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| Chapter Number | Subject | Abstract | Bill Number |
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| 0201 | Historical Sites and Preservation | As enacted, clarifies that renovations of memorials are excluded from the petition for waiver process under the Tennessee Heritage Protection Act of 2016; excludes from coverage under the act buildings and structures that have reached the end of their useful lives and are approved for demolition by the state building commission; requires that prior to any decision to demolish a memorial designated as a national historic landmark or listed on the register of historic places, the historical commission make comments to the state building commission. | HB0644 |
| 0202 | Firearms and Ammunition | As enacted, expands the exception to unlawful carrying or possession of a firearm or firearm ammunition to include carrying or possession in a boat; clarifies that the exception includes a loaded firearm, as well as a firearm or ammunition. | HB0688 |
| 0203 | Game and Fish Laws | As enacted, establishes that requirements on the size, placement and inspection of steel traps used in the taking of wildlife be set by rule or proclamation of the fish and wildlife commission, as necessary, rather than by statute. | HB0733 |
| 0204 | Education | As enacted, requires the department of education to review all current laws and policies related to exclusionary discipline practices in public schools for students in pre-kindergarten through kindergarten and to develop guidelines and standards for alternatives to exclusionary discipline practices based on the findings of the review; establishes other related requirements. | HB0872 |
| 0205 | Education | As enacted, clarifies that for purposes of school improvement plans, a school and LEA may choose either the ACT or SAT test scores as one of the assessments for student proficiency. | HB1043 |
| 0206 | Animal Control | As enacted, establishes uniform requirement that agencies that take in stray and abandoned animals make an effort to contact the animal's owner within 48 hours of the receipt of the animal, or within two business days of the receipt of the animal when received on a Friday, when there is some identification marking or tag on the animal that bears notification information. | HB1103 |
| 0207 | Education | As enacted, recognizes students who earn a composite score of 19 on the ACT, or an equivalent score on the SAT, and who also earn a capstone industry certification as promoted by the department of education, as a Tennessee Tri-Star Scholar upon graduation; requires schools to recognize the student as a Tennessee Tri-Star Scholar at the school's graduation ceremony. | HB1161 |
| 0208 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, gives immunity from civil or criminal liability to a person for making a report to law enforcement of suspicious activity or behavior if the report is based on articulable suspicion. | HB1366 |
| 0209 | Professions and Occupations | As enacted, allows a homeowner to cancel a contract for alarm services for a period longer than two years by giving 30 days' written notice to the alarm systems contractor after the initial two years if the homeowner has to sell the real property due to medical reasons; requires a homeowner to provide the alarm systems contractor with a letter from the homeowner's treating physician verifying the medical reasons that compel the homeowner to sell the property and seek cancellation of the alarm system service contract. | HB1392 |
| 0210 | Physicians and Surgeons | As enacted, revises certain requirements governing pain management clinics and pain management specialists. | SB0154 |
| 0211 | Boards and Commissions | As enacted, authorizes the governor to appoint persons to fill positions on certain boards from lists of nominees submitted by interested groups, instead of requiring appointments to be made from such lists. | SB0240 |
| 0212 | Consumer Protection | As enacted, revises certain provisions regarding a litigation financier. | SB0305 |
| 0213 | State Employees | As enacted, extends state employee defense protections to foster parents under contract with agencies under contract with the state and not just to foster parents under contract with the state. | SB0361 |
| 0214 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, designates the Sewanee Inn in Franklin County as a premier type tourist resort for the purposes of on-premises consumption of alcoholic beverages; also so designates a certain commercially operated facility in Cumberland County and the new Restoration Hardware store in Nashville. | SB0390 |
| 0215 | Professions and Occupations | As enacted, requires state governmental entities that establish or adopt guides to practice to do so through the promulgation of rules. | SB0449 |
| 0216 | Professions and Occupations | As enacted, enacts the "Revised Uniform Athlete Agents Act of 2015." | SB0565 |
| 0217 | Emergency Communications Districts | As enacted, authorizes members of a district's board of directors to participate in board meetings by any electronic means approved by the board; revises provisions governing removal of a member for failure to attend meetings; revises other provisions regarding members of boards of directors. | SB0596 |
| 0218 | Motor Vehicles | As enacted, removes restriction that off-highway vehicles only be operated during daylight hours during one day of each of two weekends per year in which the vehicles may be operated in Scott County; specifies that the off-highway vehicles may be operated until 12:00 midnight. | SB0680 |
| 0219 | Industrial Development | As enacted, authorizes, in certain circumstances, transfer of parcels of property located on a remediation site in Oak Ridge to the industrial development board consistent with the terms of the conveyance. | SB0707 |
| 0220 | Water | As enacted, extends to a person who has contracted for the right to store water in a reservoir owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers the exclusive rights to any return flows generated directly or indirectly to that reservoir by the person. | SB0818 |
| 0221 | TennCare | As enacted, requires managed care organizations participating in the TennCare program to annually report to the bureau of TennCare certain information regarding treatment of claims for mental health and alcoholism or drug dependence benefits in relation to the requirements of the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008. | SB0837 |
| 0222 | Judicial Officers | As enacted, establishes the position of domestic abuse magistrate for Knox County to issue orders of protection, hear order of protection violations, set bail and bail conditions, and perform other duties assigned by the circuit court judge of the 4th division who is also the appointing judge. | SB0844 |
| 0223 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, authorizes the sale of alcoholic beverages for on premises consumption at a location in Davidson County. | SB0848 |
| 0224 | Lottery, Charitable | As enacted, redefines "nonprofit organization" for purposes of qualifying to have an annual gaming event to include a 501(c)(3) organization that has been in continuous existence in this state for three years and is a dues paying member of a separate 501(c)(3) organization that has been in existence in this state for 10 years. | SB0924 |
| 0225 | Banks and Financial Institutions | As enacted, increases the maximum annual interest rate (or equivalent daily, weekly, monthly, or quarterly rate) that a bank may charge and collect with respect to extensions of credit made on credit card accounts from 21 percent to 30 percent. | SB0997 |
| 0226 | Professions and Occupations | As enacted, revises various professional regulatory provisions, including provisions regarding cosmetologists, home inspectors, and engineers. | SB1188 |
| 0227 | Barbers and/or Cosmetologists | As enacted, removes licensure requirement for persons whose occupation or practice is confined solely to shampooing. | SB1194 |
| 0228 | Telecommunications | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Broadband Accessibility Act." | SB1215 |
| 0229 | Education, Higher | As enacted, replaces the Tennessee National Guard Tuition Assistance Act with the Tennessee Support, Training, and Renewing Opportunity for National Guardsmen (STRONG) Act of 2017. | SB1216 |
| 0230 | Administrative Procedure (UAPA) | As enacted, authorizes commissioners and chief executive officers of administrative departments to evaluate certain actions by a regulatory board to determine whether the action may constitute a potentially unreasonable restraint of trade. | SB1217 |
| 0231 | Shelby County | As enacted, increases membership on the county board of equalization from nine to 13 members. | SB1246 |
| 0232 | Insurance, Health, Accident | As enacted, requires coverage for refills of prescription eye drops in certain situations. | HB0018 |
| 0233 | Public Records | As enacted, revises certain provisions governing open records requests, including the manner in which such requests may be made. | HB0058 |
| 0234 | Statutes of Limitations and Repose | As enacted, limits any action to recover damages against a real estate appraiser arising out of the appraiser's real estate appraisal activity to being brought within one year from a person's discovery of the act or omission giving rise to the action; limits any disciplinary action against a real estate appraisal by the Board of Real Estate Appraisers from three years from the date the appraisal was completed. | HB0376 |
| 0235 | Education, Higher | As enacted, revises provisions governing complaint investigations and resolutions under the State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement (SARA) Act. | HB0396 |
| 0236 | Taxes, Business | As enacted, clarifies that the bail bonds tax collected by a bail bondsman is excluded from the total gross sales reported on business tax returns or deducted from the gross sales reported. | HB0646 |
| 0237 | Contractors | As enacted, increases the monetary limit that triggers requirement that review of the financial statement of an applicant for a contractor's license be attested by the reviewing accountant from $1.5 million to $3 million; increases maximum value of buildings that small commercial building contractors may build for use and occupancy by the general public from $750,000 to $1.5 million. | HB0906 |
| 0238 | Public Employees | As enacted, requires the local education insurance committee, in regard to a group insurance plan for eligible employees of local education agencies (LEAs), to provide claims data for the purpose of underwriting and premium rating, in certain circumstances; such data must be provided within 30 days of receipt of a written request for such claims data from an LEA. | HB0922 |
| 0239 | Tennessee Bureau of Investigation | As enacted, enacts the "Help Find the Missing Act." | HB0044 |
| 0240 | Health, Dept. of | As enacted, authorizes entities that regulate health professionals to issue limited licenses; makes various changes related to reporting of disciplinary matters to licensure entities. | HB0315 |
| 0241 | Orders of Protection | As enacted, requires a divorce court that modifies or makes an existing order of protection part of the divorce decree to issue a separate order of protection; requires the clerk to send a copy of the order to the petitioner, respondent, and the law enforcement agency. | HB0434 |
| 0242 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities | As enacted, excludes independent living facilities from regulation by the board for licensing health care facilities; sets inspection schedule for certain healthcare facilities at three years from the last inspection instead of 15 months; clarifies medication administration authority in residential homes for the aged. | HB0528 |
| 0243 | TennCare | As enacted, authorizes the TennCare program to provide medical assistance for language interpreter services. | HB0584 |
| 0244 | TennCare | As enacted, authorizes certain law enforcement officers employed by the office of inspector general within the department of finance and administration to make arrests for offenses involving criminal fraud and abuse of the TennCare program and any other violations of state criminal law related to the operation of TennCare. | HB0649 |
| 0245 | Election Laws | As enacted, revises provisions governing address verification and the indications that a voter has changed address of residence without notifying the county election commission; specifies that any online voter registrations must be submitted on or before September 1, 2017; makes various changes to absentee voting provisions. | HB0672 |
| 0246 | Election Laws | As enacted, requires a court to impose an additional $1,000 fine for a conviction for voter fraud; provides a $1,000 reward for information leading to a conviction for voter fraud. | HB0686 |
| 0247 | Handgun Permits | As enacted, creates an exemption to the firing range component of the training that is required in order to obtain a handgun carry permit for applicants who submit proof to the department of safety that they have successfully passed small arms qualification training or combat pistol training in any branch of the United States armed forces. | HB0689 |
| 0248 | Assessors | As enacted, authorizes an assessor of property to maintain records in electronic format. | HB0762 |
| 0249 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, expands the definition of "material" relative to sexual exploitation of children to include any computer image, or computer-generated image, whether made or produced by electronic, mechanical, or other means. | HB0781 |
| 0250 | Taxes, Hotel Motel | As enacted, authorizes the Town of Kingston Springs, by ordinance adopted by a two-thirds vote, to levy an occupancy tax of not more than 2.5 percent on the privilege of staying in any hotel or motel in Kingston Springs; the ordinance must set forth the manner of collection and administration of the privilege tax; requires that all proceeds received by the municipality from the tax be used for tourism or economic development. | HB0782 |
| 0251 | Revenue, Dept. of | As enacted, requires the commissioner to report, by January 1, 2018, and each January 1 thereafter, certain information regarding franchise and excise tax credits claimed for tax periods ending during the previous fiscal year. | HB0844 |
| 0252 | Motor Vehicles | As enacted, requires the department of safety to develop advisory guidelines for best behaviors of drivers during traffic stops. | HB0903 |
| 0253 | Public Health | As enacted, repeals obsolete miscellaneous sanitary regulations for workshops, which includes any house, room, or place when used for the purpose of carrying on any process of making or altering, for sale or for wages, any coats, vests, trousers, knee pants, overalls, cloaks, shirts, waists, purses, feathers, artificial flowers, or cigars, or any wearing apparel of any kind whatsoever, intended for sale. | HB0931 |
| 0254 | Planning, Public | As enacted, establishes authorization and procedures for housing authorities to redevelop certain areas for transit projects. | HB1384 |
| 0255 | Public Records | As enacted, creates an exception from open records requests for video taken by a law enforcement body camera that depicts interactions with minors in schools, the interior of a healthcare or mental health facility, or the interior of a private residence where no crime has occurred. | SB0442 |
| 0256 | Drugs, Prescription | As enacted, authorizes local education agencies and nonpublic schools to maintain opioid antagonists in schools. | SB0458 |
| 0257 | Consumer Protection | As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor, civil penalties enforceable by the attorney general and reporter, and a private right of action related to "spoofing" of caller identification, facsimile, and text messaging services. | SB0511 |
| 0258 | TennCare | As enacted, enacts the "Ground Ambulance Service Provider Assessment Act." | SB0704 |
| 0259 | Medical Occupations | As enacted, clarifies that the exemptions from the licensure and regulatory requirements for medical physicians apply to surgeons of the United States army, navy, air force or marine hospital service regardless of the hospital or practice site, if the surgeon's practice is part of the surgeon's authorized military service or training. | SB0845 |
| 0260 | Students | As enacted, allows a student to be excused from a school athletic event if the event occurs on an official school holiday, observed day of worship, or religious holiday and the parent or legal guardian provides prior written notice of the student's absence; authorizes an unforeseen emergency as exception to the parent or legal guardian providing prior written notice of the student's absence from the athletic event. | SB1012 |
| 0261 | State Employees | As enacted, revises the provisions governing liability of deputies. | SB1060 |
| 0262 | Bail, Bail Bonds | As enacted, prohibits forfeiture of a bond against a surety, and inclusion of the bond in the calculation of a professional bondsman's capacity, solvency, or otherwise negatively impacting the surety, after the bond has been active and in effect for three years and the state has failed to seek an original indictment before a grand jury against the defendant covered by the bond. | SB1100 |
| 0263 | Children | As enacted, amends the requirements for what is to be included in a petition filed in juvenile court; clarifies the requirement that a court conducting a termination of parental rights hearing admit evidence pursuant to the Tennessee Rules of Evidence. | SB1252 |
| 0264 | Financial Institutions, Dept. of | As enacted, enacts the "Elderly and Vulnerable Adult Financial Exploitation Prevention Act." | SB1267 |
| 0265 | Sentencing | As enacted, creates an enhancement factor, by which the defendant's sentence can be increased, where the defendant is convicted of committing a violent offense against a uniformed law enforcement officer or uniformed member of the military or national guard and the defendant intentionally selected the victim because of the victim's status as a law enforcement officer or service member. | SB1342 |
| 0266 | Nurses, Nursing | As enacted, authorizes physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and nurse midwives who are advanced practice registered nurses to treat minors with sexually transmitted diseases to the full extent of the person's authority, including the authority to prescribe and dispense drugs relating to a sexually transmitted disease. | SB0150 |
| 0267 | Courts, General Sessions | As enacted, changes the method by which a civil action in the general sessions courts is commenced from issuance of a warrant by the clerk to filing a warrant with the clerk. | SB0160 |
| 0268 | Drugs, Prescription | As enacted, specifies that any person licensed by the board of pharmacy and holding a valid wholesaler license will be considered to be licensed as a drug distributor until such a time when the board can promulgate rules to implement the third-party logistic provider (3PL) licensing process. | SB0268 |
| 0269 | Wine & Wineries | As enacted, authorizes wineries and farm wineries to purchase or import finished wine product and use or dispose of the finished wine product in any manner otherwise authorized for the use or disposal of wine manufactured, bottled, or produced by a winery or farm winery; revises other related provisions. | SB0330 |
| 0270 | Education, State Board of | As enacted, requires the state board to adopt a policy allowing American sign language courses to satisfy the foreign language credits required for graduation. | SB0524 |
| 0271 | Treasurer, State | As enacted, renames the division of claims administration as the division of claims and risk management; requires the state treasurer to administer the division of claims and risk management. | SB0623 |
| 0272 | Food and Food Products | As enacted, specifies that a food warehouse license is not required to operate a farm to consumer distribution point, if certain requirements met, and that a retail food store permit is not required to operate a farm to consumer distribution point. | SB0651 |
| 0273 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, designates Fresh Hospitality located in Nashville as an urban park center for purposes of consumption on the premises. | SB0739 |
| 0274 | Public Health | As enacted, specifies that the practice of veterinary medicine does not include massage therapy to animals, which means the manipulation of the soft tissues of the animal body with the intention of positively affecting the health and well-being of the animal. | SB0849 |
| 0275 | Natural Disasters | As enacted, authorizes a county highway department to perform work as part of a municipality or county's plan for providing assistance for natural disaster relief to private residential property. | SB0964 |
| 0276 | Welfare | As enacted, expands the licensure requirement for adult day care providers to include those who provide service to five or more, instead of 10 or more, adult recipients. | SB1032 |
| 0277 | Law Enforcement | As enacted, requires that the TBI's completed investigative report be disclosed to the public after the district attorney general has completed its prosecutorial function; authorizes the district attorney to disclose all or part of the report prior to the record becoming a public record. | SB1039 |
| 0278 | Firearms and Ammunition | As enacted, clarifies that the curriculum required before an employee is permitted to carry a handgun on the property of schools in distressed rural counties may be adapted by the instructing law enforcement agency from an existing curriculum approved by POST. | SB1151 |
| 0279 | Education, Curriculum | As enacted, designates the week of September 17 as "Celebrate Freedom Week" in public schools; requires the department of education to provide LEAs with grade appropriate internet resources and materials for instruction for use during such week; establishes other related requirements. | SB1152 |
| 0280 | Estates | As enacted, makes various changes to probate law, including requiring that the receipt of a distributee or legatee be executed under penalty of perjury or sworn before the clerk or a notary public. | SB1163 |
| 0281 | Codes | As enacted, authorizes the state fire marshal to inspect an owner's building upon the owner's request to determine if the building meets the statewide safety standards even if the building is located in a county or municipality that has opted out of the statewide safety codes. | SB1167 |
| 0282 | Solid Waste Disposal | As enacted, revises record-keeping requirements to include owners and operators of transfer stations. | SB1199 |
| 0283 | Education | As enacted, authorizes the development of curriculum for work-based learning in labor education alignment program. | SB1231 |
| 0284 | Air Pollution | As enacted, revises various provisions concerning local air pollution control regulations. | SB1371 |
| 0285 | Education, Higher | As enacted, establishes certain requirements regarding records of the state university and community college system and the University of Tennessee system relative to investment programs. | HB0064 |
| 0286 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, authorizes property owners to provide notice that trespassing is prohibited on their property by marking trees and posts with purple paint as an alternative to posting signs. | HB0078 |
| 0287 | Pensions and Retirement Benefits | As enacted, removes the 90-day limitation on a retired member of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system working as a substitute teacher. | HB0166 |
| 0288 | Marriage | As enacted, adds federal administrative law judges to the list of officials authorized to solemnize marriages. | HB0276 |
| 0289 | School Transportation | As enacted, establishes a school transportation supervisor program for the monitoring and oversight of transportation services for local education authorities and charter schools; requires new school bus drivers to complete a training program prior to transporting students; requires a driver to be at least 25 years of age to receive an initial school bus driver license endorsement. | HB0322 |
| 0290 | Probate Law | As enacted, revises various provisions relative to wills, trusts, and guardianship. | HB0567 |
| 0291 | Taxes, Hotel Motel | As enacted, authorizes Memphis to levy the occupancy tax by one or more ordinances, in an amount not to exceed an aggregate of 5 percent of the consideration charged. | HB0589 |
| 0292 | Child Abuse | As enacted, adds the commission of trafficking for commercial sex act to the definitions of child sexual abuse and severe child abuse; redefines "caregiver" for the purposes of the laws governing the placement and custody of juveniles. | HB0615 |
| 0293 | Water Pollution | As enacted, removes the authority for the department of environment and conservation to define "concentrated animal feeding operation" (CAFO) more stringently than federal law requires. | HB1017 |
| 0294 | Election Laws | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Freedom of Speech Act." | HB1199 |
| 0295 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, authorizes a distillery to sell at retail by the drink alcoholic beverages for consumption on its premises. | HB1287 |
| 0296 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, creates the misdemeanor offense of unauthorized release of a law enforcement officer's residential address to the public, punishable as a Class B misdemeanor if the release is criminally negligent or a Class A misdemeanor if intentional. | HB0560 |
| 0297 | Taxes, Real Property | As enacted, revises various provisions regarding the classification of property for tax purposes. | HB0768 |
| 0298 | Public Records | As enacted, permits a person who has no more than two convictions to petition on a one-time basis for expunction of both convictions, if each offense is otherwise eligible for expunction and if the offenses were two misdemeanors or one misdemeanor and one felony. | HB0873 |
| 0299 | Taxes, Real Property | As enacted, revises various provisions of property tax law. | HB0934 |
| 0300 | Child Custody and Support | As enacted, permits the department of human services to issue an administrative order for seizure of up to 50 percent of an inmate's commissary or similar account in order to satisfy the inmate's overdue child support obligation. | HB0993 |
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