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Chapter Number Subject Abstract Bill Number
0297 Education As enacted, requires the department of education to study and report on sufficiency of extended learning opportunities complementary to school curricula that are occurring in the LEAP after school program. SB0979
0298 Education As enacted, requires the department of education to survey LEAs concerning extended learning opportunities in LEAs or communities and to include the results of the survey in the commissioner's annual report. SB0982
0299 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends pest control board, June 30, 2014. SB1002
0300 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends occupational safety and health administration labor advisory council, June 30, 2011. SB1004
0301 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends department of labor and workforce development, June 30, 2011. SB1009
0302 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends medical care and cost containment committee, June 30, 2011. SB1020
0303 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends board of boiler rules, June 30, 2011. SB1026
0304 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends board of review, department of labor and workforce development, June 30, 2011. SB1028
0305 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends department of agriculture, June 30, 2014. SB1036
0306 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends state unemployment compensation advisory council, June 30, 2011. SB1050
0307 Criminal Offenses As enacted, redefines "serious bodily injury" to include a broken bone of a child who is eight years of age or younger. SB1665
0308 Election Laws As enacted, requires the coordinator of elections to study the feasibility of using ballot-on-demand technology for both early voting and election day voting; requires coordinator of elections to report findings to the chairs of the senate and house state and local government committees by January 15, 2010. SB1833
0309 Students As enacted, instructs the state board of education to review LEA policies on school personnel recommending psychotropic drugs such as Ritalin to treat elementary and secondary school students for behavioral concerns; requires the state board to report its findings to the select oversight committee on education. SB1925
0310 Public Records As enacted, makes confidential information regarding a public employee's health savings account, retirement account, and pension account; specifies that confidentiality provisions of this act and other existing law regarding public employees also applies to former public employees. SB1973
0311 Public Funds and Financing As enacted, authorizes and directs the state funding board to cancel bonds that have been authorized to be issued by the board if the board determines that certain circumstances exist and that the canceled amount is no longer needed to fund the authorized project. SB2045
0312 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities As enacted, extends expiration date of the tax on the gross receipts of ICFMRs from July 15, 2009, to July 15, 2011. SB2234
0313 Probation and Parole As enacted, requires offenders under the jurisdiction of the board of probation and parole who transfer residence to another state pursuant to the interstate compact for the supervision of adult offenders to pay to the board an application fee for the transfer; requires board to set the amount of the fee by rule. SB2271
0314 Beer As enacted, authorizes a city or county to seek a criminal history background check or fingerprint check on an applicant for a beer permit and to enter into an agreement with the TBI to conduct a search on such information. HB0347
0315 Education As enacted, requires written referrals for student's behavior to be returned to faculty or staff member issuing the referral; referral to be kept in a student discipline file and not part of student's permanent record. HB0374
0316 Utilities, Utility Districts As enacted, requires that supplemental petitions for authority to furnish utility services be filed with the utility management review board simultaneously with the filing of the petition with the county mayor; specifies that the petitions will not be subject to approval or disapproval by the board. HB0875
0317 Child Custody and Support As enacted, requires juvenile courts to conduct custody proceedings in compliance with the Indian Child Welfare Act. HB1305
0318 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities As enacted, rewrites provisions governing health care facilities reporting incidents of abuse, neglect, and misappropriation. HB2266
0319 Campaigns and Campaign Finance As enacted, prohibits contributions from PACs after the 10th day before an election to coincide with reporting date of pre-primary and pre-general election statements. HB0519
0320 Utilities, Utility Districts As enacted, clarifies certain provisions for the incorporation, merger, consolidation, or transfer of assets of utility districts. HB0876
0321 Motor Vehicles As enacted, requires department of safety to maintain records concerning convictions, disqualifications, and other licensing actions involving persons who hold a commercial driver license; revises several other provisions regarding motor vehicles and motor carriers. HB2330
0322 Motor Vehicles As enacted, codifies existing policies regarding: funds involving purchases or trade-ins of motor vehicles that must be held in trust by dealers; funds necessary to perform certain obligations of manufacturers and manufacturers' distributors to dealers or customers that must be held in trust by manufacturers and manufacturers' distributors; and the required uses of such funds. HB1751
0323 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities As enacted, authorizes the board for licensing health care facilities to delegate to the department of health the authority to issue a new license to a successor owner of a health care facility when there has been a change of control if certain requirements met; increases the amount of major medical equipment, the acquisition of which requires a certificate of need from $1.5 million to $2 million. SB0443
0324 Motor Vehicles As enacted, requires law enforcement officer to conduct test to determine blood alcohol of driver involved in accident resulting in injury or death if officer has probable cause to believe driver committed DUI, vehicular homicide, or aggravated vehicular homicide; provides that test results may be offered as evidence in court or administrative hearing relating to accident or offense, subject to rules of evidence. HB0355
0325 Criminal Offenses As enacted, creates offense of making false statement or concealment of material fact for purpose of obtaining accommodation in housing project of a housing authority or for paying less rent than required for such dwelling; offense is Class A misdemeanor punishable by fine only, with fine to be determined in accordance with value of the benefit, in accordance with theft provisions. HB0516
0326 Education As enacted, enacts the "Education Pays Act," which encourages LEAs to develop Education Pays pilot programs for at-risk students to encourage student academic achievement through monetary or other rewards. HB0556
0327 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities As enacted, specifies that any condition placed on a certificate of need applies to any license relative to such certificate of need that is subsequently issued. HB1126
0328 Public Records As enacted, requires certain personal information regarding a victim who receives compensation under the criminal injuries compensation fund to be treated as confidential. HB1247
0329 Schools, Home As enacted, requires that diplomas issued by church-related schools and home schools in recognition of completion of secondary education requirements be considered by all state and local governmental entities as having the same rights and privileges of diplomas issued by public school systems. SB0433
0330 Water Pollution As enacted, specifies that only those operations that are required under the federal Clean Water Act to have a permit for CAFOs may be issued an NPDES permit. SB1312
0331 Education As enacted, allows Shelby County board of education to delegate authority regarding assignment of individual students for decision-making on such matters; provides that if a local board of education delegates its power to determine the assignment of students, such delegation must be made to a three-member committee consisting of at least one current board member with all remaining members as board employees. SB0217
0332 Evidence As enacted, creates privileged communication between critical incident stress management team members and persons participating in crisis intervention. SB0523
0333 Insurance, Health, Accident As enacted, revises provisions governing health care providers notifying health insurers regarding hospital admission to provide that a health insurance carrier may not require any hospital by contract, reimbursement or otherwise, to notify the health insurance carrier of a hospital inpatient admission within less than one business day of such admission if such notification or admission occurs on a weekend or federal holiday. SB1382
0334 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies As enacted, imposes certain requirements on health insurance entities such as notification regarding material changes to the entity's provider manual, establishment of a Web site, and inclusion of preadjudication tools on the Web site. SB1397
0335 Child Abuse As enacted, specifies that juvenile courts, general sessions courts, and circuit and criminal courts have concurrent jurisdiction to hear criminal prosecutions of child abuse and neglect. SB1530
0336 Child Abuse As enacted, requires private schools and church-related schools to turn over records on a child who is the subject of a child abuse investigation and to cooperate fully with the investigation. SB1740
0337 Abuse As enacted, revises definitions of "adult" and "imminent danger" in the adult protection statute. SB1776
0338 Zoning As enacted, requires municipalities and counties to compile and maintain as public record a zoning ordinance and map; creates a presumption that a zoning ordinance and map made available to the public through a compilation is a true and accurate statement of the zoning ordinance and map, which presumption created may only be overcome by clear and convincing evidence that the ordinance and map is inaccurate. SB2116
0339 Firearms and Ammunition As enacted, allows person with handgun carry permit to carry in restaurants that serve alcoholic beverages as long as such person is not consuming alcoholic beverages; defines restaurant for purposes of this authorization. HB0962
0340 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement As enacted, imposes penalty for failure of a tobacco distributor or manufacturer to provide certain information to commissioner of revenue. HB1676
0341 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends department of commerce and insurance, June 30, 2015. HB1081
0342 Criminal Offenses As enacted, adds certain violations of rules of road to present violations resulting in accident that are penalized as Class A misdemeanors when involving death or as Class B misdemeanors when involving serious bodily injury. HB0253
0343 Tobacco, Tobacco Products As enacted, requires that at least 15 days prior to removal of a tobacco product manufacturer or brand family from the tobacco product manufacturer directory, the commissioner of revenue must post notification of such removal in the directory and transmit notice to any person who provides an email address to the commissioner for the purposes of receiving notifications of directory updates via email. HB0530
0344 Children and Youth, Commission on As enacted, changes the reporting date for the commission to legislative committees concerning resource mapping from February 15 to April 15. HB1366
0345 Highway Signs As enacted, "Jimmy 'Pap' Galloway Memorial Bridge," U.S. Highway 27 in Rhea County. HB1480
0346 Taxes, Real Property As enacted, removes requirement that the trustee must report and make a settlement for all taxes with the commissioner of revenue; removes requirement that the trustee submit a financial report to certain state and local government officers for purposes of making a final settlement of taxes. HB1601
0347 Criminal Offenses As enacted, revises the Class A misdemeanor harassment to add offense committed by a person who intentionally communicates with another person without legitimate purpose: with the malicious intent to frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress or in a manner the defendant knows or reasonably should know would frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress to a similarly situated person of reasonable sensibilities; and as the result of the communication, the person is frightened, intimidated or emotionally distressed. SB0113
0348 Wine, Wineries As enacted, creates direct shipper license to be issued through the alcoholic beverage commission that would allow an in-state or out-of-state entity to ship wine directly to consumers age 21 years or older in this state for personal use. SB0166
0349 Corporations, For Profit As enacted, revises various provisions of the Tennessee Limited Liability Company Act and the Tennessee Revised Limited Liability Company Act regarding articles of termination and cancellation of certificates of authority. SB0226
0350 Vending Machines As enacted, requires vending machines located on state property to either use energy efficient lights for advertising or have the lights used solely for advertising removed. SB0395
0351 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, allows alcoholic beverages to be sold for on premises consumption in unincorporated areas of a county with a charter form of government that has held a countywide local option election approving liquor-by-the-drink. SB0600
0352 Education, Higher As enacted, renames or corrects the names of certain community colleges. SB0681
0353 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel As enacted, extends provisions regarding dismissal of tenured teacher in Davidson County to also apply in Shelby County. SB0718
0354 Business Organizations As enacted, revises various provisions of Revised Uniform Partnership Act and Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act in regard to withdrawal statements and certificates of cancellation. SB0737
0355 Pharmacy, Pharmacists As enacted, imposes a methodology and disclosure duties on health insurance entities and pharmacy benefits managers concerning calculation of out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs and covered services. SB0774
0356 Cemeteries As enacted, establishes procedure for reinterment of human bodies buried in wrong location in a cemetery. SB0776
0357 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, redefines "hotel" to clarify that the property of Blackberry Farm may not be contiguous and may be divided by a public or private road; further clarifies that privilege may be exercised anywhere within defined area. SB0788
0358 Children's Services, Dept. of As enacted, clarifies that the department and any state or local agency records that contain information that identifies the person who made a report of child abuse or neglect are confidential; specifies limited exceptions. SB0809
0359 Privacy, Confidentiality As enacted, specifies under the Personal Rights Protection Act of 1984 an individual is entitled to recover three times the amount to which the individual is otherwise entitled, plus reasonable attorney fees, if a person knowingly uses or infringes the rights of a member of the armed forces in violation of the Act. SB0836
0360 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel As enacted, affords tenured teachers in Davidson County a hearing if such teachers are suspended from duty. SB1446
0361 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies As enacted, provides that any insurance company formed as a successor in interest not entitled to receive a reduction in its apportionment ratio for property tax purposes if the previous company already received such reduction; provides exception for insurance company formed as successor in interest in 2006. SB1456
0362 Regional Authorities and Special Districts As enacted, establishes alternative provisions for creation and governance of regional transportation authorities. SB1471
0363 Pest Control As enacted, provides terms for the engagement of services for certain termite inspection and prevention plans without initial chemical treatment. SB1548
0364 Workers Compensation As enacted, provides that any employee who retains the right to reconsideration of an award of permanent partial disability benefits for a workers' compensation injury that occurs on or after July 1, 2009, and whose pre-injury employer is sold or acquired after such award is made, may seek reconsideration from the successor employer if either the employee's employment with the successor employer is involuntarily terminated through no fault of the employee or the employee's rate of pay is reduced to a level below the rate of pay that the employee had at the time of the injury. SB1567
0365 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies As enacted, specifies that if a property and casualty insurance policy includes a specified medical expense benefit payable without regard to fault, but does not permit assignment of such benefit, the insurer must establish a process that, when requested by the insured, the insurer will disburse funds in the names of the insured and the health care provider as joint payees. SB1627
0366 Labor and Workforce Development, Dept. of As enacted, directs the department to establish the "We Want To Learn English Initiative." SB1745
0367 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel As enacted, requires the select oversight committee on education to conduct a hearing on the status of differentiated pay programs in Tennessee, including bonuses or other compensation tied to performance standards. SB2002
0368 Auditing As enacted, requires that certain meetings of an audit committee abide by public notice and public meeting provisions; authorizes confidential meetings in certain circumstances; classifies certain audit-related documents as confidential. SB2042
0369 Naming and Designating As enacted, names Knoxville, Tennessee, National Guard Armory in honor of the late Colonel Russell Austin Newman, USA, Retired. SB2085
0370 Financial Responsibility Law As enacted, requires law enforcement officers to request proof of compliance with financial responsibility laws upon charging a person with any motor vehicle violation instead of only moving violations. SB2150
0371 School Districts, Special As enacted, allows a special school district to remain in existence when a county, in which there is at least one special school district, and a city or cities within the county choose to form a metropolitan government. SB2192
0372 Railroads As enacted, requires any person commissioned as a railroad police officer to receive POST certification prior to such commission; requires the POST commission to issue a certificate of compliance to any person seeking to be commissioned as a railroad police officer, if the person meets the qualifications for employment as a police officer and satisfactorily completes the approved recruit training program. SB2224
0373 Workers Compensation As enacted, authorizes the commissioner of commerce and insurance to establish by rule requirements for securities posted by self-insured employers; requires that the employer's losses and adequacy of reserves be certified annually, instead of biennially. SB2299
0374 Annexation As enacted, revises the manner of amending the comprehensive growth plan after the initial three-year period following the approval of the initial growth plan. SB0169
0375 Pensions and Retirement Benefits As enacted, changes the requirement that the firefighter representative to the board of trustees of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system be from a list submitted by the Tennessee professional fire fighters association instead of submitted jointly by the professional organizations that represent firefighters in this state. SB0473
0376 Election Laws As enacted, requires two additional members be temporarily added to the state election commission if the majority party changes as a result of the 2008 regular November election or any other regular November election every four years thereafter. SB0547
0377 Transportation, Dept. of As enacted, requires the department to study the design and development of expanding qualifying HOV lanes to toll or HOT lanes and to report its findings to the transportation committee of each house of the general assembly by February 1, 2010. SB0959
0378 Sunset Laws As enacted, terminates the board of employee assistance professionals. SB1032
0379 Criminal Procedure As enacted, requires district attorney general to complete and file uniform judgment document within 30 days after sentencing; requires that the document be signed by all parties, but if not signed by the parties, the clerk must make a copy of the document available to the parties before entry by the court. SB1638
0380 Taxes, Exemption and Credits As enacted, authorizes conveyance of certain property purchased at tax sale by Shelby County, or included municipality, to adjoining property owners upon actual or in-kind payments of property's fair market value. SB2090
0381 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement As enacted, requires posting of a bond in order for a non-participating manufacturer to be included in the directory of tobacco product manufacturers. SB2169
0382 Litter Control As enacted, requires county mayors to administer certain funds for litter control programs. SB2184
0383 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies As enacted, authorizes the commissioner of commerce and insurance to promulgate rules that require companies authorized to do business under the insurance laws, with the exception of those that write accident and health insurance, to file in the office of the commissioner an annual statement that provides information concerning the market conduct of the business for that year. SB2240
0384 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities As enacted, requires criminal background checks to be conducted for nursing direct care employees "prior to employment" instead of "prior to employment or within seven days of employment". HB0093
0385 Remedies and Special Proceedings As enacted, allows court to deny name change petition if court believes it is to defraud, not made in good faith, will cause injury, or compromises public safety. HB0527
0386 Criminal Offenses As enacted, defines "proceeds" for money laundering offenses to include gross profits from commission of any unlawful activity including real or personal property. HB0590
0387 Criminal Procedure As enacted, expands the offense of aiming a laser pointer or other device at a law enforcement officer to include aiming at firefighters, emergency medical technicians, or other emergency service personnel. HB0815
0388 Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) As enacted, specifies that governmental utility systems and nongovernmental utilities that enter into mutual assistance agreements for the purpose of providing aid or assistance to one another are eligible for reimbursement of all out-of-pocket costs incurred by the responding party; requires a separate agreement with regard to assistance provided to nongovernmental entities. HB0980
0389 Traffic Safety As enacted, prohibits surveillance cameras on federal interstate highways, except for Smart Way cameras, other intelligent transportation system cameras or, when employees of the department of transportation or construction workers are present, surveillance cameras used to enforce or monitor traffic violations within work zones designated by the department; provided, that such cameras may be operated only by a state entity; imposes certain requirements on a state agency or political subdivision of the state that installs, owns, operates, or maintains a traffic-control signal light located in an intersection that employs a surveillance camera for the enforcement or monitoring of traffic violations. HB1202
0390 Criminal Procedure As enacted, prohibits parent from being issued arrest warrant or criminal summons against teacher without written approval of district attorney if the conduct alleged involved the teacher and a child of such parent. HB1210
0391 Domestic Violence As enacted, designates the tenth division of the Shelby County general sessions court as the domestic violence court for Shelby County. HB1212
0392 Autopsies As enacted, extends from "within one year of July 1, 2008" to "within one year of July 1, 2011" the time within which a facility that performs autopsies must receive accreditation by the National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME). HB1353
0393 Garnishments and Executions As enacted, clarifies certain procedural elements of service of garnishments. HB1503
0394 Criminal Offenses As enacted, classifies intentionally causing the physical injury of a public employee or public or private transportation system employee while the employee is performing a duty within the scope of the public employee's employment or while the transportation system employee is performing an assigned duty on or related to the operation of a transit vehicle as aggravated assault and a Class A misdemeanor. HB1541
0395 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, excludes from the definition of "retail sale" in regard to alcoholic beverages (alcohol, spirits, liquor, wine) any transaction between a licensee and its employees in the normal course of employment for which no payment is expected or received and any depletions from a licensee's inventory related to routine business or marketing purposes where all applicable taxes have been paid; authorizes the manufacturer to make complimentary distributions on a periodic basis to its employees in the normal HB1583
0396 Courts, Appeal As enacted, exempts Wilson County from the requirement that appeals from the Probate Court (i.e., General Sessions Court acting as the Probate Court) must be heard anew in Chancery Court de novo. HB1592

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