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Chapter Number Subject Abstract Bill Number
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

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