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Chapter Number | Subject | Abstract | Bill Number |
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0301 | Local Education Agencies | As enacted, requires each member of a public school board to make disclosure prior to voting on any matter of business that has an effect upon the employment of a relative of the member; requires the director of schools to give notice to the director's board each time there is intent to employ a relative of a board member. | SB0663 |
0302 | Industrial Development | As enacted, specifies that an industrial development corporation organized solely by a municipality that does not impose a real property tax may only enter into a payment in lieu of ad valorem tax agreement or lease if certain conditions met. | SB0661 |
0303 | Special License Plates | As enacted, authorizes the issuance of a Native American Indian Association special license plate, with funds allocated to the Native American Indian Association of Tennessee, Inc., to be used exclusively for the association's emergency assistance and education program. | SB0652 |
0304 | Students | As enacted, treats unexcused absences from certain remedial programs the same as unexcused absences from school; applies to remedial programs offered at no cost to the parent, if, prior to the student being required to attend the program, the LEA commits to providing transportation to and from school. | SB0640 |
0305 | Education | As enacted, requires that, if in any fiscal year a local government appropriates funds for education for non-recurring expenditures evidenced by a written agreement with the LEA establishing the non-recurring use of the funds, such funds be excluded from the maintenance of local funding requirement and from any apportionment requirement under the school tax component of the BEP. | SB0612 |
0306 | Education, Dept. of | As enacted, requires that the commissioner's annual report include: ACT academic achievement data including the number and percentage of students with a 21 composite score or higher and the number and percentage of students meeting the college readiness benchmark in English, mathematics, reading, and science for each LEA and high school with at least 10 students taking the exam; and SAT college-bound seniors district profile for each LEA with at least 25 students taking the SAT. | SB0531 |
0307 | Education, Higher | As enacted, exempts from the Postsecondary Education Authorization Act of 1974 institutions operated solely as auction schools. | SB0525 |
0308 | Highways, Roads and Bridges | As enacted, revises various provisions concerning transportation including clarifying inconsistent funding provisions for certain memorial highway signs, deleting the Tennessee Passenger Railroad Commission, and revising the speed limitation on scenic highways, among other provisions. | SB0521 |
0309 | Adoption | As enacted, establishes a procedure for relinquishing rights relating to an embryo. | SB0473 |
0310 | Dickson County | As enacted, deletes the exemption of Dickson County from certain minimum training requirements for firefighters. | SB0453 |
0311 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities | As enacted, extends the current moratorium on the issuance of certificates of need (CONs) for new nursing home beds until June 30, 2014. | SB0431 |
0312 | Welfare | As enacted, prohibits recipients of public assistance from using electronic benefit transfer cards to purchase certain goods or services in certain establishments. | SB0244 |
0313 | Taxes, Business | As enacted, enacts the "Uniformity and Small Business Act Relief Act of 2013." | SB0183 |
0314 | Correction, Dept. of | As enacted, extends to entities the provisions whereby those parts of a record identifying a person who has been or may in the future be directly involved in the process of executing a sentence of death are treated as confidential and are not open to public inspection. | SB0154 |
0315 | Bonding, Surety and Professional | As enacted, updates procedures, requirements and amounts of official bonds for certain public officials. | SB0135 |
0316 | Alcoholic Beverage Commission | As enacted, authorizes the temporary suspension of an establishment's permit to sell beer upon the suspension or revocation by the alcoholic beverage commission of the establishment's license to sell alcoholic beverages and requires the local or municipal beer board to notify the alcoholic beverage commission of violations that result in the suspension or revocation of an establishment's permit to sell beer. | SB0091 |
0317 | Tort Liability and Reform | As enacted, provides that doctrine of joint and several liability does not apply in civil actions governed by comparative fault; preserves the doctrine of joint and several liability among manufacturers only in a product liability, but only if such action is based upon a theory of strict liability or breach of warranty. | SB0056 |
0318 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration | As enacted, details and limits which distinctive memorial registration plates may be issued to recipients of distinguished military decorations. | HB0032 |
0319 | Law Enforcement | As enacted, removes the requirement that the juvenile court approve the use of minors in law enforcement efforts. | HB0088 |
0320 | Utilities, Utility Districts | As enacted, revises provisions governing vacancies on the board of commissioners of a utility district. | HB0116 |
0321 | Taxes | As enacted, makes various revisions to franchise and excise tax law and the filing of tax returns, including provisions governing final return status. | HB0175 |
0322 | Taxes, Income | As enacted, increases the annual income a person at least 65 years of age may earn and still be exempt from the Hall income tax from $26,200 to $33,000 for single filers and from $37,000 to $59,000 for persons filing jointly. | HB0192 |
0323 | Taxes, Sales | As enacted, lowers the state sales tax on food and food ingredients for human consumption from 5.25 percent to 5 percent. | HB0193 |
0324 | Victims' Rights | As enacted, authorizes the juvenile court clerk to withhold trust funds from a criminal injury compensation award for the minor for the purpose of paying court costs, fines, fees, or restitutions resulting from such minor's pending actions in juvenile court. | HB0234 |
0325 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, increases the fine imposed on a person who commits an assault or an aggravated assault against a health care provider while such provider is acting in the discharge of the provider's duty. | HB0306 |
0326 | Schools, Charter | As enacted, authorizes a charter school sponsor to apply to an LEA to convert an existing public school to a charter school to serve the students zoned to the school and revises other various provisions regarding public charter schools. | HB0315 |
0327 | Insurance, Motor Vehicles | As enacted, allows insurance documentation to be displayed in an electronic format. | HB0478 |
0328 | Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies | As enacted, clarifies certain provisions regarding the determination of value of real property and tangible personal property of an insurance company. | HB0574 |
0329 | Purchasing and Procurement | As enacted, expands the authority to enter into cooperative purchasing agreements with local governmental entities outside Tennessee to other local governments, rather than municipalities only; revises other various provisions regarding purchasing by local governmental units; revises provisions regarding reverse auctions. | HB0739 |
0330 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the state board of education, June 30, 2015. | HB0755 |
0331 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the historical commission, June 30, 2019. | HB0766 |
0332 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the board of dentistry, June 30, 2017. | HB0780 |
0333 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the energy efficient schools council, June 30, 2014. | HB0794 |
0334 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the department of correction, June 30, 2015. | HB0810 |
0335 | Public Contracts | As enacted, makes certain provisions regarding procuring products or services or letting contracts for manufacture of public works, or overseeing such procurement, construction or manufacture to be funded in part or in whole with state funds applicable to all procurements and contracts, instead of just those for the manufacture of public works, or the overseeing of such procurement, construction or manufacture. | HB0841 |
0336 | Controlled Substances | As enacted, prohibits pain management clinics from dispensing controlled substances; specifies that act does not prohibit a medical doctor, osteopathic physician, advanced practice nurse with certificates of fitness to prescribe, or physician assistant working at a pain management clinic from providing to that practitioner's patient, without charge, a sample of a schedule IV or schedule V controlled substance in a quantity limited to an amount that is adequate to treat the patient for a maximum of 72 hours. | HB0868 |
0337 | Criminal Procedure | As enacted, removes as a defense ignorance or mistake of fact concerning the age of a minor to the offenses of patronizing prostitution and soliciting sexual exploitation of a minor; creates an exception to the offense of soliciting sexual exploitation of a minor that the victim is at least 15 but less than 18 years of age and the defendant is not more than four years older than the victim, unless the defendant intentionally commanded, hired, induced or caused the victim to violate the offense. | HB0920 |
0338 | Education, Higher | As enacted, creates the Labor Education Alignment Program (LEAP) to allow participating students to apply combined occupational training and academic experience toward attaining post-secondary credentials needed for employment in high-technology industries in the state; authorizes technology centers and community colleges to establish a program; outlines the duties of the department of economic and community development, the higher education commission, and the department of labor and workforce development in administering and implementing the program. | HB1276 |
0339 | District Attorneys | As enacted, directs the executive director of the Tennessee district attorneys general conference, in consultation with the commissioner of revenue to prepare a report to the general assembly on steps which should be taken with respect to improvement of sales tax fraud investigations and prosecutions. | HB1246 |
0340 | Taxes, Hotel Motel | As enacted, extends from 2014 to 2020 the authority of metropolitan governments to impose a hotel occupancy tax in excess of $2.00, the revenues from which are placed in an event and marketing fund to be attached to a convention and visitors bureau. | HB1213 |
0341 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, allows manufacturer of alcoholic beverages to store products within an adjacent county; provides that an intoxicating liquor may not be advertised, described, labeled, named, sold or referred to for marketing or sales purposes as "Tennessee Whiskey," "Tennessee Whisky," "Tennessee Sour Mash Whiskey" or "Tennessee Sour Mash Whisky" unless the intoxicating liquor meets certain requirements; specifies certain provisions regarding hours of sale. | HB1084 |
0342 | Solid Waste Disposal | As enacted, requires landfill operator to submit proposal to certain entities prior to accepting any waste that would require change in classification of landfill under certain circumstances; specifies that in any county or municipality in which the local approval of solid waste facilities provisions have been approved by a two-thirds vote of the appropriate legislative body prior to the effective date of this act, then this act will only apply if it is approved by a two-thirds vote of the appropriate legislative body. | HB0952 |
0343 | Juvenile Offenders | As enacted, authorizes certain courts to order any of the following, in lieu of committing a child to DCS custody, if the child is found to be a delinquent child: assign a long-term mentor to such child; or require that the delinquent child or any of the child's family members receive counseling services from any counseling service provided through or approved by the juvenile court. | HB0453 |
0344 | DUI Offenses | As enacted, revises various provisions of the ignition interlock law. | HB0353 |
0345 | Education | As enacted, allows retired teachers' children who are under 24 years of age to receive a 25 percent discount at any state-operated institution of higher learning; provided, that the parent retired with 30 years of full-time creditable service in Tennessee public schools or received disability retirement after a minimum of 25 years of full-time creditable service in Tennessee public schools. | HB0283 |
0346 | Budget Procedures | As enacted, requires the state funding board to study issues concerning the "Copeland Cap." | HB1154 |
0347 | Economic and Community Development | As enacted, authorizes .25 percent fee on sale of goods and services within a central business improvement district located wholly within a tourism development zone in metropolitan governments for the purpose of convention recruitment, event promotion and security. | HB1341 |
0348 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, creates sunrise provision for the consumer advocate division in the office of the attorney general and reporter, June 30, 2015. | HB0830 |
0349 | Domestic Violence | As enacted, allows the domestic violence state coordinating council to prescribe fees, not to exceed $300, for the certification of batterers' intervention programs. | HB0489 |
0350 | Criminal Procedure | As enacted, disallows as a defense to offenses of sexual exploitation of a minor, soliciting sexual exploitation of a minor, aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor and especially aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor that the minor consented to the conduct constituting the offense. | HB0521 |
0351 | Education | As enacted, establishes a two-year pilot project operated by the department of education to determine whether enhanced accessibility of AP courses and examinations and career and technical certification examinations encourages students to pursue completion of rigorous course work and successfully pass AP examinations and career and technical certification examinations; revises provisions regarding governing bodies of charter schools and other charter school provisions. | HB0705 |
0352 | Child Custody and Support | As enacted, requires a parent to notify a child's other parent before relocating more than 50 miles away, rather than 100 miles away, and if necessary file a petition seeking to alter visitation. | HB0597 |
0353 | Taxes, Real Property | As enacted, revises certain requirements related to the sale of property at tax sales for unpaid delinquent property taxes. | HB0493 |
0354 | Child Custody and Support | As enacted, provides that the department of children's services, in determining whether to continue or restore custody to a parent, may not require a parent to do the following and a permanency plan may not require the following: a parent will not be required to obtain employment, if such parent has sufficient resources from other means to care for the child; or a parent will not be required to provide the child with the child's own bedroom unless specific safety or medical reasons exist that would make placement of the child with another child unsafe. | HB0488 |
0355 | Contractors | As enacted, makes certain roofing subcontractors subject to the licensure requirements applicable to contractors when performing a job where the total cost of the roofing portion of the construction project is $25,000 or more. | HB0480 |
0356 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities | As enacted, extends for one year the nursing home privilege tax and renames such tax the nursing home annual assessment fee. | HB0342 |
0357 | Sentencing | As enacted, redefines "criminal gang offense" under present law regarding enhanced penalties for gang offenses. | HB0196 |
0358 | Teachers, Principals and School Personnel | As enacted, enacts the "School Security Act of 2013." | HB0006 |
0359 | State Government | As enacted, requires that, after July 1, 2013, a portion of the small and minority-owned business program funds be transferred to the board of trustees of the baccalaureate education system trust fund program to be used for the establishment of an incentive plan for the benefit of low-income individuals, reserving such amounts that the state treasurer deems necessary for the administration of the small and minority-owned business program, as well as the administration and marketing of the incentive plan; makes other related revisions. | HB0982 |
0360 | Estates | As enacted, makes various changes to The Small Estates Act. | HB0987 |
0361 | Lottery, Scholarships and Programs | As enacted, changes the definition of "home school student" for purposes of the Tennessee HOPE scholarship to require that a student be home schooled the last year of high school instead of the last two years of high school. | HB1055 |
0362 | Water | As enacted, renames the "Water Environmental Health Act" to be the "Water and Wastewater Operator Certification Act"; revises various provisions of the Act. | HB1066 |
0363 | Building Commission, State | As enacted, encourages the commission to prescribe high performance building requirements and other standards, and promulgate rules, which meet or exceed the 2005 Sustainable Design Guidelines that the commission implemented, that are necessary to ensure all state buildings perform in an energy efficient manner; revises other related provisions. | HB1268 |
0364 | Military | As enacted, revises provisions regarding pay requirements, service without compensation, and reimbursement requirements regarding state guard service; specifies when governor may call members to service. | HB0848 |
0365 | Child Custody and Support | As enacted, provides that termination of parental or guardianship rights may be initiated if a parent or guardian has been convicted of trafficking for a commercial sex act. | HB0710 |
0366 | Transportation, Dept. of | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Department of Transportation Contracts for Construction Manager/General Contractor Services Pilot Program." | HB0183 |
0367 | Workers Compensation | As enacted, specifies that if an employee in this state who is subject to the Workers' Compensation Law temporarily leaves this state incidental to the employee's employment and receives an accidental injury arising out of and in the course and scope of the employee's employment, the employee, or the employee's beneficiaries in the case of an injury that results in the employee's death, will be entitled to the benefits of the Workers' Compensation Law as if the employee was injured in this state. | HB0864 |
0368 | Law Enforcement | As enacted, expands, subject to certain restrictions, the private universities or colleges that are permitted to have police forces. | HB1331 |
0369 | Teachers, Principals and School Personnel | As enacted, requires reductions in force or other such dismissals of teacher and nonlicensed LEA employees to be based on evaluations of performance; requires only those teachers rated in the three highest categories, based on evaluations, to be placed on a reemployment list; revises other provisions related to dismissal or suspension of teachers. | HB1112 |
0370 | Taxes, Real Property | As enacted, specifies that delinquent taxes on property that was damaged as a result of a coal ash spill occurring in this state between December 1, 2008, and January 1, 2009, will not be subject to the penalty and interest provisions described above and would only accrue interest from the delinquency date of the respective tax year at the composite prime rate published by the federal reserve board as of the delinquency date, minus two points. | SB1346 |
0371 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, expands definition of "urban park center" for purposes of on-premises consumption; increases the privilege tax levied on the urban park centers established by this act. | SB1327 |
0372 | Election Laws | As enacted, allows county election commission to consolidate one or more polling places from one or more precincts upon request from a municipality for a municipal election not held in conjunction with any other election; requires the county election commission, immediately after consolidating polling places from one or more precincts within a municipality, to publish a notice of the consolidation in a newspaper of general circulation in the county. | SB1320 |
0373 | Utilities, Utility Districts | As enacted, specifies that calling or emailing a person, instead of knocking at the person's door, would constitute reasonable, good faith effort to notify the person prior to utility being disconnected under the Utilities' Cut-Off Procedures Act, which only applies in Davidson County. | SB1319 |
0374 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, makes the bureau of TennCare subject to review under the sunset provisions for June 30, 2015. | SB1246 |
0375 | Education | As enacted, specifies disciplinary action required for a student who transmits by electronic communication a credible threat to cause bodily injury or death to another student or school employee in which the transmission of such threat creates actual disruptive activity at the school that requires administrative intervention; the reporting and punishment of such prohibited conduct by certain persons. | SB1215 |
0376 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration | As enacted, allows a clerk to deny certain applications for registrations of motor vehicles when the applicant owes any motor vehicle registration fees to the office of the county clerk unless such applicant makes full payment on such fee amount; an optional clerk's fee of 10 percent of the fee amount owing may also be imposed and required. | SB1178 |
0377 | Insurance, Health, Accident | As enacted, prohibits navigators for exchanges under the Affordable Care Act from selling, soliciting, or negotiating any policy of insurance, either within or outside of an exchange. | SB1145 |
0378 | Taxes, Exemption and Credits | As enacted, revises criteria relating to approval of an adventure tourism district; expands the availability of certain tax credits to various types of qualified business enterprises; revises other provisions related to adventure tourism districts. | SB1127 |
0379 | Damages | As enacted, deletes requirement that the trier of fact must specify, on an annual basis, the amount of future damages and the periods over which such future damages will accrue. | SB1053 |
0380 | Claims Commission, Tennessee | As enacted, authorizes the secretary of state to assign administrative law judges to the claims commission to assist in the event of a claims commissioner's recusal or disability. | SB1043 |
0381 | Education | As enacted, revises provisions governing the hiring of persons who have committed certain criminal offenses. | SB0922 |
0382 | Forfeiture of Assets | As enacted, specifies that, upon the seizure of any personal property subject to forfeiture and where the person in possession is not being arrested, the seizing officer must provide the person found in possession of the property, if known, a notice of the forfeiture warrant hearing; revises other related provisions. | SB0891 |
0383 | Education | As enacted, provides that an LEA may grant release-time to a professional employee to hold office as a representative of a local professional employees' organization. | SB0867 |
0384 | Public Records | As enacted, authorizes certain persons who were convicted of a non-violent crime after January 1, 1980, and who received a pardon from the governor and a positive vote from the board of parole, to file a petition for expunction of that person's public records involving the crime. | SB0860 |
0385 | Child Custody and Support | As enacted, provides that the disability of a parent seeking custody will not create a presumption for or against awarding custody to such a party but may be a factor to be considered by the court. | SB0749 |
0386 | Beer | As enacted, allows beer manufacturer that is also licensed as restaurant or limited service restaurant for purposes of selling alcoholic beverages for consumption on premises to sell beer manufactured at such brew pub for off premises consumption. | SB0747 |
0387 | Physicians and Surgeons | As enacted, enacts "The Breast Cancer Prevention Act." | SB0745 |
0388 | Bail, Bail Bonds | As enacted, releases a bail bondsman or other surety from obligation under a bail bond between the time a conviction or guilty plea occurs and the time of the defendant's sentencing; authorizes sheriff to receive $10.00 rather than $5.00 to be paid on every bail bond upon disposition of the case; prohibits enforcement of forfeiture of bail until 30 days after its entry. | SB0736 |
0389 | State Government | As enacted, clarifies that the board of trustees of the baccalaureate education system trust fund program may contract with financial consultants, actuaries, auditors, investment managers and other consultants and professionals; provides that the trustees of certain deferred or tax sheltered compensation plans are expressly authorized to contract for investment management services, personal services, professional services and consultant services for the deferred compensation programs. | SB0728 |
0390 | Trusts | As enacted, revises various provisions pertaining to trust. | SB0713 |
0391 | Medical Occupations | As enacted, revises the qualifications for surgical technologists. | SB0623 |
0392 | Special License Plates | As enacted, directs the department of revenue to study the establishment of a program to authorize the sale of nonrefundable gift vouchers that may be redeemed by any person toward the fee for cultural and new specialty earmarked motor vehicle registration plates. | SB0620 |
0393 | Local Education Agencies | As enacted, enacts the "High Performing School Districts Flexibility Act." | SB0592 |
0394 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, creates an exemption to the present law requirement that, in order to obtain a license as a wholesaler of alcoholic spirituous beverages, the applicant's premises must be located in a municipality having a population of not less than 100,000, whereby a wholesale liquor license, limited to the sale and distribution of wine only, not to exceed 6,000 cases of wine per year, may be issued to an entity that is located in any municipality that meets certain criteria. | SB0590 |
0395 | Local Education Agencies | As enacted, prohibits displaying messages supporting or opposing referenda and initiatives on LEA or school signs or LEA-owned buildings; prohibits video or audio messages supporting or opposing referenda and initiatives being sent via LEA or school telephonic or electronic systems or accounts. | SB0547 |
0396 | Controlled Substances | As enacted, revises various provisions governing prescribers of controlled substances. | SB0529 |
0397 | Education | As enacted, revises various provisions regarding the education of children in foster care. | SB0496 |
0398 | Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of | As enacted, enacts the "Safe Harbor Act of 2013." | SB0459 |
0399 | County Boundaries | As enacted, alters the boundary between Davidson and Wilson counties in such manner as to detach certain parcels of real property currently located in Davidson County and to attach such parcels to Wilson County. | SB0408 |
0400 | Taxes | As enacted, adds district attorney generals and their employees, and law enforcement officers and employees, to the list of public officers and employees required to maintain the confidentiality of tax information. | SB0405 |