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Chapter Number Subject Abstract Bill Number
0501 Sunset Laws As enacted, terminates the Tennessee court information system (TnCIS) steering committee. SB1570
0502 Sunset Laws As enacted, terminates the Tennessee governor's council on physical fitness and health. SB1576
0503 Sunset Laws As enacted, terminates the Tennessee tobacco farmers certifying board. SB1581
0504 Criminal Offenses As enacted, broadens the list of victims of the offense of retaliation for past action to include employees of a court clerk; makes it unlawful to engage in such offense against such employees. SB1803
0505 Firearms and Ammunition As enacted, defines "motor vehicle" for purposes of the type of vehicle in which a handgun carry permit holder may transport and store a firearm or firearm ammunition in a parking lot. SB1701
0506 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, deletes the tennis court requirement at Blackberry Farm for purposes of qualifying for a license for consumption of alcoholic beverages on the premises. SB1648
0507 Environmental Preservation As enacted, revises the process for third party appeals of permitting decisions pertaining to air quality, solid waste and hazardous waste. SB1640
0508 Foster Care As enacted, changes terminology from "post-custody" to "extension of foster care" in existing post-custody services statute. SB1622
0509 Sunset Laws As enacted, terminates the pest control compact. SB1550
0510 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the integrated criminal justice steering committee, June 30, 2020. SB1543
0511 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends Tennessee housing development agency, board of directors, June 30, 2018. SB1542
0512 Sunset Laws As enacted, terminates the employee misclassification advisory task force. SB1539
0513 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the child care advisory council, June 30, 2019. SB1531
0514 Sunset Laws As enacted, terminates the advisory council on child nutrition and wellness. SB1523
0515 Sunset Laws As enacted, reduces sunset period for the West Fork Drakes Creek dam and reservoir interstate authority, from June 30, 2016, to June 30, 2015. SB1520
0516 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Tennessee Duck River development agency, June 30, 2020. SB1519
0517 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Sequatchie Valley planning and development agency, June 30, 2020. SB1517
0518 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Chickasaw basin authority, June, 30 2020. SB1516
0519 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Carroll County watershed authority, June 30, 2020. SB1515
0520 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Beech River watershed development authority, board of directors, June 30, 2020. SB1514
0521 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies As enacted, reduces the time period that commercial lines insurers have to furnish a requesting insured with a loss run history and revises other provisions related to loss run history. SB1350
0522 Energy As enacted, modifies the allowable entities in which corporations operating under the Energy Acquisition Corporations Act may invest. SB1460
0523 Food and Food Products As enacted, clarifies that poultry producers and growers acting in compliance with federal exemptions are exempt by regulation from specific provisions of the Tennessee Meat and Poultry Inspection Act; requires department of agriculture to maintain information concerning federal poultry producer and grower exemptions on its web site. SB1707
0524 Agriculture As enacted, clarifies that buildings used as residences by farmers and farm workers are "incidental to the agricultural enterprise". SB1706
0525 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the statewide community services agency, June 30, 2017, and clarifies that rules for the agency passed by commissioner of children's services prior to July 1, 2005, may be amended, replaced or repealed by the commissioner of finance and administration who has had rulemaking authority with regard to the agency since 2005. SB1562
0526 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Tellico Reservoir development agency, June 30, 2020. SB1518
0527 Agriculture, Dept. of As enacted, repeals the statutory labeling and testing of honey; retains authorization for the department to promulgate rules and regulations on the subject. SB1493
0528 Contractors As enacted, requires state board for licensing contractors to deny an application for a license to engage in contracting if the board finds the applicant's name to be identical with or similar to that of an existing licensed contractor; provision not applicable if the applicant's name has been trademarked. SB1435
0529 Local Government, General As enacted, enacts the "Anti-Kicking the Can Act", which requires approval of the comptroller prior to any local government authorizing the issuance of balloon indebtedness. SB0462
0530 Statutes and Codification As enacted, codifies the acts of the 2013 legislative session. HB1402
0531 Arrests As enacted, revises provisions governing issuance of arrest warrant and summons in lieu of arrest warrant. HB1370
0532 Lottery, Charitable As enacted, extends deadline for applications for 2013-2014 annual events for three days after effective date of this act. HB1462
0533 Real Estate Agents and Brokers As enacted, revises the "notice of agreement to pay leasing commission" used by commercial real estate brokers. HB1663
0534 Landlord and Tenant As enacted, suspends, for 48 hours after the execution of a writ of possession, the actions of any local government relative to the disposition of personal property; prohibits a plaintiff, after the execution of a writ of possession, from disposing of the personal property of a defendant for 48 hours. HB1409
0535 Prisons and Reformatory Institutions As enacted, requires the standards for the square footage of cells in local correctional facilities to be the minimum standards required by the Tennessee corrections institute in effect at the time of the construction of the facility instead of the 2008 standards; authorizes local correctional facilities the option of conforming to more recent standards required by the american correctional association; exempts certain local correctional facilities from standards. HB1708
0536 Utilities, Utility Districts As enacted, revises provisions governing appointments to board of commissioner of single-county utility district. SB0762
0537 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies As enacted, makes various changes concerning coverage of sinkhole losses and subsequent structural repair. SB0880
0538 Education, Higher As enacted, establishes requirements for legislative proposals or requests for state funding toward public higher education capital projects, maintenance, new academic programs, public service, research activities and engagement opportunities or operational support coming before the general assembly. SB0975
0539 State Symbols As enacted, designates the Honor and Remember flag as the official state symbol of remembrance to honor fallen military service members. SB1431
0540 Banks and Financial Institutions As enacted, authorizes a person other than a depository institution to own or operate, alone or in combination with other persons, one or more electronic cash dispensing devices located or to be located in Tennessee, provided that the electronic cash dispensing device does not receive money on deposit. SB1478
0541 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Tennessee corrections institute, board of control, June 30, 2020. SB1569
0542 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Tennessee fish and wildlife commission, June 30, 2018. SB1573
0543 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the wastewater financing board, June 30, 2019. SB1584
0544 Finance and Administration, Dept. of As enacted, requires a criminal history background check, including a fingerprint check, of all employees of the office of information resources having certain information or system access; includes procedures and additional requirements relating to the background check. SB1626
0545 Parks, Natural Areas Preservation As enacted, clarifies that part of Burgess Falls scenic recreation area is in White County instead of wholly within Putnam County; adds as natural scientific areas Lost Creek in White County and Window Cliffs in Putnam County. SB1642
0546 Highways, Roads and Bridges As enacted, expands the "Industrial Highway Act" to promote highway access to industrial facilities; renames Act the "State Industrial Access Act". SB1644
0547 Motor Vehicles As enacted, allows any county that has imposed or imposes a wheel tax to either exempt antique vehicle owners from liability for the tax or require antique vehicle owners to pay the tax on a one-time only basis in lieu of paying the tax annually. SB1688
0548 Criminal Offenses As enacted, clarifies that it will be a Class A misdemeanor for any person, firm or entity to fail to notify local law enforcement of the vehicle identification number (VIN), registration information, license plate number and description of the vehicle prior to towing a motor vehicle when the owner of the vehicle is not present. SB1693
0549 State Symbols As enacted, designates the Watauga Fife and Drum Corps as the official state fife and drum corps. SB1784
0550 Lottery, Charitable As enacted, extends deadline for applications for 2014-2015 annual events for three days after effective date of act. SB1798
0551 State Government As enacted, extends sunset date for Tennessee War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission from June 30, 2015, to November 30, 2015. SB2346
0552 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the council on children's mental health care, June 30, 2018. SB2390
0553 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration As enacted, changes the requirement for county clerks to remit fees associated with titling and registration the same day the application is filed to a monthly requirement. SB2402
0554 Wine & Wineries As enacted, authorizes any city or county that has held and passed a referendum authorizing either retail package stores or sales of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises to hold a referendum that authorizes the sale of wine in retail food stores; creates permit to sell wine at retail food stores; revises other provisions governing the sale of alcoholic beverages. SB0837
0555 Funeral Directors and Embalmers As enacted, adds certain grounds upon which the board of funeral directors and embalmers may refuse to grant or may suspend, revoke or refuse to renew a license, including owning 5 percent or more of any hospice providing hospice services. HB0250
0556 Local Government, General As enacted, revises the Community Gardening Act to remove the process for a permit from the commissioner of agriculture for using vacant public land for gardening and makes various revisions to the Act regarding community gardens and local regulation of such gardens. HB0394
0557 Liens As enacted, revises the provisions regarding who is to be served in regard to mechanics' and materialmen's liens. HB1243
0558 Correction, Dept. of As enacted, clarifies that the existing law relative to the clothing, transportation, and money of discharged inmates does not limit the commissioner of correction's ability or discretion to enact policies or undertake rehabilitative, anti-recidivism, or reentry assistance programs for probationers or parolees. HB1411
0559 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies As enacted, makes various changes to the Risk-Based Capital for Insurers Act. HB1414
0560 Cemeteries As enacted, limits who may petition the Davidson County chancery court for appointment of a receiver to take charge of a cemetery to the commissioner of commerce and insurance, by removing the present authority for a lot owner or descendant or next of kin of a lot owner to so petition the court. HB1417
0561 State Government As enacted, allows the state to sell fee interests in real property by public auction in addition to the sealed bid method. HB1419
0562 Pets As enacted, moves the jurisdiction for issuance of orders to destroy dogs that attack humans from circuit court to general sessions court; removes authorization to give notice of a petition to destroy a dog that has attacked a human to the dog's owner via certified mail so that notice of all such petitions must be made by personal service on the dog's owner. HB1522
0563 Solid Waste Disposal As enacted, exempts certain products from the definition of "solid waste" for purposes of the Tennessee Solid Waste Disposal Act. HB1562
0564 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Tennessee board of court reporting, June 30, 2018. HB1587
0565 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Tennessee dairy promotion committee, June 30, 2015. HB1611
0566 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Sam Davis memorial association, board of trustees, June 30, 2019. HB1627
0567 DUI Offenses As enacted, enacts "Amelia's Law", which clarifies that a transdermal monitoring device or other alternative alcohol or drug monitoring device may be ordered as a condition of pretrial diversion, parole, probation, judicial diversion or DUI probation if it is determined that the defendant's use of alcohol was a contributing factor in the defendant's unlawful conduct. HB1759
0568 Livestock As enacted, replaces various definitions of "livestock" with one standard definition. HB1796
0569 Public Records As enacted, designates as confidential bank account information of current and former public employees and applicants for public employment, and certain information received, compiled or maintained by employees of the treasury department's investment division. HB1944
0570 Professions and Occupations As enacted, removes the requirement that a real estate appraiser must file a renewal application for a current, valid license 30 days prior to the expiration date; removes the requirement that a real estate appraiser must file a renewal application and pay a renewal fee to renew a certificate 30 days prior to the expiration date. HB2251
0571 State Symbols As enacted, makes "Sandy," an ancient stone statue, the official state artifact. HB2443
0572 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Tennessee heritage conservation trust fund board of trustees, June 30, 2018. HB1618
0573 Highways, Roads and Bridges As enacted, enacts the County Bridge Relief Act of 2014" for fiscal years 2014-2015 and 2015-2016; authorizes counties to use an unexpended balance of state-aid bridge grant funds to pay the local share of project costs required by present law. HB1647
0574 Civil Procedure As enacted, waives governmental immunity for claims against any governmental entity under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 ("USERRA"), 38 U.S.C.  4301-4334. HB1918
0575 Tort Liability and Reform As enacted, clarifies that a health care professional voluntarily providing health care services to a patient at a clinic that does not charge the patient or a third party receives the same immunity from liability as a health care professional providing services for a sponsoring organization that charges the patient based on a sliding income scale. HB1928
0576 General Assembly As enacted, authorizes the members of the general assembly to administer the official oath of office for any local public official. HB2463
0577 Regional Authorities and Special Districts As enacted, authorizes the Carroll County watershed authority to issue refunding bonds and to issue such bonds to refund or refinance bonds that were previously issued. SB0479
0578 Law Enforcement As enacted, prohibits any state or local law enforcement officer from participating in a voluntary motor vehicle checkpoint conducted by a private company or research institute to collect a human sample from which DNA may be derived from consenting motorists stopped at the checkpoint for statistical studies or research. SB1485
0579 Emergency Communications Districts As enacted, clarifies terms relative to the definition of a financially distressed emergency communications district by changing the phrase "net assets" to "net position". SB1511
0580 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the West Tennessee river basin authority, June 30, 2020; changes the nomination process for certain members of the West Tennessee river basin authority. SB1521
0581 Agriculture As enacted, defines agriculture to include entertainment activities that occur on land where farm products and nursery stock are produced; requires that the Tennessee Right to Farm Act be construed broadly to effectuate its purposes. SB1614
0582 Correction, Dept. of As enacted, establishes a filing deadline, of six months from the date that medical services are provided, for claims against the state relative to the payment of expenses for the medical care of prisoners; establishes a filing deadline, of six months from the date of entry of judgment of conviction, for claims against the state relative to the payment of costs incurred in the prosecution and safekeeping of criminal defendants. SB1616
0583 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies As enacted, makes various changes to the Insurance Holding Company Act of 1986; enacts provisions regarding risk management and own risk and solvency assessment. SB1617
0584 Prisons and Reformatory Institutions As enacted, requires criminal records history checks for prospective employees of the Tennessee corrections institute. SB1619
0585 Pharmacy, Pharmacists As enacted, revises pharmacy practices of local health departments; grants commissioner of health certain rulemaking authority. SB1632
0586 Driver Licenses As enacted, authorizes any entity contracting with the department of safety to charge an additional fee of $4.00 for administrative costs related to the issuance, examination, and renewal of driver licenses, in same manner as county clerks. SB1638
0587 DUI Offenses As enacted, eliminates the exception for certain employees to the ignition interlock installation requirement; clarifies provisions regarding the issuance and use of a restricted license in conjunction with an ignition interlock device. SB1643
0588 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation As enacted, requires TBI to update the missing children's web page to reflect that a missing child has been recovered. SB1654
0589 Taxes, Agricultural and Open Spaces As enacted, sets the capitalization rate for greenbelt purposes at the maximum allowable rate on loans for terms in excess of five years guaranteed by the federal farm service agency or its successor, as of the assessment date for the year in which the use value schedule is being developed. SB1677
0590 Nurses, Nursing As enacted, adds advanced practice nurses to the list of deponents who are exempt from subpoena to trial but are subject to subpoena to deposition. SB1754
0591 Gas, Petroleum Products, Volatile Oils As enacted, revises provisions governing alternative fuel vehicles and fueling infrastructure. SB1759
0592 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs As enacted, eliminates antiquated language from the definition of home school student for purposes of lottery scholarships and grants so that the definition matches the substantive provisions of law. SB1773
0593 Landlord and Tenant As enacted, shortens the period of time, after giving notice to a tenant for a breach in a rental agreement, in which a landlord may terminate a rental agreement under certain circumstances. SB1787
0594 Health Care As enacted, sets specific requirements for various health care providers to provide information on infant cardiopulmonary resuscitation at certain times. SB1886
0595 Consumer Protection As enacted, enacts the "True Origin of Goods Act". SB1936
0596 Judgments As enacted, provides that a civil judgment or restitution order converted to civil judgment is valid until paid in full rather than renewed every 10 years if the judgment is based upon injury or death caused by criminal conduct and the judgment debtor was convicted of a criminal offense for such conduct. SB1953
0597 Banks and Financial Institutions As enacted, revises various provisions relating to when certain financial institutions may pay out the proceeds of checks made payable to a deceased individual. SB2096
0598 Naming and Designating As enacted, designates June 6 as "Transverse Myelitis Awareness Day". SB2347
0599 Taxes, Real Property As enacted, specifies that if there is any remainder after the proceeds from delinquent tax sale have been distributed, the party receiving notice of the sale will also be given notice of the amount of proceeds resulting from the sale, the division of such proceeds and the remainder. HB0455
0600 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the board of physical therapy, June 30, 2019; revises the manner in which members of the board of physical therapy are selected. HB1582

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