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Chapter Number | Subject | Abstract | Bill Number |
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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 |