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Chapter Number | Subject | Abstract | Bill Number |
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0701 | Taxes, Hotel Motel | As enacted, authorizes the City of Tracy City to levy a privilege tax of up to 5 percent upon the privilege of occupancy by a two-thirds vote of its governing body. | HB1708 |
0702 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the human rights commission to June 30, 2025. | HB1750 |
0703 | Real Property | As enacted, restricts the width of a private easement or right-of-way to 25 feet; authorizes the court to award attorney fees to the defending landowner in an action for an easement or right-of-way brought by a private person owning land obstructed entirely from a public road by the intervening land of another person; makes various other changes regarding private easements. | HB1914 |
0704 | Beer | As enacted, authorizes beer retailers to sell beer, from their own inventory, online for curbside pickup at the beer retailer's location; requires that the employee bringing beer to a vehicle for curbside pickup verify that the recipient of the beer is 21 years of age or older. | HB2028 |
0705 | Correctional Programs | As enacted, authorizes TRICOR to enter contractual agreements with counties and cities to provide work training programs for prisoners incarcerated in county and city jails. | HB2120 |
0706 | Advertising | As enacted, revises various provisions governing outdoor advertising; renames the Billboard Regulation and Control Act to be the Outdoor Advertising Control Act of 2020. | HB2255 |
0707 | Holidays and Days of Special Observance | As enacted, removes the duty of the governor to proclaim days of special observance, such as Mother's Day, Harriet Tubman Day, and Volunteer Firefighters week; removes the governor's duty to invite the people of the state to observe certain days of special observance such as Andrew Jackson Day. | HB2266 |
0708 | Child Abuse | As enacted, creates a procedure for school teachers, school officials, and other school personnel to follow in regard to reporting suspected child abuse or child sexual abuse. | HB2461 |
0709 | Holidays and Days of Special Observance | As enacted, designates "Women's Suffrage Day" as a day of special observance. | HB2586 |
0710 | Child Custody and Support | As enacted, requires that the parent educational seminar include at least one 30-minute video on adverse childhood experiences created by the department of children's services in conjunction with the commission on children and youth or as part of the Building Strong Brains Tennessee public awareness campaign; adds to that the requirement of attendance by parents at the parent educational seminar may be waived upon motion by either party and the agreement of the court upon the showing of good cause. | HB2588 |
0711 | General Assembly | As enacted, deletes an obsolete reporting requirement for the department of human resources regarding the job performance evaluation system; revises and deletes various other reporting requirements concerting reports to legislative committees. | SB1887 |
0712 | Water Pollution | As enacted, specifies that soil is not a discarded material constituting waste for purposes of the Tennessee Solid Waste Disposal Act and the Tennessee Hazardous Waste Management Act as long as the soil is intend for use or reuse as soil. | SB0811 |
0713 | Election Laws | As enacted, provides that if an incumbent member of the general assembly who has filed a petition for reelection is disqualified by the political party executive committee, then the incumbent member of the general assembly may file a new petition for the same office as a candidate for another political party or as an independent candidate. | SB1009 |
0714 | Milk, Dairy Products | As enacted, adds requirements for farmers to participate in herdshare programs. | SB1123 |
0715 | Parks, Natural Areas Preservation | As enacted, designates three river segments located in Rhea County as Class I natural river areas. | SB1357 |
0716 | Regional Authorities and Special Districts | As enacted, authorizes senators and representatives to decline appointment or appoint a designee to the board of the management corporation for a central business improvement district or inner-city redevelopment district and establishes requirement for person designated in place of the member; prohibits subsequent creation of a district for a period of one year if a petition fails to receive the requisite number of signatures. | SB1559 |
0717 | Teachers, Principals and School Personnel | As enacted, revises the period of time after a local board of education or director of schools makes an initial offer of employment to a person for a teaching position that the person has to accept or reject the offer of employment, if the offer is made between June 1 and April 1. | SB1616 |
0718 | Unclaimed Property | As enacted, increases from "eight months to a year" to "32 to 36 months" the time within which the treasurer must sell a security after receiving it; extends from "eight months" to "32 months" the minimum time period during which the treasurer is required to hold a security prior to selling it and paying the sale proceeds to the owner upon the owner's request. | SB1634 |
0719 | Secretary of State | As enacted, makes various changes concerning filings submitted by different entities to the secretary of state. | SB1754 |
0720 | Water Authorities | As enacted, revises the process by which a city, metropolitan, or county government may create a new water or wastewater treatment authority. | SB1766 |
0721 | County Government | As enacted, authorizes a county, upon two-thirds vote of the county legislative body, to dispose of real property at a nominal cost by private negotiation and sale to a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, incorporated under the laws of this state, whose purpose includes educational services to youth in areas including health, science, agriculture, and civic engagement through in-school and after-school programs and school and community clubs and camps. | SB1862 |
0722 | Industrial Development | As enacted, creates an exception to the prohibition on an industrial development corporation purchasing a hotel, motel, or apartment building, if the project is a tourism attraction involving an aggregate investment of public and private funds in excess of $75 million. | SB1956 |
0723 | Carter County | As enacted, increases the number of paid meetings the Carter County Parks and Recreation Board may hold, from eight per year to 12 per year. | SB1967 |
0724 | Dentists and Dentistry | As enacted, permits a dentist to supervise up to 10 dental hygienists when providing dental services on a volunteer basis through a nonprofit provider of free mobile clinics. | SB2017 |
0725 | Food and Food Products | As enacted, establishes standards for proper branding of meat and poultry as "Tennessee-raised" for purposes of the Tennessee Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. | SB2049 |
0726 | Environment and Conservation, Department of | As enacted, requires the department to grant or deny an application for a subsurface sewage disposal system within 45 days or receiving all information necessary to make such a determination; requires the department, if it cannot make a determination within 45 days, to refund the application fee; requires that a denial include a clear, written explanation for the denial with citations to relevant legal authority for the denial. | SB2119 |
0727 | Food and Food Products | As enacted, repeals the Tennessee Egg Law, which establishes a licensure system for certain persons who buy, sell, trade, traffic, or process eggs in Tennessee. | SB2140 |
0728 | Weights and Measures | As enacted, replaces the statutory list of standard of weights and measures for agricultural products with a requirement that the commissioner of agriculture establish weights and measures by rule. | SB2141 |
0729 | Parks, Natural Areas Preservation | As enacted, designates Sherwood Forest in Franklin County and Walnut Knob in Smith County as Class II natural areas. | SB2153 |
0730 | Financial Institutions, Dept. of | As enacted, allows the commissioner to require applicants for money transmitter licensure to consent to a criminal history records check and to submit a fingerprint sample; revises other provisions regarding money transmitters. | SB2166 |
0731 | Workers Compensation | As enacted, extends the deadline for an injured employee to file a claim for increased benefits with the bureau of workers' compensation; lengthens the period of time following an injury an employee has to provide notice to the bureau of workers' compensation of an injury and the failure of an employer to secure payment of compensation. | SB2190 |
0732 | Tobacco, Tobacco Products | As enacted, makes various changes to state law to reflect the change in federal law that raised the minimum age to purchase tobacco products from 18 years of age to 21 years of age. | SB2202 |
0733 | Education, State Board of | As enacted, gives the state board of education administrative subpoena power in connection with investigations related to licensure disciplinary actions. | SB2260 |
0734 | Education, State Board of | As enacted, permits the state board of education to assess reasonable costs against a teacher or administrator when a final order is issued following a contested case hearing in which a teacher or administrator is issued a formal reprimand or the teacher's or administrator's license is denied, non-renewed, suspended, or revoked; requires the state board to promulgate rules for such assessments. | SB2261 |
0735 | Public Records | As enacted, permits a political subdivision to release the name or photograph of a minor victim of a criminal offense for the purpose of memorializing the victim in a memorial garden, if the custodial parent or legal guardian of the victim has consented to the release. | SB2268 |
0736 | Education, Curriculum | As enacted, requires that the family life curriculum adopted by the state board of education or an LEA include information on the prevention of dating violence. | SB2269 |
0737 | Game and Fish Laws | As enacted, specifies that a sportsman's license is not required in order to assist a person with a disability who is fishing or hunting pursuant to a discounted license or an exemption from licensure, if certain requirements are met, including executing a form and compliance with certain laws by the assistant. | SB2300 |
0738 | Public Records | As enacted, prohibits a governmental entity from authorizing the destruction of public records subject to disclosure if the governmental entity knows the records are subject to a pending public record request submitted to the governmental entity. | SB2313 |
0739 | Health Care | As enacted, expands the Health Care Empowerment Act to allow all licensed medical professionals to use direct medical care agreements without regulation by the insurance laws of this state. | SB2317 |
0740 | Regional Authorities and Special Districts | As enacted, repeals the Bledsoe Regional Water Authority. | SB2320 |
0741 | Criminal Procedure | As enacted, makes a defendant charged with continuous sexual abuse of a child ineligible for judicial diversion. | SB2332 |
0742 | Local Government, General | As enacted, prohibits local governing bodies from adopting or continuing in effect any ordinance, resolution, rule, or regulation regarding the exhibition of livestock; specifies that the prohibition does not apply when such enactment is otherwise authorized by state law or is related to reasonable restrictions regarding time, place, and manner consistent with other similar events or the protection of public health, safety, or welfare. | SB2378 |
0743 | Local Education Agencies | As enacted, requires a public school to excuse a student from school to attend a released time course if requested by the student's parent or legal guardian even if the local board of education has not adopted a policy on released time courses; authorizes local boards of education to transport students attending a released time course to and from the place of instruction if the entity providing the instruction reimburses the LEA for the services. | SB2473 |
0744 | Education, Higher | As enacted, requires public institutions of higher education to provide each student with a detailed and completed current-year federal college financing plan; imposes other requirements for such institutions to provide certain information when a student is finalizing acceptance of a financial aid package. | SB2503 |
0745 | Employees, Employers | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Pregnant Workers Fairness Act." | SB2520 |
0746 | Game and Fish Laws | As enacted, extends the exemption from licensure to hunt and fish on farmlands owned by a spouse, parent, or grandparent, to include spouses of children of landowners. | SB2533 |
0747 | Health Care | As enacted, requires, by no later than January 1, 2021, the departments of health and mental health and substance abuse services, and the bureau of TennCare to collaborate to develop educational materials for providers and facilities where medication assisted treatment including treatment involving controlled substances is prescribed or provided; requires that the materials be made available to prescribers of such treatment for substance abuse disorder. | SB2552 |
0748 | Local Education Agencies | As enacted, authorizes a director of schools, or the director's designee, to report truant student absences to the appropriate judge if any tier of a progressive truancy intervention plan is unsuccessful, and before subsequent tiers are implemented, if the school can document that the student's parent or guardian is unwilling to cooperate in the truancy intervention plan. | SB2620 |
0749 | Contractors | As enacted, revises various provisions governing contractors. | SB2681 |
0750 | TennCare | As enacted, requires an administrative judge or hearing officer to grant a nursing facility's motion to intervene in the appeal of a resident or former resident's eligibility, absent certain showings. | SB2775 |
0751 | Tourism | As enacted, adds provisions governing the apportionment and distribution of incremental increases in sales and use taxes due to a public use facility. | SB2821 |
0752 | Tourism | As enacted, revises provisions and specifies application of the Local Tourism Development Zone Business Tax Act. | SB2826 |
0753 | Consumer Protection | As enacted, revises provisions regarding statements that must be included in health club agreement. | SB2843 |
0754 | Firefighters | As enacted, conditions a firefighter's use of the presumption that certain conditions arose out of the firefighter's employment on the firefighter obtaining a physical medical examination that confirms the firefighter to be cancer-free. | SB2863 |
0755 | Public Funds and Financing | As enacted, authorizes the state treasurer to enter into agreements with any federal reserve bank, instead of a federal reserve member bank or trust company located in Tennessee, for the purpose of transferring public funds and funds of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system through the facilities of the federal reserve banking system. | SB2880 |
0756 | Domestic Violence | As enacted, requires a sentencing court to impose a fine of at least $100 for a person convicted of assault against a domestic abuse victim, subject to the defendant's ability to pay. | SB2330 |
0757 | Public Defenders | As enacted, reinstates service credits and salary increases that were suspended during 2009-2010 for district public defender investigators. | SB2511 |
0758 | Bond Issues | As enacted, authorizes the state, acting by resolution of its funding board, to issue and sell its interest-bearing bonds and bond anticipation notes for certain purposes. | SB2935 |
0759 | Budget Procedures | As enacted, makes revisions to general law necessary to implement the annual appropriations act; requires dealers with physical presence in this state to register with department of revenue to collect and remit sales tax. | SB2932 |
0760 | Appropriations | As enacted, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2019, and July 1, 2020. | SB2931 |
0761 | Drugs, Prescription | As enacted, authorizes nonphysician healthcare providers who are otherwise permitted to prescribe Schedule II or III drugs to also prescribe a buprenorphine product for the treatment of opioid use disorder if certain requirements met. | HB0656 |
0762 | Prisons and Reformatory Institutions | As enacted, requires a physician to provide prenatal and postpartum medical care to pregnant prisoners and detainees; requires correctional institutions to provide pregnant prisoners nutritionally appropriate meals and supplemental provisions. | HB1651 |
0763 | Knox County | As enacted and subject to local approval, authorizes Knox County to collect the privilege tax on occupancy from transients in owner-occupied single family residences, in apartments or condominiums where less than 25 percent of the total units are rented to transients, and in single-family homes where each single-family dwelling unit occupies a separate lot. | HB2907 |
0764 | Abortion | As enacted, creates the Class C felony of performing or inducing, or attempting to perform or induce, an abortion upon a pregnant woman whose unborn child has a fetal heartbeat; creates other criminal offenses related to the performance of an abortion; requires that certain information regarding reversing chemical abortions be provided; revises and enacts other abortion-related provisions. | HB2263 |
0765 | Sentencing | As enacted, revises and clarifies release eligibility for certain persons sentenced to life imprisonment for first degree murder. | HB0394 |
0766 | Tennessee Housing Development Agency | As enacted, increases, from $2.93 billion to $4 billion, the maximum aggregate principal amount for which the agency may issue bonds and notes at any one time. | HB1622 |
0767 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the regional transportation authority of Middle Tennessee to June 30, 2021. | HB1763 |
0768 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the state capitol commission to June 30, 2026; adds two citizen members to the commission, with one to be appointed by the speaker of the senate and one to be appointed by the speaker of the house. | HB1772 |
0769 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission to June 30, 2021. | HB1778 |
0770 | Textbooks | As enacted, revises various provisions regarding textbooks and instructional materials and the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission. | HB1827 |
0771 | Drugs, Prescription | As enacted, creates provisions related to prescribing buprenorphine. | HB1980 |
0772 | Economic and Community Development, Dept. of | As enacted, requires the department to report to the fiscal review committee, at least annually, regarding any new clawback rights being executed by the department during the current year, as well as any clawback rights from previous years that are still being collected by the department during the current year. | HB2156 |
0773 | Motor Vehicles | As enacted, authorizes operation of Class I and Class II off-highway vehicles on three segments of state routes located in Hickman County, if such vehicles are registered, insured, and equipped with safety equipment, | HB2278 |
0774 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, allows a manufacturer to sell product transferred between different sites owned by the same manufacturer upon certain conditions. | HB2355 |
0775 | TennCare | As enacted, enacts "Cooper's Law," which requires a participating provider to strive to process hospital presumptive eligibility applications within the first 24 hours of the date of admission, when practicable. | HB2830 |
0776 | Insurance, Health, Accident | As enacted, extends compensation for death of emergency responders to emergency medical technicians and paramedics; authorizes local governments to continue to provide health insurance to the surviving spouse and children of an emergency medical technician or paramedic killed in the line of duty. | SB0029 |
0777 | Education, Dept. of | As enacted, requires the commissioner to develop a transition plan for the purpose of planning the return, no earlier than the 2024-2025 school year, of schools in the ASD to the LEAs from which the schools were removed; requires the commissioner to submit the plan to the education committees of the senate and house by January 1, 2021; clarifies that a school that has been placed in the ASD must remain in the ASD until the school is authorized to return to its LEA according to the transition plan. | SB1247 |
0778 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, authorizes the sale of alcoholic beverages and beer for consumption on the premises of the Memphis Zoo during the zoo's regular operating hours. | SB1560 |
0779 | Correction, Dept. of | As enacted, enacts the "Debra Johnson Act," which authorizes the department to contribute state funds toward the funeral and burial expenses of a correctional employee killed in the line of duty; | SB1578 |
0780 | Highways, Roads and Bridges | As enacted, revises provisions governing the maximum length of a truck-tractor and semitrailer or trailer on highways in this state. | SB1608 |
0781 | Criminal Procedure | As enacted, authorizes the issuance of electronic citations, and not just written citations on paper, for certain misdemeanor criminal offenses in lieu of arrest. | SB1622 |
0782 | Disabled Persons | As enacted, makes changes to the law concerning governmental entities, supported in whole or in part by the general assembly, purchasing services or commodities from the central nonprofit agency that works to provide individuals with severe disabilities competitive integrated employment opportunities. | SB1642 |
0783 | Public Funds and Financing | As enacted, revises various provisions of the Public Employee Defined Benefit Financial Security Act of 2014. | SB1727 |
0784 | Pensions and Retirement Benefits | As enacted, makes state correctional officers who are members of the state retirement system eligible for service retirement after completing 25 years of creditable service; extends eligibility for early retirement to certain emergency medical services personnel. | SB1752 |
0785 | Special License Plates | As enacted, authorizes issuance of a Linemen Power Tennessee new specialty earmarked license plate to operators of vehicles that are used for passenger transport, owned by an entity that is subject to the Rural Electric and Community Services Cooperative Act, and that have a maximum gross weight less than 9,000 pounds. | SB1756 |
0786 | Mobile Homes and Manufactured Buildings | As enacted, revises various provisions governing the transport of mobile homes. | SB1775 |
0787 | Real Property | As enacted, requires short-term rental unit marketplaces to collect and remit local occupancy taxes for short-term rental units secured through the marketplace beginning January 1, 2021; enacts provisions governing classification of certain residential property used as a short-term rental; revises and enacts other related provisions. | SB1778 |
0788 | Employees, Employers | As enacted, prohibits marketplace platforms from keeping tips intended for marketplace contractors. | SB1796 |
0789 | Motor Vehicles | As enacted, authorizes off-highway vehicles to be operated on a certain segment of a state highway in Johnson County. | SB1872 |
0790 | Therapists, Physical and Occupational | As enacted, makes various changes concerning the practice of physical therapy. | SB1960 |
0791 | Utilities, Utility Districts | As enacted, requires a municipal utility board or the municipal governing body, and the comptroller, to establish procedures and guidelines for a natural gas utility system to devote revenues derived from the system to fund chambers of commerce or economic and community organizations; requires certain financial reporting by entities receiving such funds. | SB1961 |
0792 | Education | As enacted, creates a nine-member Tennessee commission on education recovery and innovation to examine the short and long-term systemic effects that the COVID-19 pandemic and natural disasters of 2020 have had on the state's educational systems. | SB1974 |
0793 | Cooperatives | As enacted, requires the state treasurer to remit certain funds to telephone cooperatives. | SB2019 |
0794 | Scholarships and Financial Aid | As enacted, enacts the "Financial Aid Simplification for Tennesseans (FAST) Act." | SB2097 |
0795 | Conservation | As enacted, requires the commissioner of general services instead of the commissioner of finance and administration to certify by January 1 of each year to the comptroller of the treasury information necessary to identify property rendered tax exempt by acquisition by the state during the prior fiscal year for conservation and preservation. | SB2167 |
0796 | Motor Vehicles | As enacted, establishes requirements for peer-to-peer car sharing programs, and subjects such programs to certain existing laws. | SB2207 |
0797 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, designates Bristol Motor Speedway as a sports authority facility for purposes of the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption. | SB2243 |
0798 | Public Records | As enacted, removes discretion for the registers, or other public officers whose duty it may be to keep an index of public records, to maintain separate indices for records maintained in the office of the county register; authorizes registers and such officers to maintain all indices by electronic means. | SB2244 |
0799 | Search & Seizure | As enacted, specifies that the authority of wildlife resources officers to conduct certain searches does not permit search or inspection of the interior of an automobile without a search warrant. | SB2292 |
0800 | Museums | As enacted, designates the Tennessee state museum located at 1000 Rosa L. Parks Boulevard as the "Bill Haslam Center". | SB2301 |