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0701 State Employees As enacted, specifies, in regard to the Tennessee Excellence, Accountability and Management (TEAM) Act, that parties in a Step I appeal may make an audio tape recording of the proceeding; adds that in a Step I appeal, a complainant may have a non-lawyer representative participate in the appeal, in certain situations. SB2045
0702 Lands, Public As enacted, authorizes the executive director of the wildlife resources agency to make expenditures from the 1986 wetland acquisition fund for the purpose of acquiring certain upland hardwood forests which are located within Monroe County and known as "Turkey Pen", including lands adjacent thereto. SB2048
0703 Education As enacted, requires schools and LEAs to encourage various measures to limit students' exposure to harmful substances while at school. SB2246
0704 Basic Education Program (BEP) As enacted, clarifies $100 out of $200 be given to each teacher by October 1 so that the teacher may spend it at any time during that school year on instructional supplies as determined necessary by the teacher; requires LEA to send written explanation to education committees and commissioner for any noncompliance. SB2277
0705 Highway Signs As enacted, names a new APD 40 Interchange in Cleveland, Tennessee in honor of the Honorable Mayor Tom Rowland. SB2411
0706 Education, Curriculum As enacted, enacts "Erin's Law", which requires the departments of education and children's services to work together to enhance or adapt curriculum materials that focus on child sexual abuse, including such abuse which may occur in the child's home. SB2421
0707 Annexation As enacted, establishes a moratorium on annexation by ordinance or resolution; revises other provisions governing annexation. SB2464
0708 Taxes, Ad Valorem As enacted, in counties having over 300,000 tax parcels, upon adoption of a resolution, allows the county trustee to collect fees and costs, in addition to delinquent taxes, penalties and interest, on all property included on delinquent tax lists. SB2507
0709 Hazardous Materials As enacted, revises requirements for maintaining lists of hazardous chemicals that are used in the workplace. SB2558
0710 Motor Vehicles As enacted, under certain circumstances, exempts companies that sell emergency lights and sirens to public safety and law enforcement agencies from the prohibitions on the operation, installation or use of such warning devices. SB1492
0711 Child Abuse As enacted, adds the offense of promoting prostitution to the list of offenses constituting severe child abuse. SB1660
0712 Tennessee Higher Education Commission As enacted, requires the executive director of THEC to convene an accessibility task force to develop recommendations for the general assembly related to ensuring accessibility of digital curricula for students with disabilities at state institutions of higher education. SB1692
0713 Criminal Procedure As enacted, enacts the "Channon Christian Act", which clarifies rule of evidence regarding certain character evidence. SB1797
0714 Surveyors As enacted, revises provisions governing a person becoming a licensed surveyor without a college degree. SB1931
0715 Health Care As enacted, revises duties and authority of EMS personnel in regard to the provision of certain care and treatment; specifies that a provider of EMS is not authorized to function as a home care organization. SB2029
0716 Education As enacted, permits municipalities to extend the terms of local school board members in order to comply with the general law and synchronize local elections to the general election. SB2063
0717 Local Education Agencies As enacted, defines as confidential all information, records, and plans that relate to school security, the district-wide school safety plans or the building-level school safety plans; provides that meetings involving school security, the district-wide school safety plans or the building-level school safety plans are not subject to the open meetings laws. SB2073
0718 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration As enacted, permits the commissioner of revenue to delegate certain duties to the county clerks relative to the taxation, titling, registration, and regulation of motor vehicles. SB2074
0719 Museums As enacted, adds the president of the Tennessee historical society as an ex officio, nonvoting member of the Douglas Henry state museum commission. SB2078
0720 Veterans' Affairs, Dept. of As enacted, permits any disabled veteran to receive a free disabled veteran decal to affix to any license plate issued by this state; such decal will afford the disabled driver the same parking privileges as a placard. SB2098
0721 Schools, Charter As enacted, revises the provisions governing the revocation or nonrenewal of a public charter school agreement. SB2285
0722 Sexual Offenses As enacted, includes the offense of patronizing prostitution, where the victim is a minor, in the definition of "sexual offense" for purposes of sex offender registration. SB2564
0723 Education, State Board of As enacted, requires the state board of education to develop a uniform grading system for students enrolled in grades kindergarten through eight that LEAs may adopt and implement. HB1179
0724 Election Laws As enacted, revises various election law provisions. HB1523
0725 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the state university and community college system, board of regents, June 30, 2018. HB1590
0726 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Tennessee higher education commission, June 30, 2018. HB1591
0727 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Tennessee student assistance corporation, board of directors, June 30, 2018. HB1592
0728 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the University of Tennessee, board of trustees, June 30, 2018. HB1593
0729 Sexual Offenders As enacted, adds the offense of observation without consent, upon a third or subsequent conviction for that offense, to the definition of "sexual offense" for purposes of sexual offender registration and monitoring. HB1704
0730 Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) As enacted, enacts the "Emergency Response Broadcasters Act". HB2152
0731 Insurance, Health, Accident As enacted, establishes and revises requirements involving utilization review of preauthorizations for health care services. SB1142
0732 Controlled Substances As enacted, changes the name of the methamphetamine registry to the drug offender registry and requires that all felony drug offenders be placed on the registry; extends the amount of time that drug offenders will be placed on the registry from seven to 10 years. SB1312
0733 Law Enforcement As enacted, requires all law enforcement agencies who store and maintain sexual assault collection kits to conduct an inventory to determine how many kits being stored are untested by the TBI or a similar laboratory and report the findings to TBI, who reports it to the speaker of the house and speaker of the senate. SB1426
0734 Election Laws As enacted, decreases the number of signatures required to establish a recognized minor party solely in one county and for certain special elections; revises other related provisions. SB1466
0735 Controlled Substances As enacted, adds "25H-NBOMe" as a new hallucinogen to the controlled substances in Schedule I and adds "Quinolinylindolecarboxesters" and "(1-Aminocarbonyl) propylindazolecarboxamides" to synthetic cannabinoids. SB1508
0736 Banks and Financial Institutions As enacted, makes various changes concerning the regulation of non-depository financial institutions. SB1628
0737 Clerks, Court As enacted, revises provisions governing retention of certain fines, costs and litigation taxes collected by court clerks with any in-house collection procedure; revises provisions regarding fees for collection by an agent. SB1673
0738 Taxes, Ad Valorem As enacted, provides that a person applying for, or renewing, a registration with the board of equalization to be a taxpayer's agent will also be deemed an agent for certain service of process purposes. SB1741
0739 Disabled Persons As enacted, revises requirements concerning purchases of goods and services from persons with disabilities by state government. SB1770
0740 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel As enacted, allows teachers scoring "significantly above expectations" on each of their last 3 evaluations to petition the commissioner of education for a waiver of any requirement for the renewal of their licenses. SB1813
0741 Law Enforcement As enacted, requires any law enforcement agency providing a school resource officer, school security officer or other law enforcement officer providing security at a school to have a policy regulating the use of electronic control devices, which addresses training in the proper use of such devices, as well as investigation, documentation and review of such use, to include final approval of any report documenting such use by the agency's chief executive officer or sheriff. SB1843
0742 Local Education Agencies As enacted, authorizes LEAs to adopt a salary schedule that is identical in either structure or designated salary levels or both to the salary schedule the LEA had in place during the 2012-2013 school year, with such schedule containing steps for each year of service up to and including 20 years and for the attainment of advanced degrees at the level of masters, masters plus 45 hours of graduate credit, specialist in education and doctor of education or doctor of philosophy; the schedule may not result in the reduction of the salary of a teacher employed by the LEA at the time of the adoption of the salary schedule. SB1856
0743 School Transportation As enacted, extends the allowable number of years for a school bus to be in service to 18 years; revises other provisions relate to the use and inspection of school buses. SB1966
0744 Sexual Offenders As enacted, adds convictions for criminal attempt to commit a violent sexual offense under repealed criminal attempt law to the definition of violent sexual offenses; requires person who is on the sexual offender registry due to conviction from another state to remain on the registry for at least five years. SB2040
0745 Education, Higher As enacted, specifies that a student will be classified as a state resident and charged in-state tuition if the student is a citizen of the United States, has resided in Tennessee for at least one year immediately prior to admission and has graduated from a Tennessee public secondary school; graduated from a private secondary school that is located in this state; or earned a Tennessee high school equivalency diploma. SB2115
0746 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel As enacted, prohibits the department of education from revoking or non-renewing an individual's license based on student growth data as represented by the Tennessee value-added assessment system (TVAAS), or some other comparable measure of student growth, if no such TVAAS data is available; removes provision whereby the state board of education is authorized to adopt policies for the revocation of licenses and certificates. SB2240
0747 County Clerks As enacted, authorizes former county clerks of this state who occupied the office of county clerk on or after July 1, 2014, to solemnize the rite of matrimony. SB2270
0748 Industrial Development As enacted, redefines "project" for purposes of industrial development corporations in Goodlettsville to include purchase, acquisition, leasing, construction and equipping of hotels and motels within any municipality that is located partly within a county having a metropolitan form of government and partly within an adjacent county. SB2275
0749 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement As enacted, updates and revises provisions of the Tennessee Tobacco Manufacturers' Escrow Fund Act of 1999. SB2309
0750 Law Enforcement As enacted, permits electronic citations for certain traffic offenses; establishes a $5.00 electronic citation fee for each citation resulting in conviction. SB2350
0751 Sexual Offenders As enacted, allows county, metropolitan form of government or municipality to establish a community notification system to notify certain residences, schools and child care centers that a sexual offender or violent sexual offender is residing within a certain distance of such residences, schools and child care centers and authorizes a fee of up to $50.00 for each offender in the jurisdiction to defray the notification costs. SB2398
0752 Industrial Development As enacted, authorizes industrial development corporations in Shelby County to enter into certain loan agreements and to transfer assets as well as property held by the corporation. SB2420
0753 Education, Higher As enacted, prohibits the board of regents and the University of Tennessee's board of trustees from adopting policies that substantially burden students' free exercise of religion. SB2423
0754 Beer As enacted, authorizes a county or city to issue permits not only to the owner of a business engaged in the sale, distribution, manufacture, or storage of beer, but also to the entity responsible for the premises for which the permit is sought. SB2489
0755 State Government As enacted, specifies that the laws governing state services for public officers and employees do not apply to any employees of the Tennessee rehabilitative initiative in correction (TRICOR) board; revises other provisions regarding such employees. SB2570
0756 Courts, Probate As enacted, transfers, effective July 1, 2014, the probate jurisdiction in Franklin County from the general sessions court to the chancery court and transfers the clerical duties for probate matters from the circuit court clerk to the clerk and master. SB2585
0757 Juvenile Offenders As enacted, establishes provisions governing the school assignment and other education-related issues regarding juveniles adjudicated delinquent as result of certain acts. HB0477
0758 Ethics As enacted, requires the central procurement office, state building commission and department of transportation to establish policies and procedures to define and identify organizational conflicts of interest. HB0654
0759 Law Enforcement As enacted, prohibits bounty hunters from wearing clothing that indicates they are associated with law enforcement. HB0714
0760 Taxes, Privilege As enacted, removes NBA and NHL players from being subject to the occupational privilege tax; removal of NBA players from being subject to tax to take effect June 1, 2016. HB1134
0761 Sexual Offenses As enacted, specifies that the list of persons required to report knowledge or suspicion of child sexual abuse to the department of children's services includes an authority figure at a community facility, including any facility used for recreation or social assemblies, for educational, religious, social, health, or welfare purposes, including, but not limited to, facilities operated by schools, the boy or girl scouts, the YMCA or YWCA, the boys and girls club, or church or religious organizations. HB1173
0762 Employees, Employers As enacted, establishes experience rating applicable to new employers moving to Tennessee after having been in operation for at least three years prior to becoming a employer in Tennessee. HB1386
0763 Taxes, Privilege As enacted, revises provisions governing the failure to pay the professional privilege tax; establishes methods for providing notice and curing tax delinquencies. HB1432
0764 Taxes As enacted, allows imposition of penalties if electronic funds transfers are dishonored; allocates to the general fund proceeds from a certain state privilege tax; authorizes disclosure of tax information to local governments that is otherwise confidential, under certain circumstances. HB1433
0765 Workers Compensation As enacted, allows the administrator of the division of workers' compensation to withdraw funds from the employee misclassification education and enforcement fund to provide benefits available through the uninsured employers fund. HB1441
0766 Public Funds and Financing As enacted, revises various provisions governing bonds, loans, capital outlay notes, and other debt issued by local governments. HB1446
0767 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, requires an entity to have a non-manufacturer non-resident seller's permit if the entity is engaged in marketing, licensing of trademark or trade name, or contracting for the manufacture of any wine, distilled spirit or other alcoholic beverage, where such entity is not directly engaged in the manufacturing, bottling, distilling, blending of such wine, spirit or alcoholic beverage, and is not the holder of a basic permit issued by the alcohol and tobacco tax and trade bureau of the United States department of the treasury as a brewery, distilled spirits plant, or winery. SB2555
0768 Firearms and Ammunition As enacted, broadens scope of handgun permit holder's right to transport and store a firearm or firearm ammunition in certain motor vehicle parking lots without criminal liability under Tennessee law, unless expressly prohibited by federal law. HB1483
0769 Search & Seizure As enacted, allows a magistrate to issue a search warrant based on information communicated by telephone or other reliable electronic means in certain situations. HB1488
0770 Sexual Offenders As enacted, requires any sexual offender whose victim was a child of 12 years of age or less to be classified as an offender against children and to register for life; adds certain acts to those considered a "violent juvenile sexual offense" for purposes of registration. HB1503
0771 Children's Services, Dept. of As enacted, sets minimum disclosure requirements for the department of children's services after the fatality of a child under certain circumstances. HB1505
0772 Taxes, Gasoline, Petroleum Products As enacted, establishes a diesel gallon equivalent for purposes of determining the tax on liquefied gas. HB1516
0773 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the department of safety, June 30, 2017; directs division of state audit to conduct limited audit concerning the department's 2013 audit findings. HB1578
0774 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the soil scientist advisory committee, June 30, 2018. HB1579
0775 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Tennessee board of water quality, oil and gas, June 30, 2018. HB1588
0776 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the state procurement commission, June 30, 2017; requires commission to appear before joint government operations subcommittee on judiciary and government by December 31, 2014, to update status on issues raised during 2013 hearing. HB1595
0777 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the advisory council on state procurement, June 30, 2017; requires council to appear before joint government operations subcommittee on judiciary and government no later than December 31, 2014, to update status of issues raised in 2013 hearing. HB1596
0778 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Tennessee film, entertainment and music commission, June 30, 2018. HB1613
0779 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the domestic violence state coordinating council, June 30, 2018; restructures the council. HB1633
0780 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Doe Mountain recreation authority, June 30, 2016. HB1637
0781 Education, Curriculum As enacted, requires the state board of education to include cursive writing in the course of instruction in all public schools through the curriculum standards, at the appropriate grade level, as determined by the board. HB1697
0782 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) As enacted, standardizes period of time that agency must wait prior to adopting a rule without a public hearing. HB1732
0783 Secretary of State As enacted, requires that whenever a business organization's address is required on a document to be filed with the secretary of state, and the United States Postal Service does not deliver mail to the address, then a mailing address that the United States Postal Service does deliver mail to shall be provided. HB1733
0784 Personal Property As enacted, prohibits an individual, business or agency involved in the repossession of a vehicle from abandoning any personal property found in or on the vehicle for a period of 14 days following the repossession; establishes provisions governing the property being reclaimed by the owner. HB1772
0785 Search & Seizure As enacted, prohibits a law enforcement officer from searching, examining, extracting or duplicating cellular telephone data, even if incident to a lawful arrest, unless the officer has obtained a search warrant, the owner gives informed consent, the telephone is has been abandoned, or exigent circumstances exist; makes any such data illegally obtained inadmissible as evidence in a court or administrative hearing. HB1869
0786 Domestic Violence As enacted, specifies that in divorce proceeding involving domestic abuse within the marriage, any debt owed for any batterer's intervention or rehabilitation programs will be attributed to the abuser only. HB1877
0787 Welfare As enacted, authorizes diversion grants. HB1925
0788 Tort Liability and Reform As enacted, confers civil immunity upon a person who forcibly enters a motor vehicle for purpose of removing a minor locked or trapped inside the vehicle if the person has good faith belief that the minor is in imminent danger of suffering harm if not immediately removed. HB1943
0789 Courts As enacted, confers jurisdiction over public nuisance claims on courts designated as environmental courts by Chapter 212 of the Public Acts of 1993 or Chapter 667 of the Public Acts of 2002. HB2035
0790 Criminal Offenses As enacted, increases the penalty for electronic tracking of motor vehicles from a Class C misdemeanor to a Class A misdemeanor. HB2038
0791 Controlled Substances As enacted, permits judges of a drug court treatment program to access certain information from the controlled substance monitoring database. HB2072
0792 Education As enacted, requires the department of education to report the number of student referrals by the LEAs to the juvenile court by schools, local school districts, gender and race in the department's annual report. HB2083
0793 Housing As enacted, authorizes Sevier and Blount counties, any home rule municipality and any county with a metropolitan form of government to participate in the Tennessee local land bank pilot program. HB2142
0794 Education, Higher As enacted, regulates transfer pathways for transfer between public institutions of higher education. HB2246
0795 Emergency Communications Districts As enacted, enacts the "911 Funding Modernization and IP Transition Act of 2014". HB2255
0796 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel As enacted, prohibits the establishment of rules, policies or guidelines that require classroom or position observation results to be aligned with TVAAS data. HB2264
0797 Litter Control As enacted, enhances the fine for the offense of aggravated criminal littering when the amount of litter exceeds 100 pounds in weight or 30 cubic feet in volume from no greater than $2,500 to between $2,500 and $4,000. HB2267
0798 Uniform Laws As enacted, enacts the "Uniform Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation Act". HB2314
0799 Guardians and Conservators As enacted, specifies that a respondent has the right to present evidence, including testimony or other evidence from a physician, psychologist or senior psychological examiner of the respondent's choosing, and confront, as a cross-examiner, witnesses; specifies that if a court grants a protective order placing under seal the respondent's financial information, the order may not deny access to information regarding fees and expenses of the conservatorship. HB2317
0800 Naming and Designating As enacted, names new TRICOR office building and warehouse complex in honor of Patricia Weiland. HB2341

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