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Chapter Number | Subject | Abstract | Bill Number |
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0501 | Tobacco, Tobacco Products | As enacted, makes it a Class C misdemeanor for a person to sell or distribute an electronic cigarette to another person who has not attained 18 years of age or to purchase an electronic cigarette on behalf of such person under 18 years of age. | HB1729 |
0502 | Employees, Employers | As enacted, specifies that the right to a secret ballot in union certification elections will only apply to extent that secret ballots are permissible under state or federal law and that, in any such elections where secret ballots are permissible, no alternative means of designation may be used as convincing evidence of employee majority support; such right may not be waived by means of an agreement between a union and an employer; not applicable to union contracts entered into before July 1, 2011, or that involve both employees within and without Tennessee when the employer conducted business within Tennessee before July 1, 2011. | HB1747 |
0503 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, includes East Fork Stables in the definition of premier type tourist resort for purposes of the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption; designates certain other facility as premier type tourist resort for purposes of sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption. | HB1748 |
0504 | Judgments | As enacted, provides for revocation of driver license for nonpayment of litigation taxes, court costs or fines in certain circumstances; provides payment plan option and hardship exemption. | HB1877 |
0505 | Civil Procedure | As enacted, revises provisions governing description of property in notice of judicial or trust sale; authorizes the postponement and rescheduling of a foreclosure sale without further newspaper publication under certain circumstances, unless prohibited by contract. | HB1920 |
0506 | Board of Regents | As enacted, enacts the "Kristen Azevedo Act" regarding background checks on persons applying to work at higher education institution in housing facilities who will have access to student rooms or apartments. | HB1951 |
0507 | Schools, Charter | As enacted, revises various provisions of law regarding public charter schools, including provisions regarding the governing body of a public charter school, public charter school applications, and funding for public charter schools. | HB1956 |
0508 | Taxes | As enacted, revises various provisions of law governing taxes, including certain sales tax and franchise/excise tax credit provisions. | HB1995 |
0509 | Public Funds and Financing | As enacted, revises certain provisions of law necessary for implementation of appropriations act, including authorizing and prohibiting the transfer of certain funds; terminating the local planning assistance section of the department of economic and community development; and clarifying the duties of certain governmental entities. | HB2138 |
0510 | Civil Procedure | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Civil Justice Act of 2011." | HB2008 |
0511 | Redistricting, Legislative | As enacted, establishes state house of representatives districts. | HB1555 |
0512 | Redistricting, Congressional | As enacted, establishes the state's congressional districts. | HB1558 |
0513 | Animal Control | As enacted, in regard to forfeited deposits to spay or neuter program, specifies that in Hawkins County forfeited deposits will be used to defray operational expenses of the programs, including, but not limited to, costs for purchasing food, medications, tests, upgrades for the animal housing areas, or any other supplies or products that would improve the quality of life for dogs or cats in such programs, but may not be used to pay salaries of persons employed by any agency located within the county. | HB0208 |
0514 | Redistricting, Legislative | As enacted, establishes state senate districts. | SB1514 |
0515 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, adds Cocke County to those counties where distilleries may be located without conducting an additional referendum if within the boundaries of the county both retail package sales and liquor-by-the-drink have been approved through voter referendum. | HB2035 |
0516 | Advertising | As enacted, revises provisions governing the annual renewal of outdoor advertising permits. | SB2244 |
0517 | Codes | As enacted, adopts the 2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design as the standards to be followed to make a building accessible to those with physical disabilities when constructing or altering a public building. | SB2203 |
0518 | Courts | As enacted, deletes the provisions relating to the defense of unclean hands. | SB2360 |
0519 | Licenses | As enacted, requires licenses issued by the department of commerce and insurance and licenses required to work as athlete agents, lobbyists, and K-12 public school teachers to be denied, suspended, or revoked, if student loans are not paid. | SB0551 |
0520 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the Tennessee tobacco farmers certifying board, June 30, 2014. | SB2336 |
0521 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the state forestry commission, June 30, 2017. | SB2334 |
0522 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the civil defense and disaster compact, June 30, 2017. | SB2333 |
0523 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the emergency management assistance compact, June 30, 2017. | SB2332 |
0524 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the interstate earthquake compact of 1988, June 30, 2017. | SB2331 |
0525 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the Tennessee emergency management agency, June 30, 2017. | SB2330 |
0526 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends Tennessee residence commission, June 30, 2017. | SB2329 |
0527 | Sunset Laws | As introduced, extends the Tennessee financial literacy commission, June 30, 2017. | SB2326 |
0528 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the Tennessee life and health insurance guaranty association, June 30, 2017. | SB2320 |
0529 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Compact of 2007, June 30, 2017. | SB2319 |
0530 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities, June 30, 2014. | SB2312 |
0531 | Motor Vehicles | As enacted, removes the requirement that certain accident reports be in writing; revises other various provisions governing motor vehicle accident reports. | SB2236 |
0532 | Law Enforcement | As enacted, extends provisions regarding employee compensation and indemnification for officers killed in the line of duty to police officers employed by the state. | SB2204 |
0533 | Highway Signs | As enacted, designates segment of S.R. 374 in Clarksville as "Officers David Scott and Yamil Baez-Santiago Memorial Parkway." | SB2125 |
0534 | Banks and Financial Institutions | As enacted, alters and adds limits to acquisition and installment account handling charges for loans. | HB2604 |
0535 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, makes it a Class A misdemeanor for a person to engage in camping on property owned by the state knowing that the area on which the camping occurs is not specifically designated for use as a camping area by the department or agency responsible for such land. | HB2638 |
0536 | Naming and Designating | As enacted, names Murfreesboro National Guard Armory in honor of the late First Lieutenant William Eric Emmert. | SB2159 |
0537 | Public Contracts | As enacted, requires the chief procurement officer to develop a transition plan by "April 1, 2012", instead of "October 1, 2011", and corrects various typographical errors in provisions governing the procurement office and the authorized entity to promulgate rules. | SB2255 |
0538 | Utilities, Utility Districts | As enacted, revises provisions governing the filling of vacancies occurring on the board of commissioners of certain multi-county utility districts. | SB2170 |
0539 | Safety | As enacted, exempts ambulances from requirement that each for-hire motor carrier providing passenger transportation service in a motor vehicle or motor vehicles designed or constructed to accommodate and transport eight or more passengers, or any motor vehicle transporting passengers who are TennCare enrollees eligible for such transportation services under TennCare, maintain at least $1,000,000 in liability insurance, drug test operators, conduct biennial physical exams of operators, and conduct annual safety examinations. | SB0524 |
0540 | Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies | As enacted, establishes certain requirements regarding netting agreements and qualified financial contracts. | SB0465 |
0541 | Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities, Dept. of | As enacted, authorizes department to allow unlicensed individuals employed by licensed facilities to follow universal "do not resuscitate" orders in certain circumstances. | HB2365 |
0542 | Driver Licenses | As enacted, establishes that the submission of certain documents is considered compliance with certain requirements for reinstatement of driver license. | HB2376 |
0543 | Special License Plates | As enacted, creates a "Tennessee Tennis" new specialty earmarked license plate; 50 percent of the proceeds from the sale of the plates earmarked for Tennessee Tennis Association to promote and develop the growth of tennis in Tennessee. | HB2455 |
0544 | Public Funds and Financing | As enacted, allows use of federally-insured deposits instead of certificate of deposit. | HB2561 |
0545 | Special License Plates | As enacted, authorizes issuance of special license plates for concerns of police survivors (COPS). | HB2756 |
0546 | Special License Plates | As enacted, authorizes issuance of new specialty earmarked license plates for East Tennessee Children's Hospital; and allocates 50 percent of the proceeds from such plates to the hospital. | HB2598 |
0547 | Highway Signs | As enacted, prohibits outdoor advertising on state route 840 in Williamson County from state route 246 to one mile from the intersection with state route 100; clarifies that former Interstate 181 in Washington and Sullivan counties is now called Interstate 26. | HB2886 |
0548 | Comptroller, State | As enacted, provides for electronic, in addition to telephonic, notifications under the Advocacy for Honest and Appropriate Government Spending Act. | HB2397 |
0549 | Capital Punishment | As enacted, requires the warden to permit three relatives or close friends of a victim to attend an execution where no surviving immediate family members of the victim over age 18 exist. | HB2405 |
0550 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the Tennessee council for career and technical education, June 30, 2017. | HB2545 |
0551 | Education | As enacted, specifies that an elementary school is any school serving any combination of kindergarten through grade "six," instead of "eight," and a middle school is any "school," instead of "elementary school," designed to serve grades 5 - 8 only, or any combination of grades 5 - 8; defines a "secondary school" as a school that provides secondary education and defines "secondary education" as education normally available and required by state standards to be taught to children enrolled in grades 7 - 12. | HB2653 |
0552 | Food and Food Products | As enacted, requires that sorghum molasses sold or offered for sale in Tennessee must be labeled as 100 percent pure or not pure; authorizes any person who suffers an injury or death, or an ascertainable loss of money or property, as a result of a violation of the bill to bring an action individually to recover actual damages. | HB2665 |
0553 | Special License Plates | As enacted, expands authorization of new specialty earmarked license plates for Sons of Confederate Veterans to include issuance of such plates for motorcycles. | SB2169 |
0554 | Public Contracts | As enacted, increases from $75,000 to $150,000 the dollar amount of leases that require approval by the attorney general and state building commission; requires the state architect to post certain information on the state architect's web site, with regard to any proposed lease of property by or to the state that is less than five years or costs less than $150,000 per year or such other amount as determined by the state building commission. | SB2220 |
0555 | Students | As enacted, requires the department of safety to report annually to the senate and house education committees the number of students whose driver licenses were suspended for failure to make satisfactory academic progress; also requires reporting of the number of students whose licenses were reinstated during the school year after such students had their licenses suspended and the total number of licenses granted to students during the school year. | SB0882 |
0556 | Public Health | As enacted, directs the genetic advisory committee to develop a program to screen newborns for critical cyanotic congenital heart disease; the screening program must make use of pulse oximetry and be developed by January 1, 2013. | SB0065 |
0557 | Capitol | As enacted, authorizes secretary of state to produce a virtual tour of the state capitol, capitol annexes and grounds and to publish the virtual tour on the web sites of the general assembly and secretary of state; authorizes secretary of state to distribute the virtual tour on electronic media, through the state library and archives, to public and private K-12 schools. | SB3194 |
0558 | Education | As enacted, continues the career and technical class size extension pilot project in the Metro Nashville public schools; provides that the pilot shall only be used in schools or programs implementing the career academy or small learning community model. | SB2883 |
0559 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, creates sunrise provision for the interstate nurse licensure compact, June 30, 2014. | SB2799 |
0560 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, repeals the cemetery advisory board. | SB2798 |
0561 | Highway Signs | As enacted, includes I-26 in Unicoi County within Purple Heart Trail. | SB2752 |
0562 | Banks and Financial Institutions | As enacted, allows securities or investment accounts held by bank trust departments to have a payable on death designated beneficiary. | SB2702 |
0563 | Travel Regulations | As enacted, authorizes the issuance of overdimensional permits by TDOT to certain qualified vehicles to travel on the interstate at night. | SB2650 |
0564 | Consumer Protection | As enacted, authorizes a mattress manufacturer, wholesaler or retailer to offer a comfort exchange policy pursuant to the sale of a mattress; includes a mattress returned pursuant to such a policy in definition of secondhand. | SB2644 |
0565 | Unemployment Compensation | As enacted, conforms language under the employment security law concerning amount of retainage by a contractor entering into a contract with the state or local governments to conform to 5 percent as authorized generally for contractors. | SB2561 |
0566 | State Government | As enacted, provides for the designation of the Tennessee Day of Prayer as the first Thursday in May of each calendar year. | SB2516 |
0567 | State Symbols | As enacted, establishes the eastern red cedar as the official state evergreen tree. | SB2362 |
0568 | Motor Vehicles | As enacted, enacts "The BWC 5 Act," which requires recreational vehicles leased to consumers to have working carbon monoxide detectors; requires all lease agreements for RVs to state that the vehicle is equipped with a working detector; allows court costs and attorney's fees in civil suits for damages from failure to comply with this requirement. | SB2357 |
0569 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the department of children's services, June 30, 2014. | SB2315 |
0570 | Highway Signs | As enacted, names bridge on S.R. 7 in Maury County in honor of the late John Newton Woody. | SB2296 |
0571 | Taxes | As enacted, clarifies that a taxpayer may request the assessor to mitigate a forced assessment by reducing the forced assessment to the standard depreciated value of the taxpayer's assessable property plus 25 percent. | SB2260 |
0572 | Public Funds and Financing | As enacted, extends to June 30, 2016, the authorization for the state funding board to sell bonds at private sale permanent, which authorization is scheduled to expire June 30, 2012. | SB2258 |
0573 | Regional Authorities and Special Districts | As enacted, requires submission of certain reports and notices in regard to watershed districts. | SB2257 |
0574 | Holidays and Days of Special Observance | As enacted, designates March 3 of each year to be observed as "Tennessee National Guard Day." | SB2231 |
0575 | Mental Health, Dept. of | As enacted, changes the name of the department to the "department of mental health and substance abuse services." | SB2229 |
0576 | Taxes, Franchise | As enacted, revises various provisions regarding the job tax credit given for new full-time employee jobs filled by a person with disabilities who is receiving state services directly related to such disabilities. | SB2213 |
0577 | Privacy, Confidentiality | As enacted, classifies as a confidential record the emergency contact information for any state, county, municipal or other public employee or former employee, or of any law enforcement officer in the employ of a public college or university. | SB2198 |
0578 | Comptroller, State | As enacted, changes references from "county audit division" to "comptroller of the treasury" and "department of audit" in provisions regarding judicial information system advisory committee members; the county financial management system; and audits of the solid waste authority. | SB2197 |
0579 | Education, Curriculum | As enacted, enacts the "Carmen Burnette Act of 2012," which requires cardiopulmonary resuscitation programs to implement hands-on practice and skills testing to support cognitive learning, as opposed to merely cognitive training. | SB1680 |
0580 | Highway Signs | As enacted, names bridge in Dickson County in honor of the late Lt. Col. Malcolm Glenn Hicks, USAF. | SB2385 |
0581 | Highway Signs | As enacted, names bridge in Sullivan County in honor of the late Richard Lee Edwards, Sr. | SB2477 |
0582 | Statutes and Codification | As enacted, codifies the Acts of the 2011 legislative session. | SB2183 |
0583 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the Four Lake regional industrial developmental authority, June 30, 2014. | HB0629 |
0584 | Special License Plates | As enacted, extends until June 30, 2013, for Donate Life new specialty earmarked license plates to obtain the minimum number of orders for issuance of such license plate. | HB2833 |
0585 | Education, Curriculum | As enacted, requires the office of research and education accountability and the department of health to do studies on HIV/AIDS prevention curricula; requires department to survey other state health departments' HIV/AIDS public outreach and education programs. | HB2414 |
0586 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the state capitol commission, June 30, 2017; revises certain provisions governing appointments to the board. | HB2542 |
0587 | Special License Plates | As enacted, authorizes issuance of Almost Home Animal Rescue new specialty earmarked license plates; allocates 50 percent of funds derived from sale thereof to such organization to rescue and relocate animals scheduled for euthanasia. | SB3353 |
0588 | Railroads | As enacted, extends the requirements for stopping at a railroad crossing when a railroad train is approaching to apply to situations when either a railroad train or any other on-track equipment traveling on a railroad track is approaching; failure to stop for on-track equipment will be a Class C misdemeanor, which is the same criminal classification for failing to stop at a train crossing. | SB3240 |
0589 | Safety | As enacted, expands the definition of ready-removable in the Tennessee modular building act to permit ready-removables to include electrical wiring; specifies that all ready-removables with electrical wiring must meet applicable state and local electrical permitting requirements, local building permitting requirements, and have hardwired smoke alarms installed in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions. | SB3236 |
0590 | Special License Plates | As enacted, authorizes issuance of an American Lung Association new specialty earmarked license plate. | SB3006 |
0591 | Environmental Preservation | As enacted, changes dates of harvest season for wild ginseng from August 15 through December 31 to September 1 through December 31 of each year; adjusts reporting requirement for ginseng dealers to reflect new start date of harvest season. | SB2854 |
0592 | Alcoholic Beverage Commission | As enacted, allows commission to issue wholesale license to corporation that has acquired assets of a partnership or limited liability company operating in this state for 10 years if corporation has majority of its assets in Tennessee and officers actively present at licensed premises. | SB2843 |
0593 | Special License Plates | As enacted, authorizes Tennessee Breast Cancer Coalition new specialty earmarked license plate; allocates 50 percent of funds produced from sale thereof to the Tennessee Breast Cancer Coalition to support organization's mission. | SB2814 |
0594 | Special License Plates | As enacted, extends the time to meet the minimum order requirements for the Labrador Retriever Foundation new specialty earmarked plate until July 1, 2013. | SB2813 |
0595 | Insurance, Health, Accident | As enacted, revises obsolete language related to independent practitioner of social work for purposes of reimbursement under medical, hospital and medical service plans and insurance by replacing it with current licensure terminology of a person duly licensed to engage in independent practice as a licensed clinical social worker. | SB2674 |
0596 | Utilities, Utility Districts | As enacted, requires boards of commissioners for utility districts to provide notice to their customers at least two weeks prior to any board meeting at which the board members intend to select three nominees to certify to the county mayor to fill an existing or upcoming vacancy on the board; notice must include an invitation for the customers to submit the names of qualified persons to be considered for nomination. | SB2652 |
0597 | Special License Plates | As enacted, authorizes issuance of Ronald McDonald House new specialty earmarked license plate; allocates 50 percent of sale proceeds to Ronald McDonald House, for distribution to Tennessee chapters to further the mission of improving health, education and well-being of children. | SB2382 |
0598 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the board for licensing health care facilities, June 30, 2016; requires comptroller to issue questions and answers to board regarding surveyors in response to CMS audit. | SB2314 |
0599 | Highway Signs | As enacted, names bridge on S.R. 11 in Marshall County in honor of late Matt Hayes. | SB2295 |
0600 | Public Funds and Financing | As enacted, clarifies that provisions governing purchases by one local government under same terms as another local government's purchasing agreement apply to purchases of goods and equipment. | SB2291 |