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Chapter Number | Subject | Abstract | Bill Number |
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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 |