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| Chapter Number | Subject | Abstract | Bill Number |
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| 1001 | Taxes, Exemption and Credits | As enacted, reduces the capital investment requirement for eligibility for qualified data center sales and use tax exemptions from $250 million to $100 million; exempts cooling equipment and backup power equipment sold or used by qualified data centers from the sales and use tax; requires qualified data center that applies for job tax credits to certify that it has not, within the previous 12 months, been found to be in violation of certain laws. | SB2537 |
| 1002 | Drugs, Prescription | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Prescription Safety Act of 2016," which revises regulation of controlled substances; makes permanent most all of the changes made under the Tennessee Prescription Safety Act of 2012, and revises and enacts other provisions. | SB2552 |
| 1003 | Abortion | As enacted, establishes requirements regarding the disposition of aborted fetuses and fetal tissue, including reporting requirements and requirements for interim inspections of and certain reporting by facilities where surgical abortions are performed. | SB2568 |
| 1004 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities | As enacted, establishes requirements for central service technicians. | SB2581 |
| 1005 | Juvenile Offenders | As enacted, requires the commissioner of children's services to report annually to the governor, the chief clerk of the senate, and the chief clerk of the house on probation and juvenile justice evidence-based treatment services; requires other reporting by juvenile court clerks. | SB2584 |
| 1006 | Elder Abuse | As enacted, requires, by January 1, 2017, the district attorney general of each judicial district to establish, or cause to be established, a vulnerable adult protective investigative team (VAPIT). | SB2588 |
| 1007 | Water Pollution | As enacted, prohibits any NPDES permit that is issued to a municipal separate storm sewer system ("MS4") administrator in this state from imposing post-construction stormwater requirements, except to the extent necessary to comply with the minimum requirements of federal law; prohibits the state from requiring any entity that administers a MS4 under an NPDES permit to impose control measures for post-construction stormwater that exceed the minimum requirements of federal law; enacts other related provisions. | SB1830 |
| 1008 | Transportation, Dept. of | As enacted, requires each local education agency (LEA) that provides transportation services to submit to the department the names of persons authorized to drive a school bus; requires the department to maintain a database of all those persons authorized to drive a school bus and notify the appropriate LEA if the driver license or driving privileges of a listed person have been suspended or revoked; imposes a fee of $20.00 for each school bus endorsement or renewal thereof. | HB0577 |
| 1009 | Privacy, Confidentiality | As enacted, makes confidential the identities of vendors providing the state with goods and services used to protect government property or government employee or citizen information; allows governmental entity to vote to make information about such goods and services provided to the entity confidential. | HB1543 |
| 1010 | Taxes, Privilege | As enacted, requires the department of revenue to notify taxpayers by mail or e-mail of the amount of professional privilege tax owed, due date, and any electronic filing or payment requirement. | HB1634 |
| 1011 | Utilities, Utility Districts | As enacted, clarifies behavior that constitutes meeting a commissioner's fiduciary responsibility. | HB1690 |
| 1012 | Common Carriers | As enacted, revises provisions governing overweight and overdimensional loads that are permitted and nondivisible. | HB1776 |
| 1013 | Animal Control | As enacted, specifies that local governments may authorize an animal control agency to seize or take into custody any dog found trespassing on the premises of another person. | HB1911 |
| 1014 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, creates the Class E felony offense of manufacturing marijuana concentrate by a process which uses an inherently hazardous substance like butane; creates Class A misdemeanor of owner of premises knowingly allowing the process to occur on the premises. | HB1981 |
| 1015 | Motor Vehicles | As enacted, redefines "autocycle" and clarifies definitions related to the weight or engine displacement of all-terrain vehicles and autocycles; prohibits a person who is operating an autocycle from carrying a child as a passenger if the child would have to be secured in a motor vehicle, with certain exceptions. | HB2045 |
| 1016 | Political Parties | As enacted, redefines, for purposes of the Election Code, "statewide political party" to mean a political party at least one of whose candidates for an office to be elected by voters of the entire state has received a number of votes equal to at least 5 percent of the total number of votes cast for gubernatorial candidates in the most recent election of governor. | HB2079 |
| 1017 | Courts, Juvenile | As enacted, establishes requirements for the expunction of certain juveniles' records in cases of successful completion of informal adjustment or dismissal; allows a person adjudicated unruly to petition the juvenile court for expunction. | HB2193 |
| 1018 | Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies | As enacted, establishes a new method by which a captive insurance company may redomesticate to this state; revises provisions governing premium tax and captive insurance companies; revises other captive insurance provisions. | HB2228 |
| 1019 | Economic and Community Development | As enacted, enacts the "Rural Economic Opportunity Act of 2016"; authorizes a job tax credit for qualified business enterprises located in tier 4 enhancement counties; specifies the minimum jobs criteria and requirements to qualify for the credit; establishes the propelling rural economic progress (P.R.E.P.) fund; establishes guidelines for making grants from the P.R.E.P. fund. | HB2570 |
| 1020 | Basic Education Program (BEP) | As enacted, eliminates an obsolete provision concerning the BEP; revises the BEP calculation; revises other related provisions. | HB2574 |
| 1021 | Probation and Parole | As enacted, makes a person who commits vehicular homicide where alcohol or drugs were involved ineligible for probation. | SB0035 |
| 1022 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, designates Reds Ale House in Cumberland County as a premier type tourist resort for purposes of on-premises consumption of alcoholic beverages. | SB0396 |
| 1023 | Courts, Supreme Court of Tennessee | As enacted, permits the supreme court to commission as senior judge a state trial court judge who was elected at least twice and served at least two full eight-year terms but was not reelected following the judge's most recent term of judicial service. | SB0408 |
| 1024 | Taxes, Privilege | As enacted, directs the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) to study and make recommendations relative to the professional privilege tax. | SB0556 |
| 1025 | Sentencing | As enacted, creates a new sentencing enhancement factor when the defendant committed the offense of robbery, aggravated robbery, or especially aggravated robbery on the premises of a licensed pharmacy in an effort to unlawfully obtain, sell, give, or exchange a controlled substance, controlled substance analogue, or other illegal drug. | SB0593 |
| 1026 | Sentencing | As enacted, permits a court to order a qualified defendant to serve a period or periods of confinement in the local jail or workhouse not to exceed a total 30 days as a reasonable condition of judicial diversion. | SB0637 |
| 1027 | Economic and Community Development | As enacted, creates the aeronautics economic development fund to be used by the department of transportation for program administration, marketing expenses, and program evaluation; authorizes the executive director of TWRA to use funds from the 1986 wetland acquisition fund to acquire the McCartt Tract and adjacent lands in Morgan County; authorizes certain fund expenditures. | SB0750 |
| 1028 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration | As enacted, authorizes certain counties to exempt certain newer motor vehicles from emissions testing requirements. | SB0777 |
| 1029 | Medical Occupations | As enacted, amends the provisions governing X-ray equipment operators. | SB0899 |
| 1030 | Alcohol Offenses, Motor Vehicles | As enacted, changes age group to which offense of underage driving while impaired statute applies from 16-21 to 16-18 and gives judge the authority to order the issuance of a restricted license, including interlock device, to 16-18 year olds committing underage driving while impaired. | SB1317 |
| 1031 | State Government | As enacted, specifies that the legislative branch of state government and the judicial branch of state government maintain control of the state buildings occupied predominately by the legislative branch and the judicial branch, respectively. | SB1342 |
| 1032 | Statutes of Limitations and Repose | As enacted, extends the statute of limitations for prosecution of the offenses of aggravated child abuse, or aggravated child neglect or endangerment. | SB1447 |
| 1033 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities | As enacted, imposes licensure and other requirements on pain management clinics. | SB1466 |
| 1034 | Sentencing | As enacted, revises the criminal gang enhancement statute. | SB1558 |
| 1035 | Physicians and Surgeons | As enacted, revises provisions relating to the qualifications of an applicant for a license to practice medicine; authorizes the board of medical examiners to issue certain temporary licenses to practice medicine. | SB1580 |
| 1036 | School Transportation | As enacted, broadens the scope of the offense regarding a school bus driver using certain electronic devices while operating a bus with a child on board and increases the penalty for the offense. | SB1596 |
| 1037 | Handgun Permits | As enacted, imposes a reduced fee for a lifetime handgun carry permit for certain retired federal, state, and local law enforcement officers. | SB1665 |
| 1038 | Sexual Offenses | As enacted, revises the offense of sexual contact with a minor by an authority figure to eliminate the requirement that a minor be between 13 and 18 years of age to qualify for this offense, so that a minor includes any person less than 18 years of age. | SB1682 |
| 1039 | Highway Signs | As enacted, enacts the "Tyler Head Law," which creates a memorial sign program for persons who died in accidents caused by drivers under the influence of drugs or alcohol. | SB1730 |
| 1040 | Racing and Motor Sports | As enacted, creates the state horse racing advisory committee to develop recommendations for legislation related to the establishment of horse racing in this state; repeals the commission July 1, 2018. | SB1738 |
| 1041 | Tennessee Bureau of Investigation | As enacted, authorize TBI investigators, without a request from the district attorney general, to investigate criminal offenses related to arson and explosives. | SB1775 |
| 1042 | Boards and Commissions | As enacted, revises membership of the viticulture advisory board. | SB1800 |
| 1043 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities | As enacted, revises various provisions governing certificates of need; requires certain reporting by person who provides magnetic resonance imaging services. | SB1842 |
| 1044 | Elder Abuse | As enacted, revises requirements for criminal background checks in certain health care facilities; convenes working groups on elder abuse; revises other provisions relative to abuse of certain vulnerable persons. | SB1848 |
| 1045 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, revises provisions governing delivery and transportation of alcoholic beverages and beer. | SB1879 |
| 1046 | Medical Occupations | As enacted, creates a task force to study issues related to healthcare services; specifies that the task force will make a report and cease to exist by January 10, 2017. | SB1979 |
| 1047 | Emergency Communications Districts | As enacted, revises various provisions governing the 911 fee collection practice. | SB2051 |
| 1048 | Taxes, Sales | As enacted, changes date for annual sales tax holiday from the first weekend in August to the last weekend in July each year. | SB2239 |
| 1049 | Firearms and Ammunition | As enacted, authorizes local boards of education in Pickett and Wayne counties to adopt a policy allowing the director of schools, in consultation with the principal of each school, to authorize and select employees who may carry a concealed handgun within and on the grounds of the school to which the person is assigned; establishes related requirements. | SB2249 |
| 1050 | Water Authorities | As enacted, sunsets the Hamilton County water and wastewater treatment authority created pursuant to this state's Water and Wastewater Treatment Authority Act, July 1, 2021; revises other provisions regarding the Act. | SB2364 |
| 1051 | Nurses, Nursing | As enacted, changes terminology from "medication aides certified" to "medication aide"; revises training and other requirements for medication aide program. | SB2383 |
| 1052 | Correction, Dept. of | As enacted, requires that any conduct by an inmate against a correctional officer, guard, jailer, or other full-time employee of a penal institution, local jail, or workhouse, that would constitute an assault under current law be reported by the department to the appropriate district attorney general for prosecution. | SB2424 |
| 1053 | Professions and Occupations | As enacted, enacts the "Right to Earn a Living Act." | SB2469 |
| 1054 | Firearms and Ammunition | As enacted, allows the Tennessee POST commission to deny a retired law enforcement officer's application to carry as a law enforcement officer if the retired officer is prohibited from purchasing or possessing a firearm, or obtaining a handgun carry permit, or if the retired officer has certain DUI convictions. | SB2533 |
| 1055 | Taxes, Exemption and Credits | As enacted, establishes a tax credit equal to 33 percent of the value of cash investments made in certain companies by an "angel investor" against the angel investor's Hall income tax liability. | SB2539 |
| 1056 | Workers Compensation | As enacted, revises various workers' compensation and drug-free workplace provisions. | SB2582 |
| 1057 | Courts, Juvenile | As enacted, enacts the "Juvenile Justice Realignment Act"; creates a task force to study new approaches to the administration of juvenile justice. | SB2586 |
| 1058 | Education, Dept. of | As enacted, requires the department to develop procedures for identifying characteristics of dyslexia through the universal screening process required by the existing RTI2 framework or other available means; requires every LEA to implement the dyslexia screening procedures; specifies that dyslexia screening may be requested for any student by the student's parent or guardian, teacher, counselor, or school psychologist; creates the dyslexia advisory council. | SB2635 |
| 1059 | Budget Procedures | As enacted, increases from 30 cents to 36 cents per each person in the county the amount that each county must pay to the office of the comptroller to contribute to the expenses of audits; creates historic property land acquisition fund; makes other statutory revisions required for implementation of the annual appropriations act. | SB2654 |
| 1060 | Bond Issues | As enacted, authorizes the state to issue and sell bonds of up to $87.7 million. | SB2655 |
| 1061 | Handgun Permits | As enacted, permits full-time employees of state public colleges or universities who possess handgun carry permit to carry a handgun while on property owned, operated, or controlled by the employing college or university if certain requirements are met. | SB2376 |
| 1062 | Guardians and Conservators | As enacted, enacts the "Campbell/Falk Act," which establishes the right of certain persons to petition to require a conservator to grant communication, visitation, or other interaction with the respondent. | SB2190 |
| 1063 | Unemployment Compensation | As enacted, removes the random verification audit requirement; revises certain provisions governing disqualification for benefits and regaining eligibility after sickness, disability, or pregnancy. | SB2481 |
| 1064 | Taxes, Income | As enacted, reduces Hall income tax from six percent to five percent; expresses legislative intent that the tax be statutorily reduced by one percent annually beginning with the first annual session of the 110th general assembly; eliminates the tax for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2022. | SB0047 |
| 1065 | Taxes, Ad Valorem | As enacted, increases the amount on which property tax reimbursement will be paid from the first $23,000 to the first $23,500 for low-income, elderly homeowners and for disabled homeowners; removes the income limitation applicable for tax relief for disabled veteran homeowners. | SB1796 |
| 1066 | Public Funds and Financing | As enacted, prohibits the expenditure of state funds by the University of Tennessee to promote the use of gender neutral pronouns, to promote or inhibit the celebration of religious holidays, or to fund or support sex week; specifies that all funds in the budget of the office for diversity and inclusion at UT Knoxville, for fiscal year 2016-2017, be reallocated in the university's budget and used by the university solely for scholarships to be awarded through a minority engineering scholarship program; any such funds that are not used for minority engineering scholarships in fiscal year 2016-2017 will remain in the scholarship program for use in future fiscal years. | HB2248 |
| 1067 | Nuisances | As enacted, permits a court to dismiss or continue a nuisance action if the property owner was unaware of the nuisance prior to receiving notice and has taken steps to abate the nuisance after receiving notice. | HB0255 |
| 1068 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, authorizes a terminal building of a commercial air carrier airport that is a member of the Tennessee Association of Air Carrier Airports to obtain a retail license to sell certain alcoholic beverages; revises certain provisions governing delivery; authorizes the City of Elkton in Giles County to hold a referendum on the sale of wine in retail food stores; revises other provisions governing alcoholic beverages. | HB0301 |
| 1069 | Election Laws | As enacted, specifies that the chair of the county election commission must be a member of the majority party, and the secretary must be a member of a minority party. | HB0726 |
| 1070 | Taxes, Exemption and Credits | As enacted, exempts compressed natural gas from sales tax in the same manner that the present law exempts motor fuel and liquified gas from sales tax. | HB0879 |
| 1071 | Forests and Forest Products | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Native Species Lumber Act." | HB0978 |
| 1072 | County Government | As enacted, prohibits members of a county legislative body from voting on matters in which they have a conflict of interest; authorizes legislative bodies of any metropolitan and charter form of government to opt out. | HB0985 |
| 1073 | Victims' Rights | As enacted, requires a law enforcement officer, when the officer responds to a report of certain offenses related to domestic violence, to inform the victim of the statewide automated victim information and notification service and to provide certain informational materials, if available. | HB1270 |
| 1074 | Child Custody and Support | As enacted, requires that any petition regarding child custody include an affirmative statement setting out all applicable adjudications, if the petitioner knows whether a child has ever been adjudicated by a court as a dependent and neglected or abused child or whether any party to the action has ever been adjudicated by a court as the perpetrator of dependency and neglect or abuse of a minor child; authorizes court to order DCS to disclose certain information. | HB1413 |
| 1075 | Criminal Procedure | As enacted, requires an officer who arrests a person for a DUI-related offense to exercise, after the arrest but prior to the determination of bail for the arrest, due diligence in determining the existence of prior arrests for, and violations of, DUI-related offenses. | HB1427 |
| 1076 | Children | As enacted, expands the authority of a court to order grandparent visitation when the child is not in the custody of the parent and when the grandparent's relationship has been severely reduced. | HB1476 |
| 1077 | Traffic Safety | As enacted, redesignates, from nonmoving to moving, traffic violations for transmitting or reading written messages on hand-held devices while driving; requires that first offenders for transmitting or reading written messages on hand-held devices while driving attend and complete a driver education course. | HB1511 |
| 1078 | Remedies and Special Proceedings | As enacted, requires, upon the filing of a suit for partition of real or personal property, the parties to submit the names of three commissioners selected and agreed upon by the parties; specifies that if the parties are unable to agree, the judge will appoint three commissioners. | HB1527 |
| 1079 | TennCare | As enacted, enacts the "TennCare Omnibus Act of 2016". | HB1977 |
| 1080 | County Government | As enacted, revises certain budgeting procedures for county governments. | HB2087 |
| 1081 | Scholarships and Financial Aid | As enacted, revises the provisions governing eligibility and funding for the community college reconnect grant. | HB2117 |
| 1082 | Water Authorities | As enacted, prohibits an authority in Hamilton County from requiring a property owner who leases residential property, the property owner's agent, or a subsequent tenant of the property to pay or to guarantee the payment of charges, penalties, or other fees owed to the authority that were incurred by a former tenant of such property owner or agent; establishes other related requirements. | HB2119 |
| 1083 | Controlled Substances | As enacted, excludes from the definition of marijuana, cannabis oil containing the substance cannabidiol, with less than 0.6 percent THC, including the necessary seeds and plants, when manufactured, processed, transferred, dispensed, or possessed by certain four-year institutions of higher education in this state as part of clinical research studies on the treatment of intractable seizures, cancer, or other diseases. | HB2144 |
| 1084 | Wildlife Resources Commission | As enacted, specifies that 10 years' experience as a wildlife officer may be substituted for the requirement of a bachelor's degree for a person to qualify for the position of wildlife officer with the wildlife resources agency. | HB2342 |
| 1085 | Taxes, Real Property | As enacted, requires the county mayor of each county, after taking charge of lands bought by the county at delinquent tax sales, to evaluate the property, within 90 to 120 days, and determine whether the value of the property or amount of money the county is likely to receive if the county sold the property exceeds the financial or environmental risks associated with the property; revises related provisions and establishes related requirements. | HB2343 |
| 1086 | Sexual Offenses | As enacted, increases the classification of the offense statutory rape by an authority figure from a Class C felony to a Class B felony; revises certain elements of the offense. | HB2399 |
| 1087 | Driver Licenses | As enacted, authorizes counties and cities to establish programs allowing indigent persons who have been convicted of driving while their license is suspended or revoked to complete community service in lieu of paying the fine or costs for the conviction; requires a majority vote of the applicable local legislative body to establish such a program. | HB2530 |
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