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| Chapter Number | Subject | Abstract | Bill Number |
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| 1001 | Libraries | As enacted, authorizes a city in a county not participating in a region to join the state regional system as related to state purchasing contracts with approval by the secretary of state; requires the secretary of state to assess fees from participating cities for any additional cost of services under the state contracts. | HB3270 |
| 1002 | Public Funds and Financing | As enacted, authorizes county legislative body to allow trustees to invest funds in state intermediate-term investment fund; specifies that any entity that is eligible to participate in the pooled investment fund may participate in the state intermediate-term investment fund. | HB3276 |
| 1003 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor for an individual to either: knowingly prevent another individual from placing a telephone call to 911 or from requesting assistance in an emergency from a law enforcement agency, medical facility, or other agency or entity the primary purpose of which is to provide for the safety of individuals; or intentionally render unusable a telephone that would otherwise be used by another individual to place a telephone call to 911 or to request assistance in an emergency from a law enforcement agency, medical facility, or other agency or entity, the primary purpose of which is to provide for the safety of individuals. | HB3365 |
| 1004 | Highway Signs | As enacted, designates segment of S.R. 385 in Shelby and Fayette counties as "Governor Winfield Dunn Parkway." | HB3373 |
| 1005 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, authorizes the Inn at Long Branch on Dale Hollow Lake in Clay County to obtain a license as a premier type tourist resort; authorizes the sale of alcoholic beverages from on-premises consumption at the Oliver Hotel in Knox County; changes the meal criteria for the Buffalo River Resort so that such establishment will be required to have food available rather than being required to serve meals at least four days on a weekly basis in order to qualify as a premier type tourist resort. | HB3381 |
| 1006 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, revises definitions of fetus as victim for criminal homicide and assaults to remove viability requirement and include an embryo and remove reference to victim being pregnant; revises legislative intent statement. | HB3517 |
| 1007 | Naming and Designating | As enacted, names pathway surrounding Tennessee Bicentennial Mall in honor of Andrea Conte. | HB3727 |
| 1008 | Abortion | As enacted, enacts the "Life Defense Act of 2012," which requires that physicians performing abortions have admitting privileges in hospital within certain area of where abortion performed. | HB3808 |
| 1009 | Education | As enacted, deletes certain provisions regarding Tennessee Challenge 2000; implements certain reporting requirements on THEC regarding an education fact book; revises certain other provisions relating to THEC and higher education. | SB1180 |
| 1010 | Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities | As enacted, revises various provisions governing the licensing of facilities and personal support services agencies for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities. | SB2225 |
| 1011 | Bail, Bail Bonds | As enacted, declares a defendant who is unlawfully present in the United States and has committed certain traffic violations may be deemed a risk of flight for bail purposes; authorizes clerks to set bail for such defendants at a higher amount than normally permitted. | SB2604 |
| 1012 | Teachers, Principals and School Personnel | As enacted, prohibits a director of schools and board of education from using abolition of a position as a method of avoiding dismissal charges against a teacher and the accompanying due process rights attaching to the status of tenure. | SB2693 |
| 1013 | Taxes, Exemption and Credits | As enacted, entitles a claimant to a refund of the state and local sales and use tax paid by the claimant to retailers as a result of the claimant's purchases of major appliances, residential furniture, or residential building supplies that are used in the claimant's primary residence to replace, repair, or restore such items that were damaged or destroyed in a federally declared natural disaster in this state occurring on or after January 1, 2012. | SB2701 |
| 1014 | Education, Dept. of | As enacted, requires that certain information regarding advanced placement courses and dual enrollment courses be included in commissioner's annual report. | SB2866 |
| 1015 | Liens | As enacted, makes it a Class A misdemeanor for any person, including any individual or entity, to knowingly prepare, sign, or file any lien or other document with the intent to encumber any real or personal property when such person has no reasonable basis or any legal cause to place such lien or encumbrance on such real or personal property. | SB2890 |
| 1016 | Children | As enacted, states that training for guardians ad litem shall include early childhood, child and adolescent development provided by a qualified professional; requires permanency hearings for children in foster care to be held within 12 months of previous permanency hearing. | SB2957 |
| 1017 | Children | As enacted, requires petitions in juvenile court cases to list the legal parents and any persons alleged to be the biological father of the child; requires a copy of the summons in such cases be sent to the legal parents and any persons alleged to be the biological father of the child. | SB2958 |
| 1018 | Local Education Agencies | As enacted, requires local board of education to approve budget for operation of county schools after the county legislative body's approval in accordance with Local Option Budgeting Law of 1993. | SB2967 |
| 1019 | Water Pollution | As enacted, authorizes municipal separate storm sewer systems that become qualified local programs pursuant to department approval to administer their own NPDES storm water construction permitting programs and the review thereof. | SB3187 |
| 1020 | Teachers, Principals and School Personnel | As enacted, specifies that a teacher may not teach a course in which an end of course examination is required for students to satisfy graduation requirements set by the state board of education, if the teacher's license does not carry a subject specific endorsement for the subject area of the course, unless the teacher demonstrates sufficient content knowledge in the course material by taking, at the teacher's own expense, and passing a standardized or criterion-referenced test for the content area. | SB3341 |
| 1021 | Schools, Charter | As enacted, revises various provisions regarding public charter schools. | SB3553 |
| 1022 | Special License Plates | As enacted, directs the legend of animal friendly new specialty license plates to bear "Spay/Neuter"; plates to be issued only after exhaustion of existing stock. | SB3567 |
| 1023 | Ethics | As enacted, requires members of local and regional planning commissions to file disclosure statements of conflict of interests with Tennessee ethics commission. | SB3649 |
| 1024 | Bond Issues | As enacted, authorizes the state to issue and sell its bonds and bond anticipation notes in amounts not to exceed $381,900,000. | HB3836 |
| 1025 | Budget Procedures | As enacted, authorizes the index of appropriations from state tax revenues for the 2011-2012 fiscal year to exceed the index of estimated growth in the state's economy by $250,000,000 or 2.01 percent. | HB3837 |
| 1026 | Public Funds and Financing | As enacted, revises various provisions of law in order to reconcile present law with the annual appropriations act, including establishing a mechanism to provide supplemental funding to counties for improvement of juvenile court services and removing obsolete provisions concerning the appointment of dentists at certain institutions. | HB3839 |
| 1027 | Criminal Procedure | As enacted, provides that a person may be prosecuted, tried and punished for producing obscene material, sexual exploitation of a minor, aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor or especially aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor, no later than 25 years from the date the child becomes 18 years of age. | HB2278 |
| 1028 | Appropriations | As enacted, makes appropriations for the purpose of funding certain rate and co-payment adjustments in the TennCare program. | HB2383 |
| 1029 | Appropriations | As enacted, makes appropriations for fiscal years beginning July 1, 2011, and July 1, 2012. | HB3835 |
| 1030 | Workers Compensation | As enacted, clarifies that either party in a workers compensation dispute may bring suit in the county in which the employee resided at the time of the injury when issues remain after the benefit review conference; reduces from $100 to $50.00 the maximum amount that the secretary of state may charge for certain fees concerning construction service providers and workers compensation. | SB2923 |
| 1031 | State Government | As enacted, places the Doe Mountain recreation authority under the governmental entity review requirements by scheduling the authority to sunset on June 30, 2014; schedules the board of appeals for the department of human resources to sunset on June 30, 2014; schedules the civil service commission to terminate and cease to exist on April 1, 2013; replaces the present law requirement that the TennCare bureau competitively procure an annual study designed to accurately assess the cost of dispensing a prescription in a retail or community pharmacy setting to a TennCare enrollee with a requirement that the TennCare bureau annually report to the house health and human resources committee and the senate health and welfare committee concerning pharmacy benefits under TennCare. | HB0651 |
| 1032 | Sheriffs | As enacted, increases certain fees sheriffs and constables may collect. | HB0991 |
| 1033 | Regional Authorities and Special Districts | As enacted, reconstitutes the board of directors for the Four Lake regional industrial development authority and makes certain other changes concerning the management of the authority. | HB1013 |
| 1034 | County Government | As enacted, authorizes the county legislative body of a county that has enacted county-wide zoning to create a design review committee (DRC). | HB1075 |
| 1035 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, revises various provisions regarding alcoholic beverages, including provisions concerning tourism developments zones and certain alcohol sales in Monroe and Robertson counties. | HB1171 |
| 1036 | Education, Curriculum | As enacted, requires LEAs to implement a project-based assessment in civics at least once in grades 4-8 and at least once in grades 9-12. | HB2114 |
| 1037 | Election Laws | As enacted, allows persons age 60 and older to vote absentee upon request, instead of age 65 and older; effective until July 1, 2017. | HB2174 |
| 1038 | Economic and Community Development | As enacted, clarifies purposes of FastTrack programs; requires certain reports be submitted to secretary of state; revises other provisions governing The Tennessee Job Growth Act of 2005. | HB2344 |
| 1039 | Clerks, Court | As enacted, increases by $2.00 the filing fee charged by clerks and data fee entry chargeable by clerks, except in certain cases brought by the state and state agencies; increase only effective until July 1, 2016, unless continued by general assembly. | HB2633 |
| 1040 | DUI Offenses | As enacted, authorizes judge to order the use of an ignition interlock device for any person granted a restricted driver license; order may be with or without geographical restrictions, but if the device is ordered, then it must remain on the vehicle during the entire period of the restricted license. | HB2749 |
| 1041 | Criminal Procedure | As enacted, increases the records expunction fee that is payable after completing diversion from $50.00 to $350, expands the purposes for which the diversion fee may be used and implements a new $100 fee that must be paid when requesting diversion. | HB2774 |
| 1042 | Child Custody and Support | As enacted, creates a new ground for initiating the termination of parental or guardianship rights that can be brought by one parent against the other parent based on the commission of severe child sexual abuse by such other parent. | HB2847 |
| 1043 | Judgments | As enacted, revises provisions governing interest rates on judgments. | HB2982 |
| 1044 | Education | As enacted, establishes a four-year parental involvement pilot program in the school system with the most schools in the achievement school district (ASD); limited to schools operated by the ASD that serve grades K-3 or any combination thereof. | HB2994 |
| 1045 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, authorizes a commercially-operated recreational facility that meets certain characteristics to qualify as a premier type tourist resort for purposes of the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption; authorizes a restaurant around Center Hill Lake in DeKalb county that meets certain criteria to qualify as a premier type tourist resort. | HB3119 |
| 1046 | Civil Procedure | As enacted, requires the court in a civil case, on a trial court's granting of a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted, to award costs and reasonable and necessary attorney's fees incurred in the proceedings as a consequence of the dismissed claims to the party against whom the dismissed claims were pending. | HB3124 |
| 1047 | Fairs | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee State Fair and Exposition Act." | HB3208 |
| 1048 | Fines and Penalties | As enacted, requires that in addition to the other penalties for reckless driving or reckless endangerment, the court will assess a fine of $50.00 to be collected into dedicated county fund and distributed from such fund for specific purposes. | HB3218 |
| 1049 | Agriculture | As enacted, revises various provisions of the Agriculture Commodities Promotion Act, including provisions requiring certain reports by purchasers and provisions governing the membership of the beef promotion board. | HB3263 |
| 1050 | Unemployment Compensation | As enacted, enacts the "Unemployment Insurance Accountability Act of 2012." | HB3431 |
| 1051 | Business Organizations | As enacted, revises multiple provisions of the Tennessee Business Corporation Act. | HB3459 |
| 1052 | Taxes, Litigation | As enacted, imposes additional $2.00 litigation tax on criminal charges instituted in general sessions court in counties served by judicial commissioner; creates judicial commissioner continuing education account; subject to appropriation, authorizes moneys in fund to be utilized for development and presentation of continuing education programs; act not applicable in Robertson County. | HB3604 |
| 1053 | Consumer Protection | As enacted, adds "engaging in a ponzi scheme" and "making fraudulent statements or intentional omissions in order to induce a consumer to sell securities or other things of value to fund an annuity product or other form of investment" to the list of unfair or deceptive acts or practices under the Consumer Protection Act. | HB3659 |
| 1054 | Education, Higher | As enacted, eliminates certain reporting duties of higher education institutions and governing boards; eliminates requirement that applicants for certain positions in residence halls pay for background checks; requires board of regents employees to receive longevity payments with their regular paychecks. | HB3665 |
| 1055 | Public Funds and Financing | As enacted, revises provisions governing compensation to exonerated persons. | HB3671 |
| 1056 | Victims' Rights | As enacted, increases from $1.00 to $3.00, effective July 1, 2012, the litigation tax collected for deposit in the statewide automated victim information and notification system fund. | HB3673 |
| 1057 | Taxes, Inheritance Gift | As enacted, increases the maximum allowable exemption from the inheritance tax incrementally over next three years; eliminates the inheritance tax beginning in 2016. | HB3760 |
| 1058 | Taxes, Sales | As enacted, reduces the state sales tax on food and food ingredients from 5.5 percent to 5.25 percent. | HB3761 |
| 1059 | Special License Plates | As enacted, extends the time within which the minimum initial order of 1,000 Historic Collierville new specialty earmarked license plates may be made, before authorization for the issuance of such plates becomes invalid, from July 1, 2012, to July 1, 2013. | SB0239 |
| 1060 | Mental Illness | As enacted, creates a pilot project in Knox County for up to two years for a maximum of 10 patients at any given time to receive assisted outpatient treatment. | SB0420 |
| 1061 | Immigration | As enacted, enacts the "Eligibility Verification for Entitlements Act." | SB1325 |
| 1062 | Local Government, General | As enacted, adds a "family recreation center" to the list of establishments within 1,000 feet of which an adult-oriented establishment or adult cabaret is prohibited from locating. | SB1329 |
| 1063 | Alcoholic Beverage Commission | As enacted, allows commission to assess costs for administrative hearings; revises certain requirements for servers permit. | SB1493 |
| 1064 | Capitol | As enacted, creates David Crockett commission to oversee erection of monument or statue honoring David Crockett. | SB1504 |
| 1065 | Schools, Charter | As enacted, authorizes an LEA to be the sponsor of a charter school; if an LEA seeks to sponsor a charter school, then the state board of education would serve as the chartering authority. | SB1688 |
| 1066 | Tobacco, Tobacco Products | As enacted, specifies that for purposes of the present tobacco tax law, "cigarette" includes any cigarette produced by a cigarette rolling machine at a retail establishment; adds various requirements regarding such cigarettes and rolling machines operators. | SB1738 |
| 1067 | Administrative Procedure (UAPA) | As enacted, specifies, with certain exceptions, that new fee or fee increase promulgated by state agency rule in accordance with UAPA will take effect on the July 1 following the expiration of the 90-days after filing with the secretary of state. | SB1878 |
| 1068 | Employees, Employers | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Works Act of 2012." | SB2129 |
| 1069 | Public Employees | As enacted, requires the local government insurance committee and the local education insurance committee to provide for the financing of the health insurance plan for employees of local governments and quasi-governmental organizations and the group insurance plan for eligible employees of local education agencies, respectively, and determine premiums, co-payments, benefit levels, and the disposition of government grants and subsidies to assist in the funding and provision of health insurance for enrolled individuals. | SB2212 |
| 1070 | Tennessee Regulatory Authority | As enacted, changes the membership of the authority to be five part-time directors instead of four full-time directors; sets the salaries of such directors; revises other provisions regarding the Authority. | SB2247 |
| 1071 | Driver Licenses | As enacted, allows persons 60 years of age or older who elected to obtain a nonphoto beaing license prior to January 1, 2013, to retain and renew such license. | SB2267 |
| 1072 | Teachers, Principals and School Personnel | As enacted, authorizes the issuance of licenses to teach in grades nine through 12 to persons who have taught at a postsecondary education institution, the students of which are eligible for lottery funded scholarships; such a license will only authorize the licensee to teach in the subject area in which the licensee taught at the higher education institution. | SB2302 |
| 1073 | Sexual Offenses | As enacted, enacts "Kimberlee's Law," which requires that persons convicted of aggravated rape serve 100 percent of sentence. | SB2349 |
| 1074 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, enhances the penalty for involuntary labor servitude where the victim was under age 13 and adds means by which the crime is possible. | SB2368 |
| 1075 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, clarifies that the offense of trafficking a person for a commercial sex act is Class A felony if the victim is a child under 15 years of age; adds that the offense is a Class A felony if the offense occurs on the grounds or facilities or within 1,000 feet of a public or private school, secondary school, preschool, child care agency, public library, recreational center or public park; adds Class C felony of advertising commercial sexual abuse of a minor; clarifies certain sex offender registry provisions. | SB2371 |
| 1076 | Sexual Offenses | As enacted, enhances the criminal classification of the offenses of indecent exposure and stalking when committed by a sexual offender. | SB2438 |
| 1077 | Education | As enacted, makes the Move on When Ready Act inapplicable in Williamson County. | SB2484 |
| 1078 | Taxes, Exemption and Credits | As enacted, extends the sales and use tax exemption for repair and refurbishment services with respect to airplanes and airplane components and parts that are situated outside Tennessee and removed from Tennessee within 15 days from the completion of the repair or refurbishment services with respect to the airplanes or airplane components are performed pursuant to and by an authorized service facility designated by an original equipment manufacturer for such service with respect to aircraft qualifying as "T | SB2560 |
| 1079 | Welfare | As enacted, requires the department of human services to develop a plan to implement a program of suspicion-based drug testing for each applicant who is otherwise eligible for temporary assistance for needy families (TANF). | SB2580 |
| 1080 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, creates new Class A felony theft provision if the amount stolen is 250,000 or more; allows state to aggregate value of property stolen in certain circumstances; and changes venue for all offenses graded by value. | SB2606 |
| 1081 | Professions and Occupations | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Professional Employer Organization Act." | SB2633 |
| 1082 | Comptroller, State | As enacted, authorizes the comptroller to access, for the purpose of conducting audits or program evaluations, the discount, rebate, pricing and descriptions of other financial agreements as submitted in a procurement or as a report to the contractor; specifies that no official, employee or agent of the state may release or provide for the release, in any form, of information subject to confidential custody under present law. | SB2699 |
| 1083 | State Government | As enacted, requires the state architect to allocate energy efficient commercial building tax deductions from the IRS to persons designing such buildings. | SB2735 |
| 1084 | Animal Cruelty and Abuse | As enacted, creates Class E felony of aggravated cruelty to livestock, which is intentionally engaging in specified conduct in a depraved and sadistic manner that results in serious bodily injury or death to the animal and is done without lawful or legitimate purpose. | SB2759 |
| 1085 | Taxes, Inheritance Gift | As enacted, eliminates the gift tax effective January 1, 2012; does not absolve taxpayer of any liability for tax duly imposed prior to January 1, 2012. | SB2777 |
| 1086 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities | As enacted, enacts the "Traumatic Brain Injury Residential Home Act of 2012." | SB2816 |
| 1087 | Taxes, Exemption and Credits | As enacted, authorizes property tax relief for spouses of veterans whose deaths resulted from being deployed in support of peace operations. | SB2863 |
| 1088 | Fees | As enacted, clarifies provisions regarding forfeitures of a cash bond or other surety as the result of a municipal traffic violation being transmitted to the TBI. | SB2886 |
| 1089 | Insurance, Health, Accident | As enacted, states that coverage made available in plans under the Memphis Plan Act of 1991 shall constitute minimum essential health coverage for purposes of compliance with certain federal minimum coverage requirements; specifies that operation consistent with the present law standards described in the Memphis Plan Act of 1991 would create a presumption that the operating entity is a "health care sharing ministry" under federal law regarding minimum essential coverage. | SB2943 |
| 1090 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, includes the commission of or attempt to commit a criminal gang offense within the definition of racketeering activity and enterprise for purposes of the Racketeer and Corrupt Organization Act (RICO). | SB3005 |
| 1091 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, makes it a Class A misdemeanor for a person 18 years of age or older to knowingly promote or organize a gathering of two or more minors in a public place with the intent to provide a location for such minors to engage in public indecency; any personal property used in the commission of a violation of this offense would, upon conviction, be subject to judicial forfeiture. | SB3092 |
| 1092 | Tourism | As enacted, revises various provisions of the Border Region Retail Tourism Development District Act. | SB3106 |
| 1093 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities | As enacted, revises certain provisions regarding the reporting of medical treatment for sexual assault or domestic abuse. | SB3145 |
| 1094 | Education | As enacted, requires the department of education to establish within the school system with the most schools operated by the achievement school district (ASD) a four-year pilot program of assessment of kindergarten students. | SB3155 |
| 1095 | Lottery, Scholarships and Programs | As enacted, specifies that an independent postsecondary institution that was an eligible independent postsecondary institution for lottery scholarship purposes, but became ineligible because of a change in the definition of eligible independent postsecondary institution, will, until June 30, 2016, remain in eligible status so long as it is accredited by SACS. | SB3170 |
| 1096 | Planning, Public | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Local Land Bank Pilot Program." | SB3223 |
| 1097 | Schools, Charter | As enacted, revises charter school application process time frames; permits LEAs to charge charter school applicants an application fee; revises other charter school-related provisions. | SB3247 |
| 1098 | Sports | As enacted, revises multiple provisions of the Tennessee Athletic Commission Act of 2008. | SB3264 |
| 1099 | Education | As enacted, revises provisions governing education funding for students in mental health facilities. | SB3270 |
| 1100 | Workers Compensation | As enacted, specifies that if a treating physician determines that pain is persisting for an injured or disabled employee beyond an expected period for healing, then the treating physician, if the physician is a "qualified physician", may either prescribe or refer such employee for pain management, encompassing pharmacological, non-pharmacological and other approaches to manage chronic pain. | SB3315 |
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