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Chapter Number Subject Abstract Bill Number
0801 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the department of human services, June 30, 2018. HB2350
0802 Criminal Offenses As enacted, makes it an offense to knowingly establish, promote, or operate any pyramid promotional scheme. HB2356
0803 Garnishments and Executions As enacted, prohibits a person from claiming property that was purchased or maintained with funds by fraud or the ownership of which was maintained with funds obtained by fraud, as part of the personal property or homestead exemptions. HB2359
0804 Privacy, Confidentiality As enacted, prevents certain disclosures of information regarding victims of sexual offenses. HB2361
0805 Notary Public As enacted, allows notaries public to charge reasonable fees for their services instead of statutorily fixed fees; provides that notaries public are approved by the governor instead of commissioned by the governor. HB2387
0806 Metropolitan Government As enacted, increases, from five to six, the number of members on the event and marketing fund committee of Metro Nashville by adding an appointee who owns or operates a business within the central business improvement district. HB2404
0807 Election Laws As enacted, prohibits a representative of the United Nations from monitoring elections in this state if the representative appears without a treaty ratified by the United States senate stating that the UN can monitor elections in this state. HB2410
0808 Taxes, Inheritance Gift As enacted, for tax years 2014 and 2015, annually raises the gross amount of a small estate that is below the statutory exemption and is not required to file a short form inheritance tax return. HB2424
0809 Psychologists As enacted, changes the scope of practice for psychologists to include forensic evaluation, parent coordination, and telepsychology. HB2441
0810 Election Laws As enacted, directs the county executive committee of a statewide political party to notify each affected county election commission that the party intends to nominate candidates in a primary election 180 days before, instead of 90 days before, the qualifying deadline; adds that the county executive committee may revoke or rescind its decision to nominate by primary election by providing the county election commission with written notice not less than 90 days before the qualifying deadline. HB2472
0811 Education As enacted, requires the state board of education, department of education and the office of research and education accountability to confer with other stakeholders and determine the best means of establishing a best practices clearinghouse. HB2479
0812 Regional Authorities and Special Districts As enacted, authorizes the creation of a pilot program by the Cumberland regional business and agribusiness marketing authority to establish and maintain small business incubators in the region. HB2489
0813 Bond Issues As enacted, authorizes the state to issue and sell bonds of up to $167.6 million. HB2502
0814 Taxes, Real Property As enacted, establishes provisions governing a tax entity acquiring unimproved or undeveloped property at a tax sale and transferring such property to a non-governmental entity claiming contractual rights to the payment of fees or assessments duly recorded in covenants and restrictions. SB0054
0815 Criminal Procedure As enacted, authorizes a court restoring a person's rights of citizenship following conviction for a crime to also grant a certificate of employability; provides certain immunity to employers who hire a person who has been issued a certificate; enacts other provisions related to the certificate of employability. SB0276
0816 Handgun Permits As enacted, requires the department of safety to provide a method for handgun carry permit holders to notify the department electronically on the department's web site of any change in the permit holder's principal place of residence. SB0495
0817 Wine & Wineries As enacted, authorizes a winery licensed under the Grape and Wine Law that has a total annual wine production of 50,000 gallons or less to obtain an additional self-distribution permit from the alcoholic beverage commission in certain circumstances. SB1130
0818 Education As enacted, specifies that any barber school or school of cosmetology whose authorization by the department of commerce is denied by the United States department of education for student financial aid purposes may seek authorization from the Tennessee higher education commission under the Postsecondary Education Authorization Act and will thereafter be subject to all requirements of the Act. SB1358
0819 Consumer Protection As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Litigation Financing Consumer Protection Act". SB1360
0820 Criminal Offenses As enacted, provides that a woman may be prosecuted for assault for the illegal use of a narcotic drug while pregnant, if her child is born addicted to or harmed by the narcotic drug; law expires July 1, 2016. SB1391
0821 State Symbols As enacted, designates dogs and cats that are adopted from Tennessee animal shelters as the official state pet. SB1495
0822 Firearms and Ammunition As enacted, declares that the general assembly occupies the whole field of regulation of firearms, ammunition, components of firearms or ammunition, or combinations thereof, prohibiting local regulation, with certain exceptions. SB1612
0823 Highway Signs As enacted, revises provisions governing changeable message signs in regard to measurements and prescribed foot candle. SB1669
0824 Bonds and Undertakings, Regulation of As enacted, removes authority of the state funding board to cancel bonds when a project was authorized to be financed with bonds but was financed in whole or in part with proceeds from a bond premium generated by the sale of bonds for another authorized project. SB1740
0825 County Government As enacted, authorizes the county legislative body to determine that no bid may be made on certain non-buildable or non-conforming parcels when land must be sold on behalf of governmental entities for payment of delinquent county taxes. SB1795
0826 Employees, Employers As enacted, creates the "Employee Online Privacy Act of 2014" which prevents an employer from requiring an employee to disclose the username and password for the employee's personal internet account except under certain circumstances. SB1808
0827 Ethics As enacted, prohibits any public officer or employee of a governing authority who is involved in making or administering a contract with a private entity that is governed by the private probation services council and that provides probation services from deriving any direct benefit from the contract. SB1891
0828 Drugs, Over the Counter As enacted, authorizes pharmacists to submit data entry error corrections concerning errors in the submission of purchases of immediate methamphetamine precursor to the NPLEx and prohibits stop sale orders with respect to cases where the correction applies. SB1904
0829 Probate Law As enacted, extends the "small estate" provisions to estates where the property value does not exceed $50,000 (instead of $25,000); makes other various technical changes and additions to law concerning probates and trusts and specifies a process for creditor claims against former tenants by the entirety property. SB1907
0830 Claims Commission, Tennessee As enacted, establishes that claims against the Doe Mountain recreation authority, its directors, officers, employees and volunteers fall within the jurisdiction of the claims commission. SB1932
0831 Education, Higher As enacted, defines "college" and regulates the use of the word "college" in the name of a postsecondary educational institution. SB1963
0832 Pharmacy, Pharmacists As enacted, authorizes collaborative pharmacy practice. SB1992
0833 Education As enacted, requires the department of education to collaborate with institutions of higher education to formally address dyslexia and similar reading disorders by providing K-12 educators and teachers web-based or in-person training, providing effective instruction for teaching students with dyslexia using appropriate scientific research and brain-based multisensory intervention methods and strategies; requires certain reporting. SB2002
0834 Capitol As enacted, requires the state capitol commission to study the feasibility of placing a visual depiction of the national motto of the United States in the tunnel leading from Charlotte Avenue to the state capitol building and report recommendations as to the type and placement of the visual depiction and an estimated cost thereof to the speaker of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives by May 1, 2015. SB2003
0835 Planning, Public As enacted, elevates the priority status of certain liens for court costs, expenses and receiver's fees levied relative to completion of a detailed development plan under the Neighborhood Preservation Act; makes the Neighborhood Preservation Act applicable to Madison County. SB2010
0836 Statutes of Limitations and Repose As enacted, revises various present law provisions governing the statute of limitations for certain sexual offenses. SB2084
0837 Workers Compensation As enacted, provides that any party that is not represented by legal counsel may request the services of a workers' compensation ombudsman by contacting the office of mediation services; in regard to the requirement that the governor appoint three qualified individuals to serve as judges on the workers' compensation appeals board who will each serve six-year terms, requires the governor to consult with the house and senate speakers in making those appointments. SB2088
0838 County Boundaries As enacted, establishes a new boundary line between Franklin County and Marion County. SB2109
0839 Insurance, Health, Accident As enacted, requires a health insurance entity, upon request by an insurance producer or other individual or entity authorized to sell, solicit or negotiate insurance on behalf of the entity, to provide to the requestor a good faith estimate as to the amount or percentage of any of the following which is attributable to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: any premium or premium increase or decrease; and any tax or tax increase; effect from August 1, 2014, to August 1, 2015. SB2155
0840 Municipal Government As enacted, when delivery by U.S. mail is unsuccessful, permits a municipality to send notice by personal delivery or publication to a property owner to notify the property owner that they are entitled to a hearing regarding the removal of vegetation or debris. SB2200
0841 Public Records As enacted, designates certain records held by the alcoholic beverage commission confidential and not subject to public inspection. SB2263
0842 Drugs, Prescription As enacted, authorizes prescribers to dispense a sample of a non-narcotic schedule V controlled substance in a quantity limited to an amount that is adequate to treat the patient for a maximum of 14 days. SB2302
0843 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, allows the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption at a facility in Loudon County on Tellico Lake that has a marina and championship golf course and at the Cedar Bluff Racquet Club in Knoxville. SB2314
0844 Education As enacted, revises list of offenses the conviction of which result in a person being prohibited from direct contact with school children or children in a child care program and from entering the grounds of a school or child care center when children are present. SB2356
0845 Landlord and Tenant As enacted, requires any landlord registering in Davidson County to provide the landlord's or their agent's physical address to the department of codes and building safety; also requires the landlord, or their agent, to notify the department if any such information changes, or if ownership of the dwelling units changes, within 30 days of such change. SB2413
0846 Taxes, Agricultural and Open Spaces As enacted, specifies that federal conservation agencies are "qualified conservation organizations" which are permitted grantees of open space easements, for purposes of classifying certain agricultural land. SB2461
0847 Schools, Charter As enacted, allows a charter management organization to conduct meetings of its board of directors by electronic communication, if a physical quorum is not present at the meeting location without the determination that a necessity exists. SB2491
0848 Education As enacted, requires LEAs to survey students, within one month of the start of the 2014-2015 school year, as to the availability of Internet in their homes and report results to the department of education; the department will report the results to the governor and the education committees of the house and senate. SB2519
0849 Environmental Preservation As enacted, defines "shredded" for purposes of the Solid Waste Management Act of 1991. SB2560
0850 Schools, Charter As enacted, revises various present law provisions governing public charter schools, including the approval process. HB0702
0851 Eminent Domain As enacted, provides that in any case in which a county or a municipality exercises the power of eminent domain, and the condemning entity determines the property condemned or taken by eminent domain is not used for the purpose or purposes for which it was condemned or for some other authorized public use, or if the condemning entity subsequently decides to sell it within 10 years of being condemned or taken, the property must be first offered for sale to the person or persons from whom the property was condemned or taken. HB1199
0852 Child Custody and Support As enacted, allows a person who is not in compliance with child support obligations to receive a restricted driver license that permits driving to and from the person's regular place of employment or school. HB1396
0853 Public Funds and Financing As enacted, prohibits expenditure of state funds to pay the public indebtedness of any municipality; specifies that this prohibition does not preclude any municipality from utilizing its allocation of state-shared taxes for the purpose of paying its public indebtedness. HB1398
0854 Taxes As enacted, authorizes, instead of requires, approval by the comptroller and attorney general for compromises of state tax liabilities; allows taxpayers to request informal conferences disputing proposed notices of assessments; requires any suit challenging an assessment to be filed within 90 days from the date of final assessment; revises other provisions regarding issuing and disputing assessments. HB1431
0855 Private Protective Services As enacted, authorizes the commissioner of safety to commission private armed guards as state facility protection officers for state buildings in Davidson County. HB1496
0856 Law Enforcement As enacted, requires the TBI, with the assistance of the Tennessee association of chiefs of police, the Tennessee sheriffs' association and the county officials association of Tennessee, to survey appropriate law enforcement agencies and clerks' offices for the specific purpose of requesting information as to the best method for interfacing multiple computer databases to allow accessibility by police officers while on patrol. HB1546
0857 Insurance, Health, Accident As enacted, regulates the use of maximum allowable cost lists by pharmacy benefit managers and covered entities. HB1554
0858 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Tennessee board of judicial conduct, June 30, 2018; revises the provision for members who are "not judges" to instead provide for members who are "not salaried judges"; requires that the board include specific voting information for each board member in its quarterly reports that are submitted to the chief clerk of each chamber of the general assembly. HB1640
0859 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities As enacted, imposes an assessment fee on persons engaged in the business of providing nursing home care, and creates the nursing home assessment trust fund. HB1783
0860 Taxes, Real Property As enacted, provides that if the comptroller determines that annual appropriations would be insufficient to permit full payment of claims reflecting the income and value standards established in the tax relief provisions or in the annual appropriations act, the comptroller must calculate and apply a factor to uniformly adjust individual payments to permit all timely claims to be paid within the limits of the appropriation. HB2503
0861 Beer As enacted, redefines "beer" and "high alcohol content beer"; revises various provisions regarding high alcohol content beer. SB0289
0862 Insurance, Health, Accident As enacted, requires a health insurance entity offering employer-based plans to offer to employers no less than one plan option in which the copayment and coinsurance amounts for services rendered during an office visit to a chiropractic physician, physical therapist or occupational therapist are no greater than copayment and coinsurance amounts for the services rendered during an office visit to a primary care physician. SB0726
0863 Cosmetology As enacted, requires the board of barber examiners and the state board of cosmetology to issue an authorization to provide postsecondary education in this state to any school registered with the respective board in certain situations; specifies that any person claiming damage or loss as a result of any act or practice by a school or its agent, or both, that is a violation of the laws and rules governing cosmetologists and barbers may file with the board a verified complaint against the school or against its agent, or both. SB0760
0864 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities As enacted, revises provisions governing a public benefit conveyance transaction. SB0997
0865 Nuisances As enacted, revises and expands the process for abating gang nuisances; changes the burden of proof for establishing a criminal gang nuisance from preponderance of the evidence to clear and convincing evidence. SB1634
0866 Handgun Permits As enacted, changes the timeframe in which a handgun carry permit expires from four years to five years; provides reduced application fee for certain active and discharged service members. SB1672
0867 Criminal Procedure As enacted, requires a person who commits aggravated child neglect or endangerment on or after July 1, 2014, to serve 85 percent of the sentence imposed less sentence credits earned, provided that sentence credits may not reduce the sentence below 70 percent of the sentence originally imposed. SB1695
0868 State Employees As enacted, authorizes the department of transportation to create a new job classification that does not require a high school diploma or state-approved high school equivalency certification as a minimum qualification, applicable to certain department employees. SB1705
0869 Special License Plates As enacted, authorizes the department of transportation to authorize the state treasurer to establish a program for the sale of nonrefundable gift vouchers, gift cards, rebates, incentives, debit cards or any other form of electronic payments for special license plate fees. SB1718
0870 Firearms and Ammunition As enacted, creates an exception to the offense of carrying a firearm in public without a handgun carry permit that the person carrying or possessing a firearm or ammunition in a motor vehicle is not otherwise prohibited from carrying a firearm and is in lawful possession of the motor vehicle. SB1774
0871 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration As enacted, revises provisions governing the registration and operation of medium speed vehicles. SB1781
0872 Pharmacy, Pharmacists As enacted, establishes requirements for obtaining identification when certain drugs are dispensed. SB1832
0873 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel As enacted, amends the number of days in which a student must be present in the classroom before the students TCAP scores are attributed to the specific teacher or school where the student is enrolled. SB1863
0874 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities As enacted, extends the current moratorium on the issuance of certificates of need (CONs) for new nursing home and skilled nursing facility beds until June 30, 2015. SB1875
0875 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, allows manufacturing of intoxicating liquors in any county with at least three premier type tourist resort licensees, if the county was included in the provision authorizing the manufacture of intoxicating liquors and drinks within certain counties and municipalities as such law read prior to being amended in 2013. SB1884
0876 Criminal Offenses As enacted, creates crimes of using an unmanned aircraft with intent to conduct surveillance and capturing or using an image captured by an unmanned aircraft. SB1892
0877 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities As enacted, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment of 2014". SB1908
0878 Education, Curriculum As enacted, revises provisions governing family life curriculum. SB1940
0879 Remedies and Special Proceedings As enacted, creates cause of action against a person who, in connection with the assertion of a United States patent, sends, or causes any person to send, any written or electronic communication that states that the intended recipient or any affiliated person is infringing or has infringed a patent and bears liability or owes compensation to another person, in certain situations. SB1967
0880 Election Laws As enacted, requires the coordinator of elections and the state election commission to certify each voter registration system for purchase and use in the state; provides that the voter registration list is the property of the county election commission and the state; restricts the use of certain voter registration information; provides penalty for the unauthorized use of certain voter registration information. SB1999
0881 Boards and Commissions As enacted, directs that a plan for the implementation of an apprentice program be created for certain state agencies. SB2053
0882 Education, State Board of As enacted, requires the state board of education to establish guidelines whereby the department must prepare a fiscal analysis of any policy, rule or regulation proposed to the state board by the department if such proposal will financially impact an LEA. SB2101
0883 Taxes, Real Property As enacted, makes various changes to delinquent property tax procedures, including allowing official tax number to be used as concise description and clarifying property tax doesn't have to be filed as claim in probate. SB2128
0884 Cooperatives As enacted, revises various cross-references addressing the nonapplicability or qualified applicability of certain provisions of the Tennessee Nonprofit Corporation Act to cooperatives. SB2203
0885 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel As enacted, permits teachers and principals to select the student achievement measures that represent 15 percent of their evaluations, if they cannot agree with their evaluators on what should be used; requires the department of education to verify the evaluation measures to ensure that the evaluations correspond with the teaching assignment of each individual teacher and the duty assignments of each individual principal. SB2250
0886 Liens As enacted, requires that any notice of the lien provided to an owner or the owner's agent and any advertisement of a sale to satisfy the lien, if authorized, must include a brief description of the conveyance against which the lien exists and the vehicle identification number, if applicable and ascertainable; requires that garagekeeper and campgrounds must include the vehicle identification number, if ascertainable, in the notice and in the advertisement of the sale for such a lien. SB2269
0887 Taxes, Real Property As enacted, permits continued property tax exemption for property financed by certain federal programs, when the loan has been paid in full and the property continues to be used for elderly persons or persons with disabilities; revises the provisions regarding projects with 12 units. SB2283
0888 Local Education Agencies As enacted, authorizes LEAs that have established a teacher sick leave bank to allow employees who are not teachers, but who accrue sick leave, to participate in the LEA's teacher sick leave bank or classified employee sick bank. SB2311
0889 Tourism As enacted, requires a municipality or public authority to include a resolution adopted by the county legislative body with any application for approval of the tourism development zone which would utilize any portion of the local option sales tax revenues that are designated for schools. SB2335
0890 Education, Higher As enacted, revises various provisions of the Postsecondary Education Authorization Act in regard to exempt institutions. SB2352
0891 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel As enacted, specifies that the provisions regarding suspensions imposed by the director of schools for three days or less apply to suspensions of teachers. SB2370
0892 Education As enacted, requires dissemination by the department of education and LEAs to parents of information concerning state and LEA mandated tests. SB2404
0893 Criminal Offenses As enacted, defines the word "disrupt" as it is used in provisions regarding offenses against certain animal facilities. SB2406
0894 Motor Vehicles As enacted, creates an exemption to the requirement that any garagekeeper or towing firms with an abandoned, immobile or unattended motor vehicle taken into custody by a police department notify the owner of record of such vehicle, which exemption will apply when the vehicle's owner or the owner's agent is present at the time that the vehicle is placed into the custody of the garagekeeper or towing firm; extends the present law length limit for a straight truck that is operated in the highways form 40 feet to 45 feet. HB0464
0895 Motor Vehicles As enacted, revises the exemption to the maximum length requirements for motor vehicles on highways that applies to a motor vehicle towing a disabled motor vehicle. HB1709
0896 Insurance, Health, Accident As enacted, enacts the "Fair Disclosure of State Funded Payments for Pharmacists' Services Act". HB1787
0897 Highways, Roads and Bridges As enacted, encourages the department of transportation to transfer a certain state-owned portion of land between Belmont Boulevard and Interstate 65 in Davidson County to the Metropolitan Government in perpetuity so long as the property is maintained as parkland; directs the department to erect suitable markers at the intersection of Gale Lane and Lealand Lane in Davidson County, on land currently leased to the Metropolitan Government for parkland, designating the area as the "Senator Douglas Henry Urban Conservation District". HB2097
0898 Medical Occupations As enacted, adds to the information each board regulating a provider must collect and provide to the department of health in order for the department to create individual profiles on licensees, the name of the supervising physician of a nurse practitioner who holds a certificate of fitness and of a physician assistant; revises related provisions. HB2171
0899 Corporations, Not for Profit As enacted, revises laws relating to non-profit corporations. SB1505
0900 Education, Higher As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Promise Scholarship Act of 2014"; revises certain provisions of the Tennessee HOPE scholarship program. SB2471

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