HB-2163: Relating to requiring a man determined by adjudication or acknowledgment to be a child's father to pay retroactive child support beginning on the date of the child's conception.
Sponsored by: Rep. Tom Oliverson
Read First Time on 03/09/2023
You have voted HB-2163: Relating to requiring a man determined by adjudication or acknowledgment to be a child's father to pay retroactive child support beginning on the date of the child's conception..
Estates and Trusts – Registered Domestic Partnerships [HB-755]
Establishing requirements for the registration and termination of domestic partnerships with the register of wills; repealing provisions on legitimacy and illegitimacy of children and providing for the parentage of a child born or conceived by registered domestic partners; requiring the register of wills to recognize as domestic partnerships relationships established under the laws of other jurisdictions if the laws are substantially similar to the provisions of the Act; etc.
HB-755: Estates and Trusts – Registered Domestic Partnerships
Sponsored by: Rep. Jon Cardin
Referred Rules on 03/29/2023
Estates and Trusts - Registered Domestic Partnerships [SB-792]
Establishing requirements for the registration and termination of domestic partnerships with the register of wills; repealing provisions on legitimacy and illegitimacy of children and providing for the parentage of a child born or conceived by registered domestic partners; requiring the register of wills to recognize as domestic partnerships relationships established under the laws of other jurisdictions if the laws are substantially similar to the provisions of the Act; etc.
SB-792: Estates and Trusts - Registered Domestic Partnerships
Sponsored by: Sen. Chris West
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 647 on 05/16/2023
Public Health - Childbirth - Paternity Test [SB-410]
Requiring, when a child is born at a health care facility, the attending physician to offer to the presumed father of the child the option to take a paternity test; requiring the offer to take a paternity test be made orally and in writing and before a birth certificate form is completed for the child; etc.
SB-410: Public Health - Childbirth - Paternity Test
Sponsored by: Sen. Ronald Watson
First Reading Finance on 02/01/2023
SB-590: Relating to a court order for retroactive child support, including for retroactive child support beginning on the date of the child's conception.
Sponsored by: Sen. Bryan Hughes
Point Of Order Sustained Rule 8, Section 13(c) on 05/24/2023
You have voted SB-590: Relating to a court order for retroactive child support, including for retroactive child support beginning on the date of the child's conception..
HB-521: Presumption of paternity, maintenance of an action to disprove a presumed father's paternity, authorized in certain circumstances, Sec. 26-17-607 am'd.
Sponsored by: Rep. Gil Isbell
Read For The First Time And Referred To The House Of Representatives Committee On Judiciary on 03/29/2022
You have voted HB-521: Presumption of paternity, maintenance of an action to disprove a presumed father's paternity, authorized in certain circumstances, Sec. 26-17-607 am'd..
Human Services - Commission on Fatherhood (Fatherhood Protection Act) [HB-1213]
Establishing the Commission on Fatherhood in the Department of Human Services to study and review the status of fatherhood in the State and to inform the Executive and Legislative Branches of State government on current issues that impact fathers; and prohibiting the Commission from adopting regulations; etc.
HB-1213: Human Services - Commission on Fatherhood (Fatherhood Protection Act)
Sponsored by: Rep. Ric Metzgar
Hearing 3/07 At 2:00 P.m. on 02/17/2022
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 24, Chapter 7; Title 36 and Title 68, relative to voluntary acknowledgments of paternity. [HB-2699]
As enacted, removes the five-year statute of limitations for challenging a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity on the basis of fraud, duress, or mistake of fact; specifies, in regard to the provision whereby a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity signed by a child's mother and biological father constitutes a legal finding of paternity on the individual named as the father of the child in the acknowledgment, that the finding applies when the acknowledgement is signed by an unwed father. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 7; Title 36 and Title 68.
HB-2699: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 24, Chapter 7; Title 36 and Title 68, relative to voluntary acknowledgments of paternity.
Sponsored by: Rep. Antonio Parkinson
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 863 on 04/26/2022
You have voted HB-2699: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 24, Chapter 7; Title 36 and Title 68, relative to voluntary acknowledgments of paternity..
You have voted HB-2698: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 24, Chapter 7; Title 36 and Title 68, relative to tests to determine parentage..
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 24, Chapter 7; Title 36 and Title 68, relative to voluntary acknowledgments of paternity. [SB-1779]
As enacted, removes the five-year statute of limitations for challenging a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity on the basis of fraud, duress, or mistake of fact; specifies, in regard to the provision whereby a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity signed by a child's mother and biological father constitutes a legal finding of paternity on the individual named as the father of the child in the acknowledgment, that the finding applies when the acknowledgement is signed by an unwed father. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 7; Title 36 and Title 68.
SB-1779: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 24, Chapter 7; Title 36 and Title 68, relative to voluntary acknowledgments of paternity.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jon Lundberg
Effective Date(s) 07/01/2022 on 04/26/2022
You have voted SB-1779: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 24, Chapter 7; Title 36 and Title 68, relative to voluntary acknowledgments of paternity..
You have voted SB-1777: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 24, Chapter 7; Title 36 and Title 68, relative to tests to determine parentage..
HB-1185: Relating to the deadline for filing a petition for the termination of the parent-child relationship in circumstances involving mistaken paternity.
Sponsored by: Rep. Harold Dutton
Read First Time on 03/04/2021
You have voted HB-1185: Relating to the deadline for filing a petition for the termination of the parent-child relationship in circumstances involving mistaken paternity..
You have voted SB-172: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 24, Chapter 7; Title 36 and Title 68, relative to voluntary acknowledgments of paternity..
You have voted HB-104: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 24, Chapter 7; Title 36 and Title 68, relative to voluntary acknowledgments of paternity..
Family Law - Parentage and Adoption [SB-697]
Providing that a child conceived by means of assisted reproduction during the marriage of the child's mother with the consent of the mother's spouse is the legitimate child of both spouses for all purposes; providing that a child conceived by means of assisted reproduction after the death of the mother's spouse and using the genetic material of the mother's spouse is the legitimate child of both spouses under certain circumstances; etc.
SB-697: Family Law - Parentage and Adoption
Sponsored by: Sen. Susan Lee
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 437 on 05/13/2019