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Chapter Number | Subject | Abstract | Bill Number |
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1101 | Lottery, Scholarships and Programs | As enacted, increases, from $1,250 to $2,000, the amount awarded each semester to a full-time student receiving the middle college scholarship. | SB2081 |
1102 | Utilities, Utility Districts | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Broadband Investment Maximization Act of 2022." | SB2480 |
1103 | Taxes, Gasoline, Petroleum Products | As enacted, increases from 0.5344 percent to 0.88 percent the portion of the state gasoline tax apportioned for distribution to the wildlife resources fund; specifies that in addition to any other purposes authorized by law for which such funds may be used, the gas tax funds apportioned to the wildlife resources fund must also be used for public and environmental infrastructure at marinas. | SB2078 |
1104 | Taxes, Sales | As enacted, revises provisions governing the sales and use tax exemption for qualified farmers and nurserymen in regard to certain farm equipment and machinery used in agricultural operations. | SB0905 |
1105 | Litter Control | As enacted, includes as a form of littering for any commercial purposes, which is considered aggravated criminal littering, the act of knowingly placing, dropping, or throwing two or more tires on public or private property without permission and without immediately removing the tires; punishable as a Class A misdemeanor or Class E felony based on weight/volume and prior convictions, except that a first offense involving more than eight tires placed, dropped, or thrown for a commercial purpose will be a Class E felony. | SB2012 |
1106 | Animal Cruelty and Abuse | As enacted, enacts "Joker's Law," which revises the offense of knowingly and unlawfully killing a police dog, fire dog, search and rescue dog, service animal, or police horse without the owner's effective consent; adds provisions regarding knowingly and unlawfully causing serious injury to such an animal; revises and enacts other related provisions. | SB2013 |
1107 | Education, Higher | As enacted, revises various provisions governing the Tennessee student assistance corporation (TSAC) and financial aid. | SB2019 |
1108 | Health, Dept. of | As enacted, requires the department to collaborate with the bureau of TennCare in order to study existing doula certification programs; requires that a report on the study be provided to the members of the general assembly and to the legislative librarian by December 31, 2022. | SB2150 |
1109 | Real Property | As enacted, enacts the "Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act." | SB2167 |
1110 | Tobacco, Tobacco Products | As enacted, authorizes local governments to regulate, including the prohibition of, smoking and the use of vapor products in age-restricted venues; defines the terms "age-restricted venue" and "retail tobacco store" for the purposes of the Prevention of Youth Access to Tobacco, Smoking Hemp, and Vapor Products Act; prohibits local governments from regulating smoking and the use of vapor products in retail vapor product stores and cigar bars; exempts cigar bars that limit access to patrons 21 years of age or older from the prohibition on smoking in enclosed places. | SB2219 |
1111 | Utilities, Utility Districts | As enacted, requires certain utilities to prepare and implement a cyber security plan to provide for the protection of the utility's facilities from unauthorized use, alteration, ransom, or destruction of electronic data and imposes certain requirements on the comptroller in regard to such plans; requires public utilities that provide electric, water, wastewater, or natural gas services to prepare and implement a cyber security plan and imposes certain requirements on the public utilities commission in regard to such plans. | SB2282 |
1112 | Medical Occupations | As enacted, makes various changes to the qualifications for certification as a medication aide by the board of nursing. | SB2295 |
1113 | Public Employees | As enacted, authorizes the state treasurer to develop, implement, and administer a program to award grants to eligible employers for the purpose of funding of a length of service award program. | SB2342 |
1114 | Railroads | As enacted, requires TACIR to conduct a study and make recommendations regarding the potential for passenger rail service linking the major cities in each of the grand divisions of the state. | SB2343 |
1115 | Sexual Offenses | As enacted, raises the age of a victim whose testimony the court may allow to be taken outside the courtroom by means of two-way closed circuit television from "13 or younger" to "under 18 years of age"; adds human trafficking offenses to those for which a court must extend an order of protection for a definite period of time if the allegation is proved by a preponderance of the evidence; makes various other changes relative to human trafficking; revises the penalties for involuntary servitude, promoting prostitution, and patronizing prostitution; revises other related provisions. | SB2400 |
1116 | Lottery, Scholarships and Programs | As enacted, revises various provisions governing lottery-funded scholarships and financial aid. | SB2405 |
1117 | Tort Liability and Reform | As enacted, extends termination date from July 1, 2022, to July 1, 2023, for limitations on claims against a person for loss, damage, injury, or death arising from COVID-19. | SB2448 |
1118 | Health Care | As enacted, requires the comptroller of the treasury, in conjunction with the bureau of TennCare and the department of health, to study the use of temporary staffing provided by healthcare staffing agencies in long-term care facilities; requires that the study examine the effects that costs of temporary staffing have upon the TennCare program and upon assisted-care living facilities, and practices that may improve the quality of long-term care for residents while reducing costs to the TennCare program. | SB2463 |
1119 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities | As enacted, renames the health services and development agency as the health facilities commission; designates references to the health services and development agency in state law as references to the health facilities commission; requests the Tennessee code commission to amend references to the health services and development agency to the health facilities commission; requires the board of licensing health facilities to report to the health facilities commission instead of the department of health in the matter of licensing healthcare facilities; revises certain certificate of need provisions; revises other related provisions. | SB2466 |
1120 | Judicial Districts | As enacted, requires that judges of the supreme court, court of appeals, chancery courts, circuit courts, criminal courts, and courts exercising the jurisdiction imposed in one or more of the chancery courts, circuit courts or criminal courts be in good standing with the board of responsibility not have been publicly censured by the board of professional responsibility or suspended or disbarred from the practice of law within the 10 years preceding the judge's term of office for engaging in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation. | SB2478 |
1121 | Professions and Occupations | As enacted, enacts "Dallas's Law," which revises various provisions governing security guards/officers. | SB2514 |
1122 | Salaries and Benefits | As enacted, revises the pay schedule in Tennessee Code Annotated for assistant district attorneys and assistant district public defenders. | SB2522 |
1123 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities | As enacted, requires nursing homes and assisted-care living facilities to permit at least one family member or resident representative who meets certain conditions to visit a resident of the facility during end-of-life situations if a disaster, emergency, or public health emergency for COVID-19 has been declared. | SB2574 |
1124 | Railroads | As enacted, requires TACIR to prepare a report surveying projects initiated over the past 10 years involving the initiation of new state-sponsored Amtrak intercity passenger rail. | SB2602 |
1125 | Scholarships and Financial Aid | As enacted, specifies that a student who graduates early from an eligible high school, or who completes high school at an eligible home school early, or who obtains an equivalency diploma before the spring semester immediately preceding the student's initial fall enrollment, and is admitted to, and enrolled full time in, an eligible postsecondary program, is eligible for the Tennessee promise scholarship. | SB2631 |
1126 | Children | As enacted, revises various provisions governing child care agencies; enacts provisions governing nontraditional child care agencies. | SB2729 |
1127 | Human Rights Commission | As enacted, vacates and reconstitutes the membership of the Tennessee human rights commission effective September 1, 2022, and makes other changes concerning the commission. | SB2774 |
1128 | Real Property | As enacted, prohibits regional and municipal planning commissions, in exercising their platting power, from requiring an owner of private property to dedicate real property to the public, or pay money to a public entity in an amount that is determined on an individual and discretionary basis, unless there is an essential nexus between the dedication or payment and a legitimate local government interest and the dedication or payment is roughly proportional both in nature and extent to the impact of the proposed use or development of the property. | SB2849 |
1129 | Public Utilities | As enacted, requires a utility system, upon request or application for a connection of utility service by a customer, to promptly provide the customer the connection cost. | SB2852 |
1130 | Appropriations | As enacted, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2021, and July 1, 2022. | SB2897 |
1131 | Budget Procedures | As enacted, increases, for FY22-23, the state employer match to 200 percent of the amount contributed by each state employee to the state's 401(k) plan per month, up to a maximum of $100 per month; exempts from sales tax the retail sale of food and food ingredients sold between Monday, August 1, 2022, and Wednesday, August 31, 2022; makes additional statutory revisions required for implementation of the annual appropriations act. | SB2898 |
1132 | Appropriations | As enacted, authorizes the index of appropriations from state tax revenues for 2021-2022 fiscal year to exceed the index of estimated growth in the state's economy by $2,997,600,000 or 16.08 percent. | SB2899 |
1133 | Bond Issues | As enacted, authorizes the state to issue and sell bonds of up to $583.5 million; cancels the bonds authorized by Chapter 758, Public Acts of 2020; allocates proceeds of $500 million of bonds to the department of finance and administration to provide funds for the purpose of making a grant to Nashville/Davidson County for the construction of a domed sports stadium. | SB2901 |
1134 | DUI Offenses | As enacted, requires a court, in setting bail for a defendant charged with driving under the influence of an intoxicant or another offense in which alcohol was involved, to require the person to operate only a motor vehicle equipped with a functioning ignition interlock device unless such an order would not be in the best interest of justice. | SB0882 |
1135 | Controlled Substances | As enacted, adds tianeptine and any salt, sulfate, free acid, or other preparation of tianeptine, and any salt, sulfate, free acid, compound, derivative, precursor, or preparation thereof that is substantially chemically equivalent or identical with tianeptine, as a schedule II controlled substance; specifies that a violation of the offense of knowingly possessing or casually exchanging a controlled substance (unless the substance was obtained directly from, or pursuant to, a valid prescription or order of a practitioner while acting in the course of professional practice), will be a Class A misdemeanor with respect to a person knowingly possessing or casually exchanging, tianeptine and any salt, sulfate, free acid, or other preparation of tianeptine and any salt, sulfate, free acid, compound, derivative, precursor, or other preparation thereof that is substantially chemically equivalent or identical with tianeptine. | SB1997 |
1136 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, requires that a person convicted of aggravated assault that involved the use or display of a deadly weapon be punished one classification higher than otherwise provided by law if the violation was committed by discharging a firearm from within a motor vehicle. | SB2087 |
1137 | Textbooks | As enacted, expands the membership of the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission; requires the commission to issue guidance for LEAs and public charter schools to use when reviewing materials in a library collection; creates other duties in regard to library collections. | SB2247 |
1138 | Health Care | As enacted, creates a healthcare task force to review the reimbursement of health professionals employed by agencies performing health care services in this state. | SB2304 |
1139 | Taxes | As enacted, updates the definition of a certified green energy production facility to include the storage of electricity for purposes of calculating a minimum tax base for the franchise tax or for a pollution control credit. | SB2350 |
1140 | Sheriffs | As enacted, requires the Tennessee sheriffs' association to provide a criminal proceedings notification system, as a three-year pilot program that will begin July 1, 2022, and end June 30, 2025, for the purpose of increasing the transparency and efficiency of the criminal justice process by providing timely information about each stage of the criminal process to interested parties; requires that the criminal proceedings notification system be available 24 hours a day over the telephone, through the internet, or by email. | SB2377 |
1141 | Teachers, Principals and School Personnel | As enacted, establishes qualifications necessary to receive an occupational teaching license. | SB2442 |
1142 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, creates a Class E felony of an employer influencing or attempting to influence an employee who is a public servant to vote or not to vote in a particular manner or to resign as a public servant or unnecessarily recuse themselves from a public body with the intent to influence the action or inaction of a public body; creates a cause of action for unlawful discharge of an employee who is a public servant. | SB2445 |
1143 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration | As enacted, creates a waiver for the registration fee for a Class A or Class B motor vehicle upon the renewal of the motor vehicle's registration if the renewal occurs during the period of time beginning July 1, 2022, and ending June 30, 2023. | SB2491 |
1144 | Election Laws | As enacted, requires that, on and after January 1, 2024, each voting machine used by a county election commission produce a voter-verifiable paper audit trail, instead of being capable of producing a voter-verified paper audit trail. | SB2558 |
1145 | Education, Dept. of | As enacted, requires the department to design and adopt a certificate of licensure for issuance to educators who have met the requirements for licensure established by the state board of education; requires that the certificate of licensure present an educator's licensure information in a format suitable for framing. | SB2583 |
1146 | Pensions and Retirement Benefits | As enacted, creates a task force to study retirement benefits for law enforcement officers. | SB2872 |