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Chapter Number Subject Abstract Bill Number
0701 Nuclear Materials, Transportation and Safety As enacted, clarifies that deadly force may be used by nuclear security officers at nuclear power reactor facilities and not just category I nuclear facilities. SB1627
0702 Special License Plates As enacted, expands eligibility for the issuance of an amateur radio license plate without the $25.00 additional fee to registrants who provide emergency services as part of a squad and whose qualifications are approved by the county emergency management director. SB1635
0703 Education As enacted, makes certain changes to the requirements for voluntary pre-k programs. SB1899
0704 Taxes, Excise As enacted, extends for an additional six years to July 1, 2022, the temporary tax on bottles of soft drinks and barrels of beer to fund programs for the prevention and collection of litter. SB1938
0705 Taxes As enacted, adds, in regard to the authorization for duly authorized local governmental officials to review tax returns and information to ascertain whether taxes are being paid, that such officials may also access such information to determine whether allocations from state levied taxes are being distributed to the correct unit of local government; requires that certain information be excluded. SB1946
0706 Education, Dept. of As enacted, requires the department to provide an annual report to the education committee of the senate and the education instruction and programs committee of the house of representatives, regarding the physical education programs and activity for each LEA. SB1967
0707 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities As enacted, reduces from 80 to 75 the age a custodial parent or other custodial caregiver of a person with an intellectual disability who is on the waiting list for services must reach before the individual with intellectual disabilities must be placed on the self-determination waiver or similarly capped medical assistance waiver within six months. SB2003
0708 Fiscal Review Committee As enacted, increases from 60 days to 90 days from the end of the annual legislative session the time frame for public chapter review of estimated versus actual cost by fiscal review committee staff. SB2004
0709 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, allows a student, who has completed at least 60 hours of coursework and is taking a required course for a bachelor's degree designed to train industry professionals in the production of fermented or distilled food or beverage products, to taste alcoholic beverages as part of instruction in the required course, under certain circumstances. SB2012
0710 Education As enacted, requires referees or officiates of interscholastic athletic events to submit to a criminal background investigation and provide a fingerprint sample; exempts the referees and officiates from the criminal background investigation and requirement to provide a fingerprint sample if they have undergone a satisfactory background check as a condition of registration for work as an official for interscholastic athletic contests. SB2118
0711 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities As enacted, adds provisions regarding those qualified to be a medical laboratory director or a medical laboratory supervisor. SB2382
0712 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel As enacted, revises provisions governing the evaluation of teachers and principals. SB2508
0713 Parks, Natural Areas Preservation As enacted, designates a portion of Soak Creek beginning in Bledsoe County and ending in Rhea County as a Class III scenic river. SB2520
0714 Trusts As enacted, revises what constitutes a private trust company under the Banking Act. SB2550
0715 Veterans Services, Dept. of As enacted, prohibits any person working for or representing the department from participating in certain solicitations from the public for veterans' cemeteries; grants the commissioner rule-making authority for such cemeteries; adds other provisions regarding such cemeteries. SB2562
0716 Courts, Juvenile As enacted, clarifies and amends various provisions regarding juvenile cases heard by magistrates; extends from five days to 10 days the period within which an appeal of the magistrate's order must be filed. SB2572
0717 Courts, Juvenile As enacted, revises the juvenile court procedures regarding service of summons and publication. SB2573
0718 Alcohol Offenses, Motor Vehicles As enacted, requires arresting agency to send fingerprint cards for DUI and other vehicular impairment offense arrests to TBI within five days of arrest for submission to NCIC and requires the clerks to send DUI convictions to TBI within seven days of conviction. SB2577
0719 Professions and Occupations As enacted, allows licensing authorities for certain state regulatory agencies to consider whether a person's conviction for the commission of a felony bears directly on the person's fitness to practice competently when making determinations regarding the person's licensure status. SB2594
0720 Domestic Violence As enacted, requires that any pending order of protection or restraining order be served on a domestic violence offender before release, following the mandatory 12-hour holding period; directs that a copy of protection order be issued to any court in which the respondent and petitioner are parties to an action. HB0829
0721 Courts, Supreme Court of Tennessee As enacted, allows the supreme court, through order or rule, to set all filing costs, fees, charges, and surcharges for documents filed in and functions performed by the clerks of the appellate courts or board of judicial conduct. HB1791
0722 Public Records As enacted, revises requirements for protecting personally identifying information in records held by governmental entities; requires the office of open records counsel to develop a model public records policy for governmental entities; makes other related changes to public records laws. HB2082
0723 Motor Vehicles As enacted, removes the limitation that a passenger car or passenger motor vehicle have a manufacturer's gross vehicle weight rating of 8,500 pounds or less in order to be subject to the mandatory seat belt law. HB1555
0724 Managed Care Organizations As enacted, extends the effectiveness of certain rules governing risk sharing agreements. HB1557
0725 Child Custody and Support As enacted, prohibits a child's parent or relative from interfering with a noncustodial parent's court-ordered visitation as custodial interference; makes such custodial interference a Class C misdemeanor. HB1716
0726 Auctions and Auctioneers As enacted, provides exemption from continuing education requirements for auctioneers who have reached 60 years of age and have been licensed as an auctioneer for 10 years or longer; or have been licensed under present law since July 1, 1999. HB1918
0727 Real Property As enacted, expands the applicability of the Neighborhood Preservation Act to certain occupied buildings and residential properties by authorizing a person to bring a civil action against the owner of an occupied building or property that is not properly maintained or that fails to comply with certain ordinances or regulations. HB1932
0728 Nuisances As enacted, imposes same burden of proof in nuisance actions based on changed farming operations as presently applied to nuisance actions based on established farming operations. HB1941
0729 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation As enacted, requires the instant check unit of the TBI to contact the agency making an entry of an order of protection into the national crime information center within one day if the subject of the order of protection attempts to purchase a firearm. HB1964
0730 Public Contracts As enacted, requires a vendor that is indicted for or convicted of, or pleads guilty or nolo contendere to, any violation under the Sherman Antitrust Act; any federal or state criminal statute in connection with any contract let or funded, in whole or in part, by this state or any other state or territory of the United States; or any federal or state crime as the result of any investigation into such violations or crimes, to provide notice of such indictment, conviction, or plea to the chief procurement officer; establishes penalty for violation. HB1992
0731 Fees As enacted, makes permanent the $2.00 increases to the filing fees charged by court clerks and data fee entry chargeable by clerks that are scheduled to expire July 1, 2016. HB2159
0732 Schools, Home As enacted, requires schools to provide notice on their web sites of the date of the school's administration of the AP and PSAT/NMSQT examinations, the availability of such examinations, and any financial assistance for low income students; requires that home school students be permitted to take the AP and PSAT/NMSQT examinations at any public school offering such examinations. HB2190
0733 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel As enacted, opens membership of the directors of schools association to include affiliate membership to principals and assistant principals and to system-wide supervisors; requires that membership fees be set in bylaws instead of constitution; revises other related provisions. HB2261
0734 Child Custody and Support As enacted, requires that certain temporary injunctions go into effect against both parties upon filing of a petition related to child custody. HB2443
0735 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies As enacted, revises various provisions regarding accreditation and reinsurance of insurance companies. HB2568
0736 Handgun Permits As enacted, makes various changes to handgun carry permits, including extending permit renewals to occur every eight years and lowering the initial application fee from $115 to $100. HB2575
0737 Statutes of Limitations and Repose As enacted, extends the statute of limitations for civil actions based on injury or illness resulting from child sexual abuse that occurred when the person was a minor but was not discovered until after the person became an adult to three years from the discovery of the abuse. HB2593
0738 Bond Issues As enacted, authorizes Davidson County to issue bonds to fund affordable housing and workforce housing projects. HB1426
0739 Clerks, Court As enacted, clarifies that clerks of general sessions and circuit courts are required to notify the TBI of final disposition of criminal proceedings as soon as practicable but no later than 30 days after final disposition of the proceedings. HB1509
0740 Animal Cruelty and Abuse As enacted, substitutes the commissioner of agriculture or a qualified agent of the commissioner for county agriculture extension agents as a person who is authorized to conduct livestock cruelty examinations; clarifies that livestock cruelty examinations conducted by licensed veterinarians are entitled to the same legal presumptions as other qualified examiners. HB1529
0741 Environment and Conservation, Department of As enacted, clarifies the requirement that the commissioner maintain separate accounts for monies collected and expended by each division of the department in administering the various acts and programs of the division. HB1539
0742 Solid Waste Disposal As enacted, changes eligibility criteria for counties that receive rebates against the solid waste disposal tipping fee surcharge in lieu of a recycling equipment grant from the 11 highest waste generating counties to the five most populous counties. HB1540
0743 Energy As enacted, transfers the division of energy from the department of economic and community development to the department of environment and conservation; renames the division to be the office of energy programs. HB1542
0744 Criminal Offenses As enacted, increases penalty for TennCare fraud from Class E felony to Class D felony; creates specific fines for first and subsequent convictions for TennCare fraud. HB1545
0745 Banks and Financial Institutions As enacted, prohibits the commissioner of financial institutions from using a multi-state licensing system to share FBI criminal history background information of anyone other than mortgage loan originators, unless otherwise authorized by federal law. HB1546
0746 County Officers As enacted, permits constables who have law enforcement powers to carry firearms at all times and in all places in Tennessee that other law enforcement officers are permitted to carry firearms; requires the constable to receive, at a minimum, 40 hours initial training, within one year of election, and eight hours annual in-service training in firearms qualification administered by a certified law enforcement firearms instructor. HB1094
0747 Military As enacted, enacts the "National Guard Force Protection Act of 2016". HB1438
0748 Driver Licenses As enacted, deletes requirement that a person's driver license be suspended for an additional like period if convicted of driving on a suspended or revoked license; allows a court to order issuance of a restricted driver license contingent on the person participating in a payment plan for any unpaid fines or costs. HB1495
0749 Public Officials As enacted, authorizes purchase of insurance to protect against breach of fiduciary duty by public officials and employees. HB1496
0750 Education, Higher As enacted, extends the Tennessee Promise scholarship to dependents of Tennessee military parents who are stationed outside of the state. HB1506
0751 Unemployment Compensation As enacted, revises provisions governing seasonal employment; adds provisions regarding taxable wage base; revises other provisions. HB1552
0752 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs As enacted, encourages public school teachers to be Promise scholarship mentors by crediting them with one day of in-service for volunteering as mentors; encourages retired teachers to be Promise scholarship mentors by granting them one year of eligibility for the state employee discount program for volunteering as mentors. HB1642
0753 University of Tennessee As enacted, revises provisions governing the powers of the board of trustees of the University of Tennessee system. HB1696
0754 Education As enacted, requires that the display of the American flag on school property and at school events conform to the requirements of federal law; requires a local board of education to permit display of the American flag, if the display conforms to the requirements of federal law. HB1722
0755 Courts, Supreme Court of Tennessee As enacted, authorizes the supreme court, upon its own motion, to assume jurisdiction over an application for interlocutory or extraordinary appeal that is filed with an intermediate state appellate court. HB1734
0756 Motor Vehicles As enacted, requires every law enforcement agency to have a policy describing when law enforcement personnel may disclose to the public information or law enforcement records concerning the use of drugs or alcohol by a driver as a contributing factor in a motor vehicle accident. HB1747
0757 Students As enacted, enacts the "Student Online Personal Protection Act". HB1931
0758 Appropriations As enacted, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2015, and July 1, 2016. SB2653
0759 Taxes, Exemption and Credits As enacted, allows certain part-time and seasonal adventure tourism jobs, with or without minimum health care, created in adventure tourism districts on or after July 1, 2017, to be counted as half a job for purposes of allowing the employer to qualify for the jobs tax credit against franchise and excise taxes. SB0302
0760 Highways, Roads and Bridges As enacted, revises provisions governing authority to reduce maximum gross weight of freight motor vehicles over certain county roads. SB0412
0761 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the regional transportation authority of Middle Tennessee five years to June 30, 2018; requires the authority to appear before the joint government operations committees no later than December 31, 2016, to report on the Nashville Area Metropolitan Planning Organization regional transportation plan. SB1530
0762 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Tennessee rehabilitative initiative in correction (TRICOR) board for two years to June 30, 2018; removes the TRICOR board's authority to nominate members for appointment to the board; removes the executive director of TRICOR from the board; adds the commissioner of correction, or the commissioner's designee, as a member of the TRICOR board, who will vote only to break a tie vote of the other board members; removes the authority of the commissioner of correction to reject the board's choice for executive director and to remove an executive director so that the board will be solely vested with the authority to appoint and remove the executive director. SB1546
0763 Medical Occupations As enacted, revises provisions governing reinstatement of licenses based on expiration of a license under the division of health-related boards. SB1574
0764 Agriculture, Dept. of As enacted, specifies that the department, in its role as the primary food manufacturing inspection agency for Tennessee, is the primary inspection agency for grist mills that are located in Tennessee. SB1801
0765 Local Government, General As enacted, authorizes volunteer firefighters who have successfully completed the Tennessee commission on firefighting personnel and standard education certification exam for Firefighter I and have practiced as a volunteer firefighter for at least one year from the completion of such exam to receive group insurance benefits, subject to the approval of county governing bodies. SB1824
0766 Medical Occupations As enacted, permits the employment of certain medical professionals by charitable clinics. SB2027
0767 Sexual Offenders As enacted, prohibits a person who is registered, or required to register, as a violent sexual offender or offender against children pursuant to the Tennessee Sexual Offender and Violent Sexual Offender Registration, Verification and Tracking Act to knowingly establish a primary or secondary residence or any other living accommodation in any public institution of higher education's on-campus student residence facilities, including dormitories and apartments. SB2043
0768 Election Laws As enacted, allows Rutherford County to participate in a pilot project for establishing convenient voting centers for use on election day upon super majority vote of the county election commission. SB2101
0769 Nurses, Nursing As enacted, authorizes advanced practice registered nurses who provide services in a free clinic or engage in the voluntary provision of healthcare services and physician assistants who provide services in a free or reduced fee clinic under the Volunteer Healthcare Services Act to arrange for required chart reviews by a supervising physician in the physician's office or remotely via HIPAA-compliant electronic means instead of at the clinic site. SB2122
0770 Education, Dept. of As enacted, requires the state board of education and the department to support and encourage LEAs in the creation of communities of schools; authorizes LEAs and schools to form community consortiums with a variety of community partners to establish communities of schools; enacts other provisions relative to community schools. SB2172
0771 Environment and Conservation, Department of As enacted, broadens the scope of the Used Oil Collection Act of 1993 to address the proper disposal of used antifreeze, transmission fluid, and power steering fluid. SB2544
0772 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the board of dietitian/nutritionist examiners six years to June 30, 2022. SB1502
0773 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the board of pharmacy two years to June 30, 2018; requires the board to appear before the government operations joint evaluation committee on education, health and general welfare no later than November 18, 2016, to provide an update on the board's progress in addressing the findings set forth in the October 2015 performance audit report issued by the division of state audit. SB1507
0774 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the department of human resources three years to June 30, 2019; requires the department to report back to the committee concerning the findings in its 2015 performance audit report. SB1517
0775 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the state soil conservation committee six years to June 30, 2022; establishes minimum attendance requirement for committee members and requires removal of members who do not meet the requirement. SB1540
0776 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Tennessee motor vehicle commission four years to June 30, 2020; establishes minimum attendance requirement for commission members and requires removal of members who do not meet the requirement. SB1545
0777 Taxes, Ad Valorem As enacted, revises provisions governing industrial development corporations and payments in lieu of taxes made by the corporation's lessees. SB1728
0778 Military As enacted, creates civil immunity for certain members of the national guard who use force against another, including by discharging a personally owned firearm, in certain situations. SB1760
0779 Driver Licenses As enacted, requires the department of safety to report to the transportation committees of both houses by February 1, 2017, the number of commercial driver license holders who previously held military commercial driver licenses, and whether they experienced any barriers in applying for such state license. SB1763
0780 Utilities, Utility Districts As enacted, authorizes natural gas utility districts in Hawkins County to provide funding to chambers of commerce and economic and community organizations pursuant to a resolution adopted by the governing body. SB1924
0781 Recreational Vehicles As enacted, establishes licensing requirements specifically for recreational vehicle dealers and salespersons to be overseen by the Tennessee motor vehicle commission. SB1980
0782 Correction, Dept. of As enacted, requires the department of correction to pay, within 120 days of the bill being submitted, any bill of costs or other fees owed to a county by the department as the result of a criminal conviction in that county. SB1999
0783 Local Education Agencies As enacted, makes various revisions to an LEA's policies on harassment, intimidation, bullying, or cyber-bullying; requires that an investigation be initiated within 48 hours and that an appropriate intervention be initiated within 20 calendar days of receipt of the report. SB2002
0784 Forfeiture of Assets As enacted, prohibits a general sessions judge from authorizing a magistrate or judicial officer who is not licensed in this state to issue forfeiture warrants. SB2029
0785 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities As enacted, extends current moratorium on certificates of need for new nursing home beds until June 30, 2021. SB2075
0786 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, authorizes the City of Gatlinburg to adopt an ordinance imposing a minimum distance, not to exceed 1,000 feet, between distilleries manufacturing distilled spirits; the ordinance will not apply to or affect any licensed distillery in operation and open to the public prior to the effective date of this act; specifies that a distillery exempt from an ordinance adopted pursuant to this act will remain so exempt upon the transfer of any ownership interest in the distillery to a successor in interest. SB2089
0787 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, allows applicants for retail food store wine license to seek certificate of compliance from local government and receive approval letter from commission prior to July 1, 2016; allows wholesalers to solicit orders from retail food stores and deliver wine prior to July 1, 2016; clarifies when retail package store may deliver to customers; limits retail package store licenses to two per owner. SB2094
0788 Criminal Offenses As enacted, creates the offense of using an unmanned aircraft to fly within 250 feet of a critical infrastructure facility for the purpose of conducting surveillance of, gathering evidence or collecting information about, or photographically or electronically recording, critical infrastructure data. SB2106
0789 Professions and Occupations As enacted, requires each location used by a scrap metal dealer who is required to register and comply with record maintenance and retention to pay a $500 biennial fee for registration or renewal of a scrap metal dealer location to the department of revenue. SB2134
0790 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration As enacted, authorizes certain off-highway vehicles that have top speeds over 35 mph and nonstraddle seating for up to four passengers, to be operated on county roads; authorizes issuance of off-highway license plates for each category; establishes equipment and safety requirements for the vehicles. SB2255
0791 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, allows Blackberry Farms to hold a manufacturer's license or nonmanufacturer nonresident seller permit, or both, in addition to holding a license for consumption of alcoholic beverages on premises. SB2396
0792 Sewage As enacted, authorizes the use of green infrastructure practices within areas that have combined sanitary sewage and storm water systems. SB2417
0793 Disabled Persons As enacted, authorizes use of individual education account funds for contributions to an achieving a better life experience (ABLE) account for the benefit of a participating student; specifies that funds may only be used for the student's education expenses; requires that all revenues collected by the ABLE program remain with the program; revises other provisions regarding the program. SB2504
0794 Correctional Programs As enacted, allows an inmate to receive sentence reduction credits for obtaining any high school equivalency credential, instead of only a GED. SB2536
0795 Consumer Protection As enacted, requires an application for approval of a transfer of structured settlement payment rights to be made by the transferee and permits the application to be brought in the county in which the payee resides or where the settlement was approved or judgment rendered in the underlying tort claim, or in the court or before the authority that approved the structured settlement agreement; revises other provisions regarding structured settlements. SB0760
0796 Taxes, Hotel Motel As enacted, authorizes local collecting officials of hotel taxes to publish the names of delinquent taxpayers and the amounts owed in certain circumstances; clarifies that the present law that makes state tax records confidential does not apply to local hotel tax records. SB1450
0797 State Government As enacted, revises various provisions governing reporting functions of public entities and officials. SB1471
0798 Human Services, Dept. of As enacted, requires the department to perform certain duties, such as develop subrecipient monitoring plans utilizing analytic procedures; conduct unannounced and announced site visits of subrecipients; and conduct criminal history background checks on each applicant of the subrecipient or sponsoring organization during the application process and at any time during participation in a food program. SB1472
0799 Autopsies As enacted, permits a county medical examiner and certain district attorneys general to request the district attorney general in the district where the body is buried or interred to file a petition in circuit or criminal court for the disinterment of the deceased for the purpose of performing an autopsy, collecting scientific or forensic evidence, or obtaining DNA evidence. SB1585
0800 Aircraft and Airports As enacted, under certain circumstances, authorizes an airport authority to sell an aircraft abandoned on the airport authority's property; establishes procedures for conducting the sale, notifying interested parties, and enforcing a lien for unpaid storage fees. SB1659

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