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0301 Taxes, Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, abolishes the $1,000 privilege tax to the state, $1,000 privilege tax to the county, and, if applicable, $1,000 privilege tax to the municipality in which a manufacturing plant is located that must be paid by a manufacturer of alcoholic drinks and solids, other than beer, capable of being consumed by human beings. SB0206
0302 Public Defenders As enacted, changes employee title from assistant executive director to deputy executive director; allows attorneys in the office of executive director a reasonable length of time to conclude or transfer private legal matters pending at the time of employment. SB0294
0303 Tobacco, Tobacco Products As enacted, expands the Prevention of Youth Access to Tobacco and Vapor Products Act and other laws concerning juveniles' access to tobacco and vaping products to apply to hemp for smoking. SB0360
0304 Education As enacted, authorizes LEAs to offer internship programs for elective credits in the high school curriculum through cooperative agreements with local and state governments. SB0504
0305 Sunset Laws As enacted, schedules the sunset date of the Tennessee radiologic imaging and radiation therapy board of examiners to be June 30, 2020. SB0511
0306 Taxes, Excise As enacted, revises provisions governing net earnings and net losses for purposes of the Excise Tax Law of 1999. SB0558
0307 Health, Dept. of As enacted, requires the department to include data related to complications of induced abortions, including the number of complications and the types of complications, in its annual report of selected induced termination of pregnancy data. SB0614
0308 Consumer Protection As enacted, requires travel promoters to use trust accounts to avoid commingling their funds with customer funds that are held for disbursement for payment of travel services. SB0634
0309 Sentencing As enacted, adds to sentencing considerations available community-based alternatives to confinement and the benefits that imposing such alternatives may provide to the community should be considered when the offense is nonviolent and the defendant is the primary caregiver of a dependent child. SB0985
0310 TennCare As enacted, requires the bureau to establish a program that identifies child TennCare enrollees who are likely to be eligible for federal supplemental security income due to disability upon reaching 18 years of age; requires the program to initiate counseling with and provide enrollment assistance to the child to prevent a gap in TennCare eligibility upon the child reaching 18 years of age. SB1286
0311 Remedies and Special Proceedings As enacted, defines "guardian" or "legal guardian" as "a person having the legal authority to provide for the care, supervision, and control of a minor child as established by law or court order" for purposes of criminal injuries compensation. SB1324
0312 Juvenile Offenders As enacted, revises the provisions for judicial diversion for juvenile offenders under certain circumstances; clarifies offenses for which a juvenile offender may be committed to the department of children's services; authorizes probation for juvenile traffic offenders; clarifies various other provisions related to juvenile court proceedings. SB1325
0313 Juvenile Offenders As enacted, clarifies that a child must have been "adjudicated delinquent" of specified offenses in order for the requirements that a child's school receive notification and that parents, guardians, and legal custodians notify a school principal, or a principal's designee. SB1326
0314 Metropolitan Government As enacted, defines the county seat, if the county seat is an incorporated municipality, as the principal city for purposes of county and city consolidation, if the largest city by population in the county fails to adopt a consolidation resolution within 90 days of the county's adoption of a consolidation resolution. SB1363
0315 Local Government, General As enacted, prohibits local governments from imposing certain requirements on alarm systems contractors; adds certain other provisions under the Alarm Contractors Licensing Act. SB1443
0316 Arrests As enacted, removes certain circumstances in which a citation in lieu of arrest may not be issued; makes various other changes and corrections. SB0587
0317 Planning, Public As enacted, creates an appeal process for decisions of a housing authority regarding a transit-oriented redevelopment project to a legislative appeal board; requires votes on amendments to transit-oriented redevelopment plans within 60 days of submission; reduces the amount of administrative expenses that can be set aside from certain incremental tax revenues, from 5 percent to 3 percent. HB0074
0318 Medical Occupations As enacted, authorizes persons who possess certain qualifications to obtain a provisional license as a speech language pathologist. HB0339
0319 Dentists and Dentistry As enacted, permits dental hygienists to exercise prescriptive authority that is limited to fluoride agents, topical oral anesthetic agents, and nonsystemic oral antimicrobials under certain conditions; requires the board of dentistry to set educational and training requirements by rule; requires board to also determine allowable percentages of certain active ingredients in medications that may be prescribed by dental hygienists. HB0657
0320 Law Enforcement As enacted, establishes certain parameters regarding the authority of a community oversight board and certain requirements for those serving on such a board. HB0658
0321 Fireworks As enacted, authorizes alternatives for fire suppression equipment and personnel that must be present at certain types of public fireworks displays. HB0743
0322 Taxes, Real Property As enacted, makes the provision for the assessor of property recording with the register of deeds an application for the classification of property as agricultural, forest, or open space land discretionary instead of mandatory, and requires the property owner to record the application with the register of deeds if the assessor does not. HB0817
0323 Hearing and Hearing Aids As enacted, authorizes an applicant for licensure as a hearing instrument specialist to substitute board certification by the national board for certification in hearing instrument sciences for the requirement that an applicant for licensure must have an education equivalent to two years of accredited college level coursework. HB1023
0324 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities As enacted, authorizes an existing licensed nursing home to relocate beds in certain circumstances. HB1317
0325 Local Government, General As enacted, specifies a county's, a municipal corporation's, and a special school district's right of subrogation under the local authority's group life, hospitalization, disability, or medical insurance plan. HB1347
0326 Nurses, Nursing As enacted, revises requirements for certificate to practice as a registered nurse first assistant. HB1350
0327 Opioids As enacted, requires the commissioner of health, by January 1, 2020, to: study instances when co-prescribing of naloxone with an opioid is beneficial and publish the results to each prescribing board that licenses healthcare professionals who can legally prescribe controlled substances and the board of pharmacy; and include the findings in the treatment guidelines for prescribing opioids. HB1360
0328 Medical Occupations As enacted, authorizes a person who is licensed, registered, or certificated to provide emergency medical services in this state and who is required by statute or rule to keep proof of their license, registration, or certification on their person to satisfy that requirement by providing the proof by electronic means. HB1367
0329 Hearing and Hearing Aids As enacted, replaces references to hearing impairment with language referring to being deaf or hard of hearing. HB1406
0330 Education As enacted, establishes the Governor's Civics Seal to recognize public schools and local education agencies implementing high-quality civic education programs. HB0944
0331 Employees, Employers As enacted, authorizes a county, municipal, or metropolitan government to seek an injunction against a person who harasses an employee of the county, municipal, or metropolitan government, or any agency thereof, if the harassment related to the person's status as an employee. HB0108
0332 Estates As enacted, requires the administrator or executor of an estate to swear an oath that the representative is not disqualified from serving due to a sentence of imprisonment in a penitentiary. HB0190
0333 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the underground utility damage enforcement board to June 30, 2023; directs the division of state audit within the office of the comptroller of the treasury to conduct a timely study on the allocation of employees from the Tennessee public utilities commission to the underground utility damage enforcement board. HB0448
0334 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the department of labor and workforce development to June 30, 2020. HB0451
0335 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the state TennCare pharmacy advisory committee from June 30, 2020 to June 30, 2021. HB0464
0336 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the department of education to June 30, 2022; requires the department to appear before sunset review committee in 2019 to discuss progress made in addressing findings in its 2018 audit. HB0474
0337 Employees, Employers As enacted, revises provisions governing determination of whether an employer-employee relationship exists in certain employment arrangements. HB0539
0338 Public Contracts As enacted, specifies means by which a city or county may procure surveying services. HB0621
0339 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies As enacted, allows the owner of a prearrangement insurance policy, and not just the beneficiary, to irrevocably assign the policy or policy benefits to a funeral establishment if the insurance company issuing the policy does not offer a funeral trust, or only offers a funeral trust for an additional charge. HB0650
0340 Trusts As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Disclaimer of Property Interests Act." HB0676
0341 Consumer Protection As enacted, enacts the "Healthcare Billing Clarity Act." HB0710
0342 Fairs As enacted, adds the commissioner of agriculture and the dean of the Tennessee State University, college of agriculture cooperative extension program as members of the state fair and exposition commission. HB0815
0343 Death As enacted, revises provisions governing the process to be followed when the next of kin disagrees with a finding that the suspected or determined manner of death was suicide. HB1005
0344 Clerks, Court As enacted, authorizes a court clerk to take passport photographs and to charge a reasonable fee for such service. HB1165
0345 General Assembly As enacted, updates references to house committee names; requires that house speaker be given a copy of all reports required to be submitted to the general assembly, the house of representatives, or a house committee; specifies that the rules of each house control as to appropriate committee to which a report must be submitted or before which a party is to appear in situations where the committee name may differ from what appears in TCA due to a rule change. HB1230
0346 Jails, Local Lock-ups As enacted, authorizes a county sheriff to create an inmate reentry education program. HB1324
0347 Boats, Boating As enacted, establishes parameters on the regulation of certain commercial non-motorized vessel outfitters. HB1328
0348 Taxes, Hotel Motel As enacted, authorizes the City of Cookeville, by ordinance adopted by a two-thirds vote, to levy an occupancy tax of not more than 3 percent on the privilege of staying in any hotel or motel in Cookeville; 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 and economic development. HB1500
0349 Taxes, Hotel Motel As enacted, authorizes the City of White Pine to levy a privilege tax of up to 3.5 percent upon the privilege of occupancy by a two-thirds vote of its governing body. HB1515
0350 Education As enacted, creates a process for voters in Madison County to remove a local board of education member who is elected or appointed to fill a vacancy. SB0185
0351 Abortion As enacted, enacts the "Human Life Protection Act," which bans abortion in this state effective on the 30th day after the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade or an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to allow states to prohibit abortion; creates exception for situations where the abortion is necessary to prevent the death of pregnant woman or prevent serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of major bodily function; prohibits prosecution of a woman upon whom an abortion is performed or attempted. SB1257
0352 Fire Prevention and Investigation As enacted, extends the same police powers that municipal fire investigators have to certain salaried county fire investigators. SB0267
0353 Boards and Commissions As enacted, adds the speaker of the house of representatives and the speaker of the senate as permanent ex officio voting members of the Tennessee medical examiner advisory council. SB0272
0354 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies As enacted, expands types of crop insurance offered under a limited lines producer license to include damage to crops caused by unfavorable weather conditions, fire or lightning, flood, insect infestation, disease, or other yield-reducing conditions or perils, in addition to present coverage for hail. SB0309
0355 Taxes, Ad Valorem As enacted, authorizes property tax exemption for certain nonprofit entities that occupy and use real property owned by another tax-exempt institution; makes other related revisions. SB0408
0356 Public Funds and Financing As enacted, establishes a victims of human trafficking fund in the state treasury to provide comprehensive treatment and support services to victims of human trafficking. SB0447
0357 Licenses As enacted, exempts certain medical professionals from massage licensure requirements where massages for compensation are provided in the offices of such medical professionals by licensed massage therapists. SB0467
0358 Naming and Designating As enacted, designates the CSM Bobby G. Davis National Guard Armory in Chattanooga as the "CSM Bobby G. Davis and BG Carl E. Levi National Guard Armory". SB0479
0359 Tort Liability and Reform As enacted, requires licensure as a healthcare professional for a person to competently treat a mental health disorder; creates certain exemptions; provides for an action to recover damages. SB0540
0360 Criminal Offenses As enacted, creates offenses related to the possession, sale, distribution, and transport of child-like sex dolls. SB0659
0361 Education As enacted, establishes the Agriculture Education and Youth Participation Task Force. SB0801
0362 Pensions and Retirement Benefits As enacted, makes police officers and firefighters who are members of the state retirement system eligible for service retirement upon completion of 25 years of creditable service. SB1237
0363 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, adds authorization for the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption for: Weir Park in Clay County; Center for the Arts in Murfreesboro; El Fogon restaurant in Hixson; Lebanon Theater; the Blake at Kingsport; Legacy Farms in Lebanon; Flat Hollow Marina in Campbell County; the 121 Hotel in Nashville; Central Park in Livingston; and the Sip-n-Scoop in College Grove. SB1417
0364 Public Health As enacted, creates the state Alzheimer's disease and related dementia advisory council. SB0028
0365 Highways, Roads and Bridges As enacted, provides for the naming of certain roads and bridges in honor of certain specified persons. SB0041
0366 Education, Curriculum As enacted, expands career and technical education programs to middle school grades; requires the board of career and technical education to plan facilities for comprehensive career and technical training for middle school students. SB0063
0367 Handgun Permits As enacted, requires that the following language be printed on the back of handgun carry permit cards: This permit is valid beyond the expiration date if the permit holder can provide documentation of the holder's active military status and duty station outside Tennessee. SB0095
0368 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the department of environment and conservation to June 30, 2023. SB0134
0369 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the private probation services council to June 30, 2021; requires background checks for private probation officers; revises duties of council. SB0141
0370 Criminal Offenses As enacted, revises offense regarding destruction or interference with utility lines, fixtures or appliances, or property utilized by railroads to apply to certain activities involving critical infrastructure. SB0264
0371 Revenue, Dept. of As enacted, directs the department to collect information regarding sales taxes the department collects on all electronic nicotine delivery services, from all sources, including online sales, vape shops, and convenience stores. SB0276
0372 Health Care As enacted, enacts the "Chronic Disease Prevention Act." SB0281
0373 Employees, Employers As enacted, prohibits a medical review officer from considering prescriptions issued more than six months prior to a positive confirmed drug result for purposes of determining a valid prescription and immunity from actions authorized for employers to take against employees and job applicants following such a result under drug-free workplace program. SB0312
0374 Sexual Offenders As enacted, prohibits a sexual offender from conducting overnight visit at a residence in which a minor resides or is present, in certain circumstances. SB0425
0375 Funeral Directors and Embalmers As enacted, authorizes operators of crematory facilities who provide free services for the cremation of human remains to receive a refund of the permit fee paid for such services. SB0432
0376 Education As enacted, authorizes LEAs that receive pre-kindergarten program approval to utilize a comparable alternative measure of student growth approved by the state board of education and adopted by the LEA, rather than the pre-k/kindergarten growth portfolio model approved by the state board of education in the evaluation of pre-kindergarten and kindergarten teachers; creates portfolio review committee. SB0442
0377 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, authorizes, in leases entered into between Memphis and business owners holding a restaurant license from the alcoholic beverage commission, the inclusion of provisions where the rent is calculated on gross sales, including gross sales of alcohol, of the business; prohibits a county from denying the issuance or renewal of a beer permit on the basis of a similar lease; provisions also applicable to Knoxville within an easement area granted to the city for commercial recreation and commercial recreation facilities from TVA in the Fort Loudoun Reservoir. SB0498
0378 Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) As enacted, enacts the "Facilitating Business Rapid Response to State Declared Disaster Act." SB0624
0379 Public Funds and Financing As enacted, revises the Volunteer Public Education Trust Fund Act of 1985; designates the commissioner of education and state treasurer as trustees of the fund. SB0625
0380 Health, Dept. of As enacted, requires regional medical communication centers to provide monthly data to the commissioner regarding the number of flight requests rejected by a vendor and the patient volumes transported into the covered region; requires the commissioner to monthly post the data to the department's website in a manner accessible to the public. SB0626
0381 Pensions and Retirement Benefits As enacted, prohibits a current early service retiree from changing to disability retirement; makes other revisions to provisions governing the Tennessee consolidated retirement system. SB0633
0382 Taxes, Sales As enacted, allocates a portion of sales and use tax revenue to certain counties in which a new event center is to be constructed. SB0648
0383 Courts As enacted, makes various changes to zero to three courts, including adding five additional safe baby courts and extending such courts to January 1, 2025. SB0649
0384 Tourism As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Commission for the United States Semiquincentennial Commission Act". SB0679
0385 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs As enacted, adds William R. Moore College of Technology as an eligible institution for receipt of the Tennessee promise scholarship. SB0691
0386 Public Defenders As enacted, allows district investigators to include experience as a criminal defense investigator for prior service credits. SB0861
0387 Agriculture As enacted, creates a 12-member task force to study issues relative to hemp commerce and consumer protection. SB0888
0388 Traffic Safety As enacted, establishes requirements for the operation of electric foot scooters; specifies that for purposes of the DUI laws, an electric scooter will be considered a motor-driven vehicle. SB1107
0389 Parks, Natural Areas Preservation As enacted, extends a 50 percent discount on camping fees at state parks to veterans who have a 100-percent permanent total service-connected disability. SB1119
0390 Taxes, Sales As enacted, allows municipality with a border region retail tourism development district that elects to remove property from the district to include adjacent property with an equal or lesser amount of acreage by resolution of the municipality. SB1122
0391 Local Education Agencies As enacted, requires, rather than encourages, all public middle and elementary schools to place one or more automated external defibrillator (AED) devices within the school. SB1135
0392 Taxes, Sales As enacted, increases, from $100,000 to $300,000, the maximum amount of annual sales that charitable entities whose primary purpose is fundraising in support of a city, county, or metropolitan library system may make to be excluded from the definition of "business" for sales tax purposes; specifies that such entities may make online sales. SB1137
0393 Criminal Offenses As enacted, enacts the "Leigh Ann Act," which creates a Class A misdemeanor of violating a no contact order issued to a domestic violence victim as part of a disposition in any criminal court. SB1163
0394 Local Education Agencies As enacted, authorizes LEAs to establish a threat assessment team for the purpose of developing comprehensive, intervention-based approaches to prevent violence, manage reports of potential threats, and create a system that fosters a safe, supportive, and effective school environment. SB1238
0395 Law Enforcement As enacted, makes denial of a claim made by the estate of a law enforcement officer for the annuity payable to the estate of an emergency responder who is killed in the line of duty subject to review by the Tennessee peace officer standards and training commission within 90 days of the claim's denial; redefines "law enforcement officer" for purposes of determining which law enforcement officers are considered an emergency responder whose estate would be eligible for the annuity. SB1268
0396 Handgun Permits As enacted, waives the fee for obtaining a lifetime handgun carry permit for former law enforcement officers who served at least 10 years and left the law enforcement agency while in good standing. SB1347
0397 Election Laws As enacted, revises provisions governing the filing of a vacancy in the state senate when the vacancy occurs within 45 days of the election. SB1355
0398 Child Abuse As enacted, creates the Class A misdemeanor and Class E felony offenses of withdrawing, transferring, or altering a child's school enrollment with intent to hinder an active child abuse or child neglect investigation. SB1359
0399 Pensions and Retirement Benefits As enacted, grants a retirement allowance to a surviving spouse who is a designated beneficiary if the deceased TCRS member is vested instead of requiring that the member have 10 years of creditable service. SB1371
0400 Taxes, Exemption and Credits As enacted, creates sales and use tax exemption for sale of public safety and public works-related goods to certain nonprofit property owners associations; exemption limited to $25,000 in sales and use taxes each year that would otherwise be imposed. SB1455

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