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Chapter Number Subject Abstract Bill Number
0401 Criminal Offenses As enacted, adds attempting or intending to cause bodily injury by strangulation to the definition of aggravated assault. SB0476
0402 Orders of Protection As enacted, allows the court to assess court costs, filing fees, litigation taxes and attorneys' fees against a petitioner seeking an order of protection if court does not issue or extend order of protection and makes certain other findings. SB0509
0403 Veterans As enacted, provides that a Tennessee Distinguished Service Medal may be awarded on behalf of the people of the state of Tennessee to an individual serving on active duty who has been killed in action, while engaging in certain military service. SB0541
0404 Taxes, Exemption and Credits As enacted, exempts not-for-profits owning and operating water companies from 3 percent gross receipts tax. SB0542
0405 State Employees As enacted, requires longevity pay for eligible state employees who previously worked for health departments of home rule municipalities; establishes eligibility criteria. SB0546
0406 Domestic Violence As enacted, authorizes magistrates to require a defendant to wear a global positioning monitoring system as a condition of bail in any domestic violence, stalking, aggravated stalking, or especially aggravated stalking case or in any case in which the defendant is in violation of an order of protection; the defendant must pay for the use of such system if able. SB0567
0407 Taxes, Sales As enacted, authorizes repeal of Tennessee River Resort District status by two-thirds vote of legislative body of jurisdiction. SB0601
0408 Criminal Offenses As enacted, specifies that when a defendant commits a homicide or assault against a pregnant woman, the woman's fetus, regardless of viability, is also considered a victim of the offense. SB0633
0409 Criminal Offenses As enacted, increases the penalties for discharging a firearm into a habitation. SB0690
0410 General Assembly As enacted, abolishes certain statutorily created, legislative oversight committees and assigns certain responsibilities to certain legislative standing committees. SB0725
0411 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, revises the provision regarding the sale of alcoholic beverages in certain unincorporated areas. SB0730
0412 Election Laws As enacted, revises various election law procedures concerning registration notification forms, times for appointment of election officials, inclusion of voter's date of birth on application to vote absentee, and establishing a mechanism for non-resident property owners to vote absentee by mail. SB0772
0413 Firearms and Ammunition As enacted, specifies procedures for determining retired law enforcement officer's eligibility to carry a firearm under federal law. SB0775
0414 Criminal Procedure As enacted, sunsets the current post-conviction defender commission; creates a new post-conviction defender oversight commission. SB0827
0415 Taxes, Real Property As enacted, revises provisions governing tax exemption for certain public radio and television stations; prohibits the assessment of state board of equalization hearing costs against a non-prevailing party that is not the appellant. SB0852
0416 Employees, Employers As enacted, makes various revisions to employment law. SB0932
0417 Estates As enacted, revises various provisions relative to administration of estates; makes certain revisions in regard to jurisdiction in Greene County; conforms state law to extend the time period for certain disclaimers as authorized by the federal Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act. SB0943
0418 Taxes, Ad Valorem As enacted, authorizes property tax relief to surviving spouses of disabled veterans who would have been eligible for relief had the veteran qualified under later amendments to the law. SB1100
0419 Regional Authorities and Special Districts As enacted, authorizes the East Tennessee regional agribusiness marketing authority to plan, acquire, construct, improve, extend, furnish, equip, finance, own, operate and maintain a wastewater treatment and collection system within the region served by the authority. SB1239
0420 Regional Authorities and Special Districts As enacted, enacts the "Border Region Retail Tourism Development District Act." SB1420
0421 Education, Higher As enacted, allows state agencies to provide free and discounted services to the Tennessee Intercollegiate State Legislature Foundation; requires that the Tennessee Intercollegiate State Legislature Foundation bear any costs associated with the operation of the general assembly's chambers. SB1445
0422 Workers Compensation As enacted, revises various provisions of workers' compensation law regarding construction services providers. SB1550
0423 Driver Licenses As enacted, provides for issuance of photo identification license free of charge to person who signs an affidavit stating the person: does not have a valid government issued photo identification; is a registered voter in this state; and needs the photo identification license for voting purposes. SB1666
0424 Education, Higher As enacted, changes various requirements for registration of athlete agents, providing notice of athlete agent activities to higher education institutions and penalties for violations of Athlete Agent Reform Act of 2011. SB1671
0425 Traffic Safety As enacted, revises enforcement provisions of unmanned traffic surveillance cameras. SB1684
0426 Education As enacted, requires a local board of education to allocate funding in an amount equal to the per pupil state and local funds received by the LEA to state licensed residential mental health facilities on a prorated daily basis for the student's length of stay, provided certain criteria have been met. SB1707
0427 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs As enacted, allows a student with a documented medical disability that restricts the student's attendance to part-time to petition for an extension of time in which to receive a Tennessee HOPE scholarship; revises law regarding the dual enrollment grant. SB2008
0428 Education, Dept. of As enacted, specifies that the commissioner may appoint to the state-level safety team a representative from "directors of schools, members of local boards of education, public school teachers, school counselors and psychologists, and parents of students enrolled in public schools" instead of from "the Tennessee organization of school superintendents, the Tennessee school boards association, the Tennessee education association, and the Tennessee state parent teacher association." HB0146
0429 Criminal Procedure As enacted, directs the commissioner of commerce and insurance to determine whether there are impediments inhibiting insurance companies from underwriting coverage for situations where person uses force that is justified, including deadly force, in protecting self or person. HB0155
0430 Tennessee Regulatory Authority As enacted, clarifies that exemption from TRA regulation applies to any cooperative organization not organized or doing business for profit, cooperative association not organized or doing business for profit, or cooperative corporation not organized or doing business for profit; exempts from public utility regulation by TRA any 501(c)(4) corporation that owns or operates a wastewater system primarily for the use of the members of the corporation and that has received a written statement of exemption from regulation as a public utility from TRA prior to January 1, 2009. HB0166
0431 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Tennessee medical laboratory board, June 30, 2011. HB0257
0432 Highway Signs As enacted, designates bridge at State Route 109 and U.S. Highway 70 / State Route 24 in Wilson County the "Spc. Michael Lane Stansbery Jr. Memorial Bridge." HB0546
0433 Child Custody and Support As enacted, requires that in taking into account the child's best interest for purposes of a child custody arrangement, the court shall order a custody arrangement that permits both parents to enjoy the maximum participation possible in the life of the child. HB0571
0434 Health, Dept. of As enacted, prohibits any licensed physician or osteopathic physician from performing or attempting to perform any abortion, including a medically induced abortion, or from prescribing any drug or device intended to cause a medical abortion, except in the physical presence of the pregnant woman; no drug or device intended to cause a medical abortion may be administered or dispensed to a pregnant woman except in the physical presence of her physician. SB0424
0435 Criminal Offenses As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline Act." HB0172
0436 Immigration As enacted, enacts the Tennessee Lawful Employment Act; revises other provisions of law regarding employment of persons unlawfully present in the country. HB1378
0437 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs As enacted, enables students who first received the Tennessee HOPE scholarship, HOPE access grant or HOPE scholarship for nontraditional students in the fall semester 2009 or thereafter, to receive such lottery-funded scholarships and grants in the summer semester, in addition to the fall and spring semesters; revises the law on terminating events for the HOPE scholarship or access grant. HB2010
0438 Taxes As enacted, removes the property tax on stocks for loan, investment, and cemetery companies; specifies the manner in which the excise tax on such companies would be allocated. HB0137
0439 Victims' Rights As enacted, enacts the "Victims of Crime Executive Clemency Notification Act." HB0396
0440 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, adds Buffalo River Resort in Perry County to the definition of premier type tourist resort for purposes of the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption, if local legislation body adopts resolution adopting resort as premier type tourist resort. HB0592
0441 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) As enacted, continues certain permanent rules filed with secretary of state after January 1, 2010. HB0648
0442 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the bureau of ethics and campaign finance, June 30, 2016. HB0667
0443 Courts, Administrative Office of the As enacted, directs the office to study certain issues related to the use of old warrants and related process by local law enforcement and to report to the house and senate judiciary committees on or before February 1, 2012. HB0840
0444 Highway Patrol As enacted, authorizes a highway patrol member in good standing that retires because the member met the mandatory retirement age but didn't have 20 years of service to keep his badge and weapon and to receive a retired commissioned card. HB0865
0445 Highways, Roads and Bridges As enacted, provides for the naming of certain roads and bridges in honor of certain specified persons and provides for the placement of other certain signage. HB0914
0446 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies As enacted, enacts the "Surplus Lines Insurance Act" and the Surplus Lines Insurance Multi-State Compliance Compact. HB0966
0447 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, makes several additions to present law concerning the sale of alcoholic beverages; expands the definition of "Tennessee River resort district" to include a limited service restaurant located within a jurisdiction that has elected Tennessee River resort district status. HB0985
0448 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, provides for the manufacturing and retail sale of high alcohol content beer; revises various provisions of law regarding alcoholic beverages. HB0986
0449 Revenue, Dept. of As enacted, authorizes the issuance of revenue or letter rulings on an expedited basis; allows the commissioner to determine a reasonable fee for such service, subject to certain specified maximum amounts. HB1008
0450 Naming and Designating As enacted, designates welcome center at Exit 9 on Interstate 26 in Unicoi County as the "Zane Whitson Welcome Center." HB1023
0451 Wine & Wineries As enacted, authorizes licensure and regulation of businesses where customers can make wine for personal, home consumption. HB1046
0452 Highway Signs As enacted, designates certain segments of I-24 and I-75 in Chattanooga as the "Sgt. Tim Chapin Memorial Highway." HB1210
0453 Municipal Government As enacted, clarifies and updates the language of various provisions of law regarding the powers of incorporated municipalities; generally removes archaic language and comports the powers to be compliant with other general law provisions. HB0992
0454 Disabled Persons As enacted, requires that each business that provided disabled parking spaces prior to April 25, 2006, provide van-accessible parking spaces as soon as such provision is readily achievable; specifies that each business that provides only one specially marked parking space must convert such specially marked parking space into a van-accessible parking space when such conversion is readily achievable. HB1246
0455 Election Laws As enacted, revises the pilot project requirements for convenient voting centers in certain municipal elections; extends pilot project to be in Knox, Hamblen, Shelby and Rutherford counties. HB1268
0456 Bail, Bail Bonds As enacted, requires bounty hunters to undergo a criminal background check. HB1305
0457 Education As enacted, enacts the "Special Education Behavioral Supports Act," amending current restrictions on isolation and restraint in special education. HB1336
0458 Public Funds and Financing As enacted, rewrites law regarding invalid obligations. HB1478
0459 Gambling As enacted, specifies that it is not an offense for a manufacturer of gambling devices to knowingly own, manufacture, assemble, design, possess, buy, sell, rent, lease, store, repair, transport, print or make any gambling device or record solely intended for gambling outside of Tennessee and in compliance with federal law. HB1565
0460 Criminal Offenses As enacted, provides that offenses of wiretapping and electronic surveillance do not apply to person who installs software on a computer the person owns if such software is intended solely to monitor and record the use of the Internet by a minor child of whom such person is a parent or legal guardian. HB1624
0461 Civil Procedure As enacted, establishes a framework for the consideration of evidence offered during all stages of the proceedings in employment discrimination and retaliation cases. HB1641
0462 Real Property As enacted, enacts the "Prohibition of Covenants Providing for Transfer Fees Act of 2011." HB1644
0463 Animal Control As enacted, provides that no county, municipality, consolidated government, or other political subdivision of this state may adopt or continue in effect any ordinance or resolution prohibiting the establishment or maintenance of honeybees in hives, provided that such establishment or maintenance is in compliance with the Tennessee Apiary Act of 1995. HB1671
0464 Education As enacted, specifies that temporary absence of a member of a county board of education to serve in the military does not constitute a vacancy in office and is not subject to provisions of the code requiring a temporary replacement. HB1909
0465 Schools, Charter As enacted, requires LEAs to establish a transparent and uniform method of calculating all terms and costs related to any lease, lease-purchase agreement, or other contract or agreement executed between the LEA and a charter school for the use of the LEA's educational facilities; establishes certain requirements regarding underutilized and vacant property; specifies uses of capital outlay funds by charter schools. HB1980
0466 Schools, Charter As enacted, revises various provisions regarding charter schools, including provisions governing students eligible to attend; removes caps on number of public charter schools. HB1989
0467 Taxes As enacted, revises various tax provisions including provisions regarding gains on sales of assets designated as goodwill and Class VII assets, local option taxes with respect to industrial and farm machinery, sales tax credits to dealers, and electronic tax return filings and payments. HB1994
0468 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies As enacted, enacts the "Revised Tennessee Captive Insurance Act." HB2007
0469 Firearms and Ammunition As enacted, authorizes any state court judge who possesses a valid handgun carry permit and who completes both 16 hours of POST court security training and eight hours per year of POST firearm training to possess a firearm in the courtroom. HB2039
0470 Bond Issues As enacted, authorizes the state to issue and sell bonds of up to $273 million. HB2135
0471 Budget Procedures As enacted, authorizes the index of appropriations from state tax revenues for 2010-2011 fiscal year to exceed the index of estimated growth in the state's economy by $250 million or 2.15 percent. HB2136
0472 Bond Issues As enacted, authorizes the state to issue and sell bonds of up to $150 million. HB2158
0473 Appropriations As enacted, makes appropriations for fiscal years beginning July 1, 2010, and July 1, 2011. HB2139
0474 Tort Liability and Reform As enacted, limits liability of apiarists under certain circumstances. HB0030
0475 Fireworks As enacted, authorizes the city of East Ridge to permit the possession and retail sale of Class C common fireworks; regulates the sale of such fireworks in the city of East Ridge according to the provisions of title 68, chapter 104, part 1. HB0219
0476 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends termination date for the department of education to June 30, 2013; requires the division of audit in the comptroller's office to provide its findings to the house and senate government operations committees by July 1, 2013, on the department's responses to the findings and recommendations in the January 2011 performance audit of the department. HB0249
0477 Wills As enacted, requires bonds of executors and administrators to include obligation to pay expenses for court costs, attorney's fees and other related expenses of administering the estate incurred due to failure to properly account for or utilize funds coming into hands of the estate. HB0334
0478 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities As enacted, extends for two years the nursing home privilege tax and restricts the use of such tax revenues to the funding of nursing home rates. HB0492
0479 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities As enacted, extends the current moratorium on the issuance of certificates of need (CONs) for new nursing home beds until June 30, 2013. HB0493
0480 Highways, Roads and Bridges As enacted, establishes presumptions of proximate cause of death, injury, or damage for certain motor vehicle accidents occurring within a construction zone; establishes immunity from claims for personal injury, property damage, or death arising from certain department of transportation projects. HB0511
0481 County Officers As enacted, revises educational requirements for office of constable. HB0530
0482 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the medical care and cost containment committee, June 30, 2015. HB0676
0483 Sexual Offenders As enacted, requires registration with the sex offender registry by a juvenile between the ages of 14 and 18 who is adjudicated delinquent for any violent juvenile sexual offense committed on or after July 1, 2011. HB0687
0484 Criminal Procedure As enacted, revises eligibility criteria for pretrial and judicial diversion programs. HB0694
0485 Courts, Juvenile As enacted, revises certain provisions governing jurisdiction in juvenile court; grants temporary jurisdiction to issue temporary orders in certain circumstances. HB0712
0486 Juvenile Offenders As enacted, amends various provisions regarding the transfer of juveniles to adult court and the department of children's services' custody of such children; authorizes communication between the adult court and the juvenile court; clarifies provisions on home placement supervision of juveniles. HB0713
0487 DUI Offenses As enacted, revises provisions governing the setting of bail in certain DUI-related cases. HB0718
0488 Education As enacted, enacts the "Move on When Ready Act." HB0837
0489 Capital Punishment As enacted, adds random killings to the list of aggravating factors for imposition of the death penalty. HB0869
0490 Taxes, Income As enacted, exempts income derived from cemetery trusts from state and local taxation. HB0889
0491 Special License Plates As enacted, authorizes issuance of various special license plates; extends minimum order deadline for certain plates and redesignates certain plates. HB0940
0492 Education As enacted, enacts "The Virtual Public Schools Act." HB1030
0493 Criminal Procedure As enacted, permits the district attorney to apply for an order to wiretap if the interception may provide evidence of a criminal gang offense by a criminal gang member. HB1066
0494 Health Care As enacted, replaces "non-residential methadone treatment facility" with "nonresidential substitution-based treatment centers offering treatment for opiate addiction." HB1201
0495 Annexation As enacted, requires municipality to notify affected property owners by mail of proposed extension of corporate limits under certain circumstances and requires publication in newspaper. HB1214
0496 Taxes, Litigation As enacted, allows Loudon County to impose additional $5.00 litigation tax on all civil and criminal cases to be used for grants to Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA). HB1248
0497 Homeland Security As enacted, enacts the "Material Support to Designated Entities Act of 2011." HB1353
0498 Civil Procedure As enacted, declares that a moving party prevails on a motion for summary judgment if it submits affirmative evidence negating an element of a nonmoving party's claim or demonstrates that the nonmoving party's evidence is insufficient to establish an essential element. HB1358
0499 Schools, Home As enacted, makes various changes to home school requirements. HB1631
0500 Child Custody and Support As enacted, revises conditions under which grandparent visitation can be awarded. HB1698

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