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Chapter Number Subject Abstract Bill Number
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

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