Browse All
(Acts are ordered by chapter number and listed 100 per page) |
|
SEARCH TIPS
|
Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Next
Chapter Number | Subject | Abstract | Bill Number |
---|---|---|---|
0201 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, authorizes the city of Minor Hill in Giles County to hold a referendum to authorize the sale of alcoholic beverages at retail and a referendum to authorize the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises. | SB0124 |
0202 | Divorce, Annulment and Alimony | As enacted, requires account balances, accrued benefits, or other values of vested and unvested pension benefits, vested and unvested stock option rights, retirement and other fringe benefits relating to employment prior to the date of marriage together with the appreciation of the value be treated as separate property for purposes of division of property in a divorce or legal separation. | SB0161 |
0203 | Elder Abuse | As enacted, extends the elder abuse task force from January 15, 2015, to January 15, 2016. | SB0198 |
0204 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the air pollution control board, June 30, 2019. | SB0216 |
0205 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the board of ground water management, June 30, 2019. | SB0222 |
0206 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the state board of education, June 30, 2019, and requires the board to report back to the committee concerning the findings in its 2014 performance audit report. | SB0248 |
0207 | Utilities, Utility Districts | As enacted, allows a privately owned for-profit community public water system to have access to the drinking water revolving loan fund. | SB0304 |
0208 | Comptroller, State | As enacted, alters the penalty imposed on a municipality for violating the Municipal Finance Officer Certification and Education Act from $50.00 per day to a sales tax revenue reduction in an amount not to exceed 15 percent of the total amount due to the municipality in a fiscal year. | SB0352 |
0209 | Planning, Public | As enacted, creates new methods of guaranteeing infrastructure improvements before final subdivision plat approval by regional or municipal planning commissions; eliminates criminal penalty for transferring land before subdivision plat approval and before recording plat with county register. | SB0382 |
0210 | Fire Prevention and Investigation | As enacted, requires volunteer fire departments receiving public funds to file an annual financial report with the state comptroller and the local governments from which they receive funding. | SB0415 |
0211 | Comptroller, State | As enacted, makes confidential all examinations administered by the division of property assessments, including, but not limited to, the bank of questions used to develop the tests, the answers, and the answer sheets of individual test takers. | SB0423 |
0212 | State Government | As enacted, deletes requirement that the department of health and each department of state government that administers services to children and families jointly report at least once annually to the judiciary committee of the senate and the civil justice committee of the house of representatives concerning administration of the Tennessee informational clearinghouse on teenage pregnancy. | SB0460 |
0213 | Deeds | As enacted, clarifies who is to receive notice of certain sales of real property. | SB0619 |
0214 | Education | As enacted, prohibits schools from requiring students or parents to provide information on firearm ownership; prohibits LEAs from requiring employees to provide information on firearm ownership; prohibits adverse disciplinary or employment action based on information of firearm ownership that is voluntarily provided. | SB0633 |
0215 | Taxes, Ad Valorem | As enacted, requires that notification of proposed changes in individual property classifications or assessments to be made by either the state board of equalization or the assessment appeals commission on its own accord be given by September 1 of the year following the year for which the notice is given. | SB0691 |
0216 | Driver Licenses | As enacted, under certain circumstances, waives driver license tests for an applicant with a valid driver license from a foreign country, if the department of safety enters into a reciprocal memorandum of understanding with a foreign country and the applicant verifies residency. | SB0729 |
0217 | Public Records | As enacted, expands prohibition of public inspection of consumer-specific energy usage data to include water usage data. | SB0762 |
0218 | Credit and Debit Cards | As enacted, requires persons who lease payment card processing devices to merchants to provide certain information prominently in the written contract. | SB0911 |
0219 | Education, Higher | As enacted, requires the executive director of THEC to convene representatives from UT and the board of regents to create, revise, and adopt policies to assist veterans and military service members with higher education programs; makes other various revisions to the eligibility and in-state tuition guidelines of the Tennessee Veterans Education Transition Support Act. | SB0976 |
0220 | Taxes, Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, extends certain alternative distribution provisions concerning liquor-by-the-drink tax proceeds to local governments. | SB0990 |
0221 | Charitable Solicitations | As enacted, establishes requirements for charitable donation receptacles; requires certain signage to disclose how proceeds from donated items will be used. | SB1017 |
0222 | Taxes, Exemption and Credits | As enacted, removes exclusion for Davidson County to allow Davidson County, like other cities and counties under law, to delegate its public housing authority the power to negotiate and accept payments in lieu of taxes from lessees that operate publicly owned low-income tax credit property. | SB1118 |
0223 | Courts, General Sessions | As enacted, removes the restriction that prohibits Davidson County from imposing a litigation tax on cases in general sessions court with proceeds to support the general sessions court. | SB1119 |
0224 | Planning, Public | As enacted, authorizes the city of Kingsport to participate in the Tennessee local land bank program. | SB1185 |
0225 | Local Government, General | As enacted, prohibits a local entity from publicly disclosing the social security number of a citizen unless authorized to do so under certain circumstances; extends the prohibition to a person or entity receiving a social security number from the local entity. | SB1218 |
0226 | Taxes, Real Property | As enacted, clarifies that tax relief will be provided to only one recipient for a given property for any tax year per taxing jurisdiction. | SB1338 |
0227 | Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies | As enacted, clarifies that no person loaning money that is secured by real property may require insurance that exceeds the replacement cost of the structures or the expected replacement value of the structures on the real property. | SB0172 |
0228 | Game and Fish Laws | As enacted, specifies that it is not an offense to take a black vulture in this state and that state resources may not be used to enforce any prohibition against taking black vultures in this state. | SB0204 |
0229 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the state unemployment compensation advisory council, June 30, 2019. | SB0250 |
0230 | Banks and Financial Institutions | As enacted, revises the definition of a domestic holding company with respect to credit card state banks; extends the provisions permitting a domestic holding company to organize a credit card state bank to July 1, 2018. | SB0510 |
0231 | Domestic Violence | As enacted, requires an investigator or law enforcement officer investigating possible domestic abuse or child abuse involving a hearing-impaired child to interview the child using an interpreter outside the presence of the child's parent or family member; permits the interpreter to interpret using video remote interpreting. | SB0594 |
0232 | Teachers, Principals and School Personnel | As enacted, changes, from "prior to June 15" to "within five business days following the last instructional day for the school year" the time within which notices of dismissal or failure of re-election must be provided to teachers. | SB0893 |
0233 | Education, State Board of | As enacted, prohibits the state board from denying instructional leadership licensure based solely on the applicant completing a leadership preparation program located outside of this state. | SB1088 |
0234 | Firearms and Ammunition | As enacted, requires the chief law enforcement officer of a jurisdiction to certify the transfer or making of a firearm, as required by the National Firearms Act, within 15 days if the person is not prohibited from receiving or possessing a firearm by law; permits an applicant to appeal a denial to the circuit or chancery court. | HB1255 |
0235 | Game and Fish Laws | As enacted, removes the prohibition on taking or killing foxes in Washington County and authorizes the fish and wildlife commission to regulate the taking or killing of foxes in this state. | HB1051 |
0236 | Child Custody and Support | As enacted, in cases not involving the department of children's services or a child-placing agency, prohibits a court from returning a child to the custody of a parent when the child was removed due to the parent's drug abuse unless the parent demonstrates a sustained commitment to responsible parenting. | HB0811 |
0237 | Child Custody and Support | As enacted, specifies that it is grounds for the termination of parental rights that the parent or guardian is convicted on or after July 1, 2015, of the offense of sex trafficking of children under federal law, or under the law of another state. | HB0308 |
0238 | Child Custody and Support | As enacted, prohibits the court from awarding any form of custody to a parent who is indicted for aggravated child abuse, sexual abuse of a child, or severe child sexual abuse while indictment is still pending, unless presumption of substantial risk of harm to child is overcome; allows supervised visitation. | HB0218 |
0239 | Teachers, Principals and School Personnel | As enacted, prohibits certain campaign-related activities by teachers and certain other public school employees while on school property. | HB0158 |
0240 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, prohibits certain use of an unmanned aircraft to intentionally capture an image over certain open-air events and firework displays; prohibits use of unmanned aircraft over grounds of a correctional facility. | HB0153 |
0241 | Credit Unions | As enacted, revises the manner in which the commissioner of financial institutions assesses the annual supervision fee on credit unions and the manner in which the fees are used. | HB0083 |
0242 | Children's Services, Dept. of | As enacted, requires that all services, not just the focus of the services, that are provided by the department must further the best interest of the child. | HB0219 |
0243 | Lakeland | As enacted, authorizes the board of commissioners of the city of Lakeland to adopt an ordinance to establish term limits for the mayor and board of commissioners, to become operative only if approved in a referendum. | HB0523 |
0244 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, makes it a Class B misdemeanor for any person to violate an order to vacate a structure declared unfit for human occupation or use; makes it a Class B misdemeanor for the owner, manager, or person responsible for a structure declared unfit for human occupation or use to authorize or facilitate occupancy of the structure. | HB0575 |
0245 | Bail, Bail Bonds | As enacted, permits a magistrate to impose additional conditions of release or bail on a defendant arrested for child abuse, neglect, or endangerment or aggravated child abuse, neglect, or endangerment who is a threat to the alleged victim. | HB0661 |
0246 | Children | As enacted, revises provisions governing information provided in a pamphlet associated with newborn testing and establishes requirements for the destruction of certain specimens and identifying information. | HB0674 |
0247 | Child Custody and Support | As enacted, permits a biological or adoptive great-grandparent or the spouse thereof to petition a court for grandparent visitation. | HB0704 |
0248 | Utilities, Utility Districts | As enacted, requires the Lawrence County water utility district, by January 31 of each year, to notify the county mayor of the county that created the utility district of the beginning and ending dates of terms of office for each member of the utility district's board of commissioners in office on January 1 of each calendar year; revises provisions governing notice of vacancy. | HB0820 |
0249 | Taxes, Sales | As enacted, removes the tax exemption for certain machinery used for the manufacture of firearms. | HB0899 |
0250 | Firearms and Ammunition | As enacted, allows permit holders to carry handguns in parks and other public recreation areas owned or operated by local governments except when the property is in use by a school for an athletic event or other school-related activity; prohibits permit holders from carrying handguns in parks and other such areas that are owned or operated by a school; removes authority of local governments to prohibit handguns in parks by posting. | HB0995 |
0251 | Education | As enacted, authorizes and encourages local education agencies to adopt as their course of instruction in character education the Congressional Medal of Honor Character Development Program. | HB1204 |
0252 | Municipal Government | As enacted, authorizes registered voters who own real property in Ethridge, in Lawrence County, to vote in all municipal elections and municipal referenda held in the city; in cases of multiple ownership of real property, no more than two owners who are registered voters will be eligible to vote; will only apply if adopted by a two-thirds vote of the legislative body of Ethridge. | HB1213 |
0253 | Sexual Offenses | As enacted, provides that a victim of a sexually oriented crime is entitled to a forensic medical examination without charge to the victim; establishes requirements for collection of evidence, testing, and handling of such evidence; requires the domestic violence state coordinating council to create a model policy for law enforcement agencies responding to reports of sexually oriented crimes and requires all law enforcement agencies that are likely to encounter reports of sexually oriented crimes to establish written policies and procedures on responding to reports of sexually oriented crimes. | HB1239 |
0254 | Healthcare Liability | As enacted, limits who may be named as defendants in a healthcare liability action; provides that in the event a person, entity, or healthcare provider receives notice of a potential claim for healthcare liability, the person, entity, or healthcare provider must, within 30 days of receiving the notice, based upon any reasonable knowledge and information available, provide written notice to the potential claimant of any other person, entity, or healthcare provider who may be a properly named defendant. | HB1285 |
0255 | Basic Education Program (BEP) | As enacted, requires fiscal capacity for BEP purposes of each LEA to be set annually by May 1 before the next school year begins; prohibits any change in any LEA's fiscal capacity after it is set. | HB0006 |
0256 | Education | As enacted, allows LEAs to opt out of including the student's TCAP scores in the student's final grades if the LEA doesn't receive the scores at least five instructional days before the end of the school year. | HB0036 |
0257 | Clerks, Court | As enacted, allows court clerk, subject to approval of the judge, to accept a lump-sum partial payment in full settlement for all court costs, fees, and litigation taxes owed; provided, that the amount has been in default for at least five years and the amount settled upon is 50 percent or more of the combined outstanding balance. | HB0052 |
0258 | County Government | As enacted, allows removal of overgrown vegetation and accumulated debris on owner-occupied residential property in Henderson County. | HB0314 |
0259 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the commission on children and youth, June 30, 2020; removes provision for the commission on children and youth to prepare and distribute impact statements analyzing the potential effect of proposals under consideration by the general assembly that relate to the health, well-being, and development of children and youth. | HB0330 |
0260 | Education | As enacted, requires certain institutions to report nonimmigrant student enrollment to the department of safety. | HB0670 |
0261 | Physicians and Surgeons | As enacted, establishes requirements and protections for healthcare providers that practice telehealth. | HB0699 |
0262 | Real Property | As enacted, requires a seller of real property to disclose to a buyer the presence of any known sinkhole on the property. | HB0796 |
0263 | Education | As enacted, encourages LEAs, in consultation with local law enforcement, to institute at least one domestic violence awareness education program per year for middle and high schools; requires each program to be developmentally appropriate based on the students' age and maturity level. | HB0830 |
0264 | Children | As enacted, allows law enforcement officers to transport minor victims of prostitution to a shelter care facility designated by the juvenile court judge to facilitate the release of the minor to the custody of a parent or legal guardian. | HB0865 |
0265 | Teachers, Principals and School Personnel | As enacted, requires the local board to consider the years of service acquired by a tenured or nontenured teacher who takes an extended leave from an LEA to teach in a public charter school authorized by the LEA, ASD, or state board of education in certain circumstances. | HB0874 |
0266 | Textbooks | As enacted, requires the textbook commission to study the age and physical status of textbooks used in public schools of this state and issue a written report to the members of the general assembly, by January 1, 2016, detailing the average age, physical condition, and cost to replace outdated textbooks, and solutions to avoiding the use of textbooks that are over 10 years old. | HB0968 |
0267 | Cosmetology | As enacted, specifies that the state board of cosmetology and barber examiners may suspend, revoke, or refuse to issue or renew any license due to the person having a felony conviction if the felony conviction occurred within three years prior to the board's decision or due to the person having a misdemeanor conviction involving moral turpitude if the misdemeanor conviction occurred within one year prior to the board's decision. | HB0987 |
0268 | Healthcare Liability | As enacted, provides that a healthcare provider's disclosure of relevant information in response to a court order, including, but not limited to, protected health information, opinions as to the standard of care of any defendant, compliance with or breach of the standard, and causation of the alleged injury, will be deemed a permissible disclosure. | HB1003 |
0269 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, clarifies that "municipality" includes any city of more than 925 persons instead of 1,000 persons; removes provision from certificate of compliance requiring mayor to state opinion that applicant will not violate any alcoholic beverage related laws; requires a person to have a nonresident seller's permit if selling or distributing any alcoholic beverages to a licensed manufacturer. | HB1125 |
0270 | Wine & Wineries | As enacted, clarifies that samples of wine are not subject to the privilege tax levied on the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premise consumption at the winery or on the farm winery producer's premises; clarifies that wine sold in sealed containers is not subject to such tax at the winery or on the farm winery producer's premises. | HB0783 |
0271 | Day Care | As enacted, exempts certain drop-in centers providing short-term care from the child care agency licensure requirements of the department of human services by removing the requirement that such a center be operated by a not-for-profit corporation in order to be exempt. | HB0051 |
0272 | Purchasing and Procurement | As enacted, authorizes public institutions of higher education to participate in, sponsor, conduct, or administer a cooperative purchasing agreement for the procurement of goods or services with one or more other states or local governments in accordance with an agreement entered into between the participants; revises the protest process for challenging a solicitation, award, or proposed award of a state contract; revises provisions governing authorized limitations of liability in certain state contracts. | HB0084 |
0273 | Taxes | As enacted, extends the effective date of the streamlined sales and use tax agreement legislation from July 1, 2015, to July 1, 2017; makes various revisions to sales tax and other tax provisions. | HB0095 |
0274 | Taxes, Exemption and Credits | As enacted, exempts diabetic testing supplies from sales and use tax. | HB0122 |
0275 | Eminent Domain | As enacted, requires that actions that could be brought for trespass or nuisance in connection with the exercise of eminent domain be brought within 12 months after the land has been actually taken possession of and the work of proposed improvement begun. | HB0137 |
0276 | TennCare | As enacted, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment Act of 2015." | HB0151 |
0277 | Veterans | As enacted, enacts the "Kenneth Harry-Hill Tennessee Veterans Health Care Act of 2015," which may also be known as the "Mission Tennessee for Veterans Program". | HB0425 |
0278 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, adds drug fraud to the crimes for which a person may have the public records of the person's conviction expunged. | HB0578 |
0279 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, expands premises for consumption of alcoholic beverages to include area between a convention center, convention center hotel, museum, and one block of public roadway in Nashville upon majority vote of the local legislative body. | HB0642 |
0280 | Lobbying, Lobbyists | As enacted, prohibits lobbyists from making campaign contributions to judges and judicial candidates. | HB0707 |
0281 | Handgun Permits | As enacted, creates a lifetime handgun carry permit which entitles the permit holder to carry any handgun that the permit holder legally owns or possesses without expiration; sets the application fee for a lifetime handgun carry permit at $500 and establishes other requirements for obtaining and maintaining the permit. | HB0745 |
0282 | Credit, Consumer | As enacted, authorizes certain guardians to place a security freeze on the consumer report of a person under 16 years of age or an incapacitated person; establishes requirements for such a freeze and remedies for violations. | HB0776 |
0283 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, requires a court to order an inmate convicted of aggravated assault against a correctional officer to pay restitution to the victim in certain circumstances. | HB0838 |
0284 | Sexual Offenders | As enacted, requires persons convicted of the offense of sexual contact with inmates to register as a sexual offender and allows such persons to file a request for termination of registration no sooner than three years after termination of active supervision or no sooner than three years after discharge from incarceration without supervision. | HB0880 |
0285 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, creates a delivery service license that will authorize a delivery service that delivers prepared food from restaurants to customers to also deliver sealed packages of alcoholic beverages or beer or both sold by a licensed retailer of alcoholic beverages; establishments requirements for such a license. | HB1011 |
0286 | Students | As enacted, requires a school in which a child who is a suspected victim of child sexual abuse that occurred while the child was under the supervision or care of the school to make reasonable accommodations to separate the alleged victim of child sexual abuse from the alleged perpetrator. | HB1221 |
0287 | Tennessee Bureau of Investigation | As enacted, requires the annual TBI report on crime to contain demographic data, including the percentage of suspects, victims, and convicted offenders based on race, gender, age, nationality, and any other appropriate demographic, as determined by the director of TBI. | HB1225 |
0288 | Cemeteries | As enacted, makes various revisions to regulations governing cemetery companies or other entities engaged in the business of selling, leasing, or renting lots, grave spaces, crypts, niches, and burial rights for the interment of deceased persons; requires the commissioner of commerce and insurance to issue audit reports after auditing a cemetery company. | HB1307 |
0289 | Local Government, General | As enacted, expands presumptive disability in acquiring certain infectious diseases in the line of duty by emergency rescue workers to include the hepatitis C virus. | SB0020 |
0290 | Contractors | As enacted, expands types of activities the state board for licensing contractors may penalize; increases the amount of civil penalties that may be levied against contractors; changes evidentiary requirements for obtaining a court order to enforce the board's penalties. | SB0078 |
0291 | Professions and Occupations | As enacted, authorizes the state board of examiners for architects and engineers to deny certain certificates of registration to persons with felony convictions; removes certain board notifications to governmental entities when revoking or suspending certificates of registration; revises other various provisions governing certain regulatory boards. | SB0081 |
0292 | Environment and Conservation, Department of | As enacted, makes various changes to the regulation of petroleum underground storage tanks and waste; gives an owner or operator of an underground tank the option to request a refund of the annual fee or a waiver or reduction of the penalties in certain circumstances. | SB0092 |
0293 | Drugs, Prescription | As enacted, clarifies and adds to present law licensure requirements for persons who provide warehousing or third-party logistics services with regard to controlled substances. | SB0097 |
0294 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration | As enacted, increases the fee for recording liens, encumbrances, and mortgages on certificates of title from $5.50 to $11.00; revises other provisions related to titling and registering vehicles. | SB0108 |
0295 | Criminal Procedure | As enacted, clarifies that each court clerk possessing records subject to an expunction order is required to remove and destroy the records within 60 days of the date of the expunction order rather than the date of the filing of the petition; requires any court ordering the expunction of a person's records to send a copy of the order to the TBI within 30 days of the order; requires the TBI to remove expunged records from a person's criminal history within 60 days from the receipt of the expunction order. | SB0140 |
0296 | Motor Vehicles | As enacted, increases the fines for failure to use safety belts; designates a portion of the revenue from the fines to the division of vocational rehabilitation and a portion to the state general fund. | SB0177 |
0297 | Fiscal Review Committee | As enacted, requires chair and vice chair of committee to be members of opposite houses; requires chair and vice chair positions to rotate between houses every two years. | SB0179 |
0298 | Holidays and Days of Special Observance | As enacted, requires the governor to designate the first weekend in August of each calendar year as "Tennessee's Weekend of Prayer Over Students." | SB0202 |
0299 | Holidays and Days of Special Observance | As enacted, designates November as "Lung Cancer Awareness Month." | SB0208 |
0300 | Regional Authorities and Special Districts | As enacted, permits a railroad authority to negotiate all labor portions of certain rehabilitation contracts, instead of being restricted to negotiating only the nonbridge labor portion of such contracts. | SB0281 |