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Chapter Number Subject Abstract Bill Number
0301 Election Laws As enacted, makes the use of precinct-based optical scanners by a county election commission discretionary instead of mandatory. HB0386
0302 Criminal Offenses As enacted, provides that aggravated criminal trespass is also committed if the trespasser destroys or vandalizes a gate, fence, lock or other barrier in order to gain entrance to the property. HB0583
0303 Taxes, Hotel Motel As enacted, authorizes Lexington, by ordinance adopted by a two-thirds vote, to levy an occupancy tax on the privilege of staying in any hotel or motel in Lexington; the ordinance to set the rate and further set forth the manner of collection and administration of the privilege tax; requires that all proceeds received by the municipality from the tax be deducted for tourism development. HB0587
0304 Sunset Laws As enacted, terminates the teacher evaluation advisory committee. HB0625
0305 Criminal Procedure As enacted, clarifies provisions governing victims assistance assessment. HB0693
0306 Criminal Offenses As enacted, changes the sentence for the offense of rape of a child from a minimum of 25 years to a minimum Range II sentence; permits a Range III sentence to be imposed if appropriate. HB0696
0307 Alcohol Offenses, Motor Vehicles As enacted, permits an officer to test the blood alcohol content of certain drivers regardless of whether they consent. HB0715
0308 Sexual Offenders As enacted, allows three or more sexual offenders to establish primary or secondary residence together if the property on which they live has been zoned for a use other than residential or mixed use by the appropriate local zoning laws. HB0808
0309 Criminal Procedure As enacted, provides that venue for the prosecution of the offense of promotion of methamphetamine manufacture is proper in any county in which a drug or chemical used to produce meth or an immediate meth precursor is purchased. HB0860
0310 Controlled Substances As enacted, revises various provisions regarding law enforcement access to the controlled substances database and the application process for such access. HB0954
0311 Election Laws As enacted, authorizes the coordinator of elections to review the county election commission in the administration of election laws; gives the coordinator certain powers in conducting an investigation or a review. HB1114
0312 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies As enacted, requires limited lines licensure for the sale or offer of coverage under a policy of portable electronics insurance. HB1267
0313 Child Abuse As enacted, allows a court to prohibit any person convicted of child abuse or aggravated child abuse from contacting such person's victim if the person does not have any parental rights to such victim, including contact via electronic means. HB1329
0314 Child Abuse As enacted, revises law regarding custody of abused children. HB1332
0315 Labor As enacted, broadens scope of violence in the workplace laws. HB1586
0316 Immigration As enacted, enacts the "Refugee Absorptive Capacity Act." HB1632
0317 Safety As enacted, revises certain provisions of law regarding electrical inspections and changes the date by which swimming pools have to be equipped with alarms. HB1713
0318 Tort Liability and Reform As enacted, includes certain nonprofit entities in Davidson County which operate in conjunction with a metropolitan hospital authority within the definition of "governmental entity" in the Governmental Tort Liability Act. HB1755
0319 Probation and Parole As enacted, clarifies that misdemeanor probation services may also be provided by a public company other than a municipality or county. HB1778
0320 Civil Procedure As enacted, increases the auctioneer's fee for sale of real property at public sale under any order or decree of any court from 6 percent to 8 percent. HB1858
0321 Taxes, Privilege As enacted, clarifies that a holder of an indebtedness has a duty to collect the tax imposed on the recordation of evidence of the indebtedness and to remit the tax as required by law. HB1924
0322 Criminal Offenses As enacted, provides that person who commits theft of services may be required to perform debris removal, cleanup, restoration or other necessary physical labor at the location within the area affected by a disaster or emergency, if the offense occurred: during or within 30 days following the occurrence of a tornado, flood, fire, or other disaster or emergency; within the area affected by the disaster or emergency; and when, as a result of the disaster or emergency, the owner of the property taken, or the person charged with custody of the property, is unable to adequately guard, secure or protect the property from theft. HB1946
0323 Election Laws As enacted, requires a voter to present qualified photographic identification before voting; voters without proper identification will be allowed to cast provisional ballots. SB0016
0324 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the board of nursing, June 30, 2011. SB0170
0325 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the department of finance and administration, June 30, 2016. SB0178
0326 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the human rights commission, June 30, 2013; requires the division of state audit to return to the human rights commission on November 1, 2011, to review actions taken by the commission to address the internal control issues raised in the fourth finding in the April 2011 performance audit report. SB0203
0327 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the department of transportation, June 30, 2016. SB0206
0328 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Tennessee criminal justice coordinating council, June 30, 2013. SB0226
0329 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends state procurement commission, state protest commission, and advisory council on state procurement, June 30, 2014. SB0232
0330 Local Government, General As enacted, authorizes local governments to establish community gardening programs. SB0609
0331 Children As enacted, directs the perinatal advisory committee within the department of health to study issues and policy options relating to hospital discharge and follow-up care procedures for premature infants born less than 37 weeks gestational age to ensure standardized and coordinated processes are followed as premature infants leave the hospital from either a Level 1 (well baby nursery), Level 2 (step down or transitional nursery) or Level 3 (neonatal intensive care unit) unit and transition to follow-up care by a healthcare provider in the community. SB0616
0332 Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency As enacted, authorizes TWRA to enter into partnership agreements with nonprofit organizations to promote agency goals and objectives including the development of marketing opportunities. SB0763
0333 Highway Signs As enacted, names "SPC Michael E. Harr Memorial Bridge" on S.R. 126 in Sullivan County. SB0813
0334 Highway Signs As enacted, names "Orville Depew 'Dick' Kitzmiller and Riley Lee Milhorn Memorial Bridge," on S.R. 75 in Sullivan County. SB0814
0335 Local Education Agencies As enacted, specifies that persons who are employed by an LEA in a position for which no teaching license is required must be hired at the will of the director of schools; requires local boards of education to develop policies for dismissing employees in positions for which no teaching license is required. SB0905
0336 Pensions and Retirement Benefits As enacted, increases from $10,000 to $50,000 the maximum amount of retirement benefits that may be paid in a lump sum to a state employee's surviving spouse or next of kin in the absence of knowledge of a purported will naming a surviving executor. SB1007
0337 Driver Licenses As enacted, subject to funding, authorizes honorably discharged veterans to have language or a symbol indicating their military service placed on their driver license; requires the department of veterans' affairs, in consultation with the department of safety, to develop appropriate language or military symbol. SB1023
0338 Game and Fish Laws As enacted, creates the commercial fishing advisory committee; requires TWRA to request approval from the Convention for the International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES) to establish a length limit of at least 36 inches and an annual season length no shorter than November 15 to April 15; requires TWRA to develop a plan to study sustainability, population conditions, and juvinal survival rates on waters not currently open to commercial roe fishing. SB1140
0339 Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency As enacted, specifies that the county executive of Roane County may designate a person from the office of the county sheriff or from the county office of emergency management to accompany an agent of TWRA when inspecting a Class I wildlife facility in Roane County. SB1192
0340 Physicians and Surgeons As enacted, regulates pain management clinics and requires that such clinics apply for certification as such a clinic with the department of health. SB1258
0341 Mining and Quarrying As enacted, prohibits an operator from engaging in rock harvesting without having first obtained a permit or a notice of coverage under a general permit from the commissioner of environment and conservation; imposes other requirements. SB1288
0342 Election Laws As enacted, requires any county election commission desiring to use ballot-on-demand technology to have approval by the coordinator of elections 60 days before any election; requires the coordinator of elections and the state election commission to provide an approved list of available ballot-on-demand technology vendors from which the county election commission must select for use. SB1431
0343 Revenue, Dept. of As enacted, allows taxpayers and the commissioner or the commissioner's delegate to enter into agreements extending the one-year statute of limitations period for filing suits in chancery court challenging denied claims for refund. SB1448
0344 Insurance, Health, Accident As enacted, removes provisions regarding the small employer carrier committee and risk-assuming and reinsuring carriers under the Tennessee Small Employer Group Health Coverage Reform Act and rewrites law regarding accident and sickness insurance rates. SB1539
0345 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities As enacted, extends the tax on intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded to July 15, 2013. SB1541
0346 State Government As enacted, creates the Tennessee interagency cash flow committee. SB1571
0347 School Districts, Special As enacted, permits a city and a special school district with coterminous boundaries to specify by contract that city funding for the district shall be used half for district operations and half for issuance of bonds and, upon agreement of the city legislative body and the school board at the time that the bonds are issued, proceeds of any such bond issue shall be used for maintenance and construction at schools existing at the time the bonds are issued. SB1602
0348 Criminal Offenses As enacted, includes entertainment services in services the theft of which constitutes theft of services; specifies that a person commits theft of services by intentionally obtaining services by forgery or false statement, in addition to deception, fraud, coercion, false pretense or any other means, to avoid payment for the services; specifies that victims may report violations and testify. SB1659
0349 General Assembly As enacted, changes time within which fiscal review committee must submit a fiscal note on legislation from within 7 days of introduction or request to within 10 days of introduction or request. SB1721
0350 Local Government, General As enacted, authorizes up to four special censuses in certain situations. SB1771
0351 Students As enacted, specifies that beginning with the 2011-2012 school year, a student in the third grade may not be promoted to the next grade level unless the student has shown a basic understanding of curriculum and ability to perform the skills required in the subject of reading as demonstrated by the student's grades or standardized test results; such student may be promoted if the student participates in an LEA approved research-based intervention prior to the beginning of the next school year; act does not apply to any student who has an IEP pursuant to the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. SB1776
0352 Sports As enacted, specifies that a person does not compromise their amateur status for purposes of the Tennessee Athletic Commission Act of 2008 by competing in an event held by a sanctioned olympic organization. SB1788
0353 Public Records As enacted, specifies that, under law regarding records open to public inspection, "public record" or "state record" does not include the device or equipment that may have been used to create or store a public or state record. SB1951
0354 Forfeiture of Assets As enacted, provides that real and personal property used in commission of human trafficking offenses is subject to judicial forfeiture seizure and provides for disposition of funds from forfeited assets. HB0171
0355 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the air pollution control board, June 30, 2011. HB0240
0356 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the board of dietitian/nutritionist examiners, June 30, 2011. HB0241
0357 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the board of examiners for architects and engineers, June 30, 2011. HB0242
0358 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the board of examiners for nursing home administrators, June 30, 2011. HB0243
0359 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the committee for clinical perfusionists, June 30, 2011. HB0246
0360 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the council for hearing instrument specialists, June 30, 2011. HB0247
0361 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the emergency medical services board, June 30, 2011. HB0250
0362 Criminal Offenses As enacted, broadens offense of harassment to include certain electronic communication with or about another person or transmission or display of certain images; in certain circumstances, allows law enforcement to access log files, images or communications posted on social network services' Web sites. HB0300
0363 Law Enforcement As enacted, establishes requirements for retired law enforcement officer to become certified to carry a firearm in this state in the same manner and to same extent as active law enforcement officer. HB0395
0364 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities As enacted, revises the trauma center funding law; includes licensed Level IV institutions in definition of trauma center. HB0515
0365 Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) As enacted, establishes job qualifications for directors of local emergency management agencies. HB0544
0366 Civil Procedure As enacted, establishes provisions governing survival of certain rights of actions in regard to a surviving spouse who has abandoned the deceased spouse. HB0789
0367 Bail, Bail Bonds As enacted, authorizes the use of a duplicate capias for the arrest or surrender of an individual when the clerk is unavailable to provide a certified capias. HB0962
0368 Tort Liability and Reform As enacted, removes a statutory reference to notice provisions of the Governmental Tort Liability Act that are no longer in existence; establishes certain immunity for local board of education and school official in regard to entry or use of school property by others outside of regularly scheduled school activities. HB1151
0369 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities As enacted, prohibits a health care institution that treats drug abuse patients from being held liable for any damages resulting from the introduction of harmful substances into an indwelling catheter placed in the patient, provided that the health care institution informs the patient of such immunity. HB1172
0370 Sheriffs As enacted, revises certain requirements which a person must meet in order to qualify for election or appointment to the office of sheriff; revises law regarding verification of POST certification of any person seeking the office of sheriff; and removes certain provisions regarding when a person runs for sheriff or is elected as sheriff and does not possess a current and valid peace officer certification. HB1190
0371 Highway Signs As enacted, designates segment of S.R. 68 in Monroe County as "Bob 'Single Wing' Harrill Memorial Highway." HB1243
0372 Education, Curriculum As enacted, requires the state board of education, in consultation with the department of education, to review the current elementary and secondary curriculum standards for the subject of United States and Tennessee government. HB1625
0373 Criminal Offenses As enacted, increases penalty for disorderly conduct within 500 feet of a funeral or memorial service from Class C misdemeanor to Class B misdemeanor. HB1869
0374 Housing As enacted, revises certain provisions of the "Neighborhood Preservation Act." HB1881
0375 Highway Signs As enacted, expresses intent to name certain bridge in Franklin County in honor of the late D. Alex Stephens. HB2116
0376 Unemployment Compensation As enacted, excludes periods of temporary total disability under the workers' compensation law from calculation of base period for purposes of unemployment compensation. SB0040
0377 Criminal Offenses As enacted, enhances penalties for patronizing prostitution and promoting prostitution in certain instances; provides immunity for minors arrested for prostitution. SB0064
0378 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel As enacted, enacts the "Professional Educators Collaborative Conferencing Act of 2011." SB0113
0379 DUI Offenses As enacted, increases the minimum time that a driver license may be revoked for third and fourth and subsequent DUI convictions from three and five years to six and eight years. SB0343
0380 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel As enacted, requires the state board of education, in consultation with the department of education, to review current policies, rules and regulations pertaining to transitional licensure options and make recommendations relative to certain items. SB0688
0381 Election Laws As enacted, changes the early voting period when a presidential preference primary is held or an election is held at the same time as a presidential preference primary, to not more than 20 days nor less than seven days before the day of the election, instead of not more than 20 nor less than five days before the day of the election. SB0923
0382 Taxes, Exemption and Credits As enacted, creates exemption from excise and franchise tax for entities owned by a branch of the U.S. armed forces that derive more than half of gross income from operation of facilities located on federally owned or leased property and operate primarily to benefit armed forces members. SB1161
0383 Tourism As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Adventure Tourism and Rural Development Act of 2011." SB1205
0384 Industrial Development As enacted, authorizes industrial development corporations located in municipalities in which urban brownfield redevelopment projects are located to prepare and submit economic impact plans for the development of such projects. SB1334
0385 Municipal Government As enacted, authorizes certain municipality located in a tier 3 enhancement county, acting through the authorization of the board of public utilities or other board or supervisory body having responsibility for the gas department or electric department, to loan funds from the gas department or electric department to an eligible industrial development corporation for the purpose of economic development or industrial development, or both, in certain circumstances. SB1348
0386 Election Laws As enacted, clarifies certain provisions governing the casting of a provisional ballot. SB1598
0387 Food and Food Products As enacted, authorizes the sale of nonpotentially hazardous foods that are prepared in home based kitchens at a person's personal residence, a community or social event, including church bazaars and festivals, and flea markets, in addition to authorizing the sale of such foods at farmer's markets; establishes other requirements. SB1850
0388 Agriculture As enacted, authorizes persons who are licensed to sell eggs to sell, offer, or expose for sale, or have in the person's possession for sale, all eggs produced by the person unless limited otherwise by federal law. SB1851
0389 Campaigns and Campaign Finance As enacted, increases contribution limits to reflect change in the CPI; allows corporations to contribute to candidates; revises certain other provisions regarding campaign funds. SB1915
0390 Public Employees As enacted, provides an unpaid leave of absence for members of the Tennessee state guard and civil air patrol. SB1996
0391 Unemployment Compensation As enacted, extends the period in which an eligible person may collect extended unemployment benefits pursuant to the federal Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010. HB2156
0392 Utilities, Utility Districts As enacted, revises various provisions regarding utility districts, water systems and wastewater systems including provisions governing a required bond and annual audit; revises law regarding the filling of vacancies on the board of commissioners of a utility district and the filling of vacancies in the office of a utility district commissioner and removes certain exceptions to various requirements regarding utility districts. SB0741
0393 Sexual Offenses As enacted, provides that offense of soliciting the sexual exploitation of a minor can be prosecuted in this state against person located outside the state if the person solicited a law enforcement officer posing as a minor located within this state. SB0069
0394 Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation As enacted, changes the number and qualifications of students, the selection process, and term length for appointment to the board of the Tennessee student assistance corporation. SB0077
0395 General Assembly As enacted, requires TBI to conduct background investigations for persons appointed by the speaker of the senate or the speaker of the house; limits number of such investigations to 15 per calendar year per speaker. SB0256
0396 Taxes, Exemption and Credits As enacted, increases the Hall income tax exemption for taxpayers 65 years of age or older to $26,200 for single filers and $37,000 for persons filing jointly beginning January 1, 2012. SB0261
0397 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration As enacted, establishes procedures for labeling a motor vehicle a "methamphetamine vehicle" on the title, due to its being used in the manufacturing of methamphetamine. SB0266
0398 Taxes, Sales As enacted, creates sales and use tax exemption for purchase of building supplies for construction of storm or tornado shelters purchased between July 1, 2011, and December 31, 2011. SB0267
0399 Criminal Offenses As enacted, creates Class A misdemeanor offenses regarding drawing and filing of deeds without actual ownership of property. SB0389
0400 Parks, Natural Areas Preservation As enacted, designates Old Forest in Shelby County as a Class II Natural-Scientific Area. SB0439

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