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Chapter Number | Subject | Abstract | Bill Number |
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0901 | Courts, Juvenile | As enacted, authorizes, in Williamson County, the clerks of special juvenile courts and courts of general sessions having juvenile court jurisdiction to collect $75.00 from any person whose case is adjudicated in various instances; designates the fees collected from such adjudications to be used exclusively for the creation and maintenance of new juvenile court facilities; requires vote of legislative body. | HB2406 |
0902 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration | As enacted, authorizes any nonprofit organization owning any vehicle that may be legally operated upon the streets or highways of this state with a regular vehicle registration to operate or move, through an authorized agent or employee, the vehicle upon any highway of the state without registering the vehicle; requires display of a special purpose plate issued to the owner. | HB2411 |
0903 | Handgun Permits | As enacted, lowers the age for receiving a handgun carry permit from 21 years of age to 18 years of age for persons who are an honorably discharged or retired veteran of the U.S. armed forces or a service member on active duty status. | HB2425 |
0904 | Motor Vehicles | As enacted, adds an exemption from the licensure requirement for motor vehicle dealers for person to sell motor vehicles to licensed automotive dismantlers and recyclers, or to registered scrap metal processors | HB2473 |
0905 | Victims' Rights | As enacted, increases from $750 to $1,000 the maximum amount payable by the criminal injuries compensation fund for the provision of forensic medical examinations performed on victims of sexually oriented crimes. | HB2514 |
0906 | Sentencing | As enacted, enacts the "Public Safety Act of 2016." | HB2576 |
0907 | Taxes, Sales | As enacted, revises provisions governing the information report submitted by retailers to the commissioner of revenue regarding the sales of certain products. | HB2579 |
0908 | Alcoholic Beverage Commission | As enacted, revises provisions governing penalties imposed on server permit holders for certain violations; requires any employee, representative, or agent of a permittee whose duties include verifying that a person is 21 years of age or older for the purpose of authorizing the person access to the premises of the permittee to require each person seeking access to the premises whose physical appearance does not reasonably demonstrate an age of 50 years or older to present a valid, government-issued document or other acceptable form of identification that includes the photograph and birth date of the person. | HB2594 |
0909 | Regional Authorities and Special Districts | As enacted, renames the Four Lake regional industrial development authority to the Tennessee central economic authority. | HB2639 |
0910 | Tennessee Higher Education Commission | As enacted, requires the executive director of THEC to convene a task force to examine the statutory tuition discount and waiver programs offered at public institutions of higher education in Tennessee. | SB0514 |
0911 | Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies | As enacted, defines funeral merchandise for prearrangement insurance policies; revises provisions governing funeral merchandise. | SB0621 |
0912 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities | As enacted, enacts provisions governing nonresidential office-based opioid treatment facilities and nonresidential opioid treatment programs. | SB0829 |
0913 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities | As enacted, requires accountable care organizations to establish a clinical laboratory testing advisory board. | SB0851 |
0914 | Public Records | As enacted, changes references from "social security numbers" to "personally identifying information" in provisions regarding the redaction of certain information in public records to conform with other recently enacted laws. | SB0910 |
0915 | Veterans | As enacted, specifies that no fee may be charged for the interment of an eligible veteran in a state veterans' cemetery and limits the fee to $610 for the interment of an eligible veteran's spouse. | SB1090 |
0916 | Education, Dept. of | As enacted, requires the department of education, when publishing the list of priority schools, to list all schools in the state in order by success rate from the highest to the lowest; and list all schools in each county and each LEA in order by success rate from the highest to the lowest. | SB1144 |
0917 | County Government | As enacted, deletes an exemption for Washington County from the general law governing procedures for amending a county budget. | SB1180 |
0918 | Dentists and Dentistry | As enacted, specifies that a person who authorizes the practice of teledentistry will be deemed to be practicing dentistry and subject to requirements governing dentistry; requires dentists who deliver services using teledentistry to establish protocols for the practice; enacts other provisions governing teledentistry. | SB1214 |
0919 | Adoption | As enacted, revises various provisions of law regarding adoption, including provisions governing termination of parental rights, abandonment, and surrender. | SB1393 |
0920 | Governor | As enacted, creates the Tennessee Tri-Star General Award, to be awarded by the governor to distinguished individuals who have a record of outstanding service to this state or a local subdivision of this state. | SB1458 |
0921 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities | As enacted, increases the membership of the board for licensing health care facilities from 18 to 19 by adding a member representing ambulatory surgical treatment centers to the board. | SB1468 |
0922 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, authorizes the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption at Lillie Belle's in Franklin, Mt. Brushy in Morgan County, and the Salt Box Inn in Putnam County; revises description of Laurel Valley Golf Club (Blount County) for purposes of the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption. | SB1469 |
0923 | Common Carriers | As enacted, revises provisions governing permits for movements of overweight and overdimensional vehicles, including permit fees. | SB1479 |
0924 | Cemeteries | As enacted, extends to all local governments the authorization that county governments currently have to use local funds to rehabilitate or maintain dilapidated or abandoned cemeteries that do not maintain a sufficient improvement care trust fund or are not maintained adequately. | SB1480 |
0925 | Handgun Permits | As enacted, removes the five-year time frame requirement from the exemption to the handgun safety course requirement for applicants who successfully completed all handgun training of not less than four hours as required by any branch of the military within five years from the date the application for a handgun carry permit is filed. | SB1490 |
0926 | Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of | As enacted, declares that no person providing counseling or therapy services will be required to counsel or serve a client as to goals, outcomes, or behaviors that conflict with the sincerely held principles of the counselor or therapist; requires such counselor or therapist to refer the client to another counselor or therapist; creates immunity for such action; maintains liability for counselors who will not counsel a client based on the counselor's religious beliefs when the individual seeking or undergoing the counseling is in imminent danger of harming themselves or others. | SB1556 |
0927 | Motor Vehicles | As enacted, redefines "autonomous technology" for purposes of provision whereby no political subdivision may by ordinance, resolution, or any other means prohibit within the jurisdictional boundaries of the political subdivision the use of a motor vehicle equipped with autonomous technology if the motor vehicle otherwise complies with all safety regulations of the political subdivision; clarifies the definition of "autonomous technology" applicable to the provisions governing electronic displays, such as televisions, in motor vehicles. | SB1561 |
0928 | Charitable Solicitations | As enacted, specifies that educational institutions exempt from registering with the division of charitable solicitations, includes institutions that are approved by the local board of education, the ASD, or the state board of education; extends certain renewal of registration filings for an additional 60 days. | SB1566 |
0929 | Administrative Procedure (UAPA) | As enacted, continues permanent rules filed with the secretary of state after January 1, 2015. | SB1576 |
0930 | Scholarships and Financial Aid | As enacted, revises various provisions governing Tennessee STEP UP scholarships. | SB1584 |
0931 | Pensions and Retirement Benefits | As enacted, authorizes all public pension and retirement plans, including those of utility districts and other local governmental entities, to recognize a qualified domestic relations order that directs the entity to allocate a portion of a member's benefits to the member's former spouse. | SB1587 |
0932 | Statutes of Limitations and Repose | As enacted, revises provisions governing statutes of limitations for persons lacking capacity to understand legal rights and liabilities. | SB1597 |
0933 | Taxes, Hotel Motel | As enacted, authorizes the Town of Dandridge to levy a privilege tax upon the privilege of occupancy by a 2/3 vote of its governing body. | SB1604 |
0934 | Sentencing | As enacted, adds Class E felony vandalism to the offenses for which a person's sentence may be enhanced if the offense is committed during the time and place of a declared emergency. | SB1609 |
0935 | Purchasing and Procurement | As enacted, authorizes local governments to enter cooperative purchasing agreements with federal agencies; excludes certain purchases. | SB1615 |
0936 | Election Laws | As enacted, establishes an online voter registration system beginning July 1, 2017. | SB1626 |
0937 | Cooperatives | As enacted, revises provisions governing unclaimed property and electric cooperatives. | SB1633 |
0938 | Taxes, Real Property | As enacted, changes the formula for calculating hearing costs in property tax appeals before the board of equalization; permits the assessment appeals commission to issue a notice rather than a certificate of assessment in certain circumstances; changes notice requirements for unpaid rollback taxes. | SB1646 |
0939 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, creates Class A misdemeanor offenses for supervisors or employees who make false statements or engage in other activity to hinder an audit conducted by or on behalf of the comptroller of the treasury. | SB1649 |
0940 | Motor Vehicles | As enacted, authorizes off-highway vehicles on State Route 167 in Johnson County from Roan Creek Campground to Doe Mountain. | SB1650 |
0941 | Sexual Offenses | As enacted, makes sex offender registration for persons convicted of misdemeanor unlawful photographing in violation of privacy discretionary instead of mandatory; the judge may order registration after taking into account the facts and circumstances surrounding the offense. | SB1663 |
0942 | Birth Control | As enacted, authorizes a pharmacist to provide hormonal contraceptives according to a valid collaborative pharmacy practice agreement containing a nonpatient-specific prescriptive order and standardized procedures developed and executed by one or more authorized prescribers, in certain circumstances. | SB1677 |
0943 | Lottery, Scholarships and Programs | As enacted, revises eligibility requirements for home school students and students who graduate from an ineligible high school to receive the general assembly merit scholarship. | SB1695 |
0944 | Traffic Safety | As enacted, creates offense of operating a motor vehicle in a bicycle lane; establishes exceptions to offense and penalties for violations. | SB1697 |
0945 | Taxes, Litigation | As enacted, allows Williamson County, upon the adoption of a resolution by a 2/3 majority vote of the county legislative body, to assess a privilege tax on litigation in civil cases in an amount not to exceed $25.00 per case to be used exclusively for personnel and operating costs of the circuit court located in that county; excludes original proceedings brought in juvenile court. | SB1698 |
0946 | Medical Occupations | As enacted, authorizes a licensed podiatrist to supervise a physician assistant or an orthopedic physician assistant; requires compliance with certain statutory requirements and administrative rules; enacts other provisions related to such supervision. | SB1723 |
0947 | Weapons | As enacted, provides immunity from civil liability to a person, business, or other entity that owns, controls, or manages property and has the authority to prohibit weapons on that property by positing, with respect to any claim based on the person's, business's, or other entity's failure to adopt such a policy. | SB1736 |
0948 | Health Care | As enacted, authorizes a qualified physician assistant to evaluate and provide care to a youth athlete who suffered, or is suspected to have suffered, a concussion or head injury during the course of a school youth athletic activity. | SB1740 |
0949 | Game and Fish Laws | As enacted, creates a nine-member task force to make recommendations for statutory changes to protect the state's wildlife and waterways against any detrimental effects of invasive Asian carp. | SB1753 |
0950 | Public Health | As enacted, to the extent permitted by federal law, prohibits the department of health from counting the basic allowance for subsistence as income in determining eligibility of an applicant who is a member of the uniformed service for the special food program for women, infants, and children. | SB1759 |
0951 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, removes provision whereby a person who provides prayer in lieu of medical or surgical treatment could not be charged with the crime of child abuse, neglect, or endangerment solely for that reason. | SB1761 |
0952 | Drugs, Prescription | As enacted, permits a physician or osteopathic physician to prescribe, order, or otherwise distribute, for the purpose of treating binge eating disorder, a drug that is approved by the FDA for that indication. | SB1765 |
0953 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, allows Holston Hills Country Club in Knox County to serve and sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on premises; designates the Orpheum Theater's Halloran Center as a "historic performing arts center" for purposes of on-premises consumption of alcoholic beverages; authorizes Porter Inn in Nashville to serve alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption. | SB1766 |
0954 | Election Laws | As enacted, authorizes the exclusion of residents of correctional institutions from being considered in reapportionment. | SB1811 |
0955 | Medical Occupations | As enacted, revises the educational requirements for licensure as a clinical pastoral therapist; authorizes issuance of temporary licenses to clinical pastoral therapists who are in training. | SB1814 |
0956 | Physicians and Surgeons | As enacted, replaces requirement that individual physician's offices and practices register as medical spas with a requirement that any physician-owned practice that advertises or holds itself out as a medical spa or a physician-owned practice that primarily engages in the performance of elective cosmetic medical services must register as a medical spa. | SB1815 |
0957 | Local Education Agencies | As enacted, requires all LEAs using the uniform grading system for lottery scholarship purposes, and another grading system based on quality points for other purposes, to award additional quality points for honors and other advanced courses uniformly. | SB1831 |
0958 | Sexual Offenses | As enacted, extends the statute of limitation for aggravated statutory rape committed on or after July 1, 2016, from four years to 15 years from the date the victim becomes 18 years of age. | SB1841 |
0959 | Drugs, Prescription | As enacted, authorizes the commissioner of health to obtain records maintained by any healthcare facility in order to facilitate investigations and inquiries concerning opioid drug abuse, opioid drug overdoses, and opioid overdose deaths. | SB1850 |
0960 | Criminal Procedure | As enacted, revises references to criminal offenses in the expunction provisions to conform to changes made to those criminal offenses by the Public Safety Act of 2016. | SB1859 |
0961 | Education | As enacted, authorizes the state board of education to promulgate rules for the development of a program whereby 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporations may be recognized for the purpose of assisting LEAs through the selection and appointment of qualified volunteers; requires LEAs to establish a local appeal process through which a recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation may appeal a decision of the LEA to reject the corporation's offer of assistance. | SB1864 |
0962 | Pensions and Retirement Benefits | As enacted, revises various provisions governing TCRS including clarifying that the transfer of funds from the stabilization reserve trust account is not a maximum unfunded liability cost and revising provisions concerning TCRS investments. | SB1869 |
0963 | Criminal Procedure | As enacted, releases a surety on a defendant's forfeited bond when the defendant is arrested on a capias and the bond was forfeited after the defendant did not comply with conditions of the bond. | SB1891 |
0964 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, allows Bessie Smith Cultural Center in Hamilton County to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on premises. | SB1910 |
0965 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, redesignates Historic Rugby from a premier type tourist resort to a historic interpretive center for purposes of consumption of alcohol on premises; removes references to year round in the description of Historic Rugby. | SB1937 |
0966 | Soil Conservation | As enacted, authorizes a soil conservation district and the supervisors of the district, subject to the approval of the commissioner of agriculture, to borrow money for certain purposes. | SB1951 |
0967 | Mass Transit | As enacted, revises the present law provisions governing overtaking on the right in regard to the operation of mass transit buses on shoulders and rights-of-way. | SB1953 |
0968 | Dentists and Dentistry | As enacted, authorizes the commissioner of health to complete a comprehensive state oral health plan by January 1, 2017, and to submit the plan to the federal centers for disease control and prevention and to the general assembly. | SB1956 |
0969 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, makes various changes to the offense of stalking, including redefining "course of conduct". | SB1962 |
0970 | Clerks, Court | As enacted, authorizes the clerk in any court where electronic filing, signing, or verification of papers is authorized by court rule to assess a transaction fee for each filing submitted on an individual basis or by use of an annual subscription fee. | SB1998 |
0971 | Lottery, Scholarships and Programs | As enacted, permits a student with a documented learning disability who is unable to take 12 semester hours as required for the Tennessee Promise scholarship to be eligible for the scholarship. | SB2039 |
0972 | Law Enforcement | As enacted, encourages TBI to develop an activation card for law enforcement use in connection with the missing citizen alert program to help locate missing citizens who have wandered due to dementia or physical impairment. | SB2049 |
0973 | Controlled Substances | As enacted, revises the provisions governing the dispensing of an opioid or benzodiazepine by a physician practice that provides healthcare services. | SB2060 |
0974 | Municipal Government | As enacted, authorizes the classifying as confidential and not subject to disclosure, except by court order, the records held by a city whose primary industry is tourism that address a specific amount of money expended in a given market for digital or traditional media or that address the specific detail of targeted audiences identified for marketing purposes. | SB2083 |
0975 | Highways, Roads and Bridges | As enacted, enacts the "Public-Private Transportation Act of 2016." | SB2093 |
0976 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, clarifies what items a manufacturer may use when having tastings on premises; enacts other tasting-related provisions; revises provisions governing permits to solicit orders. | SB2096 |
0977 | Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies | As enacted, creates a task force to identify causes for balance billing and recommend legislative solutions to protect consumers from balance billing by healthcare providers. | SB2107 |
0978 | Consumer Protection | As enacted, enacts the "Fantasy Sports Act". | SB2109 |
0979 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, revises provisions regarding promoting prostitution; the dissemination of certain information by the TBI in regard to human trafficking; and the definition of "caregiver" for purposes of the laws governing juvenile courts and proceedings. | SB2121 |
0980 | Nurses, Nursing | As enacted, changes the title of advanced practice nurses to advanced practice registered nurses. | SB2123 |
0981 | Highways, Roads and Bridges | As enacted, removes termination date of July 1, 2016, from the County Bridge Relief Act of 2014; permanently authorizes counties to use an unexpended balance of state-aid bridge grant funds to pay the local share of project costs for replacing or improving county bridges. | SB2142 |
0982 | Motor Vehicles | As enacted, redefines "medium speed vehicle" to include vehicles that have a top speed greater than 30 mph, but whose maximum speed allowed is 35 mph only on streets with a 40 mph or less posted speed limit. | SB2143 |
0983 | Professions and Occupations | As enacted, requires the state board of cosmetology and barber examiners to issue certificates of registration for mobile barber shops and licenses for mobile cosmetology, dual, manicure, skin care, or other category of shop licensed by the board. | SB2167 |
0984 | Health Care | As enacted, redefines "traumatic brain injury residential home"; requires that any TBI residential home currently operating be licensed by the board for licensing healthcare facilities by January 1, 2017. | SB2183 |
0985 | Hazardous Materials | As enacted, adds certain recyclers to the list of parties who are exempt from liability under the Hazardous Waste Management Act of 1983. | SB2228 |
0986 | Abortion | As enacted, clarifies that the consent required of a woman in order for medical experiments, research, or the taking of photographs upon her aborted fetus must be in writing; allows the taking of photographs of the aborted fetus without the woman's consent if it is done for the purpose of capturing images that the person reasonably believes depict evidence of a violation of a state or federal law, rule, or regulation. | SB2240 |
0987 | Health Care | As enacted, enacts the "Maternal Mortality Review and Prevention Act of 2016". | SB2303 |
0988 | Evidence | As enacted, requires that all biological evidence collected for a criminal offense or offenses in which one or more of the defendants received a sentence of death based upon the same criminal acts, whether the defendants were tried separately or together, be preserved until all defendants receiving a death sentence based on the same conduct are executed, otherwise die, or all related charges for which the defendants were convicted are dismissed. | SB2342 |
0989 | Children | As enacted, creates exemption from eye treatment given to newborns and infants for the minor child of any person who files with the department of health a signed, written statement that the treatment conflicts with the person's religious tenets and practices; removes Class C misdemeanor penalty for a physician, nurse, or midwife failing to administer the treatment. | SB2371 |
0990 | Insurance, Health, Accident | As enacted, revises provisions governing coverage of telehealth services. | SB2373 |
0991 | Professions and Occupations | As enacted, revises various provisions governing licensure and certification for barbers and cosmetologists, including redefining "cosmetology" to include shampooing and natural hairstyling. | SB2374 |
0992 | Zoning | As enacted, authorizes zoning consideration of temporary family healthcare structures; adds a requirement that, as part of the plan to expand cost-effective community-based residential alternatives to institutional care as required by the Long-Term Care Community Choices Act of 2008, the bureau of TennCare must seek written guidance from the centers for Medicare and Medicaid services regarding whether a temporary family healthcare structure may be covered in whole or in part under the program established by the Long-Term Care Community Choices Act of 2008. | SB2375 |
0993 | DUI Offenses | As enacted, authorizes the use of the ignition interlock fund to assist with the costs of other monitoring devices; renames the fund the "DUI monitoring fund" and limits the amounts to be expended from the fund; revises provisions governing service of a sentence for a DUI conviction in an alternative facility. | SB2399 |
0994 | State Government | As enacted, creates a task force to study the feasibility of state government utilizing an open data policy. | SB2427 |
0995 | Utilities, Utility Districts | As enacted, enacts the "Municipal Energy Authority Act." | SB2430 |
0996 | Physicians and Surgeons | As enacted, enacts the "Health Care Empowerment Act". | SB2443 |
0997 | Cemeteries | As enacted, creates the community cemetery grant fund; provisions to be repealed July 1, 2019. | SB2488 |
0998 | Traffic Safety | As enacted, requires that every notice of violation or citation issued that is based solely upon evidence obtained from any traffic enforcement camera used to enforce or monitor traffic violations of the requirement that motor vehicles stop at a red light, include a disclaimer stating that nonpayment of the notice or citation cannot adversely affect the person's credit score or report, driver's license, and/or automobile insurance rates. | SB2492 |
0999 | Education | As enacted, changes various references from "curriculum" to "standards" in present law in order to clarify that the state board of education is responsible for academic standards and local boards are responsible for curriculum. | SB2499 |
1000 | Highways, Roads and Bridges | As enacted, urges the Tennessee Valley Authority to take steps to reopen the bridge spanning the confluence of the Caney Fork and Collins Rivers, which is commonly known as the Great Falls Dam, for thoroughfare traffic connecting White and Warren counties. | SB2523 |