Senator Powers, 22nd Senatorial District

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10 bill(s) sponsored in the 114th General Assembly.

Bill Number	Composite Abstract	Last Action	Date
SB0115	Municipal Government - As introduced, specifies penalties for a municipality that fails to timely provide the comptroller of the treasury with copies of audits of the accounts and records of all departments, boards, and agencies under the municipality's jurisdiction that receive and disburse funds.	Passed on Second Consideration, held on desk pending committee appointments	1/15/2025
SB0124	Students - As introduced, requires local education agencies to transfer a student's record, including the student's disciplinary record, to the school to which the student is transferring within three days of the transfer date.	Passed on Second Consideration, held on desk pending committee appointments	1/16/2025
SB0328	Education - As introduced, deletes an antiquated section, which required the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee to, by December 15, 2014, perform a study on the economic feasibility of creating and utilizing a statewide comprehensive energy policy and submit its final report to the energy task force of the house of representatives.	Filed for introduction	1/27/2025
SB0329	Computers and Electronic Processing - As introduced, requires each department, agency, office, commission, institution, or instrumentality of the executive branch to accept electronic transmissions; defines the meaning of electronic transmission as applicable to this state's code; removes the terms "fax" or "facsimile" in certain statutes and replaces the terms with electronic transmission.	Filed for introduction	1/27/2025
SB0346	Fire Prevention and Investigation - As introduced, specifies that fire drills for private and public schools requiring full evacuation in educational occupancies where such occupancies constitute the major occupancy of a building must be held at least one time every 30 school days.	Filed for introduction	1/28/2025
SB0400	Schools, Charter - As introduced, changes from May 1 to May 15, the date by which a local education agency in which one or more public charter schools operate is required to annually publish information on its website relative to the location, square footage, enrollment capacity, and usage for each building operated by the local education agency.	Filed for introduction	1/28/2025
SB0439	Taxes, Excise - As introduced, urges the department of revenue to study the economic impact of authorized adjustments to net earnings and net losses; requires the department, if such study is conducted, to report its findings and recommendations, on or before January 1, 2026, to the finance, ways and means committee of the senate and the committee in the house of representatives having jurisdiction over tax-related matters.	Filed for introduction	1/28/2025
SB0505	Montgomery County - As introduced, permits a court to transfer, upon motion by the defendant, a criminal case to the veterans treatment court program in Montgomery County if the veterans treatment court program would have jurisdiction over the case if the offense had been committed in Montgomery County, the defendant files with the court a written waiver of the right to be tried by an impartial jury of the county in which the crime was committed, and the district attorney general for Montgomery County agrees to accept transfer of the case.	Filed for introduction	1/29/2025
SB0506	Local Education Agencies - As introduced, exempts an LEA or public charter school from having to assign a third-grade student who is not proficient in English language arts a tutor through the Tennessee accelerating literacy and learning corps if the state does not appropriate sufficient funds to allow each LEA and public charter school to provide the required tutoring; conditions the requirement that LEAs participate in the learning loss remediation and student acceleration program on the availability of state appropriations for the program.	Filed for introduction	1/29/2025
SB0574	Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, reduces the rate of tax on bottled soft drinks and barrels of beer; changes the distribution of the revenue from such taxes; provides for the eventual repeal of such taxes.	Filed for introduction	1/30/2025