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1001 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration | Authorizes issuance of disabled driver placards to agency providing motor vehicle rentals to disabled clients; applies only to vehicles permanently equipped with a wheelchair ramp or lift; violation is Class B misdemeanor punishable by $200 fine only. | HB3610 |
1002 | Education | Revises provisions governing school child to attend when county boundary lines cross through parcel of property. | HB3640 |
1003 | Medical Occupations | Alters the dates by which an individual seeking to become a certified radiologist assistant must meet specific requirements. | HB3644 |
1004 | Taxes, Hotel Motel | Increases maximum amount of additional hotel occupancy tax Davidson County authorized to impose from $2.00 to $2.50; revenues received from any increase over $2.00 to be placed in an event and marketing fund to be attached to a convention and visitors bureau; authorization to expire six years from act's effective date. | HB3926 |
1005 | Welfare | Creates Class A misdemeanor of reporting an accusation of abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, or exploitation of an adult, if the person knows or should know accusation is false; creates Class A misdemeanor of knowingly causing another to report such an accusation if the person knows or should know accusation is false; revises other provisions regarding protection of adults, including provision for the state bearing the cost of a guardian ad litem for an indigent adult. | HB4112 |
1006 | Education | Revises provisions governing notice and probation for schools and school systems. | HB4148 |
1007 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration | Revises various provisions governing the taxation, titling, registration, and regulation of motor vehicles; requires that University of Tennessee Lady Volunteers' NCAA National Championships new specialty earmarked license plate include commemoration of the 2008 basketball championship. | HB4194 |
1008 | Safety | Establishes requirements applicable to security gates and barriers at gated facilities or communities. | HB0649 |
1009 | Tort Liability and Reform | Enacts "The Tennessee Medical Malpractice Reporting Act." | HB2650 |
1010 | Domestic Relations | Specifies that limitations on actions by creditors will not apply, and the creditors' claims will not be extinguished, if the transferor is indebted on account of an agreement, judgment, or order of court for the payment of one of the following: past due child support; past due alimony in solido of a spouse or former spouse; past due alimony or support of a spouse or former spouse; or a division of marital property of a spouse or former spouse. | HB2888 |
1011 | Child Abuse | Revises provisions governing reporting of suspected child abuse by personnel of educational institution and release of related records. | HB3162 |
1012 | Criminal Procedure | Adds a person's business to the places where the person is presumed to be sufficiently fearful of an intruder to be justified in the use of force likely to cause serious bodily harm or death. | HB3509 |
1013 | Economic and Community Development | Revises provisions reporting requirements for certain entities operating under payment in lieu of tax (PILOT) agreements; imposes penalty for failure to file certain economic development plans in timely manner; revises other related provisions. | HB3726 |
1014 | Water | Requires the commissioner of environment and conservation to annually report certain information regarding Water Quality Control Act complaints, enforcement orders, and permit applications to the senate environment, conservation and tourism committee and the house conservation and environment committee. | HB4184 |
1015 | Sexual Offenses | Revises list of offenses considered "sex offenses" under the Tennessee Standardized Treatment Program for Sex Offenders. | SB2822 |
1016 | Social Workers | Rewrites social worker licensure provisions; establishes new categories of licenses. | SB2932 |
1017 | Pensions and Retirement Benefits | Allows TCRS members to designate more than one person as beneficiary under certain circumstances. | SB3245 |
1018 | DUI/DWI Offenses | Requires all DUI offenders to serve 48 hours confinement; revises litter removal provisions. | SB0582 |
1019 | Election Laws | Revises provisions related to voting and elections; requires county election commissions to use either a computerized voter signature list or an electronic poll book. | SB1702 |
1020 | Sunset Laws | Department of human services, June 30, 2012. | SB2421 |
1021 | Sunset Laws | Tennessee Duck River development agency, June 30, 2014; requires the Duck River development agency to undertake an alternative source analysis with the goal of establishing a long-term plan for the development of viable sources of water for citizens of the Duck River watershed. | SB2464 |
1022 | Sunset Laws | State building commission, June 30, 2014. | SB2513 |
1023 | Sunset Laws | Tennessee life and health insurance guaranty association, June 30, 2012. | SB2538 |
1024 | Child Abuse | Enacts the "Josh Osborne Law," which revises offense of person knowingly abusing or neglecting a child under 18 years of age, so as to adversely affect the child's health and welfare to include "the natural effects of starvation or dehydration" within the meaning of "adversely affect the child's health and welfare." | SB2580 |
1025 | Workers Compensation | Defines the AMA guide for impairment ratings to mean the 6th edition of the Guides, instead of the most recent guide, until a new edition is designated by the general assembly; in the event a new edition of the Guides is released, requires the commissioner of labor and workforce development to evaluate the new edition and report the commissioner's findings and recommendations to the general assembly. | SB2650 |
1026 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration | Includes as a dealer any scrap metal processor purchasing motor vehicles for purposes of dismantling and/or scraps and mandates all dealers to require sellers of such vehicles to show proof of ownership. | SB2858 |
1027 | Codes | Increases from $50.00 to $200 the maximum weekly rental amount for renter to qualify as tenant who has standing to file complaint for violation of state's minimum health standards for rental premises; authorizes third party complaint filings; revises other various provisions regarding premises unfit for habitation. | SB3048 |
1028 | Pharmacy, Pharmacists | Authorizes a registered pharmacy technician, employed by a federally qualified health center (FQHC), to issue prescription drugs in the FQHC that have been filled by a pharmacist employed by the FQHC and delivered to the FQHC satellite clinic by an agent of the FQHC; revises other related provisions. | SB3122 |
1029 | Public Health | Requires the department of health, and any other state agency that administers funds related to in-home visitation programs, to strive to expend state funds on such programs that are evidence-based; requires the department, in conjunction with a representative of the Tennessee commission on children and youth and with on-going consultation of appropriate research experts and representatives of relevant providers who are appointed by the commissioner to provide the consultation, to determine which of its current programs are evidence-based, research-based, and theory-based programs, and to provide a report of those findings to the governor, the senate general welfare, health and human resources committee, and the house children and family affairs committee by January 1 of each year. | SB3198 |
1030 | Bail, Bail Bonds | Designates as unprofessional conduct for a bail bondsman engaging in business of bondsman or surety without maintaining business office, business telephone, and appropriate signage; requires that any listing or description of bondsmen or surety agents in a jail, workhouse, or other correctional facility be done in terms of seniority, based upon the length of continuous experience in bail bond matters; the sheriff or other person in charge of the jail, workhouse, or other correctional facility would have the final decision over the listing of bonding companies or surety agents. | SB3224 |
1031 | Highway Signs | "Allan Gill Memorial Highway," segment of State Route 131 (Emory Road) in Knox County | SB3274 |
1032 | Children | Requires the department of human services to make available to any licensed child care provider a curriculum guideline addressing personal safety including the prevention of child sexual abuse; requires that the personal safety curriculum that will be implemented by the child care provider be made available so that parents and legal guardians have the opportunity to review the curriculum and be aware of the component of the provider's curriculum. | SB3419 |
1033 | Annexation | Requires certain procedures preceding annexation of any state park. | SB3434 |
1034 | County Government | Expands definition of "urban type public facilities" to include fire protection and emergency medical services in all counties. | SB3652 |
1035 | Pharmacy, Pharmacists | Requires that prescriptions written or printed by podiatrists, dentists, medical doctors, certified nurse practitioners, optometrists, osteopathic physicians, physician assistants, or any other health care practitioner who is authorized to write prescriptions in Tennessee, be written on tamper-resistant paper that meets certain requirements. | SB3746 |
1036 | Insurance, Health, Accident | Authorizes the formation of health group cooperatives. | SB4014 |
1037 | Education | Enacts the "Bible in School Act." | SB4104 |
1038 | Regulatory Boards | Changes the license cycle for certain regulated professions from annual to biennial; revises other license renewal provisions. | SB4172 |
1039 | Tennessee Bureau of Investigation | Specifies that the TBI is authorized, without a request from a district attorney general, to make traffic stops in emergency situations in which the safety of the public is in jeopardy and no officer from the appropriate law enforcement agency is immediately available to make the stop; defines "emergency situation" as DUI and reckless endangerment. | SB4177 |
1040 | Agriculture | Prohibits any political subdivision of the state from regulating the registration, packaging, labeling, sale, storage, distribution, use, and application of fertilizers; excludes Shelby, Davidson, Knox, and Hamilton counties. | HB1592 |
1041 | Workers Compensation | Specifies that a sole proprietor or partner engaged in the construction industry is not required to carry worker's compensation on themselves, if the proprietor or partner is doing work directly for the owner of the property, unless the proprietor or partner is working as an intermediate contractor or subcontractor; requires the proprietor or partner to carry worker's compensation insurance on any subcontractor, employee, or worker not otherwise covered by a worker's compensation policy; revises other related provisions. | HB1645 |
1042 | Regional Authorities and Special Districts | Authorizes the county mayor and the mayor of each city whose governing body is a member of the Tri-County Railroad Authority to select a representative to the board of directors to serve in their respective steads. | HB1665 |
1043 | Victims' Rights | Revises various provisions governing awards under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Act. | HB2153 |
1044 | Children's Services, Dept. of | Restates focus of department from preserving the relationship between child and family to further the best interest of the child and, when appropriate, preserve the relationship between the child and the family. | HB2622 |
1045 | General Assembly, Directed Studies | Directs the commissioner of environment and conservation to conduct a feasibility study concerning the development of an online subsurface sewage disposal system permitting process; commissioner to report findings by January 20, 2009, to house conservation and environment committee and senate environment, conservation and tourism committee. | HB3116 |
1046 | Foster Care | Requires that a child be present at a foster care permanency hearing and requires that the court review and ratify an independent living plan for a child 16 years of age or older who is in the custody of the department of children's services. | HB3143 |
1047 | Fees | Specifies that court may assess fees for continuance of court case to one or more parties, if multiple litigants request a continuance. | HB3199 |
1048 | Motor Vehicles | Imposes additional fine of $25.00 to be deposited in the brain injury fund by drivers who engage in drag racing. | HB3512 |
1049 | Municipal Government | Authorizes any municipality to create a design review commission to develop certain general guidelines concerning the exterior appearance of all nonresidential property, multiple family residential property, and entrances to nonresidential developments within the municipality; planning commission may be designated as the design review commission. | HB3830 |
1050 | Probate Law | Establishes certain requirements regarding the provision of information concerning unidentified heirs. | HB3962 |
1051 | Election Laws | Prohibits a member of a county election commission or the state election commission, who is appointed to the commission after this bill's effective date, from serving as the campaign manager or treasurer of any candidate's political campaign in a local, state, or federal election during the commissioner's term of office. | HB1442 |
1052 | Education | Adds aggravated sexual battery and aggravated rape of a child to the crimes of which a child's school must be notified when the child has been adjudicated delinquent involving such offenses; imposes additional notice requirements. | HB2719 |
1053 | Education | Expands the requirement that parents notify schools when a student is found delinquent involving certain crimes and details the procedure school officials must follow in response. | HB2720 |
1054 | Education | Allows volunteer school personnel with proper training to administer anti-seizure medications to a student in an emergency situation in accordance with the student's individual health plan. | HB3268 |
1055 | Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies | Enacts the "Guaranteed Asset Protection Waiver Act of 2008." | HB3671 |
1056 | Water Pollution | Provides that upon request of an alleged violator, the department of environment and conservation must promptly make available and provide access to any documents and other information that address the factual and scientific basis of a complaint that alleges a violation of the Water Quality Control Act of 1977. | HB3708 |
1057 | Budget Procedures | Establishes the county revenue partnership fund; requires Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations to study provisions of this act. | HB3863 |
1058 | Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies | Requires that long-term care insurers to offer the option of purchasing a policy or certificate including a nonforfeiture benefit; establishes training requirements for long-term care insurance producers; revises other various provisions governing long-term care insurance. | HB4206 |
1059 | Child Custody and Support | Changes certain requirements regarding termination of parental rights. | HB3145 |
1060 | Child Abuse | Adds immunity for certain reports made at the request of law enforcement to existing privileges and immunities under the mandatory child abuse reporting statute. | HB3717 |
1061 | Game and Fish Laws | Clarifies that the wildlife resources commission is authorized to promulgate rules for a one-time permit exempting persons from the hunter education requirements for a period of 12 months instead of a period of one year. | SB0492 |
1062 | Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, Dept | Establishes a council on children's mental health care to design a plan for a statewide system of mental healthcare for children. | SB2582 |
1063 | Education | Enacts the "Special Education Isolation and Restraint Modernization and Positive Behavioral Supports Act." | SB2609 |
1064 | Dentists | Defines "adult emergency dental services" and includes dental assistance to individuals in need of medical care and adult emergency dental services within the health care safety net for the uninsured. | SB2633 |
1065 | Funeral Directors and Embalmers | Creates exemption to the prohibition against irrevocable assignments of prearrangement insurance policy benefits to a funeral establishment and authorizes the commissioner of commerce and insurance to disapprove a previously approved pre-need funeral contract that violates the filing and form requirements for pre-need funeral contracts. | SB2705 |
1066 | Election Laws | Allows sample ballot to be mailed to active registered voters and if more than one registered voter is at same address permits one sample ballot to be sent to the address. | SB2818 |
1067 | Landlord and Tenant | Expands the application of the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act to all counties with a population of more than 68,000 by removing statutory exemptions for certain counties. | SB2885 |
1068 | Welfare | Requires child care agencies to implement drug testing policies for employees, directors, licensees, and operators of child care agencies and for other persons providing services under contract or for remuneration for the agency, who have direct contact with a child in the care of the agency, as an additional licensing requirement. | SB2886 |
1069 | Taxes, Personal Property | Provides that taxpayer who fails or refuses to sign reporting schedule regarding certain intangible personal property with assessor of property is deemed to have waived objections to the forced assessment. | SB3108 |
1070 | Licenses | Requires regulating entities to notify a holder of a license, certification, or registration of changes in applicable laws and maintain a link on the entity's Web site to applicable statutes, rules, policies, and guidelines. | SB3175 |
1071 | Administrative Procedure (UAPA) | Continues certain permanent rules filed with secretary of state after January 1, 2007. | SB3188 |
1072 | Pharmacy, Pharmacists | Requires the board of pharmacy to notify licensed pharmacies and pharmacists of changes to applicable rules, statutes, policies, and guidelines; requires the board to maintain a link on its Web site to applicable statutes, rules, policies, and guidelines; requires that licensees maintain at the sites of their practices a copy of the board's statutes, rules, policies, and guidelines. | SB3214 |
1073 | Codes | Requires the commissioner of commerce and insurance to promulgate rules for resolving disputes regarding interpretation and application of the statewide building construction safety standards that arise during review of plans or inspection of construction by the department. | SB3252 |
1074 | Domestic Violence | Extends exemption from payment of filing fees or other court costs upon filing a petition for a protective order to apply to an ex parte order of protection; removes requirement that court must assess costs and taxes at the hearing or upon dismissal of the petition. | SB3307 |
1075 | Highways, Roads and Bridges | Permits person who possesses an ingress and egress easement or who has been granted an easement for a private road to later petition for additional land along such road for the purpose of extending utility lines to the enclosed land. | SB3349 |
1076 | Fireworks | Permits operators to elect to retake certification examinations every two years in lieu of sitting for continuing education credit; authorizes state fire marshal to issue expedited permits for public displays and charge additional fee therefor, not to exceed twice the amount of a regular permit fee. | SB3821 |
1077 | Victims' Rights | Creates the "Senator Tommy Burks Victim Assistance Academy" to provide a victim assistance curriculum and training programs to victims of all types of crime; replaces the Victims of Crime State Coordinating Council. | SB4032 |
1078 | Probation and Parole | Establishes procedure for converting unpaid probation and parole fees into a civil judgment. | SB4151 |
1079 | Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies | Enacts the "Tennessee Unfair Trade Practices and Unfair Claims Settlement Act of 2009." | SB4208 |
1080 | Contractors | Clarifies that any person, corporation, or other entity who enters or renews a contract, or contracts with any person or entity who enters or renews a contract, with a school, local board of education, or child care program is responsible for obtaining criminal background checks on all employees who go on school grounds; authorizes out-of-state employers to satisfy requirement by showing that background checks were conducted in another state; creates limited exemptions to background check requirement. | SB2807 |
1081 | Parks, Natural Areas Preservation | Authorizes golf carts to be driven in state parks on golf courses and on paved roads within campgrounds, subject to regulation by state parks to protect public safety. | HB2508 |
1082 | Civil Procedure | Clarifies certain requirements relative to setting apart an easement or right-of-way for ingress and egress to landlocked property. | HB2509 |
1083 | Juvenile Offenders | Classifies escape or attempted escape from a licensed foster home, child care agency, or detention home or center for delinquent children by a juvenile who has been adjudicated delinquent as an offense which if committed by an adult would be a misdemeanor. | HB2911 |
1084 | Juveniles | Expands the stages in which a juvenile has a right to counsel to be at any delinquency proceeding or in any proceeding alleging unruly conduct in which the child is in jeopardy of being removed from the home; requires that in certain proceedings involving a child, an adult is entitled to legal counsel; and establishes that if a juvenile or adult has a right to counsel and is indigent, the court shall provide counsel for such person. | HB3147 |
1085 | Zoning | Allows license holder to appeal decision of adult-oriented establishment board to court of record within 10 days of affirmation of suspension, revocation, or annulment of license. | HB3249 |
1086 | Pensions and Retirement Benefits | Authorizes the Ned McWherter Center for Rural Development to become a participating employer in the Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System, subject to the approval of the center's board of directors. | HB3466 |
1087 | Election Laws | Subject to local approval, creates a pilot project to be implemented by the state election coordinator in one or more municipalities in Knox County holding a municipal election in 2009 to determine whether convenient voting centers could successfully be established for local and state elections. | HB3687 |
1088 | Public Contracts | Subject to local approval, authorizes municipalities to contract with other municipalities or financial institutions to stabilize the expense of purchasing gasoline and diesel fuel during the fiscal year beginning on July 1, 2008. | HB3810 |
1089 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities | Permits relocation of licensed nursing home beds in certain limited circumstances. | HB3838 |
1090 | Tobacco, Tobacco Products | Increases various licensure fees related to the manufacture and distribution of tobacco; makes requirement that licensees post a bond or certificate of deposit mandatory; requires that changes in licensee's information be timely updated. | HB3874 |
1091 | Zoning | Authorizes termination of nonconforming zoning use for motor vehicle business establishments in Davidson County based upon establishment of certain factors in record before the board of zoning appeals. | HB3899 |
1092 | Regional Authorities and Special Districts | Enacts the "Regional Jail Authority Act." | HB3958 |
1093 | CoverTN | Requires the department of finance and administration to develop guidelines for county governments to enroll in the Cover Tennessee program. | HB4025 |
1094 | Pensions and Retirement Benefits | Authorizes the Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System board of trustees to establish a policy to permit the retirement system to invest system assets in private equity. | SB0330 |
1095 | Sunset Laws | Epilepsy advisory committee, June 5, 2008. | SB0995 |
1096 | Education | Requires the state board of education to develop policies for operation of virtual education programs; authorizes LEAs to use BEP funds to implement and operate virtual education programs. | SB2008 |
1097 | Education | Expands opportunities for parent involvement in public schools. | SB2162 |
1098 | Sunset Laws | Southwest Tennessee human resource agency, June 30, 2015. | SB2510 |
1099 | Election Laws | Requires coordinator of elections to create minimum standards for educating election officials. | SB2893 |
1100 | Taxes, Business | Authorizes county clerk or proper city tax collector to collect delinquent business taxes at any time before the commissioner of revenue notifies the taxpayer of an audit or takes other action to collect the taxes. | SB3103 |