During the 2023 legislative session, Tennessee lawmakers passed hundreds of bills in areas ranging from the state’s $56.2 billion budget to anti-crime and anti-LGBTQ measures. But a number of major bills did not pass and await action next year.
Here’s a look at some measures that didn’t pass in this year’s session that could or likely will resurface in 2024:
Senate Bill 1029
— Topic: “Extreme risk protection order”
Sen. Jeff Yarbro, D-Nashville, sought to bring the broadly written measure directly to the Senate floor after it was delayed until 2024 by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Todd Gardenhire, R-Chattanooga. Yarbro hoped to amend it to implement an “extreme risk protection order” or “red flag” law in response to the March 27 attack on a Nashville private Christian school in which six people, including three children, died. It sought to allow immediate family members or members of law enforcement to petition a judge to temporarily remove firearms from a person who they believe to be an imminent risk to themselves or others.