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0301 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities, Dept. of As enacted, requires DIDD to adopt policies and procedures regarding the development of appropriations requested for family support; requires, unless the commissioner determines an exigent circumstance exists, DIDD to seek the state family support council's input prior to adopting certain policies and procedures; revises other related provisions. SB0307
0302 Controlled Substances As enacted, revises various provisions of law regarding the scheduling of controlled substances and their analogues and derivatives, including updated identifications of drugs categorized in Schedules I-V. SB0318
0303 School Transportation As enacted, increases the permissible size of advertisements on school buses from 16 inches high and 60 inches long to 36 inches high and 90 inches long. SB0334
0304 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel As enacted, authorizes the state board of education to make policies concerning the revocation of licenses and certificates for misconduct. SB0341
0305 Secretary of State As enacted, requires additional copies of acts to be published in electronic format on the department of state's web site; requires each house of the general assembly to make available copies of their journals by publishing them on their respective web sites. SB0363
0306 Criminal Offenses As enacted, deletes the requirement of intent to cause bodily injury from aggravated assault involving strangulation or attempted strangulation. SB0428
0307 Motor Vehicles As enacted, prohibits any political subdivision of the state from prohibiting within the jurisdictional boundaries of the political subdivision the use of a motor vehicle equipped with autonomous technology if the motor vehicle otherwise complies with all safety regulations of the political subdivision. SB0598
0308 Weights and Measures As enacted, requires that liquefied natural gas motor fuel be sold in diesel gallon equivalents and that compressed natural gas motor fuel be sold in gasoline gallon equivalents or diesel gallon equivalents; requires the commissioner of agriculture to promulgate rules that are necessary to establish conversion units from mass to gasoline gallon equivalents and from mass to diesel gallon equivalents. SB1172
0309 Military As enacted, permits active duty members of the United States armed forces holding valid military commercial driver licenses whose duty station is located in this state to qualify for a waiver of the required commercial driver skills test. SB0368
0310 Statutes of Limitations and Repose As enacted, extends the statute of limitations for commission of the offense of promotion of prostitution involving a minor on or after July 1, 2015, from 10 years from the date that the minor becomes 18 years of age to 25 years from the date that the minor becomes 18 years of age. SB0373
0311 Alcohol Offenses, Sales As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor for sale of powdered or crystalline alcohol. SB0374
0312 Purchasing and Procurement As enacted, requires the department of education to purchase technology, Internet, Internet connectivity, or e-learning services pursuant to a competitive purchasing process prescribed by an RFP. SB0422
0313 Local Government, General As enacted, removes time limitation on county legislative body's election to include certain personnel in the definition of "law enforcement officer" for purposes of the provisions governing the presumption that certain health impairments resulting in a law enforcement officer's death or personal injury are attributable to injury suffered in the course of employment, unless otherwise shown by medical evidence. SB0436
0314 Highway Patrol As enacted, enables members of the Tennessee highway patrol to authorize payroll deductions for the payment of membership dues for organizations that meet certain criteria. SB0582
0315 Election Laws As enacted, prohibits a county election commission from banning the use of mobile electronic and communication devices at a polling place for informational purposes to assist the voter in making election decisions. SB0597
0316 Juvenile Offenders As enacted, clarifies the definition of "violent juvenile sexual offender" to apply when the offender is between the ages of 14 and 18 when the qualifying act is committed. SB0599
0317 State Employees As enacted, revises obsolete language concerning automatic salary advancements for certain state-employed administrative professionals. SB0641
0318 Codes As enacted, revises and enacts requirements governing carbon monoxide alarms in certain hotels. SB0647
0319 Juvenile Offenders As enacted, creates a new disposition option of taking a minor who violates curfew to a designated curfew center rather than juvenile court; revises other curfew provisions. SB0666
0320 Criminal Procedure As enacted, expands a court's ability to admit into evidence a video recording of a forensic interview with a child to include an interview conducted by a forensic interviewer employed by a child advocacy center that is not a nonprofit corporation. SB0720
0321 Students As enacted, allows students to self-administer enzymes for cystic fibrosis or pancreatic insufficiency in certain circumstances. SB0724
0322 Motor Vehicles As enacted, authorizes a motor vehicle dealer who is licensed to sell motor vehicles to operate one additional business at the dealer's established place of business; provided, at least 66 percent of the dealer's established place of business is used for the sale or service, or both, of motor vehicles and that the income derived from the additional business is less than 33 percent of the gross income of the dealership. SB0789
0323 Cooperatives As enacted, allows articles of incorporation of cooperative marketing associations to be amended under certain procedures to allow for a conversion to a general nonprofit corporation. SB0852
0324 Education, Higher As enacted, creates the higher education foundation investment pool; allows higher education foundations to participate in the investment pool; requires the state treasurer to invest and manage funds in the pool. SB0878
0325 Sports As enacted, enacts the "Sudden Cardiac Arrest Prevention Act." SB0985
0326 Homestead Exemptions As enacted, requires TACIR to study current homestead exemption amounts to determine whether the amounts should be increased to reflect the cost of living. SB1000
0327 Taxes, Litigation As enacted, permits Knox County to impose a litigation tax of $5.00 on all criminal court, fourth circuit court, and general sessions court-criminal division cases upon adoption of a resolution by 2/3 majority of the county legislative body; requires the revenue collected from the litigation tax to be used exclusively by the clerk of the fourth circuit court. SB1109
0328 Education As enacted, authorizes a local school board to create a policy that excuses students who request to attend a released time course in religious moral instruction taught by an independent entity off school property. SB1246
0329 Criminal Procedure As enacted, provides that the preliminary hearing may not be waived by the defendant if the state makes a timely objection, for good cause shown, to the defendant's request. SB1265
0330 Driver Licenses As enacted, adds "foster parent, or other authorized representative of the department of children's services" to the list of people that may sign and verify a minor's application for a driver license. SB1271
0331 Game and Fish Laws As enacted, requires any person who possesses or obtains a Class I carnivore to have a microchip permanently implanted in the animal. SB1273
0332 Utilities, Utility Districts As enacted, requires utility districts created by private act to elect, for purposes of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, whether to be treated as private employers or to create their own programs of compliance. SB1274
0333 Professions and Occupations As enacted, specifies that the state board of cosmetology and barber examiners may suspend, revoke, or refuse to issue or renew a barber's certificate of registration due to the person having a felony conviction if the felony conviction occurred within three years prior to the board's decision. SB1297
0334 Bail, Bail Bonds As enacted, authorizes professional bondsmen to charge up to 15 percent rather than 10 percent of the face value of a criminal appearance bond if the defendant is not a resident of the state. SB0531
0335 Human Rights As enacted, enacts the "Racial Profiling Prevention Act." SB0006
0336 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, authorizes the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption at: Sugar Hollow Marina in Campbell County; and any establishment in Eagleville that is licensed to serve beer and wine for on-premises consumption; authorizes sale for on-premises consumption at RedTail Mountain Resort in Johnson County as a premier type tourist resort instead of a restaurant. SB0018
0337 Recreational Areas As enacted, specifies that climbing walls are not considered "amusement devices" and are not subject to regulation by the department of labor and workforce development. SB0024
0338 Criminal Offenses As enacted, repeals the offense of failure to put the name of the grower or packer on a produce container. SB0040
0339 Consumer Protection As enacted, transfers certain regulatory responsibilities for health clubs, beauty pageants, bonds posted by credit services businesses, and debt-management services to the division of regulatory boards in the department of commerce and insurance; revises other provisions related to such activities, including provisions governing registration and renewal fees. SB0083
0340 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities As enacted, extends the tax on intermediate care facilities; changes references from "intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded (ICF/MR)" to "intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual disabilities (ICF/IID)". SB0085
0341 Workers Compensation As enacted, specifies that no party may settle a claim for permanent disability benefits unless the settlement agreement is approved by a workers' compensation judge and that any settlement not so approved is void; revises other various provisions of the Workers` Compensation Law. SB0105
0342 Taxes, Sales As enacted, revises provisions related to information reports of sales of beer and tobacco products. SB0107
0343 Insurance, Health, Accident As enacted, extends the CoverKids Act of 2006 from June 30, 2015, to June 30, 2020. SB0114
0344 Motor Vehicles As enacted, defines "curbstoning" as the practice of selling, or offering to sell, a motor vehicle that is not titled in the seller's name by a person engaged primarily in the sale of used motor vehicles who is not licensed to sell motor vehicles in this state and permits state entities to seize vehicles offered for sale as part of a curbstoning scheme. SB0126
0345 Workers Compensation As enacted, includes as information open for public inspection the workers' compensation policy cancellation date and the policy reinstatement date. SB0174
0346 Schools, Charter As enacted, allows the governing body of a charter school to choose the insurance plans offered to the school's teachers and other full-time permanent employees; removes requirement that charter school employees participate in the state group insurance plan. SB0189
0347 Tobacco, Tobacco Products As enacted, redefines "cost of doing business by the retailer" for purposes of violations under the "Unfair Retailer's Cigarette Sales Law." SB0199
0348 Driver Licenses As enacted, increases the duration of driver licenses from five to eight years and changes the fees for driver licenses and photo identification licenses. SB0209
0349 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) As enacted, continues permanent rules filed with the secretary of state after January 1, 2014; schedules board of optometry rule to expire on the effective date of the Act. SB0210
0350 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the emergency communications board, June 30, 2017; reconstitutes the board; requires the board's executive director to compile a report of the board's expenditures by item and revenue by source for the quarter prior to each board meeting, with the most recent report to be posted and prominently displayed on the board's web site each quarter. SB0211
0351 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Tennessee athletic commission, June 30, 2017; deletes obsolete provisions of the Tennessee Athletic Commission Act and makes other revisions to the Act. SB0212
0352 Controlled Substances As enacted, authorizes use of cannabidiol oil with less than 0.9 percent of tetrahydrocannabinol to treat intractable seizures or epilepsy in certain circumstances. SB0280
0353 Tobacco, Tobacco Products As enacted, restricts persons under the age of 18 from having access to vapor products; revises related provisions and urges the department of agriculture to study effects of the sale and distribution of vapor products to persons under 18 years of age; requires the department of health to implement comprehensive tobacco prevention programs. SB0411
0354 Racing and Motor Sports As enacted, removes the state licensing requirements for race tracks and authorize the county legislative bodies to regulate and license race tracks; establishes insurance requirements. SB0480
0355 Boards and Commissions As enacted, transfers administrative responsibilities for the Tennessee board of court reporting to the division of regulatory boards in the department of commerce and insurance. SB0485
0356 Real Property As enacted, removes an obsolete reference to the "southern standard building code" and makes other nonsubstantive, technical changes to the Horizontal Property Act. SB0505
0357 Students As enacted, prohibits an LEA from requiring more than the minimum graduation requirements for students enrolling or transferring in the 11th grade or later who are in the custody of the department of children's services to receive a full diploma. SB0537
0358 Education, Higher As enacted, revises provisions governing authorization for barber and cosmetology schools for purposes of meeting federal student financial aid eligibility requirements. SB0543
0359 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities As enacted, extends the current moratorium on the issuance of certificates of need (CONs) for new nursing home and skilled nursing facility beds until June 30, 2016. SB0573
0360 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities As enacted, extends the Nursing Home Assessment Trust Fund by one year, to terminate on June 30, 2016; increases the aggregate amount of assessments from 4.5 percent in present law to 4.75 percent; revises other related provisions. SB0574
0361 Education As enacted, requires the commissioner of education, by October 1 of the year prior to the public identification of priority schools, to notify any school and its respective LEA if the school is among the bottom 10 percent of schools in overall achievement as determined by the performance standards and other criteria set by the state board. SB0588
0362 Taxes As enacted, increases, from 5.5 percent to 6 percent, the rate of tax imposed on health maintenance organizations (HMOs) doing business in this state on the gross amount of dollars collected from an enrollee or on an enrollee's behalf. SB0602
0363 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs As enacted, enacts the "Community College Reconnect Grant." SB0605
0364 Salaries and Benefits As enacted, makes ineligible for longevity pay any employee of the executive branch who is hired after June 30, 2015. SB0606
0365 Criminal Offenses As enacted, enacts the "Neighborhood Protection Act." SB0638
0366 Wine & Wineries As enacted, specifies that a winery or farm winery permit holder may sell at retail, in addition to its own wine, items related to or incidental to the use, consumption, dispensing, or storage of wine; prohibits a winery or farm winery permit holder from selling at retail distilled spirits, wine not manufactured or bottled on the premises, and beer; further specifies that a winery or farm winery permit holder may hold a restaurant license or a beer permit, and, if it holds such a license or permit, may engage in the activities permitted under those licenses or permits. SB0643
0367 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, allows restaurant, limited service restaurant, and hotel licensees to also serve alcoholic beverages in any area of the premises that is used for the purpose of entertainment activities. SB0650
0368 Motor Vehicles As enacted, requires a driver who approaches a stationary solid waste vehicle to treat the vehicle in the same manner as approaching a stationary recovery or highway maintenance vehicle. SB0655
0369 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, revises provisions governing payments to wholesalers for alcoholic beverages. SB0710
0370 Game and Fish Laws As enacted, establishes restitution for certain offenses involving wild game and requires that hunting and fishing privileges be revoked until restitution is paid. SB0904
0371 Drugs, Prescription As enacted, defines a "biological product" and an "interchangeable biological product" in the Tennessee Affordable Drug Act of 2005; authorizes a prescriber to substitute a prescribed biological product for an interchangeable biological product if certain requirements are met. SB0984
0372 Motor Vehicles As enacted, allows producers of motor vehicles who lease vehicles to eligible employees to sell the vehicle to a franchised dealer after the lease, and allows the franchised dealer to purchase no more than 30 of the vehicles per month, but prohibits the sale of the vehicle for 90 days from the time in which the motor vehicle was purchased by the franchised dealer. SB1026
0373 Health Care As enacted, requires the commissioner of health to establish policies for the release of HIPAA compliant limited-use data sets. SB1331
0374 County Officers As enacted, specifies that certain information acquired by a county trustee is not subject to public inspection unless a law enforcement agency, court, or other government agency requires inspection of the information in performing official functions. SB1337
0375 Bail, Bail Bonds As enacted, revises provisions governing 12-hour hold period for persons charged with domestic violence or elder abuse offense; makes hold period mandatory unless the magistrate or other official duly authorized to release the offender finds that the offender is not a threat to the alleged victim. HB0041
0376 Health Care As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Right to Try Act." HB0143
0377 County Government As enacted, authorizes county legislative bodies to appropriate funds for affordable or workforce housing. HB1351
0378 Codes As enacted, prohibits the requirement of fire sprinkler systems for townhouses; authorizes local governments to adopt mandatory sprinkler requirements for townhomes by local ordinance in same manner utilized for one-family and two-family dwellings. SB0474
0379 Campaigns and Campaign Finance As enacted, allows candidate and political campaign committee to accept digital currency as a contribution; requires increase in value of digital currency to be reported as interest on statements filed with the registry of election finance; requires candidate to sell digital currency and deposit proceeds before spending the funds. SB0674
0380 Firearms and Ammunition As enacted, prohibits the use of public funds, personnel, or property to enforce any federal law or regulation that regulates the ownership, use, or possession of firearms, ammunition, or firearms accessories, if the expenditure or use of the personnel or property would result in the violation of another Tennessee statute, Tennessee common law, or the Constitution of Tennessee. SB1110
0381 Fines and Penalties As enacted, makes various changes to the manner in which the state fire marshal and the commissioner of commerce and insurance assess civil penalties against violators of state law, and rules promulgated pursuant to such law, regarding fire protection sprinkler systems, fire extinguishers and related equipment, and liquefied petroleum gas. SB0079
0382 Public Contracts As enacted, revises requirements governing a state agency, department, or institution of higher education of the state entering into a new lease as lessee. SB0096
0383 Special License Plates As enacted, authorizes various new special license plates and grants additional time for certain plates to meet the minimum order requirement. SB0130
0384 Taxes, Hotel Motel As enacted, authorizes the City of Fayetteville, by ordinance adopted by a two-thirds vote, to levy an occupancy tax of not more than five percent on the privilege of staying in any hotel or motel in Fayetteville; the ordinance must set forth the manner of collection and administration of the privilege tax; requires that all proceeds received by the municipality from the tax be used for tourism development. SB0186
0385 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the information systems council, June 30, 2019; re-constitutes the membership of the information systems council. SB0238
0386 Physicians and Surgeons As enacted, establishes a process for reimbursing physicians for services rendered during the pendency of a credentialing application before a health insurance entity. SB0284
0387 Elder Abuse As enacted, confers upon law enforcement agencies, as well as the department of human services, the authority, during the course of an elder abuse investigation, to require a medical examination of the person if the agency is not sure that the adult is in imminent danger. SB0457
0388 Statutes of Limitations and Repose As enacted, revises provisions governing statute of limitations for certain civil actions. SB0463
0389 Controlled Substances As enacted, enacts the "Opioid Abuse Reduction Act," which requires the department of mental health and substance abuse services to convene a working group to examine the problem of opioid abuse in this state. SB0570
0390 Education As enacted, prohibits the placement of a priority school in the achievement school district if, after the school is identified as a priority school, but before the commissioner determines that the school should be assigned to the achievement school district the school demonstrates student achievement growth at a level of "above expectations" or greater, as represented by TVAAS. SB0758
0391 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, authorizes the alcoholic beverage commission to issue temporary licenses for consumption of alcoholic beverages on the premises, subject to payment of a $50.00 licensing fee; revises certain provisions regarding the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption at a club. SB0769
0392 Welfare As enacted, prohibits recipients of public assistance benefits from using an EBT card at a tobacco retailer to purchase certain tobacco products; prohibits tobacco retailers from permitting the purchase of tobacco products or nicotine products with an EBT card; requires the department of human services to notify public assistance recipients of this prohibition. SB0786
0393 Common Carriers As enacted, revises provisions governing overweight loads that are permitted and nondivisable. SB0817
0394 Municipal Government As enacted, revises provisions governing the repeal of or amendment to an ordinance increasing the number of county commissioners in cities that incorporate under general law with a city manager-commission charter. SB0845
0395 Taxes, Hotel Motel As enacted, redefines "person" for purposes of hotel occupancy tax; directs TACIR to study the effect of the tax on economy and tourism. SB0850
0396 Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation As enacted, enacts the "Addiction Treatment Act of 2015." SB0871
0397 Explosives As enacted, establishes certain exemptions and defenses to offenses involving certain explosives and components to allow certain use in lawful sporting activity. SB0874
0398 Elder Abuse As enacted, requires that a fine be imposed on a person convicted of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of an adult if the victim was over 60 years of age; authorizes appropriation of the fines to fund services and programs for senior citizens. SB0881
0399 Healthcare Liability As enacted, places restrictions on the use of certain surveys, inspections, and investigations of a healthcare provider in healthcare liability actions. SB0889
0400 Taxes, Hotel Motel As enacted, authorizes Grundy County, by resolution adopted by a two-thirds vote, to levy an occupancy tax of not more than five percent on the privilege of staying in any hotel or motel in Grundy County; the ordinance must set forth the manner of collection and administration of the privilege tax. SB0929

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