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| Chapter Number | Subject | Abstract | Bill Number |
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| 0101 | Inheritance Laws | As enacted, prohibits a person who intentionally killed the decedent from filing a wrongful death action based on the death of the decedent or sharing any portion of a wrongful death settlement or judgment resulting from the death of the decedent. | SB0381 |
| 0102 | Taxes, Real Property | As enacted, specifies that the comptroller of the treasury is the assessing authority for telecommunications tower properties that are owned by a public utility company. | SB0407 |
| 0103 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration | As enacted, exempts historic military vehicles from the requirement to display license plates on the vehicle. | SB0493 |
| 0104 | Domestic Violence | As enacted, creates Class A misdemeanor offense for a criminal defendant in a domestic assault case, or a person acting at the defendant's direction, by persuasion or any other means that do not constitute coercion to intentionally influence or attempt to influence a witness or prospective witness to engage in certain behavior. | SB0611 |
| 0105 | Bail, Bail Bonds | As enacted, permits the clerk of court to send notice of forfeiture of bail security to a defendant by regular mail, rather than certified mail with restricted delivery and return receipt requested. | SB0680 |
| 0106 | Transportation, Dept. of | As enacted, converts the department's construction manager/general contractor services (CM/GC) pilot program into a fully authorized project delivery method; establishes limitations for CM/GC contracts. | SB0779 |
| 0107 | Education, Dept. of | As enacted, makes various changes to the state's special education laws; transfers, from the state board of education to the department of education, control over the state's special schools. | SB0790 |
| 0108 | Local Education Agencies | As enacted, requires an LEA to make certain interest inventories available to students in grades five through nine; requires an LEA to administer a career aptitude assessment to students in grades seven or eight. | SB0809 |
| 0109 | Handgun Permits | As enacted, authorizes the department of safety to contract with a local government agency for the provision of any service related to the renewal of handgun carry permits; authorizes an agency contracting with the department to charge an additional fee of $4.00 for each renewal application. | SB0907 |
| 0110 | Water Pollution | As enacted, specifies that an alternatives analysis required by rule of the department of environment and conservation as part of the process of obtaining a discharge permit for a transportation project does not need to include alternative road locations but must include other measures to avoid and minimize impacts to resource values. | SB0916 |
| 0111 | Public Records | As enacted, requires that personally identifying information contained in motor vehicle accident reports be treated as confidential information and restricted from public disclosure; creates exceptions; revises other provisions governing motor vehicle accident reports. | SB1346 |
| 0112 | Disabled Persons | As enacted, enacts the "Dynamic Accessibility Act," which provides for a modern symbol of access for disabled persons. | SB0046 |
| 0113 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the Tennessee state veterans' homes board to June 30, 2023; extends the length of the term of office for the chair of the Tennessee state veterans' homes board from one year to two years. | SB0124 |
| 0114 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the Tennessee peace officers standards and training commission to June 30, 2025. | SB0140 |
| 0115 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the Sam Davis memorial association, board of trustees to June 30, 2023. | SB0154 |
| 0116 | Sewage | As enacted, prohibits the commissioner of environment and conservation from denying a permit for a septic system solely because a public sewer system is accessible in certain circumstances; requires that for residential real estate sales involving property consisting of one to four residential units, the potential future obligation to connect to the public sewer system must be disclosed by the seller to the purchaser in the same manner as, and subject to the same remedies, as other known defects. | SB0178 |
| 0117 | Opioids | As enacted, defines "alternative treatments," for purposes of the requirement that prescribing physicians explain reasonable alternatives to opioids, as including chiropractic care, physical therapy, acupuncture, and other treatments that relieve pain without the use of opioids. | SB0194 |
| 0118 | Taxes, Real Property | As enacted, removes various provisions regarding state property tax, including authority to place liens and issue distress warrants. | SB0241 |
| 0119 | Consumer Protection | As enacted, makes an unfair or deceptive act or practice certain legal advertisements for claims related to medical devices and pharmaceuticals, and the unauthorized use or distribution of protected health information; creates penalties for violations; authorizes attorney general to enforce the provisions of the act. | SB0352 |
| 0120 | Annexation | As enacted, requires municipalities to record annexation resolutions and deannexation ordinances with the register of deeds in the county or counties affected by the boundary changes. | SB0359 |
| 0121 | Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies | As enacted, allows an insurance company to determine its obligations under an insurance policy as to all parties through a declaratory judgment action, an interpleader claim or action, or both, and creates a rebuttable presumption the insurance company is acting in good faith if the company files such an action or claim. | SB0413 |
| 0122 | Holidays and Days of Special Observance | As enacted, designates December 1 of each year as "Mrs. Rosa L. Parks Day," a day of special observance. | SB0500 |
| 0123 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, clarifies it is not a defense to certain offenses that the solicitation was unsuccessful, that the conduct solicited was not engaged in, or that the law enforcement officer could not engage in the solicited offense. | SB0644 |
| 0124 | Drugs, Prescription | As enacted, makes various changes concerning the prescription of certain Scheduled controlled substances. | SB0810 |
| 0125 | Herbal Products and Natural Foods | As enacted, expands definition of "wild ginseng" to include ginseng introduced or increased in abundance in its natural habitat by introducing plantlets sourced from wild ginseng stock; defines plantlets. | SB0919 |
| 0126 | Gambling | As enacted, enacts the "March Madness and Fantasy Football Freedom Act," which decriminalizes, under certain circumstances, wagers on fantasy sports leagues and sports pools. | SB1057 |
| 0127 | Tickets, Admission | As enacted, requires a ticket reseller using a tentative ticket policy to make certain disclosures during a resale transaction of tickets that are not owned or possessed by the reseller, under a contract for transfer to the reseller, in the reseller's possession at time of sale; requires the reseller to provide a refund if unsuccessful in securing the tickets; deems a violation to be a violation of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977. | SB1176 |
| 0128 | Election Laws | As enacted, prohibits candidate who loses primary election from qualifying as a write-in candidate for the general election; prohibits write-in votes for such candidate from being counted for the general election. | SB1258 |
| 0129 | Highways, Roads and Bridges | As enacted, makes permanent the provision that is set to expire July 1, 2019, allowing counties to provide 2 percent matching funds for state-aid highway funds rather than 25 percent. | SB1364 |
| 0130 | Courts | As enacted, requires a court that issues orders granting custody or guardianship of children to relative caregivers to inform the relative caregiver that resources and funding may be available through the department of children's services; requires the department of children's services to distribute information on available relative caregiver resources to the administrative office of the courts, and the administrative office of the courts to distribute the information to each court within the state that issues orders regarding child custody or guardianship. | HB0003 |
| 0131 | Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of | As enacted, changes from once every five years to once every four years the timeframe during which social workers, marriage and family therapists, professional counselors, pastoral counselors, alcohol and drug abuse counselors, and occupational therapists must complete an approved suicide prevention training program. | HB0036 |
| 0132 | Charitable Institutions | As enacted, increases from over $30,000 to over $50,000 the amount of gross contributions that must be raised or received from the public by a charitable organization in order to trigger registration requirements with the secretary of state. | HB0057 |
| 0133 | Comptroller, State | As enacted, authorizes the comptroller to investigate Class A and B felonies related to private funds if there is a request by the attorney general and reporter or the district attorney general, the investigation is in conjunction with an open investigation by the Tennessee bureau of investigation, and an investigation would be in the public interest. | HB0099 |
| 0134 | Local Education Agencies | As enacted, allows a local board of education to authorize a teacher, school employee, or other person employed by the LEA to raise funds for noneducational purposes; requires the local board of education that authorizes funds to be raised for noneducational purposes to create policies and procedures for the receipt, disbursement, and accounting of funds raised. | HB0034 |
| 0135 | Elder Abuse | As enacted, creates the elder abuse task force. | HB0249 |
| 0136 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, removes requirement that a licensee attach a certificate of compliance from the local government for license renewal; requires licensees to annually file report with the commission stating the number of certified clerks employed by the licensee during the previous 12 months; revises and adds other provisions governing alcoholic beverages and beer. | HB0683 |
| 0137 | Holidays and Days of Special Observance | As enacted, designates June 27 of each year as "Post-Traumatic Stress Injury Awareness Day," a day of special observance. | HB1148 |
| 0138 | Local Education Agencies | As enacted, requires a board of education to allow a student who is the dependent child of a member of the United States armed forces and who does not reside within the boundaries of the school district to enroll in a public school within the school district under certain circumstances. | HB1194 |
| 0139 | Law Enforcement | As enacted, authorizes the chief law enforcement officer of a state or local law enforcement agency to establish policies regarding off-duty use of law enforcement vehicles to provide an enhanced security presence at vulnerable locations, which include places of worship, schools, and parks. | HB1318 |
| 0140 | Criminal Procedure | As enacted, enacts the "Sergeant Daniel Baker Act," which removes the appeal to the court of criminal appeals in death penalty cases; provides for automatic direct review by the Tennessee supreme court for convictions for which a sentence of death is imposed. | HB0258 |
| 0141 | Tort Liability and Reform | As enacted, confers civil immunity on a local government for any defect or malfunction in a software program intended to assist families of non-communicative persons register with law enforcement if designed and distributed in good faith by the local government and without cost; provides exception to immunity for claims based on gross negligence, willful misconduct, or bad faith. | HB0192 |
| 0142 | Liens | As enacted, eliminates the provision whereby a real property owner who prevails in an action challenging the validity of a lien, including in a slander of title proceeding, may recover attorney's fees, costs, and damages. | HB0757 |
| 0143 | Correctional Programs | As enacted, removes administrative attachment of the Tennessee corrections institute to the department of commerce and insurance; replaces the commissioner of commerce and insurance as the appointing authority for the executive director of the board of control of the institute, making the board of control the new appointing authority. | HB1292 |
| 0144 | Tobacco, Tobacco Products | As enacted, limits the places in which one may use vapor products. | SB0026 |
| 0145 | Driver Licenses | As enacted, gives a person 65 years of age or older who applies for a photo identification license the option to receive a photo identification license that does not expire, instead of automatically receiving a photo identification license that does not expire. | SB0044 |
| 0146 | Local Education Agencies | As enacted, specifies that a student may only enroll in two course access program courses per school year, unless additional courses are approved by the student's home LEA, and that students must pay all tuition and fees required for any additional courses taken during the same year; requires a home LEA to pay the required tuition and fees to a host LEA for the first two course access program courses in which a student is enrolled per school year. | SB0166 |
| 0147 | Real Property | As enacted, clarifies that a contract transferring a time-share is voidable by the purchaser for 10 days from the date of the signing of the contract, not 15 days, if the purchaser made an on-site inspection of a component site of the time-share project. | SB0263 |
| 0148 | Comptroller, State | As enacted, authorizes the comptroller of the treasury to audit private probation service providers; allows the comptroller to appoint a certified public accountant to conduct the audit; requires the probation service provider to pay for the audit. | SB0293 |
| 0149 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, makes the enhanced maximum fine of up to $15,000 applicable to aggravated assault when committed against an identifiable employee or contractor of a utility who is discharging or attempting to discharge such person's official duties. | SB0481 |
| 0150 | Motor Vehicles | As enacted, expands the authorization to authorize, regulate, and control the commercial use of pedal carriages and rickshaws to any municipality or metropolitan government in the state and not just home rule municipalities and metropolitan governments. | SB0595 |
| 0151 | Civil Procedure | As enacted, allows a party or non-party making certain filings with a court to redact portions of a person's social security number, taxpayer identification number, birth date, or financial account number or the name of a minor when included in the filing, unless such information is otherwise required by statute, rule, or order. | SB0955 |
| 0152 | Local Government, General | As enacted, increases pay supplement from $600 to $800 for police officers and firefighters who complete 40 hours of in-service training. | SB0793 |
| 0153 | Local Education Agencies | As enacted, requires an LEA to report to the department of education, for each year that the LEA receives an increase in state funding for instructional wages and salaries, how the increase was utilized by the LEA; requires the department of education to report the information to the BEP review committee; requires the BEP review committee to include the information in its annual report on the BEP. | SB0802 |
| 0154 | Education | As enacted, requires, instead of authorizes, the Tennessee school safety center to establish school safety grants to assist LEAs in funding programs that address school safety; revises other various provisions regarding school safety grants. | SB0803 |
| 0155 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration | As enacted, authorizes certain off-highway vehicles that are capable of holding no more than four passengers to be registered as Class I vehicles for operation on county roads. | SB1387 |
| 0156 | Death | As enacted, authorizes the development and use of a commemorative certificate of nonviable birth. | SB1389 |
| 0157 | Taxes, Sales | As enacted, delays effective date of certain streamlined sales tax provisions until July 1, 2021. | HB0931 |
| 0158 | Local Government, General | As enacted, prohibits a local government from banning or regulating certain auxiliary containers; specifies that the state is the exclusive regulator of food and drink sellers, vendors, vending machine operators, food establishments, and food service establishments and prohibits local governments from taking certain actions in regard to such entities and activities. | HB1021 |
| 0159 | Taxes, Amusement | As enacted, exempts from the tax admission, dues, fees, or other charges paid to any person principally engaged in offering services or facilities for the development or preservation of physical fitness through exercise or other active physical fitness conditioning. | HB1138 |
| 0160 | Process, Service of | As enacted, adds a private process server to the list of individuals authorized to personally serve a copy of a warrant or summons on behalf of a landlord in an action for forcible entry and detainer to regain possession of such landlord's real property. | HB0033 |
| 0161 | Funeral Directors and Embalmers | As enacted, authorizes qualified aliens enumerated in federal law to apply for an embalmer's license; changes the requirement that an applicant for an embalmer's license have obtained an associate of arts degree to an associate degree. | HB0048 |
| 0162 | Taxes, Sales | As enacted, exempts from sales and use tax services by car wash facilities, coin-operated or otherwise, where the customer remains in custody of the vehicle and the preponderance of the vehicle's wash is completed by the customer or automated equipment. | HB0084 |
| 0163 | Ethics | As enacted, removes term limits for members of the Tennessee ethics commission; extends time for the general assembly to confirm appointees to the commission from 30 to 90 days. | HB0170 |
| 0164 | Animal Cruelty and Abuse | As enacted, creates Class A misdemeanor of possessing, owning, selling, transferring, or manufacturing cock fighting paraphernalia with the intent that the paraphernalia be used in promoting, facilitating, training for, or furthering cock fighting. | HB0233 |
| 0165 | Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies | As enacted, revises provisions governing commissions under the Tennessee Insurance Producer Licensing Act of 2002. | HB0272 |
| 0166 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the trial court vacancy commission to June 30, 2024, and revises the attendance requirements for members of the commission. | HB0447 |
| 0167 | Courts | As enacted, allows a court to exercise domestic relations jurisdiction regardless of the nature of the allegations unless and until a pleading is filed or relief is otherwise sought in a juvenile court invoking its exclusive original jurisdiction over proceedings in which a child is alleged to be delinquent, unruly or dependent and neglected, or to have committed a juvenile traffic offense. | HB0854 |
| 0168 | Mining and Quarrying | As enacted, relieves the commissioner of labor and workforce development of responsibilities concerning mine rescue operations; deletes statutes establishing the mine rescue corps within the department of labor and workforce development. | HB0925 |
| 0169 | Advertising | As enacted, requires certain outdoor advertising structures to obtain a permit or tag from the commissioner of transportation. | HB0963 |
| 0170 | Taxes, Ad Valorem | As enacted, provides that a purchaser of a parcel subject to delinquent taxes may only demand rents or profits from the occupier of the parcel after the purchaser has made an advance demand for such rents or profits; makes other revisions regarding delinquent tax proceedings. | HB1112 |
| 0171 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration | As enacted, adds the word "valor" to the Silver Star specialty license plate. | HB1154 |
| 0172 | Education | As enacted, establishes a task force regarding the creation of the Tennessee outdoor education and recreation grant program. | SB0058 |
| 0173 | Secretary of State | As enacted, clarifies only a natural person or individual may participate in fantasy sports contests offered by fantasy sports operators. | SB0172 |
| 0174 | Cooperatives | As enacted, removes certain restrictions on concurrent operation with microwave systems; revises provisions governing the providing of telecommunications services. | SB0210 |
| 0175 | Motor Vehicles | As enacted, authorizes off-highway vehicles to be operated on certain segments of state highways in Johnson County. | SB0225 |
| 0176 | Tennessee Fish & Wildlife Commission | As enacted, allows wildlife resource officers to authorize payroll deductions for the payment of membership dues for organizations that meet certain criteria. | SB0342 |
| 0177 | Juvenile Offenders | As enacted, adds "aggravated sexual battery" to the list of offenses for which petitions and orders of the court in a delinquency proceeding that may be otherwise confidential and restricted as to who may inspect are opened to public inspection and their content are subject to disclosure to the public if the juvenile is 14 or more years of age at the time of the alleged act. | SB0584 |
| 0178 | Taxes, Exemption and Credits | As enacted, extends the exemption from sales and use tax on trailers used to transport livestock when such trailer is sold to a qualified farmer or nurseryman to also exempt such sales of trailers used to transport farm products, nursery stock, or equipment, supplies or products used in agriculture, or for other agricultural purposes relating to the operation and maintenance of a farm. | SB0713 |
| 0179 | Taxes, Sales | As enacted, extends expiration date of reporting requirement to department of revenue by wholesalers of food, candy, or nonalcoholic beverages regarding net sales of such products to retailers from July 1, 2019, to July 1, 2022; revises other provisions related to required reports. | SB0786 |
| 0180 | Regional Authorities and Special Districts | As enacted, allows the East Tennessee regional agribusiness marketing authority to develop, market, and promote facilities for warehousing, distribution, light manufacturing, and agribusiness purposes, and enter lease purchase agreements by a two-thirds (2/3) majority vote by the board, and removes tax exempt status for any ETRAMA property sold under a lease purchase agreement. | SB0918 |
| 0181 | Solid Waste Disposal | As enacted, specifies that gasification facilities and pyrolysis facilities are not solid waste facilities or incinerators, post-use polymers and recoverable feedstocks are not solid waste, and gasification facilities and pyrolysis facilities are subject to any other applicable environmental, health, and safety requirements for such facilities. | SB0923 |
| 0182 | Insurance, Health, Accident | As enacted, specifies that, with regard to premium rates for health benefit plans subject to the Tennessee Small Employer Group Health Coverage Reform Act, self-insurer pools consisting of two or more member employers of the same trade or professional organization with at least 500 covered lives are not prohibited from using case characteristics, claim experience, health status, or duration of coverage since issue in determining initial or adjusted premium rates for employers pooling their liabilities. | SB0942 |
| 0183 | Health Care | As enacted, permits advanced practice nurses and physician assistants who are prescribers at community mental health centers to arrange for chart review by and site visits with certain collaborating physicians by means of HIPAA-compliant electronic information systems. | SB0972 |
| 0184 | Traffic Safety | As enacted, prohibits persons from loitering or conducting any commercial activity in, or in proximity to, the median of a state highway; creates a Class C misdemeanor offense that requires issuance of a warning citation for a first offense; creates certain exceptions. | SB1045 |
| 0185 | Civil Procedure | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Public Participation Act," which creates a process by which a person may petition a court to dismiss a legal action that is based on the person's exercise of the right to free speech, right to petition, or right of association. | SB1097 |
| 0186 | Contractors | As enacted, establishes continuing education requirements for residential contractors. | SB1336 |
| 0187 | DUI Offenses | As enacted, revises provisions governing blood and breath tests for determining the presence of drugs and alcohol. | SB1342 |
| 0188 | Health Care | As enacted, extends and revises the Ground Ambulance Service Provider Assessment Act. | SB1349 |
| 0189 | State Employees | As enacted, extends continued health coverage to the surviving spouses and children of park rangers who are killed in the line of duty to the same extent as survivors of other first responders who are killed in the line of duty. | SB1482 |
| 0190 | Motor Vehicles | As enacted, exempts certain motor vehicle dismantlers and recyclers from the requirement to keep certain records of transactions of buying or selling automobile parts. | SB1491 |
| 0191 | Education, Dept. of | As enacted, requires the department to develop rules, to be adopted by the state board of education, that include procedures for providing instruction to students incarcerated in juvenile detention centers for a minimum of four hours each instructional day. | SB0062 |
| 0192 | Local Education Agencies | As enacted, reduces, from no less than four to no more than four, the number of high school students who may serve on a local board of education as advisory, nonvoting members; deletes the requirement that half of the high school students selected to serve on the board must be enrolled in the college preparatory track and half must be enrolled in the technology track. | SB0180 |
| 0193 | Insurance, Health, Accident | As enacted, enacts the "Proton Therapy Access Act." | SB0195 |
| 0194 | Taxes, Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, extends by one year the manner in which liquor-by-the-drink tax proceeds are distributed to local political subdivisions. | SB0350 |
| 0195 | Licenses | As enacted, revises provisions governing expedited issuance of certain professional licenses for certain armed forces members and their spouses to instead exempt such persons from licensure in certain circumstances. | SB0384 |
| 0196 | Process, Service of | As enacted, revises provisions governing identifying the person who makes service of process. | SB0456 |
| 0197 | Trusts | As enacted, revises various provisions governing trusts and estates. | SB0542 |
| 0198 | Taxes, Hotel Motel | As enacted, authorizes Coffee County to levy a privilege tax of up to 2.5 percent upon the privilege of occupancy by a two-thirds vote of its governing body. | SB0567 |
| 0199 | Expunction | As enacted, permits an eligible petitioner to have multiple, nonviolent convictions for offenses that resulted from the petitioner's status as a victim of human trafficking expunged if the expunction is in the best interest of justice and public safety and other requirements met. | SB0577 |
| 0200 | Expunction | As enacted, removes $180 fee for an individual petitioning the court for an expunction of certain criminal offenses; removes $350 fee for a defendant applying for expunction of an offense following the completion of a diversion program. | SB0797 |
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