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Chapter Number Subject Abstract Bill Number
0101 Adoption As enacted, removes the adoption contact veto registry and revises other provisions governing adoption. SB0723
0102 Estates As enacted, sets time limits on the filing of claims by the bureau of TennCare against TennCare recipients' estates. SB0761
0103 Motor Vehicles As enacted, expands the definitions of Class I off-highway vehicles and all-terrain vehicles to include those off-highway vehicles with a total dry weight up to 3,500 pounds; clarifies that the width of such vehicles must be measured from the outside of the tire rim to the outside of the tire rim. SB1046
0104 Juvenile Offenders As enacted, revises the sentence for aggravated rape of a child when committed by a juvenile, as required by the U.S. Supreme Court in Miller v. Alabama, from mandatory life imprisonment without parole to a Class A felony to be sentenced within Range III; applies to sentences imposed on or after July 1, 2021; specifies that a person who was a juvenile at the time of committing the offense of aggravated rape of a child must serve 100 percent of the sentence imposed less sentence credits earned and retained, not to reduce the sentence imposed by more than 15 percent. SB1117
0105 Juvenile Offenders As enacted, permits a child to be detained in a secure facility when there is probable cause to believe the child has committed certain offenses involving burglary, robbery, or theft of a motor vehicle; removes restrictions on the juvenile court's authority to order detention for a child who has committed a delinquent act. SB1286
0106 Public Health As enacted, prohibits a county board of health or county department of health from prohibiting or regulating agriculture except as otherwise authorized by law. SB1368
0107 Children As enacted, enacts "Evelyn Boswell's Law," regarding the reporting of missing and endangered children. SB0327
0108 Firearms and Ammunition As enacted, creates an exception to the offense of unlawful carrying of a firearm, if a person meets age requirements, lawfully possesses the handgun, and is in a place that the person is lawfully present; revises other firearm statutes. SB0765
0109 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the second look commission to June 30, 2025. SB0066
0110 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the state TennCare pharmacy advisory committee to June 30, 2027. SB0075
0111 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the board of judicial conduct to June 30, 2025; requires the board to appear before the government operations joint evaluation committee on judiciary and government no later than December 31, 2021, to provide the committee an update on board-related activities. SB0082
0112 Driver Licenses As enacted, disqualifies for life persons convicted of a human trafficking offense from obtaining a commercial driver license; requires lifetime suspension of commercial driver license for persons convicted of a human trafficking offense. SB0115
0113 Taxes, Exemption and Credits As enacted, exempts from state and local taxation, all contributions or distributions made to, or on behalf of, participating students pursuant to any individualized education account (IEA). SB0127
0114 Health, Dept. of As enacted, requires the department, in collaboration with other public and private healthcare agencies, to incorporate information about Alzheimer's disease and other dementias into its existing public health programs and services. SB0133
0115 Criminal Offenses As enacted, replaces the required element for self-defense that the person "not be engaged in unlawful activity" with the required element that the person "not be engaged in conduct that would constitute a felony or Class A misdemeanor"; declares, for purposes of determining if a person has a duty to retreat before threatening or using force in self-defense, that a person is not considered to be engaged in conduct that would constitute a felony or Class A misdemeanor or in a place where the person does not have a right to be if the person is engaged in the activity or in a place due to the person's status as a victim of human trafficking. SB0188
0116 Local Education Agencies As enacted, requires, subject to certain exceptions, a public school to credit a student who participates in an activity or program sponsored by 4-H as present for attendance purposes. SB0203
0117 Barbers and/or Cosmetologists As enacted, requires applicants for a technician certificate of registration, master barber certificate of registration, barber instructor certificate of registration, cosmetologist license, manicuring license, cosmetology instructor license, aesthetician license, or natural hair styling license to obtain up to one hour of online or in-person training by a nonprofit on domestic violence. SB0216
0118 State Symbols As enacted, designates the poem "My Beloved Tennessee" by Marlene Tidwell as an official state poem. SB0254
0119 Marriage As enacted, adds former members of the general assembly who filed notice with the office of vital records while serving in the general assembly to the list of persons authorized to solemnize marriages. SB0309
0120 Education, Higher As enacted, declares an act of the general assembly enacted after January 1, 2021, that mandates a discount or waiver of the tuition or fees charged at public institutions of higher education unenforceable against an institution affected by the act unless the general assembly annually appropriates a sum sufficient to fully fund the discount or waiver program at the institution; requires each public institution of higher education to report certain information concerning discount and waiver programs. SB0322
0121 Utilities, Utility Districts As enacted, replaces one county elected commissioner position on the board of commissioners for the Citizens Gas Utility District of Scott and Morgan counties with an at-large commissioner position, with such change to coincide with the district's August 2025 election. SB0333
0122 TennCare As enacted, extends the expiration date for the ground ambulance provider assessment from June 30, 2021, to June 30, 2022; requires, if the quarterly transport data is not adequate or available for the calculation of medicaid ambulance provider assessments, that the bureau of TennCare use total transports submitted to the office of emergency medical services for calendar year 2020, instead of using such data for calendar year 2019. SB0345
0123 Motor Vehicles As enacted, authorizes off-highway vehicle operation on certain segments of Mill Creek Road, Dyna Tex Road, and Old Burrville Road, all within Sunbright, in Morgan County. SB0349
0124 Health Care As enacted, authorizes a home health service to provide care in accordance with orders recorded by an advanced practice registered nurse or physician assistant in addition to those recorded by a physician; authorizes electronic transmission of orders from an advanced practice registered nurse or physician assistant. SB0478
0125 Education, State Board of As enacted, revises various provisions regarding initial educator licensure, advancement, and renewal, including requiring the state board, when issuing an educator license to an out-of-state educator, to issue a license that is equivalent to the license the educator possesses in another state. SB0479
0126 Water Authorities As enacted, increases from $100 to $300 the maximum per diem payment to a member of the board of commissioners of a water and wastewater treatment authority for attending a board meeting, not to exceed six board meetings per calendar year. SB0495
0127 Comptroller, State As enacted, removes the filing requirement for municipal and utility district travel and expense reimbursement policies, and any amendments to the policies, and instead requires the policies and amendments be made available for review and audit by the comptroller or the comptroller's designee. SB0537
0128 Public Funds and Financing As enacted, requires that certain notes issued by governing bodies of municipalities related to public works projects be approved by the comptroller of the treasury or the comptroller's designee; makes other revisions to provisions governing bonds and notes issued by local governments. SB0539
0129 Children's Services, Dept. of As enacted, requires that the community services agency board's annual plan of operation be approved and amended, as necessary, only by the commissioner of finance and administration rather than by the commissioner and the comptroller of the treasury. SB0544
0130 Therapists, Physical and Occupational As enacted, removes the one-year experience requirement for doctorate level physical therapists for purposes of the direct access practice exception; requires physical therapists without a doctorate to meet certain educational requirements for purposes of the direct access practice exception. SB0584
0131 Insurance, Liability As enacted, authorizes human resource agencies to obtain insurance in lieu of surety bonds to ensure the lawful performance by agency officials and employees of their fiduciary duties and responsibilities. SB0599
0132 Holidays and Days of Special Observance As enacted, designates the first Friday in October of each year as "Tennessee Manufacturing Day" as a day of special observance. SB0617
0133 Guardians and Conservators As enacted, specifies, for purposes of the appointment of a conservator, the county of residence of a person incarcerated in a department of correction facility as the county in which the facility is located and the county of residence of a person involuntarily hospitalized in an institution of the department of mental health and substance abuse services as the county in which the institution is located. SB0729
0134 Education As enacted, makes various changes to the Special Education Behavioral Supports Act, including the use of isolation and physical holding restraints. SB0738
0135 Environment and Conservation, Department of As enacted, authorizes the commissioner to commission environmental investigative enforcement officers; specifies circumstances under which park rangers and other law enforcement officers within the department may operate outside parks and other specific areas. SB0741
0136 Controlled Substances As enacted, makes various revisions to the controlled substance monitoring database. SB0748
0137 Driver Licenses As enacted, requires that a Class H or hardship license issued to a minor holding a Class P license or instructional permit expires on the date the Class P license or instructional permit expires. SB0784
0138 Real Property As enacted, enacts the "Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy and Resilience Act." SB0795
0139 Taxes, Exemption and Credits As enacted, exempts from the sales and use tax online access to continuing education courses that meet regulatory requirements for licensed individuals and that are offered by organizations that have received a determination of exemption from the IRS as a charitable organization or business association. SB0874
0140 Victims' Rights As enacted, revises the coverage and application process of certain co-applicants to the home address confidentiality program established by the secretary of state. SB0885
0141 Death As enacted, imposes requirements on the operation of alkaline hydrolysis facilities and the use of alkaline hydrolysis in this state. SB0931
0142 Workers Compensation As enacted, adds to those acquired infectious diseases for which an emergency rescue worker is given a presumption to have a disability suffered in the line of duty a virus or other communicable disease for which a pandemic has been declared by the World Health Organization or the federal centers for disease control and prevention, and for which the governor has declared a state of emergency. SB0995
0143 Therapists, Physical and Occupational As enacted, makes certain changes to the practice of occupational therapy, including authorizing the practice of dry needling of the upper limb, authorizing the making of certain treatment diagnoses, and authorizing practice via telehealth; authorizes the practice of physical therapy via telehealth. SB1072
0144 Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of As enacted, requires the department to combine all moneys received and expenses incurred pursuant to the Tennessee Credit Services Businesses Act and the Uniform Debt-Management Services Act into a single fund for the purpose of administering the acts. SB1078
0145 Sunset Laws As enacted, adds the Tennessee corn promotion board to the Tennessee governmental review and extends the board to June 30, 2023. SB1084
0146 School Transportation As enacted, increases, from four years to six years, the maximum period of time that a contractual agreement between a director of schools and a school transportation employee and between a board of education and a person owning equipment for transportation services is authorized. SB1116
0147 Juvenile Offenders As enacted, expands the unruly act of illegal use of a communication device by a minor to include possessing or transmitting an image of sexual activity involving a minor. SB1124
0148 Nurses, Nursing As enacted, requires the board for licensing health care facilities to promulgate emergency rules no later than July 1, 2021, to permit persons who qualified as temporary nurse aides on or after the beginning date of the national public health emergency declared January 31, 2020, to become certified as nursing assistants in this state and be placed on the nurse aide registry. SB1266
0149 Pharmacy, Pharmacists As enacted, makes changes with regard to compounding pharmacies, including allowing out-of-state pharmacy practice sites to provide certain inspections, equivalent to what are currently required, if accepted by the Tennessee board of pharmacy and removing the requirement that pharmacies engaging in sterile compounding have to make certain quarterly reports to the board. SB1269
0150 Health Care As enacted, grants certain liability protections to, and confidentiality privileges for records of, certain federally qualified health centers and quality improvement committees formed or retained by the federally qualified health centers. SB1275
0151 Real Property As enacted, requires a homeowners' association to provide, upon written request of a member, a record of certain information in a vote to amend a declaration that prohibits or effectively prohibits the use of residential property as a long-term rental property; creates a vested right in an owner to use single-family residential property as long-term rental property if certain conditions exist; requires business entity owners of residential property to notify a homeownersG SB1381
0152 Workers Compensation As enacted, authorizes the court of workers' compensation claims to award additional attorneys' fees and costs incurred when an employer wrongfully denies a claim or wrongfully fails to timely initiate benefits to which the employee or dependent is entitled for injuries that occur between July 1, 2021, and June 30, 2023. SB1576
0153 Health Care As enacted, redefines store-and-forward telemedicine services for purposes of establishment of provider-patient relationships and standards of practice. SB1589
0154 Taxes, Excise As enacted, requires that certain amounts received from certain COVID-related relief be subtracted from net earnings and losses for excise tax purposes. HB0776
0155 Business and Commerce As enacted, enacts the "Business Fairness Act," allowing businesses that comply with safety precautions and guidelines issued by the government or authorized agency during declared states of emergency to continue or resume business. SB0474
0156 Pensions and Retirement Benefits As enacted, revises provisions governing a department, agency, or instrumentality of a participating political subdivision becoming a separate local government entity from the political subdivision. SB0008
0157 Consumer Protection As enacted, requires the department of health, in coordination with the department of education, to disseminate the information to students in public middle schools, junior high schools, and senior high schools in this state. SB0020
0158 Taxes, Excise As enacted, extends for an additional six years to June 30, 2028, the temporary tax on bottles of soft drinks and barrels of beer to fund programs for the prevention and collection of litter; makes other related revisions. SB0026
0159 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission to June 30, 2023; requires the commission to report back to the government operations committee no later than December 31, 2021, to update the committee on its progress in addressing the committeeG SB0076
0160 Professions and Occupations As enacted, creates the professional art therapist advisory committee of the board of examiners in psychology to regulate the practice of art therapy. SB0101
0161 Child Abuse As enacted, permits school child abuse coordinators, school teachers, school officials, and other school personnel to provide information relevant to suspected child abuse or child sexual abuse to the child's parents when required by federal law or regulation, the parent to whom the notification is made is not alleged to be the perpetrator or in any way complicit in the abuse or neglect, and the notification is done in conjunction with the department of children's services. SB0124
0162 Children As enacted, authorizes a Parents' Day Out or similar program operated by a religious institution or organization to provide 12-hour per week child care services in whatever block of time desired. SB0164
0163 Adoption As enacted, requires the department of children's services to require a person receiving financial assistance for adoption from the department to provide verification from the adopted child's current medical or mental health professional provider or verification of full-time school enrollment from the school the child attends. SB0270
0164 Child Custody and Support As enacted, removes custody, visitation, or inheritance rights for a parent who has been convicted of aggravated statutory rape, statutory rape by an authority figure, or lesser included offenses of rape, from which crime the child was conceived. SB0274
0165 Regional Authorities and Special Districts As enacted, expands the scope of the Chickasaw Basin Authority to include all counties located within the drainage area of the authority. SB0276
0166 Law Enforcement As enacted, expands the type of equipment for which law enforcement agencies may exchange confiscated weapons to include any equipment suitable for use for legitimate law enforcement purposes. SB0277
0167 Holidays and Days of Special Observance As enacted, designates September 14 of each year as "Star-Spangled Banner Day," a day of special observance. SB0316
0168 Correction, Dept. of As enacted, requires that female inmates who are 50 through 74 years of age be offered a mammogram or other appropriate screening every two years; requires that female inmates who are 40 through 49 years of age be offered a physician consultation to inquire when a mammogram is needed; requires correctional institutions, which does not include city or county jails, to the best of their ability, to provide educational training on the importance of preventative health care to the inmates. SB0334
0169 Health, Dept. of As enacted, provides that out-of-state medical records evidencing the immunization of a dependent child of a military parent against each of the diseases designated by the commissioner of health as required for attendance at any school or child care facility in this state are sufficient without requiring the child's parent to present the child for medical evaluation in this state to obtain a certificate of immunization. SB0386
0170 Education As enacted, enacts the "SEM Advancement Act," which requires a local board of education or charter school governing body to develop and adopt a policy that establishes criteria for the enrollment of students in grades seven through 12 into available advanced English language arts, mathematics, and science courses. SB0414
0171 Motor Vehicles As enacted, eliminates the condition that a first lienholder or the first lienholder's designee may only file an application for a motor vehicle temporary lien with the secretary of state when a manufacturer's statement of origin or an existing certificate of title on a motor vehicle is unavailable. SB0473
0172 Public Funds and Financing As enacted, authorizes a department, institution, office, or agency of the state to enter into an agreement with a third party to collect state funds on its behalf under which the third party is permitted to deduct its service fee from the funds collected prior to deposit when such agreement is approved in accordance with present law governing procurement; requires the chief procurement officer to file an annual report listing such approved contracts with the chairs of the finance, ways and means committees of the house and senate. HB0076
0173 State Government As enacted, authorizes a state department or agency to update signage on state property indicating accessibility for persons with disabilities within existing resources. HB0099
0174 Motor Vehicles As enacted, clarifies that the mounting or placement of a trailer hitch ball in front of a registration plate will not be considered when making a determination whether the registration plate is clearly visible. HB0175
0175 Capitol As enacted, requires the placement of a monument or statue honoring David Crockett on a pedestal above the entrance to Motlow Tunnel; prohibits the use of state funds for the relocation of any existing structures. HB0220
0176 Traffic Safety As enacted, clarifies that the existing requirement for drivers of motorcycles to wear a helmet applies to drivers of autocycles that are not fully enclosed. HB0234
0177 Professions and Occupations As enacted, requires persons working with certain electrical equipment to meet certain requirements; makes that electrical equipment subject to inspection by a state-certified electrical inspector; prohibits liability against certain electric systems arising from those persons working with that electrical equipment; requires that copies of the national standards be available for public viewing. HB0252
0178 Railroads As enacted, requires department of transportation to report, on or before November 1, 2021, and on or before November 1 of each year between 2022 - 2026, to the transportation committee of the house and the transportation and safety committee of the senate on the data collected on the following website, or any successor website, established by the federal railroad administration (FRA) for the public and law enforcement agencies to report blocked highway-rail grade crossings: www.fra.dot.gov/blockedcrossings. HB0486
0179 Health Care As enacted, authorizes unlicensed graduates and students of certain medical training programs to provide telehealth services as long as those graduates and students adhere to the same standards for the provision of telehealth services that licensed medical professionals must meet. HB0508
0180 Education As enacted, allows LEAs and private or church-related schools to use excess instructional time accumulated during the school year for serious outbreaks of illness affecting or endangering students or staff without requiring approval from the commissioner of education to do so. HB0587
0181 Registers of Deeds As enacted, requires either a licensed attorney or the custodian of the original version of an electronic document, instead of the custodian of the electronic version, to certify the electronic document for registration by a county register. HB0633
0182 Landlord and Tenant As enacted, prohibits the governing body in a county in which the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act applies from enacting or enforcing regulations in conflict with, or in addition to, the Act; changes the applicability of the Act so that a county that is not under the Act now will not come under the Act even if the county's population increases to be more than 75,000 in subsequent years. HB0716
0183 Tennessee Higher Education Commission As enacted, consolidates some of the commission's reports; changes various other conditions of the commission's reports and reports to the commission. HB0763
0184 Juvenile Offenders As enacted, requires the juvenile court clerk and the department of mental health and substance abuse services to report certain juvenile justice information to the administrative office of the courts each month; deletes certain reporting to the council of juvenile and family court judges. HB0783
0185 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, authorizes a delivery service licensee to charge a fee based on a percentage of the sales of the alcoholic beverages or beer being delivered; limits the fee to no more than 10 percent of the price of each alcoholic beverage or beer sold. HB0866
0186 TennCare As enacted, enacts "Terrence's Law," which requires the bureau to conduct an annual review of all medications and forms of treatment for sickle cell disease, and services for enrollees with a diagnosis of sickle cell disease that are eligible for coverage under the medical assistance program; requires the bureau to solicit and consider input from the public when conducting the annual review; requires annual report to the general assembly. HB0992
0187 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, clarifies "premises" for purposes of the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption in regard to establishments licensed for such sales in Clarksville within or adjacent to a certain specified area in downtown near the riverwalk; authorizes Clarksville to, by ordinance, reduce or prescribe the hours and days upon which alcoholic beverages, beer, and wine may be consumed in the specified area, within the limits of general law. HB1085
0188 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel As enacted, confers immunity from civil liability upon a teacher, principal, school employee, or school bus driver properly using reasonable force to correct or restrain a student or prevent bodily harm or death to another person. HB1096
0189 Workers Compensation As enacted, revises and rearranges certain provisions governing construction services providers, the penalties for noncompliance of insurance requirements, and the exemption from having workers' compensation insurance; revisions to be effective from July 1, 2021, until July 1, 2024. HB1285
0190 Child Custody and Support As enacted, expands the factors a court may consider in determining whether termination of parental rights is in the best interest of the child; clarifies that the court is not required to consider all factors and may consider relevant factors other than those listed. SB0205
0191 Insurance, Health, Accident As enacted, authorizes the use of HIPAA-compliant audio-only conversation when providing behavioral health provider-based telemedicine services if HIPAA-compliant real-time, interactive audio, video telecommunications, or electronic technology, or store-and-forward telemedicine services are unavailable. SB0429
0192 Public Funds and Financing As enacted, requires each state agency to submit, on or before February 1 of each year, a report to members of the finance, ways and means committees summarizing amounts of federal block grants and purposes for which funds were expended, including any unexpended or returned portions. SB0485
0193 Comptroller, State As enacted, makes certain changes to the types of procurement contracts that are subject to review and approval by the comptroller of the treasury; alters the timing of such review and approval. SB0540
0194 Comptroller, State As enacted, deletes references to the office of local government within the office of the comptroller of the treasury and clarifies that the comptroller performs the duties of the former office of local government. SB0541
0195 Comptroller, State As enacted, deletes requirement that the comptroller of the treasury must conduct an annual audit of the Tennessee bureau of investigation regarding the bureau's receipt and use of the $15 portion of the handgun carry permit application fee to be used exclusively for updating and maintaining the fingerprint criminal history database. SB0543
0196 Public Funds and Financing As enacted, enacts the "Uniformity in Local Government Lease Financing Act of 2021." SB0547
0197 Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation As enacted, requires certain state agencies to seek funding for the development of substance use disorder recovery programs for pregnant women and women with children; requires those agencies to annually report to the general assembly certain information about the recovery programs and funding. SB0574
0198 Contractors As enacted, exempts from the definition of "contractor" for purposes of the Contractors Licensing Act of 1994 persons who erect or install certain on-premises advertising signs and displays. SB0577
0199 Chiropractors As enacted, replaces one of the consumer member appointments to the board of chiropractic examiners with the appointment of a member who is a chiropractic X-ray technician or chiropractic therapy assistant certified in this state not less than two years. SB0592
0200 County Government As enacted, provides each member of a board created pursuant to the Interlocal Cooperation Act for the purpose of providing service to two or more counties with up to $300 per month compensation, the exact amount of which will be determined by resolution of such board; authorizes the board to provide certain other benefits. SB0614

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