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Chapter Number Subject Abstract Bill Number
0901 Controlled Substances As enacted, requires a prescriber to provide certain information prior to prescribing more than a three-day supply of an opioid or an opioid dosage that exceeds a total of a 180 morphine milligram equivalent dose to a woman of childbearing age. HB2348
0902 Public Contracts As enacted, authorizes state procurement agencies to enter into an energy performance or guaranteed energy savings contract using alternative procurement or contracting vehicles for purposes of developing and implementing up to five energy performance or guaranteed energy savings contract pilot projects for state-owned buildings and facilities. HB2432
0903 Firearms and Ammunition As enacted, revises various provisions regarding firearms including making consistent the effect that restoration of citizenship has upon the possession and purchase of firearms and the obtaining of a handgun carry permit. HB2464
0904 State Employees As enacted, revises provisions governing appeals under state service laws. HB2469
0905 Child Custody and Support As enacted, allows a prevailing party to recover reasonable attorney's fees in a criminal or civil contempt action to enforce a decree of alimony, child support, or custody. HB2526
0906 Firearms and Ammunition As enacted, authorizes an LEA to offer a noncompulsory gun safety class or program for students in elementary school; prohibits the use or presence of live ammunition or live fire. HB2550
0907 State Employees As enacted, revises provisions governing the use of leave by state employees. HB2590
0908 Municipal Government As enacted, revises provisions governing city manager-commission charters in regard to the election of commissioners in Fairview. HB2637
0909 Public Funds and Financing As enacted, authorizes obligations guaranteed as to principal and interest by Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, Sallie Mae, and other similar organizations as instruments for investment to be made by the treasurer. HB2688
0910 Local Education Agencies As enacted, requires LEAs to provide written notice to a student's parents or legal guardians before the student participates in any mental health screening. HB2690
0911 Taxes, Ad Valorem As enacted, authorizes governing bodies to exclude from taxable value of property appearing on the assessment roll, the taxable value of properties subject to tax increment financing and properties within areas where an economic impact plan has been approved. SB1923
0912 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, designates certain facilities located in Williamson County as premier type tourist resorts for purposes of on-premises sales of alcoholic beverages. SB1941
0913 Liens As enacted, creates a streamlined process for certain public officials to contest liens on real property that they believe to lack any legal basis. SB1971
0914 Criminal Offenses As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Stolen Valor Act". SB2030
0915 Utilities, Utility Districts As enacted, authorizes the board of commissioners of utility district in Blountville to increase the pay for each commissioner per meeting from $300 to $350 by resolution of the board. SB2043
0916 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities As enacted, classifies certain types of records received by the department of health or the attorney general and reporter from the recipients or applicants of a certificate of public advantage for a cooperative agreement issued under the Hospital Cooperation Act of 1993 as not subject to disclosure under the public records law. SB2048
0917 Sentencing As enacted, prohibits a sentencing court from making a sentencing determination based in whole or in part on defendant's consent or refusal to consent to any form of temporary or permanent birth control, sterilization, or family planning services regardless of whether the defendant's consent is voluntarily given; prohibits courts accepting a guilty plea agreement or plea of nolo contendere, or imposing a sentence, if any part of the plea or sentence is in whole or in part conditioned or based upon the criminal defendant submitting to any form of temporary or permanent birth control, sterilization, or family planning services, regardless of whether the defendant's consent is voluntarily given. SB2133
0918 Capitol As enacted, directs the state capitol commission, subject to funding from nonstate sources, to place a POW-MIA Chair of Honor on the capitol grounds. SB2159
0919 Taxes, Exemption and Credits As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Visual Content Modernization Act of 2018". SB2236
0920 Local Education Agencies As enacted, changes the manner for which LEAs using the uniform grading system for lottery scholarship purposes, but another grading system based on quality points for other purposes, must award additional quality points for honors and other advanced courses. SB2314
0921 Courts, General Sessions As enacted, authorizes Unicoi County to employ a general sessions court judge full time at an increased salary upon adoption of resolution by two-thirds majority vote of the county legislative body. SB2370
0922 Municipal Government As enacted, authorizes the City of Hendersonville to add the storm water user's fee to the real property tax notice, subject to passage of an ordinance by a two-thirds majority of the legislative body. SB2420
0923 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration As enacted, exempts certain active, volunteer firefighters and rescue squad members from payment of the regular registration fee at the time of renewal for license plate issued to the volunteer firefighter or rescue squad member; authorizes a county legislative body to waive the motor vehicle tax for motor vehicles receiving the exemption from the registration fee, if the waiver is approved in the same manner as the adoption of the motor vehicle tax. SB0270
0924 Taxes As enacted, exempts methanol from gasoline and petroleum taxes and sales and use taxes when not blended or composed of other motor fuels. SB0692
0925 Criminal Offenses As enacted, revises the punishment for the assaultive offenses under certain circumstances; revises provisions governing the reporting of 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. SB0949
0926 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration As enacted, creates a "5th Special Forces Group (Airborne)" military license plate for issuance to current or former members of the unit and spouses or children of such members. SB1474
0927 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Tennessee film, entertainment and music commission for four years to June 30, 2022. SB1560
0928 Sunset Laws As enacted, reduces by one year the entity review period of the human rights commission by changing the entity termination date from June 30, 2021 to June 30, 2020. SB1567
0929 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) As enacted, clarifies definitions of "rule" and "policy" for rulemaking purposes and revises other administrative procedures. SB1572
0930 Tickets, Admission As enacted, adds as an act that constitutes the offense of engaging in a deceptive business practice, a violation of the Tennessee Trade Mark Act, and a violation of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act the use of the trade name or trademark, or a confusingly similar trade name or trademark of any place of entertainment, or the name of any event, person, or entity scheduled to perform at a place of entertainment in the domain or subdomain of a ticket marketplace URL. SB1640
0931 Notary Public As enacted, revises various provisions regarding electronic acknowledgments and enacts the "Online Notary Public Act" SB1758
0932 Education, Higher As enacted, transfers operation of the Tennessee Foreign Language Institute from the Institute's board to the Institute for Public Service of the University of Tennessee; renames the institute to be the Tennessee Foreign Language Center; makes other related changes. SB1842
0933 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, revises various provisions regarding alcoholic beverages, including provisions regarding delivery and provisions governing the alcoholic beverage commission. SB1866
0934 Sentencing As enacted, enacts "Henry's Law," which requires that a person convicted for second degree murder resulting from unlawful distribution of Schedule I or II drug where victim is a minor be punished from within one range higher than the sentencing range otherwise appropriate for the person. SB1875
0935 Education, State Board of As enacted, requires a director of schools, director of public charter school, or director of a nonpublic school who learns of the conviction of a licensed educator employed by the LEA for certain offenses to report the conviction to the state board; authorizes the state board to reprimand such a director for failure to report; enacts other related provisions. SB2011
0936 Education, State Board of As enacted, requires the state board of education to develop a policy for transmittal of final disciplinary actions on educator licenses to the national clearinghouse administered by the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification (NASDTEC); requires the state board to post on its website all of its final disciplinary actions on educator licenses. SB2012
0937 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel As enacted, revises the teacher code of ethics; requires annual professional development for teachers on the teacher code of ethics; requires teacher preparation programs to include training for all students on the teacher code of ethics. SB2013
0938 Local Education Agencies As enacted, prohibits LEAs from entering into a non-disclosure agreement during, or as a prerequisite to, settlement for any act of sexual misconduct; prohibits employees from assisting others in obtaining employment if the employee knows that the person has engaged in sexual misconduct involving a minor or student. SB2015
0939 Public Records As enacted, makes confidential certain records of a food-based business incubation service provider created by a municipality. SB2049
0940 Zoning As enacted, revises provisions governing the grandfathering of certain properties in regard to land use restrictions and other related provisions regarding replacing facilities in certain circumstances. SB2067
0941 Auctions and Auctioneers As enacted, creates the Tennessee Task Force on Auction Law Modernization. SB2081
0942 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) As enacted, continues permanent rules filed with the secretary of state on or after January 1, 2017. SB2295
0943 Finance and Administration, Dept. of As enacted, requires the department to establish a procedure under the CoverKids Act that sends an email notice to an enrollee, or the parent or legal guardian of the enrollee stating that the enrollee must redetermine eligibility for the program; specifies that email notice is required only when the department has an email address for the enrollee of the parent or guardian of the enrollee. SB2312
0944 Beer As enacted, authorizes Montgomery County to control the issuance, revocation, and suspension of licenses for the storage, sale, manufacture, and distribution of beer within a park owned by the county that is in the municipal boundaries of Clarksville; clarifies reference to local governmental entity in certain provision regarding beer permits. SB2331
0945 Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation As enacted, authorizes county or district health department to operate a needle and hypodermic syringe exchange program on petition of the county legislative body and approval by the department of health. SB2359
0946 Education, Dept. of As enacted, requires the department to establish in at least two public schools a three-year pilot program to improve parent-teacher engagement in any grade from kindergarten through grade two. SB2571
0947 Economic and Community Development, Dept. of As enacted, directs the commissioner to report to the local government committee of the house of representatives and the state and local government committee of the senate each year on or before January 15 concerning the department's financial and program monitoring of the use of federal community development block grant funding to counties and municipalities from the United States department of housing and community development for disaster resilience purposes. SB2628
0948 Education As enacted, provides that any voluntary association that establishes and enforces bylaws or rules for interscholastic sports competition for secondary schools in this state is subject to an annual audit by the comptroller of the treasury; enacts other provisions regarding school athletics associations. SB2662
0949 Transportation, Dept. of As enacted, revises and enacts provisions governing the sale of surplus real property by the department. SB2696
0950 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, designates The Caverns in Grundy County and the South Jackson Civic Center in Tullahoma as premier type tourist resorts for purposes of selling alcoholic beverages for consumption on premises. SB2706
0951 Criminal Procedure As enacted, prohibits a person charged with incest from participating in judicial diversion. HB0149
0952 Taxes, Exemption and Credits As enacted, directs the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) to perform a study of the potential, overall effects of creating a franchise and excise tax credit for shippers with pickups or deliveries originating in, or destined to, Shelby County. HB1345
0953 Motor Vehicles As enacted, subject to certain federal approval, abolishes certain vehicle inspection and maintenance programs to maintain compliance with national ambient air quality standards and enacts related provisions. HB1782
0954 Licenses As enacted, exempts certain low-income persons from initial licensure fees imposed by certain health related boards and professional regulatory boards. HB1805
0955 Human Services, Dept. of As enacted, establishes the state palliative care and quality of life council to advise the executive director of the Tennessee commission on aging and disability on issues related to palliative care. HB2118
0956 Local Government, General As enacted, authorizes online education courses as a method of compliance for continuing education requirements mandated for commissioners of a municipal utility board; requires the comptroller of the treasury to offer online education courses, beginning no later than March 1, 2019, for the purposes of compliance with continuing education requirements; enacts other related provisions. HB2338
0957 Taxes, Real Property As enacted, authorizes a nonprofit children's hospital located in Knox County or within a municipality located within Knox County to claim and file a property tax exemption as a religious, charitable, scientific, or nonprofit educational institution or as an educational institution. HB2356
0958 Students As enacted, revises and updates law regarding school attendance and truancy and discipline. HB2376
0959 Taxes As enacted, enacts the "Event Tourism Act". HB2384
0960 Landlord and Tenant As enacted, classifies as material noncompliance and default by a tenant with a rental agreement, if the tenant pretends to have a disability-related need for an assistance animal in order to obtain an exception to a provision in a rental agreement that prohibits pets or establishes limits on the types of pets that tenants may possess on residential rental property. HB2439
0961 DUI Offenses As enacted, revises provisions governing the examination of specimen collected for determining the presence of drugs and alcohol. HB2450
0962 Tort Liability and Reform As enacted, declares settlement agreement provisions that have purpose or effect of concealing details relating to claim of child sexual abuse, except for identifying information concerning victim, as void and unenforceable and contrary to public policy of state. HB2523
0963 Taxes, Sales As enacted, specifies that any entity that qualifies for exemption as a spallation neutron source facility will not be eligible for a sales and use tax exemption with regard to any industrial machinery that is used in operation of a qualified data center or used primarily for research and development; provides exception for a leadership computing facility that is funded by the United States government or instrumentality thereof, not funded with any state funds, and located at a national laboratory. HB2531
0964 Child Abuse As enacted, requires the department of children's services to develop instructional guidelines for child safety training programs for members of professions that frequently deal with children who may be at risk of abuse. HB2606
0965 Employees, Employers As enacted, prohibits public and private employers from requiring an employee or prospective employee to execute a non-disclosure agreement with respect to sexual harassment in the workplace as a condition of employment. HB2613
0966 Human Rights As enacted, creates the Tennessee Civil Rights Crimes Information, Reconciliation, and Research Center. HB2624
0967 General Assembly As enacted, designates the public space constructed on top of the parking garage attached to the Cordell Hull Building as the "Beth Harwell Plaza"; designates the new tunnel that connects the Cordell Hull Building to the State Capitol as the "Ron Ramsey Tunnel". HB2643
0968 Sunset Laws As enacted, terminates the Tennessee health information committee. SB0105
0969 Boats, Boating As enacted, adds provisions regarding regulation of non-motorized vessels; deletes provision that exempts renters of watercraft who have completed a safety orientation from the requirement that any person born after January 1, 1989, who operates any vessel must successfully complete a boating safety examination and receive a certificate from the Tennessee wildlife resources agency or be accompanied on the vessel by a person who was born on or before January 1, 1989, or is 18 years of age or older and is certified to operate a vessel. SB1335
0970 Criminal Offenses As enacted, revises the Freedom from Unwarranted Surveillance Act. SB1993
0971 Taxes, Ad Valorem As enacted, specifies that aged whiskey barrels, during the time in which such barrels are owned or leased by a person that produces or manufactures whiskey in those barrels, are considered, and have always been considered, "articles manufactured from the produce of this state, or any other state of the union, in the hands of the manufacturer", for purposes of exemption from property taxation. SB2076
0972 Real Property As enacted, enacts the "Short-Term Rental Unit Act"; clarifies that a short-term rental unit is not considered a "hotel" under the Hotel and Public Swimming Pool Inspection Act. HB1020
0973 Immigration As enacted, prohibits state and local governmental entities and officials from adopting sanctuary policies; enacts other related provisions. HB2315
0974 Judicial Districts As enacted, creates one additional trial court each in the sixteenth, nineteenth, and twenty-first judicial districts; requires the speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house to establish an advisory task force to review the composition of Tennessee's current judicial districts. SB0005
0975 Criminal Offenses As enacted, includes within the offense of especially aggravated stalking a person 18 years of age or older who commits the offense of stalking or aggravated stalking against a victim who is less than 12 years of age at any time during the person's course of conduct. SB0200
0976 Education, Curriculum As enacted, enacts the "Tom Cronan Physical Education Act". SB0558
0977 Water Pollution As enacted, requires each local board of education to develop a policy to implement a program to reduce the potential sources of lead contamination in drinking water in public schools that incorporates periodic, not to exceed biennial, testing of lead levels in drinking water sources at school facilities that were constructed prior to January 1, 1998. SB0619
0978 Controlled Substances As enacted, makes various changes and additions to law concerning opioids; creates task force with duty to promulgate rules that create a uniform minimum disciplinary action that will apply to any healthcare practitioner who treats a human patient with an opioid and that healthcare practitioner's licensing board or agency finds that the healthcare practitioner engaged in a significant deviation or pattern of deviation from sound medical judgment; requires comptroller to conduct certain studies. SB0777
0979 Barbers and/or Cosmetologists As enacted, authorizes a licensed cosmetologist, manicurist, aesthetician, or natural hair stylist to practice such occupations in a recipient's residence, short-term residence, or place of business. SB0797
0980 Education, Higher As enacted, enacts the "Student Due Process Protection Act". SB0824
0981 Disabled Persons As enacted, authorizes department of safety to issue, upon request, special designation on driver and photo identification licenses for person with acquired brain injury, intellectual disability, or developmental disability; establishes certain procedures for law enforcement interactions with persons with such a condition. SB1109
0982 General Services, Dept. of As enacted, requires the department to establish a state vehicle abuse hotline and website; requires that vehicles leased and owned by the state have decals providing a telephone number or website information for complaints. SB1281
0983 Child Abuse As enacted, requires the department of children's services to develop guidelines on the best practices for identifying and reporting signs of child abuse, child sexual abuse, and human trafficking in which the victim is a child; requires the department of education to use the guidelines to identify child abuse training programs appropriate for teachers; requires local education agencies and public charter schools to ensure teachers complete a child abuse training program. SB1302
0984 Health Care As enacted, creates the Tennessee Task Force on Lupus Education and Awareness. SB1387
0985 Special License Plates As enacted, authorizes issuance of government service license plates for vehicles leased by governmental entities. SB1479
0986 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities As enacted, revises certain provisions regarding eligible persons on referral list for services. SB1494
0987 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the department of correction for two years to June 30, 2020; requires the department to appear before the government operations joint evaluation committee on judiciary and government no later than December 31, 2018, to update the committee on the department's progress in addressing the findings set forth in the November 2017 performance audit report. SB1529
0988 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the real estate commission for two years to June 30, 2020. SB1549
0989 Boards and Commissions As enacted, creates appointment process for vacant citizen member positions on the Tennessee peace officer standards and training commission. SB1583
0990 Special License Plates As enacted, makes any person licensed as an amateur radio operator eligible to purchase an amateur radio special license plate, rather than allowing only certain persons to purchase such plates. SB1588
0991 Education As enacted, creates a liability framework for an employer that accepts or employs a student who is participating in work-based learning coordinated through the student's LEA or a state institution of higher education, including, but not limited to, Tennessee colleges of applied technology; establishes a qualified work-based learning student grant program. SB1649
0992 Political Parties As enacted, specifies that a person who is an honorably discharged veteran of the United States armed forces, a member of the Tennessee national guard, a member of the Tennessee air national guard, or an inactive reservist of any of the United States uniformed military services in good standing must not be disqualified as a candidate for any office if, for service-related reasons, that person was unable to comply with a statewide political party's or recognized minor party's rules for candidacy for nomination for such party, and such service-related reasons are the sole reason the person is unable to qualify. SB1688
0993 Criminal Offenses As enacted, revises various provisions of the Organized Retail Crime Prevention Act. SB1717
0994 Transportation, Dept. of As enacted, changes the fees the commissioner may charge for the movement of houseboats that exceed the maximum allowable width for motor vehicles. SB1742
0995 Criminal Offenses As enacted, classifies as second degree murder the killing of another by unlawful distribution or unlawful delivery or unlawful dispensation of fentanyl or carfentanil, when those substances alone, or in combination with any scheduled controlled substance, including controlled substance analogs, are the proximate cause of the death of the user. SB1787
0996 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies As enacted, exempts certain types of insurance from filing requirements of commercial risk insurers; revises the disclaimer that must be included in an application or policy that is issued to an exempt commercial risk policyholder. SB1795
0997 Public Employees As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Public Safety Behavioral Health Act" SB1797
0998 Health, Dept. of As enacted, authorizes, as a pilot project in Sullivan, Washington, Carter, Johnson, and Hawkins counties, the emergency medical services board to certify training programs for certain emergency medical services personnel operated by licensed ambulance services; enacts other related provisions. SB1873
0999 Forfeiture of Assets As enacted, requires comptroller to audit use of civil asset forfeiture proceeds by local law enforcement agencies and judicial district drug task forces during regular audit of local government; requires department of safety to publish uses of forfeiture proceeds by department and results of comptroller's audit on department's website. SB1877
1000 Planning, Public As enacted, revises certain provisions regarding adoption of subdivision regulations and platting authority. SB1879

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