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Chapter Number | Subject | Abstract | Bill Number |
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0401 | Jails, Local Lock-ups | As enacted, removes the specification that a sheriff is civilly liable for the actions of a jailer who was hired by the sheriff. | SB0603 |
0402 | Education | As enacted, adds to and clarifies law concerning teacher training. | SB0614 |
0403 | Game and Fish Laws | As enacted, limits the court costs that may be imposed against a person convicted of not wearing sufficient blaze orange while hunting to $50.00. | SB0633 |
0404 | Water Pollution | As enacted, requires public water systems for which a monthly fluoride test is confirmed by quarterly laboratory analysis to exceed 1.5 mg/L to have each monthly test analyzed by a laboratory until fluoride levels are below 1.5 mg/L for three consecutive months. | SB0683 |
0405 | Lottery, Scholarships and Programs | As enacted, creates the Tennessee middle college scholarship, funded by net lottery proceeds. | SB0720 |
0406 | Uniform Commercial Code | As enacted, creates a streamlined process for certain public officials to contest Uniform Commercial Code financing statements that they believe to lack any legal basis. | SB0726 |
0407 | Education | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Educators Protection Act". | SB0729 |
0408 | Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) | As enacted, establishes that local emergency management agency personnel have all rights, benefits, privileges, and protections available pursuant to state and local laws, including death benefits in the amount of $25,000. | SB0763 |
0409 | Taxes, Ad Valorem | As enacted, revises provisions governing real and personal property tax exemption for certain religious, charitable, scientific, or nonprofit educational institutions. | SB0786 |
0410 | Medical Occupations | As enacted, prohibits any person from using the title "registered surgical assistant" unless such person is registered with the board of medical examiners as a registered surgical assistant; requires the board to register as a registered surgical assistant any applicant who presents satisfactory evidence that the applicant meets certain requirements. | SB0789 |
0411 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, authorizes the Belle Meade Winery in Davidson County to sell alcoholic beverages on the premises of the winery if the label of the alcoholic beverage product sold contains the name of the winery or is so intrinsically related to the property upon which the winery is located as to be identified as a product of or created for the winery. | SB0796 |
0412 | Fines and Penalties | As enacted, revises provisions governing payment plans and stays from license revocation for assessed litigation taxes, court costs, and fines. | SB0802 |
0413 | Public Health | As enacted, authorizes, if approved by the department of health, any nongovernmental organization, including an organization that promotes scientifically proven ways of mitigating health risks associated with drug use and other high-risk behaviors, to establish and operate a needle and hypodermic syringe exchange program. | SB0806 |
0414 | Professions and Occupations | As enacted, revises various provisions regarding scrap metal dealers. | SB0820 |
0415 | Local Education Agencies | As enacted, adds LEAs to the provisions whereby a county, municipality, utility district, or other local governmental entity having centralized purchasing authority with a full-time purchasing agent is authorized, by resolution or ordinance of its governing body, to increase the threshold over which public advertisement and sealed competitive bids or proposals are required to an amount not to exceed $25,000 for nonemergency, nonproprietary purchases. | SB0897 |
0416 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, creates the Class C misdemeanor, punishable only by a fine of up to $50.00, for a person to knowingly operate a motor vehicle in any marked school zone in this state, when a warning flasher or flashers are in operation, and talk on a hand-held mobile telephone while the vehicle is in motion; makes it a delinquent act, punishable only by a fine of up to $50.00, for a person under the age of 18 to operate a motor vehicle and talk on a mobile phone that is equipped with a hands-free device while the vehicle is in motion; creates certain exceptions. | SB0954 |
0417 | Taxes | As enacted, expands tax credits for financial institutions that make loans or contributions to eligible housing entities that create or develop low-income housing. | SB0969 |
0418 | Emergency Communications Districts | As enacted, authorizes an emergency communications district to purchase, in lieu of surety bonds, fidelity bonds to cover any losses from breach of the condition of faithful discharge of the duties of any board member, executive committee member, employee, officer, or any other authorized person of an emergency communications district who receives public funds, has authority to make expenditures from public funds, or has access to any public funds. | SB0970 |
0419 | Child Custody and Support | As enacted, specifies that in any action for retroactive child support filed on or after July 1, 2017, retroactive child support may not be awarded for a period more than five years from date the action for support is filed unless the court determines, for good cause shown, that a different award of retroactive child support is in the interest of justice; creates exceptions and enacts related provisions. | SB0993 |
0420 | Health Care | As enacted, creates the state palliative care and quality of life task force. | SB1170 |
0421 | Public Records | As enacted, exempts certain records of counties and municipalities from open records law. | SB1179 |
0422 | Eminent Domain | As enacted, revises and enacts various provisions governing eminent domain, including provisions governing the taxing of costs. | SB1184 |
0423 | Taxes | As enacted, specifies, in regard to the "retaliatory tax," relative to reciprocity of treatment by other states on Tennessee insurance companies doing business in that other state, that claims challenging liability must be brought in the chancery court of Davidson County pursuant to this state's general law provisions governing payment of tax under protest. | SB1189 |
0424 | Securities | As enacted, makes various changes to the regulation of securities under the Tennessee Securities Act of 1980. | SB1192 |
0425 | Highways, Roads and Bridges | As enacted, requires the department of transportation to be responsible for the maintenance of public roads and bridges within the boundaries of state parks. | SB1220 |
0426 | Highway Patrol | As enacted, requires the department of safety to pay from existing budgeted funds a monthly amount to a retired highway patrol officer for the medical care of the retired canine to whom the officer was assigned if the canine is given to the care and custody of the officer upon retirement. | SB1286 |
0427 | Abuse | As enacted, requires the executive director of the commission on aging and disability to establish within the commission a public guardian working group; requires background checks for persons who volunteer in a position that involves providing direct contact with or direct responsibility for a service recipient in facility or service licensed under the Mental Health, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention and/or Treatment, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, and Personal Support Services Licensure Law; revises and adds other provisions regarding vulnerable persons. | SB1287 |
0428 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, allows Blackthorn Club in Washington County to serve and sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on premises. | SB1321 |
0429 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration | As enacted, authorizes the issuance of a license plate with the language "In God We Trust". | SB1355 |
0430 | Military | As enacted, requires the adjutant general to provide a burial flag, upon application, to the members of the family of a deceased person who is an active, honorably discharged, or retired member of the national guard who served at least one year. | SB1360 |
0431 | Industrial Development | As enacted, directs the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) to perform a study of the payment in lieu of ad valorem tax agreements and leases entered into by industrial development corporations organized by municipalities. | SB1362 |
0432 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, increases the punishment for intentionally desecrating a place of worship or burial from a Class A misdemeanor to Class E felony. | SB1415 |
0433 | Education | As enacted, revises various provisions concerning the Tennessee council for career and technical education. | SB1418 |
0434 | Environment and Conservation, Department of | As enacted, enacts the "Ocoee River Recreation and Economic Development Fund Act". | HB0074 |
0435 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the department of children's services to June 30, 2021; requires the department to report back to the government operations committee on the department's response to the findings in the performance audit report by December 31, 2017. | HB0224 |
0436 | Taxes, Hotel Motel | As enacted, authorizes the City of Portland to levy a privilege tax upon the privilege of occupancy by a two-thirds vote of its governing body. | HB1438 |
0437 | Flags | As enacted, requires that the P.O.W.-M.I.A. flag be displayed daily below the United States flag in War Memorial Plaza and in Vietnam Veterans Park and displayed over the state capitol on days that neither house of the general assembly is in session during the month of September. | SB0125 |
0438 | Physicians and Surgeons | As enacted, creates a task force to study the issues created by the maintenance of certification process for Tennessee physicians; prohibits board of medical examiners and board of osteopathic examination from taking certain action on a license based on nonparticipation in any form of maintenance of licensure. | SB0298 |
0439 | 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. | SB0318 |
0440 | Business Organizations | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Uniform Limited Partnership Act of 2017." | SB0438 |
0441 | Forfeiture of Assets | As enacted, expands the reporting requirements for the annual civil asset forfeiture report provided by the department of safety to certain committees of the general assembly; revises other provisions related to civil asset forfeiture. | SB0644 |
0442 | Highways, Roads and Bridges | As enacted, extends for two years the provision, that was set to expire July 1, 2017, allowing counties to provide 2 percent matching funds for state-aid highway funds rather than 25 percent. | SB0700 |
0443 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, revises various provisions regarding alcoholic beverages, including the duration of residency requirements for licensure for the retail sale of alcoholic spirituous beverages. | SB0703 |
0444 | Coroners | As enacted, removes the Tennessee medical examiner advisory council from its wind down period so it will not terminate on June 30, 2017; extends council to June 30, 2019; renames and restructures the council. | SB1016 |
0445 | Public Employees | As enacted, increases the compensation from $25,000 to a $250,000 annuity payable in five annual installments of $50,000, paid to the estate of a firefighter, volunteer rescue squad worker, or law enforcement officer who dies in the line of duty; revises related provisions. | SB1059 |
0446 | Utilities, Utility Districts | As enacted, makes various changes to the Municipal Energy Authority Act. | SB1087 |
0447 | Firearms and Ammunition | As enacted, authorizes district attorneys general and similar persons to carry firearms subject to training and certification requirements if certain requirements met. | SB1340 |
0448 | Lottery, Scholarships and Programs | As enacted, enacts the Tennessee reconnect grant. | HB0531 |
0449 | Taxes, Sales | As enacted, allocates state sales tax revenue derived from sales of admissions to events of a major league soccer franchise to the municipality in which a sports authority is organized and has secured the franchise. | HB0006 |
0450 | Local Education Agencies | As enacted, requires, beginning with the 2018-2019 school year, each LEA to make available to its high school students opportunities to take at least four early postsecondary opportunities. | HB0022 |
0451 | Education | As enacted, revises provisions governing required fire drills. | HB0192 |
0452 | Administrative Procedure (UAPA) | As enacted, with certain exceptions, continues permanent rules filed with the secretary of state after January 1, 2016; prohibits the department of revenue from collecting any internet sales or use taxes authorized under Rule 1320-05-01-.129(2) and permitted under a ruling of any court, until such court's ruling has been fully reviewed and the rule has been approved by legislative action. | HB0261 |
0453 | Taxes, Income | As enacted, exempts persons who are 100 or older from the Hall income tax for tax years beginning January 1, 2018, and thereafter. | HB0331 |
0454 | Boards and Commissions | As enacted, revises various provisions regarding persons employed by regulatory boards. | HB0333 |
0455 | Medical Occupations | As enacted, revises definitions related to practice of chiropractic; changes requirements related to composition, powers, and duties of the board of chiropractic examiners. | HB0387 |
0456 | Criminal Procedure | As enacted, reduces from $350 to $180 the expunction fee for criminal convictions; revises allocation of fee proceeds. | HB0418 |
0457 | Unclaimed Property | As enacted, enacts the "Uniform Unclaimed Property Act." | HB0420 |
0458 | Energy | As enacted, creates the Tennessee energy policy council. | HB0438 |
0459 | Municipal Government | As enacted, authorizes cities incorporated under the general law city manager commission charter to charge fire fees for the construction and maintenance of municipal fire departments. | HB0488 |
0460 | Appropriations | As enacted, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2016, and July 1, 2017. | HB0511 |
0461 | Public Funds and Financing | As enacted, revises provisions governing the health access incentive account; reinstates salary increases that were previously suspended for highway patrol officers, commissioned members of the Tennessee law enforcement training academy, district attorneys general, district public defenders, district investigators, post-conviction defenders and assistant defenders, and certain officers and biologists with the wildlife resources agency; makes other statutory revisions necessary to implementation of the annual appropriations act. | HB0512 |
0462 | Bond Issues | As enacted, authorizes the state to issue and sell bonds of up to $80 million. | HB0513 |
0463 | Appropriations | As enacted, authorizes state spending to exceed growth in revenues by $438 million or 2.85 percent. | HB0514 |
0464 | Education, Higher | As enacted, creates the Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). | HB0553 |
0465 | Taxes, Exemption and Credits | As enacted, exempts a nonprofit educational institution from property taxes, under certain circumstances; applicable in Davidson County. | HB0585 |
0466 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, enacts the "Elderly and Vulnerable Adult Protection Act." | HB0810 |
0467 | Firearms and Ammunition | As enacted, creates a private cause of action for a party that is adversely affected by a local ordinance, resolution, policy, rule, or other enactment on firearms that is preempted by state law; restricts certain actions by local government in regard to handgun carry permittees. | HB0508 |
0468 | Orders of Protection | As enacted, adds and revises provisions regarding the issuance of orders of protection and the carrying of a handgun. | HB0752 |
0469 | State Government | As enacted, requires state government agencies and departments to provide notice to legislators of proposed contracts that will outsource professional facilities management services within such legislators' districts; revises other reporting and other requirements relative to state government. | HB0975 |
0470 | Financial Disclosure | As enacted, requires certain disclosures by members of the general assembly regarding travel expenses paid on behalf of the member. | HB0275 |
0471 | Education, Higher | As enacted, revises the application process for dual enrollment grants; revises provisions governing state employees taking up to four courses per academic year at any state-supported college or university, college of applied technology, or the Tennessee Foreign Language Institute without paying tuition charges, maintenance fees, student activity fees, registration fees, or online course fees for courses taken through the regents online degree programs. | HB0335 |
0472 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, enacts the "Organized Retail Crime Prevention Act." | SB0120 |
0473 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the health services and development agency to June 30, 2018; requires the agency to update sunset review committee of the agency's progress in complying with Chapter 1043 of the Public Acts of 2016. | SB0076 |
0474 | Motor Vehicles | As enacted, enacts the "Automated Vehicles Act" and other requirements related to the operation of autonomous vehicles on the public roads of this state. | SB0151 |
0475 | Sentencing | As enacted, increases penalty for unlawfully possessing a firearm with a prior conviction for a felony involving use of force or violence from Class C felony to Class B felony; increases from Class D felony to Class C felony penalty for person unlawfully possessing firearm with prior felony drug offense. | HB0452 |
0476 | Public Employees | As enacted, authorizes the state and local governments to provide health insurance benefits to the immediate family members of first responders killed in the line of duty for a period of two years after the death of the first responder; requires the state to reimburse local governments that provide such benefits. | HB0466 |
0477 | Motor Vehicles | As enacted, revises various provisions governing permits for movements of certain overweight and overdimensional vehicles. | HB0812 |
0478 | Taxes, Gasoline, Petroleum Products | As enacted, revises the present law provisions governing the apportionment of gasoline tax revenue to the wildlife resources fund. | HB0910 |
0479 | Election Laws | As enacted, increases from "2 percent" to "4 percent" the percentage of general assembly candidates and their committees who will be selected for an audit by the registry; specifies that the registry may only conduct the audit for the immediately preceding election cycle and may not require the production or disclosure of, or consider for purposes of the audit, any information or documents relating to any other election cycle. | HB0992 |
0480 | State Universities | As enacted, removes the prohibition on a state university governing board member serving on the governing board of any institution of higher education and replaces it with a prohibition on a state university governing board member serving on the governing board of a public institution of higher education. | HB1013 |
0481 | Medical Occupations | As enacted, specifies that a healthcare practitioner violates the practitioner's practice act by refusing to submit to a drug test or testing positive for a drug when the practitioner does not have a lawful prescription for using the drug or a valid medical reason for using the drug; establishes procedural requirements to be followed in such situations. | HB1067 |
0482 | Education, Curriculum | As enacted, enacts the "Senator Douglas Henry Tennessee History Act". | HB1169 |
0483 | Controlled Substances | As enacted, requires the department of health to identify high-risk prescribers; requires the commissioner of health to report certain information concerning births involving neonatal abstinence syndrome and opioid use by women of childbearing age; requires bureau of TennCare to issue appropriate requests for information for program initiatives aimed at primary prevention and secondary prevention of births involving neonatal abstinence syndrome and the use of opioids by women of childbearing age enrolled in the TennCare program. | HB1207 |
0484 | Controlled Substances | As enacted, requires that any person treated for a drug-related overdose with an opioid antagonist by a first responder be taken to a medical facility by emergency medical services for evaluation, unless the person is competent to refuse medical treatment and chooses to refuse treatment. | HB1209 |
0485 | Public Contracts | As enacted, adds "businesses owned by persons with disabilities" to the Tennessee Minority-Owned, Woman-Owned and Small Business Procurement and Contracting Act; requires that the annual report made by the chief procurement officer concerning the awarding of purchases to minority-owned business, woman-owned business, service-disabled veteran-owned business, or small business and the total value of awards made also include the total dollar amount of purchases awarded to all businesses in this state. | HB1276 |
0486 | Wine & Wineries | As enacted, requires each common carrier that contracts with a direct shipper for delivery of wine into Tennessee to prepare and file monthly with the department of revenue a report of known direct wine shipments; enacts other related provisions. | HB1288 |
0487 | Criminal Procedure | As enacted, increases from $25,000 to $50,000 the threshold amount of a loss sustained by a victim that generally makes the offender ineligible for expunction. | HB1296 |
0488 | General Assembly | As enacted, creates a special joint committee to study issues relating to the investigation and prosecution of unsolved civil rights crimes and cold cases from the civil rights era. | HB1306 |
0489 | Local Government, General | As enacted, defines "municipality" for purposes of the authorization for a municipality to create the office of administrative hearing officer to hear building and property maintenance code violations to mean any incorporated town or city, or metropolitan form of government; adds "locally adopted zoning codes" to the codes over which administrative hearing officer has jurisdiction. | HB1322 |
0490 | Taxes | As enacted, revises various provisions concerning the taxation of modern market telecommunications providers. | HB1367 |
0491 | Public Buildings | As enacted, requires that stair steps leading into the public entrance of certain public buildings have detectable nosings of a contrasting color; enacts other related requirements. | HB1381 |
0492 | Sentencing | As enacted, establishes a sentencing enhancement factor for defendants who are illegally or unlawfully in the United States. | HB1041 |
0493 | Death | As enacted, creates a process for requesting a reconsideration of cause of death determination on a death certificate; encourages county medical examiners who suspect that suicide is potential manner of death to consult the decedent's treating mental health professional. | HB1149 |
0494 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the Tennessee fish and wildlife commission for four years to June 30, 2022. | SB1561 |
0495 | Comptroller, State | As enacted, revises various provisions governing comptroller of the treasury audit and accounting requirements, including the preparation of a uniform audit manual by the comptroller. | HB1501 |
0496 | Environment and Conservation, Department of | As enacted, revises present law provisions regarding local governmental entities that administer a municipal separate storm water system under a national pollutant discharge elimination permit. | HB0362 |
0497 | Naming and Designating | As enacted, names the wrestling room at the Tennessee School for the Blind in honor of Frank Alexander. | SB1469 |
0498 | Public Funds and Financing | As enacted, clarifies that "balloon indebtedness" under the Local Government Public Obligations Act of 1986 includes the refinancing of a debt that creates a final maturity date that is 31 or more years from the original date of issuance. | SB1493 |
0499 | Comptroller, State | As enacted, clarifies that the Local Government Modernization Act of 2005 creates an ongoing, rather than one-time, duty of the comptroller of the treasury to ensure local governments are in compliance with the accounting and financial reporting standards established by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board. | SB1481 |
0500 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the board of funeral directors and embalmers for six years to June 30, 2024. | SB1517 |