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Chapter Number Subject Abstract Bill Number
0601 Historical Sites and Preservation As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Heritage Protection Act of 2016." HB2129
0602 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities As enacted, permits certain existing nursing home facilities to apply for a certificate of need to relocate nursing home beds to two different sites within the same county. SB1579
0603 Legal Services, Office of As enacted, revises functions of the office of legal services including duties pertaining to the code commission and duties of the revisor of statutes within the office of legal services. SB1622
0604 Public Officials As enacted, allows a person to challenge a candidate's qualifications for the office of chief administrative officer of the highway department to the Tennessee highway officials certification board. SB1689
0605 Pensions and Retirement Benefits As enacted, requires certain employees participating in TCRS to have a vesting percentage of 100 percent in retirement benefits upon attaining retirement age or completing certain years of service; revises other various provisions governing public employee benefits. SB1779
0606 Local Government, General As enacted, prohibits a local government, as a condition of doing business within the jurisdictional boundaries of the local government or contracting with the local government, from prohibiting a private employer from requesting certain information on an application for employment or during the process of hiring a new employee. SB2103
0607 Solid Waste Disposal As enacted, requires TDEC to include in its annual report to the governor and general assembly concerning the solid waste management system, progress implementation updates, including projected implement steps, on each specific component of the state's comprehensive solid waste management plan. SB0689
0608 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the advisory council on workers' compensation four years to June 30, 2020; replaces a reference to the Alliance of American Insurers with a reference to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America in the provision giving examples of the interested insurance organizations that may submit a list of qualified persons that the governor may consider in appointing the nonvoting insurance company representative to the advisory council on workers' compensation. SB1496
0609 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the applied behavior analyst licensing committee of the board of examiners in psychology six years to June 30, 2022; establishes minimum attendance requirement for committee members and removal of members who do not meet the requirement. SB1497
0610 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the board of examiners for architects and engineers four years to June 30, 2020; establishes minimum attendance requirement for board members and removal of members who do not meet the requirement. SB1503
0611 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the board of examiners for nursing home administrators six years to June 30, 2022; establishes minimum attendance requirement for board members and removal of members who do not meet the requirement. SB1504
0612 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the council for licensing hearing instrument specialists six years to June 30, 2022; establishes minimum attendance requirement for committee members and requires removal of members who do not meet the requirement. SB1515
0613 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Tennessee emergency medical services board six years to June 30, 2022; establishes minimum attendance requirement for committee members and requires removal of members who do not meet the requirement. SB1521
0614 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the state board for licensing alarm systems contractors four years to June 30, 2020; establishes minimum attendance requirement for board members and removal of members who do not meet the requirement. SB1534
0615 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the state family support council six years to June 30, 2022; establishes minimum attendance requirement for council members and removal of members who do not meet the requirement. SB1538
0616 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Tennessee advisory committee for acupuncture six years to June 30, 2022; establishes minimum attendance requirement for committee members and requires removal of members who do not meet the requirement. SB1542
0617 County Government As enacted, removes provision for Montgomery County that allowed the county to impose an additional penalty of 20 percent on suits to enforce tax liens for the purpose of defraying the expenses of such suits; places Montgomery County with other counties which impose an additional penalty of 10 percent for such purposes. SB1616
0618 Public Records As enacted, specifies that records received for surveys created, obtained, or compiled by the comptroller of the treasury are confidential; exempts surveys conducted by the office of open records counsel from this confidentiality requirement. SB1639
0619 Sunset Laws As enacted, terminates the state law library commission, with no subsequent wind-down period; transfers administrative authority for control and supervision of state law libraries to the AOC. SB1696
0620 Education As enacted, allows a student attending a Tennessee school for the first time rather than attending a Tennessee public school for the first time to be eligible for an individualized education account, if the student also meets other requirements; allows the department of education to remit funds to individualized education accounts at least quarterly rather than quarterly. SB1735
0621 Local Government, General As enacted, removes provision whereby a processing fee may not exceed five percent of the amount of payment collected by credit or debit card, in regard to the authority for a local government to set and collect a processing fee in an amount that is equal to the amount paid to a third-party processor for processing the payment. SB1838
0622 Education As enacted, specifies that excluded expenditures include nonrecurring funds for priority schools in regard to provisions governing local government appropriating funds for education for nonrecurring expenditures and such funds being excluded from the maintenance of local funding requirement and from any apportionment requirement for local transportation funding. SB1858
0623 Education As enacted, requires the department of education to establish a model policy on suicide prevention; requires an LEA to adopt its own policy or the model policy on suicide prevention. SB1992
0624 County Officers As enacted, deletes all language and cross references for revenue commissioners. SB1995
0625 Physicians and Surgeons As enacted, requires healthcare providers to provide certain women at risk of contracting cytomegalovirus (CMV) with information concerning CMV; specifies that there is no liability for failure to comply with the requirement to provide the information. SB2097
0626 Local Government, General As enacted, authorizes the comptroller to allow a municipality to submit two annual budgets every two years (a "biennial budget"), if the comptroller or the comptroller's designee determines that the municipality operates with sufficient financial resources to more than adequately service its issued debt. SB2176
0627 Students As enacted, removes certain requirements governing remand to alternative schools and expulsion for students convicted of violent felonies. SB2256
0628 Animal Cruelty and Abuse As enacted, specifies that animal owners may record inspections of their animals by audiovisual means. SB2332
0629 Motor Vehicles As enacted, allows a motor vehicle to be operated, or to be equipped with, an integrated electronic display visible to the operator while the motor vehicle's autonomous technology is engaged. SB2333
0630 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities As enacted, expands eligibility for new and vacated beds in ICF/MR facilities to individuals from the home- and community- based services waivers and the waiting list for individuals with intellectual disabilities under certain circumstances. SB1628
0631 Pharmacy, Pharmacists As enacted, allows a pharmacy to designate a pharmacy services administrative organization to file and handle an appeal challenging the maximum allowable cost set for a particular drug or medical product or device on behalf of the pharmacy. SB1789
0632 Physicians and Surgeons As enacted, permits medical students to apply for exemption from medical licensure requirements while practicing within the scope of certain training programs. SB1873
0633 Sentencing As enacted, requires a minimum sentence of 30 days in confinement upon conviction for flight from or attempt to elude a law enforcement officer in a motor vehicle or 60 days if the flight or attempt to elude creates a risk of death or injury to others, including pursuing law enforcement officers; adds intentionally concealing oneself to offense as a Class A misdemeanor. SB1966
0634 Criminal Offenses As enacted, clarifies that for the offense of trafficking for a commercial sex act it is not a defense to prosecution that the intended victim was a law enforcement officer or that the victim is a minor who consented to the act or acts constituting the offense. SB2000
0635 Tort Liability and Reform As enacted, enacts the "Asbestos Bankruptcy Trust Claims Transparency Act" and the "Asbestos Claims Priorities Act." SB2062
0636 Paternity As enacted, defines the term "putative father"; makes various changes to the termination of parental rights of a putative father. SB2531
0637 Courts, Juvenile As enacted, makes various changes to the procedure for appeals from juvenile court. SB2571
0638 Firearms and Ammunition As enacted, rewrites the minimum requirements for phrases and symbols on signs prohibiting firearms in certain places open to the public. HB0682
0639 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the department of transportation four years to June 30, 2020. HB1600
0640 Guardians and Conservators As enacted, grants the court discretion to waive the requirement that a fiduciary request court approval for any change in the nature of any investment if a minimum balance is maintained and other requirements are met; adds income-producing property to list of approved investments. HB1700
0641 Law Enforcement As enacted, specifies that the authorization for a law enforcement officer to carry firearms at all times, regardless of the officer's regular duties, unless otherwise prohibited by federal law, court order, or otherwise by law, applies to a sheriff who has been certified by the POST commission, and a deputy sheriff employed by a county as a court officer or corrections officer as authorized in writing by the sheriff. HB1750
0642 Taxes, Real Property As enacted, exempts public housing authorities from property tax liability when they enter into leases that permit the public housing authority to acquire the property for a nominal sum at or before the completion of the lease term. HB1846
0643 Agriculture As enacted, specifies that the commissioner of agriculture has exclusive authority and jurisdiction over all matters related to the regulation of seed except as otherwise provided by the Tennessee Drug Control Act or any other state statute; requires commissioner to maintain a scheme for regulating seed that is uniform across the state. HB1946
0644 Education, Dept. of As enacted, requires the department to post on the department's web site all legislation enacted by the general assembly related to the rights of students and parents or legal guardians; requires the LEA to provide a link to the list on the web site of the LEA. HB2010
0645 Public Utilities As enacted, extends the terms, conditions, obligations, and rights of a privilege or franchise for the provision of natural gas service furnished to certain municipalities, and in those municipalities, until approval of a subsequent privilege or franchise. HB2055
0646 Taxes, Gasoline, Petroleum Products As enacted, extends the deadline for wholesalers to request a refund for petroleum products sold subject to the governmental agency exemption from March 31 to June 30 of each year; removes certain purchasing requirements for governmental agency exemption eligibility. HB2108
0647 Motor Vehicles As enacted, expands authorization of all-terrain vehicles on certain portions of state highways in City of Rocky Top in Anderson County. HB2152
0648 Solid Waste Disposal As enacted, requires the commissioner of environment and conservation to conduct a study to define the processing of organic waste and incorporate the findings and recommendations into the state's comprehensive solid waste management plan. HB2197
0649 Motor Vehicles As enacted, reduces, from 60 days to 21 days, the maximum period of time in which a person engaged in towing and storing motor vehicles may charge the vehicle's owner or lienholder a storage fee; decreases the period in which notification must be given under present law by persons engaged in the business of towing and storing motor vehicles to the last known registered owner and all lienholders of a vehicle from at least 14 days to at least 10 days prior to charging a storage fee; revises the applicability of the Motor Vehicle Storage Act to remove the exemption for counties with a metropolitan form of government. HB1443
0650 Election Laws As enacted, eliminates the early voting period for a special general election if there is no opposition for any office in the election, including no write-in candidates have qualified and there are no other items on the ballot. HB1475
0651 General Assembly As enacted, requires that a copy of all reports filed with the general assembly, the speakers of the general assembly, a committee of the general assembly, or any combination thereof pursuant to statutory requirements also be filed with the legislative reference and law library. HB1492
0652 Sheriffs As enacted, authorizes sheriffs and deputy sheriffs to retain service weapon upon retirement and completion of honorable service and approval by 2/3 vote of county legislative body. HB1513
0653 DUI Offenses As enacted, allows a court to order a person convicted of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol to be subject to monitoring using a transdermal monitoring device, electronic monitoring with random alcohol or drug testing, global positioning monitoring, or any other monitoring device necessary to ensure compliance with the conditions of probation or the results of any clinical substance abuse assessment. HB1648
0654 Beer As enacted, requires, when a beer permit has been denied based on the testimony of a person at a hearing, that the person be notified if an applicant seeks a permit again at the same location within 12 months. HB1677
0655 Special License Plates As enacted, requires all nonprofit organizations that receive funds from the sale of special license plates to submit an annual accounting to the comptroller and to be in good standing with the secretary of state's office; withholds funds and deems the plate obsolete if the nonprofit organization does not comply with such requirements. HB1683
0656 Pharmacy, Pharmacists As enacted, permits a pharmacist to dispense medication in a quantity that varies from the prescription under certain circumstances, so long as the units dispensed do not exceed a 90-day supply. HB1768
0657 Education, Higher As enacted, permits THEC to designate private nonprofit institutions of higher education as Tennessee VETS campuses. HB1836
0658 Bail, Bail Bonds As enacted, authorizes a professional bondsman or agent of an insurance company to assess the same premium renewal fees for defendants who are not Tennessee residents as for those who are Tennessee residents after the first 12 months of a bond; authorizes a professional bondsman or agent to accept fees in equal installments and to seek indemnification, in certain instances. HB1867
0659 Courts As enacted, requires all pleadings and records filed in a termination of parental rights case in chancery or circuit court to be placed under seal and not subject to public disclosure, in the same manner as those filed in juvenile court, unless otherwise provided by court order. HB1903
0660 Education As enacted, requires each local school board to adopt a policy on the inclusion of religion in curriculum and instructional materials; requires each LEA to create a syllabus to be made public for grades six through 12 on social studies, science, math, and English language arts courses; requires the state board to initiate a revision process for the social studies standards adopted in 2013; requires teacher training institutions to instruct candidates regarding constitutionally permissible instruction of religious content. HB1905
0661 Taxes, Litigation As enacted, authorizes a county legislative body to use revenue from certain county litigation taxes for substance abuse prevention purposes if approved by 2/3 vote of the county legislative body. HB2155
0662 Tort Liability and Reform As enacted, clarifies that land ownership alone is not enough to qualify a landowner as a regular harborer of a dog even if the landowner gave permission to a third person to keep the dog on the land. HB2170
0663 Financial Responsibility Law As enacted, beginning January 1, 2017, increases the minimum single policy limit, cash deposit, and bond amount required for proof of insurance under the Tennessee Financial Responsibility Law of 1977. HB2305
0664 Child Custody and Support As enacted, makes various technical, non-substantive revisions to the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, including clarifying the effective date and clarifying the definition of initiating tribunal. HB2572
0665 Optometry As enacted, confers immunity from civil liability for charitable organizations and free clinics, and optometrist, ophthalmologist, or dispensing optician providing services at the free clinic, involved in facilitating the dispensing of previously owned eyeglasses by licensed optometrists and ophthalmologists. HB1469
0666 Tennessee Higher Education Commission As enacted, requires THEC to establish and ensure that all postsecondary institutions cooperatively provide for an integrated system of postsecondary education; directs THEC to maintain and publish on its web site a list of postsecondary educational institutions that possess certain characteristics. HB1680
0667 Education, Curriculum As enacted, requires the state board of education, beginning with the 2016-2017 school year, to approve appropriate computer science courses such as software engineering and computer programming that every candidate for a full high school diploma may enroll in and complete to satisfy the elective focus requirement for graduation. HB1755
0668 Child Custody and Support As enacted, revises provisions governing the transfer of cases involving child support or child custody. HB2052
0669 Students As enacted, requires LEAs to provide students with certain periods of physical activity depending on grade level; deletes an obsolete reporting requirement; requires the office of coordinated school health in the department of education to provide an annual report regarding this act. HB2148
0670 Labor and Workforce Development, Dept. of As enacted, requires the department of labor and workforce development, in consultation with the department of corrections, if so requested, to report to the governor and general assembly on existing pilot programs that focus on work programs for the successful reentry of individuals to the workforce who have been convicted of a felony. HB2334
0671 Criminal Offenses As enacted, adds aggravated rape of a child and rape of a child as offenses for which aggravated sexual battery is a lesser included offense. SB1459
0672 Privacy, Confidentiality As enacted, permits the disclosure of a decedent's mental health records to an authorized post-mortem official if necessary for the preparation of a post-mortem examination report pertaining to a case under investigation and a court order or judicial subpoena authorizes the official to obtain the records. SB1464
0673 Education, State Board of As enacted, provides for an annual authorizer fee to be paid to the state board if the state board is the chartering authority of a charter school. SB1731
0674 Emergency Communications Districts As enacted, requires removal of members for failure to attend at least 50 percent of all regularly scheduled board meetings, rather than for having three consecutive unexcused absences; deletes procedure for removal by court order or petition of board or local governing body. SB2007
0675 Criminal Procedure As enacted, authorizes general sessions and criminal court judges in Knox County to suspend court costs and litigation tax for indigent defendants; authorizes criminal court clerk to implement community service program in lieu of full payment of court costs and litigation taxes for indigent defendants; provisions expire July 1, 2018. SB2032
0676 Employees, Employers As enacted, requires the department of labor and workforce development to electronically submit a report to each member of the general assembly of the total number of final orders issued pursuant to the Tennessee Lawful Employment Act, and prohibited employment contract activity, by December 1 of each year. SB2066
0677 Education As enacted, requires schools having automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) to have annual training in the use of AEDs and an annual CPR/AED drill for school personnel; requires students in junior high or senior high to receive training in the use of AEDs during CPR instruction and, if the school has an AED, participate in a CPR/AED drill; exempts schools operated by or under contract with the department of children's services. SB2088
0678 Health Care As enacted, establishes a stroke best practices and treatment guidelines task force under the department of health. SB2092
0679 Foster Care As enacted, creates the reasonable and prudent parent standard to be used by a caregiver when determining whether to allow a foster child to participate in activities; exempts a caregiver acting in compliance with the standard from civil liability relating to injuries the child may incur in such activities. SB2530
0680 Education As enacted, requires the department of education to develop a school grading system that assigns A, B, C, D, and F letter grades to schools. SB0300
0681 County Government As enacted, allows removal of overgrown vegetation and accumulated debris on owner-occupied residential property in Putnam County. SB1462
0682 Safety As enacted, expands the categories of missing citizens for whom a media alert is sent; changes name of program from "missing citizen alert program" to "Care Alert program". SB1485
0683 Insurance, Health, Accident As enacted, requires that any state mandated health benefit that takes effect on or after the effective date of this act apply not only to private health insurance issuers but also any managed care organization contracting with the state to provide insurance through the TennCare program and state or local insurance program. SB1619
0684 Education As enacted, revises the investigative and reporting responsibilities of the office of research and education accountability in the office of the comptroller and makes other changes concerning the collection and reporting of data related to education. SB1638
0685 Taxes, Real Property As enacted, exempts owners of property that is disqualified as agricultural, forest, or open space land from liability for rollback taxes if the disqualification is due to a change in law or correction of an assessor's error and certain other conditions are met. SB1642
0686 Public Records As enacted, requires a local government entity to make records of proposals and statements that are received by the local government in response to a service request or a request for solicitation open for public inspection only after the contract award is announced. SB1742
0687 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, allows licensed wineries and farm wine producers to label and advertise wine made from apples as cider, apple cider, or hard cider. SB1784
0688 Business Organizations As enacted, revises various provisions pertaining to dissolution of certain business entities. SB1871
0689 Bail, Bail Bonds As enacted, changes from January 15 and July 15 to January 31 and July 31 the dates by which every professional bondsman licensed to do business in Tennessee must file with the court clerk a report of the bondsman's assets and liabilities. SB1892
0690 Welfare As enacted, clarifies and adds to certain reporting and rulemaking functions of the commission on aging and disability. SB1936
0691 Motor Vehicles As enacted, applies salvage, nonrepairable, rebuilt, and flood vehicle certificate of title requirements to motorcycles. SB1994
0692 Consumer Protection As enacted, redefines the time period within which a business must notify a consumer if the consumer's personal information that was held by the business was obtained by an unauthorized person from immediate notification to no later than 45 days; includes employees of the business who use the information in an unlawful manner as unauthorized persons, thus triggering the notice requirements. SB2005
0693 Zoning As enacted, increases number of members who may be elected to serve on boards of zoning appeals in certain counties and municipalities, as determined by local legislative bodies. SB2006
0694 Public Records As enacted, specifies the form in which a request to redact or remove a military discharge record from the county register of deeds may be made; makes other related changes. SB2034
0695 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, authorizes Pigeon Forge adopt an ordinance to prohibit the construction or operation of any licensed manufacturer within 1,000 feet of the state right-of-way of U.S. Highway 441 within the corporate limits of such city; not applicable to any licensed manufacturer in operation and open to the public before or on the effective date of this act. SB2086
0696 Pigeon Forge As enacted, creates seat designations for commissioners; allows voters to vote for one commissioner for each open, designated seat. SB2087
0697 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, revises provisions governing the issuance of a retail food store wine license to a retail food store located within a shopping center or other development. SB0745
0698 Schools, Private As enacted, authorizes the board or governing entity, or the chief administrative officer, of a private K-12 school or private institution of higher education to implement a handgun carry policy that either allows or prohibits the carrying of a handgun on the grounds or buildings of a private K-12 school or private university by a person who has a handgun carry permit. SB1559
0699 Regional Authorities and Special Districts As enacted, clarifies that the speakers may appoint members of the general assembly from one political party to the West Tennessee river basin authority if there is not a member representing the area from another political party. SB1590
0700 Education, Higher As enacted, provides tuition and fee waivers to full-time state employees for up to four courses per academic year provided the courses do not coincide. SB1625

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