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Chapter Number Subject Abstract Bill Number
0901 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel As enacted, requires the achievement school district to adopt an appropriate dress code for its professional employees. HB2222
0902 Tort Liability and Reform As enacted, revises certain provisions regarding tort actions and damages. HB2161
0903 Highway Patrol As enacted, authorizes certain retirees of the highway patrol to retain their badge and service weapon and require that such persons be issued a retired commission card. HB1069
0904 Unemployment Compensation As enacted, requires department of labor and workforce development to implement an Internet-based system that allows employers to receive notices electronically and to submit separation information electronically; requires more information be included on unemployment insurance tax statement at request of employer. HB3429
0905 Education As enacted, requires local boards of education to develop and implement an evaluation plan to be used annually for the director of schools; authorizes certain municipalities to request county election commission to conduct a referendum regarding creation of new school in certain circumstances. HB1105
0906 Emergency Communications Districts As enacted, authorizes the provision of emergency medical services by providers in contiguous counties in certain circumstances. SB0068
0907 Motor Vehicles As enacted, prohibits a passenger whose feet are not on footpegs from being on motorcycle. SB0074
0908 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration As enacted, clarifies that persons who reside in counties that do not require the display of a motor vehicle privilege tax decal on their license plates are not required to display any such decal. SB0668
0909 Schools, Charter As enacted, specifies that charter schools may promote or retain students based upon the students' demonstrated skills on the TCAP tests or upon their grades. SB2156
0910 Criminal Offenses As enacted, creates Class A misdemeanor offense of knowingly or recklessly maiming or harming a service animal and the Class C misdemeanor of interfering with a service dog in the performance of its duties and provides for restitution to the handler of the dog. SB2179
0911 Controlled Substances As enacted, adds offenses the conviction of which requires the offender to be on the methamphetamine registry, makes registry retroactive and revises procedure by which methamphetamine-related convictions are transmitted to TBI from clerk's office. SB2190
0912 Welfare As enacted, revises provisions governing eligibility for temporary assistance; makes provision of transportation assistance discretionary instead of mandatory. SB2224
0913 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies As enacted, creates a rebuttable presumption that when an applicant for or party to an insurance contract signs an application, amendment, or other document stating the type, amount, or terms and conditions of coverage, the statements provided by the signatory bind all insureds under the contract and that the signatory has read, understands, and accepts the contents of the signed document; creates a rebuttable presumption that when an insured pays a premium the coverage provided has been accepted by all insureds under the contract. SB2271
0914 Purchasing As enacted, revises provisions regarding cooperative purchasing agreements and county government purchasing in regard to the utilization of pricing discounts. SB2289
0915 Controlled Substances As enacted, adds to the list of persons that may receive information from the controlled substance database any quality improvement committee of a licensed hospital, as part of the committee's confidential and privileged activities with respect to the evaluation, supervision or discipline of a healthcare provider employed by the hospital or any of its affiliates or subsidiaries, who is known or suspected by the hospital's administrator to be prescribing controlled substances for the prescriber's personal use. SB2407
0916 Health, Dept. of As enacted, enacts "The Henry Granju Act," which creates new reporting requirements related to drug overdoses. SB2416
0917 Guardianship As enacted, makes the charging of costs against the respondent's estate permissive rather than mandatory when a conservator is appointed; adds to the requirements for the information that must be included in a petition for the appointment of a conservator. SB2519
0918 Education As enacted, requires that an interest inventory be available to all public middle schoolers or ninth graders and to all public college students beginning with their freshman year to assist the students in career decisions; requires the LEAs and post secondary institutions to annually send summary data obtained from the interest inventories and personality profiles administered under the bill to the state board of education. SB2591
0919 DUI Offenses As enacted, increases penalty for violation of DUI statute when child under 18 is in the vehicle to require that the mandatory minimum 30-day sentence for this offense be served consecutive to any sentence received for a violation of specified other alcohol-related offenses. SB2607
0920 Special License Plates As enacted, authorizes issuance of Tennessee Federation of Garden Clubs and Wilson County - The Place to Be! special license plates; extends deadline for National Civil Rights Museum and Tennessee veterans special license plates to meet minimum order requirement. SB2617
0921 Correction, Dept. of As enacted, requires the department of correction to study how to reduce the state's correctional healthcare costs. SB2712
0922 Tort Liability and Reform As enacted, codifies the liability of a landowner to a trespasser. SB2719
0923 Economic and Community Development As enacted, requires the state agency responsible for processing applications for grant funds relating to workforce development to accept electronic signatures in the same manner as it accepts physical signatures. SB2727
0924 Controlled Substances As enacted, permits county medical examiners to access the controlled substance database, absolves civil and criminal liability for authorized users acting in good faith within the proscribed limits, and establishes a presumption of good faith action where a medical examiner accesses the information for the purpose of conducting an investigation into a death or making a report as required by the duties of the position. SB2776
0925 General Assembly As enacted, corrects references remaining in TCA to oversight committees that were abolished by Chapter 410 of the Public Acts of 2011. SB2784
0926 Malpractice As enacted, specifies that upon the filing of any healthcare liability action, the named defendant may petition the court for a qualified protective order allowing the defendant and their attorneys the right to obtain protected health information during interviews, outside the presence of claimant or claimant's counsel, with the relevant patient's treating healthcare providers. SB2789
0927 Public Works Projects As enacted, revises the provisions governing the threshold for public works that require a registered architect, registered engineer, or registered landscape architect. SB2871
0928 Judgments As enacted, requires that, if a court wrongly grants a default decision imposing an obligation for child support from or against an eligible individual protected under the federal Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, the court must issue an order to the individual receiving funds that the funds be returned and reimbursed. SB2911
0929 Corporations, For Profit As enacted, revises and adds to the considerations that the attorney general must make when deciding whether to object to a proposed public benefit hospital conveyance transaction. SB2912
0930 Jails, Local Lock-ups As enacted, directs the board of the Tennessee corrections institute to establish criteria for determining whether to waive the minimum qualification standards to employ a jail administrator, workhouse administrator, jailer, corrections officer or guard in county jail or workhouse; and prohibits waivers for employees dishonorably discharged from the military, suffering from mental illness, convicted of domestic assault or any felony conviction. SB2920
0931 Criminal Procedure As enacted, provides that as part of a defendant's alternative sentencing for a violation of domestic assault, the sentencing judge may direct the defendant to complete a drug or alcohol treatment program or available counseling programs that address violence and control issues including, but not limited to, a batterer's intervention program that has been certified by the domestic violence state coordinating council. SB2988
0932 Drugs, Prescription As enacted, requires the board of pharmacy to publish a list of opioid drugs incorporating tamper or abuse resistance properties. SB3003
0933 Board of Regents As enacted, allows the court to award back pay to a tenured faculty member whose dismissal the court finds was not appropriate. SB3023
0934 Education As enacted, authorizes local boards of education to receive federal or private grants for educational purposes; specifies the process for the making of such grants. SB3044
0935 Emergency Communications Districts As enacted, defines "Public Safety Answering Point" or "PSAP" to mean a facility that receives 911 calls and routes them to emergency services personnel. SB3061
0936 Public Contracts As enacted, revises provisions governing the extension of a contract to provide correctional services. SB3096
0937 Taxes, Exemption and Credits As enacted, creats a credit against the excise tax for a qualifying environmental project, which is a project in which the taxpayer makes an investment in excess of $100 million to eliminate mercury from the manufacturing process and operations of one or more existing chlor-alkali manufacturing and ancillary facilities and equipment in the state. SB3174
0938 State Employees As enacted, allows state employee upon retirement to keep such employee's photo identification card issued by the state; requires sticker or other designation to be placed on the card; specifies such card may be used as valid photo id for voting purposes. SB3195
0939 Pensions and Retirement Benefits As enacted, creates additional plans through which political subdivisions of the state may participate in the Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System (TCRS). SB3216
0940 Unemployment Compensation As enacted, specifies that a discharge from employment will be deemed to be a discharge for misconduct connected with the claimant's work, which disqualifies the discharged employee from eligibility for unemployment benefits in connection with the job from which the employee was discharged, when it results after a claimant entered into a written agreement with an employer to obtain a license or certification by a specified date as a condition of employment and subsequently the claimant willfully fails without good cause to obtain such license or certification by the specified date. SB3241
0941 Pensions and Retirement Benefits As enacted, revises various provisions regarding investment of Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System (TCRS) assets. SB3262
0942 Public Funds and Financing As enacted, changes requirements for federal home loan banks in regard to the issuance of letters of credit as eligible collateral for public funds to require that the banks be rated "investment grade" by at least one nationally recognized securities rating service instead of being rated in the highest category by at least two nationally recognized securities rating services. SB3217
0943 Courts As enacted, directs the administrative office of the courts (AOC) to study the feasibility of establishing specialized veterans' courts in Tennessee. SB3222
0944 Industrial Development As enacted, includes land, improvements, and machinery used or suitable for use in the production, treatment, processing, or transportation of biofuels and other similar products in the definition of "project" under the provisions governing projects by industrial development corporations. SB3233
0945 Dentists and Dentistry As enacted, revises various provisions governing dental hygienists. SB3269
0946 Comptroller, State As enacted, requires any state agency having determined that a theft, forgery, credit card fraud or any other intentional act of unlawful or unauthorized taking, or abuse of public money, property, services, or, that other cash shortages have occurred in the state agency, must report the information to the office of the comptroller of the treasury. SB3331
0947 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, revises various provisions of law regarding the selling of alcoholic beverages, such as revising present law regarding tastings of complimentary samples of alcoholic beverages and revising present law regarding the privilege taxes on limited service restaurants, among other provisions. SB3358
0948 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration As enacted, includes mini-trucks in the definition of medium-speed vehicles; allows mini-trucks to be titled and registered as medium-speed vehicles. SB3403
0949 State Employees As enacted, provides that the disciplinary counsel for the court of the judiciary is a state employee for purposes of defense by the attorney general when a civil action is commenced for an act or omission performed during the course of duties for the court of judiciary. SB3594
0950 Sentencing As enacted, requires that a person convicted of committing a dangerous felony involving a firearm who is subsequently convicted of the same serve a minimum of 15 years imprisonment at 100 percent. SB3629
0951 Criminal Procedure As enacted, clarifies that a defendant cannot get records expunged if convicted of an offense other than the charged offense or convicted of one offense in a multi-count indictment, including lesser included offenses. SB3642
0952 State Government As enacted, authorizes certain departments, boards and other governmental entities to allow holders of licenses, certifications or registrations to be notified by electronic mail of renewals, fee increases and changes in the law and of any meeting where changes in rules or fees are on the agenda. SB3644
0953 Judges and Chancellors As enacted, requires speakers to appoint all nine members of the judicial evaluation commission since the judicial council no longer exists. SB3652
0954 Game and Fish Laws As enacted, enacts the "Hunter Wright Hunting and Fishing Act," which authorizes the director of the TWRA to issue an annual sport combination hunting and fishing license upon payment of a $5.00 fee to Tennessee residents who are minors and who are disabled. SB3655
0955 Election Laws As enacted, authorizes recognized minor party the option to nominate all offices by primary or by rules of the party; if they nominate by primary election, the petition for recognition must be filed by the qualifying deadline; if they nominate by any other means, the petition for recognition must be filed 90 days prior to the general election; revises other provisions relating to candidates. SB3700
0956 Education, Higher As enacted, requires that an application for a position of chief executive officer of a public institution of higher education, materials submitted with an application, letters of recommendation or references concerning an applicant, and any other records or information relating to or arising out of the process of searching for and selecting an individual for a position of chief executive officer of a public institution of higher education be treated as confidential and not open for public inspection, if the records could be used to identify a candidate for the position; enacts other provisions regarding information for such candidates. SB3751
0957 State Government As enacted, revises various provisions regarding the Tennessee Local Development Authority and its authority to allocate on behalf of the state the portion of the "national qualified energy conservation bond limitation," as defined in federal law, that is allocated to the state. SB3759
0958 Public Employees As enacted, creates a presumption that HIV acquired by emergency medical worker was suffered in the line of duty unless the contrary is shown by preponderance of the evidence. SB0720
0959 Parks, Natural Areas Preservation As enacted, authorizes the appropriation of the yearly interest and earnings of the natural resources trust fund for reimbursement of greenbelt rollback taxes assessed against a county or municipal government as the result of acquisition of land for a park; if the land is not used as a park for 10 years or more, the county or municipality must repay the amount of the reimbursement to the fund. SB0948
0960 Courts As enacted, provides that on or before October 1, 2012, any person who provides satisfactory proof that such person graduated from a court reporting program in this state prior to January 1, 2012, will be licensed to practice as a court reporter. SB1197
0961 Physicians and Surgeons As enacted, establishes requirements for the supervision of nurses and physician assistants by certain physicians when engaged in interventional pain management. SB1935
0962 Education As enacted, revises various provisions governing school accountability and achievement school district. SB2208
0963 Human Services, Dept. of As enacted, directs the commissioner to develop a plan for Tennessee to assist in rehabilitating victims of human trafficking. SB2370
0964 Beer As enacted, requires beer boards to file annual reports with the alcoholic beverage commission concerning certain information. SB2420
0965 DNA and Genetic Testing As enacted, adds five homicide offenses to the list of violent offenses for which a DNA sample is taken and stored in the database upon arrest rather than conviction. SB2667
0966 Public Officials As enacted, revises and enacts provisions governing public officials receiving a benefit not otherwise authorized by law. SB2788
0967 Education, Higher As enacted, revises various provisions regarding cooperative innovative programs. SB2809
0968 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, removes obsolete provisions; creates license for military personnel living abroad to ship wine to this state. SB2845
0969 Professions and Occupations As enacted, revises and enacts various provisions governing scrap metal dealers. SB2895
0970 Municipal Government As enacted, specifies that from and after the effective date of the transfer of the administration of the schools in a special school district to the county board of education pursuant to present law, then the restrictions on the creation of new municipal school districts will no longer apply with such a county. SB2908
0971 Health Care As enacted, revises provisions governing the long-term care system. SB2929
0972 Fees As enacted, creates the local correctional officer training fund through the collection of a 10-cent fee for each completed telephone call or other electronic communication made by inmates housed in local jails or workhouses. SB3207
0973 Education, Curriculum As enacted, requires that a family life education curriculum comply with certain restrictions. SB3310
0974 Public Officials As enacted, revises provisions governing bonds required of certain public officials. SB3330
0975 Taxes, Hotel Motel As enacted, authorizes the city of Newport to impose a tax on the privilege of occupancy. SB3458
0976 Education, Higher As enacted, provides that nothing in present law regarding vocational services for the blind/blind vendors will limit the ability of an institution that is governed by the University of Tennessee or the state university and college system to contract for food services (cafeterias, restaurants, food courts and catering services) in new buildings or on new campuses provided that a site suitable to the institution, after consultation with the department, is also made available for a blind vendor to manage and operate automated vending machines and/or a counter service as jointly agreed to by the institution and department in the new building or on the new campus. SB3503
0977 Criminal Procedure As enacted, authorizes the county legislative body to set the fee for participation in the litter removal program by first-time DUI offenders and permits the judge to find a person indigent for purposes of paying that fee. SB3513
0978 Health Care As enacted, revises various provisions governing adult care home providers in regard to traumatic brain injury. SB3535
0979 Taxes, Real Property As enacted, allows notice by delivery service alternatives to certified or registered mail, return receipt requested as authorized by federal law in regard to notice to a taxpayer of a tax lien suit. SB3596
0980 Environment and Conservation, Department of As enacted, requires the commissioner to prepare semiannual permitting efficiency reports that include statistics on whether the department has timely acted on permit applications pursuant to the appropriate rule, beginning in 2013. SB3653
0981 Tattoos and Piercings As enacted, revises and enacts provisions governing the tattooing of minors. SB3663
0982 Clerks, Court As enacted, authorizes certain counties to levy a $1.00 litigation tax on each petition, warrant and citation to fund victim-offender mediation centers and initiatives. SB3743
0983 Tort Liability and Reform As enacted, provides immunity from civil liability for injuries to an ice skater for ice skating rink operators, in certain circumstances; does not limit the liability of an ice skating rink operator who engages in behavior that amounts to gross negligence, or willful or wanton conduct. HB0182
0984 Municipal Government As enacted, revises the municipal gas system tax equivalent law. HB1376
0985 Fire Prevention and Investigation As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Prescribed Burning Act." HB1572
0986 State Government As enacted, revises various provisions governing the structure of certain state agencies, committees, boards and commissions. HB2387
0987 Sentencing As enacted, revises punishment for convictions for domestic assault. HB2389
0988 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the department of environment and conservation, June 30, 2015. HB2506
0989 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the department of general services, June 30, 2017. HB2513
0990 Education As enacted, requires schools to notify parents, by way of student handbooks or policy guidebooks, of school-associated extracurricular activities and gives parents the opportunity to prohibit their child from participating. HB2548
0991 Education As enacted, with certain exceptions, requires that children entering kindergarten be five years of age on or before August 31 for the 2013-2014 school year and on or before August 15 for all school years thereafter; if the director of schools finds through evaluation and testing, at the request of the parent or legal guardian, that a child who is five years of age on or before September 30 is sufficiently mature emotionally and academically, then the child may be permitted to enter kindergarten. HB2566
0992 Criminal Offenses As enacted, revises certain criminal provisions and requirements for schools in regard to bullying and harassment. HB2641
0993 Wildlife Resources Commission As enacted, replaces the Tennessee wildlife resources commission (TWRC) with a 13-member fish and wildlife commission. HB2776
0994 Bail, Bail Bonds As enacted, requires persons who have previously failed to appear in court as scheduled to post money or real estate as security for a bail bond. HB2812
0995 Election Laws As enacted, specifies that for a municipal election not held in conjunction with any other election, if a polling place is located outside of the boundaries of a municipality but the precinct the polling place serves includes residents of the municipality, then the election commission may designate a polling place outside, but closest to the geographic precinct within the limits of the municipality, the precinct it is to serve. HB2844
0996 Sexual Offenders As enacted, provides that if a sexual offender is not incarcerated at the time of sentencing, the offender is to report to a probation officer for the purpose of giving a DNA specimen; provides that cost of sample is to be paid by the offender. HB2854
0997 Criminal Procedure As enacted, specifies that when a court orders a defendant charged with a misdemeanor to be evaluated for insanity or mental illness, the court must also order that any inpatient evaluation be completed within 30 days of admission to the facility. HB2962
0998 Clerks, Court As enacted, authorizes clerks with electronic filing systems to charge $120 for each registered user of the system and to institute an 8-cent per page copy transaction fee; fee not applicable to the state; specifies that in any court where electronic filing, signing, or verification of papers has been authorized by local court rule, the state and any department or contractor of the state would not be required to file documents electronically, notwithstanding any local court rule. HB3051
0999 Education As enacted, revises and enacts various provisions regarding virtual schools. HB3062
1000 Naming and Designating As enacted, names field house at York Institute in honor of Charles Joseph Vaughn. HB3093

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