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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

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