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Chapter Number Subject Abstract Bill Number
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

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