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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 |