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0897 Gas, Petroleum Products, Volatile Oils As enacted, limits term of municipal contracts entered into to stabilize the purchase price of fuel to maximum of 24 months; removes requirement that such contracts must terminate by June 30, 2011. HB2766
0898 Abuse As enacted, authorizes concerned family members to obtain court order to intercede when an adult is subject to abuse, neglect, or exploitation. HB2778
0899 Methamphetamine As enacted, clarifies that it is a Class B misdemeanor for any person, other than one carrying out clean up of the quarantined property, knowingly to inhabit quarantined property; to enter onto quarantined property without federal, state, county or municipal government authorization; to offer such property to the public for temporary or indefinite habitation; or to remove any signs or notices of the quarantine. HB3270
0900 Judgments As enacted, establishes requirements for authenicating or issuing execution upon a foreign judgment. HB3300
0901 Uniform Laws As enacted, revises Uniform Interstate Family Support Act. HB3647
0902 Uniform Laws As enacted, enacts the "Uniform Unsworn Declarations Act." HB3651
0903 Gas, Petroleum Products, Volatile Oils As enacted, revises various provisions of the Tennessee Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Act. SB3854
0904 Sexual Offenders As enacted, establishes procedures for revocation of license to practice medicine or other restrictions on practice if licensee found to be, after hearing, a person required to register as a sex offender. SB3362
0905 Health Care As enacted, revises various provisions regarding the health equity commission. HB3459
0906 Election Laws As enacted, provides that no voter may be purged due to a deficient registration form once the administrator has declared the person a registered voter, unless the administrator later determines the voter knowingly made or consented to false information being placed on the registration form or failed to provide a valid signature. HB3456
0907 Safety As enacted, imposes same liability as state employees upon special inspectors for boilers and unfired pressure vessels. HB2817
0908 Courts As enacted, codifies and gives statutory effect to Tennessee's equitable and common law defense of unclean hands with respect to commercial transactions. HB0185
0909 Health Care As enacted, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment Act of 2010." SB3528
0910 Education As enacted, requires the peace officers standards and training commission to report to the select committee on education oversight on current law enforcement training and procedures for responding to violent school incidents in elementary and secondary schools and in postsecondary institutions. SB0769
0911 Education, State Board of As enacted, requires the state board of education to develop guidelines and criteria for the inclusion of foreign language instruction in grades kindergarten through six. SB1075
0912 Education As enacted, urges institutions of higher education offering approved teacher training programs to explore ways in which research methodologies related to comparative education concepts that study and examine teaching practices and learning outcomes in other countries can be incorporated into existing curriculum. SB1743
0913 State Government As enacted, establishes an EFFECTs position to establish an accountability process to insure state government is efficient, forward-looking, focused, energetic, competent, and transparent. SB2023
0914 Pensions and Retirement Benefits As enacted, requires forfeiture of access to health insurance benefits by any member of the general assembly convicted of a felony involving public office; applies to convictions occurring after this act's effective date. SB2205
0915 Adoption As enacted, specifies that if, after determining the surrender to be in the child's best interest, the department of children's services accepts a surrender of a child who was previously placed for adoption by the department from the child's adoptive parent, the unrevoked surrender of such child may terminate the responsibilities of the adoptive parent for future child support or other future financial responsibilities. SB2341
0916 Education As enacted, enacts the "Teacher Code of Ethics." SB2416
0917 Annexation As enacted, revises provisions governing a municipality annexing by ordinance territory outside its urban growth boundary. SB2581
0918 Consumer Protection As enacted, prohibits the advertising, promotion, and sale of international driver's licenses; establishes that such practices and other related acts violate the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act; imposes certain civil penalties on such violations. SB2712
0919 Public Employees As enacted, requires state insurance committee to provide opportunity for eligible local education and local government employees to participate in the long-term care benefits program. SB2908
0920 Workers Compensation As enacted, authorizes treating physicians of patients being treated under workers' compensation law to refer such patients for pain management; establishes a presumption that a patient who is beyond the expected period of healing but who is referred to pain management to be at maximum medical improvement for workers' compensation purposes upon the earlier of the date that the treating physician determines the patient to be at maximum medical improvement or 104 weeks after the commencement of pain management. SB2928
0921 DUI/DWI Offenses As enacted, requires certain DUI offenders to operate only a motor vehicle that is equipped with a functioning ignition interlock device. SB2965
0922 Drugs As enacted, creates Class A misdemeanor for production, manufacture, distribution, possession, or possession with intent to produce, manufacture, or distribute the synthetic cannabinoids JWH-018, JWH-073, HU-210, and HU-211; does not apply to lawfully prescribed drugs or substances. SB2982
0923 Property As enacted, authorizes Shelby County legislative body to vote to allow community organizations the right to petition and enter upon vacant property for the purpose of removing litter. SB2983
0924 Child Custody and Support As enacted, establishes a presumption that each parent age 18 or older has knowledge of a parent's legal and moral obligation to support his or her child or children. SB3002
0925 Education As enacted, clarifies the appeals process for tenured teachers who are dismissed by a local board of education; requires that if the commissioner of education who is initially appointed to the teacher evaluation advisory committee as chairperson ceases to be the commissioner of education because of resignation or retirement, then such former commissioner remains a member of the committee until the committee ceases to exist. SB3053
0926 Nurses, Nursing As enacted, clarifies nurses who can work with medication aides. SB3144
0927 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, authorizes sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption at Country Boy Restaurant in Leiper's Fork in Williamson County and Memorial Auditorium and Tivoli Theater in Chattanooga. SB3161
0928 Taxes, Agricultural and Open Spaces As enacted, specifies that the general assembly finds that value for agricultural, forest, or open space land should not be deemed the value of property for any purpose other than a future assessment of rollback taxes, because it does not determine the actual tax liability of a qualifying owner at the time of valuation. SB3191
0929 Criminal Offenses As enacted, authorizes prosecutors to allow guardians of children violating truancy laws to attend parent education training and parent-teacher conferences as an alternative to criminal prosecution. SB3246
0930 Schools, Charter As enacted, revises the membership of the task force on charter schools; adds the design and method of training for charter schools' board members to the list of subjects that the task force is required to address; changes the date by which the comptroller must report the charter school task force's findings and recommendations to the general assembly from February 2, 2010, to February 2, 2011. SB3257
0931 Education As enacted, authorizes schools to establish an International Baccalaureate Programme fund or an Advanced Placement fund to receive donations or grants from individuals or from private corporations, associations, or other artificial entities, both nonprofit and for profit, that desire to help support an International Baccalaureate Programme or an Advanced Placement program offered or attempted to be established by the school. SB3304
0932 Taxes, Ad Valorem As enacted, allows a municipality to contract with another collecting official within the same county to outsource processing of property tax relief applications. SB3361
0933 Funeral Directors and Embalmers As enacted, provides for an indigent fund to be created for certain purposes once the balance in the pre-need funeral consumer protection account exceeds $2,500,000. SB3410
0934 Barbers As enacted, requires that on and after July 1, 2010, as vacancies arise on the board of barber examiners, at least one of the four barber members must be an instructor, owner, employee, or manager of a barber school. SB3421
0935 Education As enacted, allows LEAs to donate computers removed from school inventories to low-income families in the school district. SB3425
0936 Zoning As enacted, requires that multifamily residential establishments, whether used as owner-occupied property or rental property, that were permitted to operate under zoning regulations or exceptions thereto immediately preceding a change in zoning, be allowed to reconstruct new facilities necessary to the conduct of such multifamily residential establishment subsequent to the zoning change, in the event of damage by involuntary fire or wind damage or other natural disaster. SB3430
0937 Bail, Bail Bonds As enacted, revises provisions governing bail for individuals with mental illness and other provisions governing how persons believed to have mental illness are to be handled when arrested. SB3439
0938 Motor Vehicles As enacted, allows highway maintenance or utility vehicles to operate a white, amber, or white and amber light system on any location on the vehicle. SB3457
0939 Explosives As enacted, requires blasters to file a notice with commerce and insurance prior to the blast occurring. SB3608
0940 Industrial Development As enacted, authorizes industrial development corporations to finance infrastructure expenses serving certain mixed-use developments. SB3622
0941 Judicial Districts As enacted, clarifies that any drug testing fee or other fee that was assessed and collected in the ninth judicial district before such fees were repealed in 2007 to be designated for use by the ninth judicial district drug task force. SB3627
0942 Taxes, Assessment As enacted, clarifies that under present law regarding the classification and assessment of property taxes relating to public utilities, a motor bus and/or truck company owning or leasing real or personal property located in the state would include those owner operators who operate under such motor bus and/or truck company's motor carrier authority. SB3686
0943 Education As enacted, specifies that when applying the maximum interest rate for bonds issued by the Tennessee state school bond authority with respect to which the local government has elected to have the federal Build America Bonds program apply to such bond, the maximum interest rate will be determined by reducing the interest payable by the authority with respect to such bond by the amount of payments from the U.S. treasury that the authority expected, at the time of the issuance of such bond as a result of the foregoing elections; provisions to expire on June 30, 2012. SB3693
0944 Parks, Natural Areas Preservation As enacted, expands the daily commercial carrying capacity for whitewater rafting in the lower Ocoee River Recreational Area. SB3789
0945 Boards and Commissions As enacted, specifies that registration requirements for using terms "engineer" and "archictecture" do not apply to any person in business in this state in 1998 for the sole purpose of manufacturing and distributing federal aviation administration approved avionic equipment. SB3819
0946 State Government As enacted, authorizes the board of claims to establish incentive programs for state departments, agencies, and institutions to reduce liabilities to the risk management fund. SB3824
0947 Election Laws As enacted, requires the secretary of state to file a copy of the previous year's consolidated report on the Help America Vote Act requirements and payments to the finance, ways and means committees of both houses, the fiscal review committee, and the office of legislative budget analysis by February 1 of each year. SB3894
0948 County Officers As enacted, revises the deadline for filing nominating petitions for candidates for a charter commission. HB0195
0949 Criminal Offenses As enacted, makes it a Class A misdemeanor offense for a person who has been convicted of a violent felony to own, possess, or have custody or control of a vicious dog or a potentially vicious dog. HB0238
0950 Contractors As enacted, requires masonry contractors to be licensed under the present law provisions governing contractors, if the total cost of the masonry portion of a construction project exceeds $100,000, materials and labor. HB1242
0951 Criminal Procedure As enacted, revises provisions governing expunction of records of person found not guilty following bench trial or trial by jury. HB1277
0952 Insurance, Health, Accident As enacted, establishes requirements for insurers and patients to reimburse anatomic pathology services. HB2367
0953 Criminal Offenses As enacted, makes it a Class A misdemeanor for any person to knowingly intercept any radio frequency transmission with the intent to use the intercepted transmission to commit, facilitate, or aid in the flight from a criminal offense. HB2506
0954 Highway Signs As enacted, provides for erection of directional signs to U.S. Chess Federation on Interstate 40 in Cumberland County at Exit 320. HB2507
0955 Purchasing As enacted, clarifies that the purchase of used or secondhand articles by local government may be made as long as the price is not more than 5 percent higher than the highest value of the document range instead of the price falling within 10 percent of the documented range. HB2552
0956 Child Custody and Support As enacted, restricts the modification of an existing residential schedule in a permanent parenting plan prior to a final hearing unless the parents agree to the modification or the court determines that the child will be subject to a likelihood of substantial harm absent temporary modification. HB2698
0957 Children As enacted, creates a rebuttable presumption of substantial harm to a child if the child is not granted visitation with a grandparent who is the parent of the child's deceased parent. HB2700
0958 Municipal Government As enacted, revises provisions governing special assessments involving property parcels that are or become subject to a horizontal property regime, condominium regime, time-share regime or vacation club regime; revises provisions governing applicable formula rate for certain purposes. HB2703
0959 Orders of Protection As enacted, specifies that a protection order issued to protect the petitioner from domestic abuse, stalking or sexual assault may prohibit the respondent from coming about the petitioner for any purpose; specifies that order of protection forms be used exclusively in all courts exercising jurisdiction over orders of protection. HB2780
0960 Transportation, Dept. of As enacted, authorizes commissioner, when awarding certain federal transportation enhancement grant funding for acquisition of scenic or historic sites to contract with certain civil war preservation organizations for use of such funds. HB3041
0961 Census As enacted, adjusts terminology to reflect data collected through the American Community Survey instead of the census long form questionnaire. HB3153
0962 Taxes As enacted, revises the tax on unauthorized substances based on the decision of the Tennessee Supreme Court in Waters v. Farr to impose the tax on the merchant of unauthorized substances. HB3164
0963 Boards and Commissions As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Appraisal Management Company Registration and Regulation Act." HB3191
0964 DNA and Genetic Testing As enacted, requires TBI to maintain a DNA database of certain juvenile sexual offenders and adds an adjudication of delinquency for an act which if committed as an adult would constitute aggravated rape of a child to the list of acts for which a court shall require a juvenile to submit a DNA sample. HB3196
0965 Aircraft and Airports As enacted, clarifies property that is excluded from being defined as a heliport in a tourist resort county is limited to private property used for the landing of a privately owned and operated helicopter for private non-commercial purposes. HB3225
0966 Traffic Safety As enacted, clarifies that municipalities may by ordinance adopt all provisions of law included in the rules of the road for local enforcement. HB3267
0967 Death As enacted, sets the priority as to who has the right to dispose of a dead body through cremation. HB3293
0968 Property As enacted, establishes duty of care of landowners, lessees and occupants of land whose land is entered by others for recreational non-commercial aircraft operations or recreational non-commercial ultra light operations on private airstrips. HB3314
0969 Clerks, Court As enacted, authorizes the chancery court clerks to invest idle funds of minor and incompetents in certain manners. HB3583
0970 Regional Authorities and Special Districts As enacted, revises provisions governing membership of regional megasite authorites. HB3598
0971 Comptroller, State As encated, authorizes the comptroller to require all persons prior to employment with the office of the comptroller to agree to release of investigative records and to supply a fingerprint sample and submit to a criminal history records check; comptroller will pay cost of the background investigations. HB3605
0972 Transportation, Dept. of As enacted, urges department to study permit fees imposed on the movements of oversize and overweight freight motor vehicles and report the results of such study to the transportation committee of each chamber of the general assembly no later than January 1, 2011. HB3725
0973 Public Utilities As enacted, permits a certificated provider of local exchange telephone services to file a tariff with the authority regulating such services. HB3773
0974 County Government As enacted, authorizes Washington County, subject to a two-thirds vote of the county legislative body, to opt out of bidding requirements of the county purchasing law for the purchase of group health insurance contracts. HB3892
0975 Highway Signs As enacted, "Veterans Memorial Highway," U.S. Highway 70A/79 in Crockett County. HB3924
0976 Physicians and Surgeons As enacted, requires the board of medical examiners to give an extension of time within which to successfully complete the United States Medical Licensing Examination to any applicant who is licensed in good standing in at least three other jurisdictions and who meets the other requirements for licensure. SB1552
0977 Health Care As enacted, authorizes health, educational and housing facility corporations to lease or sell projects to clinics or to enter into a loan agreement with clinics with respect to such projects. SB2804
0978 Insurance, Health, Accident As enacted, requires insurers offering Medicare supplement policies and certificates in this state to persons 65 years of age or older to also offer Medicare supplement policies to persons in this state who are under 65 years of age and eligible for and enrolled in Medicare by reason of disability or end stage renal disease. SB3164
0979 Child Abuse As enacted, revises various provisions governing the reporting of child abuse. SB3267
0980 Insurance, Health, Accident As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Health Carrier Grievance and External Review Procedure Act." SB3806
0981 Domestic Violence As enacted, changes incorrect cross-references to definition of domestic abuse victim and domestic abuse. HB3577
0982 Public Funds and Financing As enacted, revises the composition of the state funding board; extends the authority for the sale of certain bonds at private sale to June 30, 2012; establishes interest rate for bonds with respect to which the funding board or local government has elected to have the federal Build America Bonds program apply to such bond. HB3601
0983 Civil Procedure As enacted, establishes certain public policies in regard to the application of foreign laws, legal codes and systems to protect constitutional rights of citizens of this state. HB3768
0984 Motor Vehicles As enacted, requires that the notice of tow of an abandoned or unclaimed vehicle be given to the last registered owner within three business days of receiving verification of ownership of the vehicle. SB1678
0985 Transportation, Dept. of As enacted, allows a functional replacement of real property to serve as continued public ownership and use of an interest in right-of-way property acquired from the department so that such property interest will not revert to the department, if the replacement property is at least equal in fair market value to the property being replaced and subject to the approval of TDOT. SB0399
0986 Traffic Safety As enacted, authorizes highway patrol officers with Level 1 training to stop certain commercial motor vehicles when there is probably cause to believe the vehicle is being operated with unsafe loading or mechanical conditions; specifies that no citation may be issued but the officer will implement out-of-service requirements. SB1325
0987 Tennessee Higher Education Commission As enacted, requires THEC to assess and study the feasibility of establishing a program of instruction in ecological tourism in public universities; THEC must report the findings and conclusions to the house and senate education committees by February 1, 2011. SB1754
0988 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends board of land survey examiners, June 30, 2016. SB2419
0989 Judges and Chancellors As enacted, authorizes, in any county in which the judicial commissioner is selected by the general sessions judge or judges, the county legislative body of such county to elect, by a two-thirds majority, to allow each judicial commissioner to receive 12 hours of appropriate continuing education each calendar year under the supervision of the appointing general sessions judge or judges rather than the Judicial Commissioners Association of Tennessee or the Tennessee Court Clerks Association; requires that judicial commissioners in Knox County be known as magistrates. SB2636
0990 Traffic Safety As enacted, allows counties to regulate parking on roadways solely under their jurisdiction by resolution; a violation would be a Class C misdemeanor, with each day a motor vehicle is in violation being deemed a separate event and the county may remove a motor vehicle that is abandoned or disabled; authorizes local authorities in Davidson County having authority to enact ordinances or make regulations relating to traffic to permit parking of vehicles with the left-hand wheels adjacent to and within 18 inches of the left-hand curb of a roadway. SB2638
0991 Motor Vehicles As enacted, creates certain exemptions from restrictions on motor vehicle height and length for certain motor vehicles carrying rafts or rafting apparatus used by an operator for commercial whitewater rafting purposes; exemptions only apply during certain times of the year. SB2704
0992 Highway Signs As enacted, "Bob Brown Administration Building," new TDOT building in Chattanooga. SB3119
0993 Public Property As enacted, requires any state department, agency, or institution, to procure bids for obtaining appropriate insurance on certain commercial grade vehicles prior to acquiring the vehicle. SB3593
0994 Correctional Programs As enacted, authorizes TRICOR to sell as surplus property equipment and raw materials no longer usable by TRICOR to businesses, government, non-profit organizations, or by auction to the public. HB2485
0995 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Tennessee advisory committee for acupuncture, June 30, 2016; revises various provisions regarding the membership of the Tennessee advisory committee for acupuncture. HB2612
0996 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the polysomnographic professional standards committee, June 30, 2016; revises provisions regarding the membership of the polysomnography professional standards committee. HB2616

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