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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

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