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| Chapter Number | Subject | Abstract | Bill Number |
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| 0001 | Statutes and Codification | Codifies the acts of the 2006 legislative session. | SB0041 |
| 0002 | Holidays and Days of Special Observance | Designates March 10 as "Harriet Tubman Day." | HB1009 |
| 0003 | County Government | Removes the authority of any county legislative body to redesignate the chief executive officer as the county executive instead of the county mayor by private act; continues in effect any private act enacted prior to the effective date of this act to change the title back to county executive. | SB0659 |
| 0004 | Criminal Procedure | Clarifies that prosecution of juvenile commences with issuing of juvenile petition alleging delinquent act. | SB0807 |
| 0005 | Banks and Financial Institutions | Prohibits any bank or out-of-state bank from establishing or maintaining a branch on the premises of an affiliate that engages in commercial activities. | SB1211 |
| 0006 | Banks and Financial Institutions | Authorizes a money transmitter licensed pursuant to title 45, chapter 7 with a net worth of over $25 million dollars to organize and own or control a credit card state bank in Tennessee; specifies that authorization for holding companies to organize, own, and control credit card state banks includes domestic holding companies. | SB1871 |
| 0007 | Motor Vehicles | Revises criminal offenses relating to driving while viewing video broadcasts or installing such video equipment in motor vehicles. | HB0275 |
| 0008 | Probate Law | Makes various refinements to statutes pertaining to probate, estate administration, wills, guardians and conservators, uniform transfers to minors, trusts, life insurance, and taxes. | HB0417 |
| 0009 | Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency | Increases the term of office for speaker-appointed members from two to six years; such members will not be eligible for reappointment. | HB0696 |
| 0010 | Uniform Commercial Code | Changes time within which purchase-money security interest must be perfected in order for a perfected security interest in its identifiable good to have priority so that perfection must occur when the debtor receives possession of the collateral or within 30, instead of 20, days thereafter. | SB0426 |
| 0011 | Education | Directs the office of education accountability to study periodically the school accountability system and report its findings to the general assembly; removes the duty of the office of accountability to study schools or school systems on notice or probation. | SB0457 |
| 0012 | Holidays and Days of Special Observance | "Bluegrass Day," fourth Saturday in May, to honor bluegrass music and its many contributions to Tennessee as a day of special observance. | SB1227 |
| 0013 | Estates | Clarifies that the net estate for purposes of calculating a surviving spouse's elective share does not include assets over which the decedent held a power of appointment; that the gross estate excludes the homestead allowance, exempt property, and year's support allowance; that the elective share is exempt from allocation for estate taxes; and that the elective share must be elected within nine months of the decedent's death. | HB0418 |
| 0014 | Tennessee Valley Authority | Allows peace officers to utilize deadly force under certain circumstances at Category I nuclear facilities. | HB0156 |
| 0015 | Holidays and Days of Special Observance | Designates August 8 as "Emancipation Day," a day of special observance. | HB0207 |
| 0016 | Firefighters | Prohibits state employees from being appointed to the commission on firefighting personnel standards and education, but does not affect terms of current members of the commission. | HB0231 |
| 0017 | Special License Plates | Prescribes design for honorary consular cultural license plates. | HB0279 |
| 0018 | Lottery, Charitable | Revises certain provisions of the Tennessee charitable gaming implementation law. | HB1057 |
| 0019 | Accountants | Requires accountants who practice in Tennessee under reciprocity agreements with other states to cease practice if their license becomes invalid in state of issuance; changes eligibility date for accountancy exam. | SB0443 |
| 0020 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities | Authorizes a hospice to provide only palliative care services, not supportive medical and other services, to non-hospice patients. | SB1148 |
| 0021 | Education | Authorizes the board of trustees of the baccalaureate education system trust fund program to contract with other college savings programs under federal law; revises provisions governing termination of contract and requests to transfer money to another account. | SB1387 |
| 0022 | Domestic Relations | Allows persons to petition for grandparent visitation in general sessions courts with domestic relations jurisdiction or juvenile courts in matters involving children born out of wedlock; authorization is in addition to present authorization for such petitions to be filed in chancery and circuit courts. | SB1388 |
| 0023 | Military | Revises maximum age provisions regarding the termination of a national guard officer's appointment; sets age limits at those "prescribed in federal law" instead of age 64 for the adjutant general, age 62 for a major general, age 60 for a brigadier general and below, and age 60 for the United States property and fiscal officer. | SB2186 |
| 0024 | Trusts | Makes numerous technical corrections to present law regarding trusts, such as duties of trustees and charitable trusts. | SB1046 |
| 0025 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities | Prohibits the definition of "assisted-care living resident" from being interpreted to deny the admission or retention of residents who are eligible for waiver-based home and community-based services so long as personal safety and individual care plan are consistent with the placement. | SB1156 |
| 0026 | Guardianship | Removes social security numbers from the public portion of records of guardianships and conservatorships; authorizes the court to release the social security number to a third party upon good cause shown and upon such conditions as the court may deem appropriate. | SB0189 |
| 0027 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities | Requires hospitals, during the fall and winter months, to offer elderly inpatients certain immunizations for flu and pneumococcal diseases. | SB0334 |
| 0028 | Driver Licenses | Broadens criminal provisions involving unlawful use of driver licenses to include use of certificates for driving and all other government-issued photo identification documents. | SB0767 |
| 0029 | Financial Institutions, Dept. of | Clarifies that if the commissioner does not return an application for a certificate of authority to the applicant for corrections within the 10-day period after receipt, the application is deemed to have been filed; removes a bank's bonding company as a party that may receive information related to an examination of the bank; clarifies that the commissioner may disclose information regarding "suspected criminal violations" instead of "criminal violations." | SB2181 |
| 0030 | Transportation, Dept. of | Adds certain department supervisory personnel to list of state employees to whom state's standard business hours do not apply. | SB2197 |
| 0031 | Welfare | Revises provisions governing temporary assistance to needy families. | SB2233 |
| 0032 | Fines and Penalties | Increases fine for unauthorized use of parking spaces reserved for persons with disabilities from $100 to $150; requires the fiscal review committee to report to the general assembly regarding cost-of-living increases every five years and the impact of such increases on the fine amount so general assembly can determine if fine should be increased. | SB0263 |
| 0033 | Energy | Authorizes the governor, utilizing the resources of certain state departments and agencies, to develop a comprehensive state energy conservation plan. | SB0266 |
| 0034 | Correction, Dept. of | Authorizes department to spend funds from department confiscated cash fund for accepted investigative techniques and interdiction efforts to combat drug trafficking in correction facilities, in addition to spending such funds for canine units. | HB2235 |
| 0035 | Sales | Revises provisions governing sale of secondhand mattresses and comfort exchange policies. | SB0280 |
| 0036 | Highway Signs | "Deputy Donald Bond Memorial Highway," segment of State Route 320 in Hamilton County | SB0471 |
| 0037 | Taxes, Personal Property | Clarifies that a schedule of tangible personal property may be amended by the taxpayer if it is timely filed with the assessor. | SB1107 |
| 0038 | Taxes, Personal Property | Allows taxpayer to return schedule of tangible personal property used in the taxpayer's business or profession to assessor on March 1 each year. | SB1108 |
| 0039 | Firefighters | Provides for the appointment of the county fire chief by the county mayor in Shelby County, subject to confirmation by the county legislative body; requires the county mayor and legislative body to ensure that the views and opinions of all participating governmental entities are given full consideration, with the exact methodology to be determined by local ordinance. | SB1757 |
| 0040 | Education | Authorizes members of the state school bond authority to appoint designees to serve in the member's place as a trustee of the chairs of excellence endowment trust fund. | SB1874 |
| 0041 | Transportation, Dept. of | Requires transportation plan prepared by commissioner be consistent with federal transportation planning requirements and include consideration of various types of transportation. | SB2252 |
| 0042 | Tennessee Higher Education Commission | Requires the commission to develop an institute of public health, in consultation with the department of health, the University of Tennessee, the Tennessee board of regents, and private colleges and universities. | HB0204 |
| 0043 | Liability, Tort | Extends limited liability to all healthcare research institutions, and employees thereof, for injuries caused in the development, testing, or administration of certain vaccines except in cases of willful misconduct resulting in death or serious bodily injury. | HB0640 |
| 0044 | Municipal Government | Allows Gilt Edge and Burlison by a two-thirds vote of their city councils to fix the date of regular municipal elections to coincide with the regular November election. | HB0872 |
| 0045 | Teachers, Principals and School Personnel | Requires two hours of the required five days of annual teachers' in-service training to be devoted to training in suicide prevention; specifies that requirement may be met through self-review of suitable prevention materials. | SB0057 |
| 0046 | Criminal Offenses | Expands Class A misdemeanor of escaping from a penal institution to those persons lawfully being held for a civil offense. | SB0127 |
| 0047 | Highway Signs | "Jack Sharp Memorial Bridge," spanning I-75 on U.S. Highway 41/76 in Hamilton County | SB0470 |
| 0048 | Election Laws | Revises statutory language to replace "handicapped voter" with "voter with a disability" or "voters with disabilities." | SB0494 |
| 0049 | Highway Signs | "Veterans Memorial Highway," segment of APD 40 bypass in City of Cleveland and Bradley County | SB0522 |
| 0050 | Planning, Public | Adds Madison County to Community Redevelopment Act of 1998. | SB0728 |
| 0051 | Taxes, Real Property | Authorizes assessors to set a date within which a taxpayer or owner may seek concurrence to directly appeal valuation of certain property to the state board of equalization. | SB1106 |
| 0052 | Alcoholic Beverages | Authorizes the city of Goodlettsville to conduct a referendum for the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises only in that portion of the city located in Sumner County without affecting the sale of such beverages in Davidson County. | SB1187 |
| 0053 | Highway Signs | "Corporal Lance Tyler Overstreet Memorial Bridge," spanning East Fork of Station Camp Creek on State Route 174 in Sumner County | SB1188 |
| 0054 | Plumbers and Plumbing | Exempts plumbers from being licensed as a limited licensed plumber for installing home appliances or doing general maintenance work or minor repairs not exceeding $500 to home appliances and kitchen and bathroom fixtures within a residence. | SB1726 |
| 0055 | Emergency Communications Districts | Authorizes Shelby County mayor to appoint board of directors of seven to 11 members to govern such county's emergency communications district; directors are subject to confirmation by county legislative body. | SB1758 |
| 0056 | Victims' Rights | Deletes statutory directive to the district attorneys general conference requiring the conference, subject to availability of federal funding, to establish and administer an automated victim notification system. | SB1963 |
| 0057 | Education | Requires the commissioner of education to report annually the number of homeless children who enrolled in public schools without immunization or proof of immunization and the average length of time required for these children to be immunized or to obtain their immunization records. | SB1965 |
| 0058 | Taxes | Imposes certain requirements upon any governmental entity that chooses to discharge, reduce, delay, or otherwise compromise the payment of any tax receivables that have been previously sold. | SB1999 |
| 0059 | Ethics | Revises conflict of interest provisions applicable to career service employees. | SB2058 |
| 0060 | Personnel, Dept. of | Renames department of personnel as "department of human resources." | SB2218 |
| 0061 | Fines and Penalties | Requires the fiscal review committee to report to the general assembly every five years regarding the dollar amount that fines imposed for criminal offenses would be if adjusted to reflect the previous five years' cost of living increases. | HB0225 |
| 0062 | Education, Higher | Adds new combat activity under which dependent children or spouses of POWs or deceased veterans may qualify for higher education tuition and fee waiver; revises the maximum number of hours for which a waiver may be granted; requires notice of the waiver program to be published in institutional catalogs and class schedules. | HB0015 |
| 0063 | Special License Plates | Authorizes trauma nurses in emergency rooms and trauma centers to receive emergency license plates upon payment of all applicable fees for such license plates. | HB0215 |
| 0064 | Fireworks | Raises the age from 10 to 16 for the lawful purchase of Class C common fireworks; increases the amount of the fine depending on the number of offenses a retailer commits; authorizes municipalities to adopt an ordinance that mirrors the unlawful sale of fireworks to minors, intoxicated, or irresponsible persons. | HB0349 |
| 0065 | Game and Fish Laws | Requires property declared contraband to be destroyed or delivered to the commissioner of general services and sold in the same manner as surplus property instead of destroyed or advertised and sold at the courthouse of the county where the property was seized. | HB1157 |
| 0066 | Taxes, Exemption and Credits | Specifies that the local approval required by a county in order for property owned by a nonprofit community and performing arts organization to be eligible for a property tax exemption as a charitable or educational use of property must be approval by a two-thirds vote. | HB1461 |
| 0067 | County Government | Permits Hardeman County, by two-thirds vote of county legislative body, or any municipality in that county, to adopt the child curfew law for use in that county or municipality; presently only Shelby County has this authority. | HB1506 |
| 0068 | Parks, Natural Areas Preservation | Adds Bon Aqua Woods as a Class I-scenic-recreational area and Dry Branch as a Class II-natural-scientific area; revises acreage of Rugby scenic-recreational area from 323 to 445 acres. | HB1811 |
| 0069 | Physicians and Surgeons | Allows an organization that sponsors volunteer health care services to file reports concerning the physicians' providing such volunteer services on a quarterly basis and to maintain confirmation of licensure of such physicians as provided on the state Web site; clarifies that activities that are not otherwise authorized cannot be performed at the physician's office on behalf of the sponsoring organization. | HB2049 |
| 0070 | Criminal Offenses | Creates misdemeanor offenses for removing from a dog an electronic or radio transmitting collar or microchip implant without the permission of the owner. | HB2174 |
| 0071 | Election Laws | Moves date for presidential preference primary from second Tuesday in February to first Tuesday in February. | HB2211 |
| 0072 | Energy | Transfers responsibility for administering state building energy management program and revolving retrofit fund from department of general services to department of finance and administration. | HB2316 |
| 0073 | Law Enforcement | Removes restriction that males who help law enforcement in operations to prevent beer or alcohol from being sold to minors may not have facial hair. | SB0390 |
| 0074 | Utilities, Utility Districts | Increases the maximum dollar amount of per diem that may be paid to utility district commissioners for attending meetings of the utility district's board of commissioners. | SB0423 |
| 0075 | Housing | Permits housing authorities in counties not covered by Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act to terminate and evict tenants on three days' notice if they engage in violent acts or drug-related criminal activity or behave in a manner that is a danger to other tenants. | SB0527 |
| 0076 | Billboards | Authorizes the use of changeable message signs if certain requirements met. | SB0593 |
| 0077 | DNA and Genetic Testing | Expands group of persons required to furnish DNA samples for testing to include misdemeanants whose offense requires them to register with the sexual offender registry. | SB1178 |
| 0078 | Consumer Protection | Specifies that the limitation on selling a residence with more bedrooms than are permitted by the sewage disposal system permit applies only to new construction, and specifies that real estate agents violate the statute only if they have actual, not constructive, knowledge of the violation. | SB1205 |
| 0079 | Agriculture | Removes prohibition on funds in the agricultural resources conservation fund being used for administrative purposes; authorizes the commissioner of agriculture to expend the funds as matching dollars to secure additional funding to fulfill the purposes for which the fund was established. | SB2165 |
| 0080 | Banks and Financial Institutions | Removes the exemption from the Check Cashing Act for licensed money transmitters and registered industrial loan and thrift companies; allows those entities to continue business of check cashing without a license until license granted if the entity applies for licensure by December 31, 2007; prohibits non-licensed persons from advertising engagement in the check cashing business. | SB2180 |
| 0081 | Motor Vehicles | Enacts the "Jeff Roth and Brian Brown Bicycle Protection Act of 2007." | HB0235 |
| 0082 | Game and Fish Laws | Prohibits possession of fish or wildlife knowing that such fish or wildlife was acquired, taken, or transported from the state or country of origin in violation of such state's or country's law; a violation is a Class A misdemeanor. | HB1156 |
| 0083 | Domestic Violence | Requires physicians to report suspected domestic abuse to the department of health for the compilation of anonymous statistical data on such abuse; requirement to be repealed June 30, 2009. | HB1183 |
| 0084 | Purchasing | Revises the Municipal Purchasing Law of 1983 to exempt certain purchases authorized by an ordinance or private act of a municipal government in addition to those purchases exempt under present law. | HB1471 |
| 0085 | Liability, Tort | Extends the "Tennessee White Water Rafting Responsibility Act" until July 1, 2010, from its present sunset of July 1, 2008; requires the department of commerce and insurance to examine issues regarding the affordability of insurance in the area of white water rafting. | HB1540 |
| 0086 | Water | Transfers authority over utility management review board and water and wastewater financing board from department of environment and conservation to the comptroller of the treasury. | HB1562 |
| 0087 | Game and Fish Laws | Requires land managed by TWRA to be open to access and use for recreational hunting, and that agency land management actions relative to such land not result in any net loss of available acreage for hunting opportunities; requires TWRA to mitigate the closure of hunting and fishing land that it owns. | HB0145 |
| 0088 | Municipal Government | Authorizes, subject to adoption of an ordinance by a two-thirds vote of the city council, property rights voting in municipal elections in Spring Hill. | HB0158 |
| 0089 | Codes | Updates electric safety code, from 2001 version to 2006 version, for electric-supply stations and lines. | HB0259 |
| 0090 | Municipal Government | Changes terms of board of mayor and alderman from nonstaggered two-year terms to nonstaggered four-year terms in Huntsville. | HB0353 |
| 0091 | Child Custody and Support | Requires the child support guidelines to be reviewed by the department of human services every three years and further requires the department to make reports regarding the child support guidelines to the supreme court, house children and family affairs committee, and senate general welfare committee. | HB0400 |
| 0092 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities | Requires each hospital to report its hospital statistics for the full 12-month period, unless the hospital operated for less than the full 12-month period; requires each hospital operating for less than the full 12-month period to report its statistics for the full period in which it operated. | HB0699 |
| 0093 | Motor Vehicles | Authorizes licensed dealers to sell camping trailers and travel trailers at up to six motor vehicle commission-permitted shows per year. | HB0749 |
| 0094 | Teachers, Principals and School Personnel | Requires school personnel to report reasonable suspicion of drug offenses committed by students to principal; permits school personnel to report drug offenses committed on school property to appropriate authorities, if the principal is unavailable. | HB1271 |
| 0095 | Lottery, Corporation | Clarifies that lottery provisions are controlling in regard to assignment of lottery prizes. | HB1574 |
| 0096 | Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, Dept | Specifies that a professional permitted by department rule to authorize isolation and restraint must be contacted immediately after isolation and restraint and must evaluate the person's condition. | HB1604 |
| 0097 | Human Rights | Changes from June 30 to October 1, the date by which state governmental entities must submit their annual Title VI compliance reports and implementation plan updates to the department of audit. | HB1865 |
| 0098 | Taxes, Ad Valorem | Adds Decatur County to list of counties where taxpayer cannot make direct appeal of value of property to state board of equalization. | HB1909 |
| 0099 | Education | Requires each LEA to annually report to the commissioner of education the employment standards the LEA has adopted for school resource officers. | HB1942 |
| 0100 | Education, Higher | Authorizes state colleges and universities to provide free Internet access campus wide. | HB2066 |
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