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Chapter Number Subject Abstract Bill Number
0201 Law Enforcement As enacted, repeals the Tennessee law enforcement advisory council. SB0772
0202 Industrial Development As enacted, repeals the Tennessee industrial development authority. SB0773
0203 Highways, Roads and Bridges As enacted, repeals the Access Improvement Fund Act of 1971. SB0775
0204 Telecommunications As enacted, repeals the Tennessee broadband task force. SB0776
0205 DNA and Genetic Testing As enacted, provides that a criminal prosecution may be commenced by the issuance of a warrant identifying the offender by a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) profile; applicable to commencement of prosecution for any offense, regardless of when committed, except those offenses for which prosecution is barred on July 1, 2013, because the applicable time limitation set out has expired. SB0831
0206 Landlord and Tenant As enacted, removes provision in Uniform Landlord and Tenant Act prohibiting public housing projects in Hamilton and Rutherford counties from charging more than $5.00 per month for the late payment of rent or charging a late fee unless more than 15 days have elapsed since rent was due; not applicable to certain rental agreements that incorporate fee as a term of the agreement. SB0844
0207 Public Records As enacted, transfers the division of records management from the department of general services to the department of state; authorizes the division to determine the style and form of state government printing; specifies "secretary of state or a designee", instead of "the director of the division", may examine and receive any public records and, for certain purposes, confidential public records. SB0902
0208 Public Funds and Financing As enacted, revises various present law provisions governing the disbursement and investment of state funds. SB0920
0209 Taxes, Real Property As enacted, revises various provisions governing property taxation and boards of equalization. SB1002
0210 Workers Compensation As enacted, defines "volunteer firefighter" to mean any member or personnel of a fire department or volunteer fire department and members and personnel of rescue squads and volunteer rescue squads for purposes of required workers' compensation insurance coverage. SB1174
0211 Business and Commerce As enacted, deletes obsolete and antiquated statutory text and references concerning business, insurance and utilities. SB1208
0212 State Employees As enacted, redefines "state employee" to include expert witnesses who testify on behalf of the department of health in certain proceedings for the purpose of permitting the attorney general to provide legal representation or reasonable compensation for counsel to the expert witness. SB1210
0213 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities As enacted, exempts certain persons from having certain qualifications to perform certain tests in certain medical laboratories. SB1269
0214 Education As enacted, removes career ladder provisions, but retains career ladder for those educators still eligible for such supplement payments for remaining career ladder educators; revises other various provisions of law concerning K-12 education. SB1291
0215 Powers of Attorney As enacted, clarifies that certain employees or operators of treating health care institutions are prohibited from being designated as the attorney in fact to make health care decisions under a durable power of attorney for health care. SB1294
0216 Human Services, Dept. of As enacted, requires child care agencies to develop written emergency plans in consultation with local authorities. SB1302
0217 Purchasing and Procurement As enacted, requires comptroller approval, and filing with and approval by fiscal review committee, for noncompetitive purchases and contracts entered into by department of transportation for non-construction and non-engineering projects or services with a term of more than one year that are renewable by either party that would extend the contract beyond 12 months and that have cumulative value of not less than $250,000. SB1328
0218 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, authorizes the Tennessee Walking Horse Celebration to serve or sell alcoholic beverages on premises. SB1333
0219 Motor Vehicles As enacted, revises provisions regarding golf carts being allowed on certain public roads. SB1337
0220 Child Custody and Support As enacted, authorizes the court, when it deems appropriate, to order an examination of a party pursuant to Rule 35 of the Tennessee Rules of Civil Procedure and, if necessary for the conduct of the proceedings, order the disclosure of confidential mental health information of a party. SB0028
0221 Highway Signs As enacted, names bridges at Midtown interchange on I-40 in Roane County in honor of Paul E. Easter and James W. Harmon. SB0002
0222 Students As enacted, modifies student discipline in case of physical attack. SB0113
0223 Motor Vehicles As enacted, requires, except for antique motor vehicles, that on all motor vehicles that are factory-equipped to illuminate the registration plate, the registration plate must be illuminated at all times that the headlights are illuminated. SB0131
0224 Remedies and Special Proceedings As enacted, authorizes the award of punitive damages in a civil action against a defendant based on vicarious liability under certain circumstances. SB0222
0225 Schools, Home As enacted, allows home school students to participate in extracurricular athletics if certain standards met. SB0240
0226 Tourism As enacted, redefines all-terrain vehicles to be used in adventure tourism to include motorized vehicles with specific widths, rather than motorized vehicles with seats or saddles, and handlebars for steering control; redefines all-terrain vehicle under the Motorcycle and Off-Road Vehicle Dealer Fairness Act to mean a motorized vehicle with no less than "four" instead of "three" non-highway tires. SB0395
0227 Criminal Offenses As enacted, revises provisions governing offense of bigamy. SB0542
0228 State Government As enacted, changes date by which the 20-percent target goal for state agencies to reduce or displace the use of petroleum products in state owned motor vehicle fleets must be met to January 1, 2015; requires entities to initiate plan implementation by January 1, 2014. SB0578
0229 Public Records As enacted, exempts personal email address of public employee from public records; clarifies that applicant for public employment has same information exempt from public record as do public employees; revises provision governing confidentiality of certain information regarding a domestic violence shelter or rape crisis center. SB0834
0230 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, authorizes the OZ facility in Davidson County to serve and sell alcoholic beverages for on premises consumption. SB0841
0231 Election Laws As enacted, revises various election law provisions. SB0906
0232 Controlled Substances As enacted, requires practitioners and their licensing boards to undertake certain actions concerning the license of a practitioner who is under state or federal indictment involving the sale or dispensing of controlled substances. SB0955
0233 Banks and Financial Institutions As enacted, allows banks to acquire real property to secure a loan as investment for up to 10 years instead of five years if certain requirements are met. SB1020
0234 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities As enacted, permits relocation under certificate of need statute of up to 30 beds from an existing nursing home that is part of a continuing care retirement community under certain conditions. SB1048
0235 Physicians and Surgeons As introduced, authorizes collection of certain charges by health care providers for voluntary provision of health care services when forwarded to sponsoring organization. SB1201
0236 General Assembly As enacted, revises names of committees in statutory references to conform to rule changes adopted by the house and senate. SB1218
0237 County Government As enacted, authorizes the county budget committee in Sullivan County to have between five and nine members, one of which will be the county mayor; the number of members will be annually determined by the county legislative body. HB0087
0238 Mental Illness As enacted, authorizes surrogates under the Tennessee Health Care Decisions Act to seek voluntary admission to inpatient mental health treatment for certain patients. HB1073
0239 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities As enacted, requires that certain ICF/MR beds be initially filled by persons exiting developmental centers and upon the death of the person who exited the developmental center, the bed may be filled by individuals from the home and community based services (HCBS) waiver waiting list for individuals with intellectual disabilities, subject to the individual's freedom of choice and pursuant to a process established and administered by the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities (DIDD) in order to ensure that such placement is the most integrated and cost-effective setting appropriate. HB1097
0240 Employees, Employers As enacted, removes provision that specifies that the amount of wages agreed upon between employer and employee, or employee representative, in a workshop or factory, constitutes a basis for litigation in civil cases; instead specifies that the department of labor and workforce development is required to enforce the present law prohibition against any proprietor, foreman, owner or other person to employ, permitting or suffering to work for hire, in, about, or in connection with any workshop or factory any person whatsoever without first informing the employee of the amount of wages to be paid for the labor. HB1223
0241 General Assembly As enacted, beginning November 4, 2014, limits per diem payments to certain members; revises mileage allowance for certain members. HB0080
0242 Sexual Offenses As enacted, requires rather than permits that restitution to the victim be paid by the defendant for the offenses of patronizing prostitution, trafficking for commercial sex acts, solicitation of a minor for sexual purposes, and enlisting or paying a minor to engage in child pornography. HB0128
0243 Budget Procedures As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Governmental Accountability Act of 2013." HB0155
0244 Transportation, Dept. of As enacted, requires department to advertise bids for contracts by publishing a written notice "on the department's website," instead of "in a newspaper," except that the department may additionally publish it in a newspaper pursuant to present law. HB0182
0245 Tennessee Regulatory Authority As enacted, authorizes the TRA to establish optional services that may be purchased by regulated entities or other unregulated service providers, which are related to the exercise, administration or enforcement of jurisdiction delegated to the authority by state or federal law; revises other provisions regarding the TRA and regulation of public utilities and carriers. HB0191
0246 Tort Liability and Reform As enacted, enacts the "Successor Corporation Asbestos-Related Liability Fairness Act." HB0197
0247 Nuisances As enacted, designates any place in which the sale or possession with intent to sell of drug paraphernalia is carried on or permitted as a nuisance. HB0225
0248 Historical Sites and Preservation As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Civil War or War Between the States Site Preservation Act of 2013." HB0301
0249 Children As enacted, permits a county by resolution, and a municipality by ordinance, to restrict children from participating in soliciting or collecting money at a highway or street intersection. HB0348
0250 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities As enacted, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment Act of 2013." HB0544
0251 Evidence As enacted, provides that victims 13 and under of trafficking for commercial sex acts and patronizing prostitution may, under certain circumstances, testify outside the courtroom by closed circuit television. HB0742
0252 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the department of economic and community development, June 30, 2017; adds conflict of interest policies for governmental entities under the department's jurisdiction. HB0809
0253 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Tennessee film, entertainment and music commission, June 30, 2014. HB0837
0254 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities As enacted, replaces current universal do not resuscitate order statute with a new provision authorizing physician orders for scope of treatment (POST). HB1019
0255 Children's Services, Dept. of As enacted, adds a person who physically possesses or controls a child to those from whose custody a child can be removed if the child is subject to an immediate threat to the child's health or safety and there is no less drastic alternative to removal. HB1050
0256 Local Education Agencies As enacted, authorizes creation of new city school systems if certain requirements are met. HB1288
0257 Safety As enacted, repeals the existing Hazardous Chemical Right to Know Law; requires employers to comply with federal Hazard Communication Standard and enacts certain other new requirements regarding information to be provided to employees working with hazardous chemicals. SB0179
0258 Motor Vehicles As enacted, removes the ability for a producer of motor vehicles to enter into certain lease transactions for certain vehicles to the producer's employees; increases from three to four the number of vehicles that a producer may lease to full-time employees and specifically authorizes producers to lease up to four vehicles to leased employees of producers who work on site at a producer's facility in Tennessee. SB0249
0259 Pensions and Retirement Benefits As enacted, enacts the "Hybrid Retirement Plan for State Employees and Teachers." SB1005
0260 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies As enacted, enacts the "Standard Valuation Law." SB0145
0261 Securities As enacted, exempts certain unsolicited transactions from certain requirements of securities law. SB0151
0262 Education, Dept. of As enacted, directs the department to require an LEA to obtain a formal written proof that a child who has moved out-of-state has enrolled in a school or program leading to the award of a regular high school diploma in order not to count such student as a dropout; under present law the department is prohibited from so requiring LEAs to obtain such proof. SB0158
0263 Education As enacted, allows an LEA, in its discretion, to determine whether to continue employment of a nontenured teacher who taught in a school prior to the school's transfer to the ASD. SB0233
0264 Special License Plates As enacted, decreases the minimum order requirement for renewal of any cultural or new specialty earmarked license plate and any collegiate plates for four-year colleges or universities located outside Tennessee from 1,000 to 800. SB0259
0265 Industrial Development As enacted, creates term limits for members of regional megasite authority boards of directors. SB0568
0266 Pharmacy, Pharmacists As enacted, revises the definitions of "compounding" and "dispense" in the Pharmacy Practice Act; exempts hospital pharmacies compounding for inpatients of a hospital from the requirement that sterile compounding pharmacies quarterly report the quantity of sterile compounded products dispensed. SB0582
0267 Economic and Community Development As enacted, requires the department of economic and community development to execute a separate agreement in conjunction with any FastTrack economic development grant or loan contract that reserves the right of the department to recover the amount of money, grants, funds, or other incentives disbursed by the department, in whole or in part, if the person or entity benefitting from such money, grants, funds, or other incentives fails to fulfill the commitments made by such person or entity to the department. SB0605
0268 Election Laws As enacted, removes exceptions for Shelby County in regard to employment of certain election office personnel and training of personnel in regard to promotion of voter registration and the electoral process. SB0626
0269 Professions and Occupations As enacted, revises various provisions governing locksmiths. SB0693
0270 Handgun Permits As enacted, limits 10-year period that person must wait between exiting a drug or alcohol program or hospital before being eligible for a handgun carry permit to three years if the applicant entered rehab voluntarily; 10-year period still applies to those who enter rehab pursuant to a court order. SB0714
0271 Licenses As enacted, delays the expiration of a scrap metal dealer registration upon the death of the registrant for locations designated in the registration for a 60-day period; provided, the commissioner of commerce and insurance may extend such 60-day period; specifies that scrap metal dealer registration will expire upon notification to the department of commerce and insurance by the location registered with the department that the registrant is no longer an employee or agent of the location. SB0733
0272 State Government As enacted, eliminates the state and local government advisory committee. SB0774
0273 Education As enacted, revises provisions governing membership of financial literacy commission. SB0792
0274 Education As enacted, simplifies the reporting requirements of the commissioner of education relative to LEAs' Internet acceptable use policies by allowing commissioner to post the report on the department's web site and give notice of the posting via email to the chairs of the education committees in lieu of submitting the biennial report to the chairs. SB0857
0275 Education As enacted, revises provisions governing leave granted to employees who hold the office with professional employees organization. SB0866
0276 Pharmacy, Pharmacists As enacted, requires a pharmacist to make every reasonable effort to prevent the abuse of drugs which the pharmacist dispenses; makes it a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by fine only, for the owner, manager or operator of a pharmacy to knowingly restrict or interfere with, or knowingly require a protocol or procedure that restricts or interferes with, a pharmacist's professional duty to counsel with patients and to evaluate the patients' appropriate pharmaceutical needs and the exercise of the pharmacist's professional judgment as to whether it is appropriate to dispense a legend drug to a patient. SB0962
0277 Employees, Employers As enacted, prohibits any governmental body from passing any law, ordinance or regulation that requires any employer to waive its rights under the NLRA. SB1017
0278 Criminal Offenses As enacted, redefines "unlawful debt" under the provisions governing organized crime to add debt incurred or contracted in violation of certain sex offenses. SB1038
0279 Courts As enacted, provides that unless otherwise provided by law, all courts in this state that implement an electronic court filing system pursuant to Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 46 and Tennessee Rule of Civil Procedure 5B must utilize only a system provider authorized by the administrative office of the courts. SB1057
0280 Salaries and Benefits As enacted, removes certain prevailing wage requirements for the construction industry (other than state highway construction projects). SB1209
0281 Public Contracts As enacted, requires that local board of education contracts for certain energy-related services be awarded on the basis of recognized competence and integrity and not be competitively bid. SB1270
0282 Workers Compensation As enacted, revises various provisions regarding workers' compensation, such as removing references to benefit review conferences in accordance with the changes made by other workers' compensation legislation. SB1275
0283 Education, Higher As enacted, prohibits public institutions of higher education from denying recognition, privileges or benefits to a student organization or group on the basis of religious content of the organization's or group's speech or the manner in which the organization or group determines its organizational affairs. HB0534
0284 Public Records As enacted, makes confidential and not open for public inspection all information contained in and pertaining to a handgun carry permit application or renewal application and the status of a handgun carry permit; creates exceptions to such confidentiality. HB0009
0285 Forfeiture of Assets As enacted, subjects conveyances to forfeiture if used in the transport, concealment or storage of money or goods that were the subject of a burglary, aggravated burglary or especially aggravated burglary. HB0093
0286 Public Defenders As enacted, revises provisions governing the funding for public defenders in the 20th and 30th judicial districts. HB0158
0287 Death As enacted, grants authority to the medical investigator, coroner or county medical examiner to direct the cremation or burial of an unclaimed dead body in certain circumstances and clarifies existing provisions governing cremation or burial of unclaimed bodies. HB0715
0288 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Tennessee state veterans' home board, June 30, 2015; requires the division of state audit to return to the Tennessee state veterans' home board in 2014 for the purpose of conducting a limited audit to review actions taken to address the issues raised in the findings of the September 2012 audit report for the board. HB0790
0289 Workers Compensation As enacted, enacts "The Workers' Compensation Reform Act of 2013." SB0200
0290 Boards and Commissions As enacted, creates the "Great War Commission" to facilitate recognition of the centenary of World War I. SB0009
0291 Day Care As enacted, on or after July 1, 2013, unless otherwise prohibited by federal or state law, prohibits child care agencies from placing a child with at least one parent or legal guardian that serves on active duty in the armed forces of the United States on a wait list behind a child with no parent or legal guardian serving on active duty in the armed forces of the United States. SB1370
0292 Local Education Agencies As enacted, removes the provisions limiting the number of school districts in a county. SB1354
0293 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies As enacted, requires limited lines licensure for the sale or offer of coverage under a policy of self-service storage insurance. SB1147
0294 Education As enacted, establishes provisions governing school personnel treating an allergic reaction in the event a student's personal epinephrine auto-injector is not available or the student is having a reaction for the first time. SB1146
0295 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, allows the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption for Sequoyah Landing marina in Monroe County; adds authorization for a facility that operates a hunting lodge with kitchen facilities and sleeping accommodations in Cumberland County and a facility in Campbell County that has cabins, RV hookups, at least three miles of ATV trails connected to the North Cumberland Wildlife Area, a convenience store and a restaurant to obtain a license for on-premises consumption of alcoholic beverages as a premier type tourist resort. SB1129
0296 Pensions and Retirement Benefits As enacted, revises various provisions governing the Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System (TCRS) and deferred compensation plans; provides for automatic enrollment in certain benefit plans for new employees. SB1003
0297 Taxes As enacted, revises provisions governing the taxation of green energy production facilities. SB1000
0298 Child Custody and Support As enacted, provides as additional grounds for the termination of parental rights that a parent was convicted of rape of a child; revises existing provisions regarding termination of parental rights based on a parent being convicted of rape or aggravated rape. SB0923
0299 Business and Commerce As enacted, enacts the "Made in Tennessee Act". SB0806
0300 Mental Illness As enacted, requires certain mental health professionals to report threats of bodily harm or death made by service recipients in certain situations; requires court clerks to report certain information regarding persons ordered to commitment or adjudicated as mental defective; establishes other requirements that relate to regulating firearm ownership by mental health patients. SB0789

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