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| Chapter Number | Subject | Abstract | Bill Number |
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| 1101 | Schools, Private and Charter | Changes prohibition against sponsorship of public charter school by a private school to apply to a private elementary or secondary school; also prohibits a post-secondary institution not accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools from sponsoring a public charter school. | SB3283 |
| 1102 | Education, Dept. of | Directs commissioner to require each LEA's director of schools to submit an annual personnel report to the department. | SB3409 |
| 1103 | Education | Requires postsecondary educational institutions to disclose information regarding transferability of credits; requires postsecondary educational institutions to disclose on their Web sites all information related to tuition that must be provided to THEC and provide a link to the THEC Web site to facilitate access to information regarding graduation rates and job placement data. | SB3789 |
| 1104 | Taxes | Revises various provisions governing real and personal property tax exemptions such as provision for exemption for church parsonage and provision governing exemptions for federally assisted housing. | SB3944 |
| 1105 | Public Employees | Requires a municipality or county that has a personnel policy that places an employee on leave for any period of time immediately following any arrest to restore the back pay to the employee if the charges are dropped or the employee is found not guilty; such requirement does not apply if the employee pleads guilty or enters a plea agreement. | SB4102 |
| 1106 | Taxes | Changes the effective date of the repeal of the sales tax exemption for certain club membership dues from July 1, 2009, to July 1, 2008; revises provision governing sales price of bundled services; revises other sales tax-related provisions. | SB4173 |
| 1107 | Consumer Protection | Requires health clubs to post a $25,000 bond with the department of commerce and insurance to be maintained for two years following the club's ceasing to do business in this state or demonstrate a net worth of at least $10 million; authorizes the commissioner to issue a cease and desist order against a person violating the provisions governing health clubs. | SB4175 |
| 1108 | Election Laws | Enacts the "Tennessee Voter Confidence Act"; requires that any voting system purchased after January 1, 2009, be a precinct-based optical scanner voting system with appropriate accommodation for persons with disabilities; requires hand count audits of 3 percent of early ballots and 3 percent of the precincts; adds various additional requirements for electronic voting machines. | HB1256 |
| 1109 | Uniform Commercial Code | Revises the procedure for establishing a debtor's name on a financing statement. | SB0372 |
| 1110 | Children's Services, Dept. of | Authorizes commissioner to identify and reorganize or abolish up to 150 positions in the department. | SB2220 |
| 1111 | Hazardous Materials | Enacts the "Haley Ham Law"; requires all antifreeze containing at least 10 percent ethylene glycol to contain a bittering agent; penalty is a Class C misdemeanor punishable only by a $50.00 fine. | SB2399 |
| 1112 | Sunset Laws | Advisory committee for children's special services, June 30, 2014. | SB2428 |
| 1113 | Sunset Laws | Interstate earthquake compact of 1988, June 30, 2012. | SB2436 |
| 1114 | Sunset Laws | Housing development agency, June 30, 2014. | SB2439 |
| 1115 | Sunset Laws | Tellico reservoir development agency, June 30, 2010. | SB2476 |
| 1116 | Highway Signs | "Veterans Memorial Highway," U.S. Highway 127 in Bledsoe and Cumberland counties | SB2573 |
| 1117 | Highway Signs | "Lieutenant Governor Jared Maddux Memorial Interchange," Exit 287 (State Route 136 / Jefferson Avenue) on Interstate 40 in Putnam County | SB2574 |
| 1118 | Highway Signs | "Veterans Memorial Highway," U.S. Highway 127 in Hamilton County | SB2608 |
| 1119 | Bond Issues | Authorizes issuance of bonds to fund state projects. | SB2626 |
| 1120 | State Government | State university and community college system board of regents, June 30, 2009; prohibits consumer credit reporting agencies from changing certain information in consumer's credit report while credit freeze is in place; requires commissioner of general services to establish rules and regulations to control costs and quantity of publications; changes requirements concerning leisure pools in Shelby and Knox counties; requires fees and penalties authorized by the Tennessee Health Services and Planning Act be paid into the general fund; prohibits elimination of services for which a certificate of need is required. | SB2639 |
| 1121 | Highways, Roads and Bridges | Adds inherently low-emission vehicles (ILEV) with a gross vehicle weight of 26,000 pounds or less and low-emission and energy-efficient vehicles (LEEEV) to present list of vehicles authorized to drive in high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes. | SB2716 |
| 1122 | Capital Punishment | Extends the reporting period for the special committee to study the administration of the death penalty from one year from the appointment of all members to January 1, 2009. | SB2718 |
| 1123 | Highway Signs | "Jerry A. Jared Highway," segment of State Route 111 in Putnam County | SB2762 |
| 1124 | Highway Signs | "Robert V. Gafford Highway," segment of U.S. Highway 412 in Lewis County | SB2788 |
| 1125 | Highway Signs | "Veterans Memorial Highway," U.S. Highway 127 in Sequatchie County | SB2803 |
| 1126 | Health Care | Designates the nurse home visitor program as a pilot program and changes eligibility criteria for participation in the program by service providers and communities. | SB2832 |
| 1127 | Taxes, Real Property | Permits Shelby County and the municipalities therein to convey property acquired for back taxes to a nonprofit community development corporation for development for affordable housing without requiring the community development corporation to reimburse the taxing jurisdiction for the lost taxes, penalties, or interest. | SB2981 |
| 1128 | Museums | Adds honorably discharged veterans to those qualifying for reduced admissions to special exhibits at the Tennessee state museum. | SB3001 |
| 1129 | Correction, Dept. of | Requests department in conjunction with department of human resources to study issue of education and employment for persons convicted of non-violent criminal offenses; requires departments to report findings by March 1, 2009, to house and senate education committees. | SB3058 |
| 1130 | Fireworks | Clarifies the type of permit a municipality, county, or metropolitan government must obtain to conduct displays of pyrotechnics or displays using flame effects. | SB3120 |
| 1131 | Bail, Bail Bonds | Authorizes release of a surety from liability for undertaking bail bond if the detainer request is refused or if the detaining authority releases the principal notwithstanding the filing of the detainer. | SB3152 |
| 1132 | Economic and Community Development | Extends the special joint committee on small business development and retention to January 15, 2009. | SB3342 |
| 1133 | Schools, Private and Charter | Adds students in grades K-3 who qualify for free or reduced price lunch to prospective student population of public charter schools; requires comptroller to appoint a task force to study statutes that authorize public charter schools; extends limit on number of charter schools to 2011; extends authorization to create charter schools to 2015. | SB3401 |
| 1134 | Highway Signs | "Veterans Memorial Highway," U.S. Highway 127 in Pickett County | SB3472 |
| 1135 | Naming and Designating | Names Winchester Tennessee National Guard Armory in honor of Otis W. Bauer. | SB3499 |
| 1136 | Highway Signs | "Anonymous Charitable Donor Bridge," segment of bridge spanning Norfolk Southern Railroad on State Route 160 in Hamblen County. | SB3770 |
| 1137 | Veterans | Revises membership and duties of Tennessee state veterans' homes board. | SB3919 |
| 1138 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities | Creates joint committee to study the effects of litigation on the nursing home industry. | SB4075 |
| 1139 | TennCare | Specifies that it is a Class D felony for a person, in connection with an investigation of TennCare fraud, to knowingly and willfully falsify, conceal, or omit a material fact, make any materially false or fraudulent statement, or make or use any materially false writing or document. | SB4188 |
| 1140 | Criminal Offenses | Enacts "Tennessee Human Trafficking Act of 2007." | HB0071 |
| 1141 | Criminal Offenses | Creates Class B misdemeanor for person communicating death threat concerning a school employee. | HB0583 |
| 1142 | Lottery, Scholarships and Programs | Makes changes to eligibility requirements for HOPE scholarships; enacts the "Helping Heroes Act of 2008" to provide scholarships for veterans; enacts the "Tennessee Rural Health Act of 2008" to provide scholarships to students in health care fields who agree to practice in health resource shortage areas; creates pilot project to provide laptop computers to 100 students in each grand division. | HB0653 |
| 1143 | Sexual Offenders | Requires resident sexual offenders and violent sexual offenders who are issued a driver license or photo identification card to always possess the driver license or photo identification card; requires department of safety to issue another form of identification to any offender who is ineligible for a driver license or photo identification; and requires department of safety to design such license or card in manner that allows law enforcement officers to ascertain the person is a sexual offender. | HB0957 |
| 1144 | Motor Vehicles | Authorizes issuance of temporary trailer permits; requires person using a wheelchair to use sidewalks when available and accessible. | HB1656 |
| 1145 | Special License Plates | Requires that all nonprofit organizations for which new specialty earmarked license plates are issued on or after July 1, 2008, be certified for nonprofit status by the secretary of state prior to such plates' initial issuance; any plate authorized for organization that is not certified is deemed obsolete and invalid; establishes requirements for organization to receive proceeds from sales of new specialty earmarked license plates. | HB2434 |
| 1146 | Children's Services, Dept. of | Authorizes certain child abuse and child sexual abuse information contained in reports filed with the department to be released to child abuse review teams, law enforcement, and members of the general assembly for certain purposes. | HB2469 |
| 1147 | Cemeteries | Requires that a notice must be published in a newspaper before filing an action to transfer remains located in a gravesite or crypt. | HB2483 |
| 1148 | General Assembly, Directed Studies | Creates special joint legislative committee to study improvements to TWRA. | HB2615 |
| 1149 | Sports | Enacts "Tennessee Athletic Commission Act of 2008," to authorize and regulate mixed martial arts events. | HB2633 |
| 1150 | Planning, Public | Revises regional and municipal planning provisions concerning the avoidance of scattered and premature development in areas where there are inadequate or nonexistent publicly owned and maintained services and facilities. | HB2760 |
| 1151 | Driver Licenses | Increases minimum age for issuance of M-limited licenses, which allow minors to operate motor-driven cycles or motorized bicycles, from 14 to 15 years of age. | HB2994 |
| 1152 | Sheriffs | Requires deputies newly assigned to courts to participate in 40 hours of courthouse security training within 12 months of assignment and 16 hours of courthouse security training each year thereafter; training to be approved by Peace Officers Standards and Training Commission. | HB3034 |
| 1153 | Clerks, Court | Removes exemption for Putnam County from requirement that in counties where general sessions court is also the juvenile court, the general sessions clerk or the clerk and master must also serve as juvenile court clerk. | HB3134 |
| 1154 | Health, Dept. of | Directs the department to study the prevalence and severity of asthma in Tennessee and, in consultation with the department of education and the bureau of TennCare, develop a comprehensive statewide plan to reduce the burden of asthma on Tennessee school children. | HB3146 |
| 1155 | Billboards | Establishes process for permitting digital display outdoor advertising; requires addendum to an existing billboard permit in order to operate a changeable message sign with digital display in place of any existing permitted outdoor advertising device. | HB3259 |
| 1156 | Education | Revises various requirements for establishment and operation of school support organizations. | HB3278 |
| 1157 | Mental Retardation | Creates special joint committee to study issues relating to services provided to persons with developmental disabilities, mental retardation, and other disabilities. | HB3297 |
| 1158 | Regional Authorities and Special Districts | Distributes funds received by the state in lieu of taxes from TVA to regional development authorities to subsidize shortfalls of impact funds in certain circumstances. | HB3354 |
| 1159 | Juries and Jurors | Revises various provisions relating to jury service including removing exemptions for certain people for jury duty. | HB3638 |
| 1160 | Highway Signs | "Jarret C. Gray Memorial Bridge," U.S. Highway 31 in Giles County | HB3673 |
| 1161 | Taxes, Real Property | Revises various provisions under the Agricultural, Forest and Open Space Land Act; requires aggregation of parcels owned by artificial entities that have at least 50 percent common ownership; authorizes late filing of applications for classification of land; makes other changes. | HB3871 |
| 1162 | Children | Changes various requirements regarding termination of parental rights; expands grounds for termination of parental rights by adding rape and aggravated statutory rape. | HB4139 |
| 1163 | Victims' Rights | Clarifies that "critical stage of the criminal justice process" for purposes of notifying victims under the victims rights constitutional amendment includes bond hearings, motion to dismiss hearings, hearings on plea agreements requiring the approval of the court, hearings where restitution is discussed, parole hearings, and any other hearing that proposes a final disposition of the case. | HB4163 |
| 1164 | Sexual Offenders | Makes various changes to registration requirements for sexual offenders; requires notification of certain groups when an offender registers or updates registry information; establishes minimum sentences for failure to register or update registry information; adds to the information that registered offenders are required to provide to the registry; makes other changes. | HB4197 |
| 1165 | Special License Plates | Authorizes issuance of various new specialty license plates. | HB2865 |
| 1166 | Firearms and Ammunition | Prohibits certain convicted felons from possessing a rifle, shotgun, or any firearm rather than just a handgun. | SB0219 |
| 1167 | Criminal Offenses | Requires that if a person who is charged with leaving the scene of an accident that resulted in death or injury is also charged with vehicular assault, vehicular homicide, or aggravated vehicular homicide, as a result of the same course of conduct, any sentence imposed for leaving the scene of the accident must be served consecutive to any sentence imposed for the applicable assault or homicide offense. | SB1054 |
| 1168 | Health Care | Requires the commission on aging and disability to develop a three-year home and community-based care pilot project to offer opportunities for certain families and individuals affected by disabilities requiring long-term supports and services to direct their own services. | SB1157 |
| 1169 | Financial Responsibility Law | Requires, rather than permits, judges to dismiss first violations of the financial responsibility law if the person charged with the violation presents, on or before the court date, evidence that shows the person was in compliance with the law at the time of the violation; retains judicial discretion for second and subsequent offenses; clarifies no litigation tax may be collected on dismissed charges. | SB1291 |
| 1170 | Highway Signs | Requires TDOT to implement a directional highway sign program for certain airports within 10 miles of the state interstate highway system. | SB2576 |
| 1171 | Child Abuse | Extends the Class E felony offense of making false and malicious reports of child sexual abuse to include false and malicious reports "that a child has sustained any wound, injury, disability, or physical or mental condition caused by brutality, abuse or neglect." | SB2620 |
| 1172 | Criminal Offenses | Changes offense of killing animal of another to require only that the defendant knowingly and unlawfully kills animal of another without the owner's effective consent. | SB2697 |
| 1173 | Criminal Offenses | Creates a new Class B misdemeanor offense of intentionally displaying or exposing an imitation firearm in a public place in a threatening manner in such a way that would cause reasonable persons to fear bodily injury to themselves or others. | SB2719 |
| 1174 | Handgun Permits | Requires that $15.00 of the $115 application and processing fee for handgun carry permit applications be submitted to the sheriff of the county where the applicant resides for the purpose of verifying the truthfulness of the applicant's answers. | SB2720 |
| 1175 | Lottery, Scholarships and Programs | Creates the "lottery for education after school programs grant fund" administered by the department of education for deposit of excess lottery funds for after school programs and technical assistance; provided, that lottery-funded postsecondary financial assistance programs are fully funded; requires after school program grants to be three-year grants. | SB2809 |
| 1176 | Criminal Offenses | Expands Class E felony of unlawful possession of a weapon to a person possessing a handgun who has been convicted of any felony. | SB2866 |
| 1177 | DUI/DWI Offenses | Clarifies that DUI committed with child in car that results in serious bodily injury to child is Class D felony punished as vehicular assault and Class B felony punished as vehicular homicide if child is killed. | SB2973 |
| 1178 | Aged Persons | Increases from $19.00 to $25.00 per day reimbursement from department of health for residents of residential homes for the aged whose total income does not exceed $600 per month and whose income is limited to payments made under the Social Security Act. | SB3150 |
| 1179 | Open Meetings | Makes various changes to the Open Meetings Law and to the Open Records Law; creates office of open records counsel. | SB3280 |
| 1180 | Students | Revises provisions governing background checks on students wishing to enter approved teacher training programs. | SB3285 |
| 1181 | Safety, Dept. of | Requires the department to maintain records on drivers who have successfully completed driver's education or driver improvement courses. | SB3379 |
| 1182 | Lobbying, Lobbyists | Revises various provisions relating to the ethics commission including provisions governing advisory opinions, persons required to register as lobbyists, and audits. | SB3595 |
| 1183 | Workers Compensation | Revises various workers' compensation provisions, including provisions governing the exhaustion of the BRC process prior to going to court and provisions governing determination of impairment rating. | SB3791 |
| 1184 | Tourism | Authorizes municipalities in Montgomery County to appropriate funds from their general funds and/or hotel/motel tax funds in order to promote tourism; requires two-thirds vote of municipal legislative body. | SB3846 |
| 1185 | Taxes | Revises provisions under the Tennessee State Revenue Sharing Act, regarding TVA payment in lieu of taxes, governing allocation to the University of Tennessee for use in operating the county technical assistance service and allocation to TACIR. | SB3946 |
| 1186 | Health Care | Enacts the "Tennessee Stroke Registry Act of 2008." | SB4011 |
| 1187 | Taxes, Litigation | Authorizes counties to impose litigation tax of up to $25.00 upon approval of local legislative body. | SB4019 |
| 1188 | Education | Enacts the "Energy Efficient Schools Initiative [EESI] of 2008." | SB4039 |
| 1189 | Education, Higher | Requires public institutions of higher education to notify parents or legal guardians of students under the age of 21 if the student commits a disciplinary violation with respect to use or possession of alcohol or controlled substances that is a violation of law or institutional policy or rule. | SB4108 |
| 1190 | Health Care | Enacts the "Long-Term Care Community Choices Act of 2008." | SB4181 |
| 1191 | Finance and Administration, Dept. of | Authorizes the commissioner to transfer funds from certain reserve funds and accounts; revises provisions governing boards attached to the division of regulatory boards that fail to collect fees sufficient to cover operating costs. | SB4186 |
| 1192 | Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies | Revises various provisions of the Tennessee Insurance Producer Licensing Act including provisions governing unfair trade practices for insurance producers and provisions governing continuing education. | SB4203 |
| 1193 | Bond Issues | Authorizes the issuance of bonds of up to $138,000,000 for the construction of State Route 840. | SB4268 |
| 1194 | Boats, Boating | Creates criminal offense of leaving scene of boating accident; penalty is Class A misdemeanor when injury results from accident or Class E felony when death results from accident. | SB2815 |
| 1195 | Education | Authorizes an LEA to promulgate and adopt rules and regulations to prohibit gang activities on school property; requires each LEA to annually evaluate the threat to and influence on school children by gangs in the community. | SB2554 |
| 1196 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration | Permits a motor vehicle or motorcycle owner who will be out of state during his or her annual registration plate renewal month to apply for and receive early renewal if all other requirements for registration have been met. | SB3840 |
| 1197 | Children and Youth, Commission on | Requires the commission to design and oversee a resource mapping of all federal and state funding sources and streams that support the health, safety, permanence, growth, development, and education of children in the state. | SB4012 |
| 1198 | Safety, Dept. of | Encourages the department to increase consumer information efforts about the *THP Program, which connects cell phone callers to the nearest highway patrol dispatcher; provides that information efforts should seek to educate the motoring public about dialing *THP to report drivers who are violating the rules of the road to the highway patrol. | SB4026 |
| 1199 | Interstate Compacts | Rewrites the Interstate Compact for Juveniles. | SB4143 |
| 1200 | Criminal Offenses | Creates Class E felony offense of a probation and parole officer employed by the board of probation and parole engaging in sexual contact or sexual penetration with a probationer or parolee who is under the supervision of the board, if probation or parole officer knows or reasonably should know the person to be a probationer or parolee. | SB4150 |
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