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0101 | Real Estate Agents and Brokers | Modifies provisions governing record retention by a licensed or certified real estate appraiser; removes provision for a transitional license for an appraiser. | HB2231 |
0102 | Labor and Workforce Development, Dept. of | Authorizes use of delivery service with receipt or hand delivery, as an alternative to certified mail, when the commissioner issues a citation for violation of occupational safety and health provisions. | HB2241 |
0103 | TennCare | Specifically classifies knowingly presenting a false claim for payment to TennCare, or any TennCare subcontractor or vendor, by any person or entity other than a TennCare enrollee, recipient, or applicant as a Class B, C or D felony, depending on the value of the claim. | HB2250 |
0104 | Labor and Workforce Development, Dept. of | Requires the department to exercise enforcement over moving walks in the same manner and to the same extent as provided in law for elevators, dumbwaiters, and escalators. | HB2266 |
0105 | Industrial Development | Reduces the membership of the Tennessee technology development corporation from 24 to 22 by removing the two members from the Tennessee science and technology advisory council; revises functions of the corporation. | HB2287 |
0106 | Search & Seizure | Adds campus police officers to present law enforcement officers authorized to conduct certain seizures of property and related forfeiture sales of such property. | SB0276 |
0107 | County Government | Authorizes certain counties to establish and operate emergency medical services and to charge fees or rates for such services. | SB0519 |
0108 | Criminal Procedure | Adds offenses of rape, statutory rape by authority figure, and aggravated child abuse to list of offenses for which the judge must revoke bail immediately upon conviction. | SB0730 |
0109 | Highway Signs | "PFC Nilon K. Bacon Memorial Highway," segment of State Route 93 in Washington County | SB0933 |
0110 | Prisoners and Inmates | Prohibits commissioner of correction and prison contractors from accepting out-of-state prisoners for incarceration unless the sending state contractually agrees to return and to pay the full costs of returning such prisoner to the sending state prior to the person's release from incarceration or arrangements for release in some place other than the sending state are made in accordance with the Interstate Corrections Compact. | SB1294 |
0111 | Taxes, Ad Valorem | Permits taxpayers and owners of commercial and industrial property in Hamilton County to appeal valuation of such property directly to the state board of equalization with the written consent of the assessor of property. | SB1309 |
0112 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration | Exempts persons with a permanent disability from furnishing a physician's statement upon renewal of a handicapped placard or tag. | SB2029 |
0113 | Privacy, Confidentiality | Makes confidential certain information relating to donors of gifts to public institutions of higher education or to certain related foundations. | SB2080 |
0114 | Public Contracts | Limits scope of review in appeal of state procurement process to chancery court from the review committee to the record before the review committee; limits scope of inquiry in appeals to whether review committee acted illegally or without material evidence to support its action. | SB2206 |
0115 | Boards and Commissions | Abolishes board of occupational and physical therapy examiners and establishes separate boards for each profession. | HB0270 |
0116 | Registers of Deeds | Authorizes affiant to attach document when registering affidavit of scrivener's error. | HB0368 |
0117 | Physicians and Surgeons | Adds onsite medical clinics to those entities that a clinical laboratory or a physician may bill for cytopathology services. | HB0896 |
0118 | Surplus Property | Modifies the procedures for the department of transportation's disposition of real property that was intended for use as right-of-way. | HB1203 |
0119 | Sunset Laws | Tennessee Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association, June 30, 2008. | SB2131 |
0120 | Dentists | Prohibits any person other than a licensed dentist from taking an impression of human teeth for the purpose of creating a cosmetic metal apparatus intended to be worn in the mouth, subject to the provisions whereby the board of dentistry may permit licensed and registered dental hygienists and registered dental assistants to take final impressions for fixed and removable prosthetic appliances under the supervision of a dentist. | SB0238 |
0121 | Consumer Protection | Makes advertising that the seller or lessor of a radar or laser detector or jamming device will pay the customer's motor vehicle traffic citation a violation of the Consumer Protection Act as well as a criminal offense. | SB0614 |
0122 | Surplus Property | Amends the County Purchasing Law of 1957 to grant counties clear authority to conduct sales of surplus property by means of on-line auctions or Internet-based auctions. | SB0750 |
0123 | Sewage | Authorizes a municipal corporation to construct or maintain water or sewage lines on private property if such activity is required because of sanitary sewer overflows caused by groundwater or rainwater and if the property owner consents and agrees to hold the municipal corporation harmless for the work. | SB0881 |
0124 | Election Laws | Specifies that when a runoff election is scheduled to be held after a general election in any county having a metropolitan form of government, the appropriate county election commission must set the runoff election not less than 30 days nor more than 45 days after the regular election. | SB0912 |
0125 | Election Laws | Requires applications for voter registration to be accepted and processed through the 29th day before election if the 30th day falls on Sunday; requires that poll watchers be at least 17 years old; requires that retention questions for judges be at the end of the ballot; makes various other revisions to election laws. | SB0925 |
0126 | Sexual Offenders | Requires a sexual offender or violent sexual offender to report any material change in the offender's employment status to the registering agency within 48 hours of the change of status. | SB1056 |
0127 | Highway Signs | "Korean Veterans Memorial Bridge," State Route 386 in Sumner County | SB1170 |
0128 | Animals and Animal Cruelty | Provides that in animal cruelty prosecutions, if the defendant does not post court-ordered security to pay for expense of caring for the animal within 15 days, animal is forfeited and defendant loses all ownership rights; establishes provisions governing situations where person from whom animal was seized is not the owner and for situations where the owner is indigent. | SB1190 |
0129 | Firearms and Ammunition | Prohibits the state, political subdivisions, and public officials from prohibiting or imposing additional restrictions on the lawful possession, transfer, sale, transport, carrying, storage, display, or use of firearms and ammunition during a state of emergency, major disaster, or natural disaster. | SB1597 |
0130 | Contractors | Requires general and home improvement contractors to submit proof of workers' compensation and general liability insurance upon licensure or renewal. | SB1784 |
0131 | Local Government, General | Revises provisions governing what is included as "certain unfunded pension obligations," for purposes of local government public obligations law. | SB1940 |
0132 | Taxes, Real Property | Makes technical changes to reporting deadlines and confidentiality requirements with regard to property tax filings. | SB2062 |
0133 | Equalization Board | Changes provisions regarding when the state board will accept an appeal from the taxpayer to specify that the appeal will be accepted up to March 1 of "the year in which the time for appeal to the state board has began to run" instead of "the year in which the assessment was made." | SB2065 |
0134 | Law Enforcement | Permits a juvenile to be photographed or recorded by law enforcement if juvenile is committing offense, if officer is conducting field sobriety test on juvenile, or, in certain circumstances, if juvenile is victim of offense and consents. | HB0075 |
0135 | County Government | Raises the amount over which competitive bids are required for county purchases under the general fund from $5,000 to $10,000. | HB0216 |
0136 | Plumbers and Plumbing | Authorizes dealers of liquefied petroleum gas to perform plumbing work related to providing liquefied petroleum gas in any residential or commercial building without obtaining a plumber's license; authorizes operators to perform plumbing work related to the provision of natural or commingled gas or its applications to or within any residential, industrial, or commercial building without obtaining a plumber's license. | HB0260 |
0137 | Planning, Public | Increases the time period within which a municipal planning commission is required to approve or disapprove a subdivision plat before the plat is deemed to have been approved from within 30 days after the submission of the plat to within 35 days after the initial consideration of the plat by the commission. | HB0326 |
0138 | Paternity | Requires court to order nonprevailing party in paternity suit or, in noncontested cases, the person confirmed as the father of the child to pay costs for changing birth certificate and issuing new birth certificate. | HB0776 |
0139 | Motor Vehicles | Requires written motor vehicle accident reports, including those prepared by law enforcement and those prepared by the owner or driver of a vehicle involved in an accident, to include insurance policy names. | HB0851 |
0140 | Military | Requires adjutant general of state's military department to be a member of National Guard who meets all of the requirements to be a federally recognized general officer. | HB1170 |
0141 | Zoning | Revises provisions regarding businesses that cease operations for 30 continuous months being bound by zoning changes to create special provisions applicable to motor vehicle business establishments in Davidson County. | HB1187 |
0142 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration | Establishes registration fee of $9.50 for privately owned trailer not required to be registered but the owner desires to be registered; makes personalized plates available for such trailers for an additional fee of $50.00; authorizes the sale of personalized trailer plates and provides for the funds from the sale of such plates being expended to develop and maintain public horseback riding trails. | HB1219 |
0143 | Municipal Government | Reinstates provisions specifying traffic offenses that municipalities may adopt by ordinance and offenses that are strictly state offenses. | HB1329 |
0144 | Trusts | Enacts the "Tennessee Investment Services Act of 2007." | HB1351 |
0145 | Fire Prevention and Investigation | Authorizes counties that create county-wide fire districts to include performance-based criteria in interlocal agreements and contracts for fire protection services, subject to local approval. | HB1758 |
0146 | Taxes, Litigation | Authorizes Carroll, Sullivan, Unicoi, and Cheatham counties to impose a privilege tax on litigation in all civil and criminal cases in an amount not to exceed $25.00 per case. | HB2092 |
0147 | Public Property | Allows department of general services to use the best value procurement methodology for purchasing goods and services. | HB2291 |
0148 | Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies | Enacts the "Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Compact Act of 2007." | SB2263 |
0149 | Probation and Parole | Requires governor to appoint three members of the private probation services council instead of the chief justice of the supreme court. | HB0311 |
0150 | Alcoholic Beverages | Authorizes Nashville Zoo and certain zoos in Chattanooga and Knoxville to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on premises, subject to certain limitations. | HB0575 |
0151 | Campaigns and Campaign Finance | Grants a candidate a 10-day period to correct an omission on a filed report before the registry of election finance will impose a penalty; candidates may only correct two omissions per calendar year, the total value of which may not exceed $2,000; omissions corrected prior to the registry's discovery of them do not count against the limitation. | HB1779 |
0152 | Election Laws | Clarifies that information regarding absentee requests and applications are confidential and not subject to the Open Records Law until the end of early voting. | HB1916 |
0153 | Environmental Preservation | Authorizes use of revenues produced from the sale of environmental plate for making grants to state universities for development of new methods of treating pests that threaten trees and other vegetation at parks; revises provisions for grants from the local parks land acquisition fund. | HB2288 |
0154 | AIDS, HIV and STDs | Revises requirement that health care providers must provide counseling regarding HIV during prenatal care; removes requirement that health care providers report to department of health number of pregnant women tested for HIV each month and number who test positive. | HB2317 |
0155 | Highways, Roads and Bridges | Expresses intent of general assembly that county seats should be connected by four-lane highways to the nearest interstate by the best route available rather than by the shortest route available. | SB0005 |
0156 | Taxes, Hotel Motel | Permits Oliver Springs and Kingston to enact a hotel-motel tax upon the adoption of an ordinance by a two-thirds vote even if one or all of the counties in which the municipality is located have adopted a hotel-motel tax. | SB0163 |
0157 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities | Requires the infections taskforce created in 2005 to continue to meet at least semiannually and report to the general assembly annually beginning in 2008. | SB0268 |
0158 | Sexual Offenders | Adds rape of a child and aggravated rape of a child to felony murder offenses elevating a murder to first degree murder and requires misdemeanor probation officers to determine if new probationer is on the sexual offender registry. | SB0295 |
0159 | Insurance, Health, Accident | Revises the criteria for pooling liabilities to be a self-insurer. | SB0343 |
0160 | Fire Prevention and Investigation | Requires persons licensed to monitor alarms to attempt to contact alarm location or user by means of calling at least two different numbers prior to dispatching police to location; requirement does not apply to hold-up alarms. | SB0453 |
0161 | Ethics | Authorizes Shelby County to bring its administrative and legislative officials and employees within the scope of regulation by the Tennessee ethics commission just as if such officials and employees were state officials and employees; requires reimbursement to the ethics commission for increased costs. | SB0518 |
0162 | Wildlife Resources Commission | Authorizes a 501(c)(3) non-profit wildlife conservation organization to sell or transfer an elk-take permit issued by the executive director of TWRA pursuant to rules promulgated by the Wildlife Resources Commission; proceeds of the sale will be used for the elk program. | SB0726 |
0163 | Teachers, Principals and School Personnel | Specifies that teachers who transition from part-time to full-time employment will be eligible for health insurance benefits, even if the teacher did not participate in the plan as a part-time employee. | SB0798 |
0164 | Telecommunications | Expands the membership of the Tennessee Broadband Task Force from 14 to 16 to include a representative of the department of education and a representative of the non-governmental, private sector competitive local exchange carriers and requires the task force to submit an assessment of the state of broadband deployment on an annual basis. | SB1580 |
0165 | Highway Patrol | Authorizes the commissioner of safety to negotiate a memorandum of understanding with the US department of homeland security concerning the enforcement of immigration laws, detention and removals in this state; provides that certain highway patrol officers will be trained pursuant to the memorandum of understanding. | SB1604 |
0166 | Pensions and Retirement Benefits | Authorizes certain community action agencies to become participating employers in TCRS. | SB1703 |
0167 | Criminal Procedure | Allows trial court to enforce any orders assessing criminal fines that are in default as criminal contempt upon a finding by the court that the defendant has the ability to pay and refuses to do so. | SB1760 |
0168 | Treasurer, State | Requires treasurer, with the approval of the board of claims, to consider proposals for insurance policies from admitted carriers and non-admitted surplus lines carriers; establishes certain qualifications carriers must meet in order to be considered. | SB1764 |
0169 | Public Contracts | Authorizes state governmental entities to allow limitations of liability and warranty in contracts pursuant to rules promulgated by commissioner of finance and administration instead of requiring commissioner's approval for every limitation of liability or warranty. | SB2207 |
0170 | Consumer Protection | Enacts the "Credit Security Act of 2007." | HB0200 |
0171 | Driver Licenses | Permits judge to issue a restricted driver license to person following DUI conviction for the sole purpose of going to and from the person's probation office or regular place of worship. | HB0238 |
0172 | Tax Return Preparers | Imposes restrictions on facilitators, which are persons who receive or accept for delivery an application for a refund anticipation loan, deliver a check in payment of refund anticipation loan proceeds, or act to allow the making of a refund anticipation loan. | HB1226 |
0173 | Sentencing | Adds enhancement factor by which a defendant's sentence can be increased within the appropriate range that an adult defendant sold or delivered an illegal drug to a minor. | SB0217 |
0174 | Education, Curriculum | Urges the state board of education to develop guidelines for the materials and method of instruction used to teach the procedure for voluntarily surrendering a newborn baby and to include that instruction in the lifetime wellness curriculum for grades nine through 12. | SB0293 |
0175 | Pensions and Retirement Benefits | Authorizes the TCRS board of trustees to contract for investment services for the retirement system's portfolio. | SB0331 |
0176 | Garnishments and Executions | Exempts Archer Medical Savings Account and Health Savings Accounts, authorized under federal law, from execution and garnishment. | SB0710 |
0177 | Audiologists and Speech Pathologists | Requires new applicants for licensure as an audiologist to have a doctoral degree, rather than a master's degree, beginning January 1, 2009; does not apply to any audiologist licensed in this or any other state prior to January 1, 2009. | SB0758 |
0178 | Privacy, Confidentiality | Classifies records of job-related critical incident counseling to county and municipal corrections officers and dispatchers as confidential for purposes of open records law. | SB0920 |
0179 | Assessors | Allows assessor to correct forced assessment of tangible personal property if it is determined that the taxpayer was not in business as of the assessment date and did not own or lease tangible personal property used or held for use in business as of the assessment date. | SB1109 |
0180 | Taxes, Real Property | Clarifies that transfers of real estate to or from a revocable living trust are exempt from transfer tax only if the trust was created by the transferor or the transferor's spouse, and further clarifies that deeds executed by the trustee of a revocable living trust to implement a testamentary devise by the trustor of the trust are exempt from transfer tax. | SB1373 |
0181 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration | Changes the allowable lease under the provisions governing a motor vehicle producer leasing vehicles to employees from "no less than an 18-month closed-end lease" to "no less than a 12-month closed-end lease." | SB1600 |
0182 | Medical Occupations | Authorizes boards, councils, committees, and other health-related governmental entities attached to the department of health to conduct background checks on applicants prior to issuing a license, certificate, or registration. | SB2247 |
0183 | Unemployment Compensation | Requires good cause for holding unemployment benefits hearing or appeal via telephone; changes eligibility rules in certain cases where wages are provided in lieu of notice or as backpay; and makes other changes relative to unemployment compensation. | SB2256 |
0184 | Pensions and Retirement Benefits | Specifies that employer matching for profit sharing and salary reduction plans may be based on amount contributed by employee from longevity pay in lieu of monthly matches; authorizes TCRS to use retirement system fund earnings to pay for implementing the Concord Project; revises other various retirement-related provisions. | SB0333 |
0185 | Boats, Boating | Clarifies laws related to boating regulation and safety, updates boating laws to account for new technologies, and increases boating under the influence penalties for first and second time offenders. | SB0418 |
0186 | Trusts | Enacts the "Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act." | SB0691 |
0187 | Domestic Relations | Allows a court to award reasonable attorney fees to either parent in a parental relocation matter; protects social security numbers of the parties and their children in certain divorce and child custody and support proceedings; requires all parties to any divorce to be subject to certain temporary injunctions, and adds a new temporary injunction against hiding evidence stored electronically; requires capital losses to be deducted from capital gains for the purpose of calculating income pursuant to the child support guidelines. | SB0942 |
0188 | Motor Vehicles | Enacts the "Motorcycle and Off-Road Vehicle Dealer Fairness Act." | SB2016 |
0189 | Liens | Establishes and clarifies rights and procedures related to liens on improvements to real property. | SB2031 |
0190 | Judges and Chancellors | Clarifies that if the elected successor to a judicial office becomes ineligible to serve prior to September 1 due to death or other reason, a vacancy exists in that position. | HB0395 |
0191 | Contractors | Allows the executive director of the board for licensing contractors to take specified emergency actions without calling a meeting of the board, provided those actions are posted on the board's Web site and ratified by the board at its next meeting. | HB0741 |
0192 | Auctions and Auctioneers | Creates right of lien for auctioneers who perform auctioneering services and are subsequently denied payment. | HB1037 |
0193 | Museums | Adds Cowan Railroad Museum in Franklin County as an official state railroad museum. | HB1196 |
0194 | Driver Licenses | Removes provisions for certificates of driving; provides for temporary driver licenses for persons whose presence in the U.S. has been authorized by the federal government. | HB1827 |
0195 | Domestic Relations | Authorizes commissioner of department of children's services to provide for instruction in GED preparation and vocational and occupational training in youth development centers. | HB2051 |
0196 | Medical Occupations | Revises provisions governing the imposition of civil penalties by a health-related board, council, or committee attached to the department of health. | HB2264 |
0197 | Unemployment Compensation | Revises the premium rate chart for nongovernmental employers. | HB2265 |
0198 | Environment and Conservation, Department of | Exempts from public disclosure the records of any division of the department concerning certain radioactive materials and records disclosing the specific location of threatened, endangered, or rare species that would not be available to the public under federal law. | HB2321 |
0199 | Courts, Juvenile | Makes various refinements to statutes pertaining to the conduct of juvenile court proceedings. | HB0320 |
0200 | Juvenile Offenders | Revises the requirements for notification of school officials of the attendance of certain delinquent juveniles. | HB0594 |