Tennessee 109th General Assembly - Public Acts Search

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Chapter Number Subject Abstract Bill Number
0101 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Delta human resource agency, June 30, 2021, and requires representatives of the agency to report back to the committee concerning the findings in its 2014 performance audit report. SB0268
0102 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the East Tennessee human resource agency, June 30, 2021, and requires representatives of the agency to report back to the committee concerning the findings in its 2014 performance audit report. SB0269
0103 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the first Tennessee human resource agency, June 30, 2021, and requires representatives of the agency to report back to the committee concerning the findings in its 2014 performance audit report. SB0270
0104 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Mid-Cumberland human resource agency, June 30, 2021, and requires representatives of the agency to report back to the committee concerning the findings in its 2014 performance audit report. SB0271
0105 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the South Central Tennessee human resource agency, June 30, 2021, and requires representatives of the agency to report back to the committee concerning the findings in its 2014 performance audit report. SB0273
0106 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Northwest Tennessee human resource agency, June 30, 2021, and requires representatives of the agency to report back to the committee concerning the findings in its 2014 performance audit report. SB0272
0107 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Southeast Tennessee human resource agency, June 30, 2021, and requires representatives of the agency to report back to the committee concerning the findings in its 2014 performance audit report. SB0274
0108 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Southwest Tennessee human resource agency, June 30, 2021, and requires representatives of the agency to report back to the committee concerning the findings in its 2014 performance audit report. SB0275
0109 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Upper Cumberland human resource agency, June 30, 2021, and requires representatives of the agency to report back to the committee concerning the findings in its 2014 performance audit report. SB0276
0110 Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of As enacted, revises provisions governing the licensing of personal support services; specifies that a personal support services agency that is licensed by either the department of mental health and substance abuse services or the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities is authorized to serve individuals with physical or other disabilities without being required to obtain a license from both departments. SB0319
0111 Holidays and Days of Special Observance As enacted, designates September 18, each year, as "Carbon Monoxide Awareness Day" to bring awareness to the dangers of carbon monoxide. SB0401
0112 Local Government, General As enacted, adds all county, municipal, and metropolitan governments to the list of entities required to establish internal controls to ensure compliance with applicable law, prevent waste, and ensure operations are properly recorded. SB0413
0113 Adoption As enacted, reduces the time for revoking a surrender in regard to the person's child from 10 to three calendar days following the surrender. SB0440
0114 Employees, Employers As enacted, clarifies that neither a franchisee nor a franchisee's employee shall be deemed to be an employee of the franchisor for any purpose, notwithstanding any voluntary agreement between the U.S. department of labor and a franchisee. SB0475
0115 Local Government, General As enacted, permits the board of commissioners of a city incorporated under the city manager-commission charter to pass ordinances by means of a consent calendar. SB0540
0116 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, allows Commodore Hotel and Cafe in Perry County to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on premises. SB0814
0117 Liens As enacted, revises various provisions relative to mechanics' and materialmen's liens. SB0877
0118 Pensions and Retirement Benefits As enacted, enacts the "Optional Retirement Program for Employees of Public Institutions of Higher Education," which revises existing provisions governing the optional retirement program. SB0898
0119 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, authorizes the Ivy Wild and Blue Chair Cafe & Tavern in Franklin County to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on premises. SB0930
0120 Fire Prevention and Investigation As enacted, makes various changes to the use of smoke alarms in one-family and two-family rental units, one-family and two-family dwellings, apartment buildings, and hotels. SB1036
0121 Chiropractors As enacted, revises the authority of the board of chiropractic examiners to impose administrative discipline against a licensee based on improper solicitations; adds certain recordkeeping requirements concerning solicitations. SB1048
0122 TennCare As enacted, authorizes TennCare to provide medical assistance for sickle cell disease management services and public education campaign activities specifically related to sickle cell disease. SB1074
0123 Statutes and Codification As enacted, revises Tennessee Code Annotated by correcting or deleting antiquated, erroneous, or obsolete language. SB1293
0124 Medical Occupations As enacted, adds dry needling to scope of practice of a physical therapist. HB0025
0125 Probation and Parole As enacted, requires that a person convicted of vehicular assault or vehicular homicide serve a mandatory minimum sentence before being eligible for probation. HB0042
0126 DUI Offenses As enacted, makes certain technical corrections to statutes regarding driving under the influence. HB0099
0127 Consumer Protection As enacted, prohibits the printing of a social security number on a check in order to receive a benefit, good, service, or other value, unless the person provides written permission or the disclosure is required by state or federal law or made to a consumer reporting agency or certain financial institutions. HB0114
0128 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Tennessee state veterans' homes board, June 30, 2019. HB0345
0129 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the department of education, June 30, 2019, and requires the department to report back to the committee concerning the findings in its 2014 performance audit report. HB0364
0130 Metropolitan Government As enacted, authorizes a metropolitan government by two-thirds vote to restrict the location of a private club within 1,000 feet of a private school, public school, charter school, public park, residence, or place of worship. HB0480
0131 Business and Commerce As enacted, makes the Made in Tennessee Act permanent instead of repealing on January 1, 2016; specifies that the annual report of the University of Tennessee Center for Industrial Services must address the promotion of nonagricultural products made in Tennessee through the use of a logo or seal pursuant to the Act. HB0549
0132 Local Education Agencies As enacted, requires local boards of education to provide financial information concerning expenditures for lobbying and professional associations in their budgets. HB0772
0133 Lottery, Charitable As enacted, extends deadline for applications for 2015-2016 annual events for three days after April 14, 2015. SB1004
0134 Lottery, Charitable As enacted, establishes framework to allow qualified 501(c)(19) organizations to operate an annual gaming event; sets 501(c)(19) application submission deadline. SB0325
0135 Agriculture As enacted, specifies that the annual planting and harvest seasons for the state extend from January 1 to December 31 of each year. SB0704
0136 Taxes, Ad Valorem As enacted, clarifies that evidence introduced in an administrative or judicial proceeding concerning the assessment of property is not confidential, unless made confidential by a protective order of the judge in the proceeding. SB0690
0137 Criminal Offenses As enacted, creates the offense of aggressive panhandling where a first violation is a Class C misdemeanor and a second or subsequent violation is a Class B misdemeanor. SB0596
0138 Criminal Offenses As enacted, allows the assertion of the affirmative defense of solicitation and collection of charitable donations to the criminal offense of obstructing a highway in Williamson and Maury counties. SB0541
0139 Boards and Commissions As enacted, adds a Fentress County resident as a member of the great war commission, to be appointed by the governor; requires the governor to consult with interested groups prior to appointing the additional member. SB0427
0140 Utilities, Utility Districts As enacted, defines genuine signatures for purposes of initiating a customer petition of utility district rates; modifies hearing procedures; makes the comptroller or the comptroller's designee the chair of the utility management review board; and revises other various provisions of law governing utility districts. SB0417
0141 Students As enacted, authorizes a school principal to excuse students for non-school-sponsored extracurricular activities; requires the student to submit to the school documentation of the activity and the parents to submit a written request to the principal at least seven business days prior to the student's requested excused absence. SB0359
0142 Education As enacted, extends the date of the repeal of the Virtual Public Schools Act from June 30, 2015, to June 30, 2019. SB0343
0143 Prisons and Reformatory Institutions As enacted, requires an action that accrued while a plaintiff inmate was housed in a facility operated by a private corporation pursuant to a contract with the state or local government to be brought in the county in which the facility is located. SB0289
0144 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the tri-county railroad authority, June 30, 2020. SB0279
0145 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the South Central Tennessee railroad authority, June 30, 2020. SB0278
0146 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the rail service authorities, June 30, 2020; requires the authorities to report back to the committee on the status of pending litigation related to the state's short line equity fund. SB0277
0147 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Tennessee soybean promotion board, June 30, 2021. SB0267
0148 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Tennessee dairy promotion committee, June 30, 2021. SB0266
0149 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the pork promotion board, June 30, 2021. SB0265
0150 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the egg promotion board, June 30, 2021. SB0264
0151 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the beef promotion board, June 30, 2021. SB0263
0152 Tort Liability and Reform As enacted, enacts the "Protection of Volunteer-Insured Drivers of the Elderly (PROVIDE) Act." SB0117
0153 Health Care As enacted, authorizes the board for licensing healthcare facilities and the departments of mental health and substance abuse services, human services, and intellectual and developmental disabilities to amend licensure rules to be consistent with the federal home-based and community-based settings final rule; prohibits the use of emergency rulemaking to promulgate such rules; requires that licensure survey and enforcement be conducted in a manner consistent with any rule issued under this act. SB0112
0154 Public Health As enacted, upon request by the commissioner of health or commissioner's designee, requires that commissioner or designee be given certain access to medical records in order to facilitate investigations and inquiries when responding to an immediate threat to public health. SB0098
0155 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies As enacted, revises various provisions relating to tax reporting by insurance companies. SB0082
0156 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies As enacted, makes various revisions regarding captive insurance companies. SB0080
0157 Insurance, Health, Accident As enacted, prohibits health insurance entities from charging a covered person a greater copayment or coinsurance amount for services rendered during an office visit to a physician assistant who is contracted as a primary care practitioner by that health insurer than those charged for such services rendered during an office visit to a physician. SB0054
0158 Education As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Teaching Evaluation Enhancement Act." HB0108
0159 County Officers As enacted, adds members of a county legislative body to the list of officials authorized to retain gratuities received for solemnization of marriage. HB0113
0160 County Officers As enacted, permits constables to post and mail detainer summonses in addition to sheriffs and deputy sheriffs. HB0119
0161 Funeral Directors and Embalmers As enacted, clarifies that the two members of the board of funeral directors and embalmers with a minimum of five consecutive years' experience in this state immediately preceding their appointment shall be licensed as funeral directors, embalmers, or both; and provides that if the board is inspecting a crematory facility in conjunction with an application for initial licensure, change of ownership, or change of location, the authorized representative conducting the inspection for the board shall also be a certified crematory operator. HB0163
0162 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies As enacted, broadens the definition of a covered building for purposes of sinkhole insurance coverage to include the residential structure and the contents of the personal property contained within the structure. HB0253
0163 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the consumer advocate division in the office of the attorney general and reporter, June 30, 2017. HB0354
0164 Motor Vehicles As enacted, clarifies that, for certain criminal offenses, the word accident includes any crash or collision regardless of the level of care taken by the drivers involved or whether criminal conduct was involved. HB0408
0165 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel As enacted, prohibits supervisors from disciplining or discouraging teachers and other educators for reporting inaccuracies or errors or potentially inflammatory material in textbooks or other educational materials to supervisors, elected officials, or parents or guardians; prohibits requiring a teacher or other educator to agree not to report inaccuracies or errors or potentially inflammatory material in textbooks or other educational materials, as a condition of employment. HB0429
0166 Tort Liability and Reform As enacted, adds animals to the existing procedure that confers immunity from liability on a person for damage caused by breaking into a locked vehicle for the purpose of extracting a child in danger. HB0537
0167 Child Custody and Support As enacted, eliminates the rights of custody, visitation, and inheritance for persons convicted of aggravated rape, rape, or rape of a child from which crime the child was conceived; permits the child's other parent to request reasonable visitation with the convicted parent; requires a court to establish a child support obligation for the convicted parent. HB0554
0168 Highways, Roads and Bridges As enacted, revises the segment of State Route 169 in Knox County that is a scenic highway. HB0918
0169 Public Records As enacted, makes confidential job performance evaluations of employees of the state treasurer, employees of the comptroller of the treasury, employees of the secretary of state, and employees of public institutions of higher education. HB1158
0170 County Government As enacted, allows counties that have not adopted a budget by July 1 of any year to continue to operate under the previous fiscal year's budget; requires budget to be adopted by September 30. HB1233
0171 Schools, Charter As enacted, halts the closure at the end of the 2014-2015 school year of charter schools on the state's 2015 priority list; makes the 2017 priority list the first list for which charter schools appearing on a priority list must close at the end of the school year. HB0125
0172 Landlord and Tenant As enacted, permits a landlord to provide three days' notice as sufficient notice of termination of tenancy for eviction of certain residential tenants if the tenants engage in certain violent activities; exempts residential tenants who are mentally or physically disabled. HB0029
0173 Game and Fish Laws As enacted, allows a person prosecuted for taking or harming a wild animal to assert the defense of self-defense; creates a Class C misdemeanor for failure to report the incident. HB0135
0174 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Tennessee aeronautics commission, June 30, 2021. HB0384
0175 Credit and Debit Cards As enacted, establishes certain requirements for a payment acquirer that contracts directly with a merchant to provide payment services. HB0547
0176 Beer As enacted, makes applicable statewide, instead of in certain areas only, the authority for a beer manufacturer to operate as a retailer at the manufacturer's location or a site contiguous thereto. HB0639
0177 Election Laws As enacted, requires county election commissions to notify the secretary of state's division of elections prior to implementing an Internet electronic filing process. HB0817
0178 Children's Services, Dept. of As enacted, consolidates annual reports on foster children and child care agencies into a comprehensive annual report made by the department; removes reporting requirement concerning shifting responsibility for foster children who move from one placement to another within the county probation department or children's services department. HB0066
0179 Utilities, Utility Districts As enacted, alters the method of creating a utility district by requiring county legislative approval of the order finding that the utility district is economically sound and desirable; allows for petitions for re-creation of a utility district for the purpose of redefining its incorporated boundary, which must be filed with the utility management review board simultaneously with the filing of the petition with the county mayor. HB0256
0180 Forfeiture of Assets As enacted, removes references to chancery courts in judicial forfeitures and clarifies that the burden of proof in forfeiture proceedings involving real property is preponderance of the evidence. HB0319
0181 Public Records As enacted, makes confidential e-mail addresses collected by the department of state's division of business services, with certain exceptions. HB0461
0182 House of Representatives As enacted, revises statutory references to the education committee to conform to the rule change adopted by the house. HB0832
0183 Criminal Offenses As enacted, creates specific definitions for and new offense of vandalism of a retail merchant; penalty for new offense remains same as present law; "damage" to merchandise includes tampering with or rendering the product unusable or diminished in value. HB1245
0184 Education, Dept. of As enacted, deletes the current schedule for the Tennessee comprehensive assessment program that requires testing to occur during a two-week window by the first Monday on or after April 22; authorizes the commissioner of education to establish a schedule for the Tennessee comprehensive assessment program. SB0088
0185 Insurance, Health, Accident As enacted, makes various changes to the Access Tennessee Act of 2006; limits coverage under the Act to those persons enrolled prior to April 22, 2015. SB0113
0186 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs As enacted, makes various revisions to the Tennessee Promise Scholarship Act; clarifies a student will no longer be eligible for the Tennessee Promise scholarship once the student has attended an eligible postsecondary institution as a Tennessee Promise scholarship student for five semesters if the institution is on a semester system, or its equivalent if the institution is on a system other than a semester system. SB0118
0187 Criminal Offenses As enacted, classifies the financial exploitation by a caretaker of an adult as a Class D felony; requires the district attorney to freeze the assets of anyone charged with taking property valued at $5,000 or more until the criminal proceedings are complete. SB0147
0188 Workers Compensation As enacted, prohibits an insurance company from charging a premium for any individual determined to be an independent contractor; requires additional defense costs and loss adjustment costs be reported to the commissioner of commerce and insurance as supplementary rate and loss costs information. SB0171
0189 Medical Occupations As enacted, deletes statement that a physician assistant's supervising physician have complete and absolute authority over the physician assistant's actions while retaining language that the physician assistant function under the control and responsibility of the physician. SB0201
0190 Sunset Laws As enacted, terminates the advisory council on teacher education and certification. SB0215
0191 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the elevator and amusement device safety board, June 30, 2019. SB0235
0192 Zoning As enacted, requires counties participating in national flood insurance program to regulate buildings and development within the one hundred-year floodplain, but only to the minimum extent necessary to comply with the national flood insurance program. SB0323
0193 Property Assessors As enacted, clarifies what errors an assessor may correct, including errors in coding, entry, or transcription of data; prohibits assessor from revisiting errors involving judgment. SB0473
0194 Dentists and Dentistry As enacted, revises provisions governing a certificate as a specialist. SB0753
0195 Highways, Roads and Bridges As enacted, enacts the "County Road Relief Act of 2015." SB1005
0196 Public Funds and Financing As enacted, authorizes the state treasurer to invest certain funds in obligations that are guaranteed by the United States government as to principal and interest. SB1240
0197 Education As enacted, permits a local board of education to refuse to accept federal funding for an education program without a penalty being assessed by a state agency or state official, unless such refusal would cause a loss of federal funding for all participating LEAs in the program. SB0063
0198 Pest Control As enacted, revises provisions governing the authority of the commissioner of agriculture in regard to persons who have violated the Tennessee Application of Pesticides Act of 1978 or the Tennessee Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act. SB0073
0199 Children's Services, Dept. of As enacted, requires the department to disclose certain information about children adopted from the department's guardianship to the adoptive family; requires the department to promulgate rules to govern the operation of a foster parent advocacy program. SB0075
0200 Child Custody and Support As enacted, authorizes and establishes certain procedures regarding the right to reach a written compromise and settlement to forgive accrued principal and interest on delinquent child support owed with approval of the obligee. SB0101

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