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Chapter Number Subject Abstract Bill Number
0701 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the department of revenue for four years to June 30, 2022. SB1532
0702 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the health services and development agency for three years to June 30, 2021. SB1538
0703 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the state university and community college system, board of regents, for four years to June 30, 2022; requires the governor, in making appointments, to ensure that the state university boards are composed of members who are diverse in sex rather than in gender. SB1553
0704 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Tennessee board of water quality, oil, and gas for five years to June 30, 2023. SB1558
0705 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Tennessee higher education commission for four years to June 30, 2022. SB1563
0706 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Tennessee student assistance corporation, board of directors for four years to June 30, 2022. SB1565
0707 Sunset Laws As enacted, creates sunrise provision for local governing boards of trustees of the board of regents state universities, to terminate June 30, 2019. SB1570
0708 Evidence As enacted, prohibits the exclusion from a criminal trial of certain out-of-court, non-testimonial statements made by a child under 12 years of age that describe any sexual act or act of physical violence directed against the child. SB1593
0709 Workers Compensation As enacted, removes requirement that every workers' compensation insurer that provides insurance for Tennessee workers' compensation claims be required to maintain a claims office or to contract with a claims adjuster located within this state. SB1615
0710 Taxes, Ad Valorem As enacted, provides continued eligibility for an elderly low-income, disabled, and disabled veteran's property tax relief during temporary periods of relocation for health care to home of a friend or relative or to a hospital or skilled intermediate care facility if the homeowner intends to return to the residence once recovered. SB1675
0711 Textbooks As enacted, revises the appointment process and qualifications for membership on the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission; revises other related provisions; schedules the commission to sunset June 30, 2020. SB1723
0712 Public Records As enacted, requires, by January 1, 2019, state governmental entities to promulgate rules, rather than adopt policies, to establish a process for making requests to inspect or receive copies of public records, for responding to requests for public records, and for the creation of a statement of any fees charged for copies of such records. SB1724
0713 Utilities, Utility Districts As enacted, removes the utility management review board's authority to approve or disapprove corrections made by a public water system of a utility district to comply with federal or state law as a condition for the system to receive a loan from the Tennessee Local Development Authority. SB1745
0714 Death As enacted, clarifies that the ability of a next of kin to seek reconsideration of a medical examiner's manner of death determination applies only when the manner of death is determined to be suicide; specifies that unrelated parties have no liability for relying on the original death certificate, without regard to subsequent revision made pursuant to a request for reconsideration of the cause of death. SB1757
0715 Education, Dept. of As enacted, requires the department to develop, and the state board of education to adopt, a policy establishing a review period for LEAs to review and verify accountability data files and determinations before data files and determinations are released publicly by the department. SB1805
0716 Utilities, Utility Districts As enacted, makes various changes to the Underground Utility Damage Prevention Act, including authorizing the underground utility damage enforcement board to establish, by rule, best practices for uniform color code and marking and adding another member to the board. SB1812
0717 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, expands the locations a manufacturer may possess, store, and transport its products to include any county that has authorized the manufacture of alcoholic beverages and any county adjacent to such county; authorizes the storage of the manufacturer's products in facilities authorized or leased by the manufacturer. SB1814
0718 County Government As enacted, requires members of a county legislative body to complete orientation and certain training after being elected or appointed; such training must be provided by or approved by CTAS; creates certain exceptions. SB1905
0719 Sexual Offenses As enacted, classifies the offense of continuous sexual abuse of a child as a violent sexual offense for purposes of the Tennessee Sexual Offender and Violent Sexual Offender Registration, Verification and Tracking Act of 2004; revises the sentencing requirement for a person convicted of continuous sexual abuse of a child. SB1944
0720 Human Services, Dept. of As enacted, updates references in vocational rehabilitation statutes to reflect current nomenclature for the division of rehabilitation services and the director of the vocation rehabilitation program; removes certain requirements concerning services offered by the division of rehabilitation services. SB2249
0721 Insurance, Health, Accident As enacted, requires the commissioner of commerce and insurance to study issues related to including screening for the hepatitis C virus as a part of preventive services or as a mandated health insurance benefit for health insurance entities regulated by the department including consideration of the benefits and costs of broad based or targeted screening for the hepatitis C virus. SB2413
0722 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities As enacted, establishes a procedure for the recognition of hospitals with stroke-related designations; establishes other related provisions. SB2513
0723 Education, Dept. of As enacted, requires the department to develop an evidence-based training program on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) for school leaders and teachers. SB1386
0724 Purchasing and Procurement As enacted, allows local governments to make purchases of certain motor vehicles through a federal general service administration contract. SB1596
0725 Education As enacted, removes from education laws obsolete pilot projects and reporting and similar requirements; revises and deletes certain other education-related provisions and reporting requirements. SB1618
0726 Election Laws As enacted, allows voter who was issued an absentee ballot to vote a provisional ballot. SB1690
0727 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation As enacted, allows uniformed law enforcement officers of the TBI who retire after at least 25 years to receive a retired commission card and the officer's service firearm, as is currently the case with TBI agents who retire after 25 years. SB1697
0728 Economic and Community Development As enacted, authorizes an industrial development corporation to acquire a hotel, motel, or apartment building for a project of the corporation located in Shelby County. SB1736
0729 Domestic Violence As enacted, authorizes a domestic abuse victim to request that a court issue an order directing a wireless telephone service provider to transfer the billing responsibility for and rights to the wireless telephone number or numbers to the petitioner; enacts other related provisions. SB1796
0730 Forests and Forest Products As enacted, requires designation of free-use areas where residents may remove downed and dead timber from state forests for their personal use under certain circumstances. SB1914
0731 Courts As enacted, enacts the "Uniform Commercial Real Estate Receivership Act" SB1921
0732 Veterans As enacted, adds a representative for military veteran recipients to be appointed as a member of the statewide planning and policy council. SB1927
0733 Motor Vehicles As enacted, prohibits the expenditure of state funds to enforce electronic logging regulations against any motor vehicle transporting nonhazardous materials for farm purposes that does not travel outside the boundaries of the state. SB1936
0734 Child Custody and Support As enacted, extends subject matter jurisdiction to hear grandparent visitation cases to any court that exercises domestic relations jurisdiction. SB2002
0735 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration As enacted, authorizes an owner or lessee of a motor vehicle who is deaf or hard of hearing to request that the department of safety include such designation in the Tennessee Vehicle Title and Registration System (VTRS) database; enacts other related provisions in regard to such designation. SB2023
0736 Pensions and Retirement Benefits As enacted, revises provisions governing participation in the Tennessee consolidated retirement system by county judges and county officials; makes other revisions regarding participation in the system. SB2064
0737 Driver Licenses As enacted, allows a student enrolled in a cooperative driver training program who is seeking an exemption from the skills or knowledge tests required for commercial driver licenses to submit the third-party driver examiner testing certification form to the department within one year of satisfactorily completing the driver education and training course. SB2066
0738 Shelby County As enacted, authorizes Shelby County to exercise discretion over the manner in which a county board of public utilities that it may create will be constituted; requires a board or administrative agency in Shelby County that is increasing the charges for fire protection services by more than 10 percent to obtain approval for the increase from the county legislative body prior to the increase taking effect. SB2068
0739 Education, Higher As enacted, establishes requirements for issuance of diplomas, certificates of credit, and transcripts when a student has outstanding debts or obligations owed to a college or university. SB2174
0740 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, designates certain premises in Blount, Sevier, Hawkins, and Claiborne counties as premier type tourist resorts and bed and breakfast establishments for purposes of the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption. SB2210
0741 Banks and Financial Institutions As enacted, broadens the definition of financial institution to include a trust company and institutions that are organized under the laws of other states for purposes of conversion of charter and resulting institutions; requires a financial institution that results from a conversion to have its principal place of business in this state. SB2243
0742 Child Custody and Support As enacted, conditions courts' authority to order acquisition and maintenance of health insurance coverage under a child support award upon the availability of reasonable and affordable health insurance. SB2248
0743 Mass Transit As enacted, designates department of transportation as state agency with oversight over safety of rail fixed guideway public transportation systems in Tennessee; makes other related revisions to comply with Title 49 of the United States Code. SB2255
0744 Professions and Occupations As enacted, gives licensing authorities discretion whether or not to suspend, deny, or revoke a license based on the applicant or licensee having defaulted or become delinquent on student loan repayment, if the licensing authority determines that the default or delinquency is the result of a medical hardship that prevented the person from working in the person's licensed field and the medical hardship significantly contributed to the default or delinquency. SB2306
0745 Professions and Occupations As enacted, specifies in various statutes governing licensure of professions and occupations, including health-related occupations, that administrative action against a person's license (including the denial, suspension or revocation of a license and determinations of fitness to practice) based on a criminal conviction, is subject to the applicable provisions of the Fresh Start Act. SB2461
0746 Utilities, Utility Districts As enacted, authorizes utility districts to enter into contracts or arrangements relating to natural gas with a public corporation that is created under the authority of a contiguous state and that is similar to an energy acquisition corporation created under the authority of this state. SB2524
0747 Witnesses As enacted, prohibits a court from requiring an educator to be a witness in a civil domestic dispute proceeding if the educator's attendance would cause absence from teaching or supervisory duties in a school unless the court determines the educator's attendance is necessary to ensure fairness. SB2549
0748 Motor Vehicles As enacted, revises and expands Class A misdemeanor relating to counterfeit airbags and similar restraint system components. SB2583
0749 Election Laws As enacted, prescribes procedure for paper ballots in counties using optical scan voting systems and procedure for provisional ballots. SB2638
0750 Physicians and Surgeons As enacted, revises the notice that must be provided to a patient who is determined to have dense breasts or extremely dense breasts based on a mammogram. SB2704
0751 Education As enacted, specifies that, for the 2017-2018 school year, employment termination and compensation decisions for pre-kindergarten or kindergarten teachers will not be based solely on data generated by the portfolio model; revises provisions regarding funding and approval for LEAs. HB1686
0752 Public Funds and Financing As enacted, revises provisions governing eligible collateral pledged by a state depository for public funds. HB1707
0753 Recreational Areas As enacted, authorizes the commissioner of environment and conservation to expend funds from the Ocoee River recreation and economic development fund; gives the commissioner sole authority to make expenditures from the fund for certain management and administrative expenses. HB1816
0754 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) As enacted, prohibits boards, commissions, and other multi-member governmental entities from promulgating rules or issuing other internal restrictions that infringe on an entity member's freedom of speech. HB1966
0755 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, specifies that an entity licensed for on-premises consumption may include contiguous areas in its designated premises; adds designation as festival operator for purposes of those authorized to sell for on-premises consumption; revises other on-premises consumption provisions. HB1976
0756 Taxes, Business As enacted, allocates to the county clerk $3.00 of the $15 fee charged for issuance of a business license; requires the $3.00 to be used for computer-related expenses. HB2029
0757 Workers Compensation As enacted, revises provisions governing attorneys' fees and costs in certain workers' compensation claims cases. HB2304
0758 Children's Services, Dept. of As enacted, extends from 30 days to 40 days the period of advance notice that licensed child-placing agencies and licensed clinical social workers must provide the department before increasing fees charged to prospective adoptive parents. HB2444
0759 Business and Commerce As enacted, specifies certain powers of a series of an LLC. HB2524
0760 Municipal Government As enacted, creates an exception to the prohibition on the incorporation of an area within three miles of an existing municipality to allow an area in Hickman County to incorporate; specifies that provisions governing adoption of a charter under the mayor-aldermanic charter provisions of general law do not affect an existing municipality's authority to annex unincorporated areas within the existing municipality's urban growth boundary. HB1473
0761 County Government As enacted, authorizes a county legislative body to adopt a resolution by majority vote prohibiting term limits for persons appointed to boards or commissions by the county mayor if the appointee serves without compensation, not including reimbursement for travel and expenses. HB1557
0762 Local Government, General As enacted, authorizes the City of Hornbeak to collect unpaid charges for municipal sewer services in the same manner as unpaid property taxes, including through the attachment of a lien against real property. HB1605
0763 Consumer Protection As enacted, requires, under the Uniform Debt-Management Services Act, counselors to present evidence of accreditation or certification by an independent accrediting or certifying organization upon registering to provide debt-management services. HB1671
0764 Taxes, Privilege As enacted, imposes a $2.00 tax on a sexually oriented business for each customer that enters; provides for revenue being allocated to the general fund with the intent that amounts be allocated to programs for victims of sex trafficking; schedules the tax to be repealed on July 1, 2021. HB1701
0765 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, revises various provisions regarding the delivery of alcoholic beverages, including the fee structure for delivery service licenses. HB1717
0766 TennCare As enacted, prohibits the bureau and HCFA from imposing a fine or penalty on any provider when developing or implementing any payment reform initiative involving the use of episodes of care; revises other provisions regarding payments to healthcare providers. HB1729
0767 Education As enacted, revises provisions governing special education and special education services associations, HB1870
0768 Schools, Charter As enacted, authorizes the comptroller of the treasury to audit financial transactions of a charter management organization (CMO); requires all CMOs operating a charter school in this state to file an annual financial report with the comptroller of the treasury no later than August 31 of each year. HB1888
0769 Corporations, Not for Profit As enacted, enacts the "Nonprofit Fair Assets Protection Act". HB1975
0770 Education, Higher As enacted, adds provisions regarding the process of selecting a chief executive officer of a public institution of higher education in this state. HB2000
0771 Veterans As enacted, makes the veteran hiring preference mandatory. HB2006
0772 Forfeiture of Assets As enacted, revises laws governing civil asset forfeiture. HB2021
0773 Health Care As enacted, enacts the "Down Syndrome Information Act of 2018". HB2053
0774 Milk, Dairy Products As enacted, authorizes the labeling of any milk sold in this state as "Local Tennessee Milk", or a statement that indicates the milk is Tennessee milk, if the milk contains only milk produced in Tennessee. HB2153
0775 Education, Curriculum As enacted, requires the department and state board of education to provide certain information regarding Bible curricula and courses. HB2174
0776 Taxes, Hotel Motel As enacted, authorizes the City of Pleasant View, by ordinance adopted by a two-thirds vote, to levy an occupancy tax of not more than 5 percent on the privilege of staying in any hotel or motel in Pleasant View; 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 development. HB2189
0777 Local Education Agencies As enacted, requires LEAs to report certain information to the department of education regarding use of corporal punishment. HB2331
0778 Taxes, Real Property As enacted, revises provisions governing delinquent tax sales. HB2337
0779 Planning, Public As enacted, extends application of the Neighborhood Preservation Act to include any county or municipality that has formed a land bank; adds other provisions to the Act and the Tennessee Local Land Bank Program. HB2423
0780 Education As enacted, adds that the funds from the small and minority-owned business program that are transferred to the board of trustees of the college savings trust fund may be utilized for the administration and marketing of an incentive plan or plans. HB2438
0781 Taxes, Hotel Motel As enacted, authorizes the City of Hendersonville, by ordinance adopted by a two-thirds vote, to levy an occupancy tax of not more than 2.75 percent on the privilege of staying in any hotel or motel in Hendersonville; requires the ordinance to 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 development. HB2636
0782 Historical Sites and Preservation As enacted, revises provisions governing the Sam Davis Home. HB2681
0783 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, authorizes the sale of alcoholic beverages and wine on Sundays during certain hours; prohibits sales on Easter, Christmas, and Thanksgiving; revises other provisions relating to alcoholic beverages. HB1540
0784 Education As enacted, revises the Course Access Program Act. SB1896
0785 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, designates Gaylord Springs Golf Links as a premier type tourist resort for purposes of consumption of alcoholic beverages on the premises. SB1907
0786 Labor As enacted, extends repeal date for the Go Build Tennessee Program, from July 1, 2019, to July 1, 2024; deletes restriction that funds collected from contractor licensing revenue be used only to fund career and technical education programs and other certified and nationally accredited programs. SB1922
0787 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, designates the Whitestone Country Inn as a premier type tourist resort for the purposes of the on-premises consumption of alcoholic beverages. SB2075
0788 Health, Dept. of As enacted, removes requirement that state-operated medical laboratories and public health laboratory personnel who work at medical laboratories operated by the state be regulated under the Tennessee Medical Laboratory Act. SB2245
0789 Human Services, Dept. of As enacted, revises various provisions relative to public assistance. SB2247
0790 Education, Higher As enacted, revises various provisions of the Tennessee Higher Education Authorization Act of 2016, and provisions regarding the Tennessee higher education commission. SB2294
0791 Housing As enacted, limits authorization for counties to appropriate funds for affordable housing or workforce housing to Davidson County. SB2343
0792 State Employees As enacted, revises provisions governing probation periods for state employment. SB2443
0793 Professions and Occupations As enacted, enacts the "Fresh Start Act" SB2465
0794 Public Contracts As enacted, revises provisions governing contracts for construction. SB2501
0795 Economic and Community Development As enacted, requires the Tennessee advisory committee on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) to perform a study of the potential, overall effects of creating a grant and loan program administered by the department of economic and community development to encourage the financing and development of food desert relief enterprises that sell fresh food in low-income, underserved areas of this state. SB2634
0796 Taxes, Hotel Motel As enacted, increases, from 2.5 percent to 5 percent, the maximum amount of the occupancy tax that McMinnville is authorized to levy. SB2707
0797 Taxes, Litigation As enacted, allows Sevier County, upon the adoption of a resolution by a two-thirds majority vote of the county legislative body, to assess a privilege tax on litigation in court cases in an amount not to exceed $100 per case to be used exclusively for the construction of a building to house legal proceedings and offices directly involved with the court system, and to renovate the county courthouse. SB2719
0798 Pest Control As enacted, requires applicators to notify the department of agriculture prior to making aerial applications of pesticides via an online reporting system, instead of notifying county sheriff's offices. SB1885
0799 Mental Illness As enacted, requires, in certain circumstances, the instant check unit of the TBI to contact the chief law enforcement officer of a jurisdiction where a person who has been adjudicated as a mental defective or judicially committed to a mental institution attempts to purchase a firearm; requires the reporting of certain other information of persons involuntarily committed. SB0834
0800 Driver Licenses As enacted, allows a victim of identity theft to apply for and receive a new driver license with a new distinguishing number upon presenting proof of the crime, including a law enforcement report that lists the applicant as a victim of identity theft; allows the department of safety to charge a reasonable fee for reissuance of a driver license due to identity theft. SB0912

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