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Chapter Number | Subject | Abstract | Bill Number |
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0901 | Teachers, Principals and School Personnel | As enacted, requires the achievement school district to adopt an appropriate dress code for its professional employees. | HB2222 |
0902 | Tort Liability and Reform | As enacted, revises certain provisions regarding tort actions and damages. | HB2161 |
0903 | Highway Patrol | As enacted, authorizes certain retirees of the highway patrol to retain their badge and service weapon and require that such persons be issued a retired commission card. | HB1069 |
0904 | Unemployment Compensation | As enacted, requires department of labor and workforce development to implement an Internet-based system that allows employers to receive notices electronically and to submit separation information electronically; requires more information be included on unemployment insurance tax statement at request of employer. | HB3429 |
0905 | Education | As enacted, requires local boards of education to develop and implement an evaluation plan to be used annually for the director of schools; authorizes certain municipalities to request county election commission to conduct a referendum regarding creation of new school in certain circumstances. | HB1105 |
0906 | Emergency Communications Districts | As enacted, authorizes the provision of emergency medical services by providers in contiguous counties in certain circumstances. | SB0068 |
0907 | Motor Vehicles | As enacted, prohibits a passenger whose feet are not on footpegs from being on motorcycle. | SB0074 |
0908 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration | As enacted, clarifies that persons who reside in counties that do not require the display of a motor vehicle privilege tax decal on their license plates are not required to display any such decal. | SB0668 |
0909 | Schools, Charter | As enacted, specifies that charter schools may promote or retain students based upon the students' demonstrated skills on the TCAP tests or upon their grades. | SB2156 |
0910 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, creates Class A misdemeanor offense of knowingly or recklessly maiming or harming a service animal and the Class C misdemeanor of interfering with a service dog in the performance of its duties and provides for restitution to the handler of the dog. | SB2179 |
0911 | Controlled Substances | As enacted, adds offenses the conviction of which requires the offender to be on the methamphetamine registry, makes registry retroactive and revises procedure by which methamphetamine-related convictions are transmitted to TBI from clerk's office. | SB2190 |
0912 | Welfare | As enacted, revises provisions governing eligibility for temporary assistance; makes provision of transportation assistance discretionary instead of mandatory. | SB2224 |
0913 | Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies | As enacted, creates a rebuttable presumption that when an applicant for or party to an insurance contract signs an application, amendment, or other document stating the type, amount, or terms and conditions of coverage, the statements provided by the signatory bind all insureds under the contract and that the signatory has read, understands, and accepts the contents of the signed document; creates a rebuttable presumption that when an insured pays a premium the coverage provided has been accepted by all insureds under the contract. | SB2271 |
0914 | Purchasing | As enacted, revises provisions regarding cooperative purchasing agreements and county government purchasing in regard to the utilization of pricing discounts. | SB2289 |
0915 | Controlled Substances | As enacted, adds to the list of persons that may receive information from the controlled substance database any quality improvement committee of a licensed hospital, as part of the committee's confidential and privileged activities with respect to the evaluation, supervision or discipline of a healthcare provider employed by the hospital or any of its affiliates or subsidiaries, who is known or suspected by the hospital's administrator to be prescribing controlled substances for the prescriber's personal use. | SB2407 |
0916 | Health, Dept. of | As enacted, enacts "The Henry Granju Act," which creates new reporting requirements related to drug overdoses. | SB2416 |
0917 | Guardianship | As enacted, makes the charging of costs against the respondent's estate permissive rather than mandatory when a conservator is appointed; adds to the requirements for the information that must be included in a petition for the appointment of a conservator. | SB2519 |
0918 | Education | As enacted, requires that an interest inventory be available to all public middle schoolers or ninth graders and to all public college students beginning with their freshman year to assist the students in career decisions; requires the LEAs and post secondary institutions to annually send summary data obtained from the interest inventories and personality profiles administered under the bill to the state board of education. | SB2591 |
0919 | DUI Offenses | As enacted, increases penalty for violation of DUI statute when child under 18 is in the vehicle to require that the mandatory minimum 30-day sentence for this offense be served consecutive to any sentence received for a violation of specified other alcohol-related offenses. | SB2607 |
0920 | Special License Plates | As enacted, authorizes issuance of Tennessee Federation of Garden Clubs and Wilson County - The Place to Be! special license plates; extends deadline for National Civil Rights Museum and Tennessee veterans special license plates to meet minimum order requirement. | SB2617 |
0921 | Correction, Dept. of | As enacted, requires the department of correction to study how to reduce the state's correctional healthcare costs. | SB2712 |
0922 | Tort Liability and Reform | As enacted, codifies the liability of a landowner to a trespasser. | SB2719 |
0923 | Economic and Community Development | As enacted, requires the state agency responsible for processing applications for grant funds relating to workforce development to accept electronic signatures in the same manner as it accepts physical signatures. | SB2727 |
0924 | Controlled Substances | As enacted, permits county medical examiners to access the controlled substance database, absolves civil and criminal liability for authorized users acting in good faith within the proscribed limits, and establishes a presumption of good faith action where a medical examiner accesses the information for the purpose of conducting an investigation into a death or making a report as required by the duties of the position. | SB2776 |
0925 | General Assembly | As enacted, corrects references remaining in TCA to oversight committees that were abolished by Chapter 410 of the Public Acts of 2011. | SB2784 |
0926 | Malpractice | As enacted, specifies that upon the filing of any healthcare liability action, the named defendant may petition the court for a qualified protective order allowing the defendant and their attorneys the right to obtain protected health information during interviews, outside the presence of claimant or claimant's counsel, with the relevant patient's treating healthcare providers. | SB2789 |
0927 | Public Works Projects | As enacted, revises the provisions governing the threshold for public works that require a registered architect, registered engineer, or registered landscape architect. | SB2871 |
0928 | Judgments | As enacted, requires that, if a court wrongly grants a default decision imposing an obligation for child support from or against an eligible individual protected under the federal Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, the court must issue an order to the individual receiving funds that the funds be returned and reimbursed. | SB2911 |
0929 | Corporations, For Profit | As enacted, revises and adds to the considerations that the attorney general must make when deciding whether to object to a proposed public benefit hospital conveyance transaction. | SB2912 |
0930 | Jails, Local Lock-ups | As enacted, directs the board of the Tennessee corrections institute to establish criteria for determining whether to waive the minimum qualification standards to employ a jail administrator, workhouse administrator, jailer, corrections officer or guard in county jail or workhouse; and prohibits waivers for employees dishonorably discharged from the military, suffering from mental illness, convicted of domestic assault or any felony conviction. | SB2920 |
0931 | Criminal Procedure | As enacted, provides that as part of a defendant's alternative sentencing for a violation of domestic assault, the sentencing judge may direct the defendant to complete a drug or alcohol treatment program or available counseling programs that address violence and control issues including, but not limited to, a batterer's intervention program that has been certified by the domestic violence state coordinating council. | SB2988 |
0932 | Drugs, Prescription | As enacted, requires the board of pharmacy to publish a list of opioid drugs incorporating tamper or abuse resistance properties. | SB3003 |
0933 | Board of Regents | As enacted, allows the court to award back pay to a tenured faculty member whose dismissal the court finds was not appropriate. | SB3023 |
0934 | Education | As enacted, authorizes local boards of education to receive federal or private grants for educational purposes; specifies the process for the making of such grants. | SB3044 |
0935 | Emergency Communications Districts | As enacted, defines "Public Safety Answering Point" or "PSAP" to mean a facility that receives 911 calls and routes them to emergency services personnel. | SB3061 |
0936 | Public Contracts | As enacted, revises provisions governing the extension of a contract to provide correctional services. | SB3096 |
0937 | Taxes, Exemption and Credits | As enacted, creats a credit against the excise tax for a qualifying environmental project, which is a project in which the taxpayer makes an investment in excess of $100 million to eliminate mercury from the manufacturing process and operations of one or more existing chlor-alkali manufacturing and ancillary facilities and equipment in the state. | SB3174 |
0938 | State Employees | As enacted, allows state employee upon retirement to keep such employee's photo identification card issued by the state; requires sticker or other designation to be placed on the card; specifies such card may be used as valid photo id for voting purposes. | SB3195 |
0939 | Pensions and Retirement Benefits | As enacted, creates additional plans through which political subdivisions of the state may participate in the Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System (TCRS). | SB3216 |
0940 | Unemployment Compensation | As enacted, specifies that a discharge from employment will be deemed to be a discharge for misconduct connected with the claimant's work, which disqualifies the discharged employee from eligibility for unemployment benefits in connection with the job from which the employee was discharged, when it results after a claimant entered into a written agreement with an employer to obtain a license or certification by a specified date as a condition of employment and subsequently the claimant willfully fails without good cause to obtain such license or certification by the specified date. | SB3241 |
0941 | Pensions and Retirement Benefits | As enacted, revises various provisions regarding investment of Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System (TCRS) assets. | SB3262 |
0942 | Public Funds and Financing | As enacted, changes requirements for federal home loan banks in regard to the issuance of letters of credit as eligible collateral for public funds to require that the banks be rated "investment grade" by at least one nationally recognized securities rating service instead of being rated in the highest category by at least two nationally recognized securities rating services. | SB3217 |
0943 | Courts | As enacted, directs the administrative office of the courts (AOC) to study the feasibility of establishing specialized veterans' courts in Tennessee. | SB3222 |
0944 | Industrial Development | As enacted, includes land, improvements, and machinery used or suitable for use in the production, treatment, processing, or transportation of biofuels and other similar products in the definition of "project" under the provisions governing projects by industrial development corporations. | SB3233 |
0945 | Dentists and Dentistry | As enacted, revises various provisions governing dental hygienists. | SB3269 |
0946 | Comptroller, State | As enacted, requires any state agency having determined that a theft, forgery, credit card fraud or any other intentional act of unlawful or unauthorized taking, or abuse of public money, property, services, or, that other cash shortages have occurred in the state agency, must report the information to the office of the comptroller of the treasury. | SB3331 |
0947 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, revises various provisions of law regarding the selling of alcoholic beverages, such as revising present law regarding tastings of complimentary samples of alcoholic beverages and revising present law regarding the privilege taxes on limited service restaurants, among other provisions. | SB3358 |
0948 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration | As enacted, includes mini-trucks in the definition of medium-speed vehicles; allows mini-trucks to be titled and registered as medium-speed vehicles. | SB3403 |
0949 | State Employees | As enacted, provides that the disciplinary counsel for the court of the judiciary is a state employee for purposes of defense by the attorney general when a civil action is commenced for an act or omission performed during the course of duties for the court of judiciary. | SB3594 |
0950 | Sentencing | As enacted, requires that a person convicted of committing a dangerous felony involving a firearm who is subsequently convicted of the same serve a minimum of 15 years imprisonment at 100 percent. | SB3629 |
0951 | Criminal Procedure | As enacted, clarifies that a defendant cannot get records expunged if convicted of an offense other than the charged offense or convicted of one offense in a multi-count indictment, including lesser included offenses. | SB3642 |
0952 | State Government | As enacted, authorizes certain departments, boards and other governmental entities to allow holders of licenses, certifications or registrations to be notified by electronic mail of renewals, fee increases and changes in the law and of any meeting where changes in rules or fees are on the agenda. | SB3644 |
0953 | Judges and Chancellors | As enacted, requires speakers to appoint all nine members of the judicial evaluation commission since the judicial council no longer exists. | SB3652 |
0954 | Game and Fish Laws | As enacted, enacts the "Hunter Wright Hunting and Fishing Act," which authorizes the director of the TWRA to issue an annual sport combination hunting and fishing license upon payment of a $5.00 fee to Tennessee residents who are minors and who are disabled. | SB3655 |
0955 | Election Laws | As enacted, authorizes recognized minor party the option to nominate all offices by primary or by rules of the party; if they nominate by primary election, the petition for recognition must be filed by the qualifying deadline; if they nominate by any other means, the petition for recognition must be filed 90 days prior to the general election; revises other provisions relating to candidates. | SB3700 |
0956 | Education, Higher | As enacted, requires that an application for a position of chief executive officer of a public institution of higher education, materials submitted with an application, letters of recommendation or references concerning an applicant, and any other records or information relating to or arising out of the process of searching for and selecting an individual for a position of chief executive officer of a public institution of higher education be treated as confidential and not open for public inspection, if the records could be used to identify a candidate for the position; enacts other provisions regarding information for such candidates. | SB3751 |
0957 | State Government | As enacted, revises various provisions regarding the Tennessee Local Development Authority and its authority to allocate on behalf of the state the portion of the "national qualified energy conservation bond limitation," as defined in federal law, that is allocated to the state. | SB3759 |
0958 | Public Employees | As enacted, creates a presumption that HIV acquired by emergency medical worker was suffered in the line of duty unless the contrary is shown by preponderance of the evidence. | SB0720 |
0959 | Parks, Natural Areas Preservation | As enacted, authorizes the appropriation of the yearly interest and earnings of the natural resources trust fund for reimbursement of greenbelt rollback taxes assessed against a county or municipal government as the result of acquisition of land for a park; if the land is not used as a park for 10 years or more, the county or municipality must repay the amount of the reimbursement to the fund. | SB0948 |
0960 | Courts | As enacted, provides that on or before October 1, 2012, any person who provides satisfactory proof that such person graduated from a court reporting program in this state prior to January 1, 2012, will be licensed to practice as a court reporter. | SB1197 |
0961 | Physicians and Surgeons | As enacted, establishes requirements for the supervision of nurses and physician assistants by certain physicians when engaged in interventional pain management. | SB1935 |
0962 | Education | As enacted, revises various provisions governing school accountability and achievement school district. | SB2208 |
0963 | Human Services, Dept. of | As enacted, directs the commissioner to develop a plan for Tennessee to assist in rehabilitating victims of human trafficking. | SB2370 |
0964 | Beer | As enacted, requires beer boards to file annual reports with the alcoholic beverage commission concerning certain information. | SB2420 |
0965 | DNA and Genetic Testing | As enacted, adds five homicide offenses to the list of violent offenses for which a DNA sample is taken and stored in the database upon arrest rather than conviction. | SB2667 |
0966 | Public Officials | As enacted, revises and enacts provisions governing public officials receiving a benefit not otherwise authorized by law. | SB2788 |
0967 | Education, Higher | As enacted, revises various provisions regarding cooperative innovative programs. | SB2809 |
0968 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, removes obsolete provisions; creates license for military personnel living abroad to ship wine to this state. | SB2845 |
0969 | Professions and Occupations | As enacted, revises and enacts various provisions governing scrap metal dealers. | SB2895 |
0970 | Municipal Government | As enacted, specifies that from and after the effective date of the transfer of the administration of the schools in a special school district to the county board of education pursuant to present law, then the restrictions on the creation of new municipal school districts will no longer apply with such a county. | SB2908 |
0971 | Health Care | As enacted, revises provisions governing the long-term care system. | SB2929 |
0972 | Fees | As enacted, creates the local correctional officer training fund through the collection of a 10-cent fee for each completed telephone call or other electronic communication made by inmates housed in local jails or workhouses. | SB3207 |
0973 | Education, Curriculum | As enacted, requires that a family life education curriculum comply with certain restrictions. | SB3310 |
0974 | Public Officials | As enacted, revises provisions governing bonds required of certain public officials. | SB3330 |
0975 | Taxes, Hotel Motel | As enacted, authorizes the city of Newport to impose a tax on the privilege of occupancy. | SB3458 |
0976 | Education, Higher | As enacted, provides that nothing in present law regarding vocational services for the blind/blind vendors will limit the ability of an institution that is governed by the University of Tennessee or the state university and college system to contract for food services (cafeterias, restaurants, food courts and catering services) in new buildings or on new campuses provided that a site suitable to the institution, after consultation with the department, is also made available for a blind vendor to manage and operate automated vending machines and/or a counter service as jointly agreed to by the institution and department in the new building or on the new campus. | SB3503 |
0977 | Criminal Procedure | As enacted, authorizes the county legislative body to set the fee for participation in the litter removal program by first-time DUI offenders and permits the judge to find a person indigent for purposes of paying that fee. | SB3513 |
0978 | Health Care | As enacted, revises various provisions governing adult care home providers in regard to traumatic brain injury. | SB3535 |
0979 | Taxes, Real Property | As enacted, allows notice by delivery service alternatives to certified or registered mail, return receipt requested as authorized by federal law in regard to notice to a taxpayer of a tax lien suit. | SB3596 |
0980 | Environment and Conservation, Department of | As enacted, requires the commissioner to prepare semiannual permitting efficiency reports that include statistics on whether the department has timely acted on permit applications pursuant to the appropriate rule, beginning in 2013. | SB3653 |
0981 | Tattoos and Piercings | As enacted, revises and enacts provisions governing the tattooing of minors. | SB3663 |
0982 | Clerks, Court | As enacted, authorizes certain counties to levy a $1.00 litigation tax on each petition, warrant and citation to fund victim-offender mediation centers and initiatives. | SB3743 |
0983 | Tort Liability and Reform | As enacted, provides immunity from civil liability for injuries to an ice skater for ice skating rink operators, in certain circumstances; does not limit the liability of an ice skating rink operator who engages in behavior that amounts to gross negligence, or willful or wanton conduct. | HB0182 |
0984 | Municipal Government | As enacted, revises the municipal gas system tax equivalent law. | HB1376 |
0985 | Fire Prevention and Investigation | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Prescribed Burning Act." | HB1572 |
0986 | State Government | As enacted, revises various provisions governing the structure of certain state agencies, committees, boards and commissions. | HB2387 |
0987 | Sentencing | As enacted, revises punishment for convictions for domestic assault. | HB2389 |
0988 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the department of environment and conservation, June 30, 2015. | HB2506 |
0989 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the department of general services, June 30, 2017. | HB2513 |
0990 | Education | As enacted, requires schools to notify parents, by way of student handbooks or policy guidebooks, of school-associated extracurricular activities and gives parents the opportunity to prohibit their child from participating. | HB2548 |
0991 | Education | As enacted, with certain exceptions, requires that children entering kindergarten be five years of age on or before August 31 for the 2013-2014 school year and on or before August 15 for all school years thereafter; if the director of schools finds through evaluation and testing, at the request of the parent or legal guardian, that a child who is five years of age on or before September 30 is sufficiently mature emotionally and academically, then the child may be permitted to enter kindergarten. | HB2566 |
0992 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, revises certain criminal provisions and requirements for schools in regard to bullying and harassment. | HB2641 |
0993 | Wildlife Resources Commission | As enacted, replaces the Tennessee wildlife resources commission (TWRC) with a 13-member fish and wildlife commission. | HB2776 |
0994 | Bail, Bail Bonds | As enacted, requires persons who have previously failed to appear in court as scheduled to post money or real estate as security for a bail bond. | HB2812 |
0995 | Election Laws | As enacted, specifies that for a municipal election not held in conjunction with any other election, if a polling place is located outside of the boundaries of a municipality but the precinct the polling place serves includes residents of the municipality, then the election commission may designate a polling place outside, but closest to the geographic precinct within the limits of the municipality, the precinct it is to serve. | HB2844 |
0996 | Sexual Offenders | As enacted, provides that if a sexual offender is not incarcerated at the time of sentencing, the offender is to report to a probation officer for the purpose of giving a DNA specimen; provides that cost of sample is to be paid by the offender. | HB2854 |
0997 | Criminal Procedure | As enacted, specifies that when a court orders a defendant charged with a misdemeanor to be evaluated for insanity or mental illness, the court must also order that any inpatient evaluation be completed within 30 days of admission to the facility. | HB2962 |
0998 | Clerks, Court | As enacted, authorizes clerks with electronic filing systems to charge $120 for each registered user of the system and to institute an 8-cent per page copy transaction fee; fee not applicable to the state; specifies that in any court where electronic filing, signing, or verification of papers has been authorized by local court rule, the state and any department or contractor of the state would not be required to file documents electronically, notwithstanding any local court rule. | HB3051 |
0999 | Education | As enacted, revises and enacts various provisions regarding virtual schools. | HB3062 |
1000 | Naming and Designating | As enacted, names field house at York Institute in honor of Charles Joseph Vaughn. | HB3093 |