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Chapter Number Subject Abstract Bill Number
1001 Abortion As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Abortion-Inducing Drug Risk Protocol Act." HB2416
1002 Obscenity and Pornography As enacted, redefines "obscene" to include material that has educational value; makes various changes to the internet acceptable use policy LEAs are required to adopt; enacts requirements governing providers of digital and online resources; enacts and revises other related provisions. HB2454
1003 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration As enacted, increases, from $5.50 to $8.50, the fee paid to county clerks for receiving and forwarding to the motor vehicle division of the department of revenue each application for certificates of title; allocates $3.00 of the fee to be used by the county for the provision of services directly related to titling and registration. HB2542
1004 Treasurer, State As enacted, requires the state treasurer, in conjunction with the commissioner of transportation, to develop, implement, and administer a centralized information system for the reporting of alleged dangerous conditions on state-maintained highways and the repair of such conditions. HB2706
1005 Education, Higher As enacted, prohibits males from participating in public higher education sports that are designated for females. SB2153
1006 Taxes, Sales As enacted, extends the deadline by which a distressed rural county must apply to be eligible to retain the sales and use tax generated from a commercial development district from December 31, 2020, to December 31, 2024. HB2614
1007 Appropriations As enacted, revises provisions governing appropriations for certain laws that result in a net increase in periods of imprisonment in state facilities. HB2674
1008 Children As enacted, revises provisions governing the surrender of newborn infant. SB1146
1009 Highways, Roads and Bridges As enacted, provides for the naming of certain roads and bridges in honor of certain persons. SB1668
1010 Pharmacy, Pharmacists As enacted, requires the board of pharmacy to promulgate rules necessary to ensure that an individual who is blind, visually impaired, or otherwise print disabled has appropriate access to prescription labels, bag tags, and medical guides. SB1859
1011 Medical Occupations As enacted, exempts a veteran of the United States armed forces who was trained and certified as a medic or corpsman from the initial licensure fees of the emergency medical services board. SB1940
1012 Medical Occupations As enacted, creates new categories of emergency first responders to assist EMTs in responding to emergencies, driving ambulances, and engaging in limited medical interventions; requires such persons to become licensed EMTs within a certain period of time. SB1966
1013 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, revises various alcohol-related provisions, including authorizing persons who hold certain alcohol licenses to choose the expiration date of their licenses and revising provisions relating to caterers. SB2251
1014 Funeral Directors and Embalmers As enacted, authorizes licensed funeral directors to sell pre-need funeral contracts and prearrangement insurance policies without registering with the commissioner of commerce and insurance; requires that continuing education completed virtually for renewal of embalmer and funeral director licenses involve continuous two-way transfer of information; defines unlicensed assistants for funeral establishment licensure laws. SB2570
1015 Driver Licenses As enacted, requires a person who is convicted of a human trafficking offense to obtain a driver license or photo identification license that bears a designation sufficient to enable a law enforcement officer to identify the bearer of the license as a person who has been convicted of a human trafficking offense; requires the department of safety to add such designation to the license of persons convicted of a human trafficking offense. SB2592
1016 Purchasing and Procurement As enacted, revises provisions governing thresholds for competitive sealed bids for local governments. SB2489
1017 Prisons and Reformatory Institutions As enacted, prohibits the use of solitary confinement for pregnant inmates and inmates who have given birth within the past eight weeks; prohibits transfer of a pregnant inmate from a jail to a state penitentiary or branch of a prison for safekeeping unless medically necessary. SB0827
1018 Scholarships and Financial Aid As enacted, extends eligibility for a Senator Ben Atchley opportunity grant, to the extent feasible within existing budgetary resources of TSAC, to Tennessee resident students enrolled at eligible independent postsecondary institutions accredited by a regional accrediting association that have their primary campus domiciled in this state. SB1025
1019 Education As enacted, expands the Individualized Education Act to extend eligibility for the individualized education account program to a child with a specific learning disability. SB1158
1020 Insurance, Health, Accident As enacted, requires a health carrier, health benefit plan, or utilization review organization that denies coverage of a prescription drug for the treatment of a medical condition through the use of a step therapy protocol to provide access to a clear, readily accessible, and convenient process for a patient or prescribing practitioner to request a step therapy exception; enacts other related provisions. SB1310
1021 Local Education Agencies As enacted, requires that each LEA employee who works directly with students in the LEA, instead of only teachers, be trained at least once every three years on the detection, intervention, prevention, and treatment of human trafficking in which the victim is a child. SB1670
1022 Criminal Offenses As enacted, creates a new offense of aggravated reckless driving. SB1673
1023 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the bureau of TennCare within the department of finance and administration to June 30, 2025. SB1700
1024 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) As enacted, continues permanent rules filed with the secretary of state between January 1, 2021, and December 31, 2021; schedules the University of Tennessee (Knoxville) Rule 1720-04-03-.01 regarding student code of conduct and the Austin Peay State University Rule 0240-05-06-.04 regarding title IX compliance to expire. SB1748
1025 Sexual Offenses As enacted, revises the penalties for continuous sexual abuse of a child to clarify circumstances under which the offense is a Class A, Class B, or Class C felony; adds to the list of offenses that warrant the Class A felony, trafficking for a commercial sex act if the victim is a minor and promoting prostitution if the victim is a minor. SB1792
1026 Campaigns and Campaign Finance As enacted, allows a member of the general assembly to use campaign account funds for lodging expenses if the member is not otherwise eligible for reimbursement or the reimbursement does not cover the total amount of the expense and for mileage reimbursement above the amount reimbursed by the state. SB1947
1027 Expunction As enacted, revises the eligibility requirements for a person to qualify as an "eligible petitioner" for purposes of petitioning for expunction of public records concerning a conviction for a felony or misdemeanor committed prior to November 1, 1989. SB2001
1028 Child Custody and Support As enacted, requires expedited hearings and appeals in contested child custody cases involving unmarried parties if a paternity test by an accredited laboratory is known to exist or has been requested of or by the court. SB2114
1029 Local Government, General As enacted, revises provisions governing "base tax revenues" under the Convention Center and Tourism Development Financing Act of 1998. SB2128
1030 Regional Authorities and Special Districts As enacted, requires an entity that contracts with the Megasite Authority of West Tennessee for a real estate interest in the megasite to report, or cause its contractor or contractors to report, certain information to the state building commission, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives regarding construction activity for material improvement to the project; authorizes a local governmental entity to enter into a contract with an entity working on the megasite for the provision of security services at the megasite. SB2204
1031 County Government As enacted, authorizes a county to pay to an employee up to 15 percent of the total premium that would have otherwise been paid by the county on behalf of the employee who opts out of the coverage provided by the county. SB2294
1032 Education As enacted, requires an LEA or the department of education to provide testing materials or proposed testing materials in the LEA's or department's possession to a member of the general assembly upon the member's request to inspect and review the material; excludes certain materials. SB2299
1033 Criminal Procedure As enacted, removes a conviction for prostitution as a requirement for a person to be eligible for expunction of multiple, nonviolent convictions for offenses that resulted from the person's status as a victim of human trafficking. SB2303
1034 Taxes, Privilege As enacted, extends the applicability of the Local Tourism Development Zone Business Tax Act to a privately owned or operated museum principally dedicated to the preservation of cultural heritage, achievements, and contributions of minority artists, musicians, composers, or other fine arts practitioners located within Davidson County. SB2313
1035 Psychologists As enacted, revises provisions governing temporary and provisional licenses for psychologists. SB2356
1036 Purchasing and Procurement As enacted, increases from $10,000 to $25,000 the threshold amount for certain purchases by or for a county road department or by a chief administrative officer that may be made by means other than public advertisement and competitive bid. SB2352
1037 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation As enacted, authorizes clerks of court, county clerks, registers of deeds, and county trustees to enter into agreements with a fingerprint vendor that is under contract with the Tennessee bureau of investigation for purposes of providing fingerprint capture services for fingerprint-based background checks permitted by law; enacts other related provisions. SB2547
1038 Firearms and Ammunition As enacted, removes a short-barrel rifle or shotgun from the list of weapons the possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of which is prohibited under state law. SB2628
1039 Treasurer, State As enacted, prohibits state treasurer from entering into a contract with a state depository if the state depository has a policy prohibiting financing to companies in the fossil fuel industry. SB2649
1040 Medical Occupations As enacted, revises the provisions governing the requirements for certain professional counselors. SB2694
1041 Jails, Local Lock-ups As enacted, prohibits, beginning on the date on which a pregnancy is known to a law enforcement agency and confirmed by a healthcare professional, placing an inmate, who is in the custody of a correctional institution, in restraints; creates certain exceptions. SB2769
1042 Criminal Offenses As enacted, classifies all misdemeanor offenses under the Tennessee Personal and Commercial Computer Act of 2003 as Class A misdemeanor offenses. SB2796
1043 General Assembly, Directed Studies As enacted, directs TACIR to perform a study of the overall effect of utility scale solar energy development in this state. SB2797
1044 Education, Higher As enacted, revises various provisions of the Tennessee Higher Education Authorization Act of 2016, which governs proprietary higher education institutions. SB2843
1045 Pensions and Retirement Benefits As enacted, establishes a reserve account in the retirement system for the payment of state liabilities, and the interest that would have been earned thereon, resulting from military service credit established pursuant to existing law provisions. SB2326
1046 Taxes, Hotel Motel As enacted, authorizes, in a county with a metropolitan government that has imposed a privilege tax upon the privilege of occupancy in a hotel of each transient, such metropolitan government to, upon approval by ordinance of the metropolitan council, impose an additional privilege tax upon the privilege of occupancy in a hotel of each transient in an amount up to 1 percent of the consideration charged by the operator; enacts other related provisions. HB0681
1047 Correctional Programs As enacted, deletes the requirement that teachers in the special school district of penal and reformatory institutions receive annual compensation at a rate of one tenth times 12 of the annual compensation in effect in the county in which the respective institution is located or one tenth times 12 of the average of the annual compensation of all the counties that are contiguous with the county in which the respective institution is located, whichever is greater, solely out of the state appropriations made to the respective institutions; deletes the prohibition against paying longevity to teachers in such special school district. HB0846
1048 Education, Dept. of As enacted, creates a Tennessee state library coordinator position within the department; establishes the duties of the Tennessee state library coordinator. HB1667
1049 Health Care As enacted, establishes a respite care pilot program for caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer's and related dementia. HB1686
1050 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, adds certain locations as premier type tourist resorts and community theaters for purposes of the on-premises sale of alcoholic beverages; revises the description of the premier type tourist resort of Wildwood Resort and Marina. HB1689
1051 Pensions and Retirement Benefits As enacted, provides 80 percent of the scheduled premium or defined contribution of the health insurance offered to retired state employees to a retired member of the Tennessee highway patrol who would not be eligible for such benefit based on the date the member was hired. HB1695
1052 TennCare As enacted, revises provisions governing the Ground Ambulance Service Provider Assessment Act. HB1719
1053 Taxes, Sales As enacted, extends for an additional year, until June 30, 2023, the sales tax holiday for the retail sale of gun safes and gun safety devices. HB1738
1054 Controlled Substances As enacted, adds quadriplegia as a qualifying medical condition for the lawful possession of cannabis oil. HB1747
1055 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the consumer advocate division in the office of the attorney general and reporter to June 30, 2024. HB1782
1056 DUI Offenses As enacted, enacts "Ethan's, Hailey's, and Bentley's Law," which requires a sentencing court to order a defendant who has been convicted of vehicular homicide or aggravated vehicular homicide due to intoxication and in which the victim of the offense was the parent of a minor child to pay restitution in the form of child maintenance to each of the victim's children until each child reaches 18 years of age and has graduated from high school. HB1834
1057 Pensions and Retirement Benefits As enacted, allows TCRS members who served in the armed forces during certain periods of armed conflict to establish retirement credit for the military service under certain conditions. HB1852
1058 Sexual Offenders As enacted, prohibits a sexual offender, violent sexual offender, or a violent juvenile sexual offender, whose victim was a minor, from knowingly renting or offering for rent a swimming pool, hot tub, or other body of water to be used for swimming that is located on property owned or leased by the offender or otherwise under the control of the offender; creates defense for violation of certain existing restrictions that the offender was the parent of the minor in the offender's presence. HB1922
1059 TennCare As enacted, extends the nursing home annual assessment fee to June 30, 2023. HB1924
1060 Sentencing As enacted, allows a court to revoke a defendant's probation and suspension of sentence for a misdemeanor offense based upon one instance of a technical violation or violations; specifies that the court may revoke the defendant's probation and suspension of sentence in full or in part, and may sentence the defendant to a sentence of probation for the remainder of the unexpired term; adds "contacting the defendant's victim in violation of a condition of probation or parole" as an act that may result in revocation of probation or parole. HB2118
1061 Drugs, Prescription As enacted, requires a healthcare prescriber to offer a prescription for an opioid antagonist, or another drug approved for complete or partial reversal of an opioid overdose event, to each patient prescribed an opioid, if certain conditions are present; authorizes imposition of civil penalty against a person who violates the requirement to offer such a drug; provides exception for opioid prescriptions to palliative care patients. HB2228
1062 Criminal Offenses As enacted, creates the criminal offenses of especially aggravated rape, especially aggravated rape of a child, and grave torture. HB2244
1063 Education As enacted, urges the standards recommendation committee to include certain academic standards regarding the civil rights movement in the committee's final recommendation of academic standards in the subject of social studies for students in grades nine through 12. HB2291
1064 Privacy, Confidentiality As enacted, adds to the provisions governing confidentiality of photographic evidence that depicts certain deceased persons. HB2308
1065 Taxes, Exemption and Credits As enacted, exempts from sales and use tax certain use and services in regard to computer software. HB2378
1066 Public Funds and Financing As enacted, authorizes the collateral pool board to make temporary changes to the required collateral and collateral pledge levels contained in the board's rules, including the qualitative and quantitative standards for determining collateral pledge levels and the admission criteria; makes other related revisions. HB2426
1067 Local Education Agencies As enacted, prohibits a county LEA from operating a school within the geographic boundaries of a municipal LEA, except under certain circumstances. HB2430
1068 Insurance, Health, Accident As enacted, requires a health benefit plan that provides coverage for imaging services for screening mammography to provide coverage to a patient for low-dose mammography according to specific guidelines, including a baseline mammogram for a woman 35 to 40 years of age. HB2544
1069 Taxes, Sales As enacted, changes from 400,000 to 360,000 the county population threshold that would authorize a municipality that has a minor league baseball stadium placed into service between December 31, 2020, and December 31, 2025, in such county to receive and apportion tax revenue derived from the sale of admission to events occurring within the stadium and from all sales of food, drinks, merchandise, and parking sold from a location on the premises of the stadium in conjunction with events occurring within the stadium to be used to pay debt service for the stadium; adds, for purposes of the special allocation that a team is deemed to locate in a municipality if the team relocates from an existing stadium to a new stadium within the municipality and does not relocate outside the municipality; adds and revises other related provisions. HB2609
1070 Pharmacy, Pharmacists As enacted, revises various provisions governing pharmacy benefits and pharmacy benefits managers. HB2661
1071 Mental Illness As enacted, enacts the "Mental Health Treatment Act of 2022." HB2663
1072 Railroads As enacted, authorizes Cumberland County to establish a railroad authority of three or five members and prescribes the manner in which members are appointed. HB2664
1073 Public Health As enacted, prohibits a hospital from restricting a patient from having at least one patient representative as a visitor during a period when COVID-19 is a healthcare concern, if certain requirements met; specifies that the requirement that any disciplinary process, or action taken pursuant to such process, that is implemented by a health-related board regarding the dispensing or prescribing of medication for COVID-19 must be promulgated as an administrative rule does not apply to the dispensing or prescribing of controlled substances; revises other related provisions. HB2665
1074 Public Employees As enacted, requires that certain retirees of the Tennessee wildlife resources agency and Tennessee bureau of investigation with 25 years of service receive 80 percent of the scheduled premium or defined contribution for the health insurance benefits provided by the state. HB2668
1075 Education As enacted, establishes certain requirements to be followed if a state governmental entity or an LEA receives a complaint from a person who alleges that antisemitism has occurred on the premises of a public school serving any of the grades K-12, or through electronic outreach from a public school serving any of the grades K-12. HB2673
1076 Purchasing and Procurement As enacted, requires, for each emergency purchase the central procurement office approves, the reporting of certain information, as specified in this amendment, to the fiscal review committee within 30 days of the approval; creates certain exemptions. HB2676
1077 Public Records As enacted, deletes certain exemptions to the prohibition on the department of motor vehicles knowingly disclosing or otherwise making available to any person or entity personal information about any person obtained by the department in connection with a motor vehicle record. HB2763
1078 Employees, Employers As enacted, enacts the "CROWN Act: Create a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair," which prohibits an employer from adopting a policy that does not permit an employee to wear the employee's hair in braids, locs, twists, or another manner that is part of the cultural identification of the employee's ethnic group or that is a physical characteristic of the employee's ethnic group; creates certain exceptions. SB0136
1079 Public Employees As enacted, revises and adds to the provisions governing petitions for such deputies and assistants and disputes regarding the hiring or salary of such a deputy or assistant. SB0282
1080 Education, State Board of As enacted, establishes the grading scale that must be used to assign letter grades to students enrolled in grades nine through 12 for purposes of reporting students' grades for postsecondary financial assistance; specifies that the state board or an LEA may develop a grading system for purposes other than reporting students' grades for postsecondary financial assistance. SB0388
1081 Abuse As enacted, revises provisions governing the vulnerable adult protective investigative team annual report to the chairs of the judiciary committee of the senate and the judiciary committee of the house of representatives; requires the executive director of the commission on aging and disability to establish and maintain a registry containing the names and addresses of unlicensed facilities that have been determined by a state agency to be providing care to elderly or vulnerable persons without maintaining the appropriate licensure. SB0439
1082 Taxes, Sales As enacted, revises dealer's deduction for accounting for and remitting sales tax for items sold during the period of time beginning July 1, 2022, and ending June 30, 2023. SB0500
1083 Taxes, Privilege As enacted, eliminates the professional privilege tax for physicians. SB0884
1084 Alcohol Offenses, Motor Vehicles As enacted, creates the electronic monitoring indigency fund task force to study and make recommendations on the future of the electronic monitoring indigency fund. SB0887
1085 Education As enacted, revises provisions governing textbooks and instructional materials; authorizes the Tennessee public charter school commission to require a charter school authorized by the commission upon appeal to delay opening for up to one school year through the charter agreement; requires that learning loss bridge camps be available to students enrolled in a state-authorized public charter school, located within the geographic boundaries of the LEA; revises other various education-related provisions. SB0918
1086 Unemployment Compensation As enacted, establishes a voluntary shared work unemployment benefits program that allows certain employers to submit to the department of labor and workforce development for approval a plan to reduce employee work hours in exchange for employee access to a certain level of unemployment compensation benefits. SB0958
1087 Campaigns and Campaign Finance As enacted, revises various provisions relative to ethics and campaign finance laws. SB1005
1088 Interstate Compacts As enacted, enacts the "Interstate Compact for License Portability Act" for professional counseling services. SB1027
1089 Criminal Offenses As enacted, creates the Class A felony of aggravated human trafficking; revises other provisions in regard to trafficking, involuntary servitude, and prostitution offenses. SB1378
1090 Education As enacted, requires the office of research and education accountability, in collaboration with TSAC and the departments of education, labor and workforce development, and human services to study providing driver education in Title I public high schools at low or no cost to students, sources of funding for the driver education, and benefits to students of the driver education. SB1508
1091 Firefighters As enacted, adds leukemia and testicular cancer to the list of cancers for which a presumption is created that certain conditions or impairments of full-time firefighters caused by leukemia, testicular cancer, or other listed cancers arose out of employment unless the contrary is shown by competent medical evidence. SB1569
1092 Taxes, Sales As enacted, exempts certain sales of gold, silver, platinum, and palladium coins and bullion from the sales and use tax. SB1857
1093 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel As enacted, allows a teacher holding the teacher's second or third teaching permit to apply to the department of education for a limited license to continue teaching the course or subject area taught pursuant to the teacher's current temporary permit; not applicable to a limited license to teach a physical education class, a course for which an end-of-course examination is required, or a special education course; adds other related provisions. SB1864
1094 Criminal Offenses As enacted, requires hospitals, clinics, and persons, including doctors and nurses, who are called upon to render aid to a person suffering from the effects of a fatal drug overdose to report the drug overdose to the appropriate chief of police or sheriff and district attorney general, to the extent allowed by state and federal law. SB1891
1095 Children's Services, Dept. of As enacted, requires department's case managers to report a suspected violation of a court order to law enforcement in certain circumstances. SB1912
1096 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel As enacted, adds that if a teacher, for the current evaluation year, does not have access to individual growth data representative of student growth due to changes in academic standards or assessment design requiring standards validation or standards setting in the teacher's content or subject area, then 15 percent of the teacher's evaluation criteria must be comprised of student achievement data based on other measures of student achievement and 85 percent must be comprised of scores derived from the state board approved evaluation model for the qualitative portion of the teacher's evaluation unless using the current evaluation criteria results in a higher final evaluation score for the teacher. SB1986
1097 DUI Offenses As enacted, imposes certain requirements on a contract service provider, which is a private entity that enters into a written contract or agreement with a government entity of this state to provide supervision, counseling, or collection services for offenders using an electronic monitoring device, excluding ignition interlock providers. SB2000
1098 Judicial Districts As enacted, establishes an advisory task force to recommend a proposed statewide judicial redistricting plan. SB2011
1099 Health, Dept. of As enacted, authorizes the department, as allowed via federal department of agriculture waiver of the physical presence requirement, to utilize remote use of the special supplemental food program for women, infants, and children at a substantially similar level as has been available during calendar years 2020, 2021, and 2022; enacts other related provisions. SB2043
1100 Local Government, General As enacted, prohibits political subdivisions of this state from, arising from or as a result of a local action, prohibiting the development and implementation of the types or sources of energy that may be used, delivered, converted, or supplied by certain entities; enacts other related provisions. SB2077

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