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Chapter Number Subject Abstract Bill Number
0601 Naming and Designating As enacted, designates new department of agriculture building in Davidson County as "Julius T. Johnson Metrology Laboratory." HB1970
0602 Tennessee Higher Education Commission As enacted, clarifies certain code references to account for the state university boards established by the FOCUS Act; reduces the number of student members on the higher education commission to a single voting member and revises the nominating process for that student member; removes the alumni requirement for appointments to the board of regents. HB2123
0603 State Symbols As enacted, designates Here's the Beef Festival as official state beef festival. HB2128
0604 Local Government, General As enacted, allows a municipal legislative body to authorize, by ordinance passed by 2/3 vote, a member of the body who is deployed for 13 months or less while serving as a member to attend and vote in sessions through the use of two-way electronic audio-video communication during the deployment. HB2294
0605 Guardians and Conservators As enacted, redefines "least restrictive alternatives" for purposes of supported decision making agreements. SB0264
0606 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration As enacted, authorizes persons to display evidence of vehicle registration in electronic formats through the use of cell phones and other electronic devices. SB0727
0607 Senior Citizens As enacted, exempts certain religious organizations and religious institutions that provide limited respite care services programs from licensure for providing adult day care. SB1487
0608 Consumer Protection As enacted, revises provisions governing the use of tanning devices by minors. SB1495
0609 Education, Curriculum As enacted, requires that instruction on the detection, intervention, prevention, and treatment of child sexual abuse be provided as part of a family life curriculum; provides immunity from a cause of action for such instruction provided by teachers employed by the LEA and certain other instructors in certain circumstances. SB1510
0610 Medical Occupations As enacted, revises terminology used to describe the relationship of physicians to advanced practice registered nurses and physician assistants; specifies that a licensed physician with whom a physician assistant collaborates has the duty to assure that the activities of the physician assistant are appropriate; revises other related provisions. SB1515
0611 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) As enacted, requires agencies, when statutorily required to hold a public hearing as part of their rulemaking process, to make copies of the rule available in redline form to persons in attendance at the hearing. SB1573
0612 Ethics As enacted, clarifies that a state university board president must file a statement of disclosure of interests form with the Tennessee Ethics Commission. SB1591
0613 Public Records As enacted, revises provisions governing the confidentiality of records maintained by shelters, centers, and human trafficking service providers. SB1656
0614 Education, Higher As enacted, enacts the "Tuition Transparency and Accountability Act" SB1665
0615 Pharmacy, Pharmacists As enacted, authorizes a pharmacist in this state to dispense, in good faith, to a patient without proper authorization or a valid prescription the number of dosages of a prescription drug necessary to allow the patient to secure proper authorization or a valid prescription from the patient's prescriber; limits the amount of a prescription drug dispensed under this amendment to a 20-day supply. SB1670
0616 Finance and Administration, Dept. of As enacted, requires that all out-of-state travel expenditures made by executive level employees be posted on the state website, not just expenditures for which reimbursements are made. SB1729
0617 Pharmacy, Pharmacists As enacted, specifies that a medication therapy management program involves "pharmacist-provided" services. SB1774
0618 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities As enacted, adds mental health hospitals licensed under title 33 to requirement for hospitals to report claims data to the commissioner of health. SB1776
0619 District Attorneys As enacted, requires district attorneys general to annually report the number of reports of a person who appeared to be suffering from or to have been the victim of female genital mutilation to the senate judiciary committee and the criminal justice committee of the house of representatives. SB1800
0620 Judges and Chancellors As enacted, requires the municipal judges conference to provide educational seminars or training for the judges attending the annual meeting and provides that the expenses for judges attending the annual meeting be paid by the administrative office of the courts rather than the municipality in which the judge presides. SB1815
0621 Remedies and Special Proceedings As enacted, allows a cause of action for any affected person who seeks declaratory and injunctive relief in any action brought regarding the legality or constitutionality of a governmental action, but such action does not include damages. SB1870
0622 Schools, Charter As enacted, specifies that the state board of education is the LEA for those charter schools that it authorizes; requires that the state board receive from the department of education or from the LEA in which the charter school is located, as appropriate, an amount equal to the per student state and local funds received by the department or the LEA in which the charter school is located for the students enrolled in a charter school authorized by the state board. SB1899
0623 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies As enacted, excludes from the definition of "pre-need funeral contract" and regulation, as a contract of insurance, a travel protection agreement for the coordination and arranging of all professional services related to the preparation for the purpose of transportation and subsequent transportation of a dead human body. SB1973
0624 Consumer Protection As enacted, revises various provisions relative to price gouging. SB1995
0625 Local Education Agencies As enacted, extends homebound instruction to all students, instead of only pregnant students, who have a medical condition that prevents the student from attending regular classes. SB2017
0626 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities As enacted, requires the department of health to recognize ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) receiving and STEMI referring hospitals; requires ambulance services to develop and implement pre-hospital care protocol plans related to the assessment, treatment, and transport of STEMI heart attack patients; enacts related provisions. SB2071
0627 Housing As enacted, adds Goodlettsville to governing bodies authorized to adopt ordinances to inspect residential rental dwelling units that are either deteriorated or in the process of deteriorating for compliance with applicable codes. SB2096
0628 State Government As enacted, deletes various reports required from the Tennessee higher education commission (THEC) and the department of transportation; changes the due date for THEC's annual report on the lottery scholarship program from March 15 to October 1. SB2101
0629 Workers Compensation As enacted, allows farm and agricultural employers to accept the Workers' Compensation Law by purchasing a workers' compensation insurance policy; allows a farm or agricultural employer to withdraw acceptance of the Law at any time by canceling or not renewing the policy and providing notice to its employees. SB2141
0630 Public Records As enacted, narrows the public records exception for records of the department of environment and conservation concerning radioactive materials to those records that are confidential under federal law, regulation, or guidance, or nuclear regulatory commission regulatory issue summary; classifies as confidential records relating to the location of a historical site or artifact when necessary to prevent damage to the site, artifact, or private property. SB2239
0631 Public Funds and Financing As enacted, authorizes, under certain circumstances, other post-employment benefits to be paid to local education agency employees who participate in the state's investment trust; makes other related revisions. SB2241
0632 Trusts As enacted, expands the persons to whom a private trust company may do business with and limits the ability of the commissioner of financial institutions to modify or revoke certain exemptions granted to a private trust company. SB2242
0633 Public Records As enacted, clarifies that individually identifiable health information collected, created, or prepared by the department of health is not open for public inspection. SB2246
0634 Regional Authorities and Special Districts As enacted, establishes executive director of the Greater Nashville Regional Council as the secretary of the council; makes other revisions to the membership and governance of the council. SB2342
0635 Animal Control As enacted, gives agencies that operate shelters from which animals are adopted or reclaimed the option of using the forfeited spay/neuter deposit fund to defray operational expenses of programs the agency operates, provided the agency has a forfeited deposit fund balance of at least the total of the last six months of forfeited deposits collected. SB2468
0636 Pest Control As enacted, repeals requirement that pest control businesses include their charter numbers in all printed advertisements. SB2472
0637 Election Laws As enacted, reduces from 90 days to 60 days the period before a qualifying deadline for elective office during which nominating petitions may be issued by an administrator, deputy, county election commissioner, or employee of the coordinator's office, other than nominating petitions for the offices of the President of the United States and delegates to the national conventions of all statewide political parties. SB2497
0638 Consumer Protection As enacted, prohibits health care prescribers from certain types of solicitation within 30 days of an accident or disaster. SB2514
0639 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies As enacted, requires an individual who fails to pass the examination required for an insurance producer license to wait at least 10 days before reapplying to take the examination a second time, and 30 days before reapplying to take the examination for any subsequent attempt. SB2530
0640 Local Education Agencies As enacted, enacts the "National Motto in the Classroom Act," which requires each local education agency to display the national motto, "In God We Trust," in a prominent location in each school. SB2661
0641 Tennessee Fish & Wildlife Commission As enacted, authorizes the commission to promulgate rules to allow for the use of dogs in tracking and recovering injured or deceased deer. SB2667
0642 Unemployment Compensation As enacted, revises various provisions relative to the unemployment compensation fund. HB1825
0643 Sexual Offenders As enacted, defines "playground" for purposes of sexual offender restrictions as any indoor or outdoor facility that is intended for recreation of children and owned by the state, a local government, or a not-for-profit organization. HB1947
0644 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies As enacted, authorizes nonprofit dental service plan corporations that only provide dental plans and policies in this state to provide plans for vision services as well as dental services under certain conditions. HB2396
0645 Motor Vehicles As enacted, allows personal vehicle operated by a transportation network company driver to display one or more removable, illuminated, interior trade dress devices in any color other than red or blue, or in any combination of colors other than red or blue, that is issued by a transportation network company and that assists passengers in identifying and communicating with transportation network company drivers. HB2642
0646 Utilities, Utility Districts As enacted, clarifies that for the audited financial reports of certain self-sufficient utilities, non-cash charges arising from changes to or the implementation of pension and other post-employment benefit standards promulgated by the GASB are excluded when determining a change in net position. SB1924
0647 Education, Higher As enacted, requires state institutions of higher education to grant an excused absence to military reserve or national guard personnel for an absence due to mandatory military service; requires state institutions of higher education to permit military reserve and national guard personnel to withdraw or receive a grade of incomplete in any course if the service member is called to active duty while enrolled. SB1925
0648 Employees, Employers As enacted, specifies that a marketplace contractor of a marketplace platform is not an employee of the marketplace platform. SB1967
0649 Public Health As enacted, revises the distance parameter for the prohibition on a hypodermic syringe exchange program being operated within 2,000 feet of a school or park to make the parameter 1,000 feet in Nashville/Davidson County and in Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Memphis. SB1977
0650 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, authorizes the manufacturing of intoxicating liquors and drinks in Lenoir City. SB2003
0651 Funeral Directors and Embalmers As enacted, extends registration period for apprentice funeral directors, apprentice embalmers, and mortuary school students, from two to three years, or until the registrant has completed the apprenticeship requirements, whichever occurs first. SB2046
0652 Game and Fish Laws As enacted, authorizes a person who possesses a valid wildlife rehabilitation permit issued by the agency to receive skunks from the wild for the purposes of rehabilitation and release only. SB2098
0653 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Tennessee bureau of investigation three years to June 30, 2021; requires the bureau to report back to the committee concerning the findings in its 2018 performance audit report. SB2150
0654 Public Funds and Financing As enacted, authorizes commissioner of education and state treasurer, instead of the state board of education, to establish operational guidelines for the expenditure of the income from the special trust fund for education; makes other related revisions to the Volunteer Public Education Trust Fund Act of 1985. SB2193
0655 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities As enacted, revises and expands provisions governing suspension of admissions to certain healthcare facilities under certain circumstances; revises other provisions governing healthcare facilities. SB2244
0656 Taxes As enacted, establishes a method of apportionment that may be elected by financial asset management companies for franchise and excise tax purposes. SB2256
0657 Education, Higher As enacted, enacts the University of Tennessee Focusing on Campus and University Success (FOCUS) Act; reconstitutes the board of trustees of the University of Tennessee and revises other related provisions. SB2260
0658 Motor Vehicles As enacted, expands the list of highways on which the operation of off-highway vehicles is authorized in Anderson County. SB2264
0659 Regional Authorities and Special Districts As enacted, removes the requirement that each metropolitan planning organization's policy board ensures that the votes for any local government official be equally weighted and not based on population. SB2425
0660 Public Health As enacted, establishes order of priority of entities to be awarded funds that become available to the department of health for family planning programs, in excess of funds needed to operate family planning programs in county or district health departments. SB2494
0661 Pensions and Retirement Benefits As enacted, specifies that nothing in the present law that applies generally to post-employment benefits for public officers and employees prohibits a local education agency from participating in any other post-employment benefits investment trust created pursuant to the Other Post-Employment Benefit Investment Trust Act of 2006. SB2508
0662 Industrial Development As enacted, renames the Tennessee Technology Development Corporation by adding the designation "dba Launch Tennessee"; revises the purpose and functions of the corporation; increases, from three to seven years, the period during which commercial and financial information received by the corporation from an applicant remains confidential. SB2648
0663 Religion and Religious Organizations As enacted, extends the prohibition on a governmental entity, other than a court, subpoenaing a clergy member's sermon or notes for use in a civil or administrative action to also include a prohibition on compelling a clergy member to testify regarding a sermon. SB2679
0664 Housing As enacted, extends protections and immunities available under state law for housing authorities to entities that an authority or an entity affiliated with an authority may form, incorporate, or partner with, for purposes of managing or developing mixed-finance housing projects. SB2685
0665 Driver Licenses As enacted, requires a person to establish proof of United States citizenship; lawful permanent resident status; or, in the case of a temporary driver license, a specified period of authorized stay in the United States, if the person, for purposes of obtaining a Tennessee driver license, presents a driver license from another state that issues driver licenses to illegal aliens. HB0222
0666 Tennessee Higher Education Commission As enacted, returns the appointment of the executive director of the Tennessee higher education commission from the governor to the commission. HB1198
0667 Health, Dept. of As enacted, requires the commissioner to develop and make available on the department's website educational literature about the risks and prevalence of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and other infant sleep-related deaths that are sometimes mislabeled as SIDS, so that such information may lead to the possible means of prevention. HB1539
0668 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration As enacted, authorizes motor vehicle commission to take licensure action against a dealer who finances the sale of used motor vehicles and retains titles to such vehicles and who fails to maintain record of customer's liability coverage or proof of financial responsibility whenever temporary plate issued to customer; requires record to be maintained in same manner or period of time as record of issuance of temporary plates. HB1552
0669 Local Education Agencies As enacted, allows any LEA, rather than just the Metropolitan Nashville public school system, using the career academy or small learning community model to extend career and technical education (CTE) class sizes in grades nine through twelve; allows an LEA to seek a waiver from the commissioner of education to extend the CTE class size average in grades nine through twelve. HB1569
0670 Process, Service of As enacted, authorizes, in an action by landlord to repossess landlord's property, service of process on a contractually named party and not just on an adult found in possession of property; specifies that in a forcible entry and detainer action, service on an adult person occupying the landlord's premises is sufficient to enable the landlord to regain possession of the landlord's property. HB1667
0671 Health Care As enacted, redefines "trauma service codes" for purposes of the Tennessee Trauma Center Funding Law of 2007. HB1762
0672 Education, Dept. of As enacted, prohibits the department and the state board of education from mandating assessments for any grades or subjects beyond those mandated during the 2016-2017 school year until the 2020-2021 school year. HB1855
0673 Agriculture As enacted, authorizes the commissioner of agriculture to exempt industrial hemp from the regulatory requirements of the Tennessee Commercial Feed Law of 1972 in the same manner that the commissioner is authorized to exempt hay, straw, stover, silage, cobs, husks, hulls and individual compounds or substances from the Law. HB1875
0674 Controlled Substances As enacted, permits the direct administration of buprenorphine mono or buprenorphine without the use of naloxone as a treatment for substance use disorder under certain circumstances. HB2002
0675 Health, Dept. of As enacted, requires the department to accept allegations of opioid abuse or diversion and to publicize a means of reporting allegations of such; prohibits civil liability for or firing of a person who reports suspected abuse or diversion. HB2004
0676 Privacy, Confidentiality As enacted, protects residential information of county corrections officers, and punishes violations of release of such information, in the same manner the residential information of law enforcement officers is protected. HB2014
0677 Driver Licenses As enacted, clarifies the documentation that honorably discharged military veterans who elect to indicate their military service on their driver license can provide to establish proof of service. HB2047
0678 Public Funds and Financing As enacted, revises provisions governing state funds appropriated specifically for child advocacy centers. HB2069
0679 Professions and Occupations As enacted, requires certain training and examination in order to use the title "certified animal massage therapist" or "registered animal massage therapist;" requires liability insurance. HB2080
0680 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, designates Pine Creek Golf Course in Wilson County and Capitol Theater in Greeneville as premier type tourist resorts for purposes of on-premises consumption of alcoholic beverages. HB2186
0681 Pensions and Retirement Benefits As enacted, provides under the Public Employee Defined Benefit Financial Security Act of 2014 that the measurement standard used to determine a pension plan's funded status must be done in accordance with rules, standards, guidelines, and interpretations established by the governmental accounting standards board; provides that for political subdivision with an existing pension plan as of May 22, 2014, the political subdivision must not establish a new pension plan until it has received written approval from the state treasurer. HB2222
0682 TennCare As enacted, requires that a waiver amendment to the existing TennCare II waiver that requires elective abortion providers be excluded from participation as providers in the TennCare program be submitted to the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services for approval. HB2251
0683 Advertising As enacted, revises provisions governing certain permits issued under the Billboard Regulation and Control Act. HB2342
0684 Consumer Protection As enacted, revises provisions governing the annual report the division of consumer affairs is required to make to the general assembly on the activities of the division. HB2387
0685 Local Government, General As enacted, clarifies that no local government has the authority to enact a law that would place requirements regarding inclusionary, affordable, or below market value housing when entitlements, variances, or any other form of permit or authorization is sought from the local government; prohibits a local governmental unit from conditioning development entitlements through amendment to the zoning map on the allocation of existing or newly constructed private residential or commercial rental units to be sold or rented at below market rates. HB1143
0686 Birth Control As enacted, enacts the "Long-Acting Birth Control Information Act" HB1320
0687 Taxes, Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, extends by one year the manner in which liquor-by-the-drink tax proceeds are distributed to local political subdivisions. HB1499
0688 Utilities, Utility Districts As enacted, clarifies the entities under the jurisdiction of the utility management review board and the water and wastewater financing board. HB1503
0689 Appropriations As enacted, specifies that for purposes of determining compliance with the constitutional provision regarding the rate of growth of appropriations (the Copeland cap) that funds allocated to the reserve for revenue fluctuations will not be included as appropriations from state tax revenues and that funds expended from the reserve for revenue fluctuations to offset shortfalls in state tax revenue will not be included as appropriations from state tax revenues. HB1562
0690 Handgun Permits As enacted, revises provisions regarding lifetime handgun carry permit for retired law enforcement officer. HB1566
0691 Special License Plates As enacted, authorizes surviving spouses of deceased national guard members to apply for issuance of national guard license plate. HB1573
0692 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, authorizes the City of Ethridge to hold a referendum to authorize the retail sale of alcoholic beverages in package stores and for consumption on the premises. HB1576
0693 Taxes, Ad Valorem As enacted, directs TACIR to study how to make nontax-producing property held by state and local governments productive. HB1735
0694 Physicians and Surgeons As enacted, establishes circumstances under which healthcare facilities and mental healthcare facilities may differentiate between licensed physicians based on a physician's maintenance of certification in medical staff privileging and credentialing; establishes other requirements in regard to maintenance of certification. HB1927
0695 Education, Higher As enacted, revises various provisions regarding financial aid for higher education. HB1969
0696 Water Authorities As enacted, removes the requirement that the board of a water and wastewater treatment authority that does not provide water service include a person in the field of law. HB2035
0697 Education, Curriculum As enacted, revises provisions governing the standards recommendations committees. SB0574
0698 Schools, Charter As enacted, changes the time period a local board of education has to deny or approve a sponsor's amended application from 30 days to 60 days; changes the time period in which the amended application will be deemed approved if the local board of education fails to deny or approve the amended application from 30 days to 60 days. SB1407
0699 Education As enacted, revises the date by which the state board of education must require a course in Tennessee history for students from the 2018-2019 school year to the 2019-2020 school year. SB1471
0700 Taxes, Hotel Motel As enacted, authorizes the City of Farragut, by a two-thirds vote of its governing body, to levy a privilege tax not to exceed 4 percent upon the privilege of occupancy. SB1503

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