretrial release of certain defendants. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55, Chapter 10.
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Criminal Offenses
As enacted, adds the offense of robbery to the definition of crime of violence. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
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Bonding, Surety and Professional
As enacted, makes revisions to law relative to bondsmen. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 13; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 56; Title 62 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 8.
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Bail, Bail Bonds
As enacted, makes changes to the law relative to professional bondsmen and agents of insurance companies making appearance bonds of a criminal nature. - Amends TCA Title 40.
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Neutral
Firearms and Ammunition
As introduced, states that if the possession of a handgun is restricted or prohibited at a county courthouse, then the sheriff of the county may provide secure storage lockers for those individuals who are lawfully carrying a firearm to store the firearm in separate secured, lockable storage units at or near a designated public entrance to the building or structure …
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Public Funds and Financing
As introduced, enacts the "Greenbelt Initiative Fund Transfer (GIFT) Act," which creates the rural revenue equity fund; authorizes the commissioner of economic and community development to distribute amounts from the fund to rural counties based on certain agricultural, demographic, and fiscal criteria, including greenbelt acreage. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9 and Title …
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County Government
As introduced, creates a supplemental pay incentive program for local correctional officers who receive 40 hours or more of in-service training per calendar year. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8, Part 1 and Title 41.
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Jails, Local Lock-ups
As introduced, specifies that a jailer's authorization to evaluate a person confined in the county jail for purposes of the person's care includes evaluating the person's need for medical attention. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8, Chapter 8; Title 29; Title 40 and Title 41.
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Firearms and Ammunition
As introduced, changes from February 1 to February 15, the date by which the Tennessee bureau of investigation must report to the judiciary committee of the senate and the criminal justice committee of the house of representatives the amount of any background check fees charged to gun dealers that exceeds the costs associated with conducting background checks. - Amends TCA …
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Motor vehicles
As introduced, requires the department of safety to report to the chairs of the transportation and safety committee of the senate and the committee of the house of representatives having jurisdiction over transportation matters, the number of persons who participated in the motorcycle rider education program and the types of expenses for which the funds in the motorcycle rider safety …
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Criminal Offenses
As introduced, adds "a victim" to the definition of an individual involved in the judicial process for purposes of the criminal offense of harming or threatening to harm an individual involved in the judicial process; makes various other changes regarding victims of crime. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 39 and Title 40.
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Criminal Offenses
As introduced, creates the Class E felony of recklessly, by any means of communication, threatening to commit an act of mass violence on the property of a child care agency, preschool, or religious institution; creates the Class B misdemeanor of failing to report a threat to commit an act of mass violence on the property of a child care agency, …
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Expunction
As enacted, reorganizes present statutes concerning expunction and specifies that facilitation, attempt, or solicitation of an offense that is presently eligible for expunction is also eligible for expunction. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 16; Title 38; Title 40; Title 55 and Title 57.
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Criminal Offenses
As enacted, revises provisions of present law relative to placing certain defendants on a fugitives list for failure to appear. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 10; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 49; Title 50; Title 55 and Title 70.
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Landlord and tenant
As introduced, authorizes a landlord to submit a single registration form for a multi-dwelling property with the agency or department of local government that is responsible for enforcing building codes in the jurisdiction if the property contains five or more dwelling units; authorizes local governments to require residential landlords to register with the local government. - Amends TCA Section 66-28-107.
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Taxes, Sales
As enacted, increases, from two to four, the number of temporary sales periods that a bona fide religious institution may participate in and be exempt from registering to collect sales tax on sales directly to consumers made during such temporary sales period. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-102.
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Neutral
Public Funds and Financing
As introduced, requires the board of claims to hear claims for compensation by persons wrongfully imprisoned whose charges are dismissed and sentences vacated; authorizes persons whose charges were dismissed and sentences vacated prior to enactment of this legislation to file a claim within one year; authorizes surviving spouse and children the right to file a claim with the board of …
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Evidence
As enacted, permits the introduction into evidence of a video recording of a child victim being interviewed by a forensic interviewer regarding sexual or physically violent contact with the child if the forensic interviewer confirms the accuracy of the recording and the child is available for cross examination; makes other changes relative to forensic interviews. - Amends TCA Title 24, …
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Tennessee Bureau of Investigation
As enacted, requires the bureau to classify offenders and determine whether the offender's offense qualifies as a sexual offense, violent sexual offense, or a violent juvenile sexual offense, and whether the offender is an offender against children; allows the bureau to rely on investigative reports, files of certain prosecutorial entities, court records, or other credible information to classify an offender; …
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Campaigns and Campaign Finance
As introduced, prohibits the registry of election finance from charging a member of the public more than the registry's actual costs when providing a copy of a report regarding a required disclosure statement filed with the registry. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 39 and Title 47.
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Criminal Offenses
As enacted, adds certain criminal offenses to the list of dangerous felonies for purposes of the offense of possessing a firearm or antique firearm during commission or attempt to commit a dangerous felony. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
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State Inmates
As enacted, increases the accreditation stipend provided to eligible counties for each convicted felon housed by the county. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 29; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.
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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
As introduced, specifies that the administrative office of the courts may distribute to the courts electronically the discharge from conditions of release form that is required to be sent to law enforcement agencies by the court when a defendant upon whom conditions of release have been imposed is discharged or released from those conditions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title …
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Election Laws
As introduced, requires acceptable forms of identification to cast a vote in an election in this state to be valid and unexpired; prohibits the registration of an applicant to vote without such a valid, unexpired identification. - Amends TCA Title 2.
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Neutral
Criminal Offenses
As introduced, decreases from 150 grams to 50 grams or more the amount of any substance containing fentanyl, carfentanil, remifentanil, alfentanil, thiafentanil, or any fentanyl derivative or analogue that is punished as a Class A felony for the knowing manufacture, delivery, or sale of the substance, or possession with intent to manufacture, deliver, or sell the substance. - Amends TCA …
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Correction, Dept. of
As introduced, requires, by February 1 of each year, that the department submit its report regarding the effectiveness of diversion of offenders from state correctional institutions to the committee of the house of representatives with jurisdiction over subject matters pertaining to criminal justice, judiciary committee of the senate, and fiscal review committee. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title …
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Criminal Offenses
As introduced, clarifies that a school employee does not commit the criminal offense of falsifying educational and academic documents for altering, creating, or duplicating the grade of a student in an educational or academic document if the alteration, creation, or duplication is due to the student obtaining the grade through a program that allows students to retake a failed course, …