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Chapter Number | Subject | Abstract | Bill Number |
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0401 | Taxes, Exemption and Credits | As enacted, extends certain franchise and excise tax credits to development districts engaged in eligible activity. | SB1462 |
0402 | Education, Higher | As enacted, enacts "Michelle's Law," which extends a 25 percent discount on the tuition to any state institution of higher education to every child under 24 years of age whose parent died while employed as a full-time certified teacher in a public school in Tennessee or as a full-time technology coordinator in an LEA in Tennessee. | SB1530 |
0403 | Bond Issues | As enacted, authorizes the state to issue and sell bonds of up to $124 million. | HB1509 |
0404 | Public Funds and Financing | As enacted, revises certain provisions governing the distribution of revenue under the Business Tax Act; provides, in regard to the provisions governing financing under the Development District Act of 1965, that appropriations to the department of economic and community development for economic development district grants may be reduced in the amount of $174,000 (recurring) for the transfer of such amount to the commission on children and youth for the sole purpose of making a grant in such amount to the Tennessee CASA Association. | HB1510 |
0405 | Appropriations | As enacted, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2018, and July 1, 2019. | HB1508 |
0406 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the Tennessee board of judicial conduct to June 30, 2021. | SB0153 |
0407 | Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Right to Shop Act." | SB0510 |
0408 | Annexation | As enacted, specifies that property owners, rather than just residents, of a territory proposed for annexation may vote in the referendum on the question of annexation; limits provision for property owners to vote based on ownership to no more than two persons per an individual tract of property, regardless of number of owners of the property. | SB0557 |
0409 | Adoption | As enacted, provides that if a court appoints a guardian ad litem in a pending adoption proceeding, there will be a rebuttable presumption that the guardian ad litem's fees will be divided equally between the parties, excluding the person being adopted; specifies that if a party is found by the court to be indigent, the guardian ad litem will charge that party's portion of the fees to the state through the administrative office of the courts claims and payment system, and bill the remaining parties at the same hourly rate as paid by the administrative office of the courts claims and payment system. | SB0559 |
0410 | Statutes of Limitations and Repose | As enacted, extends the statute of limitation for prosecution of second degree murder from 15 years from the offense to at any time after the offense is committed. | HB0113 |
0411 | State Inmates | As enacted, requires custodians of state correctional facilities to provide feminine hygiene products, moisturizing soap that is not lye-based, toothbrushes and toothpaste, and any other healthcare product a custodian deems appropriate to women prisoners at no charge and in an appropriate quantity. | HB0129 |
0412 | Traffic Safety | As enacted, prohibits a person from physically holding or supporting, with any part of the person's body, a wireless telecommunications device or stand-alone electronic device while operating a motor vehicle; imposes other similar restrictions on activities such as texting; creates certain exceptions. | HB0164 |
0413 | Local Education Agencies | As enacted, revises provisions governing the sale of surplus property by an LEA. | HB0207 |
0414 | Education, State Board of | As enacted, prohibits, beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, the state board from modifying the uniform grading system more than once every two years. | HB0209 |
0415 | Marriage | As enacted, authorizes members of the general assembly, duly appointed law enforcement chaplains, and members of the legislative body of a municipality to solemnize marriages; prohibits persons receiving online ordinations from solemnizing the rite of matrimony; requires members of the general assembly who want to solemnize marriage to opt in by filing notice of the member's intention with the office of vital records. | HB0213 |
0416 | State Government | As enacted, establishes daylight saving time as the standard time in Tennessee, subject to authorization to do so from the United States Congress and certain other conditions being met. | HB0247 |
0417 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, creates a Class D felony offense for entity or person who knowingly uses a communication or electronic device to obtain information concerning an elderly adult's medical condition or health, sends unsolicited or specifically refused medical supplies to the elderly adult, and files a claim or submits a bill with the state Medicare plan for reimbursement. | HB0257 |
0418 | School Transportation | As enacted, permits LEAs to install cameras on school buses to record vehicles that unlawfully pass a stopped school bus; establishes requirements for such cameras and their use. | HB0268 |
0419 | Taxes, Real Property | As enacted, provides that whenever Hardeman County acquires property at a tax sale, any non-governmental entity holding a vested and duly recorded contractual right to the payment of fees or assessments secured by such property retains such right; further provides that Hardeman County will be liable for the payment of such fees and assessments if the county makes actual use of the property purchased at the tax sale. | HB0350 |
0420 | Courts | As enacted, removes references and duties of the Tennessee Judicial Council, which terminated June 30, 2009. | HB0395 |
0421 | Education | As enacted, requires LEAs and public charter schools to adopt a trauma-informed discipline policy; requires the department of education to develop guidance on trauma-informed discipline practices that LEAs must use to develop a trauma-informed discipline policy. | HB0405 |
0422 | Domestic Violence | As enacted, imposes a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $2,500 for a violation of an order of protection. | HB0516 |
0423 | TennCare | As enacted, extends the nursing home annual assessment fee to June 30, 2020. | HB0557 |
0424 | Sexual Offenses | As enacted, revises provisions regarding reporting suspected child sexual abuse when certain minors present for an abortion. | HB0574 |
0425 | Tort Liability and Reform | As enacted, declares settlement agreement provisions that have purpose or effect of concealing identities of persons relating to a claim as void and unenforceable and contrary to public policy of this state if settlement agreement is entered into by governmental entity; maintains confidentiality of victim's identity if the claim involves sexual harassment or sexual assault. | HB0594 |
0426 | Taxes, Hotel Motel | As enacted, extends by six years the period in which Davidson County may charge an additional $0.50 privilege tax on the occupancy of a hotel room and in which such county may allocate the tax revenue for the purposes of direct promotion of tourism; extends by six years the terms of the committee members that oversee the fund in which the additional tax is deposited. | HB0597 |
0427 | Taxes, Sales | As enacted, extends to "water" the sales tax exemption that applies to the sale to a qualified farmer or nurseryman of electricity, natural gas and liquefied gas, including, but not limited to, propane and butane used directly in the production of food or fiber for human or animal consumption or to aid in the growing of a horticultural product for sale. | HB0634 |
0428 | Public Defenders | As enacted, creates the district public defender appellate division, including authorization for six appellate attorney positions. | HB0642 |
0429 | Administrative Procedure (UAPA) | As enacted, continues permanent rules filed with the secretary of state after January 1, 2018; schedules the Tennessee Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers Rule 0660-11-.05, relative to professional conduct, and filed in the office of secretary of state on December 12, 2018, to expire on May 21, 2019; specifies that, effective July 1, 2019, the department of revenue is no longer prohibited from collecting internet sales or use taxes pursuant to Rule 1320-05-01-.129(2). | HB0667 |
0430 | Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies | As enacted, revises various provisions of the Insurers Rehabilitation and Liquidation Act. | HB0673 |
0431 | Child Custody and Support | As enacted, revises various provisions related to stepparent visitation. | HB0674 |
0432 | Firearms and Ammunition | As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor offense for the transfer of a firearm to a person knowing that the person: has been judicially committed to a mental institution or adjudicated as a mental defective unless the person's right to possess firearms has been restored; or is receiving inpatient mental health or substance abuse treatment at a hospital or treatment resource. | HB0754 |
0433 | Orders of Protection | As enacted, revises the population brackets that determine which courts have jurisdiction to issue orders of protection in domestic relations cases. | HB0760 |
0434 | TennCare | As enacted, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment Act of 2019." | HB0771 |
0435 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, allows premises authorized to serve wine to also serve high alcohol content beer; requires that the training for applicants for server permits consist of not less than 3.5 hours of alcohol awareness training; clarifies the premises contained in authorization for certain establishments to sell alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption to include tables and chairs contiguous to the outside front wall of a licensee's building; and clarifies that other authorization for designating contiguous areas of the licensee's premises also applies to manufacturers who are licensed to sell at retail on their premises. | HB0794 |
0436 | Taxes, Real Property | As enacted, expands definition of agricultural land for purposes of greenbelt property tax program to include two noncontiguous tracts of land within same county totaling at least 15 acres and split only by a road, body of water, or public or private easement. | HB0809 |
0437 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, creates the Class C felony of aggravated unlawful photographing when the defendant knowingly photographs a minor when the minor has a reasonable expectation of privacy, the photograph depicts the minor in a state of nudity, and the photography was taken for the purpose of sexual gratification of the defendant; requires a person convicted of aggravated unlawful photographing to register as a sexual offender. | HB0830 |
0438 | Driver Licenses | As enacted, revises provisions governing payment plans for fines and costs and license suspension for failure to comply with plan. | HB0839 |
0439 | Basic Education Program (BEP) | As enacted, clarifies that if, pursuant to current law, a local government appropriates nonrecurring funds for priority schools, evidenced by a written agreement with the LEA establishing the nonrecurring use of the funds, then such funds must be excluded from the maintenance of local funding requirement and from any apportionment requirement under the present law provisions governing the local tax levy for each year that the school is identified as a priority school plus one additional year. | HB0886 |
0440 | Taxes, Sales | As enacted, extends certain local option sales tax provisions to municipalities with a professional soccer franchise. | HB0907 |
0441 | Election Laws | As enacted, establishes requirements governing an executive committee's determination that a candidate is not qualified and exclusion of the candidate's name from a ballot. | HB0911 |
0442 | Education, Curriculum | As enacted, requires students to pass a civics test to receive a full diploma upon graduation from high school; revises and enacts other provisions relating to civics test. | HB1016 |
0443 | Tourist Development, Dept. of | As enacted, designates Reelfoot Lake as a Tennessee Heritage Site; authorizes commissioner to strategically market Reelfoot Lake for tourism development. | HB1067 |
0444 | Wine & Wineries | As enacted, creates the Tennessee wine and grape board; establishes the powers and duties of the board; abolishes the viticulture advisory board; establishes certain requirements regarding use of funds received by the board. | HB1075 |
0445 | Election Laws | As enacted, revises provisions governing convenient voting centers pilot projects. | HB1077 |
0446 | Public Employees | As enacted, replaces the awarding of treble damages under the Public Employee Political Freedom Act of 1980 with the awarding of compensatory damages. | HB1087 |
0447 | Public Records | As enacted, creates an exception to provisions concerning the confidentiality of certain investigatory records of the division of health related boards in the department of health. | HB1132 |
0448 | DUI Offenses | As enacted, adds physician assistants to the list of medical practitioners who are qualified to draw blood from a motor vehicle operator for evidentiary purposes in a DUI investigation. | HB1162 |
0449 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration | As enacted, increases from $3.00 to $4.00 the amount of the fee that county clerks may impose for the service of handling mail orders of license plates and decals. | HB1169 |
0450 | Education, Curriculum | As enacted, requires the department of education and public schools to commemorate the centennial of women's suffrage and recognize the Tennesseans who were instrumental in securing all women the right to vote for the purpose of educating students about the ratification of the nineteenth amendment to the United States Constitution on August 18, 1920, and to educate students on the state of Tennessee's fundamental role in guaranteeing all women the right to vote. | HB1192 |
0451 | Economic and Community Development | As enacted, requires the department of economic and community development to execute a separate agreement in conjunction with any capital grant contract awarded pursuant to provisions governing the state building commission for economic development purposes; deletes certain provisions regarding tax credits. | HB1265 |
0452 | Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies | As enacted, revises various provisions of the Revised Tennessee Captive Insurance Act. | HB1300 |
0453 | Education | As enacted, revises various provisions of the Tennessee Community Schools Act. | HB1330 |
0454 | Education, Curriculum | As enacted, requires the department of education to develop a state plan for computer science in grades K-12. | HB1339 |
0455 | Education, Higher | As enacted, requires each state institution of higher education to do the following: develop and implement a suicide prevention plan for students, faculty, and staff; and provide the plan to students, faculty, and staff at least once each semester. | HB1354 |
0456 | Schools, Private | As enacted, includes schools that meet the standards of accreditation or membership of the Association of Classical and Christian Schools to schools considered "church-related" schools; revises related provisions. | HB1392 |
0457 | Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) | As enacted, authorizes persons housed in emergency management agency camps or shelters to possess mobile telephones. | HB1416 |
0458 | County Government | As enacted, prohibits interpreting or amending county charter in a manner inconsistent with state law with respect to the duties, qualifications, and privileges of the constitutional county offices of sheriff, register, county clerk, assessor of property, or trustee. | HB1423 |
0459 | Consumer Protection | As enacted, abolishes the division of consumer affairs in the department of commerce and insurance and transfers the responsibilities of the division concerning the consumer protection laws to the attorney general and reporter; authorizes a court to order the parties to engage in pre-trial mediation in the course of any action brought in the name of the state pursuant to the Consumer Protection Act; authorizes the division of consumer affairs in the office of the attorney general and reporter to facilitate communication between a complainant and person identified in a complaint in an effort to encourage mutually agreeable resolutions. | HB0948 |
0460 | Education | As enacted, prohibits the Tennessee School for the Blind, the Tennessee School for the Deaf, the West Tennessee School for the Deaf, and the Alvin C. York Agricultural Institute from sharing the same president, director of schools, or officers at the same time. | HB0025 |
0461 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration | As enacted, authorizes military and memorial plates to be personalized; requires payment of a fee to defray the costs of designing and manufacturing the personalized plates. | HB0076 |
0462 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration | As enacted, requires that notation of liens and encumbrances and extensions of mortgages on certificates of title be performed by county clerks; revises related provisions. | HB0082 |
0463 | Lottery, Scholarships and Programs | As enacted, declares the legislative intent that the dual enrollment grant be fully funded before any funds in the lottery for education account are transferred to the Tennessee Promise scholarship endowment fund. | HB0111 |
0464 | Teachers, Principals and School Personnel | As enacted, requires, beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, the state board of education to award a teacher five additional professional development points if the teacher's overall evaluation demonstrates an overall performance effectiveness level of "above expectations" or "significantly above expectations" and the evaluation is based on the teacher's performance while employed at a school that is on the priority list or the focus list. | HB0632 |
0465 | Education | As enacted, revises certain provisions regarding alternative schools. | HB0664 |
0466 | Driver Licenses | As enacted, authorizes the commissioner of safety to issue farm-related service industry employee restricted commercial driver licenses to persons who meet certain qualifications. | HB0714 |
0467 | Courts | As enacted, revises provisions governing compensation for court reporters and fees for transcripts. | HB0729 |
0468 | Education | As enacted, replaces the department of economic and community development with the Tennessee higher education commission as the state agency charged with administering grants related to work-based learning programs; revises related provisions. | HB0740 |
0469 | Scholarships and Financial Aid | As enacted, increases, from $600 to $1,000, the amount of a Tennessee middle college scholarship awarded each semester to an eligible student for full-time attendance. | HB0745 |
0470 | Pharmacy, Pharmacists | As enacted, makes various changes to law concerning pharmacy benefits managers. | HB0786 |
0471 | Auctions and Auctioneers | As enacted, revises various provisions governing auctions. | HB0797 |
0472 | Child Abuse | As enacted, requires that the district attorney for the judicial district in which a child was located, in addition to the appropriate legislative members, be given a copy of the report of the fatality or near fatality of: a child in the custody of the department; a child who is the subject of an investigation by the department; or a child whose fatality or near fatality resulted in an investigation into the safety of another child in the home; authorizes district attorney to communicate with the appropriate legislators about the report and its contents or about any other otherwise confidential information that legislators may have acquired. | HB0867 |
0473 | Taxes, Sales | As enacted, expands the exemption from sales tax on periodicals distributed twice monthly or on a biweekly or more frequent basis to periodicals distributed no less frequently than monthly. | HB0899 |
0474 | Elder Abuse | As enacted, enacts the "Elderly and Vulnerable Adult Protection Act of 2019." | HB0909 |
0475 | Education | As enacted, requires that the Tennessee comprehensive assessment program (TCAP) tests administered in the 2019-2020 school year be administered in paper format; revises provisions regarding physical education. | HB0982 |
0476 | Fiscal Review Committee | As enacted, designates the fiscal review committee as a joint office of the general assembly; revises other provisions governing the committee. | HB1233 |
0477 | Highways, Roads and Bridges | As enacted, changes the requirements for the operation of horse drawn vehicles on state highways. | HB1252 |
0478 | Taxes, Privilege | As enacted, limits the professions to which the professional privilege tax applies to: lobbyists; persons licensed or registered under the laws governing securities as agents, broker-dealers, and investment advisers; physicians and osteopathic physicians; and attorneys; applicable to privilege taxes due and payable after May 31, 2020. | HB1262 |
0479 | Handgun Permits | As enacted, creates a concealed handgun carry permit, which allows a person to carry a concealed handgun; redesignates the existing handgun carry permit as an enhanced handgun carry permit. | HB1264 |
0480 | Federal Aid | As enacted, requires certain state agencies and political subdivisions to prepare and submit reports to the department of finance and administration regarding the effects of and plans for reductions in federal funding. | HB1270 |
0481 | TennCare | As enacted, directs the governor, through the commissioner of finance and administration, to submit a waiver amendment to the centers for medicare and medicaid services to provide TennCare II funding by means of a block grant indexed for inflation and population growth. | HB1280 |
0482 | Scholarships and Financial Aid | As enacted, increases from one to two the number of additional dual enrollment courses a student may take under a dual enrollment grant under certain circumstances; allows an eligible student to receive a dual enrollment grant for no more than 10 courses. | HB1425 |
0483 | Taxes, Sales | As enacted, exempts from the sales tax imposed on the lease or rental of tangible personal property the transaction of "providing a dumpster along with the delivery and pickup of the dumpster"; in order for exemption to apply, requires that the provider of the dumpster be exclusively responsible for delivery and pickup of the dumpster. | HB1441 |
0484 | Local Education Agencies | As enacted, authorizes LEAs to provide free feminine hygiene products in eligible public high schools. | HB1483 |
0485 | Sentencing | As enacted, enacts the "JaJuan Latham Act," which increases the penalty for an aggravated assault or homicide that occurs by a person discharging a firearm from within a motor vehicle and the victim is a minor at the time of the offense. | HB0002 |
0486 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, requires a mandatory 30-day sentence for theft of a firearm; revises penalty for offense of failure to appear; revises other various provisions of criminal law. | HB0167 |
0487 | Tennessee Bureau of Investigation | As enacted, transfers the fire investigations section from the department of commerce and insurance to the bureau; revises and enacts related provisions. | HB0174 |
0488 | Probation and Parole | As enacted, prevents an inmate convicted of a Class A, B, or C felony from using sentence reduction credits until the minimum release eligibility date applicable to the inmate is reached; establishes presumption that inmate convicted of Class E or Class D nonviolent felony is to be paroled upon reaching release eligibility date unless good cause is shown as to why inmate should not be released. | HB0197 |
0489 | Public Health | As enacted, rewrites provisions governing limited pilot project for certification of a training program offered by an EMT/AEMT training center; creates limited pilot project for purpose of determining the impact of such training centers. | HB0228 |
0490 | Firefighters | As enacted, enacts the "Barry Brady Act," which creates a presumption that certain conditions or impairments of full-time firefighters caused by certain cancers arose out of employment unless the contrary is shown by competent medical evidence. | HB0316 |
0491 | Taxes, Sales | As enacted, revises provisions governing sales and use tax in regard to out-of-state dealers. | HB0326 |
0492 | Professions and Occupations | As enacted, allows certain persons who receive certified occupational training as a prisoner or a student in a high school technical training class to receive equivalent credit toward an occupational license relating to the training received. | HB0353 |
0493 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the bureau of TennCare within the department of finance and administration to June 30, 2022. | HB0471 |
0494 | TennCare | As enacted, directs the commissioner of finance and administration to submit to the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services a waiver or waivers pursuant to Section 1115 of the Social Security Act for the purpose of establishing a distinct Katie Beckett program. | HB0498 |
0495 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, enhances the penalty for destruction or alteration of governmental records from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony. | HB0502 |
0496 | Judges and Chancellors | As enacted, vacates and reconstitutes the board of judicial conduct; rewrites other provisions governing the board. | HB0513 |
0497 | Firefighters | As enacted, creates a program managed by the commissioner of commerce and insurance to annually award grants to volunteer fire departments for the purchase of firefighting equipment or to meet local match requirements for federal grants for the purchase of firefighting equipment and training. | HB0518 |
0498 | Business and Commerce | As enacted, enacts the "Regional Retail Tourism Development District Act." | HB0524 |
0499 | Statutes of Limitations and Repose | As enacted, revises various provisions governing statutes of limitations for civil actions and criminal prosecutions for cases involving abuse against child; revises penalty for failure to report abuse. | HB0565 |
0500 | Education | As enacted, directs the Tennessee School for the Deaf, together with the West Tennessee School for the Deaf, to establish a one-year deaf mentor pilot project to assist families and agencies in implementing bilingual and bicultural home-based programming for young children who are deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind. | HB0567 |