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| Chapter Number | Subject | Abstract | Bill Number |
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| 0801 | Law Enforcement | As enacted, authorizes law enforcement officers to administer epinephrine in emergency situations in certain circumstances; authorizes physicians to prescribe epinephrine to a law enforcement agency for use by officers in emergency situations; adds immunity from civil liability for pharmacists based on any injury to an individual who is harmed by the administration of the epinephrine dispensed by the pharmacist and prescribed by a physician pursuant to this bill, unless the pharmacist acts with reckless disregard for safety. | SB1767 |
| 0802 | Education | As enacted, requires every elementary and secondary school to post the toll-free telephone number operated by the department of children's services to receive reports of child abuse or neglect in a clearly visible location in a public area that is readily accessible to students. | SB1862 |
| 0803 | Workers Compensation | As enacted, revises various provisions governing workers' compensation in regard to the case management system and settlements. | SB1880 |
| 0804 | Estates | As enacted, increases the maximum amount of a life insurance policy from $7,500 to $15,000 in order that a photocopy of a certificate of death, along with certain statements, may constitute proof of death; authorizes certain financial institutions and associations to pay out all accounts of certain deceased, and checks payable to certain decedents or their estates, to certain creditors, relatives, and representatives as long as the sums do not exceed $10,000 in the aggregate. | SB1972 |
| 0805 | Safety | As enacted, authorizes certain entities to stock epinephrine auto-injectors on their premises; authorizes employees, agents, and laypersons to provide or administer an epinephrine auto-injector under certain circumstances; requires the secretary of state to provide any rule promulgated to implement this act to the chairs of the health committee of the house and the health and welfare committee of the senate after approval by the attorney general at the same time that the rule is to be made available to the government operations committees. | SB1989 |
| 0806 | Firearms and Ammunition | As enacted, prohibits public postsecondary institutions from taking any adverse action against an employee or student solely for such person's lawful transportation and storage of a firearm or ammunition in the person's parked motor vehicle. | SB1991 |
| 0807 | Education | As enacted, requires the principal of a school to allow a patriotic society the opportunity to speak with students during school hours. | SB2098 |
| 0808 | Emergency Communications Districts | As enacted, enacts "Kari's Law," which requires an entity that owns or controls a telephone system that is capable of outbound dialing or access to configure the telephone system to allow a person initiating a 911 call on the telephone system direct access to 911 service without an additional code, digit, prefix, postfix, or trunk access code; and an entity that owns or operates a residential or business facility utilizing a telephone system so configured to configure the telephone system to provide notification to a central location on the site of the residential or business facility when a person within the facility dials 911. | SB2137 |
| 0809 | Estates | As enacted, requires that waivers that excuse a personal representative from filing court accountings be sworn by the distributees of the residue file; authorizes a person named executor in a decedent's last will and testament to decline to serve as such personal representative by filing a sworn statement or statement under penalty of perjury with the court; changes references from "executor or administrator" to "personal representative'' in the provision authorizing an executor or administrator to resign or relinquish trust. | SB2254 |
| 0810 | Therapists, Physical and Occupational | As enacted, enacts the "Physical Therapy Licensure Compact". | SB2368 |
| 0811 | Professions and Occupations | As enacted, removes authority of the council for licensing hearing instrument specialists to waive written examination requirements for certain applicants; specifies that the national board for certification of hearing instrument sciences is no longer the accepted examination for licensure. | SB2391 |
| 0812 | Education, Higher | As enacted, revises provisions regarding reporting of nonimmigrant students by higher education institutions; authorizes the commissioner of safety to issue a subpoena for valid law enforcement purposes to an institution of higher education in this state to compel the production of certain information with regard to nonimmigrant students possessing either an F-1 or M-1 student visa for instruction at the institution. | SB2394 |
| 0813 | State Employees | As enacted, prohibits a state employer from inquiring about an applicant's criminal history on an initial application form for employment under certain circumstances; excludes certain state employers from this prohibition. | SB2440 |
| 0814 | Child Custody and Support | As enacted, clarifies that a parent who spends intervals of time with a child and who wishes to relocate is required to provide notice to the other parent after custody or co-parenting has been established by the entry of a permanent parenting plan or final court order. | SB2483 |
| 0815 | Safety | As enacted, changes certain requirements for inspectors, redirects certain reports, imposes a $300 fine for certain violations, and revises other provisions concerning elevators, dumbwaiters, escalators, aerial tramways, amusement devices, and boilers. | SB2557 |
| 0816 | Workers Compensation | As enacted, revises various provisions governing payments for permanent partial disabilities; revises other provisions of the workers' compensation law. | SB2563 |
| 0817 | Purchasing and Procurement | As enacted, enacts the "Iran Divestment Act". | SB0377 |
| 0818 | Solid Waste Disposal | As enacted, authorizes Davidson County to impose and collect a solid waste collection, processing, and disposal fee; adds solid waste "processing" as an authorized expenditure for the surcharge on each ton of municipal solid waste received at a solid waste disposal facility or incinerator. | SB1049 |
| 0819 | Veterinarians | As enacted, revises various provisions of the Tennessee Veterinary Practice Act, such as specifying that the "practice of veterinary medicine" occurs wherever the patient is at the time services are rendered and authorizing the board of veterinary medical examiners to deny, suspend or revoke any license or to otherwise discipline an applicant or licensee who is found guilty by the board of practicing veterinary medicine without establishing and maintaining a valid veterinarian-client-patient relationship. | SB1429 |
| 0820 | Education, Higher | As enacted, grants in-state tuition and fees at public higher education institutions to certain dependent children of military parents regardless of place of residency if the military parent perished as the result of a targeted attack that occurred in Tennessee. | SB1431 |
| 0821 | Lottery, Charitable | As enacted, removes permanent disqualification for organizations failing to return requisite percentage of gross proceeds to charitable purposes or programs in two consecutive annual event periods and replaces with a five-year disqualification; prohibits disbursement of prizes to ineligible participants and authorizes alternate selection of winners for such prizes within 30 days of the annual event; revises other provisions of the Tennessee Charitable Gaming Implementation Law. | SB1565 |
| 0822 | Real Property | As enacted, prohibits a local governmental unit from enacting zoning regulations that require the allocation of a percentage of existing or newly constructed private residential or commercial rental units for long-term retention as affordable or workforce housing. | SB1636 |
| 0823 | Traffic Safety | As enacted, establishes requirements for the operation of electric bicycles. | SB1705 |
| 0824 | Auditing | As enacted, establishes the position of executive internal auditor and gives the position various responsibilities related to internal audits of executive branch agencies. | SB1741 |
| 0825 | Special License Plates | As enacted, authorizes issuance of Combat Action new specialty earmarked license plates. | SB1752 |
| 0826 | Workers Compensation | As enacted, authorizes the bureau of workers' compensation of the department of labor and workforce development to investigate complaints alleging certain disclosure and payment requirements related to rental and assignment of PPO network rights; authorizes certain penalties. | SB1758 |
| 0827 | Election Laws | As enacted, makes various revisions to election laws such as when a deficient voter registration may be corrected, the timing of delivery of poll books and records to the counting board, and prohibiting the appointment of a candidate's spouse on the ballot to serve as a poll watcher. | SB1945 |
| 0828 | Employees, Employers | As enacted, makes various changes to the Tennessee Lawful Employment Act, including requiring, beginning January 1, 2017, a private employer with 50 or more employees to enroll in the E-verify program. | SB1965 |
| 0829 | Controlled Substances | As enacted, specifies that, on and after July 1, 2016, a new applicant may only qualify as a pain management specialist through board certification by the American board of interventional pain physicians (ABIPP) by passing parts 1 and 2 of its examination, and holding an unencumbered Tennessee license, and maintaining the minimum number of CME hours in pain management to satisfy retention of ABIPP diplomate status. | SB2057 |
| 0830 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, removes the requirement that in order for a retail food store to obtain a license to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on premises that the premises and business for on-premises consumption be separate and distinct from the retail food store; authorizes the alcoholic beverage commission to issue a limited license to a retail food store authorizing a restaurant within a retail food store to serve wine but no other alcoholic beverages within a designated area within the retail food store. | SB2113 |
| 0831 | Education | As enacted, encourages public high school students to participate voluntarily in at least 10 hours of community service each semester; requires the student's public high school to recognize the student's achievement at graduation in a suitable manner in certain circumstances. | SB2165 |
| 0832 | Local Government, General | As enacted, expands the authority of the local governments to make interfund loans to include all funds derived from the sale of a Tennessee private act hospital; limits capital outlay notes from the sale of a Tennessee private act hospital not to exceed a period of 20 fiscal years. | SB2380 |
| 0833 | Courts, Juvenile | As enacted, establishes confidentiality and accessibility of assessment reports compiled by the juvenile court in Davidson County. | SB2419 |
| 0834 | Traffic Safety | As enacted, enacts the "Elena Zamora Memorial Act," which changes the criminal penalties for failure to yield when that violation results in an accident resulting in serious bodily injury to or death of any person. | SB2425 |
| 0835 | Education, Higher | As enacted, encourages all public institutions of higher education to offer instruction aimed at increasing the awareness and prevention of hate crime offenses, sexual battery, sexual harassment, and date rape to all entering freshmen during orientation or introductory studies; requires each public institution of higher education to require all entering freshmen, during orientation or introductory studies, to receive instruction aimed at increasing the awareness and prevention of sexual assault, sexual battery, sexual harassment, and date rape. | SB2447 |
| 0836 | Water Pollution | As enacted, expands the notice requirement when lead is present in the drinking water supply. | SB2450 |
| 0837 | State Employees | As enacted, revises provisions governing the appeal procedure for public employees. | SB2485 |
| 0838 | Professions and Occupations | As enacted, revises various provisions regarding cemetery owners and companies, architects, insurers, shops licensed by the board of cosmetology and barber examiners, funeral directors, real estate firms, real estate brokers, affiliate brokers, time-share salespersons, and acquisition agents. | SB2534 |
| 0839 | Day Care | As enacted, makes various changes to the disclosures, background checks, and training required for child care agencies, including requiring volunteers to disclose any criminal history and be subject to criminal history records checks. | SB2554 |
| 0840 | Motor Vehicles | As enacted, allows stickers for disabled drivers' license plates to be affixed on any license plate, instead of only on new specialty earmarked plates. | HB0207 |
| 0841 | Education, Higher | As enacted, requires public institutions of higher education to accept from a student proof of the student's prior or current military service as proof of any immunization required of the student for enrollment at the institution. | HB0458 |
| 0842 | Traffic Safety | As enacted, enacts the "Slow Poke Law," which prohibits the operation of vehicles in the left lane of interstates and multilane divided highways, except for passing and other purposes. | HB1416 |
| 0843 | Wills | As enacted, revises provisions governing witness signatures on certain wills. | HB1472 |
| 0844 | Education | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Student Assessment Transparency Act". | HB1537 |
| 0845 | Tourist Development, Dept. of | As enacted, transfers primary administrative responsibilities for the Tennessee Adventure Tourism and Development Act of 2011 from the department of economic and community development to the department of tourist development. | HB1556 |
| 0846 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the department of finance and administration one year to June 30, 2020; requires the division of benefits administration to appear before the government operations joint evaluation committee on judiciary and government no later than December 1, 2016, to present the clinical outcome measures report conducted by Aon Hewitt; corrects reference to division of strategic technology solutions. | HB1602 |
| 0847 | Tobacco, Tobacco Products | As enacted, authorizes Davidson County and municipalities located in Sullivan County to prohibit, by local ordinance, smoking on the grounds of a swimming pool or outdoor amphitheater owned or operated by the local government. | HB1657 |
| 0848 | Public Employees | As enacted, requires that attorneys' fees be awarded for state and local government employees when such employees are sued in an individual capacity and are the prevailing party. | HB1679 |
| 0849 | Bonds and Undertakings, Regulation of | As enacted, requires that bonds issued by the state funding board be sold in such manner and at such times as may be approved by the board rather than requiring those bonds to be sold at public sale or, at the discretion of the board and until June 30, 2016, at private sale; deletes provisions requiring the board to report periodically to the finance committees of the general assembly as to the terms and method of sale of bonds sold until June 30, 2016. | HB1686 |
| 0850 | County Clerks | As enacted, reduces the fee paid to county clerks for filing a business tax return from $7.00 to $5.00 by eliminating the $2.00 that is earmarked for clerks' computer expenses. | HB1764 |
| 0851 | Garnishments and Executions | As enacted, revises provisions governing the garnishment of earnings; changes references from garnishment of "salaries, wages or other compensation" to garnishment of "earnings". | HB1775 |
| 0852 | Highway Signs | As enacted, extends, from 180 days to 12 months, the time in which a person granted a permit authorizing a digital billboard has to erect and begin displaying an advertising message before revocation of the permit; allows an extension period of an additional 12 months if the permit holder applies to the commissioner of transportation and pays an additional permit fee of $200 prior to the expiration of the original 12-month period. | HB1789 |
| 0853 | Taxes, Real Property | As enacted, authorizes a county mayor to sell land held by the county due to delinquent taxes during the redemption period under certain conditions; reduces the amount of time a tax must be due on abandoned property before the tax lien can be enforced from two years to one year; makes other related changes. | HB1826 |
| 0854 | TennCare | As enacted, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment of 2016" and continues the hospital payment rate corridors applicable to payments by managed care organizations to hospitals for services provided to TennCare enrollees established by 2015 annual coverage assessment. | HB1872 |
| 0855 | Health, Dept. of | As enacted, enacts the "Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Compact." | HB1888 |
| 0856 | Veterans | As enacted, allows employees authorized by the Tennessee state veterans' homes board to solicit donations for the improvement of existing homes or for future construction of new homes. | HB1897 |
| 0857 | Wine & Wineries | As enacted, permits the issuance of self-distribution permits to farm wine permit holders, subject to certain conditions. | HB1989 |
| 0858 | Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of | As enacted, repeals registration requirement for certain health clubs; specifies that such clubs post a surety bond in the amount of $25,000 for each location conducting business in this state or certify their net worth of at least $10 million; removes the provision whereby a health club agreement is unenforceable against the buyer if the health club fails to obtain or fails to maintain a certificate of registration. | HB2037 |
| 0859 | Administrative Procedure (UAPA) | As enacted, revises provisions governing construction of the Act and hearings regarding rules; requires an agency to demostrate by convincing evidence, certain factors that justify continued existence of an agency rule. | HB2068 |
| 0860 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor offense for any person who leases a motor vehicle on or after July 1, 2016, to knowingly install, conceal, or otherwise place an electronic tracking device in or on the motor vehicle without the consent of the purchaser of the vehicle. | HB2095 |
| 0861 | Forfeiture of Assets | As enacted, requires the department of safety to report annually to the speakers of the senate and the house and the chairs of the judiciary committee of the senate, civil justice committee of the house, and criminal justice committee of the house, a report detailing certain information regarding forfeitures from the prior year. | HB2176 |
| 0862 | Professions and Occupations | As enacted, enacts the "Pawnbroker Restitution Act"; clarifies that a pawnbroker is not required to relinquish an item to a claimant without a court order; revises other pawnbroker provisions. | HB2256 |
| 0863 | Human Rights | As enacted, eliminates requirement that a party remove a case to state court within 90 days after the complaint is filed if the Tennessee human rights commission determines there is reasonable cause to believe discrimination took place in regard to housing. | HB2335 |
| 0864 | Firearms and Ammunition | As enacted, prohibits law enforcement officers of this state and its political subdivisions from enforcing provisions of international law and treaties that limit gun rights under Article I, Section 26 of the state constitution. | HB2389 |
| 0865 | Orders of Protection | As enacted, removes the exclusion of petitioners who are victims of sexual assualt or stalking from the provisions whereby an order of protection may direct the respondent to vacate home shared with the petitioner or to provide suitable housing alternative for the petitioner. | HB2391 |
| 0866 | Liens | As enacted, revises provisions governing liens under the Tennessee Condominium Act of 2008. | HB2401 |
| 0867 | Motor Vehicles | As enacted, prohibits certain persons engaged in the business of towing or storing motor vehicles from charging a storage fee for any day on which the vehicle is not available for release to the owner, lienholder, or insurer, unless such failure to release is based on a hold placed on the vehicle by law enforcement; requires such businesses to release the vehicle to the insurer or lienholder, or an authorized agent or representative, upon the insurer's or lienholder's payment of reasonable charges due, without requiring additional consent from the owner of the vehicle. | HB2402 |
| 0868 | Education, Higher | As enacted, revises various provisions of the Postsecondary Education Authorization Act of 1974 and renames the Act to be the "Tennessee Higher Education Authorization Act of 2016"; provides for optional expedited authorization. | HB2573 |
| 0869 | Education, Higher | As enacted, restructures the board of regents; establishes state university boards of trustees; makes other changes necessary to effectuate the restructuring; revises the composition of the Tennessee higher education commission | HB2578 |
| 0870 | Probation and Parole | As enacted, specifies that when declining, revoking, or rescinding parole, the board of probation and parole may set the period of time before the prisoner receives another hearing on the same offense or offenses; no period set by the board may exceed 10 years. | HB0464 |
| 0871 | Health Care | As enacted, creates a special joint committee to study issues relative to lupus. | HB1164 |
| 0872 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, creates the offense of unlawful exposure, which is committed when a person distributes a private image of the intimate parts of another with the intent to cause emotional distress and the depicted person suffers emotional distress. | HB1244 |
| 0873 | Controlled Substances | As enacted, specifies that marijuana concentrates and oils are included in the definition of marijuana. | HB1252 |
| 0874 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, expands the definition of "theater" for purposes of the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption to include certain movie theaters that have a beer permit and serve prepared food to patrons; removes requirement that wine and beer only be sold at a theater in an area accessible only to persons 21 years of age or older. | HB1276 |
| 0875 | Handgun Permits | As enacted, reduces the fee for lifetime handgun carry permit, effective January 1, 2017, from $500 to be an amount equal to the regular carry permit fee plus $200, which under present law will equal $300 for the lifetime permit. | HB1424 |
| 0876 | Sentencing | As enacted, punishes sixth offense DUI as a Class C felony; clarifies "prior convictions" for purposes of enhancing a DUI sentence; removes Class E felony designation for third or subsequent conviction for simple possession or casual exchange of a controlled substance in certain situations; removes mandatory 24-hour litter removal requirement for first DUI offenders. | HB1478 |
| 0877 | Gas, Petroleum Products, Volatile Oils | As enacted, authorizes a suspension of tank fees under the Tennessee Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Act, in certain situations; revises certain provisions regarding the petroleum underground storage tank fund. | HB1503 |
| 0878 | Highways, Roads and Bridges | As enacted, provides for the naming of certain roads and bridges in honor of certain specified persons, and provides for the placement of other certain signage. | HB1523 |
| 0879 | Special License Plates | As enacted, authorizes the issuance of certain new specialty earmarked plates; extends the minimum order deadline for certain plates; revises other special license plate provisions. | HB1524 |
| 0880 | Computers and Electronic Processing | As enacted, authorizes the department of finance and administration to manage online payments to state government; authorizes the charging of additional fees to cover the cost of accepting online payments; clarifies that an online payment through the state portal does not discharge an obligation to the state until the state receives actual final payment. | HB1544 |
| 0881 | Taxes | As enacted, specifies additional circumstances under which the commissioner of revenue may waive penalties for delinquent franchise and excise taxes; alters the formula for calculating quarterly estimated payments for franchise and excise taxes; reduces penalties for deficient or delinquent estimated franchise and excise tax payments from 5 percent to 2 percent per month; makes other related revisions. | HB1554 |
| 0882 | Education | As enacted, authorizes local boards of education to admit pupils from outside their respective local school systems at any time without the approval of the previous LEA; adds that in cases where an LEA has created a regional school with a specific focus on STEM, local BEP school funds will also follow the student into the LEA to which the student is transferring and no tuition may be charged by the receiving LEA; revises other related provisions. | HB1638 |
| 0883 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities | As enacted, extends the nursing home assessment by one year; revises certain long-term care provisions. | HB1656 |
| 0884 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, clarifies the offense of harassment with respect to the methods by which harassment may occur and broadens the offense to include the methods available through modern technology. | HB1666 |
| 0885 | Taxes, Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, extends certain alternative distribution provisions concerning liquor-by-the-drink tax proceeds to local governments. | HB1691 |
| 0886 | Public Health | As enacted, requires the commissioner of health to encourage public health organizations, the medical community, the department of education, the department of labor and workforce development, the department of general services, and other relevant stakeholders to examine the asthma prevention protocols posted on the web site of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and related information; requires the commissioner to include on the department of health web site the Internet links to the protocols to better assist people affected by environmental illnesses and multiple chemical sensitivities. | HB1712 |
| 0887 | Industrial Development | As enacted, specifies, in regard to the requirement that the Tennessee technology development corporation provide financial assistance through contracts, grants and loans to programs of scientific and technological research and development, that such assistance includes matching grants to Tennessee's industries and universities to conduct applied research of strategic importance to Tennessee's economy. | HB1837 |
| 0888 | DUI Offenses | As enacted, establishes requirements for the removal of an ignition interlock device and revises other related provisions. | HB1843 |
| 0889 | Education | As enacted, enacts the "Course Access Program Act." | HB1879 |
| 0890 | Taxes, Hotel Motel | As enacted, authorizes the City of Spring Hill to levy a privilege tax upon the privilege of occupancy by a 2/3 vote of its governing body; amount of tax not to exceed three percent of the consideration charged by the operator; proceeds to be used solely for tourism development purposes. | HB1913 |
| 0891 | Agriculture | As enacted, redefines industrial hemp under the Tennessee Right to Farm Act, and revises other provisions of the Act. | HB2032 |
| 0892 | Highway Signs | As enacted, specifies that TDOT has sole and exclusive jurisdiction over the design, erection, installation, and maintenance of TODS signs located within the right-of-way of any highway designated as part of the state highway system, including TODS signs within the corporate limits of municipalities; creates certain exceptions. | HB2064 |
| 0893 | Criminal Procedure | As enacted, allows petitioner to request expedited expunction in cases where the person was arrested or charged due to mistaken identity. | HB2102 |
| 0894 | Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of | As enacted, requires the commissioner to submit a report to the health and welfare committee of the senate and the health committee of the house concerning the feasibility of a pilot program for one county that seeks to address overcrowding in jails and correction institutions by providing diversionary or transitional services that include mental health services and supports, substance abuse treatment and counseling, health care, and employment and housing supports. | HB2107 |
| 0895 | Domestic Violence | As enacted, specifies that if domestic abuse is the underlying offense for which a tenancy is terminated, only the perpetrator may be evicted; enacts other provisions governing and domistic violence. | HB2116 |
| 0896 | Tennessee Bureau of Investigation | As enacted, requires the TBI to provide to the commissioner of health and to the general assembly an annual report on all law enforcement-related deaths that occurred in the prior calendar year. | HB2122 |
| 0897 | Taxes, Litigation | As enacted, authorizes Rutherford County to levy an additional litigation tax to be used for construction and maintenance of a jail, workhouse, juvenile detention center, or courthouse project. | HB2145 |
| 0898 | Alcohol Offenses, Sales | As enacted, revises provisions governing violations and penalties relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages. | HB2240 |
| 0899 | Probation and Parole | As enacted, specifies that a person with a felony sentence of two years or less who is placed on probation based on reaching their release eligibility date may have their probation revoked pursuant to a revocation proceeding; revises other related provisions. | HB2374 |
| 0900 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, adds certain situations in which the use of an unmanned aircraft to capture an image is allowed. | HB2376 |
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